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HARDWOOD RECORD 



has no agencies and pays no commission and ttiat 

 it insures himbernien and woodworkers only. J. 

 C. Parsons is president of the company. Nathan- 

 iel Green is vice-president. George N. Glass is 

 treasurer and Carl Van Der Voort se<retary and 

 manager. 



A dispatch from Cumberland, Md.. says that 

 the Kendall Lumber Company has obtained a 

 <ontiact to furnish 850,000 feet of hemlock lo 

 the SI. C. Frick Coke Company of Pittsburg, to 

 be used in the erection of eighty houses at the 

 company's works near Brownsville. Pa., for em- 

 ploys. The lumber is being put aboard cars at 

 Hutton. Garrett county. Md.. and the company 

 operates mills at Crellen. Kendall and l-jle. 



BOSTON 



\l i meeting of the Massachusetts Wholesale 

 Lumber Association, held at the Exchange Club 

 here on September 10. it was voted to adopt the 

 4ast rules of the National Hardwood Association. 

 Another, and let ns hope equally successfnl, ef- 

 fort in the interest of harmony will be made In 

 Philadelphia on September -^4, when numbers of 

 wholesale merchants there will meet together to 

 endeavor to reconcile conflicting views. It may 

 be that delegates from Uoston will lie jiresent at 

 this meeting. A delegation has been Invited to 

 attend and Mr. Blanchard, the president of the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association, 

 has written the members of that body asking 

 them for an expression of their opinions in the 

 matter. Mr. Blanchard himself is strongly in 

 favor of peace. There are still some dealers in 

 New York who may at this writing be termed 

 •irreconcilahles." 



Horace M. Bickford and Frank Wltherbee of 

 the Bickford Lumber ( ompany are making an 

 extended business trip through the South. 



Harold Weston of .Jacksonville, Fla.. was in 

 Boston with liis automobile last week. He 

 left here with the intention of making a long 

 eslended tour of the West. 



F. F. Fish of Chicago, sccrelaiy of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber A-ssociaiion, has been 

 in Boston this week. 



M Foote. manager of the National Lumber 

 Company, .Grand Kapids, -Mich., Is expected here 

 today (September 20). 



E. B. Wright, vice-president and general man- 

 ager of^thc Butters Lumber Company, Boardman, 

 n"" C was in Boston a few days ago. 



The insurance commissioner of Connecticut 

 has admitted the Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Company ol Massachusetts to do business in 

 that state. 



E J. Hammond, who spent quite a little time 

 during the hot weather at his beautiful summer 

 home at Winter Harbor. Mc.. is now to be found 

 at his office on Milk street. 



The Fuller and Kiec Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Company :.f Grand Rapids. Mich., have iieeu 

 sending their Boston friends boxes of peaches. 

 The fruit was. lirst-chiss and highly appreciated. 

 The poetry accompanying it was cijually good 



BALTIMORE 



I lie .|nan«-rl.\ meeting of the Baltimore Luni- 

 1 Exchange was li.lil last Monday, having been 

 postponed for a week owing to the fact that the 

 regular d.<itc was Labor day, when not a few of 

 the yards were closed up. But the exchange. In 

 avoiding one counter-attraction was destined to 

 run into another, this being the arrival here of 

 William .)■ Bryan, democratic presidential can- 

 didate, to deliver a speech. Many of the lum- 

 bermen, irrespective^ of politics, wanted to hear 

 "The Commonfr." and as a consequence the at- 

 tendance at the meeting of the exchange was 

 conslderalily reduced. U so happened, however, 

 that there was little business to transact and 

 that little was of a routine character, so that the 

 session prove<l to be of short duration. A city 

 .,fr,,;.,l w,is t„ have delivered an address on the 



loans to increase the water supply and for other 

 purposes, which are to be voted on this fall, but 

 he failed to be present and ad.ioiii nmeiii .|in. klv 

 followed. Afterward the memli.r^ -ai .l..nii i. a 

 very excellent luncheon, serveil m ih. I.st -ijli- 

 of the Merchants' Club. Those i.its.nt at ilic 

 luncheon were : Daniel MacLea of the Eisen 

 hauer-MacLea Co. : M. B. Kegan. East Brooklyn 

 Box Co. : Bennett E. Tuck, Ryland & Brooks 

 Lumber Co. ; J. Benjamin Bayne : William T. 

 Lawton and Joseph T. I^wton ,Tr. of .Toseph 

 Thomas & Son ; R. W. S. Trader ; A. Frank Gil- 

 bert and J. C. Gilbert of the J. L. Gilbert & 

 Kro. Lumber Co. : .Tames C. Rowe Jr. of the 

 W. Lewis Rowe Co. : George Schumacher : L. H. 

 tiwaltney and F. W. Clapp of the American Lum- 

 ber Co. : John A. Berryman. Joseph Vlrdin and 

 James Clarke of the Canton Lumber Co. : William 

 n. Gill and E. P. Gill of Wm. D. Gill & Son : 

 John S. Hclfrich ; U. J. Colonna and Charles T. 

 Howard of the G. S. Briggs Co. : Campbell V. 

 Heltricl! of George Helfrich & Son : H. T. Burt 

 of J. T. C. Burt : F. A. Ascherfeld of the E. W. 

 James Lumber Co. : Alexander Campbell of the 

 N. W. James Lumber Co. : C. W. Ililberg of John 

 L. Alcock & Co. : Rufus K. Goodenow of the Can- 

 ton Box Co. ; Parker D. Dix of tlie Surry Lumber 

 Co. : Theodore Mottu and Thomas H. Mottu of 

 Theo. Mottu & Co. ; Harvey C. Hall of Granger 

 & Lewis : J. H. Manken. secretary of the Lumber 

 Exchange ; Paul Coriell. secretary of the Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association. 



A second meeting of the creditors of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Company, West Falls avenue, 

 which has been involved in financial difficulties 

 for more than a month, took place on September 

 8, at which the affairs of the company were ex- 

 tensively discussed. Mr. Peregoy. the virtual 

 owner of the company, submitted a statement 

 of assets and liabilities, showing the former to 

 be relatively small and the latter as amounting 

 to more than S30.000. He proposed to pay .30 

 cents on the dollar in cash within thirty days, 

 and requested that the proposition be accepted. 

 .Vbout two-thirds of those holding claims against 

 the company, it is said, have already accepted 

 and the others arc expected to come in. Among 

 the largest creditors are the Gld Town and Can- 

 ton National banks. Some twelve or thirteen 

 Pennsylvania banks are also interested. The 

 statement submitted, it appears, classes as assets 

 some of the notes of the Wilson & Kenny Com- 

 pany, the Independent Lumber Company and of 

 J. IL Cranwell. which were turned over to 

 banks as collateral for loans, so that they will 

 yield little or nothing. A number of other items 

 are admitted to be bad by Mr. Peregoy, these 

 amounts being either disputed claims or debts 

 of the concerns which have gone into the hands 

 of receivers. Under the circumstances 30 cents 

 on the dollar is considered the best offer that 

 could possibly be obtained. 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co., one 

 of the Baltimoreans who attended the annual 

 concatenation of the Hoo-Hoo at Chicago, has 

 returned and speaks In terms of the highest 

 praise about the reception accorded visitors by 

 the lumbermen of the western metropolis. He 

 said that everything was done on a large scale 

 and In admirable taste, and that the Hoo-Hoo 

 bad the time of their lives. The trip across 

 Lake Michigan was very enjoyable, and the pro- 

 ceedings, he thinks, will result in advancing the 

 interests of the order to a marked extent. While 

 some disappointment was felt about the passing 

 over of Mr. Alcock as a candidate for Snark of 

 the Universe in favor of a western man, the 

 view prevails that Mr. Alcock is still a .voung 

 man and will have other opportunities to secure 

 the honor. His popularity was attested by elec- 

 tion to a high position, and another Baltlmor- 

 oao, Maurice W. Wiley, also came In for distinc- 

 tion, so that taking it altogether the Monumen- 

 tal City fared quite well. 



The furniture factory of Ucchinger Brothers 

 & Co., 308 Low street, this city, was damaged 

 .f.'.OOO by fire on the night of September 10. 



The blaze was the sixth to break out in the 

 building in recent years. 



Til. slave mill of James Detrow, north of 

 II III.. ..k Md., was completely destroyed -iiy fire 

 on s. |.t.iiiliHi- lo. \ quantity of lumber and 

 ~iav,s w.rr lost. The loss is estimated at 

 •i:;!..'?!!!!. partly covered by insurance. 



R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & t'o. has been on 

 •I southern trip during the past two weeks and 

 has conferred with a number of millmen in 

 North Carolina and other states. He reports 

 that business in the section visited is improving 

 and that a hopefui feeling prevails. 



Another Baltimore hardwood man to spend a 

 week or ten days in the South was G. W, Eisen- 

 hauer of the Eisenhauer-MacLea Company, who 

 went as far as Asheville, making that city his 

 central point for trips to the surrounding coun- 

 try. He came in toucli with a number of the 

 manufacturers and paid close attention to the 



CHARLOTTE 



One of the best indications of returning imr 

 mal conditions among lumbermen of the Caio- 

 linas is the fact that many plants heretofore 

 closed down because of the panic now find it 

 profitable to resume full operations. Every few 

 days reports come in of the resumption of 

 operations at plants located in various parts 

 of the two states. 



One of the latest plants to begin operations 

 again Is the Colleton Cypress Company of Watcr- 

 boro. N. C. This Is one of the largest lumber 

 manufacturing concerns In that part of South 

 Carolina, and the resumption of work means 

 that about 150 men who have been out of em- 

 ployment will again be given work. All of the 

 different departments of this large concern are 

 now running as of old, and prospects are good 

 for continued operations without Interruption. 



Announcement has just been made that J. C. 

 Rjgby has purchased the plant of the Spartan- 

 burg Lumber Company of Spartanburg. S. C, 

 from W, .\, Lawton. 



The steamship Matilda Wccms. the latest addi- 

 tion to the Baltimore and Carolina Steamship 

 Company, sailed from Charleston, S. C, a few 

 da.vs ago with a large cargo for Baltimore via 

 Georgetown, S. C. Her cargo consisted of over 

 200,000 feet of lumber, 500 barrels of rosin, etc. 

 The Increase of business In this line has been 

 1,000 tons since last May. 



A meeting of the North Carolina Case Work- 

 ers' Association was held In Greensboro, N. C. 

 a few days ago, when about thirty prominent 

 furniture manufacturers a.ssembled to discuss 

 conditions affecting their business. One of the 

 most Important results of the meeting was the 

 decision to advance the price of furniture made 

 by North Carolina factories by January 1. 



The Jonesboro Sash and Blind Factory of 

 Jonesboro. N. C, which has been shut down for 

 the past sixty or ninety days and in the bands 

 of a receiver, has just started up operations 

 again. This is one of the largest concerns in 

 that section and not only does a large local 

 business, but sends Us goods all over the North 

 and South. The resumption of work at the 

 plant is welcomed by the many operatives who 

 have been out of work since Its suspension. 



J. H. Tucker, Asheville, N. C, has just sold 

 for C. H. Rextord 30.000 acres of fine timber 

 land in .South Carolina and Georgia. This has 

 been the first large sale of timber land since 

 last year, and Asheville lumbermen consider It 

 Indicative of a reviving demand for limber. H. 

 F. Watt of Pennsylvania Is the purchaser. 



George W. Roper, receiver for the Klnston 

 Lumber Company of Klnston, N. C, has just 

 filed with Judge Purncll a report advising the 

 early sale of the mills at Klnston. which ap- 

 praisement shows to be worth about S112.000. 

 i;redltors have been cited to appear before Ref- 

 eree In Bankruptcy S. W. Smallwoixl, at New 

 Hern, N. C.. on September 25, and show cause. 



