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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The H ADD WOOD Record is advised by Putnam 

 & Savidge, wholesale building lumber and 

 hardwoods, Cleveland. O.. that in order to 

 obtain additional office room it has been 

 necessary for them to move their headquar- 

 ters from the Arcade building to 934 and 935 

 Williamson building. 



The Southern Cypress Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation will meet at the St. Charles hotel, 

 New Orleans. Nov. 22 and 23. A large at- 

 tendance of southern cypress men is expected 

 and several important committees will re- 

 port, so that the meeting will doubtless be 

 exceedingly interesting and valuable. 



George D. Emery, the eminent mahogany 

 magnate of Boston, was a Chicago visitor a 

 few days ago. 



William Wilms, vice president of the 

 Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company of this city, 

 is absent on a trip of inspection to the com- 

 pany's southern operations. 



N. A. Gladding, sales manager of E. C. 

 Atkins &. Co., Inc.. of Indianapolis, was a 

 visitor at the Recokd office a few days ago. 

 Mr. Gladding reports business never better 

 and says that even the recently increased fa- 

 cilities of the big Atkins company are al- 

 i-eady tested to their utmost capacity. 



Last Friday the Record received a wel- 

 come call from W. C. Johnson, the dean of 

 the lumber mutual fire insurance fraternity, 

 president of the Lumber Mutual Fire Insur- 

 ance Company of Boston. Mr. Johnson has 

 made a most enviable record in the conduct of 

 the affairs of his insurance company. His rate 

 of dividend to policy holders is now per- 

 manently established at thirty-three and one- 

 third percent, and besides this he is show- 

 ing a handsome accretion of profits. This 

 company has saved policy holders during the 

 past ten years more than $300,000 in pre- 

 miums. In the nine months of the current 

 year the company's gain has been upwards of 

 $S0,000. In the case of the Lumber Mutual 

 Fire Insurance Company it has been amply 

 demonstrated that conservatism pays. Under 

 the rigid Massachusetts insurance laws this 

 company does business in a good many 

 states and its policies have become especially 

 popular in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio. 



James Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Com- 

 pany, Ltd., Saginaw, Mich., was a Chicago 

 visitor this week. 



R. S. Cooper, Memphis manager of the 

 Crlggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., was among 

 the callers at the Hardwood Record office this 

 week. 



Among the hardwood lumbermen who were 

 Chicago visitors at the several conventions 

 held during the past fortnight were R. W. 

 Higble. New York City; W. J. WagstafC, Osh- 

 kosh. Wis.; H. C. Humphrey, Appleton, Wis.; 

 B. F. McMillan, McMillan, Wis.; Earl Palmer, 

 Paducah, Ky.; R. H. Vansant, Ashland, Ky.; 

 F. W. Vetter, Buffalo, N, Y.; E. P. Arpin, 

 Grand Rapids, Wis.; B. W. Thompson, Grand 

 Kaplds, Mich. 



Boston. 



A. Corse of Orange, Mass., and F. Roberts of 

 Brattleboro, Vt., have bought out the wood- 

 working plant In Orange which has been operated 

 by George Lawrence for thirty years. The new 

 owners will enlarge the plant and fancy finish 

 will be added to the output. 



In the death of Franklin A. Hall of Charles- 

 It wu, SIoss., one of the oldest retired lumbermen 

 In Massachnsetts baa passed away. Mr. Hall 

 was a member of the firm of Noble & Hall, and 

 retired from active business about thirty-flve 

 years aeo. He died on the anniversary of his 

 birth, aged 86 years. 



V. W. Macfarlane of Greenville, Mc„ Is 

 erectlnj? a new veneer mill. 



Frank L. Allen has repurchased his Interest 

 In the Frank L. Allen Lumber Company of Fall 

 River, Mass., which he sold to Edward B. Fran- 

 cis early In September, at which time he In- 



tended to retire. The capital stock of the cor- 

 poration is $40,000, 



The New England Furniture Manufacturing 

 Company of Cambridge, Mass,, has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of .$10,000. The 

 incorporators are Eskil G. Nelson, John S. F. 

 Seavey and Mattie A. Seavey. 



F. B. Reynolds, president of the Boston Lum- 

 ber Company, has returned from an extended 

 trip to the Provinces. 



F, Rueb of Rueb & Glackman, Rotterdam, 

 Holland, recently visited the trade in this city. 

 Upon leaving here he went to Chicago. 



Joseph Hilton of the Hilton & Dodge Lumber 

 Company of St. Simon's Mills, Ga., visited this 

 market recently. This concern is erecting a 

 large dry kiln at its cypress mill near Bruns- 

 wick, Ga. 



Franl4 Lawrence of Lawrence & Wlggiu was 

 confined to his home early in the month as the 

 result of being run over by an automobile. 



Fred B. Loud of the H. M. Loud's Sons Com- 

 pany, Au Sable, Mich., was in Boston early last 

 week. Mr. Loud is also manager of the Buffalo 

 Maple Flooring Company of Buffalo, N. Y'. ITiis 

 company recently went into the hands of a 

 receiver. Mr. Loud and others have bought the 

 plant and will operate it. 



George Miller, for seventeen years superin- 

 tendent of the C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Com- 

 pany, has gone to South Carolina to look over 

 a sawmill proposition. Mr. Miller resigned from 

 the Leatherbee Company last spring. 



The L. P. Aubin bobbin mill of Newport, Vt., 

 which was recently destroyed by fire, is to be 

 rebuilt on a large scale. 



Harry C. Philbrick of Boston is receiving the 

 congratulations of his many friends in the 

 H'ade upon the recent birth of another son. 



William H. Wood, a member of the Wood- 

 Barker Company of Boston, has recentl.v taken 

 over the interests of J. M. Buck in the J. M. 

 Buck Lumber Company of Johnson City, Tenn. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co. of Boston has been spending a 

 week or ten days in New Brunswick. Ralph 

 Woodbury, salesman for this company, returned 

 from his wedding trip about two weeks ago. ' 



New York. 



Charles F. Fischer, hardwcod retailer of this 

 city, has been appointed vicegerent snark for the 

 eastern district of New York. The Empire state 

 will be heard from very soon with a rousing 

 concatenation. 



F. E. Longwell, for several years lumber pur- 

 chasing agent for the National Casket Company 

 of Hoboken, N. J., has severed his connection 

 with that company to assume the management 

 of the Huntsvllle Lumber Company of James- 

 town, N. Y., taking the place of Milton D. 

 Stone, who was recently accidentally shot and 

 killed in the Adlrondacks. E. S. Foster, man- 

 ager of the hardwood department of R. li. Cur- 

 rier at Springfield, Mass., has been appointed 

 successor to Mr. I/ongwell and will take up his 

 duties at once. Mr. Foster has a host of friends 

 who are congratulating him on his new ap- 

 pointment. 



R. W. Higble, 45 Broadway, city, has Just 

 closed a deal for a large tract of hardwood 

 timber. He will proceed to erect a mill to 

 manufacture same. 



C. H. Stanton of Buffalo, N. Y., manager of 

 the Michigan Maple Company, was a recent vis- 

 itor here In the Interest of business, 



F, M. Harlow of Harlow, Todd & (^o., Hart- 

 ford, Conn., was In New York recently. He 

 states that his firm has taken over the hardwood 

 plant of J. H, Sllsby & Co. at lyowell, Vt., and 

 will manufacture about G,000,000 feet of hard- 

 woods the coming year In connection with Its 

 other lines. 



There have been some changes In the light- 

 erage limits of New York harbor to the elTcct 

 llinl the lltnlls on the cost shore of Stalen 



Island now read : "Between Bridge Creek (Ar- 

 lington) and Clifton, both inclusive and includ- 

 ing Elm Park, Erastina and Shooter island." 

 These changes are now effective and are of in- 

 terest to shippers to this market. 



A. L. Foster of the J. W. Thompson Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn.. has been looking over 

 the situation here during the past week. He 

 reports business very satisfactory. 



E. M. Price of Price & Hart was an Inter- 

 ested attendant at the grand jury proceedings 

 of the lumber exporter.s' case against the John- 

 ston Line of steamers on the through bill of 

 lading matter at Baltimore last week. 



The following is evidence of what the lumber 

 Hre insurance companies are extending to the 

 trade in the way of prompt settlement : The 

 iiig Rhinelander fire occurred on October 4, and 

 <^n October 14 the Lumber Insurance Company 

 of New York. 06 Broadway, city, sent its draft 

 in full for Its share of the line, amounting to 

 several thousand dollars. 



F. B. Jones, formerly connected with the Ber- 

 lin Machine Works, Beloit, Wis., has joined the 

 force of the American Wood Working Machinery 

 Company in this city and will in future act as 

 the direct representative of President J. E. Mc- 

 Kelvey. 



James T. Mulgrew. for several years asso- 

 liated with the Carroll Box & Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, has engaged in the wholesale 

 hardwood business on his own account with 

 offices at 1133 Broadway. 



Samuel Eurkholder of the S. Burkholdcr Lum- 

 ber Company, Crawfordsville, Ind., was a recent 

 visitor in the interest of business. 



Shwab Bros., manufacturers of plumbers' 

 woodwork and hardwood trim. Brooklyn, have 

 purchased a large factory in that city, which Is 

 iieing equipped with up-to-date appliances, and 

 when complete will be the largest plumbers' 

 woodwork factory in the East, 



Robert Patterson of the Patterson Lumber 

 Company, Philadelphia, was here Oct. 21 to 

 meet his mother and sisters on their arrival from 

 Europe. 



W. J. Eckman, secretary of the M. B. Farrin 

 liUmber Company, Cincinnati, accompanied by 

 W. H. Pfeister. Philadelphia representative, 

 spent several days here during the fortnight on 

 business. He reports the hardwood line satis- 

 factory. 



The American Saw Mill Machinery Company 

 (if this city is about to establish a branch sell- 

 ing office in Syracuse. N. Y. 



Thirty-three delegates representing Canadian 

 and New York manufacturers and wholesale In- 

 terests held an important meeting in this city 

 Oct. 25, to consider the proposed change In 

 rates from northern points to this city from a 

 rate per thousand feet to a rate per hundred 

 pounds, as announced by some of the trans- 

 portation lines to become effective next spring, 

 .\ committee with a paid secretary will be ap- 

 jiolnted to take up the matter with the railroads 

 and to bring pressure to bear to secure a with- 

 drawal of the announcement. W. A. Cromble 

 of Wm. M. Cromble & Co. was chairman of the 

 meeting, and now has the appointment of the 

 committee under consideration. 



Baltimore. 



The matter of clean through bills of lading 

 Is now fairly before the United States courts, 

 the federal grand jury here having found pre- 

 sentments on Oct. 2,') against Gilbert 11. Cobb, 

 dislrli'l fri'ight ngent of the Pennsylvania rail- 

 road and the Ilnmburg-jVmerlcan line of steam- 

 ers, and Robert 11. Ways, foreign freight agent 

 of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the John- 

 ston line. This Is the outcome of a complaint 

 nied Inst May by John L. Alccck & Co. of this 

 rl(y, which charged that Messrs. Cobb and Ways 

 had conspired to evade the provisions of the 

 Hnrter act by refusing to Issue unciuallfled bills 

 uf iiullng In order to avoid responsibility for 



