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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mr. Flnley have recently returned from an ex- 

 tended tour in the South and Northwest, visit- 

 ing their various connections and familiarizing 

 themselves with stocks and conditions. Mr. 

 Bruner reports the mills all active and that he 

 is looking forward to good summer trading. 



The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company has re- 

 moved its office from 704 Real Estate Trust 

 building to 322 North American building. 



The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Com- 

 pany recently issued a notice that on account of 

 the proposed elevating of its road through the 

 upper section of the city the freight yards at 

 Huntingdon and Broad streets, and Tenth and 

 Berks, will be abandoned on June 1. They have 

 since announced that it is probable a yard will 

 be opened at Seventeenth street and Indiana 

 avenue. At the railroad company's office they 

 assert that it has not been decided as yet as to 

 whether the same privileges at the old yards will 

 be allowed at the new one ; but nothing definite 

 can be ascertained for a week or two. 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 is looking forward to a big time at its tenth 

 annual convention to be held at Atlantic City, 

 N. J., on May 23 and 24. The committees have 

 ■been hard at it under the able leadership of 

 C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. and B. C. Currie. Jr., of the 

 committee of arrangements which has issued a 

 neat booklet containing programme, excellent 

 views of Atlantic City scenery, board walk, 

 hotels, etc., together with full information as to 

 railroad tickets, hours of departure from New 

 York and Philadelphia, rates per day at all the 

 leading hotels, etc., supplemented with a con- 

 cise history of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. 



Baltimore. 



In compliance with action taken at the last 

 annual meeting of the National Lumber Export- 

 ers' Association in Norfolk, Secretary E. M. 

 Terry has sent to members the draft of a letter 

 which they are asked to use as a model in com- 

 municating with their correspondents abroad 

 relative to the shipping of lumber on consign- 

 ment. The letter asks that members request 

 their European representatives to desist, and 

 use their best efforts to influence others to de- 

 sist from soliciting consignments from mills and 

 wholesale merchants in this country ; also that 

 they stop the promiscuous circulation in the 

 United States of brokers' circulars. It was the 

 opinion of those present that sending out this 

 letter as a copy for exporters to follow in com- 

 municating with foreign brokers would be more 

 effective as a means of combatting the practice 

 of shipping on consignment than any other that 

 might be attempted. A meeting of the special 

 committee on Liverpool measurement is to be 

 held on April 26 in the rooms of Secretary 

 Terry. The committee includes George D. Bur- 

 gess of Russe & Burgess, Memphis, Tenn. ; Har- 

 vey M. Dixon of the Dixon Lumber Company, 

 Norfolk, Va., and George M. Spiegle of George 

 M. Spiegle & Co. of Philadelphia. 



Michael S. Baer of the hardwood firm of Rich- 

 ard P. Baer ,& Co., in the Keyset building, this 

 city, is away on a trip to the mill operated by 

 the firm at Mobile, Ala. He will return by way 

 of Cincinnati and other cities, paying close at- 

 tention to the business situation in each place 

 visited. The mill at Mobile is now running full 

 time, and lumber is being turned out to the 

 limit of its capacity, there being orders in hand 

 for all the stocks that can be obtained. 



William M. Burgan is at Eddy Lake, S. C, 

 looking after the operations of the Eddy Lake 

 Cypress Company, in which he is largely inter- 

 ested. He may also stop in North Carolina, 

 where he has extensive interests in connection 

 with the Pigeon River Lumber Company. In 

 consideration of his services rendered to the 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association Mr. Burgan 

 has been presented with a handsome mahogany 

 desk and office chair. Mr. Burgan, though a 



wholesaler, took a deep interest in the work of 

 bringing the retailers together and largely 

 through his efforts the organization was ef- 

 fected. 



William B. Tllghman, one of the most exten- 

 sive lumber and sawmill operators in Maryland 

 and head of the William B. Tllghman Company 

 of Salisbury, Md., died there on April 13, after 

 an illness of several years. He had been 

 active in business until his last sickness, but 

 continued to take a great interest in the affairs 

 of the company, which conducts a sawmill at 

 Salisbury and operates other enterprises. Mr. 

 Tilghman was twice married and leaves seven 

 children, William B., Jr., being the only son. 

 The deceased organized the Salisbury National 

 bank and otherwise worked hard to build up the 

 town. 



On April 14 fire in the chair factory of James 

 McDonough & Co., 744-746 East Lombard street, 

 this city, caused a loss of $15,000, and for a 

 time placed the National Casket Company's big 

 plant, just across the street. In danger. The 

 loss is fully covered by insurance. 



PittsTsurg. 



The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company, which 

 was organized three months ago from the busi- 

 ness of the Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., and 

 A. G. Breitwiser & Co., is carrying a stock of 

 10,000 hardwood veneer doors in its quarters in 

 the big Terminal warehouse on the South Side. 

 The company occupies seven floors, 20x155 feet 

 each, and in addition to its stock of doors has a 

 large stock of rails, balusters, molding, etc. 



The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company is in its 

 new offices at 1015 House building, where it has 

 much better quarters than in its former loca- 

 tion. The W. E. Terhune Lumber Company has 

 moved to the ninth floor of the same building 

 and J. E. Mcllvain & Co. occupy a handsome 

 suite of offices alongside of the Terhune quarters. 

 J. W. Selvey of Grafton, W. Va., and J. T. 

 Caveney of the same place are at the head of 

 a company which has purchased 2,000 acres of 

 timber land in Randolph, Barbour, Preston and 

 Tucker counties. West Virginia. A big sawmill 

 will be established at once. 



George W. Nicola, president of the Nicola 

 Lumber Company, has bought one of the finest 

 sites in the Schenley Farms allotment in the 

 Oakland district and will erect on it a $20,000 

 residence. 



The Crescent Lumber Company has moved 

 from the Whitfield building in the East End to 

 the fifth floor of the Machesney building in 

 Fourth avenue below Wood street. Its president 

 is R. A. Wolf, and W. A. Kessler is secretary 

 and treasurer. 



The Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Company 

 reports business active. The company now has 

 over 10,000,000 feet of lumber on sticks and 

 can't get enough cars ot permit of loading as 

 fast as it is cut. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company will move 

 into its big suite of offices in the 20-story Union 

 Bank building May 1. Mr. Turner has just re- 

 turned from an extended trip through the 

 South. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has sold nearly 

 all its hemlock bark and at much better figure 

 than was realized last year. The Ohiopyle Com- 

 pany, in which the Kendalls are largely inter- 

 ested, is cutting a fine lot of oak, and the Out- 

 crop, Pa., mill near by Is making 35,000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber every day. J. L. Kendall Is 

 still in Roseburg, Ore., where he is picking up 

 some more choice timber land in preparation for 

 the big operation which the Kendalls will start 

 there in the fall. 



At last the Carter timber lands on West Hick- 

 ory creek near Tionesta, Pa., will be brought 

 close to market by reason of a new railroad for 

 which surveys are now being made. This will 

 run up West Hickory creek, near the mouth of 

 which a big sawmill will be built. There are 



about 15,000,000 feet of lumber on the tract, 

 which will require fully two years to cut off. 

 Oak, birch, chestnut and hemlock predominate. 



The Stewarton Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized by Otto and August Stickel of Mills Run, 

 Pa., and J. A. Guiler of Connellsville, Pa. It 

 will develop a large tract of hardwood and hem- 

 lock near Stewarton, Pa. 



The Linehan Lumber Company is pushing out 

 "strong" in the hardwood floor business in which 

 it took a hand only recently. J. J. Linehan 

 has been south again and finds stocks of hard- 

 woods only fair in most places. 



The Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company is 

 having a rushing trade in hardwoods at its Pitts- 

 burg office. Manager C. W. Cantrell got hold of 

 some mighty nice business while on a recent trip 

 to Cleveland and only wishes that everything in 

 lumber was as good as hardwoods at present. 



The Interior Lumber Company, whose plant 

 at Oneida, Tenn., was burned recently, will open 

 a sorting and distributing yard there and an- 

 other in Georgia and will make a specialty of 

 rough lumber for a time. J. G. Criste will be 

 Pittsburg manager as formerly and President 

 J. R. Edgett will look after the buying in the 

 south. 



The Nicola Building Company has received a 

 contract from the Pennsylvania Lumber Com- 

 pany for the erection of a reinforced concrete 

 sawmill near Kane, Pa., in Warren county. It 

 will cost $50,000 when complete and will have 

 spans on the sides of 60 feet. This will be the 

 first mill of its kind in Pennsylvania and is caus- 

 ing no little interest locally. 



The Pittsburg-Kanawha Lumber Company of 

 Buckhannon, Pa., has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $10,000. Its incorporators are : 

 Charles Campbell, H. B. Cooper, C. W. Heavner, 

 H. W. Jackson and J. M. N. Downes, prominent 

 capitalists of Buckhannon. 



I. F. Balsley of the Willson Bros. Lumber 

 Company, who is looking after the Pittsburg end 

 of the finances for the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association's convention to be held in At- 

 lantic City May 23 and 24, is enthusiastic over 

 the outlook. He believes there will be a large 

 attendance from this end of the state and says 

 that many subjects of great interest to hardwood 

 men are going to be fully and fairly discussed. 



Wholesalers in northern Ohio are devoting 

 much time this month to getting out piling for 

 use at the Lake Erie docks at Collinwood, O., 

 where are located the big shops and yards of the 

 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Com- 

 pany. Most of the stock is used by this com- 

 pany in improvements, although the government 

 has been a liberal buyer also. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company has bought 

 700,000 feet of gum, and is selling it off rap- 

 idly for boxing. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is pushing its hardwood department for 

 all that it will stand. President W. D. Johnston 

 is anxious that this shall be the best hardwood 

 year in the American's history and General Man- 

 ager J. N. Woollett is enthusiastically aiding him 

 in iM-inging about this desired result. Charles 

 Cruikshank of the hardwood force is touring 

 New England ; Samuel Dunseith is looking after 

 business in Canada ; A. T. Ash Is buying stock in 

 West Virginia ; T. C. Clark is selling hardwood 

 out west ; W. T. Robertson has been perma- 

 nently stationed to look after southwestern hard- 

 wood purchases in Arkansas. 



Buffalo. 



Buffalo lumbermen are anxious to get their 

 new clubrooms in the Chamber of Commerce 

 ready for occupation, as the move will solve 

 the problem of a permanent home for them. 

 The new building was formally opened April 18, 

 but it will be some weeks before the lumbermen's 

 clubrooms will be finished. 



There is some improvement in the car situa- 

 tion locally, but the complaints of shortage in 



