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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Lumbeiinan of this ulty, which position he still 

 occupies. Both he and his bride have the con- 

 gratulations of the IlABDwooD Record. 



The I.umbeimcn's As.sociation of Giand Kap- 

 ids, Mich., is planning a very enjoyable meeting 

 to be held in that city on March 16, and on the 

 evening of that. date will give an informal ban- 

 quet at the rantlind hotel, at which Early Pal- 

 mer, president of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association, will be the guest of honor. Other 

 invited guests are: II. C. Humphrey. Apple- 

 ton. Wis., second vice president of the National 

 association : C. li. Lloyd, Jr., Philadelphia, third 

 vice president : Gardner I. Jones. Boston, and 

 W. H. Uussc. Memphis, of the executive commit- 

 tee of the same association, and several others. 



Boston. 



.\ ban.|UPt is to be held March 22 at the 

 Uotel Hriinswick under the auspices of the Lum- 

 ber Trade Club and the Massachusetts Wholesale 

 Lumber Association. Ladies' night will be ob- 

 served on this occasion for the iirst time. Music 

 and a high class entertainment will be provided. 

 The annual meeting of the New Hampshire 

 Lumbermen's Association will be held at Nashua, 

 \. H.. March 13. 



The New England Stool Company of New 

 Haven, Conn., is contemplating moving to Wal- 

 lingford. Conn. The board of trade of the latter 

 place has arranged to cover the expense of 

 moving and also to guarantee subscriptions to 

 ■S.I.OOO additional stock. It is also thought that 

 I he town will abate the taxes for ten years. 

 The company manufactures piano stools. 



The Williams Manufacturing Company of 

 Northampton, Mass., has purchased 7.500 acres 

 of timber land In northern Vermont. It Is esti- 

 mated that the land contains about 50,000,000 

 feet of lumber, .-JD.OOO.OOO of which is hardwood. 

 A mill 100x60 feet will be erected. Hardwood 

 flooring will be produced and veneering for use 

 in the Northampton plant will be manufactured. 

 Among the imports since the first of March 

 was about 1,50 mahogany logs. 



The Aliddletown Automobile Uody Company 

 lias been organized in Connecticut. The president 

 Is James H. Turner of Boston ; l-rank W. Woy- 

 chinske of Middlctown is secretary and Felix 

 Janicki of Middlctown is treasurer. 



Charles W. Leatberbee of the C. W. Leatherbee 

 Lumber Company has been making a trip among 

 ihe mills in North Carolina. 



\V C. B. Bobbins of the Suncock \ alley 

 Lumber Company has returned from a trip to 

 New Brunswick. 



Harry Chester of W. It. Chester & Co. spent 

 the early part of the month in Maine. 



J. M. Clements of J. M. & L. D. Clements of 

 Si.utbbridgc, Mass., was in Boston recently. 



I-rank Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin has 

 been on a trip to New York and Washington. 



Mr Pease, formerly manager of the Boston 

 office of the Wiley, Harker & Camp Company, 

 and his wife visited Boston early in the month. 

 Mr Pease had a stroke of apoplexy last spring 

 and was obliged to retire from active business. 

 Mr. Harrison, representing Greenleat, Johnson 

 & Co. of Baltimore, has been visiting the New 

 England trade during the month. 



William II. Wood of W. U. Wood & Co., 

 Cambridge, Mass., visited bis newly acquired 

 limber lands this month. 



John A. Hammond of Winthrop, Mass., is a 

 raiidldate for town clerk. Mr. Hammond has 

 been managei of the D. M. Bristol lumber busi- 

 ness for «c^eral years. 



I'rank B. Albro was elected president of the 

 r. L. Allen Lumber Company of Fall Illver, 

 Mass., at the annual meeting and Frank L. 

 Allen was elected treasurer. 

 KnoxviUe. 

 The scarcity of hardwoods In this Immediate 

 section Is having a decided effect on building 

 and, in fact, it might be stated that the scarcity 

 of special material Is greatly handicapping the 

 building boom which has been on here for some 

 time pn?t. M. Logan of the firm of Logan iV 



Maphet was asked the reason of the scarcity, 

 lie replied: "Because the owners of timber in 

 the mountains are holding it until they can get 

 the highest prices for it; they think there Is a 

 boom which does not exist and they have be- 

 come exorbitant in th; prices that llicy are 

 holding out for." 



l.oiran „<: JIaplict have purchased ll.oOU.OdU feet 

 of timber in the (Jieat Smoky mountains near 

 the North Carolina line. The timber is near 

 one of the mountain streams and will be cut 

 and floated down as soon as there Is a freshet. 



C. G. Schrocder, a commission lumberman of 

 I his city, has gone to Nashville, where he is 

 looking after business in the hardwood lino. 



The firm of Kimball & McMahon, composed of 

 J C. Kimliall ami C. J. McMahon, has dissolved. 

 Mr. Kimball will continue in the business as 

 before, while Mr. McMahon has not determined 

 what be will do. 



New York. 



The two ((unniitli'cs representing the rail- 

 road and lumber interests, as appointed at the 

 (ar stake oquipment conference in Washington 

 on February 1, will meet at the New Willartl 

 Hotel on March 9, the day after the closing 

 cf the annual convention of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, to make prac- 

 tical demonstrations with several available per- 

 manent car stakes, the outcome of which it is 

 l!oped will be the choice of some permanent 

 stake which will end the controversy. 



Another big stock lumber insurance company 

 will enter the fleld about .\pril 15 or May 1, 

 with a ca.sh capital of ¥200,000 and cash sur- 

 I)lus of $100,000, all of which has been sub- 

 scribed. The company will be owned and man- 

 aged by tlie same interests whidi have so sue 

 cessfully conducted the affairs of the Lumber 

 Insurance Ompany of New York, 66 Broadway, 

 this city, and with its incorporation the inter- 

 ests represented therein will control several com- 

 panies with combined cash assets of over a 

 million dollars, making it the largest factor in 

 the trade insurance fleld. 



The National Casket Company, the 'largest 

 producers of colHus and caskets in the country, 

 has just closed a deal for the purchase of the 

 business of William L. Loclihart & Co. of Bos- 

 ton, its strongest competitor in the -New Eng- 

 land market. 



M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., accompanied by Mrs. 

 Farrin, sailed from this city on February 17 

 lor a pleasure trip to the West Indies, covering 

 a period of six weeks. Before sailing Mr. Far- 

 rin expressed liiniscll' as very well satisfied with 

 business conditions and the outlook for the 

 balance of the year. 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 has not as yet appointed an olhcial Inspector 

 (or the New Y'ork market In place of P. J. 

 Bresnahan, resigned, but advices have been re- 

 ceived from Secretary Fish that the appointee 

 would be announced In a few days. 



George W. Keyser, who has been associated 

 during the past eight years with I. T. Wil- 

 liams & Sons of this city, has severed his 

 ci.nnectlon to manage the lumber alTalrs of 

 (;. H. Gerard & Sons, Brooklyn. 



Samuel E. Barr, Flatlron building, this city, 

 has Just returned from a trip to Tennessee 

 mill points In the interest of business and re- 

 ports everything at (he manufacturing end of 

 the line very prosperous. 



T. H. Wall of Buffalo was a recent visitor 

 In the Interest of business, which he reported 

 very satisfactory. 



John J. Bumbarger, head of the Unmbarger 

 Lumber Company, Philadelphia, was a recent 

 visitor sjieiidlng his time with W. W. Welch, 

 the company's local representative, at the New 

 ^ork oHlce, I Madison avenue. 



Among Ihe other vIhIIoih In town were K. E. 



Wood of Bnlll !• : K. B. Currier, Sprlngflcld, 



Mass.: J. W. Kirenderfer, rhiladelphia, Pa.; 

 1' I- M.-i .<l,(in, S:iL'lnn\v, Midi.: J. .\. Wilkin- 



son, Bristol, Tenn. ; A; M. Williamson, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. ; Hugh McLean, Buffalo. N. Y. : 

 L. A. Kelsey, North Tonawanda. N. Y. ; L. 

 llerzog. New Orleans, La. : F. A. Wilson, Co- 

 lumbus. O., and II. M. Bickford, Boston, Mass. 



The Stewart Lumber Company was incorpo- 

 rated in this city to conduct a general mabog 

 any and hardwood lumber business with a 

 lapital of ¥10,000 by George W. and E. Stewart 

 «i Brooklyn and C. F. Keyes of New York. It 

 will occupy the old Dannat & I'ell yard at the 

 loot of Browne street, Manhattan. 



Walter T. Hart of Price & Hart. IS Broadway, 

 lias been elected a directiir in the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association to fill the vacancy 

 <aused by the death of bis partner. Ernest M. 

 Price, which occurred recently. 



The sheriff has received two accusations 

 against the W. F. Furniss Company, Importers 

 of mahogany. 301 Avenue A, aggregating $3,- 

 ]-!4, in favor of Irvin & Sellers, lumber house, 

 nn two accepted bills of exchange. .\ keeper 

 is In charge of the place. 



There was a special meeting of the board 

 of trustees of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association on February 28 at its beadciuarters. 

 l.S Broadway, at which time resolutions were 

 adopted on the death of Ernest M. Price, who 

 had so faithfully served the association foi- 

 iiiany years as a trustee. Two new members 

 were admitted to the association and general 

 routine matters were dispensed with. Waldron 

 Williams of I. T. Williams & Sous, prominent 

 Eleventh avenue hardwood house, was elected 

 a trustee to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 death of Mr. Price. 



Philadelphia. 



Of interest to lumbermen is the statement is- 

 sued by the Bureau of Building Inspection for 

 the last month. It shows that permits for 

 work to cost .f3,063,720 were obtained in Feb- 

 ruary, which is $1,701,295 in excess of the esti- 

 mated cost of the building permits issued for 

 the corresponding period of last year. 



Samuel II. Shearer & Son of this city have 

 moved their offices from 1101 Crozler building 

 to 914 915 same building. The old quarters 

 were entirely too small to handle their immense 

 business, and the much larger and better 

 equipped offices of the new suite were necessary 



B. F. Betts of C. M. Betts & Sons. Ueal Estate 

 Trust building, is in Wa.shington at the con- 

 vention of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association. Mr. Betts has been there 

 frequently during the winter on matters of 

 general interest to the trade, especially the car 

 stake question, which he helped to explain to 

 Ihe Interstate Commerce Commission. 



A. W. Moore of Cliicago was liere during the 

 uiontli, the guest of A. S. JIalone. 



Charles H. Thompson of Lewis Thompson & 

 Co., Eighteenth and Indiana avenue. Is In 

 Florida seeking to recuperale from the effects of 

 a strenuous winter. 



W. II. Lear is another of the prominent re- 

 tailers of this city who Is In the South on a 

 jileasure trip. 



Hugh McLean of ihe Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company and E. II. Booth of A. A. Booth & 

 Bros.. Bayoune, N. J., were visitors to Ihe local 

 market during the month. 



F. A. Dudley of the Otter (.'reek lloom .V 

 Lumber Company was confined to his home last 

 week by an attack of grippe. 



The next concatenation of IIoo-IIoo will be 

 given Tuesday evening, .March 13. at the Hotel 

 Walton. In addition to the regular program 

 lliere will be a vaudeville show and smoker. 



Paul Fleck of Ihe Cherry River Boom & 

 Lumber Company Is authority for the statemeni 

 that Philadelphia Is becoming a center for liiui 

 bermen. Mr. J'"leck recalls that ilnring the last 

 few years a very bee hive of lumbi'rnien have 

 clustered In the center of the city and since 

 many of them are reprcsenlallvcs of ."Southern 

 and Western houses he Is inclined to think 

 that Ibis city l.s beginning to be npiircclatcd as 

 a mart for lumber, particularly ns It has tht^ 



