HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Sons of this city is announced. Mr. Gai-iluer's 

 firm has extensive hardwood connections in the 

 United States and in addition has a sawmill at 

 Memphis. He was everywhere linown as a keen 

 businessman, with large philanthropic connec- 

 tions, and will be greatly missed. 



The citizens of Stoutsville. Mo., have donated 

 the old pottery grounds and $500 in cash as a 

 bonus in order to briug the handle factory from 

 Huntsville to Stoutsville, where it will be closer 

 to very large tracts of timber desirable for its 

 special purposes. 



The St. Francis Box and Lumber Company 

 has recently been incorporated at St. Francis, 

 Ark., with a capital stock of $20,000, by Thomas 

 S. Marshall, president ; Ella M. Marshall, vice- 

 president ; Wood Howe, secretary, and C. E. 

 Home, treasurer. 



The Henderson Desk Company of Henderson, 

 Ky., will shortly move its operations to Evans- 

 ville, Ind.. where it will occupy the old plant 

 of the New York Dimension Company, Florida 

 and Vaughan streets. This company manufac- 

 tures all lines of office desks. 



The Oak Lumber Company, Jane Lew, W. Va., 

 has recently been incorporated at $10,000 by 

 I. J. Davis of Syles, W. Va. ; W. A. Jackson, D. 



L. Bryan and B. M. Davisson of Jane Lew, 

 \y. Va. ; and S. G. Jackson of Clarksburg, W. Va. 

 T. J. Spraggins & Son, Fenwick, Miss., have 

 just contracted with the Honochitlo Lumber 

 Company of Bude, Miss., for the sale of all the 

 hardwood timber on their lands, which is esti- 

 mated at about 100,000.000 feet. The Hono- 

 chitto company will do its own logging in con- 

 nection with its pine operations. 



The sawmill of the Texas Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company at Honey Island, Tex., has 

 again resumed operations after a two weeks' 

 idleness during which dry-kiln repairs were ef- 

 fected. It is planned that the manufacture of 

 hardwood will have a more important place in 

 the company's business in the future than it 

 has in the past. 



At a meeting on Nov. 4 of the creditors of the 

 Loyd G. Harris Manufacturing Company, St. 

 Louis, in the olBco of Walter D. Coles, referee 

 in bankruptcy, George McBlair, secretary of the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, was elected 

 trustee of the company. The schedule filed by 

 the company showed assets of $24,217.98 and 

 liabilities of $71,358.58, of which $32,200 is 

 represented by secured claims consisting in the 

 main of notes held by the Third National Bank 

 for money advanced. 



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CHICAGO 



Houghton & Gillespie is the style of a new 

 firm incorporated in Chicago to do a wholesale 

 lumber and veneer business. The concern is 

 located at 1146 West Lake street and is capi- 

 talized at $5,000. 



Thomas McFarland, well known in hardwood 

 circles as a wholesale handler of hardwood lum- 

 ber at Cairo, 111., was one of the recent visitors 

 to the local trade. 



J. C. Turner of the J. C. Turner Lumber Com- 

 pany. New York City, who is prominently con- 

 nected with the cypress business, stopped off in 

 Chicago on Nov. 11 en route to his cypress mills 

 in the South. 



Nils Dueholm of the Scott & Howe Lumber 

 Company, Ironwood, Mich., was in this city on 

 Nov. 13. 



J. M. Wells, sales manager for the Sherrill- 

 King Mill & Lumber Company, Inc., Paducah, 

 Ky., and former sales manager for the Lucas 

 Land & Lumber Company of that place, spent 

 several days of last week in this city on a 

 selling trip. 



F. F. Fee, president and manager of the Fee- 

 Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company of Der- 

 mott. Ark., was in town on Nov. 14 and 15. Mr. 

 Fee is optimistic about the future of the lumber 

 business. 



S. L. Eastman of the S. L. Eastman Flooring 

 Company of Saginaw, Mich., was in Chicago one 

 day last week. 



W. H Shippen, president of the Shippen 

 Brothers Lumber Company of EUijay, Ga., 

 stopped off in town Tuesday of last week. 



F. R. Gadd, vice-president of the Wisconsin 

 Lumber Company, Chicago, has been at the 

 southern mills of that concern for several weeks. 



S. P. Coppock of the S. P. Coppock & Sons 

 Lumber Company, Fort Wayne. Ind., made a 

 short visit to the local trade during the week. 



C. B. Allen, manager of the veneer department 

 of the Anderson-TuUy Company, has been In 

 town for several days and has been a frequent 

 visitor to the Lumbermen's Club. 



A. J. Cross of the Monadnock block. Chicago, 

 who succeeded his father, the late C. L. Cross, 

 is enjoying a three weeks' visit to the cypress 

 mills in the South. 



George Strable, vice-president and general 

 manager of the Strable Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, manufacturer of hardwood lumber and 

 maple flooring. Saginaw, Mich., was in the city 

 on Thursday, the 14th. 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 Company of Chicago has just returned from a 

 week's visit to the hardwood mills in the Mem- 

 phis territory, where he reported considerable 

 difficulty in securing any adequate amount of 

 stock. 



C. H. Barnaby of Green Castle, Ind., was in 

 Chicago last week in conference with Secretary- 

 Treasurer F. F. Fish of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, of which Mr. Barnaby is 

 president. 



Ralph McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., was in the city several 

 days of last week. 



The General Wood Turning Company has been 

 incorporated at Chicago with a capital stock of 

 $750,000. This company will manufacture 

 pedestals. 



E. L. French of the Hollister-French Lumber 

 Company was in Chicago on November 12. 



The year book for 1912 of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, 66 

 Broadway, New York City, is just off the press. 

 The little volume is an abstract of about all 

 that is worth knowing about this most excellent 

 lumber organization, including lists of officers 

 and committees and a roster of membership. 



John Shafer. brother and associate of Cyrus 

 C. Shafer of South Bend, Ind., was in town 

 Wednesday of last week. 



NEW YORK - 



Maurice J. Breen has been appointed receiver 

 for the Hoboken Planing Mills Company, plant 

 at 507 Newark avenue. Hoboken, N. J. The com- 

 pany gives its assets at $35,000, and it is stated 

 that its liabilities may reach $50,000. 



L. Zodikow, Inc., manufacturer of parlor suite 

 frames, at 334 Stanton street. New Y'ork City, 

 was petitioned into bankruptcy on Nov. 11. The 

 company was incorporated in January, 1912, with 

 a capital stock of $10,000, and succeeded Ludwlg 

 Zodikow, who had been in business for many 



years. Mr. Zodikow was president of the cor- 

 poration. 



The Mershon, Eddy, I'arker Company, Saginaw, 

 Mich., announces the appointment of D. J. 

 Lagatree as manager of the local sales office 

 at 1 .Madison avenue, to succeed the late H. W. 

 -Mexander, who died Oct. 19. Mr. Lagatree has 

 been with the Mershon, Eddy, I'arker Company 

 for nineteen years, during wliich time he has 

 served them in all capacities. His appointment 

 as manager of the local office assures to the 

 local customers of the trade the continuation of 

 the efficient services which the company has 

 always aimed to render. 



William A. Bennett of the well-known Cincin- 

 nati hardwood house, Bennett & Witte, was a 

 visitor in the Metropolitan district last week. 



F. E. Parker of the Mershon, Eddy, Parker 

 Company, Saginaw, Mich., who has been at the 

 local office of the company, returned home last 

 week. 



Charles Milne of Milne Brothers Company, 18 

 Broadway, is out of the city for a short stay. 



The Hill & Neumann Company has been in- 

 corporated in Jersey City, N. J., and succeeds 

 the firm of Hill & Neumann, formed a few 

 months ago. V. J. Hill, A. Wm. Hesz and An- 

 thony Neumann are the incorporators. 



George H. Storm, head of George H. Storm 

 & Co., local hardwood flooring specialists, re- 

 turned from a short hunting trip in the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



The local trade was shocked at the news of 

 the death of Thomas T. Reid. who was connected 

 with the lumber business of the Metropolitan 

 district for many years. Mr. Reid was president 

 of the Dunbar Box & Lumber Company. Death 

 occurred Nov. 17. He was fifty-eight years old. 



On Nov. 10, Mr. Reid was injured in an auto- 

 mobile accident while driving a new car in his 

 home town, Montclair, N. J. Mr. Reid was 

 trying out the new machine, and while descend- 

 iug a hill the machine crashed into an electric 

 light pole and he was thrown out. His brother, 

 Hugh Reid. hurried to the scene and took Mr. 

 Reid to a doctor's office, where his injuries were 

 found to be serious, though hope for his re- 

 covery was manifest. It was reported last week 

 that Mr. Reid's condition was improving but 

 slowly, and his many friends in business and 

 private life felt that he would recover. On 

 Nov. 17, while the family were at dinner, Mr. 

 Reid left his bed and went to an upper porch 

 of the home, where he committed suicide by 

 shooting. Death was instantaneous. 



Mr. Reid was a member of many clubs and 

 was an enthusiast of golf. He was a member 

 and ex-trustee of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association. 



BUFFALO 



A new hardwood firm has been organized in 

 this city and incorporated for $50,000. The 

 name is Miller, Sturm & Miller, and the members 

 are George B. and William P. Miller and Elmer 

 J. Sturm, all of whom have been connected with 

 the hardwood trade here for a dozen years or 

 more. Mr. Sturm and W. P. Miller have been 

 with the former Empire Lumber Company and 

 then with the late F. W. Vettcr. and G. B. Miller 

 has been with the O. E. Ycager office. On Dee. 

 1 the Vettcr yard will be taken over by these 

 young men. who will add largely to the present 

 stocks. They have a large acquaintance both 

 with lumbermen and lumber buyers. Their 

 friends in the trade nud among consumers wish 

 them much success. 



The Wall brothers have formed a new company 

 to take over their holdings of British Columbia 

 timberlands, in which they have become inter- 

 ested to quite an extent, having recently made 

 new purchases there. They have formed the 

 Seneca Timber & Lumber Company, with an 

 authorized capital of $100,000. The directors are 

 J. B.. T. H. and W. M. Wall. 



President W. L. Sykes of the Emporium Lum- 



