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HARDWOOD RECORD 



dorf-Astoiia on Jan. 23, bids fail- to eclipse all 

 previous gatlierings of its kind in the history 

 of the local trade, indications point to an at- 

 tendance of about 250. 



The hardwood fun: of Alexander & Ellis. 

 Brooklyn, which has been operated for several 

 years past by Clias. I.. Drown, has been sold 

 to Klisha B. Merrit. effective Jan. 1, who will 

 continue tlie business under the style of Alex- 

 ander & Ellis. 



Charles E. I'age & Co.. a new wholesale house 

 at 1170 Broadway, announce that their hard- 

 wood mill connections are complete and tluit 

 they have formed an alliance with the W. E. 

 Williams Company as selling agents for its 

 product of Michigan maple liooriug. 



I'". V. Fish, secretary of the National Hard 

 wood Lumber Association, headquarters Indian- 

 apolis, lud.. spent several days in town during 

 the fortnight in the interest of the associa- 

 tion. 



James Taylor & Sons, hardwood retailers of 

 Twenty-rtrst street and Eleventh avenue, arc 

 moving to their new yard at .")42-."i46 West 

 Twenty-eightli street, which has been arranged 

 in a strictly up-to-date manner. The firm will 

 continue to make a specialty of hardwoods and 

 mahogany. 



The E. H. Ogden Lumber Company, hard and 

 soft wood retailer of Manhattan, has pur- 

 fhase<l the retail lumber and milling property 

 of the East Uiver Mill & Lumber Company. 

 foot of East Ninety-second street, and will con- 

 tinue the same under the old style. 



Doyle. Thomson & Co.. wholfsale hardwoods. 

 IG Beaver street, report trade very satisfactory. 

 They announce that they are al>nut to move to 

 more <-ommodious (jnarters. 



The regular semiannual meeting of the New 

 York Lumber Trade Association occurred at the 

 association roctns. l.S Broadway, on Jan. 10. 

 at which time routine business was disposed of. 



Kire at the hardwood sash, door and trim 

 plant of A. .Melsel. Danowitz & Co., 45-74 Eck- 

 ford street, Brooklyn, on Jan. S did consid- 

 erable damage to the stock room, stable and 

 glazing department. 



.\lbcrt Steinbach. manager of the hardwood 

 department of the Northern Lumber Company, 

 i'latiron building, is away for a week or two 

 on a flying trip to southern and western mill 

 points. 



S. E. Barr of the Barr & Mills Company. 

 Flatlron building, left on the 8th inst. for a 

 trip of several weeks to supply sources. 



J. L. Alcock. prominent Baltimore exporter 

 and head of J. L. Alcock & Co.. was a recent 

 vislti.r in town. 



L. K. Smedes, formerly wholesale hardwood 

 merchant with office .-.t 1 Madison avenue, has 

 organized tlie rni<inport Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Company to conduct a general retail hard- 

 wood and milling business at Avenue Five and 

 Thirteenth street, L'nlonport, Borough of the 

 Bronx. 



It. Hoe & Co., saw manufacturers of .'504 

 Grand street, have purchased fotu'teen lots of 

 the old Dannat & Pell property at the foot of 

 Broome street, and will build a large addition 

 to their plant. 



John J. Kumbarger of the itumbaiger Lumber 

 Company. I'hiladelphia, was a reient visito]' 

 here, spcmling several days with W, W. Welch. 

 Ihe company's local representative. In this 

 connection the sale of the I'isbliig Hawk proj)- 

 erty of the Kumbarger Lumber Company to J. 

 M. i:emls & Son of Bradford. I'a., Is announced. 



fl, W. Dexter, manager of the .-Mlanta, Un., 

 ofllcc of the Lldgerwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, spent several days In town In consulta- 

 tion with the beads of his concern at !)•> Lib 

 erly street. 



.'\niong the other visitors during the fort- 

 night were Frank I'rlcc, I'rlec & Hcald, Balti- 

 more : W. B. Lance, W. B. Lance Company. 

 Iteadlng, Pa. : H. M. BIckford, II. M. Blckford 

 Company, Boston. Mass, : J. W. Dickson, J. W. 



Dickson Company, Memphis, Tenn., and F. R. 

 Whiting. Whiting Manufacturing Company. 

 .\binKdon. Va. 



T. J. Moirelt of the Maley. Tbumpsou & .Mof- 

 fett Company. Cincinnati, ().. spent several days 

 at the company's local operation at the fool 

 of East Thirt.v-tirst street, Manhattan. 



Tlie local office of the Simonds Manutaclur- 

 ing Comi)any, saw manufacturers of Filcbburg. 

 Mass.. announces the ptirchase by the Simonds 

 interests of the business of tlie Canada Saw- 

 Company, with factories at Montreal, St. Johns, 

 Ottawa and Toronto, Can. The purchase of this 

 business will give the Simonds Manufacturing 

 Company at least seventy-five per cent of the 

 saw- trade of the Dominion. 



Uobert W. Iligbie. hardwood wholesaler and 

 mantifacturer of 4,"i Broadway, has oi-ganized tlie 

 liobert W. Higble Company at .Newton Falls, 

 N. Y., with a capital of S,"iO0,000 to develop an 

 extensive tract of hardwood timber recently pur- 

 chased by him in the Adirondack region. As- 

 sociated witli Mr. Higbie in the new company 

 are J. I*-. Bickers of Newton Falls and ^^'. W. 

 Glllen, Jamaica. 



Owing to the gigantic freight congestion in 

 the local market the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 

 has declared an embargo on all lumber ship- 

 ments from points on their line as well as con- 

 necting points, and the Kew i'ork Central has 

 declared a similar order governing tlie ship- 

 ments from tlie Adirondack regions to New 

 York. The freight congesthm at the Baltimore 

 & Ohio terminal at St. George is exceedingly 

 bad and both of these embargoes are working 

 great hardship to local lumber buyers and ship- 

 pers. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber T'nder- 

 nriters was held at fiii Broadw-ay. this city. Jan. 

 19, and the affairs of that well-known insurance 

 body w-ere reported iu excellent shape with de- 

 cided gains for tlie past year. 



A petition in bankruptcy was filed against 

 the Central Lumber Company. 1 JIadison ave 

 nue. on Jan. IG. The liabilities are reported 

 to lie .$10,000 and the assets $.'3,000. 



Philadelphia. 



Clem. 10. Lloyd. Jr.. of the Cbi-ir.v Kivcr 

 Boom & Lumber (.'onipany returned last week 

 from a trip to West Virginia and other southern 

 points where he went to pick up orders and 

 superintend shipments. 



John H. I". Smith of n. M. Smiib *; (-.i, 

 arrived in the city last w-oek fi-om Parkersburg. 

 W. Va.. to look after the branch office in this 

 city which w-as recently opened under the man- 

 agement of P.. C. Cui-rie. Jr. Mr; Carrie states 

 that business so far has far exceeded expecta- 

 tions and that there is every promise that the 

 good start w-ill continue without abatement. 



The Cherry Uiver Boom & Lumber Company 

 loaded on the "Vandura" at Ifeed St. wharf last 

 week upwards of 1.000,000 feet of lumber tor 

 export, a shipment whicli is regarded as excep- 

 tional at this season of the year. 



Visitors to the trade last week included : 

 l'"rank Price, representative of Price & Ileaid, 

 Baltimore: Clayton P. Chew. .New Y'ork repre- 

 sentative of tlie Goodyear Lumber Company; 

 Frank IS. Lnndy of the Wllliamsport Hardwood 

 Lumber Company : W. I). Young of W. I). Young 

 *: Co., Bay City, Jllch. : N. P. .Molsworlb. a re- 

 tailer of Ml. Airy. Md.. and I!. J. ClllTord. 

 general manager of the Olter Creek Boom 4: 

 Lumber Company, Hambleton. Va. 



J. L. liumbarger of the liumbai-gcr Lumber 

 CompaiiT,- received felicitations fi-om the trndi- 

 Ihroughout the country last week ujioii the occa- 

 sion of the celebration of the seventieth anni- 

 versary of his birth. Mr. Uumbarger continues 

 to enjoy the best of health and Is every dav at 

 Ids desk actively superintending the manage- 

 ment of Ills business. 



John Haggerty has resigned his poslllon with 

 Kll B. Ilnllowell to ncce|)t a iioHlfbm as sabs 

 man with Wm. Whltmer & Co. 



V. C. Talb. ft wn*. Im«i wcpIv appointed In- 



spector of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation for Philadelphia, succeeding Henry 

 Thompson, resigned. .Mr. Talbert has already 

 entered upon his duties. Mr. Thompson, it is 

 reported, will undertake public inspections of 

 hardwoods. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody of Joseph 1'. Dunwoody 

 & Co. returned last w-eek from a trip through 

 the South. 



J. J. and l'r:ink Kumharger and St. George 

 Bond of the jiumbarger Lumber Company at- 

 tended the annual dinner of Ihe New York 

 Lumber Trade Association at the Waldorf- 

 .Vstorla. 



I. M. Troth of the H. II. Shoip .Manufacturing 

 (onipany sailed last week for Europe on a 

 pleasure trip. 



O. J. Mann of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany, which he represents in Pittsburg, spent 

 several days in tlie city last week in conference 

 witli members of his firm. 



G. L. Smith, surveyor general of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, w-as in the 

 Quaker City a few days last week looking after 

 the affairs of the association in this city. 



Samuel Dyer, sales agent of the Otter Creek 

 Boom & Lumber Company, in charge in the 

 office in this city, made a flying business trip to 

 New- York last week. 



The Reliance Lumber Company was' incor- 

 porated in Delaw-are during tlie fortnight w-ith a 

 lapitai of .$50,000. 



The trade generally has been much enter- 

 tained of late by the gathering of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Wholesale Lumber Dealers in annual 

 meeting at the Union League Thursday evening, 

 the 11th inst.: the fourteentii annual meeting of 

 the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association, Inc.. 

 in the Lumbermen's Exchange rooms, also on 

 Ihe nth. and a concatenation of Hoo Hoo on the 

 131b. 



Soble llruthers have removed from their old 

 offices at 722 Land Title building to tlic more 

 t nniniiidions and attractii-e quarters. 011-12 

 Land Title building, until recently occupied by 

 10. 1'. Burton & Co. The latter concern has 

 alKindonod its Philadelphia office. 



Henry Bradsliaw-, one of the best known retail 

 himber dealers in this city, died Thursday of 

 last week of pneumonia, after a two days- 

 illness. ^ 



Baltimore, 



What w-as unanimously voted to be the most 

 successful and most largely attended concatena- 

 tion of the local branch of the Order of Hoo- 

 Hoo took place on the evening of Jan. 11 at tlie 

 Merchants' Club. Not only was the gathering 

 oi' cats exceptional in point of numbers, but 

 the class of candkiates who presented them- 

 selves for initiation proved to be also remarka- 

 bly strong, and made a fine beginning for the 

 regime of the new vicegerent snark for Mary- 

 laud and the District of Columbia, George K. 

 Waters. .\rter the initiation ceremonies old 

 and new members as well as guests proceeded 

 to one of the halls on the second floor, wliere 

 a most enjoyable banquet w-as served. In the 

 course of the feast a pleasing program of 

 vaudeville onterfalnment w-as performed. Then 

 came short speeches by I-;. Stringer Boggess. 

 K. F. I'erry. John Nelson. Jr.. of the Bui-eaii of 

 Forestry at A\'asliliigt<ui. a recently admitted 

 member (f IIoo-IIoo : J. 11. Sclielp of I'hila 

 delphla. IL M. Graham of Brlnston. Gn. : W . 1; 

 S. Trader .-iiid Geoi-ge Himlhig of this r\\\. and 

 others. 



It bad been the Inlentiini to make the con- 

 catenation tile occasbiu for launching a boom 

 f(U- Baltimore tis the place for the national 

 concatenation In 11*07, but by some oversight 

 the matter was not brought up. The purpose 

 now Is to hold a smoker at some lime In 

 February, and then launch the movement. I lin- 

 ing the annual meeting of the .National Whole 

 sale Lumber Healers' .\ssoi-lalion In Mai-cb at 

 Washington, a meeting of Hoo Hoo high In the 

 councils of the ortler w-lll be called, and not only 

 the members of the Supreme Nine, but iinuiil 



