HARDWOOD RECORD 



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says that tbe business of the past two weeks 

 lias lieen rather slow and unsatisfactory, but 

 that on the whole, however, the business of May 

 was a reenrd breaker (or that month. Worli on 

 the now auxiliary yard on the Southern railroad 

 line, north of Banli street, is being pushed and 

 the grading and new switches will soon be com- 

 pleted. Already a large stoclc of lumber is 

 being piled in bulk and on stick in the new 

 yards. The original yard at Findlay and Mc- 

 lican avenue has every inch of space occupied. 



Dwisht Hinckley of the Dwight Hinckley 

 Lumber Company .says that there is a noted 

 improvement in the volume of business in yellow 

 pine at his plant since the closing of the car- 

 penters' strike, and the active resumption of 

 building operations. The past week has wit- 

 nessed the closing of some heavy transactions, 

 while the prospects for business for the imme- 

 diate future is excellent. 



The baseball situation between Cincinnati and 

 Memphis is getting into the sizzling degree, Inso- 

 far as correspondence goes. J. W. McClure, 

 manager of the Memphis team, and Dwight 

 Hinckley, manager of the Cincinnati champions, 

 have Iwen indulging in "tabasco" letters on the 

 merits of their respective teams, but have not 

 yet arranged for a date for their warriors to 

 meet upon the gladiatorial diamond and deter- 

 mine the question of supremacy in actual strife. 

 Play ball ! and play with bat and ball, not with 

 pen and ink. It has been suggested that when 

 this game is pulled oS that either John L. Sulli- 

 van or Doling Arthur Johnson be selected as 

 umpire. 



Last week the Cincinnati office of C. Crane & 

 Co. received notice that 50,000 of their logs in 

 the Guyandotte river had broke away and were 

 running wild, the head of the great mass getting 

 out into the Ohio river. Immediately every 

 available craft in the vicinity got up steam and 

 commenced to "tie up" the logs. The runaway 

 was rounded up without the loss of but few logs. 

 The salvage of fifty cents per log allowed by 

 Ohio and Kentucky laws for logs tied up to the 

 bank was all that was necessary to enlist an 

 army of willing workers. 



On June 3 President Cliff S. Walker of the 

 Hayou Land & Lumber Company received a let- 

 ter from Vice-President Sam Conn that a move- 

 ment was on foot to extend the Mississippi rail- 

 road for five miles through one of the tracts of 

 the Bayou company. This will place its mill 

 at Etta Bena convenient to switching facilities 

 direct to Natchez and New Orleans. A large 

 Chicago lumber concern is said to be responsible 

 for the building of the new road. 



Section 5 of the constitution of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Cincinnati, known as the "Square 

 Deal" section, has steadily proved its value and 

 is increasing in popularity. Already three im- 

 portant cases which would have resulted in open 

 disagreement, and possibly have reached the 

 courts, have been most amicably adjusted. The 

 propriety of this class of legislation was for a 

 while questioned, but the working of the new 

 arrangement is proving eminently satisfactory 

 and will result in Cincinnati becoming the best 

 hardwood market for both buyers and sellers to 

 deal in. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte has been 

 displaying his old-time energy during the spring. 

 .Mter several weeks spent in Memphis and the 

 South, he returned to Cincinnati and in a few 

 days disposed of the accumulated business which 

 Office Manager Thonian thought needed his per- 

 sonal inspection, and immediately left for the 

 East, where he remained for several weeks, most 

 of which was spent in New York City. Last 

 week he returned to Cincinnati to transact im- 

 portant business, which needed his personal at- 

 tention, and returned to New York City, where 

 he still remains. Mr. Bennett said that his 

 business was very satisfactor.v. and tlie condi- 

 tions for the future were bright. E. J. Thoman 

 has lieen kept very busy attending to the busi- 



ness during Mr. Bennett's absence, having but 

 little time to spare for casual callers. 



The Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad 

 has applied to Service Director Sundmaker of 

 Cincinnati for leave to lay more tracks in their 

 terminal at the foot of Eighth street, owing to 

 the heavy increase in business. The big yards 

 of the E. L. Edwards Lumber Company and the 

 Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company are 

 on the borders of the C, C. & L. railroad yard 

 and they operate switches from the line. 



The Carriage MaTsers' Club held its annual 

 outing at the Laugliery Club recently. The 

 steamer Kentucky conveyed the party down the 

 river in the morning and returned at night. A 

 most enjoyable day was spent. A number of 

 local lumbermen attended. 



Col. S. B. Stanberry, the local representafiv" 

 of the Chicago Coal & Lumber Company, is one 

 of the active commissioners of the Ohio Valley 

 Exposition. He says work on the buildings is 

 being pushed with all expedition, as the com- 

 missioners are having all the immense building 

 work done under their own supervision, thus 

 saving the builders' profits. The Miami & Erie 

 canal is being covered with wood buildings for 

 several blocks, and millions of feet of yellow 

 pine and other building lumber will be consumed 

 in their construction. The Colonel says that 

 the business of his office has been active during 

 the past spring, and he has not been able to de- 

 vote much of his time to the work of the expo- 

 sition commission. He is the he.ad of the pub- 

 licity division, Ijut that department is in the 

 hands of paid specialists, who look after the 

 detail work. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, after his return from 

 the C.vpress Manufacturers' Association meeting 

 at New Orleans, adjusted the affairs of the local 

 headquarters and departed for the East, where 

 he will spend some time looking after the inter- 

 ests of the Manufacturers' association in that 

 section. 



W. Durham, connected with the lumber in- 

 terests for many years as a timber cruiser, re- 

 lumed last week from an extended trip over the 

 lands acquired in a great timber and coal deal 

 in Tennessee, in which local capital is interested. 



At the Bayou Land & Lumber Company's local 

 office were received letters from France during 

 the past week congratulating Cliff Walker on 

 his re-election as president of the Lumberman's 

 Club of Cincinnati. Mr. Walker said he did not 

 know that being president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati would put him in the inter- 

 national limelight. Since the completion of his 

 elegant new home in Covington. Mr. Walker has 

 become a devoted horticulturist, florist and fruit 

 farmer. After several weeks of hard labor his 

 back yard farm has been planted with a peach 

 tree, some onions, lettuce, raspberries and straw- 

 berries. 



C. L. Wilkinson, manager of the sawmill of 

 the Bayou Land & Lumber Company at Etta 

 Bena. Miss., last week attended the funeral of a. 

 brother who died at his home in Ilartwell. After 

 a few days spent with his mourning family and 

 friends he returned to the Mississippi plant. 



Fred Duling, representing the Graham Lumber 

 Company, has just returned from a trip through 

 the hardwood consuming district of Indiana. 

 He said the trip was fairly successful, but not 

 entirely satisfactory. 



Harold Robinson of the Frank Spangler Com- 

 pany of Toledo, 0.. was a visitor to the lumber- 

 men of the Queen City last week and spent 

 some time among the local offices. 



C. E. Champlin of the Cincinnati office of Ben- 

 nett & Witte has been transferred temporarily 

 to the Mempiiis office, where the accumulation 

 o£ business necessitated additional help. 



A new representative of the Bennett & Witte 

 house for the eastern territory has been started 

 out on the road the first of the month. Oscar 

 Henry will now look after this field. 



E. B. Chester, a manufacturer of hardwood 

 dimension stock of Brownsville, Tenn., was one 

 of the visitors to the local market. 



Executive Clerk Heaton of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association is recovering from 

 the strenuous work of the headquarters entailed 

 in getting out the annual reports and the new 

 codification of the grading rules. J. J. Linehan 

 of the Linehan Lumber Company of Pittsburg, 

 Pa., dropped into headquarters last week. Frank 

 H. Pryor, western sales manager of the W. M. 

 Hitter Lumber Company of Chicago, was also a 

 visitor. 



The McLean avenue mill of the Freiberg Lum- 

 ber Company received another large consignment 

 of Mexican mahogany logs. The great log yard 

 of the company is piled high with the valuable 

 lumtier. The present consignment contains a 

 large number of valuable veneer logs, which will 

 he cut into fiitches for the veneer department of 

 tile company. The office of the Freiberg Lumber 

 Company has just been refitted and desks and 

 farniture made of Mexican mahogany in the nat- 

 ural finisn, and the effect is to make this about 

 the brightest and most attractive lumber office 

 in the Queen City. 



T. J. Moffett of Maley. Thompson & Moffett in 

 a recent talk said that the lumber department 

 of his plant was busy, but that the veneer end 

 of the business had not been so active. The 

 demand for mahogany veneers was only fair. 

 Quartered oak veneers, of which a specialt.T is 

 made, are not very active. The mill of this 

 company is one solid piece of concrete construc- 

 tion and Is as near fireproof as it is possible to 

 make a sawmill. 



A. M. Lewin, one of the heaviest manufactur- 

 ers of yellow pine and cypress planing mill and 

 building material products, says that the busi- 

 ness at his Evanston plant is excellent. Since 

 the close of the carpenters' strike the business 

 has steadily increased. 



Robert Becker, who has been connected with 

 various lumber concerns in this city, is now 

 selling lumber on his own account. 



Desk manufacturers are enjoying a good vol- 

 ume of trade in the export line. The South 

 American trade is showing strong improvement, 

 while there is a better outlook from the Euro- 

 pean field. The domestic trade, however, is only 

 fair. 



Cincinnati lumbermen will be well represented 

 at the convention of the National Hardwood As- 

 sociation at Louisville on June 9-10. 



Chairman Joseph Bolser of the Entertainment 

 Committee of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincin- 

 nati, is busy arranging for the annual outing of 

 the club. Every effort is being made to make 

 this the most enjoyable outing ever given' by the 

 club. Joe has several novelties up his sleeve 

 and is on the still hunt for other attractions. 



The Duhlmeier Brothers have extended their 

 yards over the land formerly occupied by Samuel 

 Taft as a lumber yard on McLean avenue, giving 

 them greatly improved switching facilities to the 

 Cincinnati Southern railroad tracks. 



Information was received in Cincinnati on 

 June 3 to the effect that George Claypoole, young 

 son of Harrison Claypoole of Ingo. was cut to 

 pieces on Thursday in Menline & Hyre's saw- 

 mill. He was filing a tearing when his feet 

 slipped and he fell on the carriage, being carried 

 to the saw before the machinery could be 

 stopped. 



Local lumbermen interested in mills in Ken- 

 tucky along the Kentucky and Cumberland and 

 tributary streams report that the rains which 

 have been frequent along the main stream of 

 the Ohio valley have not to any extent been 

 beneficial along those streams. On the Ken- 

 tucky river a few thousand logs were brought 

 out, but the tide was not sufficient to bring out 

 the entire cut. 



W. E. DeLaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany spent some time in New York last week on 

 business connected with his company. 



