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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. L. Whitacre of the lumber company bearing 

 bis name returned recently from a two weeks" 

 trip through the mill regions of the South. 

 He reports a peculiar condition existing in that 

 section. He says where mills are selling to the 

 North and interior points prices are variable, 

 but where mills are soiling for the export trade 

 I'rices are stiff. 



CINCINNATI 



Tlie Cincinnati Furniture Excbangr held its 

 rhirty-sevenlb annual meeting and election at 

 the Gibson House on Tuesday, December 14. A 

 number of lumbermen weve present, both as 

 guests and members, two of whom were elected 

 to be directors, J. E. Dulweber and E. C. Feuss. 

 The electiou for fifteen directors resulted in a 

 victor.v for the regular (red) ticket, and the 

 following were elected : J. F. Dietz. .lohn Dor- 

 nette. -Ir., Henry HoCfeld. A. (i. Steinman. PiUiI 

 Schirmer. V. H. tTchtman. Frank B. Warsel, Jr., 

 H. B. Kemper and Fred H. nallman : abso the 

 following supply men: E. Kuhlman, Sr., John 

 Wolf, E. C. Feuss, J. E. Dulweber, Theo. Groene 

 and H. A. Lloyd. A banquet followed, with ad- 

 dresses by Mayor Dr. Louis Schwab and Judge 

 Wm. Lueders of the Probate Court. President 

 John F. Dietz presided and read a speech on 

 the year's progres>< of the exchange. Clinton 

 Crane was present, and on behalf of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers" Association of the LTnited 

 States extended an invitation to the manufac- 

 turers present to attend the sessions of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' convention at the Sin- 

 ton hotel on February 1, 2 and 3, 1910. 



Clif S. Walker, president of the Bayou Land 

 & Luml>3r Company, accompanied by his wife, 

 left Saturday night, December IS, for New York 

 City. He was joined at Pittsburg by his son, 

 Stuart Walker, now with Belasco's "The Lily," 

 which will open for a long run at Belasco's 

 New York Theater on Christmas week. Mr. 

 Walker's visit to the East is to arrange for the 

 opening up and operating of the 60,0(10 acres of 

 hardwood forest in Concordia parish. La., recent- 

 ly purchased by the company in which he is 

 interested. His stay will probably extend into 

 the new year, as the business problems will 

 involve a number of weeks' work in the metropo- 

 lis. He expects to return in time for the meeting 

 of the Cincinnati Lural)ermen's Club on January 

 3 at the Gibson House. 



At the December meeting of the (Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club a challenge was read from 

 the bowlers of the Queen City Furniture Club 

 to the Ixiwlers of the Lumbermen's Club. The 

 challenge was accepted, and President Walker 

 uamod E. J. Thoman a special committee to 

 arrange for a series of games with the l>elligpren( 

 furniture makers. The games, were arrauged 

 and the first meeting was held at the Hamilton 

 County League alleys on Thursday afternoon, 

 December 16, and both sides claim the victory, 

 the lumbermen by virtue of the fact that they 

 took two games out of three and the t^. C. F. 

 C.'s because they scored most pins. 



Lumbermen's Club — Pins. 



H. Brown 527 



C. A. Higgins 492 



Wm. F. Duhlmeier 501 



Joseph Wehry 433 



E. J. Thoman, captain 456 



Total 2,409 



Q. C. P. C— 



Christ Angert 488 



Fred Bullerdick 512 



Fred Busse 492 



Henry Sprengard 511 



Henry Hoffeld, captain 471 



Total 2,474 



High Individual score, H. Brown, 206. Team 



average, Q. C. F. C, 828 ; Lumbermen, 803. 



High team score, Q. C. F. C, 949. 



Robert E. Becker of the Maley, Thompson & 



MotEett Company, who has just returned from 



an extended trip through Indiana and Hlinois. 



i-eports business good, though he ran into some 



very cold weather. He left on Monday for a 

 trip through Ohio, and will not return until the 

 opening of the new year. 



Walter McCabe of the McCabe Lumber Com- 

 pany of Newport, Tenn.. was working the buying 

 trade in this city last week, calling upon a 

 number of the Cincinnati hardwood men. 



W. H. Dawkins of Ihe Dawkins Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ashland, Ivy., was in the city the past 

 week and a caller at the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' headquarters. 



The Licking River Lumber Company has 

 changed its headquarters from Ashland, Ky., to 

 Huntington, W. Va. The company operates a 

 mill at Farmers, Ky. 



On Saturday, December 11, there was a meet- 

 ing of the directors of the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association at the headquarters in the 

 First National Bank building, to devise means 

 for the entertainment of the hardwood con- 

 sumei-s who are invited to attend the sessions 

 of the convention to be held here February 1, 

 2 and 3. 



R. H. Stoehr, president of the Cincinnati 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, left last week for 

 a visit to the hardwood floor manufacturers of 

 Michigau. and will remain in that section for a 

 fortnight. His company makes a specialty of 

 hardwood inlaid flooring. 



J. D. Farley, the local rejiresentatlve of the 

 Lyon <_'ypress Company of Garyville. La., left 

 on December 12 for an extended visit to the 

 plant of the company, where will be a general 

 meeting of all the representatives from various 

 parts of the country. 



Clinton Crane was a delegate to the Rivers 

 & Harbors Congress at Washington, D. C, and 

 extended his trip to Philadelphia, from where 

 he returned to attend a meeting of the directors 

 of the Hardwood ^lanufacturers' Association last 

 week. 



Dwight Hinckley is home from a trip to Chi- 

 cago and the North. Mr. Hinckley is the ownei* 

 of a speedy stepper and is an admirer of equine 

 blood, but did not take his fleet trotter to 

 Chicago on his recent trip. If anyone should 

 desire to own a high bred horse he might com- 

 municate with Mr. Hinckley. 



C. II. Loveland, Winchester, Ky., was a visitor 

 in the Queen City for a few days last week, look- 

 ing after the selling end of his business. 



B. F. Dalweber was appointed director of the 

 North Side Business Men's Club at its election 

 last week and was awarded the prize. 



Fred M. Duling of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany is touring the South, and is sending in 

 orders as an indication that business is good in 

 that section. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company has just returned from a visit to the 

 mill of the company at Alexandria, La., where 

 he was the guest of W. F. Best, vice-president 

 of the company and manager of the mill. 



R. C. Witbeck, secretary of the Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Company, is of the opinion that business 

 in the export trade is rather dull at present, 

 but will be taking a turn for the better before 

 long. Advices from F. Reichenberg, the European 

 agent at Marseilles, France, are to the effect 

 that business is dull at that point. 



Ralph McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company says that business at the office is 

 good. The mill at Bumside, Ky., is running, and 

 has sufficient logs to keep it busy for a few 

 weeks. 



W. E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany has just returned from a visit to Missis- 

 sippi, where the company has interests in the red 

 gum section. J. M. Cheely of this concern is in 

 Arkansas, where he has been for several weeks 

 nuiking lumber contracts. 



Sam Richey is rejoicing over the arrival of a 

 fine boy baby at his home. This is boy No. 2, 

 and Mr. Kichey is correspondingly happy and 

 willing to hand out the cigars when rec?iving 

 the congratulations of his friends. He is study- 



ing whether to buy a cradle or an automobile 

 for the late arrival, who will be two weeks old 

 about Christmas. 



George Ehmann, the partner of W. A. Bennett 

 in the firm of Bennett & Witte, who makes his 

 headquarters at the Memphis office, arrived 

 in Cincinnati on Thursday with his family and 

 remain over the holidays. 



T. J. White stopped in Cincinnati on Thursday 

 while en route to his old home in Ripley. Ohio, 

 to spend the holidays. Mr. White is the western 

 representative of Bennett & Witte. 



\. W. Euier, wdio has been iu Europe for the 

 past six months as the representative of Ben- 

 nett & Witte, passed through the city on Thurs- 

 day last on his way to the ^lemphis office. Mr. 

 Euler espresseel liimself as well pleased with the 

 results of his trip and was very optimistic as 

 to the future of the business in Europe. From 

 a business standpoint his stay in Europe was 

 successful, notwithstanding the fact that busi- 

 ness generally in Europe was vcr.v slow. 



The Swann-Day Lumber Company have opened 

 offices in the Second National Bank building at 

 Ninth and Main streets. The Galloway-Pease 

 Company is also located in the same building. 



Freight officials of th:} Burlington & Ohio 

 Southwestern Railroad are making a canvass of 

 the heavy shippers of Cincinnati, to endeavor 

 to secure more business. The officials seem to 

 b.' awakening to the fact that rival lines are 

 getting the lion's share of the business. Con- 

 ferences of officials are being held frequently 

 and plans made for an effective canvass of the 

 conditions. 



James King, who for many years was con- 

 nected with Gage & Possell, and later succeeded 

 to the business of that firm on their retirement, 

 operating under the firm name of King & Trim- 

 ble, died at his home in this city last week. The 

 firm of King & Trimble was dissolved a few 

 weeks before Mr. King's death, owing to a long 

 siege of illness. His death was caused by a 

 Uialignant cancer. He was a ' member of the 

 Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, and President Clif 

 S. Walker appointed a committee to draft reso- 

 lutions to be presented at the January meeting 

 of the club. 



Lewis Doster left recently for an extended trip 

 through the South. During his absence he said 

 he would be present at a wedding, but assured 

 his friends that he would not l)e one of the most 

 interested parties. 



TOLEDO 



Those connected with the hardwexjel trade in 

 this section are interested in the announcement 

 of Receiver Lowell of the Detroit, Toledo & Iron- 

 ton railway that he will make application to 

 the court for permission to borrow .$1,000,000 to 

 lie expended in improving the service of the 

 road. This action is taken at the instigation of 

 the state railway commission, which has recog- 

 nized the fairness of the elemands of shippers in 

 oliio, who claim that the company has discrimi- 

 nated in favor of foreign shippers and that Ohio 

 shipments have been unduly delayed as a result. 

 The receiver admitted the cause for complaint, 

 btit claimed that it was due to inadequate equip- 

 ment rather than to willful neglect. 



Clark H. Snyder, a cabinetmaker at tiie Bryan 

 show case plant, Bryan, O., was instantly killed 

 while attempting to throw a belt on a pulley. 

 His clothing caught and he was whirled around 

 the main shaft, which was running at a speed 

 of 250 revolutions a minute. Nearly every bone 

 in his body was broken. He was twenty-six 

 years old and leaves a wife and one small child. 



Frank I. Consaul, city engineer of Toledo, and 

 for twenty-three years connected with that ofliee, 

 will sever his connection on January 1 and 

 assume new duties with the Acme Builelers' Sup- 

 ply Company, He has been chief of the depart- 

 ment for the past six and a half years. 



