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HARDWOOD RECORD 



McNeill Bros., Inc., is the style of a new cor- 

 poiation just organized to succeed to the retail 

 lumber business of Robert McNeill, at 23T East 

 I'ortietb street. The incorporators are Robert 

 McNeill, Joseph McNeill and Martha McNeill. 

 Ths business was originally established by Rob- 

 ert McNeill in 1S9S. He died in November. 

 1902, since which time his two sons and his 

 widow have conducted the business under the 

 old style. The new corporation will enlarge 

 the business. 



Robert W. Higbie of the R. W. Higbie Lum- 

 ber Company, 45 Broadway, has just returned 

 with his family from New Bridge, St. Lawrence 

 county. New York, where he has been spending 

 the summer at Mr. Higbies extensive hardwood 

 operations at that point. 



There will be quite a delegation of wholesalers 

 and retailers leave this city to attend an impor- 

 tant meetini; of the car stake and equipment 

 conference at St. Louis, September 18. The 

 meeting will be largely attended hy delegates 

 from all the organizations interested in this 

 important case, its objects being to decide defi- 

 nitely whether the case shall be appealed or 

 dropped. 



G. E. Smith, wholesale hardwoods, 17 Battery 

 place, returned last week from a month's busi- 

 ness trip in the White mountains. Ue reports 

 business as showing a marked impoovement. 



S E Slaymaker, S. E. Slaymaker & Co., 300 

 Broadway, is spending a few weeks at the big 

 , operations of the West Virginia Spruce Luinber 

 company, as Cass, W. Va., for which his Arm 

 are selling agents. The company recently ac- 

 •luired another large tract of timber from Sen- 

 ■itor S B Elkins, which, added to their present 

 holdings, makes them one of the biggest timber 

 land owners in the East. 



The J F. Murphy Lumber Company la the 

 name of a new corporation just organized in this 

 city with a capital of $10,000, to conduct a gen- 

 eral lumber business by J. I'. Murphy, 7G5 Trin- 

 ity avenue, B. P. Reynolds. 257 Broadway. New 

 York, and H. S. Chlttick, lOG Hardenbrook ave- 

 nue, Jamaica, L. 1. 



The large sash, door and hardwood trim Arm 

 of Meisel, Danowltz & Co., 45 Eckford street, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., has just been Incorporated un- 

 der the style of Melsel-Danowltz Company, with 

 a capital of $50,000, to succeed to the business. 

 The incorporators are S. Frank, Sarah Frank 

 and L. Danowitz, all of Brooklyn. 



The Montmagny and South Shore Company has 

 been Incorporated in this city to conduct a timber 

 land and lumber manufacturing business, with a 

 capital of $25,000. The Incorporators are T. 

 W. Constable of Brooklyn, F. Hoar and L. Earle 

 of New York City. 



W. Vetter on the committee and will also go to 

 the Philadelphia meeting. 



The Scatcherd sawmills in Memphis have now 

 sawed out and will have to wait till there is a 

 supply of logs in. which does not seem to be a 

 very easy matter, especially at this time of the 

 year. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Company is buying 

 Michigan stock, having picked up quite a quan- 

 tity this month for immediate shipment here. 

 If there was a better water route to the east 

 side of the city the handling cost would be 

 small. 



A. W. Kreinheder of the Standard Hardwood 

 Company has gone to the Kentucky mills of the 

 company to get the fall stock started this way, 

 such as the yard depends on for winter sales. 

 There appears to be enough of it there for pres- 

 ent needs. 



F. M. Sullivan has gone to Michigan to pick 

 up another stock of hardwoods, elm, black ash 

 and the like, for a yard stock, which appears to 

 have sold pretty liberally of late. Mr. Sullivan 

 Is now entirely restored to health. 



The sales from the yard of O. E. Yeager 

 have been pretty good of late and the supply 

 south of the Ohio is good enough to make up 

 for the shipments, so that the plan is to go on 

 about the same as before, till there is a change 

 In market features. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. arc still making cherry 

 their leading wood, but will add such other hard- 

 woods as oak, poplar and chestnut, as stock and 

 yard space permit. The plan is to put in other 

 woods always, if they do not cut out cherry. 



Hugh McLean sticks to the sales part of his 

 business as usual and Angus McLean will pre- 

 pare to care for the spruce and cedar trade In 

 the St. Lawrence valley almost entirely, with 

 Montreal as headquarters. 



The yard of A. Miller is. as usual, well stocked 

 up with all sorts of hardwoods, and though he 

 has not been inclined of late to regard trade 

 as what It should be, he is doing as much busi- 

 ness as others and knows where to find It. 



F. W. Vetter finds no special points of nov- 

 elty to report from his trade, for the reason 

 that he has adopted the plan of keeping a gen- 

 oral assortment of hardwoods and making no 

 chan;;e till the market picks up again. 



The yards of G. Elias & Bro. will be still fur- 

 ther filled up with a few cargoes by lake, espe- 

 cially as they go into pine and hemlock as well 

 as hardwoods. Hemlock is doing decidedly well 

 here this summer, building is so active. 



F. A. Beyer is back from a trip to his Pascola 

 Lumber Company's mills with a report that 

 business in lumber Is showing much more actlv- 

 Itv than formerly. The mills are not running 



BUFFALO 



Reports from the southwestern sawmills owned 

 bere show that they arc not in a very active 

 shape some entirely idle and others shutting 

 down for want of logs. There Is a report that 

 an effort is made to break the log price, which 

 is called high, but some of the mill owners say 

 that buying is active and intimate that they arc 

 in the market for as many logs as they can get. 

 There is another good reason for keeping the 

 .a.vmllls quiet, and that is the dry weather. 

 ijuners are actually afraid to run, for a spark 

 „ almost any part of the plant would be fatal. 

 \ good rain would make about the biggest dlf- 

 lence In lumber Imaginable. 

 The Hardwood Exchange, at Its last meeting, 

 ..mplicd with the request of certain authorities 

 .1 the National Hardwood Association and agreed 

 ,„ send a committee to the Philadelphia confer- 

 , nee on September 24, though the Idea of a kick 

 on inspection is not favored here. President 

 licyer, on his return from his Missouri sawmills, 

 appointed O. E. Yeager, T v St.-w.m nnd F. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Samuel Miller, senior partner of the well- 

 known lumber firm of Miller, Robinson & Co., 

 Sixth street and Sedgely avenue, died on Sep- 

 tember 15. He was sixty-three years old. 

 Mr. Miller was highly respected by the whole 

 lumber trade, who extend their heartfelt sym- 

 pathy to his family and to his partner, Herbert 

 P. Robinson, vice-president of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange. 



C. E. Lloyd Jr. of the Bolce Lumber Com- 

 pany, Inc., has returned to the city after his 

 summer outing at North Lovell, Mc. He reports 

 lumber orders coming In notwithstanding the in- 

 sistence of the people that they do not wish to 

 buy. He thinks the outlook for fall business 

 unquestionably good, and contemplates a tour 

 soon to the mill districts to Inform himself as to 

 conditions and to prepare for calls, which are 

 sure to come. 



J. Gibson Mcllvaln & Co., who have always 

 been most logical in their prophecies of a gradual 



return of better conditions, report very satisfac- 

 tory orders with better, prices coming in : also 

 good results from their men who are unfailing in 

 their quest for business. 



Schofleld Brothers are emphatic as to theii- 

 faith in better and better times right along, and 

 they believe by the first of the year the wings 

 of prosperity will be full spread. J. H. Scbofield 

 Is in the mill district in West Virginia Investi- 

 gating the stock situation. Robert W. Schofleld 

 is on one of his trips to their Saitkeatchic mill 

 at Schofleld, S. C, attending to matters tber* 

 W. W. Clark sends good reports from the Cum- 

 berland valley section : George Lanze, Jr., who 

 is traveling through eastern Pennsylvania, write* 

 hopefully, and James C. IMace. who Is trying 

 New York, is disposed to believe the best of the 

 opening fall trade. 



Lewis Thompson & Co., Inc.. are very well 

 satisfied with business conditions at present and 

 consider the outlook promising. 



Robert C. Lippincott testifies to a recent pro- 

 gression in trading, with encouraging outlook. 

 Mr. Perry of this house states that inquiries are 

 increasing, good orders are being booked ami 

 prices tend upward. 



The Monarch Lumber Company has no fault 

 to find with conditions generally. Its men arc 

 busy all the time, with very tangible results, and 

 the outlook Is for a steady advance. John J. 

 Kumbarger of this company, who has just re- 

 turned from a trip through eastern Pennsylvania 

 and West Virginia, states that though buying Is 

 on a conservative basis there Is good prospect for 

 a progressive fall business. 



E. V. Babcock & Co. do not concede to any 

 recent great expansion of business, but think 

 things ore picking up and the outlook very en- 

 couraging. 



L. Power & Co., woodworking machinery mak- 

 ers, 20 South Twenty-third street, evidently see 

 signs of returning business, as they are busy 

 manufacturing stock machines, to be prepared for 

 a short notice demand. They do not hesitate to 

 state that things with them are considerably 

 brighter. 



The Germain Company of Pittsburg, Pa., states 

 that August, always a doubtful month, has been 

 exceptionally prolific In sales. C. O. Mans, the 

 Philadelphia representative, 1020 Real Estate 

 Trust bulldln?, reports a far better aspect "i 

 things, with outlook flattering. 



H. G. Hazard & Co. report things livening up 

 and prospects for trade encouraging. This firm 

 for a time was practically out of the hardwood 

 market, but appreciating the possibilities of these 

 woods in the near future, it is again entering 

 the lists. 



The Tomb Lumber Company states that orders 

 are coming in better than for some time. 



H. H. Mans & Co., Inc., report that although 

 there Is still difficulty in making prompt collec- 

 tions, as the fall opens there Is a trend notice- 

 able toward better conditions generally. 



It was recently announced in Washington. 

 D. C, In the case of the lumber concerns against 

 the Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific rail- 

 roads, that the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 has authorized the railroads to establish differ- 

 entials not exceeding 10 cents per hundred 

 pounds above the rates on fir lumber between the 

 same points. This authority is with the pro- 

 vision that no such differentials or differential 

 of less than 10 cents existed prior to November 

 1, last. 



A fire on August 28 destroyed the cooper shop 

 of T. R. Maloney, Princeton avenue and Ueger- 

 man street, causing a loss of about $10,000. 



On September 15 fire destroyed the plant of 

 Hochhcimer & Bros, chair manufactory In Bal- 

 timore, Md. ; loss, $20,000. 



News from BIddcford. Mc., reports the recent 

 burning of fifteen acres of lumber yards, twenty 

 tenement houses, several factories and much rail- 

 road property, causing a loss of $300,000. 



