HARDWOOD RECORD 



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(K>rs. Mr. Codling reports bis mill at Azalea, 

 .\. C, working steadily. The company is making 

 ;) specialty of one-incli oalv dimension stocli. 



The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company reports 

 business moving fairly well. Mr. Fleck has just 

 r'!tnrned from Atlantic City. N. J., where he 

 enjoyed a short respite from business cares, 

 lie regards the business outlook very promising, 

 ihe only bugbear being the car shortage at the 

 uiill. 



Wistar. Underbill & Co. have experienced no 

 falling behind in their business during the 

 summer ; everything has been satisfactory. R. 

 \V. Wistar has Just returned from the Pocono 

 juountains, where he sought a much-needed rest. 

 T. N. Nixon of this tirm is on a selling trip 

 through the Lehigh valley district and is send- 

 ing in some good orders. J. W. Anderson is 

 making a like trip through Canada. 



\V. U. Fritz & Co. are pleased with the trade 

 .situation. W. H. Fritz indulged in a most en- 

 joyable trip to Niagara Falls and North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y., this summer, and Elwood B. Hay- 

 man rusticated for a time in Ithaca. X. Y., and 

 surrounding country. Mr. Fritz is now making 

 a business trip through New York. 



The Uumbarger Lumber Company reports 

 many inquiries and good orders coming in, con- 

 sequently is pleased with the future outlook. 

 .Tohn J. Rumbarger has been working like a 

 Trojan for the success of the convention of 

 Hoo-Hoos to be held at Atlantic City, N. J., 

 September 9, 10 and 11. He has spent the sum- 

 mer with his family at Ridley Park, Pa., but is 

 at present enjoying a short sojourn at Atlantic 

 City. 



Among the recent visitors to the local trade 

 were J. W. Byrd of the J. W. Byrd Lumber Com 

 pany, Thomasville, Ga. ; Valentine Luppert of 

 Butler, Tenn.. and Jacob Eisenberger, superin- 

 tendent of the Evergreen Lumber Company, 

 Evergreen, N. C. 



Wilson H. Lear reports business excellent in 

 every way and the month of August the best 

 lie has ever had. He is rushing the work of 

 establishing his new yard at East Girard avenue 

 and F^letcher street, as he is much in need of 

 the extra space. Mr. Lear takes great pride in 

 telling of the work accomplished by H. F. 

 Thompson, one of his inspectors, who it seems 

 has broken the record for quick inspection work. 

 According to showing Mr. Thompson counted 

 and inspected in 148 hours S7;!.276 feet of cy- 

 press ; in one day alone he covered 74,121 feet 

 of .j/4, 6/4 and 8/4, a dexterity certainly with 

 which few would care to compete. 



Sheip & Vandegrift report business good in all 

 departments, their only drawback being a scarcity 

 of expert labor. Jerome II. Sheip recently re- 

 turned from his vacation in the Adirondack 

 mountains and Big Moose lake, Asa W. Van- 

 dergrift sojourned for awhile at Eagles Mere, Pa. 



The Philadelphia Veneer and Lumber Company 

 is very busy both at its mill and in the whole- 

 sale line. F. Goodhue Jr. of this concern re- 

 cently made an extended trip through eastern 

 Pennsylvania and New England, where he gath- 

 ered a good bunch of orders. He is now on 

 a selling trip in New Y'ork. This company has 

 recently obtained a desirable lot of chestnut 

 which it finds is a good seller. 



Officials of the Reading Coal and Iron Com- 

 pany, having pronounced the experiment made by 

 the Ucited States government to prevent the 

 decay of mine timber a complete success, has 

 decided to at once adopt the method. Timber 

 chemically treated by experts of the government 

 at the Silver Creek colliery a year ago was 

 found in excellent condition, while other timber 

 similarly situated but not treated was found in 

 au advanced state of decay. 



The furniture factory owned by the Union 

 Furniture Company of McClure, Pa., with con- 

 tents, was destroyed by Are August 27 ; loss, 



s.30,ono. 



The Aldan Supply Company's planiug mill and 

 sash factory at Chester, Pa., were destroyed by 

 fire August 27. The loss is estimated at .^C^OO. 



The toy and wood novelty factory of A. 

 Sehoenhnt Company, Trenton avenue and Adams 

 street, this city, was visited by tire August 19. 

 The loss is estimated at $100,000 and is fully 

 covered by insurance. 



A flve-story-and-basement reinforced concrete 

 building is to be erected on Fifth street below 

 Locust, which when finished will be occupied by 

 Heywood Brothers & Wakefield Company, ex- 

 tensive chair manufacturers, who have taken a 

 lease for same at ,$26,000 per annum. 



The lumber yard at Manheim and Green 

 streets belonging to James R. Gates was recent- 

 ly sold to Frank D. Williams for .f21,000. 



Upon the petition of Delaney & Co. and Ken- 

 sington National bank, with claims for .'i!l,567.20 

 and $13,500 respectively, William W. Price has 

 been appointed receiver of the Ebert Furniture 

 Company, which has been compelled to tempo- 

 rarily stispend business owing to lack of ready 

 fund.s. The aggregate liabilities consist of un- 

 paid bills $10,356.22 and notes coming due $36,- 

 551.01. 



The Lovelady Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Camden, N. J., by J. Gibson Mc- 

 Ilvain and his associates in the firm of J. Gib- 

 son Mcllvain & Co. of this city, to develop a 

 tract of timber acquired last year on Lovelady 

 creek in Virginia. The capital of the new cor- 

 poration is .$15,000 and the incorporators are 

 J. Gibson Mcllvain, Hugh Mcllvain and J. Gib- 

 son Mcllvain Sr. The timber on the property 

 consists principally of oak, chestnut and poplar. 

 The product of the Lovelady Lumber Company 

 will be handled by J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. of 

 Philadelphia. 



Baltimore. 



The last quarterly meeting of the Lumber 

 Exchange under the presidency of William M. 

 Burgan was held at the Merchants' Club, Sep- 

 tember 2. Perhaps the principal subject to come 

 up for discussion was the reservation of wharf 

 space on the new docks for the lumber trade. 

 The subject was brought up on a question of 

 L. H. Gwaltney of the American Lumber Com- 

 pany, who wanted to know what was being done 

 to keep the claims of the lumber trade before 

 the municipal authorities. He stated that if the 

 securing of the reservation on pier No. 6 was 

 made a matter of competition he was very much 

 afraid that the lumbermen could not offer as much 

 as other Interests, steamboat companies, for 

 instance. It behooved the members of the trade 

 to impress the proper officials with the Im- 

 portance of the lumber business to the city, he 

 said, as work on pier 6 would be commenced 

 within the year. A motion was adopted author- 

 izing the president to appoint a committee with 

 instructions to investigate and report at some 

 future meeting. 



The matter of appointing a salaried secretary 

 came up next and elicited considerable discus- 

 sion. E. I'. Gill, as chairman of the special 

 committee, reported in favor of this step, but 

 declared that the committee was without means 

 and that until these were provided nothing could 

 be done. The exchange resolved to continue the 

 committee, which Is expected to report favorably 

 on the proposition at the annual meeting in 

 December. If it is necessary. In order to provide 

 the money for a paid secretary, to raise the 

 dues, which would necessitate an amendment to 

 the by-laws, a resolution will be offered at the 

 next meeting to authorize the change. Several 

 matters relating to the inspection of lumber 

 under the authority of the exchange were dis- 

 cussed, after which the members adjourned to 

 the dining hall, where an excellent dinner was 

 served. 



The campaign in favor of John L. .-Vlcock of 

 John 1,. Alcock & Co. of this city for snark 

 of the universe, which was started abofft two 

 weeks ago. Is progressing to the satisfaction of 

 those in cliarge. Maurice W. Wiley, chairman 

 of the campaign committee, has been In com- 

 munication with many Hoo-Hoo. and says that 

 he has received flattering assurances of support. 



The campaign committee will go down to Atlan- 

 tic City next Saturday to secure headquarters 

 and make other preparations to get the Alcock 

 boom under way by the time the delegates to 

 the annual concatenation arrive. 



R. E. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany returned last week from a trip to North 

 Carolina, South Carolina and eastern Tennessee, 

 where he went to look over general conditions. 

 He also had under consideration arrangements 

 with capitalists for various rights on the prop- 

 erties of his company. He found the mills 

 busy, as a rule, and an optimistic feeling among 

 the manufacturers. 



M. S. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. has gone on a 

 trip to Mobile, Ala., where the company has a 

 mill in operation. He will give attention to the 

 work there and will also look around among 

 other plants, studying trade conditions and get- 

 ting information as to the supply of lumber. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald, who spent 

 a vacation in .Maine, is back at his desk once 

 more. He had an excellent time and made large 

 gains in energy. 



Holger A. Koppel, a hardwood exporter here, 

 with offices in the Carroll building, Baltimore 

 and Light streets, and Danish vice-consul, has 

 returned from a trip home to Copenhagen, 

 where he went to visit his parents after an 

 absence of three years. 



Pittsburg. 



The Parkersburg Lumber Company Is a new 

 West Virginia corporation, with offices at Par- 

 kersburg. Its officials are C. B. Barnes, J. F. 

 Ritchie, W. N. Engle and E. F. Hartley of 

 Fairmont, W. Va. It has a capital of $25,000 

 and will do a general hardwood business. 



President George W. Ilavnar of the Reliance 

 Lumber Company Is taking two weeks oil In the 

 Northwest. His partner, H. W. Henninger, 

 looks for a brisk fall trade in hardwoods. The 

 company is getting into the market in good 

 form this fall and will have some splendid hard- 

 wood connections. 



President L. L. Satler of the L. L. Satler 

 Lumber Company fears no break in prices. He 

 says that his company is booked up with orders 

 that will keep it busy until January 1 at its big 

 plant at Blackstone, Va. 



William R. Cornelius, who resigned as sales 

 manager of the J. C. Moorhead Lumber Com- 

 pany In August, has started under his own 

 name as a lumber wholesaler in the Bessemer 

 building in Pittsburg. His three years' con- 

 uection with the Moorhead company gave him 

 a large acquaintance among the right kind of 

 Arms and mill men and showed his ability to 

 make good. He is down in West Virginia now 

 lining up some good hardwood connections. 



W. M. Gillespie Is back from Buffalo, Charles- 

 ton and other lumber centers, where he has 

 been journeying of late. He is satisfied that 

 things are in better shape than a month ago 

 and looks for a pretty satisfactory trade in 

 hardwoods this fall. 



The LInehan Lumber Company Is not dis- 

 posed to see any blue side In the present iard- 

 wood market. They quote prices, terms and 

 general conditions throughout this section, as 

 well as at the hardwood mills, to back up their 

 position, and believe that the hardwood whole- 

 saler with good dry stock has nothing to fear. 

 The company rolled up one of the biggest sum- 

 mer records ever made In hardwood in this city. 



The McDonald Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently opened a Pittsburg office in the Besse- 

 mer building, reports that hardwood trade ha.> 

 steadily increased and it is now cutting 60,000 

 feet of lumber a day at its mill on the Western 

 Maryland railroad thirty miles from Elkins, W. . 

 Va. Mr. McDonald notes a very good call from 

 the Elkins yards, due to the, big building boom 

 in that section now. 



The Mead & Speer Company reports prices of 

 hardwoods uniformly firm. It is doing a good 

 business in chestnut for boxing and coffin mak- 

 ing .-,nd also has a brisk trade in shingles. 



