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HARDWOOD RECORD 



On the morning of July 18 the lumber yards 

 of the A. G. Breitwieser Company, at South 

 Twenty-second street and the P. & L. E. Kail- 

 road, Pittsburg, were wiped out by a Are which 

 did about $50,000 damage. The plant occupied 

 the entire square and the yards were well 

 stocked with pine and hemlock lumber, which 

 made it an exceedingly hard flre to fight. Five 

 city fire companies had difiiculty in keeping the 

 fire confined to that one square and, as it was, 

 a big residence and store and several smaller 

 buildings were consumed. The Breitwieser plant 

 was one of the largest and best known in West- 

 ern Pennsylvania. Mr. Breitwieser is also presi- 

 dent of the Breitwieser-Wilson Lumber Company 

 and the Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company, both 

 of this city. 



BOSTON 



Among the recent lumber manufacturers who 

 have called upon the trade here were Edward 

 Walker o£ James Walker & Co., Bangor, Me., 

 George Eaton of H. E. Eaton & Sons, Calais, 

 Me., "and Mr. Mann of Mann & Parker, Balti- 

 more, Md. 



Atherton Sbepard of the Blacker & Shepard 

 Company, Boston, left early in the month on a 

 trip to Alaska, accompanied by his family. He 

 will be away several weeks. 



Benjamin F. Lamb, one of the oldest lumber 

 dealers in Boston, died at his home recently. 

 He had not been in active business of late, 

 owing to poor health. 



The lumber business between this port and 

 the River Plate is on the increase. Several car- 

 goes have cleared from Boston recently. The 

 last ship to sail was the Erne with a cargo 

 amounting to l,fiOO,000 feet. 



The New Bedford Box & Shook Company is 

 the name of a new concern to start in busi- 

 ness in New Bedford, Mass. The factory will 

 bo located on Princeton street. 



The business of the Clark & Cole Company, 

 Middleboro, Mass., will be offered at public 

 auction on July 25 on the premises. This 

 concern failed last February, with liabilities of 

 nearly $200,000. The trustees have been con- 

 ducting the business for the past few months 

 and report a profit during this period. 



Michael J. Connolly, a wholesale lumber 

 dealer, Waltham, Mass., made an assig-nment 

 July 13. The liabilities are placed at $12,768 

 with assets of $4,237. 



The Doane & Williams Company of Holyoke, 

 Mass., has been granted a certificate to Jo a 

 lumber business. The capital stock is $15,000. 

 The president is George W. Doane, Jr., and 

 the treasurer, George W. Doane. 



Charles H. Woodman and Ralph Blanchard 

 of the C. W. Woodman Lumber Company, Bos- 

 ton, have filed a voluntary assignment for the 

 company for the benefit of its creditors. A 

 member of the company states that the assign- 

 ment was made so that the company could be 

 liquidated, as the members wished to discon- 

 tinue the business. The affairs of the com- 

 pany were placed in the hands of Harry B. 

 Stcbbins and Charles S. Wentworth of Boston. 



The Butler & IClein Lumber Company, Meri- 

 den, Conn., has decided to go out of business. 

 A. N. Butler and M. A. Klein, who control 

 the business, plan to give their entire time to 

 other matters. 



BALTIMORE 



The recent death of Jacob B. Thomas, for- 

 merly of the firm of Joseph Thomas & Son, 

 millwork manufacturers, recalled the fact that 

 he was perhaps the last link between the busi- 

 ness of seventy-five years ago and the present, 

 Mr. Thomas was in his eighty-third year at the 

 time of his death and had lived in retirement 

 for about (en years, although he continued to 



take an active interest in affairs, and until 

 shortly before his death was almost a dally 

 visitor at the factory in South Baltimore. He 

 was a son of Joseph Thomas, the founder of 

 the business, which was established in 1820. 

 It was started with a single turning knife 

 and a large dog in harness on the tredd to 

 supply the power. The establishment is now 

 conducted by his nephews, Joseph T. Lawton 

 and William T. Lawton, and the great-grand- 

 sons of the founder are also following in the 

 footsteps of the fathers. 



George Ross Hopkins, who was for a time 

 with the Iron Mountain Lumber Company at 

 Troutdale and this city and later was con- 

 nected with Price & Heaid, has become pur- 

 chaser of lumber for the Kilbourn & Jacobs 

 Manufacturing Company of Columbus, one of 

 the largest concerns of its kind in the coun- 

 try. 



F. K. Paxton, president, and T. W. Lewis 

 of the Paxton Lumber Company of Bristol, 

 Tenn., were business visitors in Baltimore re- 

 cently. They reported that trade was not as 

 brisk as it had been. 



Another visitor about the same time was I>. 

 E. Hunter, of the Carr-Hunter Lumber Com- 

 pany of Graham, Va. 



L. E. Reighard, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Mount Mitchell Lumber Company of Swannanoa, 

 Va,, stopped in Baltimore two weeks ago on 

 his way back from New York, where he had 

 gone on business. 



Thomas Hughes, proprietor of the. Iron Moun- 

 tain Lumber Company, which operates I'lree 

 sawmills at Troutdale and nearby points in 

 southwestern Virginia, has returned to his oper- 

 ations after several weeks spent in Baltimore 

 with relatives to recuperate. He was formerly 

 a member of the wholesale firm of Carter, 

 Hughes & Co. 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock &: Co.. 

 of this city, has returned from Cincinnati, 

 where he attended the meeting of the board 

 of directors of Ihe National Lumber Export- 

 ers' As.50ciation, and also the session of the 

 Wagon Oak Plank Exporters' Association, on 

 the following day. He was accompanied to 

 Cincinnati by J. McD. Price, secretary of the 

 Exporters' Association, who continued on west 

 and south to visit members of the organiza- 

 tion and take up with them various matters 

 of importance to the trade. 



Among those interested in the Davy-Poca- 

 hontas Coal Company, which has just been in- 

 corporated at Welch, W. Va., with a caiiital 

 stock of $500,000, are Walter L. Taylor, gen- 

 eral counsel of the It. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, who has been made presi- 

 dent of the coal company, and R. E. Wood, who 

 is vice-president of the new corporation. The 

 coal company has bought 3,400 acres of coal 

 laud in McDowell county. West Virginia, and 

 will undertake the development of this tract 

 as soon as arrangements can be made. The 

 output at first is to be about 1,000 tons a 

 day, w^hich is to be increased to 3,000 tons. 



CLEVELAND 



The new sawmill of the Marlin-Barriss Com- 

 pany is being rapidly put in shape for operation 

 and it is expected that by the end of the month 

 it will be turning out some of the company's 

 delayed orders. The fire of a few weeks ago put 

 the concern out quite a bit, but it has managed 

 lo keep up fairly well with the demand. The 

 company reports a good demand for cabinet 

 woods of various kinds. Many large buildings 

 started in the early spring have now reached 

 a point where they are ready for interior finish 

 and the call for this line of stock is reported 

 a.5 being quite active. 



A tract of ground 80x300 feet in size has been 

 acquired by the Hine & Cook Lumber Company 



and has been added to its yardage space. The 

 company will hereafter handle a general stock, 

 iucluding a heavy line of hardwoods of vailous 

 grades, in which it lias specialized up to the 

 present. 



During the second week in August the Cbam- 

 ber of Commerce will conduct its summer in- 

 coming excursion. During that time it is ex- 

 pected the retail lumbermen from a number of 

 I'oints in Ohio and adjoining states will come 

 10 Cleveland with a view to strengthening yard 

 stocks. J. J. Wemple, secretary-treasurer of 

 the Ohio Sash & Door Company, is also presi- 

 dent of the Wholesale Merchants" Board of the 

 <-hamber. under whose auspices the excursion 

 is to be held. Another excursion of a similar 

 character will take place during September. On 

 both occasions visitors will be entertained at 

 theater parties, ball games and trips to a biff 

 amusement resort, Luna Park. 



A new motor truck has been pressed into serv- 

 i<-e by the Mills-Carleton Company for its deliv- 

 eries and lias been found so satisfactory that 

 it IS likely that other teams will be dispensed 

 with and aaother truck procured, as it is claimed 

 that considerable saving is effected in addition 

 lo the rapidity of delivery and convenience. 



Big lumbermen here who sell extensively to 

 the railroads report that the trade, jiarticularly 

 for hardwoods, has fallen off considerably in 

 Ihe past month or two. The roads have stopped 

 buying iumljer just as they have shut down on 

 many other supplies. Most of the dealers, )iow- 

 ever, are hopeful that trade will revive soon. 



One of tlie important announcements of the 

 past two weeks is that J. V. O'Brien, who has 

 returned from a trip to Atlantic City, accom- 

 panied jiy bis family, has accepted a position 

 vith the Southern Ohio Lumber Company. Mr. 

 O'Brien, in addition to being secretary of the 

 Lumber De.-ilers' Association, has been manager 

 of the Northern Ohio Lumber Company, to which 

 concern most of the local dealers have belonged 

 for several years. Dissension having arisen, it 

 is now planned to wind up the affairs of the 

 Northern Ohio company and discontinue it. Mr. 

 O'Brien will look after this work in addition to 

 his other duties. 



Ro'oert H. Jenks is back from Detroit, where 

 he attended the recent convention of the Michi- 

 gan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. Mr. 

 Jenks has large interests in that state. 



The Lake Shore Saw Mill & Lumber Company 

 has been extending its site on the lake front 

 by the construction of a bulkhead and making 

 an extensive fill. The company expects, when 

 improvements are completed, to have good dock 

 facilities facing directly into the harbor. 



Philippine mahogany, furnished by the Nicola, 

 Stone & Meyers Company, will be used for the 

 interior finish of the new Euclid Avenue Presby- 

 terian church, just east of University Circle. It 

 will be one of the most pretentious religious 

 structures in the city when completed. Quite a 

 lot of this wood is coming into service in this 

 part of the country and its beauty is commented 

 upon quite generally. 



The Henry C. Christy & Son Lumber Company 

 has removed its offices from the American Trust 

 building to the new Brotherhood building at 

 Ontario street and St. Clair avenue. 



Considerable new machinery, to be operated 

 by a gas engine, is to be installed by Simon 

 Brothers. They have been laying in quite a 

 heavy stock of lumber in anticipation of a heavy 

 fall trade. 



COLUMBUS 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company is erect- 

 ing a large band mill at Hazelwood, X. C. 

 which will be placed in operation some time 

 in the fall. It will be used to work a con- 

 siderable territory in that section. The capacity 

 will be 100,000 feet per day. 



