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consiD Veneer Company. Manitowoc, and de- 

 stroyed a quantity of furniture which was ready 

 for shipment. The loss is estimated at $100.- 

 000, fully covered hy insurance. 



A. C. Palmertier of Coudersport, Pa., a tim- 

 ber expert, is on his way to southern Mexico, 

 where he will inspect a mahogany timber tract 

 for a number of Pennsylvania capitalists who 

 are contemplating investing in that section. 



The big hardwood mill of the Rice Lalie Lum- 

 ber Company at Rice Laiie. Wis., has begun 

 worlv on the winter cut. N'early 400,000 feet 

 of logs are received from Draper. Drummoud 

 and Cable daily, which will iseep the plant run- 

 ning day and night. Much of the present out- 

 put of lumber is being used in the construction 

 of the railroad trestle at the mill. 



There is an excellent demand in South Africa 

 for hicliory or other hardwood handles for piclcs. 

 axes, liatchets and hammers, at present supplied 

 by American firms, but with wliom Canadians 

 are likely li> compete in the near future, they 

 having been advised by the government com- 

 mercial agent that the trade is well worth at- 

 tention. 



The American Handle Company, witii $jU,ooo 

 capital, has been incorporated at Boston, Mass. 

 NEWS. 



The plan) of the Wisconsin Veneering Com- 



pany and a large amount of stocli were com- 

 pletely destroyed by tire Jan. 15. The loss is 

 estimated at $125,000. insurance $100,000. The 

 plant will be rebuilt by the Macceson-Cart- 

 wriaht Logging Company. 



i'he Bonney-Vehslage Tool Company has been 

 incorporated liy Charles S. Bonney and Ernest 

 C. Vehslage at Irvington, N. J., with a capital 

 of $20,000. It will manufacture tools and hard- 

 wood specialties. 



The Athens Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 lieen incorporated at Battle Creel<, Mich., with 

 a capital stocic of $.50,000. Isaac Snyder and 

 F. T. Bisljee of Athens and C. F. Baljer of Hast- 

 ings are the incorporators. 



The Union Handle Company, capita! $3,000, 

 lias been incorporated by G. M. Schmidt, E. P. 

 Mantels and II. I', (.'uneo. to engage in business 

 at Union. Mo. 



W. G. lUiciiiugiiam of \\'eir. Miss., has pur- 

 diased a site on which he will build a plant 

 for the manufacture of handles. 



The Fi.sher Lumber Company of BulTaio, N. 

 Y., has bought the McCalmont timber tract in 

 Venango and Forest counties, Pennsylvania. It 

 comprises GOO acres of pine and white oali. 

 It is estimated that the land wiii furnish 

 2,500,000 feet of saw timber and 50,000 rail- 

 road ties. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOHD 



CMcago. 



An announcement is received from .T. W. Tay- 

 lor, general manager of the General Lumber 

 Company, Columbus, O., stating that liis con- 

 cern has been incorporated with a capital of 

 $50,000 and hereafter the title will be The 

 General Lumlier Company. Mr. Taylor has 

 had a very wide experience in the lumber busi- 

 ness, especially in the handling uf hardwoods, 

 and the incorporation of his company, as noted, 

 indicates that he is succeeding in his compara- 

 tively new enterprise. 



The many friends of tliat popular lumberman 

 and prince of good fell<nvs. Maurice M. Wall 

 of BiilTaio, will be glad to know that Mayor 

 .\dam has not only distinguished -Mr. Wail but 

 done signal service to the Queen City of the 

 Lakes by appointing him on the local park 

 commission. The selection is certainly liased 

 on the fitness of the man for the place. 



Tlic many friends of W. A. Gilchrist of Mem- 

 phis, commercial bead of the Three States 

 Lumber Company, will be grieved to learn of 

 the death of his wife, which occurred on .Ian. 

 6. Mrs. Gilchrist was a bride, having been 

 married in Chicago but a few months agn. 

 She had not been in good health for some 

 weeks, but died very suddenly during Mr. 

 Gilchrist's absence on a trip to the company's 

 camps in Arkansas. 



The Record is in receipt of an announce- 

 ment from Fred Furgason of Cincinnati giving 

 notice of liis retirement from the Cincinnati 

 Planing Mill & r>ry Kiln Company and the 

 fact that he has opened a lumber t-roket'age 

 office, with headquarters at the ofiice of the 

 Cincinnati Cofflu Company in that city. 



William Wilms of Chicago, the newly elected 

 president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' As 

 sociation of the United States, should feel highly 

 complimented over his success at tiie annual 

 meeting of the association at Louisville last 

 week in securing such sulistantial contributions 

 to the fund for the endowment of a chair of 

 applied forestry and practical lumbering at 

 Yale ITniversity. The subscriptions amounted 

 to something over $3,000. and the fund now 

 raised toward the $150,000 necessary is fully 

 ten per cent of the total required. 



J. S. Hurd of O. P. Hurd, .Tr.. & Co.. the 

 hardwood .lobbing house of Cairo. 111., was in 

 Chicago a few days ago and called on the 

 Record. 



Special Correspondents.) 



I'robably the most indefatigably advertised 

 cincern in any way connected with the hard- 

 wood industry is E. C. Atkins & Co.. Inc., the 

 great saw manufacturing house of Indianapolis. 

 This house lets no opportunity pass to remind 

 the prospective saw purchaser that "Atkins 

 is always ahead." .\t the recent meeting of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at 

 Lcuisville each visitor was presented with a 

 Iiractical little device in the way of a belt 

 punch, and at the banquet of the Indiana Hard- 

 wood Ltimiiermen's .Association at Indianapolis 

 a few nights ago each guest found at his place 

 a handsome aluminum pocket comb in the form 

 of a miniature hand-saw, suitably inscribed 

 with the .\tkins legend. 



It is with deep grief that the Rccono an- 

 nounces the death of William W. Xicola of 

 Cleveland, vice-president of the great whole- 

 sale lumber concern, the Nicola Brothers Com- 

 pany of Pittsburg and of that city. Mr. Nicola 

 died at the Huron street hospital at Cleveland 

 on Jan. 10 after undergoing two operations 

 tor abscesses. Mr. Nicola was a very able 

 business man and had a long and honorable 

 history In the lumber industry. He was promi- 

 nent in the trade and was much esteemed by 

 btith his confreres and competitors. 



The Recokd is advised that F. W. .\ldrich, 

 who has long been associated with the Pitts- 

 burg lumber selling trade, has formed a part- 

 nership with J. C. Murfey, and has established 

 an office at 1034 Guaranty Loan building. 

 Minneapolis. Aldrich & Murfey locate at this 

 point with the intention of placing business 

 for the Pittsburg wholesale trade direct with 

 the manufacturers of lumber in Minnesota and 

 Wisconsin. 



The G. ^^'. Jones Lumber- Company of Ap- 

 pleton. Wis., well known in this market through 

 its able representative, A. H. Ruth, has in- 

 creased its capital stock to $200,000 and has 

 elected a new board of directors, consisting 

 of five instead of three members as formerly. 

 .\dded to this list of directors is Mr. Ruth, 

 who has established a most enviable reputation 

 for competence, probity and industry as Chi- 

 cago representative of this big liardwood com- 

 pany. Unfortunately for Mr. Ruth, he has 

 been ill for six weeks, but is now just get- 

 ting around to business again. It is a well 

 merited compi'nient that the G, W. Jones Lum- 



ber Company pays Mr. Ruth in adding him to 

 its board of directors. 



The Record is advised that the title of the 

 Sowers & Creith Lumber Company of Columbus. 

 O.. has been changed to the Sowers Lumber 

 Company. 



VV. E. Barrett of W. E. Barrett & Co., Stock 

 Exchange, this city, is about to leave for Cuba, 

 where he will investigate a large timber propo- 

 sition. 



Boston. 



The Jones Hardwood Lumber Company, of 

 which Gardner I. Jones is the presiding genius, 

 has just purciiased the entire stock of oak. 

 ash and poplar belonging to the J. W. Dickson 

 Lumber Company at Memphis, Tenn. It is said 

 that the purchase involves upwards of $o0.uoii 

 and secures to Mr. Jones a very fine stock of 

 the woods enumerated, with which to take care 

 of his extensive New England business. 



The Curtis & Pope Lumber Company met with 

 a loss by Are recently. The loss on lumber 

 amounted to about $15,000. 



James R. Kenyon, of Burrows & Kenyon, 

 Providence. It. I., has been elected president of 

 the Atlantic National Bank of Providence. 



Mr. Woods, of O. Woods & Son, Nati<-k. Mass.. 

 left here two weeks ago for California, where 

 he will remain for the rest of the winter. 



Wentworth Maxfleld. one of the oldest lumber- 

 men of JIaine, died recently at his iionie in 

 Bangor, Me., at the age of 67 years. 



The Rhode Island Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion held a meeting and dinner on the tenth of 

 the month, at the Crown Hotel, Provldenoe. 



The annual meeting of the Connecticut Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association will be lield la 

 Hartford, Conn., Feb. 9. 



Major Samuel Holmes Doten, veteran lumber- 

 man, died at his home in Plymouth, Mass., Jan. 

 15, at the age of 93 years. 



The W. E. Griffin Company of Worcester, 

 Mass., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $5,000. The company will manufacture 

 building material. The officers are : President 

 and treasurer, W. E. Griffin; clerk, William 

 Woodward : directors, as above and William D. 

 Luey. 



William E. Bullard. a lumber dealer. North 

 New Salem, Mass., will be married Feb. 5, to 

 -Miss Harriet M. Page of New Salem. .Myron 

 N. Doubleday. who is in the lumber business 

 in North Dana, Mass., will marry a sister of 

 of Miss Page on the same evening, and another 

 sister will marry H. C. Reed of Rockland. Me., 

 making a triple wedding. 



C. c. Batchelder. treasurer of the Boston Lum- 

 ber Company, is making an extended trip 

 through the South. 



Charles S. Wentworth. of Chas. S. Wentworth 

 & Co., has been on a trip to New Brunswick. 



Harry C. Philbrick has returned from a trip 

 to the South. 



Roberts & Corse, house finish manufacturers. 

 Orange, Mass., are making preparations to in- 

 crease their business. 



A new firm has been formed In Westfieid. 

 Mass., under the style of Johnson & Hibbard. 

 It will conduct a general woodworking and 

 house finishing plant. 



H. B. Clark, of Sweet, Clark & Co., Boston, 

 has become interested in a large lumber deal in 

 Ludlow, Vt. 



The Winter & Page Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Augusta, Me., with a capital stock 

 of $50,000. 



A. R. Eldredge. of the Eldredge Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Bourne, Mass., has retired, after hav- 

 ing been associated with the luml>er business 

 in Bourne since 1878. 



E. A. Hardwick & Co.. of Fitchburg. Mass., 

 have removed their business to Worcester. JIass.. 

 where they will carry on a wholesale business. 

 No yard will be established at present. 



New York. 



The annual banquet of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association, which occurs at the Wal- 



