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HARDWOOD RECORD 



of a huge card representing a stork, carrying 

 in his bill a card descriptive of the new edi- 

 tion, which creates considerable amusement and 

 forms an excellent ad for the Crescent Machine 

 Company. 



C. H. Martz, general manager of the Good 

 Land Cypress Company, which has its offices in 

 New Orleans and mills at Chacahoula, La., 

 spent several days in this market last week. 



The Maybury & Speer Lumber Company, an 

 Alabama corporation, has opened Chicago offices 

 at 270 Dearborn .street, and will engage in the 

 wholesale lumber business. The concern is 

 capitalized at $50,000. 



rirc attacked the plant of the Chicago Mill- 

 work Supply Company at West Twelfth and 

 Sangamon streets June 4, driving more than 

 200 employes into the street. The loss to the 

 building and contents reached about $15,000. 



W. B. Jlersbon, the well known lumberman 

 and sportsman of Saginaw, Mich., left on June 

 4 for a trip to the Cascapedia salmon fishing 

 grounds of Canada, to be gone a month. Mr. 

 Mersiion is accompanied by a party of friends. 

 J. V. Stimson, the well known lumberman of 

 Himtingburg, Ind., made the Record a pleasant 

 call June 10. Mr. Stimson reports a very good 

 trade and is optimistic over the immediate future 

 of the hardwood luml>er Ijusiness. 



Henry Ballou, superintendent of Cobbs & 

 Mitchell. Inc.. of Cadillac, was a welcome caller 

 at the Record office June 10. 



Frank F. Fish, the popular secretary of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, has 

 survived another streak of ill luck, which it 

 was thought for a time might prevent his at- 

 tending the Milwaukee meeting. On June 5, 

 while attending a ball game, Mr. Fish stepped 

 upon a chair, which broke down under his 

 weight, causing him to suffer a complete frac- 

 ture of one of the ankle bones, and severely 

 strain the ligaments so that he will be practic- 

 ally laid up for some time. However, the ankle 

 was placed in a plaster cast, and with the aid 

 of ambulances, stretchers and crutches, Mr. 

 Fish states he will positively attend the con- 

 vention, although ho undoubtedly ought not 

 attempt the many duties which will naturally 

 devolve upon him. 



Thos. W. Howlctt, representing the Philadel- 

 phia Textile Machinery Company of Philadel- 

 phia, was a caller at the Record office June S. 

 He reports an improvement in the veneer dryer 

 machinery trade. 



J. II. I'. Sniitl.. pi. si, lent of the Hardwood 

 I.unilicr i'.iiiipMn>, .>islil:iiid. Ky.. spent several 

 days .Tmc.iii; liis ii ifuds in the trade during the 

 week. Ill- niiorts an in. leasing and satisfactory 

 trade. 



Lewis Doster, the popular secretary of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, was a 

 Chicago visitor during the week. 



A. B. Garrott of Fort Madison. Iowa, manufac- 

 turer of black walnut, called at the Recokd office 

 on June 10. 



Another prominent visitor of June 10 was 

 Van B. Perrine, the lumberman poet of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind. 



I he I'almer A: I'arker Company, large dealers 

 in hardwoods and manufacturers of veneers, 

 Bo.ston, have been running their mill five days 

 a week. At times during the past few week.s 

 new l)usiiic.-s lias , .1111.' iiiiward in .a satisfactory 



nay. but ii i- i i i v ■■ as yet. Mr. Parker 



rcpiirls tli.-,\ 111..' 1...II ..|i.-ning up a few very 

 tine tigurcs in niali.i^^aiiy logs for piano veneers. 



Chester Whitney of the Perry & Whitney Com- 

 pany has recently returned from a fishing trip 

 :ii Lake Winnepesaukee, N. H. 



Mr. Parker of the firm of Merslion. Schutte. 

 I'arker & Co., Saginaw. Mich., has been spondins; 

 .■I few days in the eastern markets. 



A sliipment of Oregon spars, some of them 

 measuring 110 feet In length, was recently re- 



ceived in Boston by the Boston Lumber Com- 

 pany. This shipment came through from the 

 coast in the remarkable short time of thirty 

 days. 



No complaints of car shortage are heard in 

 this market. Not only is there a very large 

 surplus of idle cars but the ones in actual use 

 are doing about three times the work they did 

 a year ago. * 



Among the recent incorporations is the Brett 

 Lumber Company, Lynn. Mass., with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The incorporators are George 

 W. Belonga, Susan J. Belonga, Elizabeth L. 

 Kiley, Ossian D. Brett and Lizzie H. Brett. Mr. 

 Belonga is a wealthy shoe manufacturer and 

 Mr. Brett is the practical man and was formerly 

 of the O. D. Brett Company. It is reported that 

 the mill of the old concern has been secured for 

 the new company. 



The new buildings erected in Keene, N. H.. by 

 Frank C. Pike are being fitted with machinery 

 for the manufacture of chairs. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Association 

 will hold its next meeting June IS. 



The woodworking plant formerly operated by 

 the Chas. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company has 

 been sold to the South Bay Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, a new incorporation. The officers of the 

 new company are Thomas W. Harrison, president 

 and general manager ; C. F. Leatherbee, treas- 

 urer : William R. Beale, secretary, and James H. 

 Briggs. superintendent. 



Frank and Fred McQuesten of the George Mc- 

 Ouesten Company, Boston, will retire from active 

 business in a few weeks for a period of several 

 months at least. No material changes are to be 

 made in the affairs of the company. 



Miss Mabel A. Evans, who managed the Bos- 

 ton office of the Wiley, Harker & Camp Company 

 from the time of Mr. Pease's illness to May 1. 

 when the office was closed, is entering upon her 

 second month as manager of sales for the H. M. 

 Bidcford Company. Boston. Mr. Bickford of this 

 firm has returned from a southern trip. 



Warren P. Hill has been making a trip East 

 in the interests of Samuel H. Shearer & Son of 

 Philadelphia. 



J. M. Riel of Chicago spent a few days in 

 Boston late in May. 



The C. F. Vaill Chair Company's plant at 

 Baldwinsvillc. Mass., was recently destroyed by 

 fire with a loss of about $10,000. 



Ralph Abbott, surveyor general of Massachu- 

 setts, has resigned to enter the employ of the 

 C. O. Skinner Company of Boston as salesman. 

 The governor has appointed Charles IT. Crane to 

 succeed Mr. Abbott. This has not been con- 

 Irmed by the council as yet. Boston lumber 

 dealers feel they should have been. consulted in 

 this matter. 



The C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company of 

 Boston is to be liquidated. William E. Litch- 

 field has charge of this matter. 



L. II. Randall of Randall & Orcutt, hardwood 

 dealers, is in the South and West on a business 

 trip. 



C. O. Skinner of the C. O. Skinner Company 

 is in the West in the interests of his company. 

 Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin 

 and Frank B. Witherbce of the H. M. Bickford 

 Company are very busy with arrangements for 

 the annual tournament of the Lumber Trade 

 Coif Association, to be held at the Brae-Burn 

 Country Club, Newton, Mass.. June 23 and 24. 



The >Iann-Caven Lumber Company, wholesale 

 hardwoods, 1 Madison avenue. New York, has 

 been incorporated under the same style with a 

 capital of $.50,000 by R. A. Caven of Brooklyn 

 and O. J. Mann and C. H. Turner of New York. 

 The corporation will pursue the same line of 

 business as its predecessor. 



The Universal Lumber Company has engaged 

 in the whoUsale and manufacturing trade at 

 6S William slreei. Jlanbattan. The principals 



therein are F. Kramer and S. F. Lillenstem. 

 It is understood that the company is negotiating 

 for the purchase of timber lands in Tennessee. 

 H. Bil letter, manager of the Lumber Under- 

 writers, the well-known trade-insuring organiza- 

 tion at 66 Broadway, has about recovered from 

 his recent siege of typhoid fever and is rusticat- 

 ing for a short time at Atlantic City, N. J., and 

 expects to be in harness again at 66 Broadway 

 within a week or so. 



J. J. DcRan of the DeRan Lumber Company, 

 hardwood manufacturers of Clover Lick, W. Va., 

 has been in town during the past week in the 

 interest of business. The mills are running 

 along as usual and business is reported as fair 

 with them, although there are a large number of 

 mills in their section which have ceased opera- 

 tions. 



Louis Bossert, the wealthy Brooklyn mill- 

 worker and head of the extensive interests of 

 Louis Bossert & Son, has purchased the premises 

 of the old Pierrepont House, Brooklyn, on which 

 he will erect a handsome family apartment 

 house, making his winter headquarters in the 

 new hotel when completed. 



There is much interest being manifested in 

 the approaching lumbermen's golf tournament of 

 the Lumbermen's Golf Association of the East, 

 which occurs on the Brae Burn Course, Newton, 

 Mass., on June 22 and 23. The list of prizes 

 offered by leading interests in the trade for this 

 , year's contest are handsomer than ever and a 

 royal good time is expected. The annual elec- 

 tion will also be held during the contest. Among 

 the local lumbermen who will compete are C. 

 L. Adams of Willson, Adams & Co., Henry Cape, 

 C. R. Caskey of the Holcomb & Caskey Lumber 

 Company, Arthur E. Lane, Guy E. Robinson and 

 L. P. Rider. Quite a number of other lumber- 

 men are planning to attend the contest. 



W. A. Eaton, secretary of the Stevens-Eai..n 

 Company, well known wholesale house of I 

 Madison avenue, has sold his interest therein to 

 his associates in the corporation, and on June 

 1 engaged in the wholesale trade on his own 

 account, with office at 1 Madison avenue, through 

 which he will handle a full line of softwoods 

 and stiiugles for the eastern trade. The Stevens- 

 Eaton Company advises that there will be no 

 change in the corporation except Mr. Eaton's 

 withdrawal. The Stevens-Eaton Company has 

 just added George W. Brown of Merchantsville, 

 N. J., to their selling staff and Mr. Brown will 

 represent them in southern New Jersey and 

 I'ennsylvania. 



There were two important meetings at Na- 

 tional Wholesale headquarters during the past 

 fortnight, the Executive Committee meeting on 

 .May 20 to go over the work of the various de- 

 partments in order to report to the trustees 

 ihe general condition of affairs on the following 

 day. On the 21sl the trustees met, with all 

 but four present. Trade relations, forestry and 

 eglslative matters were fully discussed.. Rou- 

 tine reports from the various departments shows 

 good progress all along the line thus far this 

 year, particularly in the bureau of information 

 and collection departments, and also the trans- 

 portation bureau. A committee of three, to be 

 appointed by the president, was voted to attend 

 the trade organization conference at Minneapo- 

 lis, Minn., June 19 and 20. The report of 

 the Membership Committee showed good work 

 in increasing the membership of the organiza- 

 tion. Hardwood inspection matters were also 

 lonsidered. but no action was taken in reference 

 to the recent conference on inspection matters, 

 in line with the general policy of the association 

 to continue neutral on this subject. 



A matter which has created a great deal of 

 interest in the local trade during the fortnight 

 is tl'.e rumor that the Philadelphia wholesale in- 

 terests represented in the exchange will shortly 

 issue a challenge to a baseball contest to the 

 New York lAimber Trade Association. Of course, 

 if such a challenge is received, it will undoubt- 

 edly he promptly accepted and a big time made 

 out of the occasion. 



