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HARDWOOD RECORD 



F. Rueb of Kueb & Glaclinian. Rotterdam. Hol- 

 land, arrived in this city last week for the pur- 

 pose of vlsltiiig mill points in the interest of 

 business. 



G. L. Schuyler & Co., Inc., retail lumber deal- 

 ers. Manhattan, ai-c in flnamial dltllculty. The 

 sheriff received an execution for $1.4:{-t in favor 

 of the Booth & Lewis Lumber Company and put 

 a keeper in charge, but was later served with a 

 stay of proceedings, due, it is said, to the fact 

 that some of the stockholders had applied to the 

 attorney general for a voluntary dissolution of 

 the corporation and the temporary appointment 

 of a receiver. 



\V. a. Butler of W. K. Butler & Co., Boston, 

 was here recently. This company is the New 

 England sales agent for the Emporium Lumber 

 Company at Keating Summit, I'a. 



Capt. !•'. B. Williams, large cypress manufac- 

 turer of Patterson. La., arrived in New York 

 from Europe Oct. S. 



The Standard Oil Company is reported as very 

 active in the acquisition of hard and soft wood 

 timber lands in the North Carolina pine belt 

 and has at the present time under consideration 

 the purchase of a tract of 20,000,000 feet at 

 Pamlico Sound. 



Petition in bankruptcy has been filed against 

 C. C. Lapham. doing business as N. Lapham & 

 Co.. wholesale lumber and cooperage stock, 130 

 Nassau street, by A. G. Bailey & Bro., Luray, 

 Va., and other creditors, with claims aggregating 

 ?;j,700. It was alleged in the petition that he 

 is Insolvent, has transferred part of his property 

 to certain creditoi-s and concealed other property. 

 Chailes L. Brookheim has been appointed re- 

 ceiver and all the assets in sight are the office 

 furniture. Mr. Laphams whereabouts are un- 

 known and it is stated that he has not been at 

 his office but one day since early in September. 



G. L. Smith, surveyor general of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, Indianapolis, 

 Ind., has been spending several days in town 

 during the fortnight in collaboration with the 

 local association inspector, and reports condi- 

 tions as very satisfactory in the National Asso- 

 ciation. 



Baltimore. 



Hardwood dealers, members of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange, have organized a hardwood 

 section or general committee which will look 

 after ail matters relating to the trade. The sec- 

 tion will work with the exchange, all of Its 

 conclusions and recommendations being submit- 

 ted to the managing committee for approval. 

 At a meeting held October 10, George W. Eisen- 

 hauer was elected chairman, and David T. Car- 

 ter, secretary, of the section. Various matters 

 of interest to the trade were also discussed. 

 Subcommittees on inspection and on railroad 

 freight rates were also appointed, with Jolin L. 

 Alcock and Richard P. Baer as chairmen rc- 

 ■•^pectively. 'J"hc committee met last Tuesday 

 and the conclusions arrived at will be embodied 

 in reports and submitted to the general com- 

 mittee at a meeting next Tuesday. Nearly all 

 the hardwood llrms In the city are enrolled on 

 the list of members, and the new section Is ex- 

 pected to accomplish mnch good. 



Special efforts are being made by the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association to extend 

 the Influence of this organization and to bring 

 a larger numlier of hardwood dealers under the 

 scope of the Inspection rules adopted by it. 

 With this end In view George L. Smith, surveyor 

 general of the association, visited Baltimore 

 last Monday and Tuesday, calling on various 

 Arms and explaining the operation of the rules. 

 He secured the promise of .7ohn L. Alcock and 

 others to submit the matter to the recently 

 formed hardwood section of the Lumber Ex- 

 change next Tuesday for action. Mr. Smith was 

 on a tour of the eastern cities. He had been 

 to Buffalo. KochCHter, New York and other cen- 

 ters, and left last Tuesday night for Pittsburg, 

 on the way home to Indianapolis, bis headquar- 



ters. In about one week he will start on a 

 similar trip through the southern states. 



Baltimore will be represented at the meeting 

 of the committee of representatives of the allied 

 lumber associations named to consider the ques- 

 tion of car equipment, which will be held next 

 Tuesday in Chicago, by Lewis Dill of Lewis 

 Hill & Co., president of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association ; Edward I'. Gill of 

 W. D. Gill & Son and, possibly, by Norman 

 James of N. W. James & Co. Mr. James, how- 

 ever, is on a trip to property recently pur- 

 chased in Haywood county, and m.ay not return 

 in time to leave with the other delegates next 

 .Monday. Messrs. Gill and James represent the 

 Baltimore Lumber Exchange. The committee 

 was appointed at the midsummer meeting of the 

 .National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion at Ottawa and represents all of the eigh- 

 teen organizations affiliated with the national 

 body. The complaint about the refusal of the 

 railroads to provide car equipment, which is 

 now before the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion, will be considered. 



The Stirling-West Lumber Company has been 

 sued in the United States court here by Gelli- 

 hrand. Ileyward & Co., a London firm of timber 

 brokers, for $5,000 on open account. Usually 

 the amount claimed represents double the sum 

 actually alleged to be due, so that there is at 

 issue between the complainant and defendant a 

 matter of .$2,500. The Stirling- West company 

 has been doing business otf and on for some 

 time past through the London firm, and does 

 not deny being its debtor, but contends that the 

 firm has in its possession some lumber shipped 

 by* the company, for which no return has been 

 made, and the allegation is set up that the firm 

 is not entitled to a settlement without taking 

 into account this item. It is also cbarged that 

 the brokers have not looked after the interests 

 of the company as tl:ey should iiave done. As a 

 specific instance of incompetency or worse it Is 

 mentioned that the firm sold a carload of pop- 

 lar admittedly of good salable quality for one 

 shilling, when the ruling price of that grade 

 was not less than two shillings or two shillings 

 six pence. 



The entire timber holdings of the Preston 

 Lumber & Coal Company of Wliite Haven, Pa., 

 have been sold to J. L, and S. A. Kendall and 

 their associates in the Yough Manor Lumber 

 Company of Kendall. Garrett county, Maryland. 

 The holdings of the Preston company include 

 not less than 24,000 acres of land, a large part 

 of it overgrown with virgin limber. There Is 

 on the property a large sawmill of a daily ca- 

 pacity of $125,000 feet, another mill being In 

 the mountains. The property also includes 

 thirty-two miles of standard gauge road with 

 the necessary rolling stock ; the entire town 

 of Crellin, Md. The purchase price has not 

 been given out. It Is said to be the Intention 

 of the purchasers to organize a company with 

 a capital of .$1,000,000. 



The lumber firm of Cockey & Co., Baltimore, 

 was placed in the hands of a receiver October 

 14, when the Windsor Park Company filed a 

 complaint alleging that it was a creditor to the 

 extent of $450.89 and that the firm was Insol- 

 vent. Both allegations were assented to by 

 Cockey & Co., and John C. Tolson was named 

 as receiver. J. H. T. Cockey Is treasurer of the 

 company. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here last week 

 was E. S. Moss of Moss & Co., London. Mr. 

 Moss Ik on a tour of the lumber sections In the 

 United Slates and called at various oillces here 

 In the course of his Journey, Ills wife accom- 

 panies hlra. 



Moses L. Illmmcl, a manufacturer of ofBce 

 furniture and store fixtures, died October 10 

 rather suddenly of heart failure, brought on by 

 acute Indigestion. Mr. Hlniincl was born In 

 Baltimore June ?,, 184.'!, and has been In IiuhI- 

 ncHB about forty years. He succeeded his father 

 as the senior member of the firm, which had 

 been known since 1805 as M. L. HImmel & Son. 



He belonged to a number of charitable societies 

 and leaves a wife and four sous and a daughter. 

 -\ new furniture manufacturing concern has 

 lieen organized under the name of the Heading- 

 ton-Pfell Furniture Manufacturing Company, Wil- 

 liam Ileadington, formerly of Hall & lleadington, 

 furniture dealers, is president and general man- 

 ager; Reuben Foster, vice president, and G. 

 Henry Pfeil, secretary-treasurer. The company 

 has leased a lot on Lakewood avenue and Dil- 

 lon street, and will erect thereon a four-story 

 brick buildiug 50 by loO feet, together with a 

 lioiler and engine liouse and the necessary dry 

 kilns. The plant is to be ready for operation 

 by January. 



Pittcburg. 



J. W. Hyde, who represents the Ensign- 

 Oskamp Lumber Company and the Georgia- 

 Florida Mill Company, with beadquarters at 

 Tifton, Ga., spent a few days to good advan- 

 tage among his I'ittsburg friends last week. 



Ground has been broken for the S. C. Reid 

 Hub Factory at Warren, O., and most of the 

 factory equipment has arrived. 'I'he plant was 

 formerly located at Bluffton. Ind. 



James 11. Mason of the Mohler Lumber Com- 

 pany was killed at Loch Seven. W. Va., a piece 

 of timber from the saw hitting him and crushing 

 his skull. 



The Hough Pump Company has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital of .$."i0.000 to do business 

 at Franklin. Pa. The directors are Walter E. 

 and David II. Morris and John A. Ilcllstroin of 

 I'ittsburg and Charles N. Hough of Franklin. A 

 plant will be erected soon. 



The plant of the Enterprise Mantel & Tile 

 Company in Wabash avenue, West End, was 

 badly burned by fire recently. The loss is esti- 

 mated at $13,000. 



The Real Estate Trust Company lias secured 

 control of the last good tract of limber in Erie 

 county, Pennsylvania, consisting of about 3,500 

 trees. It is estimated that 000,000 feet of hem- 

 lock and hardwoods will be cut from the tract. 



Fair & Keator report a great scarcity of cars 

 but plenty of orders for hemlock and hardwood. 

 Ben C. Keator, a member of the firm, is now In 

 Chicago on business. , 



The Nicola Building Company has just secured 

 the contract for twenty-five houses at Colllng- 

 wood, O., to be built for employes of the Lake 

 Shore & .Michigan Soufliorn Railway sliops there. 

 Tills makes a total of seventy-five houses that 

 the Nicola Building Company has contracted for 

 at Colllngwood this season. The same company 

 has completed IGO of the last 200 houses which 

 it contracted to build for the Sheffield Land & 

 Improvement Company at Lorain, O., for the 

 employes of the National Tube Company's plant. 



'I'he American Lumber ik Manufacturing (.''om- 

 pany reports trouble with Hie car shortage. In 

 the hardwood deparlment they are doing a rush- 

 ing business. Tlie trips of J. N. Woollelt. man- 

 ager of tills department, and his assistant have 

 brought 111 a fine lot of business this fall. 



"Very busy" is tlie suggestive comment which 

 Wlllson Brothers have to make regarding tra<le. 

 They are rushed with orders and could handle 

 much more lumber If they had the stock and 

 the cars to move It. 



Lewis Hiirter, who formerly held an Impor- 

 tant position with a lumber firm In Chicago, is 

 the new Pittsburg manager of the Paine Lumber 

 Company. Ltd., Oshkosli, Wis. He su<'cee<Ied 

 W. M. Wolcott. who has been appointed to take 

 charge of the Louisville, Cincinnati and St. 

 Louis trade of the company and will spend con- 

 siderable time on the road. The Pittsburg ofilce 

 Is doing a rushing btislness In doors which archi- 

 tects are specifying widely. Its trade during 

 September and October was fully 25 per cent 

 belter than one year ago. 



Tin? Cheat River Lumber Company Is having 

 a big inquiry for oak for furniture slock, most 

 (it 11 going to New York and Pennsylvania flriuH. 

 II recently got an order for 250,000 feet of oak 

 to be delivered In Ohio for railroad purposes, and 



