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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Daniel B. Curll, yellow poplar and hardwood 

 lumber, has on hand 4/4 No. 1, or panel chestnut. 

 IS to 30 inches wide, of which TO per cent meas- 

 ures 14 and 16 feet long, a most unusual run of 

 this wood. It took two years to gather it. 



A largo body of eastern lumbermen will attend 

 I lie next annual convention of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, which 

 v/ill be held at the Sinton hotel in Cincinnati, 

 ,0., on March 2 and .3. Philadelphia is arranging 

 for a special carload ; a full car of Baltimoreans 

 i-i promised, and reports from New York are to 

 the effect that two cars will be needed to trans- 

 port the Knickerbockers. A great deal of en- 

 thusiasm is manifested throughout, and from all 

 indications this will be the biggest meeting-eyer 

 iiflu liy the association. 



The small desk calendar in its frame of fine 

 li-alher. presented as a souvenir to his friends by 

 D«niel B. Curll, Real Estate Trust building, la 

 much appreciated by the recipients for its artistic 

 simplicity and utility. 



The annual report of the J. G. Brill Car Com- 

 pany, recently made public, shows the net profits 

 for the year 1909 to have been $130,784, as com- 

 pared with $90,740 in 1908 and $1,368,940 in 

 1907. Gross business for the year of $4,261,204 

 .showed a slight increase over the previous year, 

 but fell more than 50 per cent below the record 

 .year of 1907. Orders on hand February 1 

 amounted to $2,755,776, an increase of $1,033,438 

 as compared with December 31, 1908. 



It is stated that orders now on hand at the 

 Baldwin Locomotive Works are sufficient to keep 

 the present force of 11,000 men busy for the next 

 (our months. For the last two months the same 

 number of men have been employed. 



Fire destroyed the lumber yard and planing 

 null of Joseph M. Mills on River road, West 

 Manayunk, on February 4. The loss is estimated 

 ar $200,000. 



Fire recently burned out the three-stor,v fur- 

 nilure and cabinet factory of the Kaufman Manu- 

 facturing Company, 710 Percy street. The loss 

 is estimated at $10,000. 



The large carriage works of Hahn Brothers, 

 Hamburg, Pa., including over 100 vehicles, a large 

 quantity of lumber, office and packing building, 

 was destroyed by fire February 4 at a loss of 

 $00,000. 



Charles B. Sherron, a carriage manufacturer, 

 died February 8 at the age of eighty-one. Mr. 

 Siu'rron was a member of the National Carriage 

 Builders' Association and the publisher of 

 '■American Vehicles," a journal devoted to the 

 carriage business. 



Creditors tiled a petition in the United States 

 District Court to have the T. De Long Furniture 

 Company, of Topton, adjudged an involuntary 

 bankrupt. The petitioners and their claims are : 

 George M. Spiegle & Co., $910.14 ; Vermont Mar- 

 ble Company, $63.50 ; Pittsburg Plate Glass Com- 

 pany. $1,047.80. 



Tlie Haddock Lumber Company. Wilmington. 

 Dei., obtained a charter under Delaware laws 

 I'l'bruary 2. Its capital stock is $500,000. 



The Atlantic Timberland Cooperation Company, 

 New York, was recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $400,000. 



The IT. F. Sailor Boat Building Company, 

 (feoan City. N. .7., was incorporated February 10 

 uiidi'r New .Ter.sey laws, with a capital of $10,000. 



The Dietrich Motor Car Company, Wilkes- 

 Barre, Pa., obtained a charter under Pennsylvania 

 laws February 11 ; capital, $10,000. 



The West Philadelphia Carriage & Wagon Com- 

 pany. Philadelphia, was incorporated under Penn- 

 sylvania laws February 11 with a capital of 

 $20,000. 



The Flat .\ulomobile Company of Pennsylvania. 

 I'liiladelphia. was recently organized with a capi- 

 tal of $20,000. 



The Corry Timber Company, Corry. Pa., ob- 

 tained a charier February 15 under Delaware 

 laws ; capital, $1,000,000. 



The Silent Motor Car Company, New Kensing- 

 ton, Pa., was incorporated under Delaware laws 

 February 18 with a capital stock of $300,000. 



PJTTSBURa 



Tlie Breitweiser & Wilson Company is making 

 rapid headway at its temporary headquarters in 

 I he Lewis block and during January showed a 

 lair lot of sales. Its officials are hustlers and 

 its hardwood connections are bound to put it 

 right to the front in a short time. 



The Palmer & Semans Lumber Company has 

 decided to remaip at Uniontown, Pa., with its 

 headquarters until about April 1. I. F. Balsley, 

 sales manager, is on the road most of the time 

 making new connections. 



.1. W. Hulse, office man of the McDonald Liini- 

 I)i>r Company, is away this week on quite an 

 extended trip through the South and Southwest. 

 This concern has moved a ■ large amount of 

 lumber since the first of the year, much of it 

 being lath stock. 



William R. Cornelius is lining up the situation 

 with a view to extending his operations. His 

 hardwood connections in West Virginia and 

 other southern states are such as to make him 

 a very successful bidder for high-class hardwood 

 properties. 



O. E. and W. P. Booth of Washington, Pa., 

 are extensively engaged this winter in buying 

 walnut timber. Their largest purchases have 

 been near Finleyville, Pa., in the Pan Handle 

 district, west of Pittsburg. 



The American Lumber & Manufacttiring Com- 

 pany is getting all its forces ready for a big 

 spring's business. President Johnston, who re- 

 cently returned from a long trip through the 

 South, views the hardwood situation very favor- 

 ably and looks for some splendid business when 

 (he weather permits. 



Magnus Cluston of Lock Haven, Pa., has just 

 completed one of the biggest jobs of the season 

 for the Goodyear Lumber Company on Medix 

 Run, Pennsylvania. Since last May he has been 

 working eighty-five men and about forty teams 

 and has cut 8,000,000 feet of logs, 13,000 hard- 

 wood ties and has peeled, hauled and piled 3,600 

 cords of bark. 



The J. L. Lytic Lumber Company is getting its 

 full share of business in Ohio and the Middle 

 stales. President Lytle reports matters this 

 month pretty dull, which is a common statement 

 V, ith most wholesalers in this city. 



The Southern States Lumber Company is the 

 latest corporation to be formed by the Flint. 

 Erving & Stoner interests of Pittsburg. The 

 members are B. H. Stoner, R. H. Erving and 

 W. II. Donner. The concern will have big lumber 

 interests in the South. 



The (ioodwin Lumber Company, under the 

 management of E. H. Shreiner, made a record- 

 breaking total in its January sales. Its business 

 has been coming up steadily during the past 

 >\ar. Mr. Shreiner has been keeping his eye 

 closely peeled for any good hardwood stocks in 

 West Virginia that would put him into the 

 market at tlie right time. 



J. L. Kendall, president of the Kendall Lumber 

 Company, has gone West to look over the firm's 

 big , timber operations there. Secretary ,T. F. 

 Henderson reports that business is good and 

 (hat with the exception of deep snows, which 

 have stopped practically all, the mill operations, 

 the company has been very busy. 



The Fredonia Planing Mill CompanJ^ capital 

 $15,000, is a new concern at Fredonia, forty 

 miles north of Pittsburg. Its members are Jonas 

 A. Baker. W. II. Reisher of Fredonia. and C. C. 

 Cc.nkle of Pittsburg. 



The W, P. Craig Lumber Company has taken 

 larger offices on the tenth floor of the Empire 

 building and is branching out in other ways. 

 Its shipments since .lanuary 1 have been large 

 and regular and all its mills are pounding away 

 at a brisk rate. 



The Linehan Lumljer Company is convinced 

 that when lumber business fairly starts this 

 spring it is going to be a "hummer." There is 

 no question in their minds but that choice hard- 

 wood will bring a much higher price on an aver- 



age this year than last and it is getting its 

 stocks in line accordingly. 



W. W. Dempsey, the big wholesaler of Johns- 

 town, Pa., has bought a large interest in the 

 i;laning mill business of L. C. Purvis & Co. 

 at Butler, Pa. The new company will be known 

 as the Purvis Planing Mill Company and exten- 

 sive improvements will be made to the plant. 



I*Ittsburg councils have taken up the matter 

 of immediate action on the big municipal im- 

 r.:H:vements provided for in the recent bond issue 

 of $0,750,000. The first among these will be 

 (be removal of the hump. Notices have already 

 been issued to sixty property owners in the hump 

 district to tear down all or such parts of their 

 buildings as are in the way of the proposed im- 

 provement. The Pittsburg Civic Commission has 

 api'Ointed an expert engineer to oversee all 

 spending of the city's money on this project, and 

 it a suit recently instituted by an Ohio lady to 

 test the legality of the bond ordinance falls, as 

 it is likely to do, work will be under way by 

 April 1. This means a large amount of lumber 

 to be bought from Pittsburg wholesalers and adds 

 greatly to their feeling of confidence in Pitts- 

 burg's ability to buy and consume a record- 

 breaking lot of lumber in 1910. 



BOSTON 



Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin, 

 Boston, has been making an extensive trip through 

 the South and West this month. 



Morris A. Hall of the Hall Lumber Company, 

 Boston, and J. M. W. Hall have been on a trip to 

 Vancouver, where they have large timber hold- 

 ings. 



The Lumber Trade Club of Boston held its an- 

 nual meeting at the Hotel Bellevue, Boston, 

 'Ihursday evening, February 10. The officers 

 elected for the year were : President, Walter E. 

 Chamberlain of J. M. Woods '& Co. ; first vice- 

 r resident, Edward S. Tenney of the A. T. Stearns 

 Company ; second vice-president, Herbert P. Hun- 

 ter of the Palmer-Hunter Company ; secretary 

 and treasurer, J. E. F. Downes of the Downes 

 Lumber Company ; executive committee, E. D. 

 Saw.ver, George W. Curtis and J. C. Murphy. 



William E. Litchfield, the well-known hard- 

 '.sood dealer, returned last week from a western 

 trip. While away he spent a few days at the 

 mill of Litchfield Brothers, North Vernon, Ind. 



Harry C. I'hilbrick. who has been making a 

 (rip in the South, returned home about two weeks 

 ago. 



The Shepard & Morse Lumber Company of Bos- 

 ion has taken new quarters on the second floor 

 of the new Boston Safe Deposit building, at the 

 corner of Franklin and Devonshire streets. 



George E. Stone of the Stone Lumber Com- 

 (lany, Boston, is expected home from a trip 

 around the world about March 1. Mr. Stone was 

 ."ccompanied by his family. He arrived in Cali- 

 fornia early in the month and has been spending 

 a few weeks with his brother, whose home is 

 (liero. ■ 



Charles C. Batchelder of the Boston Lumber 

 Company is abroad. He has l)een away several 

 vv'ceks and it will be several more before he 

 returns to Boston. 



Wendell M. Weston of the W. M. Weston Com- 

 ]iiiny, hardwood dealers, Boston, returned about 

 the middle of the month from a western and 

 southern trip. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association held a meeting at Young's hotel, Bos- 

 Ion, W'ednesday evening. February '9. The chief 

 giiesi and speaker of the evening was the Rev. 

 'J'houias Van Ness, who spoke of tradj? condi- 

 lions in Germany and England. Several matters 

 OL importance were brought up. Resolutions 

 against the corporation tax were adopted and it 

 T,-as voted to send copies to the Massachusetts 

 members of Congress. A committee on the count 

 and sale of shingles reported and asked for 

 further time, which was granted. 



The George W. Gale Lumber Company, Cam- 



