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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Manufacturers at the Hotel LaSalle. Mr. Kellogg, who is optimistic in 

 liis views of the lumber situation, stated that there is no possibility of a 

 break in prices for a long time to come. 



=•< NEW YORK y- 



Local lumber dealers are interested in the Murtagh-Jackson workmen's 

 compensation bill now before the legislature. The bill is being opposed 

 by nearly all manufacturers and other employers of labor, and the lum- 

 ber trade of the state was represented at a hearing on the bill at Al- 

 bany Feb. 19. It is expected that the measure will be modified before 

 final action is taken on it. 



On Feb. 6 G. A. Mitchell, head of White, Gratwick & Mitchell, gave a 

 theater party and dinner at the Hotel Vanderbilt to the oflicers and de- 

 partment heads of the various aBiliated wholesale selling companies. 

 There were about thirty present. This is an annual event, but this year 

 broke all records for a good time. 



The New York Lumber Trade Association held its regular meeting on 

 Feb. 19 at its headquarters, IS Broadway. Three new members were 

 elected and other routine business transacted at a meeting of the board 

 of trustees held immediately after the regular meeting. 



B. P. Whedon of W. D. Young & Co., manufacturers of maple flooring. 

 Bay City, Mich., was a New York visitor last week. Mr. Whedon was on 

 his usual business trip and had traveled the middle and southwest ter- 

 ritory and New England States. He looks forward to a strong market 

 and a higher range of prices. 



The East River Mill & Lumber Company held a directors' meeting last 

 week at which time D. J. O'Connell was elected president, to succeed 

 the late Thomas ,T. Crombie, and C. D. Folsom was elected secretary and 

 treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. O'Connell's promotion. These 

 men and P. C. Anderson compose the directorate of the corporation. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company, specialists in Cuban ma- 

 hogany and walnut, headquarters at Cincinnati, O., and branch ofiice at 

 63 Beaver street, Manhattan, has just received at this port a cargo of 

 fine mahogany logs from Cuba. The shipment comes from Moffett, Rob- 

 bins cS: Company, Cuban branch of the Cincinnati house. 



The Consolidated Lumber Company of Georgia, with headquarters at 

 Brunswick. Ga., has closed its Ne* York City sales office and hereafter 

 will handle all business direct from the main ofiice. This will facili- 

 tate shipments and is in line with the company's plan, to make its service 

 as complete as possible. It is making a special drive on rail business 

 into the Middle Atlantic States. 



C. S. Powell, formerly of Bay Side, Long Island, has opened an ofiice 

 in the Wilson building, 1270 Broadway, where he will conduct an export 

 and domestic hardwood business. 



G. F. Farrell, formerly president of the O'Neill Lumber Company ot 

 Jersey Cit.v, has disposed of his interest in that concern to S. Henry 

 Baldwin and brothers. The oflicers of the company are now : P. A. 

 Baldwin, president ; G. B. Baldwin, vice-president, and S. Henry Baldwin, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



The stockholders and directors of the Lumber Insurance Company of 

 New Y'ork met in annual session on Feb. 5. The following officers were 

 elected ; G. A. Mitchell, president ; W. H. Gratwick, vice-president ; Guy 

 White, treasurer, and R. H. McKelvey, secretary. Geo. M. Stevens, Jr., 

 M-as elected to the board of directors. The financial statement as of 

 Dec. 31, 1912. was most gratifying, showing a big increase in surplus 

 to policy-holders and total assets. 



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The ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission on the transit 

 privilege pleases the Buffalo lumbermen, especially the hardwood deal- 

 ers whom it most concerns. It means the doing away of the rule for- 

 bidding substitution at transit points, as for instance oak for maple 

 and vice versa. For some time the hardwood men have been handicapped 

 by the regulations in force by the railroads, and the local market will 

 now be on a much better basis than it has been. The commission went 

 into the matter thoroughly and held two or three bearings at which 

 Buffalo hardwood dealers were present. 



Willis K. Jackson of Jackson & Tindle, with members of his family 

 and others, sailed on Feb. 22 for a trip to Panama and the West Indies. 



O. E. Yeager was among the business men from this city who ap- 

 peared before the legislature on Feb. 19 in opposition to the Murtaugh- 

 Jackson workmen's compensation bill. Nearly every business and trade 

 association w'as represented. 



A. W. Kreinheder made a trip to the Tennessee mills of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company this month. He states that operations in 

 that part of the South have been much delayed by wet weather. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have lately been getting in stocks of maple to re- 

 plenish the supply in yard. Reports from the oflice state that one-inch 

 Nos. 2 and 3 basswood in this market has been well cleaned up. 



H. A. Ptewari, who was recently in West Virginia, states that Ivryers 

 are very numerous at the mills there and that supplies of chestnut and 

 poplar are being picked up rapidly at stiff prices. 



G. Ellas has returned from an eastern business trip. The firm of G. 

 Elias & Bro. has found the hardwood trade very good this month, with 

 a demand for all sorts of stock. 



B. E. Darligg of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, Inc., was late!? la tie 



South looking after the purchase of hardwoods. The firm has a large 

 amount bought in most varieties and is laying in quite an amount of 

 cypress. 



Hugh McLean was at the mills of his lumber company in the South 

 for a week this month. Angus McLean of Montreal has been spending 

 some days at the company's oflices here. 



The National Lumber Comp.any reports that trade has been exception- 

 ally good this month. James A. White, president of the company, lately 

 took an otfico in the White building, where he will look after the inter- 

 ests of the W. H. White Company. 



M. M. Wall has returned from a two weeks' trip to Mt. Clemens, 

 where he went with his friend Peter McNeil of the McNeil Lumber Com- 

 pany. The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has been selling quite an 

 amount of birch this month. 



W. P. Miller of Miller, Sturm & Miller has been in Ohio and 

 other western states this month, looking over lumber stocks and closing 

 a deal with two or three mills for shipment of hardwoods. 



Anthony Miller finds trade showing considerable improvement since the 

 first of the year. He has a well-selected stock and finds a good sale for 

 oak, birch and other woods. 



■< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company reports increased trading, with 

 promising outlook. It recently divided its Pittsburg branch of busi- 

 ness into two subsidiary companies which will facilitate the handling 

 of the trade. One company will be known as the S. B. Dill Company, 

 recently incorporated with a nominal capital of $5,000, and with head- 

 quarters in the same suite of offices as parent concern. It will special- 

 ize in railroad ties and timber. The officers are : President, S. B. Dill, 

 formerly with the Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company ; secretary, Fred- 

 erick H. Ely, also of the old house ; treasurer, R. H. Moore. 



The second company will be known as the B. W. Cross Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently incorporated, $5,000 capital, offices in the Oliver build- 

 ing, Pittsburgh. The president, B. W. Cross, formerly in charge ot the 

 Pittsburgh branch of the old concern, having bad about twenty years' 

 experience in the lumber business, needs no introduction to the trade. 

 Frederick H. Ely is secretary ; R. H. Moore, treasurer, associated with 

 the Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company, and is also treasurer of the S. P. 

 Bowers Company of Philadelphia. It will do a general wholesale lum- 

 ber business. 



John H. Schofleld of Schofleld Brothers, owners of the Saltkeatchie 

 Lumber Company, says there has been no interruption to trading since 

 Jan. 1, and their fiscal year, ending March 31, will show the biggest 

 .vear's business they have ever bad. Robert W. Schofleld is at the mill 

 in Schofield, S. C, hurrying up shipments. 



Charles G. Blake, manager of E. V. Babcock & Co., reports accelerated 

 business, with every indication of further increase as the season ad- 

 vances. 



Ben C. Currie of Currie & Campbell, says business is fairly good and 

 inquiries more liberal, which promises well for the- outlook. James H. 

 Campbell and William N. Lawton of this house are at their mill in 

 Jacksonville, N. C, hustling out stuff. 



Howard B. France, secretary and treasurer of the Monarch Lumber 

 Company and of the Haddock-France Lumber Company, reports business 

 well sustained and the outlook very favorable, providing prices are not 

 forced to a prohibitive point. The large corporate consumers stand readj 

 to shut down on buying as soon as any attempt is made to force values. 



The large warehouse and lumber sheds of B. F. Hiestand & Sons, 

 Marietta, Pa., were destroyed by fire, Feb. S. The loss is estimated near 

 $250,000. 



=■< PITTSBURGH y 



J. N. Woollett. president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, spent a 

 good part of this month in the Southwest buying gum and Cottonwood. 

 He unloaded one barge of Cottonwood at Louisville last week and has 

 three more barges coming up the river for early distribution, 



H. C. Messier, of the J. M. Hastings Lumber Company, spent two 

 weeks recently in the South. He reports the export trade in fine con- 

 dition there. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company announces that the prices are still 

 strong and business is first-class. It is still handicapped by the lack of 

 cars at some mills. 



The Adelman Lumber Company is getting into a very nice business in 

 general hardwoods. A. Adelman has been working the Ohio trade the 

 past week. 



A. G. Breitwieser of C. E. Breitwieser & Co., a new hardwood con- 

 cern, was also working Buckeye retailers early in the month. His 

 concern is arranging to do considerable business in cypress this year. 



The Foster Lumber Company has eight mills of its own cutting hard- 

 wood on tracts in Tri-State territory. It shipped forty cars of white 

 oak last week, most of it being bill stuff. 



D. L. Gillespie of D. L. Gillespie & Co. was in the Middle West on 

 business a few days last week. H. G. Clark of the same company has 

 gone to Mississippi for a few days. 



The Mell-Viall Lumber Company is a new concern at Kittanning, Pa., 

 formed by Howard W. Mell and O. H. Viall and others of that place. 



The B. W. Cross Lumber Company is getting under fine headway for 



