HARDWOOD RECORD 



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6121 Jenkins Arcade buildins. He has not 

 fully completed his arrangements, but will have 

 an interesting announcement to make shortly. 

 His chief line will be hardwoods and everybody 

 knows that I. V. is "wise" to every feature in 

 the hardwood business. 



The Mutual Lumber Company, which was 

 formed recently, is getting well started in the 

 First National Bank building, and bids fair to 

 have a pretty good run of hardwood trade right 

 off the reel. H. E. Ast of this company has 

 been in West Virginia and Kentucky for ten 

 days and reports everything in hardwood stocks 

 short in those states. 



The Johnston-Davies Lumber Company, which 

 makes a specialty of Washington county white 

 oak, has more inquiries for railroad and mining 

 material than it can fill. It has moved its 

 offices from the fifth floor of the Union Na- 

 tionU Bank building to the thirteenth floor. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is rushing 

 operations at all its mills. President J. L. 

 Kendall reports a fine trade in all kinds of lum- 

 ber, especially with the railroad and coal com- 

 panies. His company is fortunate in having 

 some big annual orders from leading railroad 

 systems which constitute a large part of its de- 

 liveries this year. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has been 

 manufacturing barges all summer for the Mo- 

 nongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Com- 

 pany at its big plant in northern Pennsylvania. 

 It floated down a number of these last week. 

 Its mill is unusually busy and President W. W. 

 Dickey believes that good business will con- 

 tinue. 



Robert Brown, hardwood manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 reports that their trade in oak, maple and beech 

 is strictly lirst class. He says railroad requisi- 

 tions are unusually large and the companies are 

 evidently getting down to a low point in their 

 supplies of good lumber as they are using every 

 means to get quick deliveries. 



The Berry Company of Oil City, Pa., has 

 bought 500 acres of timber on the Fisher Farm 

 near Seneca. Pa., and will put in two sawmills 

 at once. The timber is mostly oak and chestnut, 

 and a large quantity of ties and mine posts will 

 be taken out at once. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association has resumed its weekly meetings at 

 the Union Club. President Louis Germain, Jr., 

 announces that so far nothing special has been 

 taken up at these meetings, but very shortly, 

 when all the wholesalers shall have returned 

 from their vacations, an interesting series of 

 speakers will be put on. 



BUFFALO 



The fourth annual gymkhana of the Automo- 

 bile Club of Buffalo was held at the clubhouse 

 at Clarence, near the city, on Sept. 21. The 

 program included many sports and contests, 

 in which prizes were offered. Music and dancing 

 added to the pleasure of the day. The com- 

 mittee in charge included C. Walter Betts, 

 chairman ; O, E. Yeager, A. W. Kreinheder, J. 

 B. Wall and I. K. Stewart. 



Affairs of the Jamestown Panel & Veneer 

 Company have been closed up by the sale of 

 the manufacturing plant to Caflisch Brothers of 

 Union City, Pa., for ,$47,000. The matter has 

 been in the bankruptcy court and in the hands 

 of receivi-rs for the past two years. Stock- 

 holders of the company will get nothing, while 

 creditors will realize but little, the sale bring- 

 ing in only enough to pay the mortgages and 

 legal fees. 



J. B. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company has gone to Michigan on a business 

 trip. The yard is handling an unusually large 

 supply of birch at present. 



H. A. Stewart of I. N. Stewart & Bro. has been 

 spending most of the month in Charleston, W. 

 Va., shipping out lumber. He reports business 



somewhat unsettled in that state by the coal 

 strike. 



Anthony Miller has been getting in some good- 

 sized stocks of hardwoods of late, including 

 maple, ash and basswood, figuring on getting 

 in good supplies before car shortage becomes 

 pronounced. 



B. E. Darling of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling 

 has returned from a buying trip in the South 

 and has picked up a good assortment of lumber 

 at various mills in several states. 



J. D. McCallum is back at his desk with the 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company after a honey- 

 moon trip spent chiefly at Lake George, which 

 he recommends to all fellow lumbermen as a 

 most attractive spot. 



The F. W. Vetter yard is moving quite a 

 little hardwood lumber of nearly every sort and 

 is gradually lowering its stocks, though it will 

 take some months to close it all out. 



G. Elias & Bro. state that the hardwood 

 trade is very fair at present and that supplies 

 are coming in at present all-rail and will con- 

 tinue to do so during the remainder of the year. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company's 

 receipts from the South are large at present 

 and the new yard is getting well supplied with 

 an assortment of oak, chestnut and other lum- 

 ber. 



At the office of T. Sullivan & Co., it is stated 

 that hardwood prices are growing firmer and 

 that the outlook for business this fall appears 

 to be very encouraging. 



H. H. Salmon & Co. are contemplating ship- 

 ping considerable maple, beech and birch to 

 Canada by lake, instead of by rail, and Manager 

 F. T. Sullivan is pleased with an experiment 

 already made in that line. 



BOSTON 



R. V. Bell, representing C. F. McGee, a dealer 

 in hardwood lumber. Pinkney, Tenn., was a re- 

 cent visitor in Boston and the New England 

 trade. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has sus- 

 pended the proposed increases in transportation 

 rates on lumber, ranging from one to six cents 

 per hundred pounds from points in the South to 

 New England and Canadian points from Sept. 1 

 to Dec. 30. 



The George W. Robbins & Sons Company has 

 been organized in Springfield, Mass., to carry on 

 a lumber business. 



Frank E. Meigs of Burlington, Vt., has re- 

 moved his wood-working business to new quar- 

 ters on the corner of Church and Maple streets 

 in that city. 



The Hills Chair-Couch Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Boston, has been incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of .$100,000 by John C. Hills, R. Henry 

 Mills. Aubrey F. Hills, Fremont L. Pugsley and 

 John B. Maynard. 



Harry F. Baker of the H. E. Baker Company, 

 Boston, died Sept. 15 as the result of a severe 

 accident caused by the overturning of his auto- 

 mobile. Mr. Baker was a young man and had 

 started in business for himself only a few 

 months ago. He was one of the most popular 

 salesmen in the Boston trade. At the meeting 

 of the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Associa- 

 tion held in Boston Sept. IS resolutions on his 

 dtath were adopted. 



PHILADELPHIA 



F. S. Diebold, president of the Forest Lum- 

 ber Company, who recently returned from Konna- 

 rock, Va., says the company's mill there is 

 worked to full capacity. Orders are increasing 

 and everything points to good fall and winter 

 trading. 



J. W. Floyd of the Floyd-Olmstead Company 

 reports unrelased business. Orders are liberal 

 and the house is fortunate in being able to 

 ship the goods. 



T. N. Nixon of Wistar, Underbill & Nixon, 

 who has been obliged to spend the greater part 

 of his time in New York state, has removed 

 to New York City, where he will make his head- 

 quarters. 



The business of the John J. Rumbarger Lum- 

 ber Company will hereafter be conducted from 

 the olBces of the Daniel Buck Estate, 1505 

 North Fifth street, instead of in the Perry 

 building. 



Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & Co, 

 says business is unequaled for this time of the 

 year. Nearly all the mills in which he is in- 

 terested are shipping stock as fast as it is 

 ready. The mill of the Carolina Spruce Com- 

 pany, at Pensacola, N. C, has already piled up 

 a large stock of excellent hardwoods. The rail- 

 road connection which will greatly facilitate 

 business has not as yet been completed. 



W. S. W. Kirby of the Kirby and Hawkins 

 Company says orders from the railroad companies 

 have increased of late, and the outlook is prom- 

 ising. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son reports a copious trading right along. He 

 is about to make a trip to the yard at Marion, 

 N. C. to size up the stock situation there. 



Hugh Mcllvain of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., 

 extensive hardwood handlers of this city, with 

 his family, is making an extensive tour of 

 Europe. 



BALTIMORE 



Richard P. Bacr & Co. will get into their new 

 offices in the Maryland Casualty building, Balti- 

 more street and Guilford avenue, sooner than 

 they had expected. They now think the middle 

 of next month will see them installed there. 

 They will occupy the eleventh floor and will 

 have about twice the present space, larger quar- 

 ters having become necessary because of an in- 

 crease in the force. M. S. Baer, one of the 

 Urm, has just returned from a vacation to At- 

 lantic City, where he spent ten days or two 

 weeks. A. O. Thayer, manager of the firm's 

 mill at Mobile, is here to discuss with members 

 of the flrm the details of a new plant to be 

 erected near Merrill, Miss. The firm has had 

 a circular mill there, but it has not been in 

 operation for several years. The new plant is 

 to be a hand mill of large capacity. James 

 Baer, of the flrm, has been looking after opera- 

 tions at Mobile in the absence of Mr. Thayer. 

 The firm is doing a rushing business, an increase 

 having been noted for every month this year, 

 over the corresponding periods of 1011. 



Considerable surprise was occasioned in the 

 hardwood trade here by the announcement on 

 Sept. 10 that Stephen S. Mann and Frank A. 

 Parker, individually and as members of the firm 

 of Mann & Parker, had been adjudicated bank- 

 rupts the day before by Willis E. Myers, referee 

 in bankruptcy, in the United States court here. 

 The two lumbermen consented to the adjudica- 

 tion. Proceedings to have them thrown into in- 

 solvency were instituted by the Old Field? Lum- 

 ber Company, with a claim of ,$4,604.55, and 

 the American Lumber Company, with a claim of 

 .$1,273.71. Since then John Schilpp, a Balti- 

 more attorney, has been appointed receiver, and 

 he is now engaged in straightening out affairs. 

 The flrm has been located at 32 South street 

 for several years, and its troubles are attributed 

 chiefly to losses incurred in operating a mill 

 in South Carolina. The wholesale business, it 

 is said, has always been profitable. No state- 

 ment of assets and liabilities has yet been pre- 

 pared, but it is current report that the liabili- 

 ties will amount to about $65,000. 



Rumors in circulation for some months that 

 the J. X. 'Wilkinson Lumber Company of Bristol, 

 Tenn., was in difficulties were verifled this week, 

 when news was received here that the company 

 had suspended. Its troubles, according to re- 

 port, date back several years, when its big mill 

 was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated 



