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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



WANTED 



Black Walnut Logs, 



Walnut Lumber 



and Squares. 



INSPECTION MADE AT POINT OF SHIPMENT. 

 CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 



.\ DURESS 



A. E. FRENCH, 



WELLINGTON. OHIO. 



LOCATIONS FOR 

 INDUSTRIES. 



The name of the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul Railway has long been iden- 

 tified with practical measures for the 

 general upbuilding of its territory and 

 the promotion of its commerce, hence 

 manufacturers have an assurance that 

 they will find themselves at hcwne on 

 the company's lines. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway Company's 6,300 miles of rail- 

 way, exclusive of second track, con- 

 necting track or sidings, traverses eight 

 states, namely: 



w^hich comprise a great Agricultura., 

 Manufacturing and Mining territory. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway Company gives unremitting at- 

 tention to the development of local 

 traffic on its lines and, with this in view, 

 seeks to increase the number of manu- 

 facturing plants on its system either 

 through their creation by local enter- 

 prise or the influx of manufacturers from 

 the East. It has all its territory dis- 

 tricted in relation to resources, adapta- 

 bility and advantages for manufactur- 

 ing. Specific information furnished 

 manufacturers in regard to suitable 

 locations. Address, 



LUIS JACKSON, 



Industrial Commissioner C, .M. & St. P. R'y. 

 660 Old Colony BIdg.. Ctilc^o. III. 



-tri-iiKtli iind Ik lU'ti-rinliicd li> sliiiid by lis 

 dciiiiinil for nil olKlU-liour ilii.v iit <'>ii ot'iits 

 I'd- hour. (Ill the oIIiit IiiiikI, tlu* iniiNti-r 

 . Mrpfiitcrs siH'in o(|iiiill.v assured ot vlc- 

 lorv and iiri* i>re|mrlii}; to inaki.' a stiili- 

 iMini Dplit aKiilnst the Htrikt'r.s. 



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Harry Snowdoii, roiirosciilliij; .1. Kaiidall 

 Williams A: Co.. lias rci-oiilly rctunuMi from 

 ail o.vtcudi'd trip tlirouiili the South whorr 

 lie si'i'urod a vaUiahlo stool; of hardwoods. 



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Tho Mi'liainiiid I.iimluT Compaiiy has 

 hoi'ii incorporated to transact liusiness iu 

 this city. succeedinK \V. .1. .Mcliairmid iV 

 Co. The incorixirators Jire: W. .7. MoNair 

 and II. SI. Robinson of Kayettevillo, N. C; 

 A. M. .McNalr. J. Y. Gossler and J. C. Mc- 

 liairmid. Offices have been secured in the 

 Harrison buildiiiK. The company's mill is 

 located at Fayetlevillc. 



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Owen M. Bruner, of Owen M. Uruner iV 

 Co.. recently spent two months in travelinj,' 

 through the southern states, where ho made 

 extensive purchases of hardwoods. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 

 All the retail lumber yards of the city 

 have practically stopped delivery. This 

 action has been taken by order of the 

 labor committee of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association, which met on Monday 

 at its rooms. No. 18 Broadway, to take 

 steps regarding the demands of the new 

 union of truck drivers. The latter struck 

 l(ii- hitrher wages and shorter hours, and 

 for their recognition as a body. The asso- 

 ciation voted some time since not to recog- 

 nize tliein. and this latter action was taken 

 to emphasize its stand. The Association 

 of Dealers in Mason's Building Materials 

 voted to stop delivering supplies last 

 week, while the action of the lumber deal- 

 ers, who met on Monday, the 4th inst., 

 went into effect two days later, the (Jth. 

 The yards in the various boroughs will 

 continue, however, to deliver supplies not 

 in their own district. Manhattan and the 

 Bronx yards will not deliver in Manhattan 

 and the Bronx, nor Brooklyn yards in that 



borough. 



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Isaac II. Curtis, of the Curtis Bros. Lum- 

 ber Company, Brooklyn, died at his home 

 in that city on the 27th ult. He was a. 

 native of Boston, and was 58 years old. 

 For many years he had been prominently 

 identitied with Brooklyn's retail lumber 



trade. 



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.Vnotlier prominent lumber dealer who 

 rcceiilly (lassed away was Bockwell Y'oung, 

 senior member of the firm of Rockwell 

 Young & Bro., White Plains. N. Y. Mr. 

 Y'oung was 53 years old, and entered upon 

 his business career when he was 21 as a 

 member of the firm of Y'oung. Tripp & Co., 

 coal dealers. White Plains. In 188G he 

 formed a partnership with his brother, 

 Cornelius, under the tiriii name of R. 

 Y'oung & Bro.. and they have built up a 

 large and profitable business. Mr. Young 



was prominent In niuiilclpnl alTnlrs aud 

 was II triiHlee In many of White Plains' 

 llliMliclal liislltiitlons. lie leaves a widow 

 and two daughters. 



« • • 

 C. >V. (HMidyetir. of the Cooilyeiir Lum- 

 ber Coiiipaiiy. ItulTalo, salle<l for Kiirope 

 lust week. He will probably bo absent 

 scveial weeks Oil a pleasure trip. 



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.\dvanced ago Is given as the illness that 

 is likel.v t<i soon eiinse the demise of a 

 pictiire.s(|ue llgiiro In the lumber trade of 

 Now Jersey. Mrs. Uucliel It. Boleo, of 

 Boice, Ruiiyan & Co., Plalnfleld, N. J.. Is 

 considerably over 80, and for a score of 

 years she has boon the senior mcmlier of 

 the Arm, managing It in conjunction with 

 two daughters. 



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1'his is tho season for removals, .\inong 

 the concerns not already mentioned, who 

 have soon fit to change their location, can 

 be mentiono<l G. S. Baxter & Co., yellow 

 pine, to No. 17 William, from 18 Wall 

 street; the Hilton & Dodge Lumber Com- 

 p;iny to the now Whitehall building, 17 

 Liittery place, from No. 81 New street, and 

 .1. II. Burton to the ninth floor of No. 18 

 Tlio.iiluMv. from the fifth. 



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Recent visitors to the metropolis in- 

 cluded J. Q. Barker, of the Kanawha 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, Andrews, 

 N. C, Avho was on his way home from 

 Boston, where he had been knocked down 

 b.\' an express wagon; Max Sondhoimer, of 

 K. Sondheimer & Co., Chicago; O. O. Agler, 

 of the F. W. Upham Lumber Company, 

 Chicago; R. II. Van Sant, of Van 8ant, 

 Kitchen & Co.. Ashland, Ky.; F. L. Gilbert, 

 of the Red Cliff Lumber Company, Duluth, 

 Minn.; William E. Silvorthorne, of Silver- 

 tliorne & Co., North Tonawanda, N. Y.; 

 Maurice E. Preisch, of Haines & Co., Buf- 

 falo; A. J. Ilaueustein, of Ilurd & Ilauen- 

 sleiu, Buffalo; Rufus L. Sisson, of the A. 

 Sherman Lumber Company, Potsdam, 

 N. Y'.; Hugh .McLean, t)f Hugh McLean & 

 Co., Buffalo; A. P. Bliss, of Bliss & Van 

 Auken, Saginaw; R. C. Lippincott, Phila- 

 ddpliia; Lewis Doster, secretary of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 Columbus, O.; H. B. Shepard, of the Shep- 

 ard A; Morse Lumber Company, Boston; 

 Edward Ilines, of the Edward Hines Lum- 

 ber Company, Chicago; E. C. .Mershon, of 

 W. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw; W. G. 

 rnderwood, of E. P. Burton & Co., Phila- 

 delphia; John Scatchcrd, of Scatcherd & 

 Sou, Buffalo; E. A. Landon, of D. L. Gilles- 

 pie & Co., Pittsburg; John Gilmore, of 

 (Jilmore & Hughson, Ottawa, Out; Lewis 

 I. -ill. Baltimore, and E. C. Fosburgh, of the 

 Fosljurgli Lumber Company, Norfolk, Va. 



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The .\ifred Brumme Company of Brook- 

 Ij-ii has recently been incorporated with a 

 capital of .530,000. The directors are Al- 

 fred and Angeline Brumme and William 

 Schade of Brooklyn. 



