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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Building Operations for July. 



The long prevailing prosperity in building 

 operations continues with little abatement, prac- 

 tically none it' Greater New York be eliminated 

 from the calculations. Official reports from 

 fifty-five leading building centers collected by 

 the American Contractor, Cliicago, and tabulated, 

 shows a los.s in twenty-six cities and a gain in 

 twenty-nine as compared with .Tuly, 1900. The 

 losses arc comparatively light from a monetary 

 standpoint, with the exception of New York 

 city, which brings down the total decrease to 11 

 per vent. This decline must be chiefiy ascribed 

 to the enormous operations of recent years and 

 the consequent supply of new buildings. 



.Tulv. .Tuly. Per Per 



111(17. 19ue. cent cent 



City. cost. .cost. gain. loss. 



Atlanta $ 4:3.),4G4 « 472,686 .. 7 



Allesheny 104.;147 185.735 17 .. 



Baltimore 040.672 1.053.7.S6 .. :iH 



Blrmiuftluim 107.,S7U 424,7!I.S . . lili 



BriilgelMrl: llsn,:J77 247.102 . . 24 



Buffalo .Srj-.OOO 1.0.'!.S„'ioO . . 17 



Chicago ,"..:i76..'>(HI 4,8411.1160 lo . . 



Cambridfe-e l.'il.635 77.1100 !H .. 



Clevelaml ]..!6r)..-|l.'J 1.12o,:i,;8 21 .. 



Chattaiiooda :17S. 74.-1 100,57."i 276 . . 



Davenport 140. 4.50 42,185 233 .. 



Dallas ;',;!ll.03» 234,888 44 . . 



Denver .'',24,850 432.310 21 



Detroit 1.576,7llll 1,(IIJ2.0(MI 48 



Duluth 2.-;(;.,s.-:5 183.715 2.8 



Evansville 213. .504 01.633 246 .. 



Harrisburg 177..875 ]!)2,;i.5o 7 



Hartford 2111. 78o 3711.015 . . 42 



Indianapolis 485.01111 .-.81.1113 16 



Kansas City i.o5;:.08o 88,»,555 17 



•Little Itock 07,003 221,7117 . . 611 



••Louisville 201,180 837,575 , . 78 



Los Anseles 1,313,020 1,783,628 ., 26 



Milwaukee fill3,30n 707,154 40 , . 



Minneapolis H1I4.055 1.0IJ0.82O . . 37 



Memphis 432,453 411,11115 5 . . 



Mobile 103,830 76,682 37 . . 



Nashville 181„870 157,756 15 . . 



New Haven 2.52.810 224,738 12 .. 



New firleaus 278, .803 405,017 ., 31 



Manhattan 7,51X1,575 9,624,315 ., 22 



Brooklyn 5,251,275 6,447,125 .. 18 



Bronx 1,052,483 3.154,405 ., 38 



New York 14,704, .335 19.225,845 . . 23 



Omaha 432,7!)U 3,52,850 22 . . 



Philadelphia 3,784,1.50 4,u65,41ii 7 



Paterson 215,089 102,332 110 . . 



Pittsburg 1112,020 1,603,299 . , 43 



Pueblo 12,752 21,520 . . 39 



Portland 7611,671 740,621 3 ,, 



Rochestei- 1152,1125 590,6.30 01 . . 



St. Josepli 1.54,123 72,742 111 . . 



St, Louis 3.113.515 3.,35S.779 .. 7 



St, Paul l,o,-,!1.8lKl 510. ,570 107 .. 



San Antonio 193.815 102,325 S9 . . 



San Francisco 2,371,501 3,316.509 .. 28 



Scranton 258,532 298,705 ., 13 



Seattle ],,569,24S l.,502,r*3 4 .. 



Spokane 478,311;: 391, .557 19 .. 



South Bend 205,400 92,215 122 , . 



S.vracuse 342,995 510,360 . . 33 



Salt Lake City 125,100 1.87,600 .. 33 



Topeka 129,320 172,050 . . 24 



Toledo 206.800 248.591 5 



Terre Haute 147,050 83,795 75 



Tacouia 668,650 283,000 136 . . 



Worc.'ster 401,315 ,3,34,740 20 .. 



Wllkesburre 170,324 175,808 . . 3 



Total $51,907,858 ?58,48S,510 ,.. 11 



•Little Rock issued one permit July, 1906, for 

 $131,C0f). 



••Louisville issued one permit July. 1906. for 

 $320,000. 



A Progressive Concern. 



The .Steiner Mantel Company, located at cor- 

 ner I'"aIrmount avenue and Eighth street. High- 

 landtown, a suburb of Baltimore, is one of the 

 most progressive concerns in this section. The 

 company, which is but four years old. manu- 

 factures wood mantels and special furniture. 

 Under the able direction of Charles J. P. Steiner, 

 the president and general manager, the growth 

 of this concern has been rapid. In ISO:', their 

 floor space was 4,800 square feet, with a ca- 

 pacity of 100 mantels per week : in 1904, 23,400 

 square feet floor space and 500 mantels per 

 week ; in 1905, 55,000 square feet of space and 

 1,000 mantels per week, and in 1900 they 



turned out 1,500 mantels per week, with a floor 

 space increased to 88,000 square feet. This 

 plant is equipped with all the latest machinery, 

 including a number of their own patenting, and 

 has all the facilities of a railroad, which passes 

 close lo the property. 



Ad.joining this plant is the Baltimore Veneer 

 & Panel Company, manufacturers of veneered 

 panels, veneered rolls, built-up tops, drawer 

 fronts, etc. This company is owned and con- 

 trolled In' the officers of the Steiner Mantel 

 Company, and although under a separate charter, 

 obtained about two years ago. the business is 

 under the same management as that of the 

 older company. This concern has proved as 

 succes.sful as the other and has become a decided 

 factor in the market. The two companies 

 jointly are now consuming 10,000,000 feet of 

 hardwoods per annum. 



he had done so much. To his family this be- 

 reavement is particularly hard at this time, as 

 it follows so closely upon the marriage of his 

 son. ^VilIiam L. Rice, who was married July 24 

 to Miss Florence Uobbins Keen. 



Mr. Kice was twice married and leaves a 

 widow and five children. He was a member of 

 the Masonic order, the Manufacturers* Club and 

 the .\ronimink Golf Club, 



Atkins Ahead Again. 



E. C. Atkins & Co.. Inc., the famous saw 

 makers of Indianapolis, have a display at the 

 Jamestown Exposition which is extremely novel 

 to say the least and which has attracted no 

 ordinary amount of attention, even in that great 

 assembling place of curiosities and wonders. The 

 exhibit consists of scientific kites from which are 

 suspended large banners, together with the fig- 

 ures of a man and a woman each hanging from 



New Michigan Corporation. 



William II, White of Boyne City, Mich., and 

 associates have recently organized the Yellow 

 Fir Lumber Company of I'ortland, Ore,, with a 

 capital of .fl, 600,000. Mr. White is at the head 

 of the William H. White Company of Boyne 

 City, an important railroad line and a dozen 

 minor corporations in the north-central part of 

 the state. In addition he has recently formed a 

 large company in British Columbia, which will 

 eventually engage in lumber manufacture. The 

 Yellow Fir Lumber Company, j.ust organized, 

 has the following olficers : Thomas White, presi- 

 dent : James A, White, vice president ; William 

 H. White, secretary : ^V. L. Martin, assistant 

 secretary ; George M. Burr, treasurer. The hoard 

 of directors consists of William H. White, James 

 A. \\'hite, Thomas White, all of Boyne City : 

 Amos Mussellman of tirand Rapids ; J, T, Wylle 



A IMQUE IllSPl.AY. 



a trapeze. While the accompanying picture 

 gives some idea of tlie device, it does not convey 

 a very true impression of the startling effect 

 produced upon spectators. The large banners. 

 30x40 feet, are suspended an eighth of a mile 

 in the air. and between them hover the figures, 

 realistic enough to cause the citizens of Norfolk 

 and visitors to the exposition stiff necks and 

 extra heart-beats from gazing skyward. 



of Saginaw, and Salmer Curtis of I'etoskey, The 

 stockliolders include the officers and directors 

 aljove named, together with E. G, Rust of Elk 

 Rapids, C, J. Voight and W. D. Young of Bay 

 City, W, O. King of Chicago and F. S. Knowles 

 of Boyne City. The operations of the new com- 

 pany will be under the immediate charge of 

 Thomas White. 



Death of Prominent Philadelphian. 



At White Face Inn. Lake I'lacid. N. Y.. where 

 he and his family have spent their summers for 

 a number of years. Thomas B. Rice, head of 

 the T. B. Rice & Sons Company, large manufac- 

 turers of boxes at Philadelphia, dropped dead 

 of apoplexy on July 31, Mr. Rice was sixty 

 years old and was widely known and universally 

 admired. 



The members of tiie I'hiladelphia Lumber- 

 men's Exchange, of which organization he was 

 at one time president, his son at present occu- 

 pying tliat position, feel a personal loss in Mr, 

 Rice's death, as he was greatly beloved by every 

 one connected with the organization, for which 



An Amusing Letter. 



'i'he following enthusiastic and ingenuous let- 

 ter was recently received from a student at the 

 Biitmore Forest School, conducted by Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck on the estate of George K. Vanderbllt in 

 the Plsgah Forest of North Carolina. The young 

 man decided to spend his summer vacation period 

 in a manner which should provide both recrea- 

 tion and instruction, and that he is not being 

 disappointed in either the letter will show : 

 I^IXK Beds, Pisgah Ii'orkst, N. C, July 10, '07. 



My Dear Mother : Your letter came toda.v and 

 I was glad to get it. Have had a pretty hard 

 day of it today and am tired. I wish that 

 Dad was here to hear Dr. Schenck lecture on 

 Forest Utilization. He would then get an idea 



