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HARDWOOD RECORD 



oiilgrown its quarters in the Keeuap building. 

 thanl^s to the unusual energy of its president, 

 J. N. Woollett, and is now nicely quartered in 

 the new Second National Bank Buildini; at Ninth 

 and Liberty. 



Mier & Miler of Pennsville, Pa., who have ex- 

 tensive contracts for furnishing ties and sup- 

 plies to the West Penn Railways Company, have 

 bought 140 acres more of fine timber near Penns- 

 I'ille and will put a mill on the tract at once. 



Blair Bros, of Indiana, Pa., lost about $4,000 

 last week by a lire which burned several cars 

 •of lumber and a quantity of timber near Black 

 I.lck, Pa. The Are was supposed to be incen- 

 <3iary. 



The Berkebile Lumber Company of Somerset, 

 I 'a., has elected these officers for the ensuing 

 jvar : President, A, G. Berkebile ; vice-president, 

 A. J. Coleman ; secretary, R. L. Berkebile ; treas- 

 urer, John H. Seibert. The company is pre- 

 paring to build a large new mill and storage 

 ^hcds near its present plant to take care of its 

 rapidly increasing business. 



The F. W. Crane Lumber Company has moved 

 Jts offices from the Ferguson Building to the 

 House Building at Smithtield and Water .Streets, 

 where it has much larger and better quarters and 

 -is in the midst of a colony of lumber wholesalers. 

 Mr. Crane is up in Buffalo this week, where the 

 tqnr.pany has been getting good business all sum- 

 mer. 



C. M Chambers, assistant secretary of the 

 Jiendall Lumber Company, is taking a two weeks' 

 vacation, and J. H. Henderson, secretary, keeps 

 very busy with trips between the home office 

 and the mills. 



K. S. Dunn of the Allegheny Lumber Company 

 went over to Columbus, O., the other day to 

 -convince the Buckeyes that his company could 

 sell them lumber "right." He usually brings 

 them to his way of thinking, too, as the order 

 •books of the Allegheny lately show. 



A new Pennsylvania lumber concern is the 

 International Timber Securities Company of 

 Erie, I'a., which h.is been incorporated with a 

 capital of $2,000,000 by Daniel G. Curtis of 

 Erii, Edson Schofleld of New York and George 

 Vi'. Kiiuw of Niagara Falls, N. Y. 



The A. G. Breitwieser Company is seriously 

 contemplating rebuilding its plant on the South 

 Side, which was lately burned. Mr. Breitwieser 

 is devoting a large part of his time to the in- 

 terests of the new wholesale company, the Breit- 

 wieser-Wilson Company, which was formed the 

 first of the year and has gained a good foothold 

 -among Pittsburg wholesalers already. W. W. 

 Wilson of this company has gone to Canada for 

 -a two wfeks off. 



I. F. Eal>-ley, sales manager for the Palmer 

 ■& Semans Lumber Company, spent a few days in 

 Buffalo and the East last week. He brought 

 hack some good business and feels encouraged 

 ■over the general situation. The TriState Lum- 

 ber Company, which sells its product to the 

 Palmer & Snmans Company, lost its mill in West 

 Virginia by hre ten days ago and will at once 

 •build another jil.'int with a daily capacity of 

 i;o,000 fett. 



W. M. Gillespie, president of the W. M. Gil- 

 lespie Lumber Company from his offices in the 

 Oliver Building, reports that the market is in 

 general quiet. This applies especially to export 

 •demand and to railroad buying. In the latter 

 respect he looks for some improvement soon. 



H. W. Uenninger, who piloted the late Re- 

 liance Lumber Company for several years, has 

 allied himself with M. Feinagle and the two 

 are getting a nice business started under the 

 title of the Lumber Manufacturers' Selling 

 Agency of Pittsburg. Mr. Feinagle has for some 

 time represented the firm of James Buchanan of 

 Texarkana, Ark., in this market and takes this 

 account to the.,new concern. 



Louis Germain, of the Germain Company, is 

 <'Bf on a two weeks' vacation. Ills brother, 

 A. A., who is holding down the office work in 

 Ills absence reports that the export trade is very 



dull and that new business until very recently 

 has been extremely slow. He attributes this in 

 large part to the fact that there has been little 

 railroad buying as purchasing agents are mostly 

 away on their vacations. 



BOSTON 



John T. Judd of Boston, president of the Es- 

 peranze Timber Company, is said to have secured 

 control of 200,000 acres of mahogany timber 

 land on the Augura Clara River, in the State 

 of Chiapas, Mexico. The company will build 

 its sawmills there if present intentions are 

 carried out. 



A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been 

 liled by Charles W. Woodman of Somerville and 

 Ralph Blanchard of Medford, doing business as 

 C. W. Woodman & Co., wholesale lumber dealers, 

 Boston. The liabilities amount to $34,750. The 

 assets are scheduled as uncertain but include 

 stock in trade to the value of $2,000. 



The damage sustained by the Cottrell Lumber 



Company of Mystic, Conn., by the fire in their 



yard on July 27 is not nearly so great as at 



• f;rst feared. It is thought now that $6,000 will 



cover the loss. 



Edward F. Roach, tree warden of MiUbury in 

 Worcester county. Massachusetts, has discovered 

 a parasite which he feels sure is a deadly enemy 

 to the elm beetle. The bug is a new one to Mr. 

 Roach, who has forwarded his find to the state 

 forestry bureau. 



BALTIMORE 



E. W. Kuowles uas retired from the firm of 

 James W. Knowles' Sons on South Carolina 

 street and the business is being continued under 

 the same firm name by James W. Knowles, Jr. 

 The firm was for a long time located on West 

 Falls avenue. It was established in 1849 by the 

 late James W. Knowles, who died some years 

 ago, and bis sons continued it. The retiring 

 member will devote bis time to travel and to the 

 delights of bis suburban home. 



Roger McAulan has become assistant manager 

 of the Morgan Milling Company, which deals ex- 

 tensively in sash, doors and blinds, and was 

 organized to take over the jobbing trade of the 

 Baltimore Sash & Door Company, so that the 

 latter organization might confine itself to manu- 

 facturing operations. Mr. McAulan came here 

 from Buffalo, where he had been for six years 

 with the Iroquois Lumber Company. 



Charles I. James has gone down to the mill 

 of the Pigeon River Lumber Company at Crest 

 Mont. N. C., on one of his periodical trips to 

 see how operations are progressing. He will 

 also confer with the mill officers concerning 

 various improvements decided upon at a meet- 

 ing of the directors in New York last week. 

 These improvements include the construction of 

 four or five miles of logging road farther into 

 the timber tract owned by the company, which 

 manufactures hardwoods largely. Work at the 

 plant is said to have been progressing very satis- 

 factorily of late. 



At the monthly meeting of the managing com- 

 mittee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, held 

 last Monday afternoon, the trade relations com- 

 mittee, appointed to take up and dispose of dis- 

 putes between wholesalers and retailers, was 

 named to continue until the next annual meet- 

 ing in December. The members of the commit- 

 tee are ; Lewis Dill, Wm. M. Burgan and Ridga- 

 way Merryman for the wholesalers, and Henry P. 

 Duker, Theodore Mottu and George B. Hunting 

 for the retailers. The appointment of the com- 

 mittee grew out of the presentation of com- 

 plaints that wholesalers were invading the do- 

 main of the retailers and that retailers were 

 buying direct from the mills. 



Richard \V. Price of Price & Heald started 

 last Monday evening for Georgian Bay, Canada, 

 to spend a vacation of several weeks, which he 



will devote largely to fishing. Mr. Price was 

 accompanied by his wife and a daughter. 



The Eisenhauer-MacLea Company this week 

 moved into its new office on the west side of 

 Central avenue, near Canton avenue. The office 

 is of brick and finished in the interior in ash. 

 Ash covers the walls and the ceiling. There 

 are two handsome fireplaces with Latrobe stoves, 

 a vault for books and papers and other con- 

 veniences. The floors and window frames are of 

 hardwood, the construction being such as to 

 show the advantages of the use of hardwoods 

 for building. The company has been housed in 

 temporary quarters since the fire of last Febru- 

 ary, which destroyed its lumber sheds, office 

 and other property. The sheds have since been 

 rebuilt and the burned stocks replaced, so that 

 the company is in thorough condition again to 

 do business. One of the company's latest deals 

 is the purchase of about 800,000 feet of cypress, 

 which is being brought here in two cargoes by 

 the schooner Edward G. Hight from Jackson- 

 ville, Fla. 



Robert McLean, general manager of the Norva 

 Land.& Lumber Company, was at the mill at 

 Wallaceton, Va., last week and found everything 

 working satisfactorily. He reports business fair 

 and states thai the market for gum continues 

 tc show expansion. 



The sawmill of the Magazine Hardwood Saw- 

 mill Compauy at Magazine Point, near Mobile, 

 has resumed operations after a shutdown of 

 about thirty days, due to low water and other 

 causes. The company is the manufacturing end 

 of R. P. Baer & Co. of this city. 



Among other matters in which Harvey M. 

 Dickson of the Dickson Lumber Company at Nor- 

 folk, president of the National Lumber Export- 

 ers' Association and of the Wagon Oak Plank 

 Exporters' Association, is interesting himself is 

 the new fortification project at Cape Henry, 

 which involves the creation of an island at the 

 entrance of the Virginia capes of the Chesapeake 

 Bay and the erection thereon of works com- 

 manding the gateway for ships. The works 

 would entail an outlay of $5,000,000 to $6,000,- 

 000. Mr. Dickson has written to Mayor Mahool 

 of Baltimore about the matter. 



CLEVELAND 



A contract for about $50,000 worth of splen- 

 didly carved hardwoods for the probate and cir- 

 cuit courtrooms in the new courthouse here has 

 been awarded to the W. B. McAllister Company, 

 which already holds the general woodworking 

 contract for the building. Imported English oak 

 will be employed for the most part. Plans have 

 also been prepared for the judges' mahogany 

 benches and furniture. Four bids ranging from 

 $68,000 to $103,000 have been received on the 

 work. A contract will be awarded within a 

 short time by the county building commission 

 in charge of the work. 



The W. A. Cool & Son Lumber Company re- 

 port that the demand for wide poplar for auto 

 body making seems lo be falling off, as there is 

 a somewhat unsteady feeling apparent in the auto- 

 mobile trade. For months the body makers could 

 not secure enough clear wide poplar to meet their 

 demands and were willing to pay high prices. 

 There is a dullness in the market now, however, 

 which the trade cannot account for. The com- 

 pany says that there is a fair demand, however, 

 for beech, birch and maple as well as for com- 

 mon chestnut. 



F. H. Logan, president of the Athens Lumber 

 Company of Athens, O.. was a visitor in Cleve- 

 land during the past week. Mr. Logan left for 

 Lorain, where he joined a part of business men 

 who were preparing to take a trip to the head 

 of the lakes on a large freighter. 



B. C. Ackles. secretary of the .^Iton Lumber 

 Company of Buckhannon, W. Va., was a caller 

 nn the local tiadc a few days ago. He report 

 business as fair. 



