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HARDWOOD RECORD 



in Salem, N. II. The company bas taken a large 

 factory Iniiiaing in Salem ana is installing mod- 

 ern macliinery. It is a Massachusetts corpora- 

 tion witli a capital stock of $40,000. The presi- 

 (Iriit is E. A. realjody. 



A creditor's petition in bankruptcy has been 

 liled against Miss Marion C. Treworgy, who 

 formerly conducted a lumber business at 131 

 Stale street, Boston, by William H. Pierson of 

 Water Hill, N. Y., one of her creditors. It is 

 claimed that Miss Treworgy on January 6, 1910, 

 gave a mortgage to J. H. Gerlack, one of the 

 creditors, on property at 67 Mountfort street, 

 for .f2,500, dated January 21, 1909, not acknowl- 

 edged until January 6, 1910. It is claimed this 

 was given with the intent of injuring her credit- 

 ors. Other transfers of real estate were also 

 made in the same way. The money raised, it is 

 reported, was given her in the form of gold 

 certiflcates, apparently for use in foreign coun- 

 tries. It is said that Miss Treworgy has fled to 

 South America in the company of Walter Mer- 

 chant, her fiance. The latter was arrested in 

 her office .early in January charged with using 

 the mails in a scheme to defraud. He was de- 

 faulted in the U. S. circuit court in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., February 2. In the indictment he was 

 charged with receiving money for shares in ves- 

 sels he did not own. 



_E. K. Runnells, representing the firm of Chest- 

 nut & Slaght, dealers in pine and hardwoods, 

 Buffalo, N. Y., was a visitor in the Boston mar- 

 ket this week. 



The possibility of the maximum tariff of the 

 I'ayne-Aldrich tariff bill being applied to Canada 

 has stirred the lumber dealers here to action. 

 The executive committee of the Massachusetts 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association held a 

 meeting in Boston March 18 and after con- 

 siderable discussion adopted resolutions to be 

 presented to President Taft petitioning him to 

 take steps to prevent the impending catastrophe- 

 which would take place in the event that a 

 twenty-five per cent ad valorem addition to our 

 tariff on imports from Canada is placed in opera- 

 tion. A committee, consisting of W. K. Chester 

 and Thomas H. Shepard, left Boston March 22 

 for Washington lo present the resolutions to 

 I'resident Taft. 



BALTmORB 



The quarterly meeting of the Baltimore Lum- 

 ber Exchange and the monthly meeting of the 

 managing committee were held on the afternoon 

 and evening of March 14, the latter at the rooms 

 of the Exchange and the former at the Mer- 

 chants' Club. About the only business trans- 

 acted was the adoption of a rule with regard 

 to the grading of Virginia and North Carolina 

 v.'hitc cypress. The meeting of the Exchange 

 was followed by an elaborate luncheon. Among 

 those present were I'resident John L. Alcock ; 

 James C. Rowe of the L. W. Rowe Lumber Com- 

 pany ; Mr. Eppley of Orr, Eppley & Co. ; Charles 

 J. Gross of Charles M. Stieff, piano manufac- 

 turer ; J. J. Kidd of the Kidd & Buckingham 

 Lumber Company ; James J. Lannon ; William 

 M. Burgan ; John S. Helfrich ; John J. Duffy 

 of the Lafayette Mill & Lumber Company, and 

 Edwin W. Knowles. 



The Morgan Company, manufacturers of doors 

 at Oshkosh, with an office in this city, has pur- 

 chased from the Baltimore Sash & Door Com- 

 pany two warehouses, one located on West street, 

 near Howard, and the other on the southeast 

 side of Howard street, near West. The ware- 

 houses will be used in connection with the job- 

 bing business acquired from the Baltimore corp- 

 pany by the Morgan company, and also for the 

 hitter's own trade in this territory. The office 

 of the Morgan company has been removed to 

 West street, and the business of the western 

 corporation as well as the jobbing trade bought 

 from the Baltimore company will be concen- 

 trated there. The Baltimore company will con- 

 fine itself entirely to manufacturing operations. 



The Morgan company, which Is represented here 

 liy C. A. Ilanscom, has steadily expanded, and it 

 was the intention of the officers to secure a 

 warehouse in this city, where a full line of its 

 products might be kept constantly on hand. The 

 deal gives the company the desired facilities and 

 eirables it lo command a greatly increased out- 

 imt. 



E. M. Terry, secretary of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' .\ssociation during the past four 

 years, has resigned, and President Harvey M. 

 Dickson has called a special meeting of the 

 board of managers for March 22 to take action 

 on the matter. Whether a successor will be 

 elected at that time is not definitely known. 

 L. Palmer, the assistant secretary at New Or- 

 leans, may be named to take charge of the 

 work. Mr. Terry asked in his letter that the 

 resignation take effect on April 1, but if mat- 

 ters cannot be satisfactorily arranged he is 

 ready to continue another month. He will be- 

 come assistant manager of the Manufacturers' 

 Lumber Company, a newly organized combina- 

 tion of lumber manufacturers in the North and 

 Canada, with headquarters at 27 William street. 

 New i'orU. Mr. Terry will devote his time to 

 the export end of the business, with which he 

 became familiar through years of experience in 

 the office of Price & Hart. Mr. Terry's latest 

 contribution to the work of the exporters' asso- 

 ciation was the compilation of a book which 

 gives the port rules for all the ports with which 

 exporters do business and supplying much valu- 

 able information. 



The Maryland Lumber Company, a corporation 

 organized to develop a timber tract in West 

 \'irginia, has been formed in Hagerstown, Md., 

 with a capital stock of $230,000, divided into 

 shares of $100 each. The incorporators are 

 J. A. Deni.son, John G. Ernst, D. A. Stickell and 

 Charles M. Danzer of Hagerstown, and D. S. 

 .MeXitt of Lewiston, Pa. The officers are: J. A. 

 Denison, president and manager ; A. C. Strife, 

 vice-president ; Samuel Sowers, secretary ; John 

 (i, Ernst, treasurer ; D. A. Stickell, J. A. Denison, 

 Charles M. Danzer, John G. Ernst and S. W. 

 Sowers of Hagerstown ; S. S. Stoutt'er of Sharps- 

 I'urg, Md. ; H. W. Shaffer of Burkittsville, Md., 

 11 nil D. S. McNitt of Lewiston, Pa., directors. 



Kapid progress is being made by the Eisen- 

 hauer-MacLea Company in the reconstruction 

 of its lumber sheds and office, which were de- 

 stroyed by fire early in February. The damaged 

 lumber has been sold to Otto Duker & Co., the 

 ground cleared up, and this week work on 

 I wo of the big sheds was well advanced, the 

 foundation of a third being also ready to receive 

 the superstructure. The two sheds, the frame- 

 work of which is up, measure 50 by 170 and 50 

 by 90 feet and are 32 feet high. They, with 

 those yet to be reared, will afford space for not 

 less than 1,800,000 feet of hardwoods. A new 

 othee of brick will be built. The company is get- 

 ting a full assortment on hand with surprising 

 rapidity. Within the past month as many as 

 ninety-five cars of lumber have been received, 

 and the company is once more in tolerably fair 

 shape to take care of orders. 



Among the visiting lumbermen in Baltimore 

 last week was Thomas Hughes, formerly of the 

 Baltimore firm of Carter, Hughes & Co., but for 

 about two years located at Troutdale, in south- 

 western Virginia. Here Mr. Hughes is looking 

 after the operations of the three mills of the 

 Iron Mountain Lumber Company, of which he 

 is the head. He is giving close personal atten- 

 tion to the development of the timber tracts 

 owned by the company. He states that the 

 demand for stocks is on the increase, and all 

 the mills are busy. 



tv.enty-five per cent, in accord with the Paine- 

 Aldrich law which provides that countries dis- 

 criminating against the United States shall have 

 a twenty-five per cent duty raised against them. 

 Cleveland is one of the largest receiving ports 

 for Canadian lumber. Lumbermen here say that 

 it will mean a raise of from $G to $10 a thou- 

 sand feet on Canadian lumber if the duty is 

 enforced. Considerable maple and other hard- 

 woods are imported from the North and hard- 

 wood manufacturers would suffer with others. 

 Cleveland lumbermen contemplated sending a 

 delegation to Washington to protest against the 

 enforcing of the new tariff until further negotia- 

 tions are held with Canada, but were informed 

 that their presence in Washington at this time 

 would do no good. It was decided to coijperate 

 with dealers at Saginaw and Tonawanda. It Is 

 prob.able that a big delegation will be sent in 

 a short time to appeal to congress and President 

 Taft to alter existing conditions. 



Fire and marine insurance on lumber car- 

 riers was the topic discussed at a Chicago meet- 

 ing from which W. H. Teare, prominent Cleve- 

 land lumberman, has just returned. He reports that 

 rates this year will probably take a decided raise. 

 Additional restrictions have also been placed on 

 this class of vessel. Unless the Canadian lum- 

 ber trade is blasted by the new tariff provisions 

 it is expected that the boats operating out of 

 Cleveland will have a very successful season. 

 About sixty per cent of the lumber carriers 

 here engage in the Canadian trade. 



After being connected with the Advance Lum- 

 ber Company for nearly fifteen years Harry P. 

 Blake has severed his connection with that firm 

 and accepted a position as city salesman for 

 the new Putnam Lumber Company of this city. 



The F. T. Peitch Company reports a renewed 

 interest in all iines of hardwood with the open- 

 ing of the building season. The company does 

 an extensive business with concerns manufactur- 

 ing interior finish. Building in Cleveland this 

 year promises to excell all previous records. 



The capital stock of the South Cleveland 

 I.uiiber Company is to be increased from $30,000 

 to $50,000 to take care of the company's in- 

 creasing business. 



W. L. McMauus, manufacturer of flooring at 

 Petosity, Mich., and C. L. Shelburne of Green 

 Bay, Va., called on the local trade this week. 



The C. H. Foote Lumber Company, through its 

 president, reports that the demand for the finer 

 grades of hardwoods is better than for months 

 and that a lively time is being spent in making 

 deliveries and in disposing of inquiries. 



COLUMBUS 



CLEVELAND 



Much interest is manifested in the local lum- 

 l)er field over the unsettled state of the Cana- 

 dian tariff, which may be raised April first to 



The records of the city building inspector 

 ^how quite an increase in the number of build- 

 ing permits issued since the warm weather suc- 

 ceeded the winter. Lumber dealers, contractors 

 and real estate men generally believe that the 

 season of 1910 will be one of the most active 

 in the history of the city as far as building 

 operations are concerned and preparations are 

 being made to start the work early. Lumber 

 dealers anticipate quite a demand from that 

 source, especially for hardwood flooring and 

 other materials going to make an up-to-date 

 dwelling or office building. 



H. W. Collins, manager of sales of the cen- 

 tral division of the W. M. Eitter Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports a steady run of orders from 

 every section of the country and for all grades 

 of hardwoods. Both the eastern and the west- 

 ern division, with headquarters at Pbiladel- 

 lihia and Chicago respectively, report bright 

 prospects for the future. The supply of stock 

 is generally small and as a result a more ac- 

 tive market is expected as the spring advances. 

 Prices are strong and tjjere is a tendency, to 

 advance in some lines. Mr. Collins beIieV;es 

 that the market will improve from this time 

 on. W. M. Ritter, head of the company, re- 



