HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The J. W. Ditenderfer Lunibei' Company is as 

 ever among the busiest. A. E. Magargal of this 

 concern reports many inquiries being made and 

 orders coming in rapidly. They have a fair 

 stock on hand, but, as usual, no ears in sight. 



.7. H. and K. W. Schofleid of Schoflekl Bros., 

 with their salesman, Jos. Lance, Jr., are looking 

 after their interests in South Carolina. 



The Rumbarger Lumber Company is benefitting 

 by the reaction in trading and is looking for- 

 ward to a good summer business. Frank T. 

 Rumbarger was in Baltimore, Md., recently, 

 where he closed a contract for the output of a 

 South Carolina hardwood mill. 



O. II. Rectanus, secretary of the A. M. Turner 

 Lumber Company of I'ittsburg, Pa., called on 

 John J. Rumbarger recently, in connection with 

 the Hoo-I-Ioo annual. 



Wm. Bond of DuBois & Bond Bros, DuBois, 

 Pa. ; Bond, Md., and Thomas, W. Va., was 

 an interesting visitor to the local trade recently. 

 He called on John J. Rumbarger of the Rum- 

 barger Lumber Company, and also looked up his 

 old schoolmate Robert Whitmer, with whom he 

 attended Lafayette College. 



The Kirby & Hawkins Company are much 

 pleased with the future business outlook. They 

 are large handlers of ties and report the rail- 

 roads preparing (or steady work throughout the 

 coming season. 



W. M. McCormlck reports business moving in 

 easy grooves. Tlie mills are all working steadily, 

 but orders are taken only for what stock they 

 may have ready for delivery. 



Horace G. Hazard & Co. have no serious 

 complaints to make, have good share of orders. 

 They are now receiving most of their goods by 

 .water, which arrangement suits them better than 

 the delinquent car service. 



The Philadelphia Textile Machinery Company 

 la a busy concern. It has just issued a book 

 copiously illustrated, called Veneer Dryers, which 

 will be mailed to any veneer concern or other 

 parties interested in the subject on request. T. 

 W. Howlett, manager for twenty-two years of 

 the St. Louis Basket and Box Company and 

 now representative of the Philadelphia Textile 

 Machinery Company, is traveling through all the 

 veneer making districts in the United States and 

 will call upon any veneer house so desiring to 

 exploit the merits of the dryer, which machine 

 he considers has no superior. 



The Union City Chair Company of Union City, 

 Pa., was visited by a disastrous fire on April 28. 

 The loss, including several houses, is estimated 

 at $300,000. 



Ephraim E. Bertolet, a carriage builder in 

 Pottstown, Pa., died recently of cerebral apop- 

 lexy. He was sixty-four years of age. 



The firm of W. S. Haller & Co., cigar-box 

 manufacturer, was declared a voluntary bank- 

 rupt on April 24. Liabilities are given at 

 $2,823. .13 and assets. $1,500. 



The ground and buildings of the old Lybrand 

 and McDowell Stove Works at liast Girard 

 avenue and Aramingo street were purchased at 

 auction on April 30 by Wilson H. Lear, the 

 extensive lumber dealer. The price paid was 

 $74,500, which is regarded very low, as the 

 property is assessed at $100,000. The plant 

 covers an area of D5S feet on Girard avenue, 2G4 

 feet on Fletcher street and 300 feet on Aramingo 

 street. 



The Twentieth Century Lumber Company was 

 incorporated under Pennsylvania laws April 20. 

 capitalized at $10,000. The incorporators are 

 W. S. Snyder and G. il. Whitney of Harrisburg, 

 Pa., and David Wiener, Carlisle, Pa. 



The planing mill and lumber yard of J. A. 

 Hoilinger of Chambersburg, Pa., were destroyed 

 by fire on May 1. The loss is estimated at 

 $100,000. Insurance, $40,000. 



William T. Hoffman, deputy county treasurer, 

 and L. O. Lambert, both of Somerset, Pa., 

 recently purchased the Gastelger timber tract 

 near Ligonier on the Pittsburg, Westmoreland 



& Somerset Railroad. The tract is said to con- 

 tain 1,000 acres and will cut some 8,000,000 

 feet of lumber. There is a mill on the tract, 

 which the purchasers will operate to its full 

 capacity. 



It is announced that the state of Pennsyl- 

 vania will this year take over 26,000 acres of 

 land at the headwaters of Eishing Creek, which 

 will be converted into a forest reserve. The 

 land lies in Columbia, Sullivan and Lycoming 

 counties and will be purchased from the Pente- 

 cost Lumber Company. 



A fire along the Standard Oil Company's 

 pipeline at Plowville, Berks County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, spread over fifty acres of land, destroying 

 considerable valuable timber belonging to Gideon 

 Delcomp and others. 



The Hoo-Hoo Annual is becoming the all- 

 consuming topic of conversation among 

 lumbermen throughout the country. The 

 various committees appointed some months 

 ago have worked faithfully, plans have 

 been formulated and other necessary work 

 brought so near consummation that it will be 

 easy sailing during the summer to carry out all 

 arrangements comfortably and satisfactorily. 

 Chairman Jerome H. Sheip of Philadelphia, aided 

 by the various committees, is neglecting no 

 opportunity to render this annual a star of the 

 first magnitude in the galaxy of Hoo-Hoo. He 

 recently spent a week at Atlantic City arranging 

 for rates at the best hotels. It is a settled 

 matter that the fine steel pier at this famous 

 summer resort will be secured for the Hoo-Hoo 

 headquarters. Five thousand booklets will be 

 issued by the middle of May and distributed in 

 all Hoo-Hoo centers, containing any information 

 desired concerning matters pertaining to the 

 annual, including a program of the daily doings 

 and entertainments arranged for guests. 



Baltimore. 



The National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 and the various committees of that body are 

 working energetically to bring about the elimina- 

 tion of some of the abuses that have troubled 

 the export trade for a long time. One of the 

 questions agitated is the so-called Liverpool 

 measurement. The special committee named to 

 bring about a change met at the office of E. M. 

 Terry, secretary, on April 23, and adopted a 

 plan of campaign. It was decided to draft a 

 circular letter to members and newspapers' and 

 talk to representative exporters and buyers, 

 pointing out the injustice of the Liverpool 

 measurement and explaining that under the 

 system every cargo of lumber is subject to a 

 dockage of from two to ten per cent for alleged 

 faults. It is also urged in the letter that 

 members write to buyers and brokers, informing 

 them that it is impossible to do business in 

 Liverpool under the present system aud that the 

 exporters are prepared to sell hiniber only on 

 the basis of a measurement of the actual con- 

 tents, no allowance for defects of any kind 

 to be made. Secretary Terry was directed to 

 draft another letter to the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, the Plardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association and the New Orleans 

 Lumber Exporters' Association urging that, they 

 co-operate with the National Lumber Exporters' 

 .\ssociation in this matter. It was further 

 decided to send letters to the Timber I'rades 

 Federation of Liverpool and the hardwood sec- 

 tion of the Timber Trades Federation of London 

 on the subject. 



The claims committee of the National Lumber 

 E.'iporters' Association also had a session ten 

 days ago and disposed of various matters that 

 had accumulated since the previous meeting. 

 The difficulty which this committee encounters 

 is to be found in the numerous loopholes left 

 by careless consignees, and which enable the 

 transportation companies to get out of paying 

 claims for damage or shortage. Often the 

 receiver of a shipment will neglect to file a 



claim or give proper notice of a shortage, and 

 this is taken advantage of to reject claims. 

 With the idea of overcoming the difficulty the 

 committee has had sent to members of the 

 association a letter covering this difficulty. In 

 order to correct these drawbacks and secure a 

 basis for future claims, the committee had 

 formulated recommendations and it suggested 

 that shippers notify their consignees of these 

 recommendations and endeavor to have them 

 adopted wherever necessary. 



Secretary Terry of the National association 

 has lately received advices from England which 

 justify the expectation that an agreement upon 

 .'I new form of contract satisfactory to both the 

 exporters and the brokers and buyers on the 

 other side of the Atlantic will shortly be 

 reached. When the question first came up the 

 exporters drafted a form of contract which was 

 rejected by the brokers and buyers as not 

 acceptable to them. The latter then drew up 

 one that met their views but which the ex- 

 porters did not find it possible to accept. 

 Another draft was submitted, and this has been 

 .somewhat amended. With a few additional 

 changes it may meet the wishes of both sides, 

 and will then be adopted. 



An accident which cost a dozen lives a few 

 days ago will be a matter of much concern to 

 the lumber export business of this city, inas- 

 much as it means an indefinite delay in the 

 completion of facilities for the unloading of 

 lumber and logs that would greatly facilitate 

 the trade. This accident was the collapse of the 

 new pier, known as No. 8, being erected at 

 Locust Point by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. 

 The work had progressed so far that the finish- 

 ing touches were being put on, when the great 

 weight of sand, concrete and the superstructure 

 of steel — the latter being some 2,000 tons — 

 caused the piles to bulge and let down the whole 

 pier. A large number of men were caught in 

 the wreckage and twelve have since been miss- 

 ing. The pier was designed to relieve the 

 freight congestion at Locust Point and the 

 lumber exporters had the promise of the railroad 

 that they would get room for the prompt un- 

 loading on it of the lumber and logs reaching 

 here for shipment abroad. This meant that 

 such consignments would have been put aboard 

 steamers without delay, as the intention was to 

 divert the Liverpool and Glasgow vessels to the 

 pier. The latter was one of the largest in the 

 United States, two stories in height and rested 

 on about 10,000 piles, sixty feet long. What 

 caused the piles to shift has not yet been 

 ascertained. 



Work on the Swayne county (N. C.) mill of 

 the R. E. Wood Lumber Company of this city 

 has been resumed, and the plant may be put in 

 operation this summer. 



Pittsburg. 



Tlie Nicola Lumber Company has been hav- 

 ing its full share of hardwood trade all the 

 spring. It is covering the Pennsylvania and 

 Ohio field very thoroughly this year and is 

 making some fine contracts with large manu- 

 facturers and for building lumber. 



A new company, promoted by J. T. Caveney 

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

 bought 2,000 acres of timber land in Randolph. 

 Barbour, Preston and Tucker counties. West 

 Virginia. A large sawmill will be erected at 

 once. 



H. E. Clark and Kreger & Bradley of Abing- 

 don, W. Va., have bought 7,300 acres of tim- 

 ber land in Johnston county. Tennessee, for 

 about $60,000. They will erect a large band 

 sawmill and market most of tire product in 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio. 



The Linehan Lumber Company made a very 

 fortunate hit when it arranged to take over 

 the entire output of the International Hard- 

 wood Company of Catlettsburg, Ky. This con- 

 cern makes a specialty of fine oak flooring, 

 and Linehan Bros, are getting orders for the 



