HARDWOOD RECORD 



ids, and had a capacity of 24,000 feet a day. 



A fire of unknown origin caused ttie com- 

 plete destruction of the plant of the National 

 Lumber Company at Bane, W. Va., July 14. 

 The loss is said to be close to $100,000, and 

 forty men were thrown out of employment. 

 The plant was one of the largest and most 

 complete in Wetzel county, and had just fin- 

 ished making $10,000 worth of improvements. 



For many years the railroads have been ex- 

 perimenting with various plans for overcoming 

 the great expense incident to the rotting out 

 of ties, which amounts to millions of dollars. 



The plan of using screw spikes for holding the 

 rails to the ties has been used by some 

 English and other roads, but the labor cost 

 in laying a track with them has prohibited 

 their use in this country. Now, however, the 

 Santa Fe believes it has about overcome this 

 trouble by means of a machine perfected in 

 its local shops, as it has been found possible 

 to lay track with screw spikes faster than the 

 ties can be laid ahead of it. This will be 

 another step to aid in conserving the timber 

 supply as well as effecting an economy for 

 the road. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



J. H. P. Smith, president of the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Ashland, Ky., was in 

 town a few days ago in the interests of busi- 

 ness. 



C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis and Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 was among the visitors to this market the 

 past week. 



H. Marcus, a hardwood lumberman of Mus- 

 coda. Wis., was in the city transacting busi- 

 ness within the past few days. 



Geo. B. Zearing of the Stoneman-Zearing 

 Lumber Company, Devalls Bluff, Ark., has 

 Tjeen spending a month in Chicago and has 

 just returned to the mill. Mr. Zearing was 

 accompanied by his wife. 



Ralph Ely, sales agent of the American 

 Column & Lumber Company of St. Albans, 

 W. Va., was calling on the Chicago trade 

 within the past few days. 



Theo. Schneider, northern purchasing agent 

 for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, 

 has just been here on business with the com- 

 pany's home office. 



Walter B. Heineman of the Heineman Lum- 

 ber Company, Heineman, Wis., was another 

 of the well-known lumbermen to visit this 

 market of late; Mr.. Heineman was in Chicago 

 July 23. 



Col. J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thomp- 

 son Lumber Company, Memphis, was seen 

 about town recently. 



F. A. Diggins of Cadillac, Mich., first vice- 

 president of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, and C. J. Landeck of the Landeck 

 Lumber Company, Milwaukee, were in at- 

 tendance on the meeting of the executive 

 board of the association held here July 17. 



O. O. Agler, president of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, is just recuperat- 

 ing from a week's severe attack of malaria, 

 but is back at his desk attending to business. 

 One of the finest souvenirs ever put out 

 by E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., of Indianapolis — 

 and they are noted for such things — was the 

 "Bantam" ink pencil which they distributed 

 to their friends at the "Yellow Piners" meet- 

 ing held at the Chicago Beach Hotel the early 

 part of the week. The neat little legend with 

 which they are stamped — "Write for Atkins 

 Silversteel Saws" — is decidedly apropos, and 

 on use the pencil proved as practical as it was 

 attractive. 



W. W. Rathbun, the yellow pine and cypress 

 man of Cleveland, O., was in town July 21, 

 attending the convention of manufacturers 

 engaged in his line of trade. 



An interesting caller at the Recobd office 

 July 22 was H. D. Hartley, secretary of the 

 National Hickory Association. Mr. Hartley 

 is well posted on all phases of the hickory 

 proposition— which is becoming a very live one 

 in view of the growing scarcity of this timber 

 —and well equipped to work out the various 

 pinblems connected with its manufacture. 



which the association is interesting itself in. 



The partnership heretofore existing and car- 

 ried on by William E. Pattison, H. Newton 

 Pattison and John T. Dixon at Philadelphia, 

 under the name of the Philadelphia Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, was dissolved by mutual 

 consent July 17. AH claims due the said co- 

 partnership are payable to and all debts owing 

 by it will be paid by H. Newton Pattison, who 

 will continue the business under the firm name 

 at rooms 1522 and 1524 Real Estate Trust 

 building, southeast comer Broad and Chestnut 

 streets. Philadelphia. 



John T. Parsons of the Myers-Parsons Lum- 

 ber Company, Pittsburg, was a welcome caller 

 at the Record office yesterday. 



A. K. Foote of the Canton Lumber Company, 

 Canton. Miss., has been visiting the local trade 

 during the past few days and made a call on 



the ItECOKD. 



BOSTON 



II. W. Bowler of Hoston has been appointed 

 surveyor for the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association in this district to succeed D. P. 

 Pinney, who has been transferred to Cairo, 111. 

 Mr. Bowler is a young man and well liked by 

 the trade. He was a candidate for the office of 

 surveyor general of Massachusetts last month 

 and has been associated with this office for 



H. M. Bickford of the H. M. Biekford Com- 

 pany, Boston, has purchased a new automobile. 

 The new schooner, the Frank B. Witherbee, now 

 being built at Bath, Me., will be ready this fall. 

 This schooner is a sister ship to the Horace M. 

 Bickford, which was recently put in commis- 

 sion. 



D. L. Arnold, sales manager of Moore, Keppel 

 & Co., Ellamore, W. Ta., was in Boston early this 

 month. 



Harrison Parker of the Palmer & Parker Com- 

 pany, hardwood dealers and manufacturers of 

 veneers, Boston, arrived safely in England early 

 this month, where he has gone on a pleasure 

 trip with his family. 



Mr. Rockwood of the Louisiana Red Cypress 

 Company, Xew Orleans, La., spent the early part 

 of this month in the east. 



W. H. Blanchard of the Blanehard Lumber 

 Company and president of the Massachusetts 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, has re- 

 turned from a vacation spent in Maine. 



NEW YORK 



Schedules in bankruptcy of Sam E. Barr. 

 wholesale hardwoods, Flatiron building, show 

 liabilities of $46,025 and nominal assets of 

 .$19,920. The largest creditors are western and 

 southern banks and hardwood companies. 



Ralph H. McKelvey, secretary of the Lumber 

 Insurance Company of New York and the Adi- 

 rondack Fire Insurance Company, 84 Williams 

 street, has just returned from a ten-day fishing 

 trip to the wilds of Canada. J. J. McKelvey, 

 who is also prominently identified with the com- 



panies mentioned as well as the president of 

 the Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Company of 

 Sandusky, O., sails for Europe July 25 with his 

 wife and daughter, to be gone till fall. 



I. L. Cohen, former proprietor of the Mott 

 Haven Lumber Company, 137th street and Fifth 

 avenue, who failed some months ago, has settled 

 with his creditors at 40 cents on the dollar and 

 has resumed business at the old location in his 

 own name, with a branch yard in the Bronx. 



F. J. Cronin, the popular eastern representa- 

 tive of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal 

 Grove, O., was in town last week finishing up 

 on his seasons travels preparatory to starting 

 for tJtica, N. Y., his old home, where he wiU 

 spend a few weeks. 



C E. Lloyd, Jr., the well-known Philadelphia 

 hardwood wholesaler, passed through the city 

 last week accompanied by his family, en route to 

 his summer camp in the Maine woods, where 



^?onnT l''''^ ''''""'' '''''''■ I°"dentally he 

 stopped here long enough to express his usual 

 optimism as to hardwood conditions, present and 

 prospective. If ciem ever gets pessimistic, look 

 out for business and things generally 



John N. Scatcherd of Scatcherd & Son, Buffalo 

 visited New York during the fortnight in the 

 interests of business, and while here expressed 

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Howard S. Jennings, former manager of the 

 Newark Lumber Company, Newark, N J was 

 rearrested July 3 as he was leaving the^'cald- 

 well N. J., penitentiary after having served six 

 months for forgery and embezzlement, on three 

 new indictments for the same offenses, to which 



arrefw'^";^!!^^-, ^"'""'"^''t ^'^^ Jennings' 

 ariest, W S. Gilhuly, a salesman for the Newark 

 Lumber Company, was arrested in Jersey Citv on 

 similar charges filed by E. E. Philips, president 

 of the company, who also appeared against Jen- 

 nings, and Gilhuly was held for trial. The latter 



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George Merrill, the able manager of the New 

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of Oshkosh, Wis., headquarters 1 Madison avenue 

 re urned last week from a lengthy European 

 tup, covering several months and from which he 

 derived much benefit. He reports a decidedly 

 better tone to the millwork trade than he ex- 

 pected to find. 



George J. Barker of Barker & Co., Boston 

 spent several days with Manager J. M. Bond of 

 the local office, 18 Broadway, last week. 



Another Boston visitor was n. W. Blanchard 

 of the Blanchard Lumber Company, who was 

 on a visit here to Manager E. S. Lo;mis of Th 

 local sales branch at 11 Broadway. The mills 

 of the company down east are running on a very 

 fair volume of business and the prospects are 

 veiy fair for a stronger fall market. 



Charles Hill of the Northern Lumber Companv 

 Flatiron building, is summering with his family 

 at Front's Neck, Me. 



C. F. Fischer of the C. F. Fischer Lumber 

 Company, 1916 Park avenue, is enjoying the 

 week ends with his family on the Rhode Island 



F W. Crane of the F W. Crane Lumber Com- 

 pany, hardwoods, Morgantown, W. Va., was here 

 on business this week. Other arrivals were • 

 J. L. Kendal, H. C. Huston Lumber Companv 

 Pitsburg; R. G. Kay and R. C. LippincotV 

 Philadelphia ; I. F. Balsley, Willson Bros Lum- 

 ber Company, Pittsburg; D. L. Arnold, Moore- 

 I^eppel & Co., Ellamore, W. Va. ■ J L Al 

 cock, J. L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore.' 



R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co., the well-known 

 Baltimore hardwood house, arrived in the city 

 this week, accompanied by his bride, from a 

 lengthy European tour. They left immediately 

 for Baltimore. 



E. K. Meigs & Co. is the name of a new whole- 

 sale house which has just opened at 45 Broad- 

 way to conduct a general wholesale business. 

 E. K. Meigs, the head of the concern, has been 

 associated with the local lumber trade for many 



