HARDWOOD RECORD 



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BOSTON 



Clifton F. Leatherbee, a son of Charles W. 

 Leatherbee of Boston, is very proud of his new 

 flooring machine which he has invented. This 

 machine paints the under side of the flooring 

 and has been installed in the flooring plant of T. 

 Wilce Compan.T. Chicago, where it is being tried 

 out. Mr. Leatherbee says that all reports so 

 far are very encouraging. 



The lumber yard of the Blacker & Shepard 

 Company, Boston, was totally destroyed by fire 

 August 0. Other lumber companies in the imme- 

 diate vicinity also sustained a loss, but not a 

 heavy one. The Blacker & Shepard Company 

 has been able to keep its customers supplied, as 

 it has two other yards, one in Boston and the 

 other in Cambridge. 



The Springfield Lumber Company, Springfield, 

 Mass., of which R. B. Currier is president, will 

 vacate its present quarters and Mr. Currier 

 states that the lumber will all be sold off be- 

 tween now and the first of October. He is not 

 ready to say whether the business will be con- 

 tinued or not. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 been filed against Fred F. French & Co., Ltd., 

 carriage manufacturers. Boston, by three credit- 

 ors. As an act of bankruptcy the company made 

 an assignment for the benefit of its creditors 

 May H to Albert H. Lovett and Henry C. Mulli- 

 gan. The assignees have been trying to dispose 

 of the stock of the company since they were ap- 

 pointed. The liabilities are estimated at $30,000. 



The plant of the Flexible Veneering Company, 

 I'awtucket, R. I., was recently damaged by fire. 

 The loss was practically a total one. 



The Spurr Veneer Company, Boston, has been 

 organized with a capital stock of $50,000. The 

 incorporators are Alfred Douglass, William H. 

 Wilson and C. W. Spurr, all of Boston. 



BALTIMORE 



Holger A. Koppel, a hardwood exporter in 

 the Carroll building, Baltimore and Light streets 

 and Danish vice-consul at this port, has returned 

 from abroad after a stay of several months, dur- 

 ing which he visited his old home, Copenhagen, 

 and made trips to Berlin and Stuttgart. Ger- 

 many ; Belgium, London, Liverpool, Glasgow 

 and other ports. He states that he found busi- 

 Dess quiet, with stocks rather more than 

 adequate for current needs and the general busi- 

 ness situation by no means promising. He took 

 some orders, but prices were not attractive. 

 When Mr. Koppel left here he had just recov- 

 ered from an attack of illness, which left him 

 rather weak. The ocean voyage did him much 

 good. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald is spend- 

 ing a vacation of about one month in the 

 Georgian Bay country, where he will devote a 

 considerable part of the time to the gentle 

 pastime of fishing. Mr. Price is an enthusiastic 

 angler. He is accompanied by his wife and 

 unmarried daughters. 



J. McD. Price, secretary of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, has returned 

 from his first swing around the circle to visit 

 members of the organization and discuss with 

 them questions of trade interest. Everywhere 

 he got into contact with the exporters and con- 

 ferred with them concerning matters of direct 

 interest to the trade. He also took occasion to 

 inform them of what has been done to promote 

 the welfare of the trade and got the views of 

 members on matters expected to receive atten- 

 tion in the near futui'e, among them the ques- 

 tion of railroad rates. In making the trip Mr. 

 Price followed the method adopted by his 

 predecessor, E. M. Terry, which proved very 

 effective in strengthening the infiuence of the 

 organization. 



H. L. Bowman, general sales manager for the 



K. E. Wood Lumber Company, is spending a 

 vacation at his former home. Woodbery Forest 

 School. Orange Courthouse, Va. G. L. Wood, 

 vice-president of the company, is putting in a 

 few weeks at Springdale Cottage, White Pine, 

 Pa., where the Messrs. Wood were born. 



Among the visiting lumbermen who have been 

 in Baltimore during the past two weeks was 

 Henry Bruenlng of Bremen, Germany, who came 

 over to look after veneer woods and give par- 

 ticular attention to big logs. He called on 

 some of the firms here, renewing acquaintance 

 with them, and (hen continued on to Mobile and 

 New Orleans. Mr. Bruening is well known in 

 the trade. 



Charles I. .Tames of the Pigeon River Lumber 

 Company has returned from the mill at Crest 

 Mont, N. C, where he found everything in 

 working order, and where he made arrangements 

 for the construction of some miles of logging 

 road and other improvements. 



Harvey McCoy has resumed charge of the 

 local oflice of William Whitmer & Sons, on East 

 Lexington street, after an interval of some 

 months, during which Charles M. Buchanan 

 looked after affairs while Mr. McCoy recuperated. 

 Jlr. McCoy has not been in good health and 

 took a long vacation. He is now in good trim 

 and has taken up the work with vigor. 



CLEVELAND 



The contract for the selected early English 

 oak to be used in the fine paneling and carved 

 woodwork and furniture for the probate and cir- 

 cuit court rooms in the new $4,000,000 county 

 court house here has been let by the W. B. Mc- 

 Allister Company, which has the general contract 

 for supplying it. to the Martin-Barriss Company 

 of this city. The oak is of specially imported 

 English stock and regarded as being of as fine 

 a grade as ever handled in this city. 



The Collamer Lumber Company is preparing to 

 open its new yard on Euclid avenue, near the 

 "Y." in east Cleveland. It has a fine location in 

 the midst of a rapidly building section of the 

 city. A line of hardwoods will be carried by the 

 new concern. 



W". Howard Prescott of the Saginaw Bay Lum- 

 ber Company left during the past week for a 

 vacation on the Atlantic coast. C. H. Prescott 

 of the same company is home again after spend- 

 ing his summer vacation at his old home at 

 Tawas. Mich. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company, recently in- 

 corporated, has moved its offices from the Electric 

 building an Prospect avenue to the W'illiamson 

 building on the Public Square. 



The Advance Lumber Company reports that it 

 is fairly busy in its hardwood department and 

 that the outlook for the fall is quite promising. 

 The company is receiving quite a lot of stock 

 from its southern mills at present. 



Joseph Woehrle. formerly with a big Charles- 

 town. W. Va., lumber company, has joined the 

 sales department of the Advance company. 



Harry P. Blake, who at one time was with the 

 Advance Lumber Company, has gone into busi- 

 ness for himself, opening a general office in the 

 Brotherhood building at Ontario and St. Clair 

 avenues. He will handle hardwoods and north- 

 ern stocks. 



The W. A. Cool & Son Lumber Company says 

 that about the same condition continues to exist 

 in connection with the automobile industry as a 

 few weeks .ago. The call for poplar for body 

 making has diminished alarmingly, and compara- 

 tively little is being sold for that purpose. 



COLUMBUS 



the midst of the large tract of poplar, oak. 

 chestnut and hemlock. The mill when completed 

 will have a capacity of 100,000 feet daily. J. W. 

 Mayhew of this company left early in August 

 for a two weeks' vacation at Mt. Clemens. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company of Cleveland 

 was recently incorporated with a capital of 

 $15,000 by John J. Harwood and others. 



The woodworking mill of Martin & Jackson at 

 Montpelier. O., was completely destro.ved by 

 fire recently. The loss was about $11,000. 

 .\bout 100,000 feet of lumber were burned. The 

 proprietors have not yet decided whether the 

 plant will be rebuilt or not. 



Peter Carroll, president of the Clay Lumber 

 Company of Porter, W. Va., recently called at 

 Columbus shippers' offices. 



Statistics collected from Ohio, western Penn- 

 sylvania and West Virginia for the week ending 

 August 10 show contracts awarded amounting 

 to $3,040,000 as compared with $1,893,000 for 

 the corresponding week of 1900 and $1,489,000 

 for 190S. Since January 1 contracts have been 

 awarded amounting to $70,560,000. 



John R. Gobey, head of John R. Gobey & 

 Co., says there is no improvement in trade. He 

 expects more activity by the first of September. 

 Prices are holding up well considering the cir- 

 cumstances. 



The Wertz Lumber Company of Canal Dover, 

 O., was incorporated with a capital of $35,000 

 to buy and sell all kinds of lumber and to 

 handle building materials. The incorporators 

 are Valentine F. Pretorius. Frank E. Wiblc, Fred 

 Wertz, Philip Geib and Jacob Pretorius. 



H. W. Collins, sales manager of the eastern 

 division, and F. B. Pryor. sales manager of the 

 western division for the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, were in Columbus August 13 for the 

 regular monthly conference with R. W. Horton, 

 sales manager of the central division. All three 

 managers report a quiet market with orders run- 

 ning along about as usual. 



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CINCINNATI 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company is pre- 

 paring to start operations at Its new mill at 

 Ritter, N. C. It is located at Hazel Creek in 



Increasing prominence as a hardwood center 

 is constantly adding to the number of firms and 

 companies engaged in the manufacture and sale 

 of hardwoods. The most recent addition to the 

 local market is the Conasauga Lumber Company, 

 owning mills at Conasauga. Tenn. The company 

 has opened offices for a sales department on the 

 seventh floor of the Fourth National Bank build- 

 ing. 



L. W. Radlna, head of L. W. Radina & Co., 

 prominent hardwood men. with oflices and yards 

 in the West End. says that while business at 

 present is dull, the prospects for the future look 

 encouraging. Advices from correspondents in 

 the East were to the effect timt there was a 

 brightening up in the buying in that section of 

 the country. 



The opening of the Ohio Valley Exposition, 

 which is set for Monday, August 29, has evi- 

 dently caused the return of a number of the 

 absent lumbermen who were on vacations. The 

 Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati is taking an 

 active interest in the success of the exposition. 

 A special meeting was called last week, when 

 it was decided to have the club represented in 

 the great industrial parade on the opening day 

 by a float significant of the lumber industry. 

 President Cliff S. Walker appointed Jos. Bolser, 

 B. F. Dulweber and W. E. DeLancy a special 

 committee to work out the details. The plan 

 adopted embraces a large float representing a 

 lumber camp iu the forest, with logs, camp flre 

 and an old "mammy" preparing a meal. The 

 work of arranging the float has been placed in 

 the hands of a competent artist. Following the 

 float will be a number of "Jacks" carrying axes, 

 saws, cant hooks and tools. A guard of outriders 

 dressed as foresters will be a part of the display. 

 The order has been to spare no expense or pains 

 to make the display a great success and an 



