54 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



fompanlps. He thinks the outlook for fall 

 trade Is exceptionally good. 



The Greensburg Swing Company has bought 

 the old factory of the Parr Wagon Works at 

 Greensburg, Pa., and will remodel the plant at 

 once to give it a capacity of 30.000 swings a 

 year. It will add a linn of porch furniture 

 to its manufacture this fall. 



E. V. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., is 

 devoting much time this summer to his splen- 

 did country estate, "Vosemary," near Valencia, 

 Pa. He has it stocked with thoroughbred Hol- 

 stein-Friesans. the best poultry to be found, 

 and fine horses and is making good headway 

 In the cultivation of alfalfa as well as raising 

 banner Pennsylvania crops. 



The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company, 

 which is now located in its new plant at 

 Thirteenth and Pike streets, is carrying the 

 largest assortment of hardwood doors to be 

 found east of Chicago. In spite of the fact 

 that Pittsburgh building has been very slow 

 all summer, its general business has been good 

 and it notes a steady gain in optimism among 

 lumber buyers. 



The Acorn Lumber Company, which is han- 

 dling a large amount of hardwood this year, 

 reports prospects fine. Its president, H. F. 

 Domhoff, is in the Northwest on a buying ex- 

 pedition. H. W. Henninger of the firm re- 

 cently made a very successful trip among the 

 mills and plants of West Virginia. 



The Union Lumber Company, which started 

 In business a few months ago at 510 Federal 

 street, is getting under fine headway. It wMll 

 make a specialty of mahogany. W'alnut, cherry 

 and other fine woods for furniture and cabinet 

 makers. 



Lumber Company of Norfolk, with an office in 

 Baltimoi-e, filed a personal petition in bank- 

 ruptcy in the T'nited States court at Norfolk, 

 Va.. on Aug. 10. He placed his liabilities at 

 .fl49,553.10 and his assets at $134,499.40. 



The hardwood firm of Richard P. Baer & Co. 

 on Nov. 1 will move its offices from the Keyser 

 building to the eleventh floor of the tower of 

 the Maryland Casualty Company's building, 

 Baltimore street and Guilford avenue. The 

 new location will afford nearly double the floor 

 space, and will have a private corridor, besides 

 various other conveniences. 



Baltimore lumbermen are greatly interested 

 in the recent action of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, suspending increases in freight 

 rates from states east of the Mississippi river 

 and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers to 

 Washington, Baltimore and other points in the 

 North and East. The increases ranged from 

 one to two cents per one hundred pounds, vary- 

 ing with the kind of lumber and the length of 

 the haul. The matter will come up for a hear- 

 ing some time In the near future. 



MEMPHIS 



BOSTON 



The plant of E. II. Mahoney & Co.. chair manu- 

 facturers, Gardner, Mass., was recently damaged 

 by a fire which started in the paint shop. The 

 loss is estimated at about $5,000. 



Joseph Moore of the Bridgeiyort Wood Finish- 

 ing Company, who has been in the New York 

 office of this company, will in the future be 

 located at the Houston, Tex., office of the com- 

 pany. 



Riccio & Cross is the name of a new firm 

 formed in Bristol. Conn., for the purpose of 

 carrying on a wood-turning business. 



The cooperage .shop of Thomas E. McKay, On- 

 set, Mass., has been destro.ved by fire. A large 

 stock of barrels was burned. 



The building going on in Boston at the present 

 time is of good size. There are several large 

 office buildings in process of construction, which 

 will call for considerable interior hardwood 

 finish. 



BALTIMORE 



Because of unforeseen delay Secretary J. McD. 

 Price of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, did not get away on his annual trip 

 to members of the organization and lumber ex- 

 porters generally until August 13. Various addi- 

 tions to the membership are expected as a 

 result of the trip. 



Thomas J. Shryock & Co., well known whole- 

 salers and manufacturers of white pine and 

 hardwood, with yards and office at Thames and 

 Philpot streets, has been incorporated under 

 the laws of Delaware with a capital stock of 

 ?200,000. Gen. Thomas J. Shryock is president 

 of the company. George F. M. Hauck. vice-pres- 

 ident and general manager, M. C. Skinner, sec- 

 retary, and John E. Reese, treasurer. In addi- 

 tion to these officers, the board of directors 

 includes George R. Willis, a prominent attorney 

 here. There will be no change in location or 

 in methods, the business going on exactly as In 

 the past. 



G. S. Briggs, president of the G. S. Briggs 



COLUMBUS 



The Louisiana Cooperage & Land Company of 

 Toledo, O., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $50,000 to do a general cooperage busi- 

 ness. The incorporators are S. P. Shelb.v, Charles 

 S. Shelb.v. John Peach, Lawrence T. Conway and 

 J. Y. Todd. 



H. E. Wentz. formerly connected with the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company and also the 

 John R. Gobey Lumber Company of Columbus, 

 has taken the position as representative for the 

 William Buchnn.'in Manufacturing & Wholesal- 

 ing Company of Texarkana. .\rk. Mr. Wentz 

 will travel in Ohio and make his headquarters 

 in (^olumbvis. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager of the central 

 division of the W. M. Ritter Luml)er Company, 

 says trade in all lines of hardwoods has been 

 extremely active during the past two weeks. 

 There has been a great Improvement in the lower 

 grades of stocks. Dry stocks are still light, 

 although the mills are working on full time. 

 Stocks in the hands of retailers are also light. 



R. W. Ilorton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company has returned from a business trip in 

 western Pennsylvania. 



L. B. Schneider, sales manager for the John R. 

 Gobey Lumber Company, says the hardwood mar- 

 ket is active and prices are well maintained. 

 The demand is increasing right along, and he 

 looks for higlier prices in the near future. 



TOLEDO 



Robert G. Foster, who for the past forty 

 years has been superintendent of the Toledo 

 Bending Works, died recently at his home in 

 this cit.v, aged seventy-two years. He is sur- 

 vived by an adopted daughter, Mrs. Bernice 

 Chilcote, and a sister who lives in New Hamp- 

 shire. 



A large quantity of valuable hardwood lumber 

 was destroyed when the Gottshall Manufacturing 

 Company's heading, hoop and stave plant was 

 burned Aug. 7. The main portion of the yards 

 was saved, but the loss amounted to about 

 $17,000, partially covered by insurance. 



R. G. Ewing, local real estate broker, has 

 been asked by C. M. Buford of the Missouri 

 Senate, to assist in the location of heirs to a 

 tract of unimproved timber lands In Reynolds 

 county, Missouri. The property awaits declara- 

 tion of ownership by Channing White or his 

 heirs and is worth approximately $50,000. The 

 heirs were thought to be located at Toledo but 

 have not yet been found. The last heard of 

 Channing White was in 1860 when he gave 

 Toledo, O., as his place of residence. 



The weather in this territory recently has been 

 reasonably favorable, although there are com- 

 plaints from some parts of Arkansas, especially 

 from the eastern section, regarding the excessive 

 precipitation. The operator of one of the largest 

 plants in eastern Arkansas stated today that con- 

 ditions had not been favorable in that section 

 for logging operations. He said that his own 

 firm was well supplied with timber because it 

 always kept a big stock on hand. He pointed 

 out. however, that some of the other operators 

 of sawmill plants had not been so fortunate 

 as they were meeting with considerable difficult.v 

 in securing all the timber needed. 



The rainfall In Mississippi and western Ten- 

 nessee has not been as heavy as In eastern Ar- 

 kansas, and reports received from sawmill op- 

 erators here are to the effect that there Is con- 

 siderable supply of timber on hand. There is a ■ 

 steadiness about operations which is resulting In 

 a large output of lumber. The fact remains, 

 however, that with the demand so good, there is 

 no particular accumulation. The amount of dry 

 stock, as has l>een the case for a long time, is 

 relatively small, being particularly so in refer- 

 ence to Cottonwood, gum. ash and plain oak. 



It may not be true that all of the lumber 

 firms In Memphis have shown such a big increase 

 in their business, but one prominent company 

 says that its shijiments durlns July were more 

 than dijuble the corresponding mouth last year, 

 and its buslne.ss thus far during August has 

 shown quite as large a proportionate increase. 

 Tliere is scarcely a firm engaged in the hardwood 

 business here which is not shipping a great deal 

 more lumber than last year, and altogether the 

 outlook is regarded as quite encouraging. The 

 presidential election and other political condi- 

 tions, have had no depressing effect so far. and 

 developments up to this time have borne out 

 the view of Memphis lumbermen to the effect 

 that this will be a good year regardless of the 

 threatened change in national administration. 



Everything is assuming shapi' for the building 

 of another bridge across the Mississippi river 

 at Memphis by the Rock Island System to cost 

 approximately $4,500,000. The amended bill 

 which was before Congress during the past wi'ek 

 has now become a law, and every obstacle which 

 was in the way of the new structure has l)een 

 removed. Therefore, it is expected that the 

 work will be commenced at an early date. The 

 bridge will have a way for Wiigons and pedes- 

 trians, and two steam railroad tracks. In addi- 

 tion to an expenditure of about $4,500,000 for 

 the bridge and approaches thereto, the Rock 

 Island System will spend about $2,000,000 in 

 building new terminals at this point. 



George L. Green has purchased $10,000 worth 

 of hardwood timber along Black river near New- 

 port. Ark. The buyer of this himl.>er recently 

 purchased the hardwood mill of D. P. Whisnant 

 and 2.000 acres of hardwood timberland lying 

 close by. The new owner's intention is to make 

 extensive improvements in the plant and resume 

 operations as soon as these are completed. 



Tbe Southern Hardwood Lumber Company, a 

 Tennessee corporation, has opened offices in Ar- 

 kansas. The headquarters are at Marked Tree 

 and S. P. Thompson is named as agent. 



A rather unique shipment was made from 

 Memphis some davs ago. It included about three 

 cars of boat oars to be used on the coast of 

 .\frlca. Several such shipments are made from 

 .Memphis every year. The firm which manufac- 

 tures lhe.se oars has an international reputation 

 and, In addition to shipping to Africa, It manu- 

 factures practically all of the oars used by the 

 British navy. 



The .\shley. Drew & Northern Railway Com- 

 pan.v, which has a capital stock of $600,000, has 

 been chartered under the laws of Arkansas. This 

 is in effect a change of the name of the Crossett, 

 Monticello & Northern Railroad Company, which 



