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HARDWOOD RECORD 



J R McGiffert, secretary and treasurer, and 

 C A. Luster, president of the Clyde Iron Works, 

 Duluth. Minn., stopped at tlie Hardwood Recokd 

 offices on Dec. 3, during a short visit to the city. 



J. W. Thompson o£ the J. W. Thompson Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., spent 

 a few days last week in Chicago on a selling 



trip. 



C. P. Crosby of Rhinelander, Wis., was one of 

 the prominent visitors to the local trade re- 

 cently. 



W. E. Cox of the Nichols & Cox Lumber Com- 

 pany, Grand Rapids. Mich., made a short stop 

 at this city the latter part of last week. 



R. G. Page of the Licking River Lumber Com- 

 pany, South Bend, Ind., was a recent visitor to 

 this town. 



W. D. Reeves of the W. D. Reeves Lumber 

 Company, Helena, Ark., spent most of last week 

 soliciting business in the local market. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis, Mo., made a trip of several 

 days' duration to the local market last week. 



j. W. Dickson of the J. W. Dickson Lumber 

 Company. Memphis, Tenn., recently put in a few 

 days with the local trade. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 Cincinnati, O., spent three days of last week in 

 this city, during which visit he took time to 

 call at Hardwood Record offices. Mr. Doster 

 is on an extended trip in the interest of his 

 association, and upon leaving Chicago went to 

 Memphis, from which point he will journey to 

 New Orleans and other southern points. 



C. M. Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany, well-known hardwood manufacturer of 

 Cincinnati, dropped in at this office on Saturday 

 of last week while waiting for a train to take 

 him back to Cincinnati. 



C. L. Faust of the Faust Brothers Lumber 

 Company, Paducah, Ky., spent Wednesday, 

 Thursday and Friday of last week consulting 

 with his Chicago manager, J. F. Mingea. 



W. E. Barnes of St. Louis, the well-known 

 lumber journalist, wab in the city a few days 

 the early part of last week. 



The National Piano Bench Company of Chi- 

 cago has recently increased its capital stock to 

 $10,000. 



J. M. Hastings of the Davison Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ltd., local office 1 Madison avenue, re- 

 turned recently from a trip to the company's 

 large operations at Bridgewater, N.' S. 



NEW YORK 



Edward J. Glenn, Brooklyn hardwood dealer, 

 has moved from 583 Kent avenue to 1205 Myrtle 

 avenue, in the Bushwick section, where he has 

 improved and enlarged yard space. Mr. Glenn 

 has been engaged in the hardwood trade in 

 Brooklyn for several years. 



Friends of E. L. Sinsabaugh, hardwood and 

 mahogany lumber and veneer manufacturer and 

 wholesaler of Long Island City, are united in 

 expressions of sympathy in the loss of his wife, 

 which occurred last week. Mrs. Sinsabaugh 

 was active in charity work, and was a member 

 of the board of managers of the Congregational 

 Home for the Aged. 



Ben C. Currie of Currie & Campbell, Philadel- 

 phia hardwood wholesaler, was among recent 

 visitors to the Metropolitan district. He reports 

 satisfactory business in point of inquiry and 

 orders, but finds some difficulty in getting for- 

 ward shipments, a condition experienced at this 

 time by most lumber shippers. He considers 

 that the future for the lumber trade is bright. 



Sam E. Barr, hardwood wholesaler, reports 

 business good and is well pleased with condi- 

 tions generally. He is getting forward a very 

 good percentage of his lumber, which is rather 

 unusual at this time. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, was a recent visitor in New 

 York. 



A. Allan Dill of the Baltimore lumber firm of 

 Lewis Dill & Co., was in New York recently in 

 the interest of business. 



BUFFALO 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 a large assortment of oak and chestnut at its 

 now Baitz avenue yard. Business is reported 

 fair, but cars are not at all plentiful. 



B. E. Darling of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, 

 who lately returned from a business trip to the 

 South, found mill stocks much broken in all 

 hardwoods. The yard recently added to its 

 stocks in various woods. 



Hugh McLean spent Thanksgiving day in New 

 York City, taking dinner with his son and 

 daughter, who are attending college in neighbor- 

 ing cities. He states that the lumber trade is 

 very fair. 



J. B. Wall left early this month for an in- 

 spection trip of a number of mills of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company in the South, ex- 

 pecting to be gone several weeks. 



Anthony Miller has been receiving a number 

 of hardwood stocks, including birch, cherry, 

 maple and ash. He states that there is a steady, 

 though not unusually brisk, demand for hard- 

 woods. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller started in at the for- 

 mer Vetter yard early in December and have 

 lately been taking inventory. They expect to 

 add quite a little to present stocks. 



O. E. Yeager was lately in Pittsburgh, where 

 he attended the annual banquet of the Pitts- 

 burgh Chamber of Commerce. He reports a fair 

 amount of trade in hardwoods, with the outlook 

 promising. 



H. A. Stewart is back from a business trip to 

 Charleston, W. Va., where he found the mills 

 pretty busy and most of them complaining 

 strongly over the present shortage of cars. 



F. M. Sullivan has returned from an eastern 

 business trip and reports a pretty good demand 

 for hardwoods. Orders are largely made up of 

 oak, elm and ash at present. 



As chairman of the sub-committee of the ter- 

 minal commission, J. N. Scatcherd is active in 

 promoting the interest of that body. It was 

 hoped that the court decision would be favor- 

 able, but matters are still in an unsettled con- 

 dition. 



What is said to have been the largest hard- 

 wood cargo ever brought to this port reached 

 here on Dec. 2, consigned to the yard of Hamil- 

 ton H. Salmon & Co., on South street, of which 

 Frank T. Sullivan is manager. The cargo con- 

 tained 1,677,000 feet of maple. The lumber 

 came from Pequaming, Mich. 



The Automobile Club of Buffalo, which is the 

 largest organization of its kind in the world, 

 will hold its annual meeting and election on 

 Dec. 16 and in the evening a smoker will be 

 held at the Broadway Auditorium. Maurice M. 

 Wall has been nominated tor president of the 

 club and A. W. Kreinheder for treasurer. 



ports expanded trading. He says it is easier 

 getting orders than shipping the stock, espe- 

 cially when lumber at mills is sold way ahead. 



The machinery of the Penn-Sumter Lumber 

 Company, Sumter, S. C. recently organized -by 

 Wistar, Underbill & Nixon, has begun to hum. 

 Its mill has commenced to make lumber, and 

 from present indications a big pile may soon be 

 expected. 



Horace A. Reeves, Jr., says things are moving 

 without serious disturbance. Stocks are a little 

 hard to get, but nothing more alarming is appre- 

 hended to interfere with smooth business unless 

 prices keep soaring. 



J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company, which has 

 outgrown present quarters, is preparing to take 

 offices in the new Stock Exchange building. In 

 the near future. G. C. Burkholder of this house 

 reports excellent trading, and the Bristol Door 

 and Lumber Company. Bristol, Tenn., which it 

 represents, rushed with orders. 



William H. Fritz of W. H. Fritz & Co. says 

 orders are multiplying and prices are stiff. As 

 they are handling mainly northern woods they 

 have fortunately had very little trouble with 

 the car shortage. 



Howes & Russell state that the Birch River 

 Lumber Company, Birch River, W. Va., which 

 they own, and which is now making lumber, is 

 turning out some excellent stock. The opera- 

 tion is under the able management of Joseph P. 

 Dunwood.v. 



The planing mill of John Griffee & Co., ad- 

 joining the J. B. Van Sciver's ex^tensive furniture 

 factory, Camden, N. J., was destroyed by fire, 

 Nov. 27, causing a loss estimated at $10,000. The 

 firemen were fortunate in preventing the spread 

 of the flames to the Van Sciver plant. 



Moulton H. Davis, lumber dealer. West Ches- 

 ter, Pa., at one time president of the Structural 

 Iron Workers' Union of Philadelphia and who 

 was indicted in connection with the dynamite 

 cases being tried in Indianapolis, has been re- 

 leased, as it was shown that Davis had resigned 

 from the union in 1906. 



I'rank Crane, one of the best-lcnown men in 

 the New Jersey lumber trade, and senior mem- 

 ber of the firm of Crane Bros.. Clayton, N. J., 

 died of acute indigestion Nov. 26. He was sixty- 

 two years old. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular 

 monthly meeting preceded b.v a luncheon on Dec. 

 5. President William T. Betts presided. Only 

 routine business was transacted. The board of 

 directors has decided to change the next monthly 

 meeting from Jan. 2 to January 9, as the ex- 

 change will hold its usual annual social enter- 

 tainment on Dec. 31. 



The Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association has decided to postpone its regular 

 December monthly meeting until Jan. 9, 1913, 

 when it will hold its annual meeting and ban- 

 quet. 



PHILADELPHIA 



J. W. Floyd of the Floyd-Olmstead Company 

 continues unperturbed as to trade conditions. 

 Business is good and prices satisfactory. The 

 company has a fair quantity of lumber on hand, 

 but is not forcing it on the market. It recently 

 removed with Charles Atherton & Co., who occu- 

 pied the same office, from No. 307 Bulletin build- 

 ing to 709 and 11, where it has more commo- 

 dious quarters. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son says there is nothing the matter with busi- 

 ness. Prices are all right, only a little incon- 

 venienced by the somewhat low stocks. He is 

 spending considerable time in North and South 

 Carolina looking after desirable contracts. 



Norman A. Perry of Robert C. Lippincott re- 



PITTSBURQH 



Isaac Seman of Uniontown, Pa., and others 

 have bought 5,000 acres of timborland in Jeffer- 

 son township and expect to put in a mill and cut 

 it off shortly. The timber is largely hardwood 

 and will be shipped out over the Baltimore & 

 Ohio. 



Fred R. Babcock, of the Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany was last week elected president of the 

 board of trustees of Grove City College, Grove 

 City, Pa. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has secured Frank B. Clayton as an addi- 

 tion to its sales force. He has been for three 

 years manager of the D. M. Nesbit Box Company 

 at East Lewisburg, Pa. 



The Jamestown Panel Company, capital $75,- 

 000, has been incorporated by Frank Morrison, B. 

 E. Strong, Frank Erl, R. Z. Morrison and others 

 of Warren, Pa., to take over the business of the 

 Jamestown Veneer & Panel Company at James- 

 town, Pa. The plant will be improved at once. 



