i6 



11 L HARDWOOD RECORD. 



was 7- vi-art* "lil. iiiul Is survlvi'il li.v liis 

 widow ami tlireo solus. 



• • 



.liiincs I". l)unwo<xl.\ n-tmci nom 111" 

 Meadow Moiihtaln I.liinlH'r Coiiipan.v tlu' 

 lasi of .liiiic, and will <'iil.'r tin- wliolonali' 

 Inisliicss 111 tills rlly for hlllisflf. 



• « • 



Tin- saw iiilll of W. r. Yoiiir/.k. iil 

 Willlainsliuri;. was rwt'iitl.v totally dcs- 



troyt'd l>y llrf. 



• • • 



Slar»'y 11. Williams, one of llu' pionciM- 

 liimlici- di-alcrs of .lofriTson County, tlird 

 iiTi-ntly at tJllvoliiirK. I'a. !U' was s.t 

 yt-ars old. and is survived Ity a son and 

 daiiKl>t<>r. 



GOTHAJI GliEANINQS. 



I'rolialily luMoif this iss\ii' nf llir llard- 

 woihI Kfcoi-d shall liavi' U-ft tin- pri-ss and 

 liiHMi plai-cd in the hands of its ivaili-rs. tin- 

 labor troulilcs in Ni'W York City will havo 

 (■oiiic to an end. Everything: points to an 

 ei'ily st'ttleiucnt of tin- linjieriiif; disinitc 

 and a heart.v siftli of unrest rained relief 

 ■ will jro up from the luifther trade of. the 

 metropolis when the h:i|)i).v moment comes. 

 Of all the loiiK-drawn-out. unli:dlowed, 

 liiifrerins and eontumaeious episodes the.v 

 have been enlknl upon to endure. thi» 

 sprinn and summer's experiences surely 

 s\n-pass them all. But. as the poet puts it: 

 "We may be happy yet. 

 You bet." 



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.Tust as he stepped from the Uinbria last 

 week. (Justaf Eriksson, said to be a 

 prominent lumber merchant of Sweden, 

 was arrested, eliarfiitl with forging bills 

 of exchan;.'e in that country. He may be 

 returned to his native land to exjilain mat- 

 ters. 



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Walter Wilson Watrous. who was con- 

 nected with the biff retail lumber concern 

 of Willson. Adams A: Co.. died late in .Tune 

 at Atlantic City. N. .1. He was forty-three 

 years old. and had only a financial inter- 

 est in the yard in (luestiou. so that he 

 ■was known to but few in the trade. 



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A successful trip in connection with the 

 maple flooriiiff be represents was reci-ntly 

 made by S. E. Kellar of Xo. 18 Broadway 

 to the South. As a partial result of that 

 little excursion to the land where the 

 majinolia blooms. Mr. Kellar will spend 

 the summer at an expensive hostelr.v at 

 Lake Slahopac. comin}; into the city occa- 

 sionally to keep his hands on the reins of 



business. 



* * * 



Schedules in the bankruptc.v of I)iel- 

 niann & I. lucks, piano case manufacturers. 

 No. l.j] Eleventh avenue, show liabilities 

 .?1S..5(>4 and nominal assets $10.(Xki. 



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William E. I'aine. who succeeded to the 

 presidency of the Y'ellow Pine Lumber 

 Compan.v. Xo. Hi Beaver street, last year. 

 has sued five niinorlt.v stockholders of tht^ 

 company foi- .s;1(«i.ikii> (bmiages each. 



iIioukIi no one professes to know what 

 the suits an- about, and .Mr. I'aine won't 

 till. The defendants are E. W. McClave. 

 of Iv \V. MeClave A; Son, former prewl- 

 ili'iit of the company: Henry Weller. for- 

 imrly of Charles S. Hirsch & Co.: Charles 

 I.. Ilnckl. Henry ,1. Mayer and E. 1". Terry, 

 secretary of the .\ational Wholesale Lum- 

 licr Kealers' Association. Mr, I'aine con- 

 trols live other biff lumber comvrns. the 

 y.iids of which were the only ones open 

 iluiiuff the ri'cent shutdown, 



• • • 



W. .N. Cooper, the well-known li;inhv(nKl 

 niiiiiufjicturer of Asheville. X. C. has 

 opeiKMl a .New York ollli'e with H. It. Eol- 

 som in charffe. in the Townsend buildliiff, 

 Xo. ir_';{ Broadway, corner of Twenty- 



.siMli street. 



• * * 



William Whejitley, a<'comiiaiiic(l by his 

 wife an<l two sons, sailed from this port 

 on ,Tuly .S by the Xew York for Ix)ndon, 

 .Mr. Wheatley is the assistant manaffer of 

 the Charles Nelson Company, the biff lum- 

 ber exporters of San Francisco. Althouffh 

 • onsiderable pleasure is likely to be de- 

 rived from it. Mr. Wheatley started on a 

 tcur around the world of a business char- 

 acter. He will look after what cargo liusi- 

 ncss is about, and will travel by way of 

 South Africa and the rhilippines. 



* * * 



I.Muilicr visitors here recently included 

 W. X. Cooper. .Vsheville. X. C: W. A. 

 Powell. Ueeves-Powell Coinpany. Ltd., 

 Xew Orleans: E. \'. Babcock. of the E. V. 

 Babcock Lumber Company. Pittsburg; 

 V. H. Y'oung, St, Louis, representinff the 

 l". IL Smith Lmnber Company of that 

 city, and the Hardwood Export Company 

 of Mobile, and .loliii Scutcherd. Scatcherd 



vV; Son. Buffalo. 



* * * 



fncle Sam is bus.v fightinff a levy on 

 some lumber now at the Brooklyn navy 

 yard. Dannet & Pell, the Brooklyn lum- 

 ber dealers, want the lumber, which they 

 had sold to a ffovernment contractor. The 

 courts will decide the momentous ques- 

 tion. 



PITTSBXTRG PACKET. 



'I'lie .Vmci-icaii l.iniilici- \ .M.iiiur.-icturing 



C pany has .iust bought LtHKMXK) feet 



of poplar and hendock along the line of 

 the West Virginia Central Railroad in 

 \\'est Virginia. The bill is to lie cut and 

 delivered f. o. b. 



* « * 



The H. C. Huston Lumber Company 

 lia.- added to its holdings in Maryland by 

 the imrchase of 3.2<iO acres of timber at 

 Krug. Jlrt. The timber is hemlock, oak 

 and pine. The purchase was made by 

 .Lacob L. Kendall, president of the H. 0. 

 Huston Lumber Compan.v. and the limber 

 will be worked up b.v the Y'ougli-Manor 

 Lumber Company, with head<iuarters at 

 Krug. of which 'Mr. Kendall is half owner. 

 The tract lies on the Confluence & Oak- 

 land branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- 



load. '.HI miles from Cnnib<M'land. It will 

 be cut and lloab-il ilown to the I'ompany'K 

 iiillls III Krug. The Yongh-.Manor Lumber 

 Compiiny makes a specialty of railroati 

 niid corporation work and last month 

 shlppeil ."..(HKi.iMMt feel of heavy stuff from 



Ki iiff. 



* • • 



The K. .1. .Miinliall Lumber Coinpany 

 lao appliiHl for a Pennsylvania charter. 

 The ln<'orporators.are K. .1. .Munliall. Will- 

 iam Blgffs. .Ir.. and .loslali"*!,. Trout, all 

 of Plllsbiirff. The company will buy and 

 cut standing limber and ileal in all kinds 



of lumber. 



* • * 



The Hominy Creek Boom Coiniiany li.-is 

 recelviMl a charter in West Virfflnla. The 

 incorporiilors are H. M. Curll, Thomas E. 

 ICvaiis. H. \\ Curll, I>. B. Curll and How- 

 ard Evans, all of I'ittsburg. The coinpany 

 will have its main oltices at Holcolin, 

 W. Va. 



A Ih » 



.\ charter li;is been asked for the Wa- 

 bash Lumber Company, which is being 

 organi/.cil to work up a tract of about 

 LlKXi .-icics of timber along the line of the 

 Pittsburg, Carnegie & Western Hailroad In 

 Washington County, Pennsylvania. The 

 incorporators are W. H. Murphy, Harry A. 

 .Tones and E. D. Whitman. The offices of 

 the <-ompaMy will be in Pittsburg, and ll 

 aims to build up a strictl.v locjil trade. 



* * • • 

 The Indian Creek Lumber Coinpany has 



asked for a Pennsylvania charter. Fol- 

 lowing are the incorporators: I). B. Baker, 

 F. E. .Miller. Ceorge Rollings. A. F. Becr- 

 inan and E. E. Pliillii»s. 



* * * 



The w.irehouse of the McCollnm Lumber 

 Coiiip,iny at Oil City, Pa., was destroyed 

 by lire, entailing a loss of .fllUKK), partly 



covered by insurance. 



* * * 



The Internati il Mahogany iV- Trading 



Coinpany is making rapid headway with 

 its projects in Mexico. The company was 

 organized last February with a capital of 

 ,f2,,")ii(i.iK)(i. and its main offices in the 

 Farmers" P.ank building in Pittsburg. It 

 is composed of I'ittsburg. Cleveland and 

 l>etioit capitalists, and is being mannged 

 by a board of directors who have had 

 .vcars of experience in the mahogany and 

 hardwood Tiusiness. The company owns 

 ri(H),(HK) acres of timber along the Usuina- 

 cinta River in .Mexico, near the city of 

 San Christobal. The larger part of the 

 timber is the famous •'Tabasco" mahog- 

 iiny. of which the company sliiiipwl 2.S(;.- 

 IMN' feet to London alone in .Tune. The 

 price averaged l.") cents a sijuare foot, or 

 $1.'>(| per thousand. The timber is rafted 

 down to Fi-outera and Laguna and shipped 

 from there in logs, which are siitiared at 

 the camps. Five lines of steamers go out 

 from Laguna and Frontera. so that ship- 

 iiKMit can be made promptly. .Vside from 

 London and Liverpool. Xew York is tak- 

 ing a large amount of the mahogan.v, and 

 ('incinn;iii furniture dealers are also send- 



