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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Company, Jamestown, N. T., was a recent visitor 

 in the Boston market. 



John T. Judd of Boston has rocpntly returned 

 from a trip to Mexico. It is reported that he 

 secured control of 200.000 .Teres of valuable 

 mahogany timber lands while there. He is the 

 president of the Esperange Timber Company. 



W. I. Todd of Springfield. Mass., has opened 

 an office in the Hitchcock building in that city 

 as representative in New England of the Good- 

 year Lumber Company, Buffalo, X. Y. 



J. Raymond Robinson, a partner in tlie firm 

 of Patterson, Carlyle & Co.. Boston, has sold his 

 interest to ilr. Patterson and retired from the 

 firm. No change will be made in the firm name. 



BALTIMORE 



The sawmill of King Brothers, near Grants- 

 ville, Garrett county, Maryland, was burned to 

 the ground on September 29 by fire of unknown 

 origin. The loss amounts to several thousand 

 dollars, with no insurance. 



Some of the West Virginia representatives of 

 John L. Alcoek & Co. of this city were in Balti- 

 more for several days this week and had a con- 

 ference with Mr. Alcoek, being also entertained 

 on what was in part a vacation. The visitors 

 were D. E. Healey of Charleston, formerly con- 

 nected with the home office for years, and James 

 Holland of Clarksburg and C. G. Skidmore of 

 Flatwoods. 



The W. Lewis Rowe Company, wholesale deal- 

 ers in hardwoods and other kinds of lumber at 

 President street and Canton avenue, has under- 

 gone a reorganization. At a meeting of stock- 

 holders held recently, Mrs. Lucia A. Le Compte 

 was elected president ; J. C. Rowe, Sr., secretary 

 and treasurer ; and C. R. Diffenderffer, manager. 

 Mr. Rowe is reelected and J. C. Rowe, Jr., here- 

 tofore president and general manager, retires. 

 The new man in the company is Mr. Diffenderf- 

 fer. who has been connected with the United 

 Surety Company and is regarded as a man of 

 exceptional ability and aptitude and is confi- 

 dently expected to pick up the threads of the 

 business in short order. Mrs. Le Compte was 

 the widow of W. Lewis Rose, the founder of the 

 firm, which was afterward transformed into a 

 company. Some years ago she married Mr. Le 

 Compte of Maryland, now engaged in business 

 in New York. She has always retained her 

 Interest in the company. 



Among the out-of-town lumbermen who visited 

 Baltimore in the past week were L. H. Bonham 

 of Chilhowie, Va., and C. E. Snodgrass of the 

 Buck & Snodgrass Lumber Company, Johnson 

 City, Tenn. Both are millmen and well known 

 in this city, having made a number of visits here. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange at its monthly meeting held 

 recently had before it a letter from New Orleans 

 asking for the endorsement of that city as the 

 place for the Panama Exposition in 1015. No 

 formal action was taken, but the members were 

 inclined to favor the Crescent City as against 

 San Francisco. The Chamber of Commerce of 

 San Francisco sent a similar request several 

 weeks ago, which was laid over without action. 



Mr. Parker of Mann & Parker, hardwood 

 wholesalers at South and Water streets, re- 

 cently left for a trip north to New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania, to be gone about a week or ten 

 days. He stated before his departure that his 

 firm was getting many more inquiries and that 

 orders were also coming in with some freedom, 

 but that prices were practically unchanged. 



Charles I. James of the Pigeon River Lumber 

 Company, who operates a mill in North Carolina, 

 has returned from a stay of several weeks at 

 Hot Springs, Va. 



A. Howard McCay. in charge of the Baltimore 

 office of William Whitmer & Sons, on Lexington 

 street, has returned from a short trip taken 

 north on business and for recreation. Charles H. 

 Buchanan, in the office with him, has also been 



on, a brief vacation. Mr. Buchanan stated that 

 September showed a marked increase in business 

 over August, and that October Is expected to go 

 still higher. 



CLEVELAND 



Lumber dealers are particularly wt.-il pleased 

 with the building situation in Cleveland this 

 fall and attribute to it much of their present 

 lun of business. The month of September in 

 Cleveland was the largest in the number of 

 building permits, and their aggregate value of 

 any September in the city's history. During 

 the month 784 permits, aggregating in value 

 .$1,618,817, were taken out, as against 502 per- 

 mits, valued at $814,405 a year ago. The past 

 month's business exceeds any previous Septem- 

 ber by over $600,000. 



W. B. Martin of the Martin-Barriss Company 

 says that business with his firm is very fair 

 this month, there being a good demand for 

 fancy hardwood interior trim and for cabinet 

 woods of diHerent kinds. The company has 

 not been importing as much hardwood from 

 Europe and Africa this year as usual, as prices 

 are high over there, the demand from Europe 

 being brisk. Some Circassian and Italian wal- 

 nut, however, are being received, a cargo of 

 logs of Italian walnut now being on the way to 

 Cleveland. 



Robert H. Jenks is back from a trip to 

 Escanaba, Grand Rapids and other Michigan 

 points where he reports business to be in an ei- 

 (eedingly flourishing condition. 



George Meyers of the Interstate Lumber Com- 

 pany was away for a few days during the past 

 fortnight, visiting the plant of the Cleveland 

 Oconee Lumber Company in Georgia. 



Cleveland lumber dealers are looking forward 

 to an enjoyable time at a clambake to be held 

 at the Valley Inn, on the Ohio canal a short 

 distance south of Cleveland on the afternoon 

 of Oct. 15. A committee consisting of F. T. 

 Peitch, George S. Gynn, W. W. Rathbun and 

 George T. Earner is in charge of the event. A 

 baseball game and other sports will be played in 

 the afternoon. 



COLUMBUS 



Building opi^rations in Culumbu.s this year will 

 be as extensive as in any former year, if the 

 ratio of increase shown by the city building in- 

 spector's report is carried out. During the first 

 nine months of the present year 323 more per- 

 mits were issued than during the corresponding 

 period in 1909. The value of the buildings 

 projected in 1910 exceeds that of 1909 by $936,- 

 482. For the nine months 1763 permits were 

 issued, having a valuation of $3,885,478 as com- 

 pared with 1440 permits in the nine months of 

 1909 having a valuation of $2,948,996. 



President John L. Vance, Sr., of the Ohio 

 Valley Improvement Association is to make a 

 trip along the entire Ohio river in the interests 

 of new wharves and landings to be built on the 

 banks. It is expected to have the nine foot 

 stage at all seasons of the year soon and the 

 new landings will then be necessary. 



The Cleveland Novelty Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Cleveland, Ohio, was Incorporated with 

 an authorized capital of $10,000, to manufacture 

 and sell wooden novelties. The incorporators 

 are Ernest O. Floyd, Victor Moore, Harry O. 

 Wells, W. S. Brunham and Solomon P. Schmuck. 



The Carroll Vehicle Company of Portsmouth, 

 Ohio, was incorporated with an authorized 

 capital of $10,000, to manufacture and repair 

 buggies, automobiles and all kinds of vehicles. 

 Those interested are E. G. Jlillar, William J. 

 Ginns, J. E. Carroll, John A. Dennison and 

 Wells A. Hutchins. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager for the central 

 division of the W. M. Hitter Lumber Company, 

 says that market conditions are about the same 



as the previous fortnight with the exception of 



some falling off in demand for the lower grades 

 of poplar and chestnut. Prices are rather firm 

 and the volume of business is fair, the yard trade 

 showing the greatest improvement. 



J. W. Mayhew of the Ritter company is mak- 

 ing an inspection trip of the company's mills 

 in West Virginia. 



John R. Gobey of the concern bearing his name 

 says the market has improved to a small extent. 

 Orders are coming in better from the yard trade 

 and there is also an improvement in business 

 from factories. 



At Madisonville, Ohio, the Madisonville Lum- 

 ber Company has been placed in the hands of 

 a receiver, with assets of $30,000 and liabilities 

 of $22,000. 



The planing mill owned and operated by E. 

 C. Gltason in Roscoe, Ohio, was totally destroyed 

 by fire recently, the cause of which is believed 

 to have been cigarettes. The loss is estimated at 

 $5,000, a part of which was covered by insur- 

 ance. 



A. C. Davis of the lumter company bearing his 

 name reports a slow trade in this section. Prices 

 are holding their own and there is a tendency 

 to increase orders. F. F. Leyman, former in- 

 spector at the yard of the company, will take 

 the place of George B. Jobson on the road. 



CINCINNATI 



The thirty-eighth annual convention of the 

 Carriage Builders' Association was held in the 

 Armory in this city last week. Over 1,000 mem- 

 bers and visitors were in attendance, while 84 

 manufacturing concerns made exhibits of their 

 products. A banquet was held at the Sinton 

 Hotel, at which 450 guests were seated. C. J. 

 Richter of New York, a retired carriage manu- 

 facturer, formerly of Brewster & Co., was named 

 as president of the association, and H. J. Mc- 

 Lear of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., who has served as 

 secretary-treasurer for over a quarter of a 

 century, was re-elected to that office. 



September 22 was a great day at the Ohio 

 Valley Exposition, as on that day President 

 Taft paid a visit and delivered a speech on 

 waterways in honor of the completion of the 

 great dam at Fern Bank on the Ohio river. The 

 Ohio River Improvement Association also held 

 a convention in the Sinton on the same date. 

 Congressman Lougworth and Douglass and a num- 

 ber of prominent Ohio river people made ad- 

 dresses. Col. John P. Vance was re-elected 

 president for the sixteenth consecutive time, . 

 while Secretary Capt. J. F. Ellison was alike 

 honored. Cairo. 111., was selected as the place 

 of holding the 1911 convention. 



Ed N. Roth, president and manager of the 

 Sinton Hotel, died in his apartments at the 

 hotel Monday morning, Oct. 3, at 11 o'clock, 

 from an attack of pneumonia. He was well 

 known to a large number of the lumbermen of 

 the country, and was a general favorite. The 

 funeral services were held at St. Paul's Epis- 

 copal Cathedral Thursday at 4 p. m. 



The West Side lumber dealers are evidently 

 imbued with the confidence of an early revival 

 of trade, as every yard along the line of the 

 Southern is actively piling up stock. 



Glenn S. Hill of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany, Charleston, Miss., was a visitor in Cin- 

 cinnati last week. 



The building season continues fairly active 

 and the local retail yards still enjoy a fair 

 degree of business activity. Planing mills are 

 rot overcrowded with work as during the sum- 

 mer months, though they are still running full 

 capacity. 



A. H. Card, formerly of Nashville, Tenn., is 

 now the active manager of the yards of the 

 I'ullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company at 

 this point, E. H. Bradley having departed for 

 iinother field. 



Harry Grunder of the Chautauqua Planing 



