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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Lumber Exchange to the new Alaska Build- 

 ing, one of the latest and finest office buildings 

 in the Northwest. In this connection it is of 

 interest to note that this company has re- 

 ceived another gold medal, the highest award 

 at the Lewis and Clark Exposition, which. 

 added to similar awards won at the Worlii's 

 Fair. Pan-American Exposition and the St. 

 Louis Exposition, makes the endorsement of 

 its line universal. 



J. E. Kelley. secretary oi" the Simonds Man- 

 ufacturing Company, Fitchburg. Mass., arrived 

 at this port from an extended tour of New 

 Britain and Canad.T about the middle of the 

 month. 



W. L. Sykcs. president, and Wm. Callisch, 

 general manager of the Emporium I^uniber 

 Company, of Keating Summit. Pa., spent sev- 

 eral days in town during the past week in 

 conference with C. O. Shepherd, local repre- 

 sentative. They were accompanied by Albert 

 Caflisch. of Caflisch Bros., extensive hardwood 

 operators of Union City, Pa. 



F. C. Fischer, of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company. Coal Grove, O.. and Hamilton Love. • 

 of Love. Boyd & Co., Nashville, Tenn., visited 

 New York recently in the interests of busi- 

 ness. 



Among other visitors were R. B. Currier, 

 Springfield, Mass.. and F. R. Whiting, of the 

 Whiting Manufacturing Company, Abingdon, 

 Va. 



Judgment for $10,777 was entered on the 

 loth by default against G. Hoyt & Co.. former 

 retail hardwood dealers of Brooklyn, in favor 

 of Frederick ■«'. Cole, on an account. The 

 business of G. Hoyt & Co. was taken over by 

 the creditors, headed by M,r. Cole, some 

 months ago, and wound up. 



Geo. W. Nicola, of the Nicola Brothers' 

 Company. Pittsburg, Pa., with his bride of a 

 few days, sailed from this city on Nov. 9 for 

 Europe. 



Two executions are in the hands of the 

 sheriff against Jerome Reimers, piano manu- 

 facturer, 314 East 75th street, in favor of 

 creditors representing several hundred dollars. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed 

 against the Wm. Budd Company, manufac- 

 turer of store and office fixtures, 44 Centre 

 street. The corporation is capitalized at 

 $10,000, and was started in June, 1904. The 

 company had a factory at New Milford. N. J. 



Philadelphia. 



C. M. Fletcher of Edmund A. Souder & Co.. 

 just returned from a fall vacation trip and 

 was sent by his firm into Maryland to look 

 up business. 



E. D. Galloway of the Galloway-Pease 

 fompany, Johnson City, Tenn., was in Philndel 

 phia during the latter part of ihe month attend- 

 ing to important business for his firm. 



B. Gilpin Smith has returned from an ex- 

 tended southern trip, his mission being the 

 consummation of negotiations for the exten- 

 sion of his business. 



C. E. Lloyd. Jr.. who. for the Cherry River 

 Boom & Lumber Company, acquired recently 

 the planing mills, timber holdings, sawmills, 

 etc., of the Gauley Company at Camden-on- 

 Gauley, W. Va., returned from there a few 

 days ago and reports that he has perfected 

 the detall.s of Invoicing and arranging for dis- 

 tribution and that ixlrcady the firm Is begin- 

 ning to move slock from the plant. I'". A. Klrby 

 of the Hame cornpnny has Just retiirne«l from an 

 extended Soulhcrn trip and reports all hard 

 woods scarce. 



H. O. Worden of the JRumbargcr Lumber 

 Company, has returned from an extensive 

 business trip through the South. 



Benjamin Thompson, local manager for the 

 Wiley, Harker & Camp Company has made 

 a canvass of Wllkesbarre, Scranton and other 

 nearby points with much satisfaction to him- 

 self and his firm. 



A. J. Cadwallader of George F. Craig & Co. 

 and E. B. Malone are in Maine combining 

 business witli pleasure. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company, Kentucky, 

 is to be developed by financiers of this city 

 according to the articles of incorporation of 

 the Morehead & Norfolk Railroad Company 

 which were granted in Camden during tlie 

 past week. The railroad is built to develop 

 the company's timber. 



Col. Charles M. Belts, senior m<»mbfr of the 

 firm of Charles M. Belts & Co., mis city, died 

 on Nov. 10. Mr. Betts had been ill with 

 pneumonia but a short time, and no doubts of 

 his recovery were entertained until a few 

 hours before his death. The funeral was held 

 at the Grand Army Post on Tuesday, Nov. 14. 



Col. Betts was born in Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania. Aug. 9, 1S3S. He entered the em- 

 ploy of a Philadelphia lumber concern in 185G, 

 but upon the breaking out of the Civil War 

 entered the army and was commissioned first 

 lieutenant. After a long and honorable rec- 

 ord, during which he served as captain, ser- 

 geant, captain and lieutenant colonel, he was 

 mustered out of service June 21, 1865. He 

 reentered the lumber business, and has for 

 many years been known as one of the most 

 influential and successful members of the 

 trade. He was an active member of the Grand 

 Army, the Loyal Legion, the Pennsylvania 

 Historical Society, the Union League, the 

 Philadelphia Lumbermen's Exchange and the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, having been president of the two latter 

 organizations. Col. Betts enjoyed the confi- 

 dence of the entire community, and to his 

 hosts of friends throughout the entire coun- 

 ti'y Ids sudden death is a severe shock. 



Baltimore. 



The Kendall Lumber Company, a consoli- 

 dation of the Preston Coal & Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Yough-Manor Lumber Company, 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. The officers are: J. L. Kendall, 

 president; S. A. Kendall, vice-president: H. K. 

 Friend, secretary: G. S. Hamill, G. Semmes 

 Hamill, Jr., Stuart F. Hamill and John Hen- 

 derson, diicctors. Pittsburg will be the prin- 

 cipal point of distribution. In connection with 

 this company the Kendall Supply Company 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $30,000, with the same incorporators, except 

 John Henderson, whose place is taken by 

 J. C. Kendall. D. H. Shank, an experienced 

 lumberman, who has been for years in the 

 employ of the company, will be superinten- 

 dent of both mills and will have his head- 

 quarters at Oakland. 



Michael S. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co., this 

 city, has returned from a trip to Mobile, 

 where he went to look after the firm's mill 

 and other business matters. He reports all 

 the mills in that territory very busy. This 

 company is about the only one working on 

 hardwoods in that place. The firm has re- 

 cently made various improvements at the 

 plant, the mill platform has been lengtlioned 

 and the tracks extended. 



David T. Carter of Carter, Hughes & Co. 

 has been on a trip South to the Carolinas and 

 Georgia for two weeks, looking up mill men 

 and getting information about the extent of 

 the available stocks. 



E. B. Beckley of Crosby & Beckley, New 

 Haven, Conn., and M. L. Pease of the Gallo- 

 way-Pease Company, Johnson City, Tenn., 

 were here recently and called on .a ntimbcr 

 of firms. 



The prospect that ocean freight rales on 

 lumber would undergo a material advance with 

 the approach of fall has not materialized. A 

 slight rise did lake place, but rates are said 

 to have dropped back to the old figures, espe- 

 flally to continental ports, and there appears 



to be no lack of tonnage. The steamship 

 agents, however, are disinclined to accept 

 bookings further ahead than next August. 



In this connection it is to be mentioned that 

 this city will soon have another steamship 

 line to Europe, the Kosmos Company of Ham- 

 burg ha\ ing decided to establish a service to 

 Baltimore as well as to New York and other 

 ports in opposition to the North German 

 Lloyd. 



J. T, I-yncli. a lumber broker of Norfolk, 

 Va., who filed a petition in bankruptcy about 

 a month ago, was arrested there last Friday 

 on requisition papers, the charge against him 

 being obtaining money under false pretenses. 

 The requisition papers were taken to Norfolk 

 by an attorney and Mr. Lynch immediately 

 instituted suits against llim as well as John 

 H. Murray, a merchant of Waverly, Pa., for 

 $25,000 damages each, alleging malicious 

 prosecution. Mr. Lynch was paroled in the 

 custody of a United States marshal. It is said 

 that the first meeting of the Lynch creditors 

 was to have been held in Norfolk last Wednes- 

 day. Mr. Lynch alleges that the defendants 

 named in the damage suits secured a con- 

 tinuance of the creditors' meeting in order to 

 have him indicted in Bradford county, Pa., 

 and cause his arrest before he could be ad- 

 judged a bankrupt in Norfolk. 



The Independent Lumber & Milling Com- 

 pany was incorporated in this city Nov. 16 

 with a capital stoclv of $50,000 to deal in tim- 

 ber lands in the state of Maryland. The in- 

 corporators are Walter H. Bowen, Edwin L. 

 Turnbull, Andrew J. Y'oung, Sr., Eldridge H. 

 Young and John J. G. Lee. The principal 

 office will be in Baltimore. 



Another recent incorporation of interest to 

 lumbermen of this section is the Kulp Lumber 

 Company of Cumberland, Md., which will 

 operate a sawmill in Allegany county. The 

 company has a capital stock of $10,000 and the 

 directors are: G. Gilbert Kulp, Shamokin, 

 Pa.; Daniel C. C. Caseman. John H. Holzshu. 

 ex-United States Senator George L. Welling- 

 ton, James A. McHenry, Monroe H. Kulp and 

 Charles D. Wagner, all of Cumberland. 



Pittsburg. 



The Pennsylvania TabU' Company of Con- 

 neaut, O., has bought a site at Huntington, 

 W. Va.. and will build a plant to employ 100 

 men. 



J. E. Mellvain & Co. have just shipped the 

 last consignment on a large order for car stuff. 

 The firm has handled a lot of tie trade this 

 season, but street car companies and rail- 

 roads are now curtailing their orders until 

 operations start again in the spring. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber 

 Company is back from a few weeks' stay at 

 the company's mills in West Virginia where 

 a big cut of hemlock and oak is being made. 

 Mr. McMillan is still under the surgeon's care 

 and will have to submit to another operation 

 soon to remove the plate glass from his leg 

 which was embedded there In the IViinsyl- 

 vania railroad wreck at Harrlsburg last sum- 

 mer. 



A most encouraging feature of the hardwood 

 situation is the amount of high class residence 

 building that Is coming on to the boards of 

 local architects. One downtown architect has 

 residence work totaling $100,000 that has come 

 in this month. The prospects are bright for 

 ji brisk business In house building next spring. 



The Meadow Mountain Lumber Company Is 

 putting In a new mill to cut 100,000 feet dally 

 at Dnrbln, W. Va. 



J. B. Flint of Flint. Erving & Stoner spent 

 a few days very profitably In the East last 

 week. "Everybody Is busy" is the way he 

 summed up the situnliou Iheie. 11. H. Krving 

 of the same firm recently took a trip to the 

 Northwest to look after the firm's Interests 

 IhiMc. He leports conditions viry aggravating 



