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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company 

 of Morehouse, Mo., is sending out to its trade 

 a series of postal cards showing the various fea- 

 tures of its big red gum industrial plant, which 

 make very attractive ads. 



T.om J. Christian of South Bend, sales man- 

 ager for Malay & Wertz of Evansville, was a 

 caller at the Record office on Thursday of last 

 weeli. Mr. Christian reports a decided revival 

 in trade and states that his sales for two weeks 

 previous to his call aggregated more than for 

 the previous two months. He states values are 

 gradually getting back to those of a year ago 

 and that the quarter-sawed white oak produc- 

 tion of his house is selling sit even higher prices 

 than six months ago. 



G. G. Roberts, sales manager for D. G. Court- 

 ney, Charleston, W. Va., called at the Record 

 office July 3. Mr. Roberts believes trade con- 

 ditions are fast getting into excellent shape 

 and that there is a shortage of poplar through- 

 out the Charleston district. His company's 

 Toledo yard is rapidly being put in good shape 

 to handle its trade. 



Schultz Brothers & Morgan, a concern organ- 

 ized by Schultz Brothers of the Old Colony 

 Building, this city, are constructing sawmills 

 at Little River, near Christianburg, Va., with a 

 capacity of 20,000 feet of hardwoods per day. 

 R. H. Morgan will be in charge of the plant and 

 the main office address is Christianburg. 



ber Company, Noma, Fla., was in Boston re- 

 cently. 



Medary W. Stark of the American Column & 

 Lumber Company of St. Albans, W. Va., has been 

 visiting this market. 



NEW YORK 



BOSTON 



Lumber merchants from the leading 

 and southern cities met late in June at the 

 Brae-Burn Country Club, West Newton, Mass., 

 in the third annual tournament of the Lumber 

 Trade Golf Association. The championship gold 

 medal offered by the New York Lumber Trade 

 Jo-.irnal was won by E. H. Silliman in a close 

 finish with F. B. Wltherbee. Mr. WItherbee won 

 the president's cup for the best gross score In 

 the qualifying round, and Harry C. Philbrlek was 

 awarded the vice-president's cup for the lowest 

 net score in the qualifying round. The other 

 winners were as follows: Secretary's cup, Frank 



B. Witherbee ; Lumberman Review cup, unfln- 

 Ished but will be played off later at the Nassau 

 Country Club, New York, by L. P. Rider and 

 George E. Robinson ; American Lumberman's 

 cup, R. \V. VVi.'^ter ; National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealer.s' Association cup, E. E. Price ; Blasted 

 Hopes cup, presented by the Boston Lumber 

 Trade Club, E F. Uenson ; consolation first cup, 



C. O. Skinner : second cup, M. C. Benton ; team 

 mat li lor Suutlic in Lumberman's cup, Phlladel- 

 Iiliii Ml- ' "]' is held for one year and mem- 

 I" I ' i ■■i\e a medal. 



I :.u.. II ' iijo Is the new sui-veyor general 

 fui .\l.i™-~.itliu.-5iUs. He succeeds Ralph L. Ab- 

 bott, who resigned to become associated with the 

 C. O. Skinner Company, hardwood dealers, Bos- 

 ton. There were several candidates for the berth, 

 but Mr. Crane's friends got the first start. 



The Wellington I'iano Case Company of Leo- 

 minster, Mass., C. Albert Jacob, treasurer, has 

 filed the following statement : Assets, real estate, 

 ?40,li:i ; machinery, $12,530 ; cash and debts 

 receivable, .'illl,i)93 ; manufactures and merchan- 

 dise, $55.7r>0: total, $129,335. Liabilities, capi- 

 tal stock, $30,000; accounts payable, $84,393; 

 profit and loss, $15,002 ; total, $129,395. 



The R. E. Cleaves Lumber Company has been 

 organized in Poslun with a capital stock of 

 $3,000. -11 lire Robert E. Cleaves, 



George II ml William H. Allen. 



Both Mr. < i l.eatherbee have been 



as3ociati'l ' . s w. Leatherbee Lum- 



ber Company. A wbuksale business will be 

 .done. 



Harrison Parker, president of the Palmer & 

 I'arker Company, hardwood dealers and manu- 

 facturers of veneers, Boston, has gone abroad on 

 a pleasure trip accompanied by his family. He 

 will be absent until late In September. 



J. R. Mcl.ane of the Alabama Flooring & L»m- 



Schedules in liankruptcy U J. B. Brewster & 

 Co., large carriage manufacturers of 737 Seventh 

 avenue and 213 East Forty-fourth street, Man- 

 hattan, who were recently petitioned bankrupt, 

 show liabilities of $46,011 and nominal assets 

 of $34,494. 



l-'ollowing the recent death of William E. 

 Verity, principal in the Brooklyn Lumber Com- 

 pany, Hamilton avenue, foot of Fifteenth street, 

 Brooklyn, C. E. Robertson, the surviving part- 

 ner, announces that there will be no change in 

 the style or conduct of the business. 



Ex-President Lewis Dill of Baltimore, Robert 

 W. Higbie of New York and Secretary E. F. 

 Perry of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' -Vssociation returned last week after an ex- 

 tended western tour in the Interest of associa- 

 tion affairs. They took in Chicago, Cleveland, 

 Buffalo and other points and In each of those 

 cities they were royally welcomed and enter- 

 tained by C. F. Wieh of Chicago, President C. 

 H. Prescott, Jr., of Cleveland and Horace F. 

 Taylor of Buffalo, such entertainment including 

 Icugthy sightseeing automobile tours in each 

 city. 



The Christy-Molr Company, prominent whole- 

 sale house of 149 Broadway, Manhattan, have 

 opened a branch sales office at Albany, N. Y., 

 In charge of C. K. Christy, Jr., and Thomas 

 Christy. This move is in line with better service 

 to the increasing trade enjoyed by the company 

 in central New York, and the experience and 

 capability of the two gentlemen In question will 

 assure the trade in that vicinity of the best 

 possible service. 



I'atrick Moore, senior partner of Moore Bros., 

 prominent hardwood house of Twenty-fifth street 

 and Eleventh avenue, sailed for Europe on July 

 2 for a lengthy pleasure tour through ll-ance, 

 Switzerland, England and Ireland and will re- 

 turn some time In September. This Is Mr. 

 Moore's first trip abroad and he has laid ex- 

 tensive plans for his trip. 



Captain A. 1'. Blgelow of A. P. Blgelow &. Co., 

 West Mfty-fourth street, Manhattan, has re- 

 turned from a visit to his old home In Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



A matter of Interest in the local trade-dur- 

 Ing the fortnight was the announcement of the 

 incorporation of the American I'lano Company 

 under the laws of New Jersey to represent the 

 iaigest combination of piano manufacturers ever 

 attempted In the country. The capital stock is 

 $12,000,000, of which $0,000,000 Is seven per 

 cent cumulative preferred stock and $0,000,000 

 common. The company will represent a merger 

 of Wm. Knabe & Son, Chickerlng & Son and the 

 Foster-Armstrong Company, and in addition will 

 control the saie of Haines, Marshall & Wendell, 

 Brewster and J. B. Cook & Co. pianos, totaling 

 an output of 18,000 annually, or about 8 per 

 cent of the country's total output. It is claimed 

 by the new company, however, that it will rep- 

 resent seventy per cent of the high grade pianos 

 of the country. 



Following the resignation of C. E. Kennedy as 

 manager of the local sales office of Shepard & 

 Morse Lumber Company of Boston, at 18 Broad- 

 way, city, which took effect July 1, announce- 

 ment is made by the company that O. N. Shep- 

 ard of the Boston office will assume charge of 

 the New York selling department, with Charles 

 B. Hudson of the New York ofllce and John 

 Whltcomb of the Burlington office as head of the 

 New York clerical department. F. W. Naylor 

 will continue to represent the company In New 

 Jersey and lyong Island, and Shirley Gale will 

 look after the Hudson River valley and New 

 trade. 



York 



Owen M. Bruner, well known Philadelphia 

 wholesaler and chairman of the special mem- 

 bership committee of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, was in town last 

 week en route home from an extensive Canadian 

 trip in the interest of association membership, 

 on which he was very successful. Quite a num- 

 ber of new members have been secured under his 

 active work this year and It is his purpose to 

 make several trips before the end of the year, 

 as a result of which 1908 will probably see a 

 regular increase in National Wholesale member- 

 ship. 



Clara Nellie Cloke of Palmyra, N. Y., was 

 united in marriage at that place on June 15 to 

 Harold Varvoe, who is associated with the J. C. 

 Turner Lumber Company, 1133 Broadway, Man- 

 hattan. After a lengthy honeymoon Mr. and 

 Mrs. Varvoe will reside at 15 East Twenty-sixth 

 street, Manhattan. Mr. Varvoe has been asso- 

 ciated with the cypress trade for many years 

 and is well known locally and in the other east- 

 ern markets. 



The extensive retail lumber interests of 

 Church E. Gates & Co., one of the oldest retail 

 houses In the metropolitan district, headquarters 

 138th street and Mott avenue, Mott Haven, has 

 been incorporated under the same style with a 

 capital of $900,000, fully paid in, the new cor- 

 poration to embrace all the retail Interests of 

 the old firm and the principals therein. In ad- 

 jdltlon to embracing the extensive retail opera- 

 tions at Mott Haven, the company will take 

 over the new property almost completed of the 

 Oak Point Land & Improvement Company at 

 Oak Point, L. I., which was undertaken by J. F. 

 Steeves and the late H. H. Barnard, individually, 

 and which when completed will embrace one of 

 the biggest retail operations in the eastern 

 states. Tlic Mott Haven yards will be main- 

 tained and the new Oak Point yards will engage 

 in business about January 1 next. 



Magovern & Bowcn, managers of the New York 

 wholesale hardwood flooring warehouse of the 

 Thomas Fornian Company, Detroit, Mich., lo- 

 cated at Fifty-eighth street and Eleventh ave- 

 nue, have just acquired additional ground ad- 

 joining the warehouse, which will be added to 

 Immediately so as to Increase the storage ca- 

 pacity to 1,500,000 feet of all grades of flooring. 

 Tiiey are now carrying sixty-four different grades 

 and sizes of oak and maple flooring and 105 

 grades at the Detroit warehouse, and the excel- 

 lent facilities offered through the maintenance 

 of these wholesale stocks for Immediate ship- 

 ment to the retail trade from the New York 

 warehouse is being Increasingly appreciated by 

 the trade. 



Budd & Co. have been incorporated In this 

 city to manufacture store, office and bank furni- 

 ture, with a capital of $5,000, by Wilhelmlna 

 Budd, William Budd and Jonas Ehrentrcn. 



The extensive coffin manufacturing operations 

 of J. and J. W. Stolts and Messrs. Ilornthal & 

 Co. of Manhattan have just been merged under 

 the style of the StoltsHornthal Casket Com- 

 pany, a New York state corporation. The main 

 office will be established at 10 East Twenty- 

 second street. 



Grover C. Talbot has joined the selling staff 

 of C. E. Page & Co., 1133 Broadway, and will 

 assist In representing them In the New York 

 state and metropolitan markets. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess of 

 Memphis. Tenn., the new treasurer of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, spent sev- 

 eral days in town during the fortnight In the 

 interest of business. 



Beecher & Barr of Pottsvllle. Pa., the Tennes- 

 see Lumber Manufacturing Company, hardwood 

 manufacturers of Sutherland, Tenn., and the 

 Georgia-Carolina Lumber Company of Savannah, 

 Ga., all of which are controlled by the same In- 

 terests, have appointed Van W. Tyler, the well 

 known wholesaler of 27 William street, Manhat- 

 tan, to represent them In the metropolitan dis- 

 trict, northern Now York. New Jersey and New 



