HARDWOOD RECORD 



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time, owing to tho fact that stocks are somewhat 

 large, especially in the hands of retailers in the 

 territory immediately around Columbus. 



II. R. -\llen of th(j H. R. Allen Lumber Com- 

 pany recently returned from attending the 

 Shricers convention at New Orleans. lie spent 

 some time looking over the lumber situation in 

 that city. 



H. C. Creith, second lieutenant of the Shriners 

 patrol of Columbus. Ohio, who attended the an- 

 nual meeting of the Imperial Council at New 

 Orleans early in April, stopped off at Ilatties- 

 burg. Miss., to attend to business in the lumber 

 market. 



CINCINNATI 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, is attending the 

 meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, at New Orleans. Executive Clerk 

 Heaton and his force are busy with the, routine 

 business of headquarters. Callers at the office 

 have been few from out of the cit.v for the past 

 fortnight. President Lucas, of the Lucas Land 

 & Lumber Company, of Waverl.v. Tenn., dropped 

 Ir. while passing through the city last week. 



The Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company has 

 been reorganized, with a capital of $40,000, and 

 incorporated under the laws of Ohio. Dwight 

 Hinckley is the president and .1. M. Clements, 

 secretary. The office is in the Fourth National 

 Bank building. Dwight Hinckley is one of the 

 progressive young men of the local lumber ope- 

 rators who has made remarkable progress during 

 the few years he has been at the head of a 

 company of bis own. He is a thorough lum- 

 berman, having worked up from the ranks, with 

 a wide experience in cypress, yellow pine and 

 hardwoods. The company has large yards in 

 the East End, on the Pennsylvania tracks, with 

 switches and ample facilities for the rapid han- 

 dling of lumber. 



A few days of cold, rainy weather during the 

 past week, interfered somewhat with outdoor 

 operations, hut April 21 opened up bright and 

 clear and the west side of the city was alive 

 with hundreds of teams hauling lumber to and 

 from the yards. Owing to the fact that twenty- 

 five of the large hardwood yards are located 

 within a mile along the line of the Southern 

 railroad, in the early morning apparently noth- 

 ing can be seen but lumber wagons and teams. 



The numerous friends of Leiand G. Banning 

 will be pleased to learn that he is making a 

 good recovery from his siege of illness at Colom- 

 bo, Ceylon, and is now on his w'ay home, the 

 latest intelligence being that he had arrived at 

 Genoa, Italy, and that it is expected he will 

 reach Cincinnati by May 1st. 



Ferd Brenner, is at the mill of the Ferd 

 Brenner Lumber Company, at Alexandria, La., 

 where he will remain for some time, with Man- 

 ager W. F. Best. The mill is running full, cut- 

 ting hardwoods for the export trade. This com- 

 pany specializes in walnut, and carries one of 

 the largest stocks of walnut in the country. Mr. 

 Brenner is sometimes called the "Walnut King." 

 by his business associates. Secretary Witbeck 

 of the company is in charge of the local office, 

 having recently returned from an extended visit 

 at the Louisiana plant. He says while he is 

 not as yet thoroughly in touch with business 

 conditions, there is apparently an improvement 

 in the foreign demand, that is from the Euro- 

 pean continent, but that the English trade shows 

 no change. The future will undoubtedly clear 

 awa.v conditions and diminish the stocks on the 

 other side to such an extent that active buying 

 of American lumber will become a necessity. 



A prominent veneer log dealer. .V. Rushforth, 

 of Liverpool. England, spent several days with 

 the trade in this city last week. He proved a 

 jolly good fellow and made many friends dur- 

 ing his stay, leaving for the South and West. 



,Tim Van Orsdel, sales representative of Le- 



iand G. Banning, says that the business of the 

 concern is fairly good, and that they are get- 

 ting their share. The Banning yard has a 

 larger variety of stock than any yard in the 

 country. The stocklist embraces almost every- 

 thing that woodworking manufacturers use. Jim 

 says they have the best stockkeeper in the coun- 

 try — a young lady. The office is located two 

 miles uptown from the .yards, ana the lady has 

 never been to the big yards in the bottoms, but 

 there is not a stick of lumber of any class in 

 or out of the yards that is not faithfully re- 

 corded in the stock book. The s.vstem employed 

 by the Banning concern is simple, but perfect. 



Hans Forcbheimer of New Orleans and Frank- 

 fort-on-Main. as his cards read, representing 

 Hugo Forcbheimer of Frankfort, Germany, 

 stopped over in the Queen Cit.v for a few days 

 last week on his way to Europe. He called on 

 several business acquaintances. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Whitte, is spend- 

 ing some time in the South loking over his busi- 

 ness interests in that section. He has been 

 at the Memphis office of the concern for a week, 

 hut was expected home about the week's end. 

 E. J. Thoman. the local office manager, says 

 that business has only been fair, with appar- 

 ently a little improvement in the foreign trade. 



President Clif S. Walker of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati, was the guest of the famous 

 "Curbstone Club" of Covington, Ivy., on April 

 16. This is the oldest social organization in 

 Kentuck.v. and is patterned along the lines of the 

 famous Gridiron Club of Washington. I). C, the 

 membership all being prominent in public life. 



W. E. DeLaney. of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, returned last week from a visit to the 

 forest lands of Mississippi and Louisiana, where 

 he spent a week or ten days looking over avail- 

 able hardwood lands, with a view to purchasing 

 and locating a mill. The mill of the company 

 at Burnsido, K.y., is running, while the Williams- 

 burg mill is closed down for want of logs. 



Dwight Hinckle.v has given up his love for a 

 fast horse, and is now the owner of a rapid 

 "oil wagon," of which he relates wonderful 

 speed stories. He was seen last week "laid out" 

 beyond Dayton, Ohio, on the road side, trying to 

 find out what was the matter with the darned 

 thing, while a messenger was dispatched to Day- 

 ton to bring on men with the "know-how" and 

 tools. After waiting four hours for the me- 

 chanics to come, it was found that he had ne- 

 glected to put oil in the tank. A few gallons 

 of "gaso" and the buzz wagon got busy. A 

 race is talked of between Dwight and Ralph 

 McCracken. who is also a hor.seless enthusiast. 



C. C. McGuire of the Lily Lumber Company, 

 of Hinton. W. Va., says that business at the 

 plant is fairly good, with the future looking ex- 

 ceedingly well. 



John Lyon of Liverpool. England, was a visi- 

 tor last week at the headquarters of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers. He stopped over to look 

 at the Quen City on his way through to the 

 South, where he will spend some time at New 

 Orleans and Texas. 



The Ficks Brothers Carriage i- Reed Company, 

 has sold its big building and moved to the struc- 

 ture east. This concern has been known to lum- 

 ber salesmen for years as the National Carriage 

 & Reed Company. 



A local furniture concern is looking for quar- 

 tered oak "squares" of inch and a half, any 

 length, from twelve to forty inches. They say 

 they have difficulty in finding this class of stock. 



Red gum is receiving attention from the fur- 

 niture trade to a greater extent than ever. Last 

 week a furniture manufacturer, who for years 

 refused red gum as a gift, commenced to buy it 

 for use in his output, and says that he has been 

 trying it for some months and finds it adapt- 

 able to his purpose, and will use it from now on. 



Cincinnati will have a pernLinenl furniture 

 exposition. The lease for the building has been 

 closed, contracts for remodeling are being made, 

 and the promoter says the first show will open 



in July. .\ numlier of outside fa<?tories hara 

 signed fur exhibition space. 



TOLEDO 



Permits for more than .fTU.Oiio wi.rili of new 

 homes in Toledo were issued by tli(> buildlDg 

 inspector's office last week. The high <iuallty ot 

 these homes is bringing an unusual demand for 

 hardwoods of various kinds. The month of April 

 promises to outdo March by a fair margin, and 

 March showed a gain of about 103 per cent over 

 last year. 



W. T. Hubbard has Just returned from an 

 extended business trip to West N'irginia and 

 other southeastern points. lie reports a brink 

 call for all hardwoods outside of Toledo and 

 says there seems to be a shortage of most all 

 the better grades of hardwood at the present 

 time. His stock is well filled and in good shape. 

 The price tendency is upward and Mr. Hubbard 

 looks for a further advance soon. He is ship- 

 ping out a large amount of hardwood. 



The offices of the Ann Arbor railway, which 

 have heretofore been at Detroit, have been 

 removed to Toledo. The company is making 

 extensive improvements, having laid heavier 

 rails, put on about SOO new freight cars and 14 

 locomotive engines recently. Other railways are 

 making similar improvements and it is probable 

 that less inconvenience will result hereafter to 

 lumber shippers through delays caused by lack 

 of railway equipment. 



Fire destroyed the furniture factory ot Joseph 

 Mitchell, at Bellevue, Ohio, on .\pril 16. The 

 entire frame structure with its contents, includ- 

 ing fifty unfinished extension tables, was con- 

 sumed. Tho loss is estimated at about ,$5,000, 

 with no insurance. 



W. S. Booth of the Booth Column Company 

 has just returned from a business trip to Chicago 

 in the interest of the concern. Speaking of 

 present conditions he said : "We are way be- 

 hind on our orders for the better grade of 

 columns. Orders are coming in faster than we 

 can fill them. The cheaper class of stuff is not 

 moving so well. It is a peculiar condition which 

 I am unable to account for." 



W. H. Rhinehart of the Toledo Bending Com- 

 pan.v reports but little change in business con- 

 ditions. "Business is not brisk with us at pres- 

 ent, although we have a large amount of repair 

 work on hand. There has been the usual limited 

 call for wagon and carriage stock, which has 

 been largely curtailed by the automobile de- 

 mand." 



The National Pole Company of Escanaba. 

 Jlich., has closed a long term lease on the oia 

 Barbour & Starr lumber yard at Toledo and will 

 nmke that a distributing point for its product to 

 I lie South and Southeast. The concern acquired 

 about 45 acres Of land with a halt mile frontage 

 on the I\Iaumee river. Several railways pass 

 through the property, giving ideal shipping 

 facilities. Kelsey & Freeman, the i>resent own- 

 ers, will remove their stock of lumber from the 

 grounds, giving possession by ^lay 1. The com- 

 pany will employ about one hundred men here. 



Frank Spangler left this week for a trip to 

 Baton Rouge, La., and other southern points in 

 tile interest of the Frank Spangler Company. He 

 will be gone about two weeks. 



The plant and stock of the National Fruit & 

 Berr.v Box Company of this city was recently 

 damaged to the extent of about ?10.000 by flre. 

 caused by an overheated glue pot. The damage 

 done by flames was not to exceed about ^50, but 

 an automatic sprinkler sjstem flooded the entire 

 building. The plant has been temporarily closed 

 down. 



E. G. McFillen reports a brisk demand for all 

 kinds of hardwood floors at (he present time. 

 The call is for plain quartered oak. Some 

 pattern floors are being sold, but the ratio Is 

 small. Little change is noted in prices since 

 till' first of the year. 



