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HARDWOOD RECORD 



letailoi-s, and to devise some plan, if possible, to 

 stop the operations of tiie scalpers, wtio are 

 sellins direct to consumers at nominal margins 

 ;ind demoralizing the trade. Messrs. Matthews 

 and Duffy appeare<l before the committee and 

 submitted a statement, and President John L. 

 Alcock was authorized to take further action. 

 A lot of routine business was also disposed of. 



'I'he wife of .1. M. D. Heald of the hardwood 

 lirm of Price & Ileald was suddenly strickeu 

 with appendicitis, while she was on a visit to 

 relatives in I.ynchburg last week, and an opera- 

 tion hal to bo performed without delay. For a 

 time she was in a very precarious condition. 

 Iiut now Ihe patient is lielieved to be on the 

 road to early lecovery. Mr. Heald went down 

 to Lynchburg as soon as he got news of the 

 I'.ature of Mrs. Ileald's illness. 



Uoliert McLean, general manager of the Norva 

 Land & Lumber Company, with main offices Nor- 

 folk, sailed on the steamer Mauretania for Liv- 

 erpool March 1'4, but will return about April 15. 

 lie went to look after some business matters 

 which required his personal attention and it 

 was his purpose to stay in Liverpool the entire 

 time during which he is on the other side of 

 Ihe Atlantic. Business at the company's mill 

 at Wallacetown, Va., is reported to be very 

 active, the demand being good and prices suf- 

 liciently attractive to cause the plant to be 

 operated at its maximum capacity. 



One of the Baltimore hardwood men who takes 

 .•I most hopeful view of the situation is George 

 A. Munroe of the wholesale Arm of Munroe & 

 Co., Keyser building. He says the East is buy- 

 ing lumber with considerable freedom and that 

 busiuess with his firm has been very good. At 

 the present time, he said, while the prices on 

 some stocks were rather higher than they ought 

 lo be to insure an active movement, the offer- 

 ing-- by the manufacturers were sufficiently free 

 t*' afford some competition. 



W. L. Clement, president of the W. L. Clement 

 Lumlier Company of Greensboro, N. C, was in 

 lialtimore last week to undergo a slight surgical 

 operation, which is said to have been entirely 

 fuccessful. It kept Mr. Clement here for only 

 :i few days. He stated that the demand for 

 hardwoods continued good and that the prospect 

 was encouraging. Mr. Clement is one of the 

 Oarge.^t millmeu in that section and prominent 

 in the trade. 



.\ meeting of the Uniform Bill of Lading Asso- 

 ciation, in which the lumber trade, especially in 

 hardwoods, and other shippers are largely inter- 

 ested, was held in -New York March 23. Presi- 

 dent Harvey -M. Dickson, of the Dickson Lumber 

 Company, .Norfolk, who is also the chief exec- 

 utive of the Bill of Lading Association, occupied 

 Ihe chair, and H M. Terry was secretary. The 

 committee named to draft a form of a bill 

 maile its report, and the result of its work 

 was extensively discussed. It was resolved to 

 have copies of the draft printed and send them 

 out to the members for consideration, so that 

 they will bo prepared to act with full knowl- 

 i-dge of the subject at the annual meeting of the 

 organizatiou on the fourth Wednesday in May 

 in New York. -Mr. Terry was elected permanent 

 seci'etary. 



Charles O. Hughes of Alfred Dobell & Co., 

 Ihe wcU-known Liverpool firm, was a recent 

 visitor here. Mr. Hughes saw various hardwood 

 exporters here and also took dinner with Rich- 

 ard W. Price of Price & Heald. It was his 

 intention to go South and give special attention 

 to pitch pine. 



.^notller foreign visitor was G. Iligford Smith, 

 lepresenting Alfred Beling of Antwerp. He was 

 i.n his way to make an extended tour of the 

 lumbering sections. 



Charles A. Buchanan has succeeded A. Harvey 

 MeCay in charge of the Baltimore office of 

 William Whitnier & Son of Philadelphia. Mr. 

 lUicl'.anan has been engaged in the wholesale 

 hardwood busine.ss here for some time past and 

 is thoroughly familiar with the trade. 



Paul W. Fleck of the wholesale firm of Fleck 

 & Uunwoody of Philadelphia, was in Baltimore 

 week before last and saw some of the hardwood 

 men here. He stated bis belief that trade was 

 picking up and that the movement was showing 

 a decided increase, with prices very firm and, in 

 some instances, high. 



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

 Lumber Company, is on a trip of inspection to 

 Ihe various mills of the company in West Vir- 

 ginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, which will 

 keep him away from the office for about ten 

 (lavs or two weeks. 



CINCINNATI 



The sawmill and veneer plant of Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett, on the west side of the city, 

 is running full, with the log yard well supplied 

 with selected oak logs, which are being manufac- 

 tured into flitches where possible to secure at- 

 tractive figures, and which are being cut into 

 sliced and sawed veneers. The warehouses con- 

 tain a large stock of veneers ready for the mar- 

 ket, and there is a good demand for all manu- 

 factured. This company also operates a large 

 mahogany mill on the Island of Cuba, near Ha- 

 vana, where it manufactures Cuban mahogany 

 lumber and flitches. Business is showing some 

 improvement, and it is expected that there will 

 be plenty of increase as the year progresses. 



The Ohio Valley Exposition is now getting its 

 affairs in shape for the exposition to open in this 

 city In August and September. Col. Stanberry 

 of the Chicago Coal & Lumber Company is a 

 member of the commissioners, and has been 

 placed in charge of the Division of Forestry and 

 Lumber I'roducts, and is hard at work arrang- 

 ing for an effective lumber exhibit. 



Harry Brown, the prize bowler of the Lum- 

 )>ermen"s Club of Cincinnati, is seeking for more 

 worlds lo eonfjuer since his team has vanquished 

 the bowlers of the furniture trade. 



March showed much activity in the railroad 

 division of the lumber industry at this point, 

 according to the figures of Superintendent Chas. 

 Murray of the Chamber of Commerce. The re- 

 ceipts for March were 7,s29 cars, as compared 

 with 5,92l) for the same month last year, while 

 Ihe shipments were 6,711 cars, against 5,977 cars 

 fur the same month in 1909. 



The mahogany mill of the Freiberg Lumber 

 Company is active, and is specializing in mahog- 

 any lumber and flitches, which is cut into sawed 

 veneers at the plant. At this plant can be seen 

 what is said to be the largest stock of Mexican 

 mahogany lumber ever in Cincinnati. 



John Dulweber & Co. are adding to their new- 

 yard opposite the Southern freight station on 

 McLean avenue, where they have an immense 

 stock of hardwoods, the overflow of the main 

 yard at b'inaiay street. Three of the Dulwebers 

 are now active in the operation of this plant — 

 B. F., J. Ed. and John Dulweber. "Ed." Dul- 

 weber, as he is familiarly known, was formerly 

 with the branch of the Nicola, Stone & Meyer;; 

 Company, but recently has become connected with 

 his brother. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association of the United States, re- 

 turned Monday from a two-weeks' stay at the 

 office of the association in New York City. Dur- 

 ing his ab.sence Executive Clerk Heaton and his 

 assistants received the edition of the new grad- 

 ing and inspection rules of the association and 

 mailed a number to members and consumers. 

 There is an expression of general satisfaction 

 with the new rules by those who have received 

 the copies, while there are those who say that 

 the rules are nearer the idea of rules that may 

 be accepted as universal than any which have 

 yet been issued. The manufacturers of the Queen 

 City Furniture Club, at the meeting of the club 

 on Wednesday, April 6, instructed its secretary 

 to transmit to the Hardwood Manufacturers their 

 thanks for the copies that have been presented 



for their inspection, and express the hope that 

 the work of bringing the producer and the con- 

 sumer into more confidential relations will con- 

 tinue. 



R. E. Becker, former representative of the 

 Talgo Mahogany Company and several other 

 manufacturing concerns, and more recently with 

 Maley, Thompson & Moffett, is again seeking new 

 fields of usefulness. 



Charles F. Shiels, the candidate for treasurer 

 on the Independent Ticket of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati, is the son of one of the old- 

 est lumber merchants in the Aliddie West, and 

 wlio owned and operated a sawmill on the river 

 fi'ont at Cincinnati, at a point which is now the 

 river end of IHum street. This was away back 

 in the thirties. The present firm, C. F. Shiels & 

 Bro., have been operating a hardwood yard at 

 the corner of Gest and McLean for many years, 

 making a specialty of wagon makers' and fur- 

 niture manufacturers' stock. Mr. Shiels says he 

 has enjoyed a very good volume of trade all 

 through March, though there has been much com- 

 plaint by others as to conditions. He is a thor- 

 ough lumberman, and takes great care of the 

 lumber in stick in his yards, shielding it from 

 the weather and piling and arranging it so as to 

 secure the best results. 



Fred Duling of the Graham Lumber Company 

 returned last week from an extended trip through 

 Ihe Middle West and South, and reports a very 

 successful trip. 



The M. R. Short Lumber Company is a recent 

 addition to the lumber directory of Cincinnati. 

 The offices are located in the Mercantile Library 

 building. Mr. Short was formerly connected with 

 the Dwighl Hinckley Lumber Company and is 

 noted as a hustler for business. He is the short- 

 stop of the Lumbermen's Club baseball team. 

 The new concern will specialize in cypress and 

 yellow pine. 



The Tennessee Coal & Lumber Company has 

 opened a suite of offices in the Provident Bank 

 building at Seventh and Vine. The Asher Lum- 

 ber Company of Cincinnati has its business office 

 in this building since the first of April. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Jolin J. Xaiiienaire has organized Ihe Maple 

 Grove Realty Company and will combine real es- 

 tate with his lumber business. 



The Interior Hardwood Company has joined 

 the Indianapolis Trade Association which now 

 has two hundred and fifty members. 



A petition asking for an investigation of al- 

 leged discrimination in rates for electric current 

 ha.s been flkd with the board of public works by 

 the Burnett-Lewis Lumber Company. 



There are fourteen concerns dealing in and 

 manufacturing hardwoods in the city, accordin.fi 

 to the city directory just issued for 1910. 



The Ford & Johnson Company of Michigan 

 City have been aw-arded a contract for making 

 all of the furniture that is to go into the new 

 state capitol at Pierre, S. D. 



The Wickes Refrigerator Company has been or- 

 ganized at Elkhart to manufacture refrigerators. 

 The company has been incorporated at $50,000 by 

 Bert D. Houseworth, Joseph Maurer and Lorenzo 

 D. Hall. 



All previous building records for the city 

 were broken last month when 755 permits, rep- 

 resenting a total valuation of $1,026,399. were is- 

 sued. Last March there were 51-1 permits issued, 

 amounting to $693,275. Permits issued for tlie 

 first three months of this year have exceeded 

 those of the corresponding period of last year by 

 $-155,000. 



EVANSVILLB 



James E. Rankin. Jr., of the Raukiu Lumber 

 Company of Henderson, Ky., has just returneil 

 much improved iu health from Chicago where he 

 has been ill for the past two weeks. 



