HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Ueld at the Hotel Elton, Waterbury, Conn., the 

 following officers were elected : President, A. 

 Aschumacher, Waterbury ; vice-president, F. A. 

 Lines, Ansonia ; secretary-treasurer, L. A. Mans- 

 field, New Haven. The following were elected 

 directors for three years : L. A. Lampson, New 

 Haven : .John O. Fox, Putnam : Horace Hatch, 

 South Norwalk. and H. P. Piatt, New Britain. 

 The meeting was one of the most successful ever 

 held by the association and was largely attended, 

 (.me of the Boston dealers who attended said it 

 was the best gathering of lumber dealers he had 

 ever attended. Frederick Joyce o£ Boston acted 

 as toastmaster at the banquet. The guests were 

 welcomed to the city by W. B. Hotchkiss, mayor 

 of Watcrbuiy. 



At the annual meetiug of the Massachusetts 

 Wholesale & Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 held in Springfield, February 18, the following 

 wore elected olBcers : President, H. W. Sears, 

 Middleboro: first vice-president, C. K. Ferry, 

 Piltsfleld ; second vice-president, C. M. Forrest, 

 Lowell ; third vice-president, L. A. Willison, 

 llolyoke ; secretary, Ernest N. Bagg, Springfield ; 

 treasurer. M. L. Foster, Worcester ; directors, 

 E. E. Stone, Spencer ; Edwin Bradley, Holyoke ; 

 J. L. Temple, North Adams ; D. E. Palmer of 

 Great Barrington and W. B. Gaines of Green- 

 field. 



The Brayman Woodenware Company was re- 

 cently organized at Phillips, Me., with a capital 

 stock of $75,000. of which .$1!0,000 is paid in. 

 The president is Marshall Brayman, and the 

 treasurer, Edgar A. Brayman. both of Phillips. 



George Murchie of .lames Murchie & Son, 

 Calais, Jle., was a visitor in this city early in 

 the month. 



George Cushing of Andrew Cashing & Co., 

 Ltd., St. Johns, N. B., visited New York and 

 Boston last week. 



W. A. McLean, president of the Wood-Mosaic 

 Company, New Albany, Ind., was in the Boston 

 market last week. 



K. V. Hobart of Ilobart & Co.. Boston, has 

 been making a trip tluoiiKli the West and South. 



BALTIMORE 



The National Lumber E.^iporters' Association 

 has scored another success in dealing with rail- 

 roads and obtaining concessions from them. 

 When the association was about to make com- 

 plaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 at Washington against the Kansas City South- 

 ern and the Iron Mountain railroads on the 

 ground that their charges on lumber from pro- 

 ducing points within the state of Louisiana to 

 New Orleans were lower on shipments intended 

 for the domestic trade than on forwardings de- 

 signed for export, the Kansas City Southern 

 gave notice of the cancellation of the arbitrary 

 of two cents on staves. The tariff making the 

 concession has just been filed and will go into 

 effect on March 28. This was one of the points 

 contended for hy the association, which main- 

 tained that higher charge is arbitrary and in 

 fact an unfair discrimination against export 

 shipments. Representations have been made on 

 the subject to the railroads by the association, 

 and the refusal of the two companies to equalize 

 the rates induced the exporters to frame a com- 

 plaint. .Vlfred H. Clement has been appointed 

 one of the olficial taileymen of the association 

 at New Orleans. 



The J. L, Durnell Lumber Company, with 

 headquarters at Norfolk, Va., and a mill at 

 Brambleton, Norfolk county, has been taken over 

 by the Brenda Lumber Company, Inc., a corpo- 

 ration formed under the laws of Virginia last 

 January with a capital stock of $25,000. The 

 r.renda company has for its head J. L. Durnell, 

 who was also president of the old company, and 

 Robert McLean, secretary and treasurer. The 

 board of directors consists of these two and J. T. 

 Alexander of the Norfolk Veneer Company, E. L. 

 Dinning and A. A. Wendel, the latter general 



superintendent of the Norva Land & Lumber 

 Company, of which Mr. ilcLean is general man- 

 ager. The Brenda company w-as formed es- 

 pecially for the purpose of taking over the other 

 corporation, and will continue to operate the 

 mill, making a number of improvements, which 

 are calculated to permit an increase in the out- 

 put. 



Mr. JIcLcan visited the Norva companj''s 

 plant last week and also inspected the mill at 

 Brambleton, Va., wliicli is being operated by him 

 individually. lie stated that the demand for 

 the white gum turned out by his company was 

 greatly on the increase. It was Mr. McLean 

 who virtually created the demand. He pur- 

 chased an extensive tract of gum timber, organ- 

 ized the Norva company and the mill at Wal- 

 laceton was erected. Much of the gum is manu- 

 factured into staves and headings for export, 

 while some of it is used for other purposes. 

 Last year the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 

 took 5,000 cross ties, which were creosoted. The 

 wood is said to be excellent for this purpose. 



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

 Lumber Company, and II. L. Bowman, manager 

 of the sales department, have returned from a 

 trip of several weeks through the southern states. 

 They went as far as Florida and Alabama, and 

 while recreation was their main object, some at- 

 tention was also given to business. They found 

 that the mills are asking high prices for stocks, 

 and they were not able to pick up considerable 

 sized lots of lumber at attractive figures. A 

 marked firmness prevailed throughout the sec- 

 tions visited, and the mill manufacturers ex- 

 pressed themselves as confident of good returns 

 iu the future. 



One of the visitors who arrived here last week 

 was Carl G. Petersen of the firm of Laur O. 

 Petersen of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Hamburg, 

 Germany. Mr. Petersen is a son of the senior 

 member of tlie firm and a partner with him. 

 This is his first visit to the United States and 

 he will take in a considerable part of the coun- 

 try, visiting chiefly the mills with which his 

 tirm has maintained connection. He came over 

 on the steamship ^lauretania. 



M. S. Baer of the hardwood firm of R. P. Eaer 

 & Co. is on an extended European trip. He 

 sailed from New York for Naples with Mrs. 

 Baer, and it was his intention after landing to 

 visit the principal cities of Italy, afterward go- 

 ing into Germany and other countries on the 

 continent. Subsequently he planned to cross the 

 channel into Great Britain. While sight-seeing 

 was his chief object, it was considered likely that 

 he would give some attention to the lumber trade 

 situation abroad and endeavor to get informa- 

 tion at first hand. 



A. Harvey McCay, in charge of the Baltimore 

 office of William Whitmer & Sons, Philadelphia, 

 is down at Palm Beach, Fla., for a month re- 

 cuperating and spending his vacation. He had 

 not been away for some time and felt that he 

 needed a rest. 



Among the Baltimoreans who attended the 

 annual meeting of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association in Cincinnati last week 

 was John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co., 

 president of the Lumber Exchange here. He 

 went in his oflicial capacity, and it was his 

 intention while out West to visit some of the 

 lumber sections of West Vircinia on the wa}' 

 home. 



CLEVELAND 



Will Martin of the Martin-Barriss Company, 

 one of the city's best-known hardwood men, is 

 home sick with an attack of la grippe. He 

 expects to be back at his desk again in a few- 

 days. 



The federal engineer here has notified the 

 Lake Shore Saw Mill & Lumber Company that 

 it can proceed with a fill in Lake Erie, opposite 

 its property at the foot of East Fortieth street, 

 to a distance of 250 feet from shore. .\ bulk- 



head will be built and a wharf established 

 where the company can load and unload lumber 

 coming by boat. It will give the concern sev- 

 eral additional acres of room. 



Building permits for the month of February 

 show a substantial increase over last year. The 

 total number for the past month was 255, with 

 a total value of $590,020. The total for the 

 luevious month was ISo permits with a value of 

 .f2Sl,G59, while for February of last year the 

 total was 368 permits with a value of .$544,800. 



The Cuyahoga Lumber Company, which has 

 acquired Hie White City amusement park, is ne- 

 ^iOtiating with eastern capitalists for its sale. The 

 lumber company has a big claim for lumber 

 against the concern and bought in all the stock. 

 It now proposes to turn it over at a profit. 



A. G. Webber of the Advance Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from a visit through the company's 

 hardwood mills in the South and reports that 

 the mills are working full time and turning out 

 large volumes of lumber. It is being shipped, 

 however, almost as rapidly as it is manufac- 

 tured. 



E. G. Carleton Is hack from a fishing trip to 

 Florida, and is armed with a number of real 

 "sure enough" photographs of fish which he says 

 he caught. 



Ralph Loveland and Frank Stone of Love- 

 land & Stone, Cutler, Ont., were among the 

 callers on the local trade during the past week. 



C. T. Williams, the veteran boxmaker, who 

 has been ill since last December, was hack at 

 his desk for a little while this week. He hopes 

 t«. be entirely recovered soon. 



.\ small Cre supposed to have been started by 

 tramps at the plant of the American Box Com- 

 iiany during the week did about $500 worth of 

 damage. It was confined to several lumber 

 piles. 



The warm weather of the past week has 

 started innumerable small building projects. It 

 is believed that with the opening up of the 

 spring in earnest everybody in the lumber busi- 

 ness will he unusually busy in Cleveland. 



The Smeed Box Company say that the box 

 business is rapidly resuming a normal aspect. 

 It is installing eight new machines and prepar- 

 ing for a big spring rush. 



During the first week in May Cleveland whole- 

 salers, including a number of lumber dealers, 

 will make a four-day trade extension excursion 

 into western Ohio and as far as Marion. Ind. 

 It is expected that about thirty towns and cities 

 will be visited. 



COLUMBUS 



At a meeting of a dozen representatives of the 

 wholesale lumber firms of Columbus, held re- 

 cently, steps were taken to perfect a permanent 

 organization of wholesalers of the Buckeye 

 capital. No name was given the organization, 

 liut that matter will bo taken up at a future 

 meeting. The object of the organization is to 

 liecome better acquainted and to further the 

 social life of the lumber trade in Columbus. 

 The inception of the association was in the 

 temporary organization of wholesalers effected 

 at the recent convention of the Union Associa- 

 tion of Lumber Dealers in Columbus, when the 

 wholesalers entertained the delegates with a 

 special performance at a theater and hy looking 

 after their material wants. 



The preliminary meeting was held at the 

 Ohio club when the situation was gone over 

 and it was unanimously agreed to form the 

 organization. A committee consisting of John R. 

 Gobey. A. C. Davis, H. R. Allen, W. L. Whitacre 

 and ICdward Giesy was named to draft a consti- 

 tution and by-laws to be acted on at the next 

 meeting. The firms represented at the pre- 

 liminary meeting were the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company. John R. Gobey & Co.. II. K. .\Ilen & 

 Co.. II. II. Ilildreth, The Throop-Martin Com 

 pany. C. T. Nelson & Co., Powell & Rowe. J. II 



