HARDWOOD RECORD 



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iit^r. line] William T. Ilaynes and I.uthor O. Koper 

 of Wattn-villo. 



Charles Holyoki\ dealer in hardwood lumber, 

 has ri'inoved to his new office, room 407, 14" 

 .Milk strocl, Bostou. 



I'ri'derifk .lefts of Worcester. Mass.. died at 

 Ills home Aug. 2S. at the age of 81 years. Mr. 

 -h'fts had the n-piitatiou of being the first maun- 

 faiiur.T in tin- country to make solid hardwood 

 doors. He lirst eame into notice in this respect 

 by si-curing a contract for 7(10 doors at the time 

 that Wellesley ('ollego was built. At that time 

 a contract was given for 700 doors to be made 

 of pine and hardwood veneer. Mr. .lefts agreed 

 to furnish solid ash doors for less than the 

 yeneer doors and in this way secured the con- 

 tract. Late years the style of the firm has been 

 F. .lefts & Sons, lie Is survived by two sons, 

 Orlando A. and Elmer F. 



New York. 



W. M. Hitter, tlu- distinguished har<lw<ioil 

 manufacturer of 4'olumbus. Ohio, president of 

 the W. M. Uitter Lumber Company, sailed from 

 this port on August 30 for an extended Euro- 

 pean trip. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood Man 

 ufacturors' Association of the Fnited Stales, 

 with headquarters in Chicago, has been visit- 

 ing in the city for several days in connection 

 with association affairs, after a visit to his 

 mother at Itidley Park. I'a. While here he con- 

 ferred with W. M. Uitter. the hig hardwood 

 operator of Columbus, previous to the latter's 

 departure for Kurope. He reports association 

 matters in excellent shape. 



The J. C. Turner Lumber Company. 1 1 1':; 

 Hroadway. is receiving big cargoes of cypress at 

 its Jrvington yards and has piled up in the 

 neighborhood of 40.000.0(M) feet for the fall and 

 winter traile. The company has also just pur- 

 chased :1L'.">. 0(10,000 feet additional stumpage in 

 the South, bringing its total holdings up to a 

 l)inion feet. 



i\ A. Murray, who has been conducting a 

 whiilesale business at 18 Broadway for several 

 years, has assumed management of the hardwood 

 department of J. S. Barron vV Co.. city, effective 

 Sept. 1. 



Franklin Cremwood. manager of the Cypress 

 Selling Company. New Orleans, has been in 

 town several days Interviewing the various rej)- 

 resentatives of the company in this territory. 

 He was accompanied by Mrs. Greenwood. 



W. M. Crorabie of W. M. Cromhio & Co., S] 

 New street, sailed for Europe on Aug. I'l with 

 Mrs. Croml)ie for a five weeks' trip. 



James Breen of William Breen's Sons, Brook- 

 lyn, is back from a stay at Sound Beach. 

 Conn. 



L. (i. .Tones, the veneer wholesaler of Avenue 

 r> and Tenth street, is on a European pleasure 

 I rip and is expected home on the l.">th. 



Frank I'. McNulty, who has been associated 

 with I'rice & Hart of this city for some years. 

 has joined forces with the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Stevens-Eaton Company, 1 Madison 

 avenue, and will assist T. S. Miller in the man- 

 agement of that branch. 



Gardner L Jones of the Jones Hardwood Com 

 pany. Boston, and J. W. Dickson of the J. W. 

 Dickson Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 have been here visiting the trade during the fort, 

 night. 



Philadelphia. 



Tlie annual baseball game between teams of 

 the Lumbermen's Exchange of I'hiladelphia and 

 I he Buildei-s' Exchange was played August ^^0 

 and resulted in a victory for the lumbermen by 

 a score of 8 to 4. The proceeds of the game 

 were divided between the Children's Country 

 Week Asso{'iation, the Bed Bank Sanitarium and 

 the Sterilized Milk Association. The contest 

 this yc'ar yieldi-d over $500. making the total 

 amount contributed by the games almost .'?.">, 000. 

 John .1. Uumbarger. manager of the lumbermen's 

 team, received many congratulations on the 

 good showing made by his nine in the game. 



On Thursday. August 30. a special meeting 

 of the hoard of directors of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of I'hiladelphia was held to take ac- 

 ti<m on the seven new candidates proposed for 

 admission. The committee on membersliip re- 

 ported favorably on all names and all were 

 4-leiied to membership. The first regular meet- 

 hiii of the board of directors in the new location 



took place on September 0. The occasion waa 

 made a house warming and a lunch was served 

 • to those in attendance — almost the full member- 

 ship of the association. Since the removal of 

 the Exchange up town several innovations look- 

 ing to the comfort and benefit of the members 

 have been inaugurated. A roster has also been 

 established for the purpose of registering the 

 names of visiting lumbermen, who are Invited 

 to make the Exchange their headtpiarters while 

 in town, meet their friends there, and attend to 

 their mail. 



The midsummer statement of the Pennsylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company 

 reveals the splendid financial conditon of that 

 institution and reflects great credit on the work- 

 ing force and directors. The resources of the 

 company are : 



Approved stocks and bonds ( cost » . . .. 1^18:^.447. 1 1 



Cash in banks on interest ;il ,07!t.8:{ 



Cash in office 1 70.t(."» 



Cash value reinsurance policies tJ-'iLTtri 



I'remiums due 11,668.40 



.'i;227,2t7.61 



Contingent assets 431,477.28 



.i;6r)S,(!94.fi!) 

 Liabilities : Estimated loss 200.00 



^6.j8,4V)4.8'.t 

 Insurance in force. $6.608,955. L^. 

 I'remiums in force, .$143,825.76. 



The I'hiladelphia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 experienced in August one of its best months. 

 11. N. Pattison is now down in Virginia looking 

 after the shipments of the company at the 

 mills. 



John Sehofield of Schofield Bros, is spending 

 some time in the South looking over a timber 

 tract in which liis firm is interested. He will 

 return in two weeks and again take charge of 

 his end of the business. 



C. M. Hawkins, one of the buyers for the 

 Kumharger Lumber Company, is in town con- 

 ferring with his firm. Mr. Hawkins is being 

 transferred from the Norfolk & Western to tlie 

 West Virginia and Pittsburg division of the 

 Baltimore & Ohio. He will have his headquar- 

 ters n{ Burnsville, W. Va. 



I, D. Miller, for a long time In business in 

 Philadelphia but who two months ago took U|t 

 headquarters at Baker's Mines, Va., was a wel- 

 come visitor to the trade during the last week. 



Samuel H. Shearer of Samuel IL Shearer \: 

 Son is back from his vacation and again at 

 business with his customary energy. The com- 

 pany has had a very prosperous season and looks 

 forward to a greatly increased ti-ade in the 

 fall. 



William IL Fritz has returned from an exten 

 sive trip through the South, where he spent his 

 vacation, combining business with pb'asure. 

 During his absence Mr. Fritz visited mill points 

 and made arrangements for future trade. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody has returned from a trip 

 to Boston tin business for his firm. S. V. War- 

 ner has lately returned from a short vacation 

 in the South. Business with this firm has been 

 good during the summer and prospects for a 

 brisk fall trade are bright. 



Baltimore. 



There is an animated fight in progress be- 

 tw^een D. W. and G. H. Thomas, building 

 contractors, on the one hand an<3 Building 

 Inspector Preston on the other. It was caused 

 by a dispute over the maple flooring being 

 put down by the contractors in the new 

 Eastern High School. Mr. Preston contended 

 tliat the flooring did not come up to speoi- 

 tications. and that it lacked uniformity in 

 color. The contractors protested that the, 

 flooring was of the quality called for in the 

 contract, and maintained that inasmuch as 

 the floors were to be stained, the color of the 

 wood made no difference, since after stain- 

 iug all would ' look alike. The upshot of 

 ihe matter was that the building inspec- 

 tor has served notice on the firm Ihat 

 its contract was cancelled, which he said 

 be had a right to do under the ordi- 

 tijince providing for the erection of the school, 

 tile firm having refused to take up the floor- 

 ing and relay it. as demanded, 'i'he dispute 

 of course will not end here, but will l)e taken 



into the courts. The outcome is awaited 

 with much interest since the decision will 

 go far to determine just what constitutes 

 No. 1 maple flooring. 



R. P. Baer & Co.. hardwood dealers and 

 manufacturers, have moved from the Knick- 

 erbocker Building to the Keyser Building, 

 whei'e they have secured a fine suite of rooms 

 on the tenth floor. The change leaves only 

 Price & Heald in the Knickerbocker Build- 

 ing of all the lumber firms once there. M. 

 S. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co., has gone on 

 another extended southern trip, which will 

 take him as far as Mobile, where the firm is 

 interested in a sawmill. 



The Baltimore I^umber Exchange held its 

 quarterly meeting Sept. 3. in the Merchants* 

 Club. A large number of the members were 

 in attendance and considerable routine busi- 

 ness was transacted. The exchange considered 

 the car equipment case, and decided to make a 

 further contribution to the fund to give practical 

 equipment tests. 



Word has been received here that A. Tem- 

 ple Dobell. son of Alfred Dobell, and Mr. 

 Ravenscroft of the Liverpool firm of Alfred 

 Dobell & Co.. have sailed for New York and 

 will make an extended tour of the United 

 States and Canada. They will first go to the 

 Dominion and afterward visit the states. 



J. K. Painter, secretary of the R. E. "Wood 

 Lumber Company of this city, was on a tour 

 of Pittsburg and other northern cities re- 

 cently and placed a considerable number of 

 orders for stocks. Last week he went on a 

 short visit to his mother. 



Some of the exporters here have received 

 notice that the Norfolk .<: Western Railway 

 will issue no more through l)ills of lading 

 until various points embodied in the new 

 Hepburn rate law have been determined by 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission. The 

 decision of the railroad will cause serious em- 

 barrassment to shippers along the line. 



Richard W. Price has been appointed co- 

 receiver of the Hiss Company, manufacturer 

 of fine furniture, which got into the bank- 

 ruptcy court not long ago. The other re- 

 ceivers are Milton B. Williams and Charles 

 D. Fenhagen. the latter of the InternationaJ 

 Trust Company. The liabilities of the com 

 pany are placed at $16L0OO and the assets al 

 $14b.00f). The latter are expected to undergo 

 an increase, as the company has various prof- 

 itable contracts in hand. 



S. Void Peterson, son of Laur O. Peter- 

 son, a well known lumber importer at Copen- 

 hagen, has opened an office in the Carroll 

 Building, this city, and established connec- 

 tions with various hardwood firms liere as 

 well as in other cities with a view to making 

 purchases of lumber for his firm. Mr. Peter- 

 son first came to Baltimore on a visit and then 

 decided to establish regular headquarters. He 

 is expected to remain here for some time. 



Pittsburg. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is considering 

 several very large timber propositions and may 

 close the purchase of one or more tracts this 

 year. (Jeorge W. Nicola, president of the lumber 

 company, is enthusiastic in his survey of the 

 field this fall and looks for some record breaking 

 prices for hardwoods before spring. 



Willson Brothers are pushing their hardwood 

 business with the kind of vim that means suc- 

 cess. Manager 1. F. Balsley of the hardwood 

 department has introduced some new methods 

 with striking success, and bids fair to roll up 

 a big total of sales the next four mon(hs. 



The contest between the planing mill owners 

 and their carpenters is still unsettled, although 

 many of the mills in Allegheny county are work- 

 ing. The carpenters have made one concession 

 in their demands. When they went out in May 

 they asked $4 for eight hours, instead of 

 .S.'1..">0 for nine hours, which they then received. 

 I'Mnally they agreed to take .$4 for nine hours, 

 but their employers are exercising their right to 

 use the merit system in employing carpenters and 

 do not bind themselves to rer-ognize the carpen- 

 ters" brotherhood. Some :toO planing mill car- 

 penters in the county are now being carried on 

 the "leafer" of the brotherhood at $12 a week. 



The Kendall I-umber Company has within the 

 last week cleaned up its entire stock of hardwood 



