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HARDWOOD RECORD 



H. West, well known to the trade as fortaer 

 manager of the wood stock department of Kelley, 

 Maus & Co., is now associated with it in tlie 

 capacity of secretary, and after .Ian. 1 will have 

 entire charge of its wagon, carriage and imi)le- 

 ment wood stock department. Mr. \\*est lias 

 had a wide experience in this line of work and 

 is thoroughly competent. I5oth he and the 

 Estabrook-Steele Lumber Company are to be con- 

 gratulated on the alliance. 



Capt. Elton A. Smith, "Smith of Sinithville," 

 president of the H. B. Smith Machine Com- 

 pany of Smithville. N. J., spent several days 

 here the latter part of last week in confer- 

 ence with the manager of the company's <;"hi- 

 cago store, Thomas !i. Martin. 



■Tohn .T. Mossman. eminent Hoo-Hoo and well 

 and favorably known to a great many lumber- 

 men of the country, who has been division 

 freight agent of the Wabash railroad at Buf- 

 falo for sev€ial years past, has been trans- 

 ferred to Detroit, whore he will act in the 

 same capacity for the Wabash railroad. The 

 transfer is in the nature of an advancement. 

 Mr. ilossinan is very popular with the Buffalo 

 lumber contingent, and was entertained previon.^ 

 to his departure for his new location, at a, din- 

 ner at the Ellicott Club, by the hardwood lum- 

 bermen of Buffalo. 



Charles E. Randall, who will be remembered 

 by Chicago lumbermen of a decade ago as hav- 

 ing been prominently engaged in lumber enter- 

 prises locallj", has again reentered the lumber 

 business. He has acquired a large block of the 

 stock of the P. G. Dodge Lumber Company. 

 Twenty-second and Lumber streets, this city. 

 of which Edmund F. Dodge is president and 

 manager. Mr. Randall has been elected secre- 

 tary and treasurer of the company, and will 

 give his personal attention to the office depart- 

 ment of the work. His abilities and services 

 will prove valuable in adding to the success of 

 this very prosperous lumber company. 



The Hakdwood Record had the pleasure of a 

 call a few days ago from W. II. Bower, the 

 veteran lumber manufacturer of Kurtz, Ind. 

 Mr. Bower says that oak' suitable for car stock 

 material is getting pretty scarce in his locality, 

 but still he manages to produce a million or 

 so a year of high-class material. He divides 

 his time between his lumber business and the 

 conduct of a large stock farm, where he raises 

 shorthorn cattle and I'oland-China hogs. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber Secre- 

 taries' Bureau of Information was held in Chi- 

 cago last Thursday. The secretaries of nearly 

 all the leading retail lumber dealers' associa- 

 tion.s were present. 



Harry Gorsuch of Kansas City was in town 

 last week in attendance upon the meeting of the 

 Lumber Secretaries* Association, and illumined 

 the Record sanctum with his presence for a few 

 minutes. 



"Wagslaff. Lumber, Oshkosh," was in Chi- 

 cago on Monday and paid the Recokd the honor 

 of a call. Mr. WagstalT says that Wisconsin 

 stocks of hardwoods arc becoming very badly 

 broken, and that manufacturers and jobbers 

 are going to Inventory less stock on Jan. 1 than 

 they have for many years. 



It is announced that F. M. Creelman, the 

 wholesale hardwood lumberman of the Rail- 

 way Exchange building. Is engaged in or- 

 ganizing the lUlnoLs Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Incorporated under the laws of this 

 state, with an authorized capital of $50,000. 

 The business will be operated at Blue Island 

 avenue and Robey streets, where yard Im- 

 provements are now being: put In, Mr. Creel- 

 man Individually will maintain his present 

 office In the Railway Exchange and continue 

 In the car lot hardwood lumber bu.sincss. 



A. C. Bolander of Perks. Ill,, In making 

 remittance for three HUbHcrlptions to the Rec- 

 uav, announces that Frank Glllet of EIco, III., 

 has joined him In the hardwood business 

 under the Arm name of A. C. Bolander & Co., 



and that they are establishing a branch yard 

 at Danville, where they will have their main 

 office. The firm has sawmills at lioth Perks 

 and Junction, III. 



Boston. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation held a special meeting in Manches- 

 ter, N. H., Dec. 6 to tjike action on the car 

 stake question and to decide whether the 

 association should furnish financial support 

 to the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association in the fight they are making be- 

 fore the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



Beckwith Bros. & Co., manufacturers of 

 piano legs and imrts in W'estfield, Mass.. arc 

 considering an offer wliich, if accepted, will 

 mean the removal to North Tonawanda, N. y. 

 The present plant is too small to accommodate 

 their increasing business. A. N. Sprague of 

 this company states that the plant under 

 considei^tion would give them double their 

 present capacity. Besides this it is situated 

 on the Erie Canal, and connected with the 

 railroads by spur tracks, so that the company 

 would gain considerable in the way of rc.'ceiv- 

 iiig lumber and shipping products. 



The woodworking shop of Howartli & Rog- 

 ers. Ame.sbury, Mass., was destroyed by fire, 

 Nov. 27, causing a loss of $25,000. with insur- 

 ance of $20,000. 



Lord & Kitchen, who recently purchased the 

 woodworking mill in Foxcroft, Me., formerly 

 owned by the H. J. Dexter "Wood Working 

 Company, are making extensive improve- 

 ments. A turning lathe is to be installed. 



The A. T. Stearns Lumber Company's plant 

 at Neponset was visited by fire recently, but 

 the loss was small. 



The sawmill recently started up by Parker, 

 Young & Co. in Newburg, Vt., has been de- 

 stro.ved b.v fire, causing a loss of about $2,000, 

 No insurance was carried. 



National Bank Examiner E. H. Carroll of 

 Warner, N. H., has resigned his position and 

 will hereafter give his whole time and atten- 

 tion to his lumber interests. 



The Jamaica Lumber Company of Jamaica. 

 V't.. which was organized about a year and a 

 half ago, is doing a large business. Exten- 

 sive improvements have been made at the 

 mill, giving it a large capacity for turning 

 out finished lumber. Plans are being made 

 toward the establishment ot a flooring mill. 

 'I'he company is composed of J. J. and W. C. 

 Shields of Bombay, N. Y., and E. J. and G. H. 

 Hollenbeck of Covington, N. Y. 



R. B. Currier of Springfield. Ma.ss., -and 

 F. C. Rice of the Rice & Lockwood Lumber 

 Company of the same city have recently 

 returned from trips to New Y^ork. 



J. A. Hurd of the J. A. Hurd Lumber Com- 

 pany of Boston has returned front a trip to 

 New York City. 



New York. 



The annual hantjuet of the New York Lumber 

 'i'rad.'' Association will occur at the Waldorf- 

 Astoria In the cit.v on the evening of January 

 li:t. From tlie plans already mapped out tlie 

 gathering this year will undoubtedly be a large 

 and representative one and the social features 

 most elaborate. 



Hamilton Love of Love. Boyd & Co., Nashville, 

 Tenn., has taken up temporary residence at 4.'{'.» 

 Manhattan avenue, city, for the purpose of de- 

 votlni; closer attention to the Increasing business 

 of the firm In this territory. This may lead to 

 the eslabllshment of a regular branch oincc In 

 (he city. 



Alberl Stelnbach, one of the best known sales 

 r.genlH of this section, who, for several years, has 

 represented the Runil>ai*i;er Lumber Company of 

 I'hlladi'lphla In this district, severed his connec- 

 tion with that company on the first to open tip 

 and matntge a hardwood department for the 



Northern Lumber Company, extensive white pine 

 operators in the Flatiron Building. The North- 

 I'l-n Lumber Company is the successor to the 

 W. H. Sawyer interests of Nortli Tonawanda, 

 iir.d will also act as selling agent tor the A. C. 

 Tiixbury Ltimber Company, yellow pine manii- 

 facturers of Charleston, S. C. Mr. Stelnbach has 

 a host of friends who will unite in the extension 

 of best wishes for his further success. 



Vicegerent Charles F. Fischer held a red hot 

 concatenation at Reisenw'eber's Circle Hotel, oa 

 the night of December 1, at which six kittens 

 were initiated. The "on the roof" features were 

 participated in by about forty local members of 

 Ihc order and were particularly enjoyable. A 

 fine dinner was followed by an excellent vaude-_ 

 ville show. 



A. B. Lewis, G. W. Stewart and E. J. Coogan. 

 who were formerly associated with Dannat A: 

 I'ell, foot of Broome street, city, which firm re- 

 cently went out of business, have leased the yard 

 property at that address and will conduct a gen- 

 eral retail hardwood business. 



I. T, Williams & Sons, Twenty-fifth street and 

 Eleventh avenue, city, have arranged to double 

 the capacity of their mahogany and hardwood 

 sawmill plant at Edgewater, .^. I., and the neces- 

 sary machinery lias already been ordered. 



W. E. Marsh of Marsh & McClennen, 45 Broad- 

 way, has just returned from a stay of several 

 months on the Pacific coast, where his firm Is 

 heavily interested in California white pine. In 

 addition to their eastern liardwood and pine 

 business. 



There were se\'eral fires in local circles dur- 

 ing the fortnight. The big liardwood trim es- 

 tablishment of Meisel, Danowitz .& Co.. Brook- 

 lyn, sustained a loss of $12,000. The new 

 plant of the Manhattan Sash & Door Com- 

 pany. Brooklyn, which had not yet begun 

 operations and the lumber yard of Levin & 

 Kronenberg adjoining, were totally destroyed 

 on Nov. 27, entailing a loss of $8,000. The 

 brick factory building at 139th street and 

 Rider avenue, Manhattan, occupied by the 

 New York Carved Moulding Company, the 

 Manhattan Wood Working Compan.v- and M. 

 F. O'Neill, sash, doors and blinds, was con- 

 siderably damaged, the Manhattan Wood 

 W'orking Company being the heaviest loser. 

 All these losses were fully covered by Insur- 

 ance. 



The General Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated in this city with a capital of $50.- 

 000 to conduct a general wholesale lumber 

 business. The North River Wood Working 

 Company was also launched last week with a 

 capital of $25,000 by H. Goldmark, L, A. 

 Cuvillier and D, S. White. 



T. S. Miller, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Stevens-Eaton Company. 1 

 Madison avenue, returned last week from an 

 extended buying trip to Southern mill iiolnts. 

 and has a particularly fine line of plain oak 

 for quick shipment. 



C. E. Lloyd. Jr.. of the Cherry River Boom 

 & Lumber Coniiiany, Philadelphia, spent sev- 

 eral days in town last week and reports busi- 

 ness very satisfactory. 



W. M. Ritter, head of the W. M. Rltter 

 Lumber Company of Columbus, O., was a dis- 

 tinguished New York visitor last week. 



T. B. Stone, president of the T. B. Stone 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, with Mrs. Stone, 

 was in town last week. 



Among other visitors were W. D. I-anco, W. 

 D. I-Hince Company, Reading. Pa.; W'. J. 

 Grandin. Grandin Lumber Company. TIdout, 

 I'a.; 10. P. Alvord, Love. Boyd & Co., Nash- 

 ville. Tenn. 



C. W, Manning of 00 Broad street, city, has 

 Just returned from a trip among the South- 

 ern mills and reports an active tiinrket and short 

 stocks at supply sources. 



Fox Brothers, who for years lia\e conduct- 

 ed a large sash and hardwood trim business 



