HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Cherry Elver Boom & Lumber Company 

 has removed a part of its clerical force to the 

 main office at Scranton, but still keeps a con- 

 siderable establishment at Its old offices in Phil- 

 adelphia, which will be used as a branch sales 

 office. C. E. Lloyd, Jr., attended the convention 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Associaton at 

 Memphis. On his way home he will stop off at 

 various points of the Soutli to \ook up the lum- 

 ber interests of his house. In his absence F. 

 A. Kirby is sitting on the lid. 



Owen M. P.runer has increased his sales force 

 by the addition of B. I. Batterson of Westville, 

 X. J., formerly of the Coles & Son Company. 

 The new salesman is well known amonp: the 

 local trade and is a son of Z. Patterson of the 

 firm of Z. Patterson & Sons, lumber merchants 

 at Westville. The Owen M. Bruner Company 

 has lately received fifteen carloads of thick ash 

 and is in the market to buy still further. It is 

 handling more hardwood now than for some 

 time. 



Visitors to the trade during the last fortnight 

 Included .T. R. Whiteside of I. M. Darnell & 

 Sons Co.. Memphis, Tenn. : L. M. White, presi- 

 dent Henderson-White Mfg. Co.. Coburn, Va., 

 who was on his way to the Pacific Coast ; E. D. 

 Flynn of the Scotch Lumber Co., Fulton, Ala. : 

 H. Fugate of H. Fugate & Co., Richmond, Va. ; 

 E. A. Beckley of Crosby & Beckley, New Haven, 

 Conn. : and Arthur C. Woods, president Mutual 

 Lumber Co. of New York. 



Three hundred men went on strike ]May 1 at 

 the factory of Geo. W. Smith & Co.. manufac- 

 turers of artistic furniture at Thirty-ninth 

 street and Powelton avenue. During the past 

 month the union demanded that the firm should 

 adopt a scale of wages and an eight-hour da.T. 

 The company has been paying from thirty-five 

 to forty cents an hour, according to the worth of 

 the man, and refused to fix the scale of wages 

 according to the union's demands. 



The Bennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company has been besieged with in- 

 quiries regarding the effect of the receut catas- 

 trophe in San Francisco had on it, and Manager 

 Justin Peters has announced that the corpora- 

 ton has sustained no less whatever. 



R. W. Schofleld of Schofield Bros, returned 

 recently from their mills In West Virginia, 

 where be superintended the fllling of orders. 

 The concern has just contracted for the output 

 of a mill in Pennsylvania and of several mills 

 in Virginia, taking all their output of poplar 

 and red and white oak. The firm reports that 

 April was the busiest month in its history. 



The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company 

 is installing a new 12-foot dryer and new veneer 

 saws in its mill at Knoxville, Tenn. Tliese im- 

 pro\ements will double the capacity of the plant 

 and necessitate the taking on of new hands. 

 The company has already secured the services of 

 several high-grade men, and expects to obtain 

 in a short time the full complement needed. 



Henry H. Sheip & Co. have installed a new 

 holier in their sawmill and otherwise increased 

 the facilities of their plant. The business of 

 this company is rapidly increasing and it has 

 made its distributing yard on north Fifth street 

 one of the best stocked in the city. 



The engagement of J. Wistar Evans, vice pres- 

 ident of the Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Co., 

 to Miss Elizabeth Barlow of Boston, Mass., has 

 been announced, and the marriage will take 

 place in June. Mr. Evans Is located at Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., where he is superintending the 

 mills of the company, and, after the marriage, 

 will make his home in that city. 



The threatened strike of the carpenters was 

 averted on May 1 by the master carpenters, 

 who advanced the wages of the men to forty-five 

 cents an hour. The plasterers, who demanded 

 an Increase of $1 a day, entered into an agree- 

 ment to work until July 1 and in the meantime 

 to hold conferences with the employers regard- 

 ing an advance in wages. The settlement of 

 the labor question dispels the fear that the 

 building boom would be checked. The building 



operations of the month just closed exceed those 

 of April of last year by ,i;2,180,750. 



On April 23 a special meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of Philadelphia was called for 

 the purpose of joining in the work of relieving 

 the San Francisco sufferers. A committee was 

 appointed to raise contributions, consisting of 

 J. C. Oillingham. chairman : W. L. Rice and E. 

 B. Malone. Funds were solicited at the meeting, 

 and .f,S75 was raised. Circular letters were after- 

 wards sent to the trade and .|4,165 was col- 

 lected and turned over to Drexel & Co. by the 

 Exchange. Besides this respectable sum, over 

 .|2..'iOO was contributed to other relief organiza- 

 tions by the lumbermen of this city. 



On April 24 the directors and newly elected 

 officers of the Lumbermen's Exchange met for 

 organization. Herbert P. Robinson was elected a 

 director to fill the vacancy caused by the election 

 of. William L. Rice to the office of the vice pres- 

 ident. John Lank was unanimously reelected 

 secretary. The courteous and affable manner of 

 Mr. Lank deserves special mention, as do his 

 thoroughness and competency for his work. His 

 reelection gave satisfaction to the entire asso- 

 ciation. At this meeting the Board of Arbitra- 

 tors was also elected by the directors, and the 

 committee on credit system was appointed by 

 the president. 



On Thursday, May 3, occurred the first regu- 

 lar meeting of the Exchange since the annual 

 election took place. The standing committees 

 on Finance, Membersliip. Railroads and Trans- 

 portation, Legislation. Office and Entertainment. 

 By-laws and Rules, and Protection to Trade 

 were appointed. It was also resolved that 

 "owing to numerous changes having been made 

 in the inspection of lumber In the past few 

 years that the rules of Inspection of lumber 

 adopted by this Exchange, July, 1899. are hereby 

 repealed." 



E. B. Nettleton, formerly of Philadelphia but 

 now of Marysville, Fla., where he is superin- 

 tendent of the mills of the West Florida Hard- 

 wood Company, is in town conferring with Hor- 

 ace G. Hazard & Co., sales agents for his firm, 

 and visiting the trade generally. The West 

 Florida Hardwood Company has recently started 

 In business and controls extensive timber lands 

 in Calhoun and Liberty counties, Fla.. lying 

 along the Apalachicola creek, and consisting of 

 red gum. cottonwood, ash, hickory and oak. A 

 band mill and circular mill are now in operation 

 and the company contemplates further construc- 

 tion of mills as soon as possible. 



Baltimore. 



The lumbermen of this city have done nobly 

 in contributing to the relief of the San Fran- 

 cisco sufferers. The Lumljer Exchange took up 

 the matter, appointing a special committee to 

 see all the members and solicit subscriptions. 

 This committee consisted of Theodore Mottu, 

 Edward P. Gill. John T. Galvin, Ridgeway Mar- 

 r.vman, George F. Sloan, George Poehlmann and 

 L. H. Gwaltney. About $1,600 was raised. To 

 this sum must be added the amounts previously 

 contributed, which bring the total considerably 

 above $2,000. 



The Dry Fork railroad, running from Hen- 

 dricks on the Western Maryland railroad to Hor- 

 ton, and then down into the Pocahontas country, 

 has been completely tied up this week, many of 

 the bridges having been washed away by a cloud 

 burst which flooded the valley drained by the 

 Dry Fork river. The road, which is owned by 

 the Whitmer lumber interests of Philadelpbia, 

 also operates a passenger service, and drummers 

 were held up all along the line, some of them 

 having to take long drives in carriages over 

 the mountains in order to get out of the region. 



George Splndler, furniture manufacturer at 

 608 and 610 West Pratt street, will erect a 

 four-story warehouse in the rear of the factory. 

 On the completion of this building the present 

 structure will be used as a warehouse and the 

 new one as the factory. 



W. L. Rowe & Co., hardwood dealers, have 



removed from the southeast corner of President 

 street and Canton avenue to the corresponding 

 corner of Canton and East Falls avenues, where 

 Mr. Rowe recently purchased a yard. The place 

 is being extensively renovated and improved. 

 The old location has been added to the plant 

 of the Felippe A. Broadbent Mantel Company. 



R. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, Continental Trust building, 

 returned last .Monday from a trip to the com- 

 pany's property in North Carolina, where lie 

 looked after business and piloted a pleasure 

 party. Yesterday he left again, this time for 

 Tennessee and otlier places to look after busi- 

 ness matters. The company is developing tim- 

 ber tracts in Tennessee and North Carolina, and 

 also has holdings at other points. In Swayne 

 county. North Carolina, much of the preliminary 

 work yet remains to be done, and constant super- 

 vision is needed. 



Norris S. Tremaine, president of the National 

 Limiber Insurance Company, was in town the 

 early part of this week and called on a number 

 of lumber firms on business connected with in- 

 surance. 



R. S. Reynolds, a son of Major A. D. Reynolds 

 of Bristol. Va.. has organized a furniture manu- 

 facturing company with a capital of .$50,000, 

 and the company will establish a plant at Bris- 

 tol. Mr. Reynolds has associated with him 

 practical furniture manufacturers from North 

 Carolina. 



Pitts'burg. 



An important development in lumber affairs 

 in Pittsburg is the formation of the Fort Pitt 

 Lumber Company, under a Delaware charter, 

 with an authorized capital of .fSOO.OOO, whicli 

 plans to operate a modern hardwood mill in 

 South Carolina, having a capacity of 100,000 

 feet a day. The properties secured are 20,000 

 acres of timber on the Great Pee Dee river, esti- 

 mated to contain 150,000,000 feet of cypress, 

 100,000.000 feet of pine and 100,000,000 feet of 

 elm. oak. ash, hickory and gum. The project 

 is unusual for it is based on a royalty payment 

 for all timber cut. This avoids payment of in- 

 terest and taxes. J. W. K. Snider, president 

 of the Avalon bank, is president of the company, 

 and the directors are ; J. O. Johnston, A. H. 

 King, W. S. Mathews and J. W. Fowler. The 

 lumber cut can be shipped to the eastern market 

 at a low cost, while the Atlantic Coast line 

 railroad offers direct routes for the Central 

 West markets and to Pittsburg. The logging 

 will be done entirely by water and thus avoid 

 the cost of building a logging railroad and 

 will give the lowest freight rates. Considerable 

 of the capital stock has been subscribed by 

 I'ittsburg men, and the general offices will be 

 located In the People's bank building. 



The relief committee for the San Francisco 

 sufferers had no trouble in touching the purse 

 strings of I'ittsburg lumbermen. They were 

 among the first givers and total amount con- 

 tributed. $1,786.40. shows their interest in tlie 

 ruined city on the Pacific coast. 



Forest fires have commenced the work of 

 destruction near Du Bois. at Hallton. Elk county, 

 where tliere are extensive lumber interests. A 

 force of 700 men are engaged in fighting them. 

 At Rathmel the flames threatened to destroy 

 much property and they were gotten under con- 

 trol only after a hard fight. Fires burned at 

 numerous points along the railroads near IJu 

 Bois. 



The Paine Lumber Company. Ltd.. under its 

 new manager, J. W. Ander.son, is making rapid 

 strides in the door trade in this vicinity, in 

 addition to the line of birch veneered doors 

 which the company placed here with the Breit- 

 ieser Lumber Company on the south side two 

 years ago, it is now introducing oak veneered 

 doors, which are proving very popular. The 

 birch doors are in four varieties, the red, wliite, 

 unselected, and unselected stained maliogany. 

 The firm is now making a specialty of six- 

 crossed paneled doors of unselected birch and 



