HARDWOOD RECORD 



Townsend, receiver, 45 Cedar street, on Septem- 

 ber 9, at 12:30 p. m. 



The Atlantic Fox & Lumljer Company of SOli 

 Madison street, Manhattan, which purchased last 

 spring the plant of the Merchants' Box & Lum- 

 ber Company, 26 New York avenue, Jersey City, 

 N. J., as a branch institution, has completely 

 renovated the same and announces the begin- 

 ning of operations. The acquisition of this 

 Jersey City plant and the already large facilities 

 or the company in New York will place it in a 

 commanding position in the box and shook trade 

 of the district. 



A. J. Phinney, manager of the Iroquois Door 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., was a visitor last week 

 to the local sales office of his company at 18 

 Broadway. Business was reported as showing 

 much improvement and Mr. Phinney looks foi 

 a very fair fall and winter trade. This company 

 is continuously perfecting the extensive line of 

 handsome hardwood veneer doors and interior 

 millwork and some of the latest creations in 

 this line can be seen at the local office and ex- 

 hibition room at IS Broadway. Manager B. P. 

 Salmon will be glad to receive prospective buy- 

 Charles F. Fischer, head of the C. F. Fischer 

 Lumber Company, is building a handsome motor 

 boat to be called "Kingfisher." The boat is 

 .■j.3 feet long and 14 feet beam, with a 60 to 70 

 horsepower engine. It is being finished through- 

 out with selected mahogany. 



E. J. Marsh of the Sea Coast Lumber Com 

 pany, cypress wholesalers of 1 Madison avenue, 

 has just returned from a southern trip, where 

 lie found conditions much improved, with prices 

 tending upward. 



The semi-annual meeting of the Lumber Un- 

 derwriters, the well-known trade insurance or- 

 ganization, was held at 66 Broadway during 

 the past fortnight, with a full attendance of the 

 fifteen underwriters. The reports showed the 

 organization to be writing an increasing line of 

 business and that the fair and equitable pro- 

 visions of its policy are being increasingly ap 

 predated by the trade, as well as in the matter 

 of the money saving feature through the writing 

 of insurance at reduced rates. 



Manager W. W. L'ockwood of the local sales 

 office of the Rice & Lockwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, 1 Madison avenue, left town this week 

 for a fishing and pleasure trip. During his ab- 

 sence C. H. Rawson will look after things. 

 This company has added to its Nova Scotia sail- 

 ing fieet the new two-masted schooner "Jessie 

 Ashley" which recently completed her maiden 

 trip, arriving here on the 22nd ult. She will 

 ply with the other vessels of the fleet between 

 the mill of the Anthony Lumber Company, at 

 South Maitland, N. S.. which is owned by the 

 Rice & Lockwood interests, and eastern ports. 



Charles G. Horton, who was convicted last 

 month in the local courts for fraudulent use of 

 the mails in connection with numerous lumber 

 transactions and sentenced to three months in 

 jail and a fine of $250, died in the Blackwell 

 Island penitentiary on July 25 in the 67th year 

 of his age, of diabetes. Horton had figured 

 prominently for many years in local lumber cir- 

 cles under various aliases, under which, through 

 the use of seductive literature and other meth- 

 ods, he secured lumber shipments from small 

 operators throughout the country with intent to 

 defraud, and although many attempts were made 

 to bring him to justice this last effort was the 

 only one successful. It was believed at the time 

 he was convicted that, by reason of his health 

 and advancing age, he could not survive his 

 imprisonment. 



A. B. Hammond of the Hammond Lumber 

 Company. San Francisco, Cal., sailed from here 

 for Europe for a three months' pleasure tour. 



J. B. WIckery of 14l9t street, Bronx, has, 

 together with L. W. Rivers, announced the in- 

 corporation of the Dixie Stave & Lumber Com- 

 pany with a capital of $25,000. The third in- 



corporator is II. C. Wickery. The location given 

 for the new company was the same as that of 

 the Wickery-Rlvers Lumber Company. 



The large sash, door and blind business of 

 Kurlamdsik & Alpert, of Long Island City, has 

 been incorporated under the same style with a 

 capital stock of $25,000. The incorporators are 

 L. M. Kurlandsik and M. and D. Alpert. 



Peter A. Smith, head of the Wright Lumber 

 Company, 140 West 38th street, Manhattan, is 

 receiving the condolence of his many friends in 

 the loss of his mother, which occurred last week. 



F. R. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., Pitts- 

 burg, was a visitor to the local sales office of 

 the company, 52 Wall street, Manhattan, during 

 the fortnight, going over matters at this end of 

 the line with Manager H. J. Gott. 



J. A. Hubbard, formerly of the Hubbard Lum- 

 ber Company, Paterson, who ceased business 

 after their disastrous fire a couple of years ago, 

 has organized the Seneca Creek Lumber Com- 

 pany with a capital of ,')!25,000 to conduct a 

 manufacturing and wholesale business, to which 

 end the company has bought a small tract of 

 timber in West Virginia. Associated with him 

 is R. G. Christopher of Allendale, N. J., and 

 W. D. Stanton of New York. 



Daniel Simmonds, head of the Simmonds Man- 

 ufacturing Company, tooth saw manufacturers 

 of P'itchburg, Mass., was in town for a day 

 recently. He is summering at his fine residence, 

 the Hammocks, Lanehurst, N. Y., with his fam- 

 ily- 



The Jordan River Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in Manhattan with a capital of 

 .1!500.000. by A. L. Buckhout. A. F. Spaulding 

 and B. T. Lyons, all of this city. No announce- 

 ment has been made as to the operations of 

 the company. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Schofield Bros, are still much absorbed in 

 their preparations for activity at the Saltkeatchie 

 mills at Schofield, S. C. Their planing mill is 

 working full force. Robert W. Schofield finds 

 it necessary to spend much of his time at the 

 mill, pushing matters to the utmost. The 

 expressed belief of this firm is that business is 

 picking up. James C. Place, George Lanze. Jr., 

 and W. W. Clark, salesmen for the firm, have 

 gone to the West Virginia mills, in which the 

 firm is interested, to sum up stock conditions 

 there. 



Robert C. Lippincott, while not over-enthusias- 

 tic as to much of a stride in trading, testifies 

 that for the last eight or ten days things have 

 looked more promising and that he is encouraged 

 accordingly. 



Charles L. Betts of Charles M. Betts & Co. 

 has recently made an extended and most enjoy- 

 able trip through the eastern states and Canada. 

 John A. Spalding has recently returned from a 

 three weeks' visit to his old home in Nashua, 

 N. H. Evidently his native air and childhood 

 associations have proved the best recreation he 

 could have chosen. George A. Howes, the popu- 

 lar chairman of the office and entertainment 

 committee of the Lumbermen's Exchange, is 

 at Belmar. N. J. William P. Shearer of Samuel 

 H. Shearer & Son will soon go for a sojourn to 

 Deal Beach, N. J., where he Intends to devote 

 much time to siolflng. 



Tbi' T:i-!:i. I T':n I \ Lumber Company are cog- 

 nizaiii I ! I ,1 ih' turn of business, and be- 



liev I I - •■ rapid strides towards old 



condiii'ii- I hiulps K. Parry is summering at 

 Seaside Park. N. J., Frederick C. Righter at 

 Cape May, N. J. Charles M. Hamlin is just 

 back from a tour through New York state, where 

 he found things somewhat more lively. 



C. E. Lloyd, Jr., vice-president and manager 

 of the Boice Lumber Company, Inc., is rusti- 

 cating in his bungalow at North Lovell, Me. The 

 Miller & Miller Lumber Company attest to Im- 

 proved business conditions. J. Clark Miller of 

 this concern discourses eloquently of a jolly time 

 spent camping out at Beach Haven. 



Lewis Thompson ,& Co., Inc, see potent signs 

 of better times : inquiries are coming in and 

 quotations are better in hardwoods. 



George M. Spiegle & Co. are not staggered that 

 business should lag at this time ; summer is 

 naturally the season of suspension. They have 

 great hnji.i,; for fail. 



Tbr lii-i l.niiiiir Company is not insensible 

 to a -CI hi;il |ii"-i. ,sion in trading. W. N. Law 



ton oi Mil- 1 is combing the eastern Penn- 



sylvaiii.i iniii.iiv I,,, i.id.Ts. H. B. Tomb is 

 statbiii.l ni ,1.1- 1 sim.i,, I'a., where they have 

 their mill-, lur Ibr - nmnri-. 



Ha!i|iiiiiiy ^ I I.iiiii 1 1 mi ...,-eut coming prosper- 

 ity. Benjamin C. Currie, Jr., of this house op- 

 poses the forcing of the market at present, as it 

 is his opinion that the stored hardwoods will 

 prove a valuable asset, as prices will naturally 

 go up at the first indication of settled good 

 trading. 



W. H. Fritz & Co. are far from contentious 

 . over business disappointments. They report an 

 increase in inquiries and note a g\-owing confi- 

 dence all along the line, this much they realize 

 is a progression and argues well for the return 

 soon of better times. 



Among the recent visitors to the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange were Mr. Shalter of Reading Lumber 

 Company, Reading, Pa., and F. L. Cheney of 

 Eeecher & Barr, Pottsville, Pa. 



The large plant of the Neafie & Levy Ship and 

 Engine Building Company, with all the be- 

 longings, was sold on July 28 at auction to 

 Frank D. Summers, attorney for a bank at 

 Camden, N. J., for $50,000. The property is 

 assessed at $260,000. Mr. Summers, by sale, 

 will assume a mortgage of $277,000, and an 

 irredeemable ground rent of $101.06. The out- 

 look for the general creditor is poor. 



W. C. McConnell of Shamokin, republican 

 candidate for state senator, with three of his 

 fellow-townsmen, is inspecting a newly acquired 

 timber tract in Canada. This tract is the 

 largest in the Dominion, containing many square 

 miles of timber land. The company in which 

 the above mentioned gentlemen are heavy stock- 

 holders ships its timber to Liverpool, England. 



H. S. Sackett, forest assistant Forest Service, 

 United States Department of Agriculture, is vis- 

 iting the various trade interests in Philadelphia, 

 gathering data. Mr. Sackett has been calling 

 upon the local lumliermen, and will extend his 

 visit to all the principal cities. 



The first Philadelphia furniture exposition, 

 which was held at the Second Regiment Armory 

 Building, during the three weeks ending August 

 1. has proved a great success. The object 

 of the promoters of this affair was to enlighten 

 the Philadelphia trade as to the extent that 

 furniture manufacturing is carried on in this 

 city, and, to the delight of the manufacturers, 

 • buyers who in the past have been going to other 

 large furniture centers, came to see, and much 

 surprised and pleased, evidently, booked on the 

 spot orders aggregating at least $150,000. Ac- 

 cording to statistics gleaned by George W. B. 

 Hicks, the city statistician, there is invested in 

 the furniture and bedding manufacturing indus- 

 try of Philadelphia about $5,000,000 and the 

 value of the annual product is close to $7,000,- 

 000. It is estimated that about 30,000,000 feet 

 of lumber are consumed by it annually. Great 

 credit for the success of this exposition is due 

 to William H. McMahon, chairman ; Benjamin 

 Hitter, treasurer ; H. W. Hirsch, secretary ; 

 Charles E. Schwartz, B. D. Dougherty, A. R. 

 Rossell, H. D. Burt and William H. Rogers. 



The J. G. Brill Company, extensive car build- 

 ers, have received a rush order from the Third 

 Avenue railway of New York for 150 cars of 

 the pay-as-you-enter type, which will cost from 

 $3,200 to $3,500 apiece. 



Charles T. Shoemaker, well known in uptown 

 social and business circles, died suddenly of a 

 paralytic stroke on August 1. He was 69 years 

 old. Mr. Shoemaker had been associated with 

 the growth of the Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., 

 for more than half a century, and during a good 



