THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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ings, Pittsburg: W. P. Jones. JIarion. X. C; 

 Julius Dietz, of the Buffalo JIaple Flooring: 

 Compauy, Bufl'alo, aud A. S. McGaughan, 



Philadelpbia. 



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On Thursday, May 2S, the cabinet work.s 

 of the H. Pearsou Company and the wood- 

 turning, staircase and cabinet plant of R. 

 Ballance & Son, S2 to 8S Wallabout street, 

 Brooklyn, -\vere totally destroyed by fire. 

 In the loss was upward of 100,000 feet of 

 high-grade quartered oak. The loss on 

 stock is placed at about ¥50,000. 

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The change in the New York representa- 

 tion of Bliss & Van Auken, Saginaw, Mich., 

 and Jacksonville, Fla., took place last 

 week, by Fred J. Johnson coming over 

 from the Philadelphia othce aud Harry S. 

 Dewey leaving for Elizabethton, Tenn., to 

 take charge of the sales of the Whiting 

 Lumber Company there. Mr. A. P. Bliss 

 was in town early in the week, superin- 

 tending tne changes, and left this city for 



Jacksonville. 



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William Vyse, who up to the time he 

 was retired on a pension, three years ago, 

 had been foreman of the mills of Hardy 

 & Voorhees, Brooklyn, died recently at his 

 home in that borough. He had been with 

 the house for 25 years, aud many honors 

 had been- showered upon him for his faith- 

 fulness. Mr. Vyse was 75 years old and 

 was a native of the Isle of Guernsey. 



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It is probable that a New York ofiice 

 will shortly be opened by W. N. Cooper, 

 hardwood manufacturer of Asheville, N. C. 

 Just at present Mr. Cooper's interests here 

 are looked after by F. B. Folson, whose 

 headquarters are the Hotel Bartholdi. 



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Just at present R. J. Kidman, of the for- 

 eign hardwood house of Churchill & Sims, 

 of 29 Clements Lane, Loudon, E. C, is vis- 

 iting the western and southern hardwood 

 mills, making arrangements for next year's 

 business. Mr. Kidman has been here since 

 May 16, and is making the Waldorf-Astoria 

 his headquarters when in town. 



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T. H. Griffin, of Price & Price, hardwood 

 brokers, London, England, is here, looking 



over the situation. 



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Recent incorporations include those of 

 the W. C. Hangaard Company, Richmond 

 Hill, L. I., to manufacture doors, sash and 

 blinds, with a capital of $10,000, and that 

 of the Tidewater Trim & Door Company of 

 New York, with similar purposes, and a 

 capital of $10,000. 



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Hardwood dealers will appreciate tha 

 ■combination price and record book espe- 

 cially designed for retailers, which the 

 Whiting Lumber Company, Elizabethton, 

 Tenn., has recently issued for free distribu- 

 tion. 



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The marriage of Laurens Pember Rider 

 of White, Rider & Frost, North Tona- 



wanda, N. Y., and this city, to Miss Minna 

 Claussenlus, took place last Thursday, the 

 4th inst., at the West Presbyterian Church, 

 Fifth avenue and Forty-socoud ttreet. Un- 

 der the stage name of Jane Field, Miss 

 Claussenius had been a member of the 

 Earl of Pawtucket Company, which sent 

 a silver toilet set. After an automobile 

 tour through the Berkshire Hills the couple 

 take up their resi'denct' at Mr. Rider's 

 country place, omithtown, L. I. 



BTJFPAIiO BITS. 



-Vs predicted in my last, the strike among 

 the lumber handlers and pilers is over, and 

 the men are back at work again. Some of 

 them at their old positions and with their 

 former employers, while others again have 

 chosen rather to go to work at other yards 

 than try those they went out from. Some 

 of the men who made a business of going 

 round from yard to yard sowing the seed 

 ol dissatisfaction and discontent among 

 men who otherwise were willing to con- 

 tinue working, find it impossible to get 

 work themselves now at any of the yards, 

 aud will have to seek pastures new, I am 

 afraid, as they are not looked upon as a 

 desirable element. It is to be hoped that 

 Buffalo lumbermen will never experience 

 anything worse in the way of a strike than 

 the one just over with. 



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This labor problem seems to be the only 

 cloud on the business horizon at the pres- 

 ent time. There are certain lines of busi- 

 ness where a raise in wages all round 

 would simply mean a shutting up shop and 

 stopping business altogether— the price ob- 

 tained for the manufactured article not be- 

 ing sufficient to take care of the present 

 cost of manufacture aud leave a living 



profit. 



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While there is no change in prices io 

 speak of there seems to be a lull in busi- 

 ness to a certain extent; that is the orders 

 do not come in quite so thick and fast as 

 they have been coming. There are plenty 

 of enquiries for stock that is not in evi- 

 dence, such as basswood, cherry, walnut, 

 etc., but oak and ash do not seem to be in 

 quite the demand they have been. 



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Mr. Frank Vetter. of the Empire Lumber 

 Company, is pinning his faith on cypress 

 as the wood of the future, having just con- 

 cluded the purchase of a large acreage con- 

 sisting largely of very flue cypress in Ala- 

 bama. 



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It may not be generally known that the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company have 

 in successful operation a table factory, on 

 the outskirts of Buffalo, where they em- 

 ploy a large force of men regularly, and 

 turn out a high grade of furniture. The 

 fact that they find it impossible to keep up 

 with their orders is the best evidence of 

 the success of the undertaking, aud of the 

 class of work they do. The work is all 

 done under the personal supervision of Mr. 



Henry Cutting, wlto for many years con- 

 ducted a similar business of his own in 

 Buffalo, and is thoroughly conversant with 

 all the details of the business. 



The vacation season is upon us and the 

 lumbermen, one aud all, are laying their 

 plans for the next two months— feeling 

 they can enjoy a holiday after one of the 

 most successful seasons they have ever 



had. 



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Mr. Vetter, who thinks it a good idea to 

 be away from home during strikes and 

 moving times, has returned, and finds 

 everything running just the same as if 

 nothing had happened during his absence. 



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The firm of Hugh McLean & Co. have 

 become incorporated under the name of the 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company, with a 

 capital stock of $500,000 fully paid up, and 

 will be officered as follows the current 

 year: President, Angus McLean; vice- 

 president, W. A. McLean; treasurer, Hugh 

 McLean; secretary, R. D. McLean. 



PITTSBURG PACKET. 



One of the most important timber deals 

 consummated in Western Pennsylvania for 

 years will be closed with the incorpora- 

 tion of the Indian Creek Lumber Company 

 for which a charter will be granted in a 

 few days. The Segar Lumber Company, 

 Limited, will turn over its extensive hold- 

 ings to the new company and hold a con- 

 trolling interest in the corporation. The 

 holdings of the corporation will embrace 

 GOO acres of surface and timber land on 

 the western slope of Laurel Hill in the 

 Ligonier Valley, the property lies along 

 lioth sides of the proposed South Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad and extends from the 

 line of Fayette County on the south to 

 Lima's Run on the north. Adjoining the 

 tract is the big timber tract of the Byers- 

 Alleu Lumber Company. The acreage is 

 covered with oak, chestnut and poplar and 

 comprises about all the timber left on the 

 west side of Laurel Hill. The incorpo- 

 rators of the new compauy are: Daniel 

 and John Segar of Ligonier, Pa., D. B. 

 Baker of Washington. Pa., and F. E. Mil- 

 ler and T. F. Campbell of Ingram, Pa. 



The company will have a capital of $300,- 

 000 and will establish its principal ofiice 

 in Pittsburg. It proposes to build branch 

 roads into the tract at once and put in a 

 number of portable mills preparatory to 

 cutting the timber off rapidly. 

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The planing mill of F. \V. Ellensberger, 

 at North Water Gap, near Stroudsburg, 

 Pa., was totally destroyed by fire with sev- 

 eral thousand feet of lumber. The loss 

 will reach $20.00(.i. 



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J. M. Hastings, a Pittsburg lumber 

 dealer, has just completed the purchase 

 of 200,000 acres of land near Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia. Most of the land is covered with 



