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HARDWOOD RECORD 



year for lumber traders. The A. Sherman 

 Lumber Company will manufacture about 15,000,- 

 000 feet of spruce and hemlock, in addition to 

 which it will have supplies of hardwoods, floor- 

 ing and sundry lines, which will be handled 

 through the local wholesale department of the 

 business. 



A meeting of the board of trustees of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 was held on Dec. in at headquarters, 66 Broad- 

 way. The trustees reviewed the work of the 

 .year and discussed the plans in connection with 

 the annual meeting to be held soon. 



A meeting of the stockholders of the Dunbar 

 Box & Lumber Company was held at the office 

 at 282 Eleventh avenue, recently, to take such 

 action as was necessary in the interest of the 

 company by reason of the death of Thomas T. 

 Roid, its former president. Hugo Reid. A. M. 

 Hirsh. W. H. Gillespie, Fred Mueller and Frank 

 C. Hughson w»ere elected a hoard of trustees to 

 serve until the next annual meeting. The fol- 

 lowing officers were also elected : Hugo Reid. 

 president ; W. H. Gillespie, vice-president : Fred 

 Mueller, secretary-treasurer. 



The Hudson Lumber Company. 132 West 

 Eighty-second street, is the name of a selling 

 company new in the ranks of the local whole- 

 sale trade. This company handles hardwoods 

 and cypress lumber, making a specialty of oak, 

 ash and gum. T. W. Hudson is manager in 

 New York. 



Among the visitors to New York during the 

 past fortnight were Gen. Francis E. Waters, 

 Surry Lumber Company, Baltimore : M. S. Tre- 

 main, Montgomery Brothers Lumber Company, 

 Buffalo ; C. L. Robinson of the timber depart- 

 ment of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company. 

 St. Louis; F. C. Rightor. Sparkman Mill & 

 Lumber Company. Little Rock, Ark., and W. M. 

 We.ston, W. M. Weston Company, Boston. 



The New Jersey Veneer Company has pur- 

 chased the mill on East Railway avenue, in the 

 Lakeview section of Paterson, N. .7., and will 

 overhaul the plant. The company will manu- 

 facture high grade doors, panels and veneers 

 for automobiles and other high grade work. 



BUFFALO 



The annual banquet of the (■bamlier of Com- 

 merce proved an entertaining social event. .\d- 

 dresses were made by O. E. Yenger. the retir- 

 ing president, and others. The committee in 

 charge of the affair had I. N. Stewart as its 

 chairman and other members were O. Vl. Yeager. 

 .7. B. Wall and A. W. Kreinheder. Fully as in- 

 teresting a social event was the election and 

 smolter of the Automobile Club of Buffalo, over 

 which organization M. M. Wall will preside as 

 president during the coming year. 



The ,7. E. Dominick furniture factory at 

 Salamanca was badly damaged by fire on Dec. 

 14, with a loss of about $15,000: insurance 

 ,f2.000. Many men were thrown out of work by 

 the blaze. 



George W. Colie of the long established furni- 

 ture concern of Colie & Son, of this city, died 

 on Dec. 17, aged seventy-two years, lie leaves 

 a son and two brothers. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has 

 granted a hearing to the Buffalo lumbermen on 

 Dec. 30 to discuss the reloading privilege on 

 lumber, having points which it wishes to clear 

 up before taking action. 



At the recent inspection trip and meeting 

 held by the government engineers here to discuss 

 harbor improvement for Buffalo, the Lumber Ex- 

 change was represented by H. V. Taylor, H. I. 

 George, W. P. Betts, M. S. Burns and M. M. 

 Wall. A. J. Elias also took part in the advo- 

 cacy of local harbor improvement. 



A. W. Ivreinheder, who has just been elected 

 treasurer of the Automobile Club of Butialo, will 

 this year retire as director of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, in which, however, he retains an 

 aclive interest. 



.7. B. Wall has lately been in the South, look- 

 ing after the lumber interests of his company, 

 which has been getting a large stock of oak 

 from that direction for some weeks. 



Hugh McLean has returned from Ilaymarket. 

 Va., where he attended the wedding of his 

 nephew, H. .7. Gates, a member of the I^ouisville 

 Point Lumber Company of Ijouisville, Ky. 



The N.ational Lumber Company has completeil 

 .and is now occupying its new storehouse which 

 will be used especially for maple and othi'r floor- 

 ing. The company reports business as ver.v 

 good. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller's additions to stock 

 since opening the yard early this month have 

 been oak and maple chiefly. Trade is reported 

 to be satisfactory. 



Anthony Miller has a large stock of general 

 liardwoods at the inventory season, although 

 I rade is stated to have been pretty good during 

 the past month, especially in oak and maple. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. have been filling some 

 orders for mahogany lately, a wood which has 

 not been doing much in this market for some 

 time. They have also sold fair amounts of oak 

 and ash. 



O. E. Yeager states that the hardw'ood trade 

 is improving and that a good q\iantity of busi- , 

 ness has been placed for shipment immediatel.v 

 after the taking of inventories. 



The oflice of T. Sullivan & Co. states that 

 there is a larger demand lately for Nos. 2 and 3 

 common basswood and that low-grade poplar is 

 also in better sale. 



71. T. ICerr is doing considerable business in 

 Pennsylvania hardwoods and expects to cvit 

 200.000 feet of cherry next year, besides a lib- 

 eral amount of soft maple and liircli. 



PHILADELPHIA 



E. M. Bechtel, sales manager for William 

 Whitmer & Sons, Inc., testifies to an all round 

 good business. Mills are all active and shipping 

 out stuff as fast as cars are available. 



Frank E. Schofleld of Schofleld Brothers re- 

 ports a banner year's trading, and signs potent 

 for a prosperous lOl.l. The Saltkeatchie Lum- 

 ber Company's mill. Schofleld. S. C. is running 

 full capacity, and the Ilonaker, Va.. plant with 

 its three band mills is turning out from 2.300.- 

 000 to 3.000.000 feet of lumber a month. 



Daniel B. Curll reports a big year's business, 

 and is confident that 1013 will cap the record. 

 His brother. H. M. Curll of .Seattle. Wash., 

 where he has interests in the lumber business, 

 is spending the holidays in Philadelphia, and 

 may eventually make this city his home. 



The Summit laimber Company has moved its 

 office from 101!) Real Estate Trust building, this 

 city, to 503 Bennett Block. Wilkesbarre. Pa. 



Charles L. Meckley. formerly of the Meckley, 

 Lance Lumber Company, which went out of busi- 

 ness recentl.v. has returned to .7ames Strong & 

 Co.. witli whom he became associated when 

 quite a lad. He joins the selling staff of this 

 house. 



Among the recent visitors to the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange rooms were John F. Bertles of Bertles 

 & Bertles. Spokane. Wash., and Edwin W. Adams, 

 Atlantic Cit.y. N. J. 



P. M. Lachmund. sales manager for the Pot- 

 latch I.,umber Company. I'otlatcb. Idaho, while 

 visiting the local trade recently, was the guest 

 of Owen M. Bruner. 



J. W. Difenderfer of J. W. Difeuderfer Lum- 

 ber Company, reports satisfactory trading all 

 along the line. He is making a short stay at 

 the mill in east Tennessee. 



W. R. Taylor president of the W. R. Taylor 

 I^umber Company, recently returned from North 

 Carolina and Tennessee, where he made a satis- 

 factory deal for about 3,000,000 feet of white 

 pine, hardwoods and hemlock. He reports ship- 

 ments easier, and anticipates a prolific business 

 for 1913. 



Charles F. Kreanier of Kreamcr & Co., says 

 good orders are coming in right along and the 



outlook is favorable. He reports a decided im- 

 provement in the coal region situ.ition. 



Thomas B, Rutter, Jr., of Mingus & Rutter, 

 speaks philosophically of trade conditions. He 

 says things are keeping up well for this time of 

 the year, and is optimistic as to the near future. 



The Fulton-Walker Company, extensive wagon 

 builder, is obliged to seek new quarters on ac- 

 count of contemplated improvements by the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad. It recently purchased 

 the Lengert building, 237 to 245 South Twelfth 

 street, formerly occupied by Michael Lengert, 

 carriage manufacturer. 



PITTSBURGH 



• The De Voss & Adelman Lumber Company has 

 l)een dissolved and the business will be continued 

 under the name of the Adelman Lumber Comp.any 

 with offices at 311-313 House building. The 

 members are A. and C. H. Adelman. 



The A. M. Ivinney IjUmbcr Company has 

 liought two more small tracts of maple and oak 

 in Ohio and will cut it off at once. It has 

 three mills now working in the Buckeye state. 



The Garling & Splane Company has moved 

 its offices to suite 1201 House building. The 

 company reports an excellent outlook for lumber 

 next year. 



The Germain Company announces that it is 

 passing up some very good business because of 

 a scarcity of cars. Export business is still 

 very dull but the company's officials look for a 

 big improvement in general trade after the 

 first of the year. 



President W. D. Johnston of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Compan.v announces 

 that 1012 has shown at least twenty per cent 

 more business on the books of the company than 

 last year. He believes that with the better 

 business conditions prevailing and a more hope- 

 ful spirit everywhere, the lumber business will 

 improve right along next year. 



The Pittsburgh Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company wrote over $400,000 more 

 direct business this .year than in 1911. Through 

 its secretary, Carl Van der Voort, it is cutting 

 out much of the imdesirable business that always 

 runs down and the company is making fine head- 

 way at present. 



The Balsley & McCracken Company is doing 

 a very nice business in the new First National 

 bank building and bids fair to be one of the real 

 hardwood concerns in this citv. 



BOSTON 



Charles O. Skinner of the C. O. Skinucr Com- 

 pany, Boston, died Dec. 10, following an opera- 

 tion which was performed a few weeks before 

 and from whicli he did not rally. He was forty 

 years old. Mr. Skinner was one of the most 

 Itopular of the younger men in the luiuber trade 

 in Boston and was well known throughout the 

 South and West. The lumber dealers of Boston 

 met on the day of the funeral and passed reso- 

 lutions on his death. The funei*al services wert* 

 attended by 'a lar.ge delegation of Ills business 

 associates. 



George P. Clark, formerly one of the most 

 active lumber dealers in Boston, died at his home 

 in this city Dec. 9 at the age of eighty years. 

 Death was due to heart failure. 



William E. Litchfield, a prominent hardwood 

 lumber dealer. Boston, returned from a western 

 trip a week ago. Lie visited the mill of Litch- 

 field Brothers at North \'ernon. Ind. 



.\lexander Neeley, a lumber dealer in Mobile. 

 Ala., has been visiting his brother in BostO)> 

 this month. 



The export lumber business from the port of 

 Boston to South America is being resumed after 

 a period of several months dullness. A large 

 amount of plain oak and pine is being loaded for 

 shipment this month. 



The S. A. Smith Manufacturing Company. 

 Brattleboro. Vt.. has been Incorporated with a 

 caipitai stock of .$150,000. The incorporators are 



