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HARDWOOD RECORD 



secretary : C. A. Roby, treasurer : directors, J. B. 

 Tennant, Milton Ued. T. E. Clark. Samuel Felker 

 ;ind Charles II. Hayes. 



The Rhode Island Lumber I>enlers' Associa- 

 tion held a meeting and Ininquet at the Hotel 

 Wellington, Providence. Wednesday evening. 

 March 14. Several Koston lunihcrnien attended 

 the banquet. 



L. W. Chick and Charles II. Holmes have 

 formed a partnership under the style of Chick 

 & Holmes and will conduct a lumber business in 

 Revere, Mass. Mr. Chick for twenty years was 

 associated with the late Theodore II. Hui'k In 

 trhelsea and Mr. Holmes was also associated with 

 Mr. Buck for a number of years. 



Potter & Gardiner. Iumi)er dealers of I'rovl- 

 dencC: R. I., report that the Third attempt was 

 made last week to set fire to their lumber yard. 



The secretary of the Lowell lioard of Trade 

 reports that he is in receipt of an application 

 from a large wholesale lumber firm, which is 

 seeking a location in Lowell. The secretary was 

 not willing to give out any names at present. 

 He states that the company wants about ten 

 acres of level l^nd with good trackage and that 

 if this is found it will carry a iarge stock of 

 lumber and erect a sawmill on the property. 



The Lumber Trade Club of Hoston. together 

 with the Massachusetts Whoiesnle Lumber As- 

 sociation, held a largely attended banquet at 

 the Hotel Brunswick on the evening of March 

 22. Ladies' night was observed on this occa- 

 sion and all i>resent agreed that a very i)leasant 

 evening was .spent. This is the first time that 

 the wives of the lumbermen have been Invited 

 to be present at a meeting of tliis kind. 



Baxter 1>. Whitney, the great machinery manu- 

 facturer of Wlnclu'ndf)n. Mass., celebrated the 

 sixtieth anniversary of his marriage recently. 

 Mr. Whitney is .S8 years of age. 



At the annual meeting of the Rice & Lockwootl 

 Lumber Company. Springfield. Mass.. the follow- 

 ing officers were elected : I'rank C. Rice, presi- 

 dent : W. \\. Lockwood, vice president : Walter 

 F. Rice, treasurer, and ,Iames W. Hubbard, secre- 

 tary. 



William K. Litchfield, who attended the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 convention at Washington, and went from there 

 on a business trip through the Middle West, has 

 returned. 



Frank Lawrence' of Lawrence & Wiggln, has 

 returned from a trip to New York and Wash- 

 ington. 



W. H. Ilerhertson. president of the Cheat 

 River Lumber Co., Pittsburg, Pa., was in Bos- 

 ton recently. This was his first trip to this 

 city. 



H,arry Philbrick, who had been on an ex 

 tended southern trip, has returned. 



Henry McDeweil. the popular salesman for 

 Davenport, Peters & <;o., is on a trip to the 

 .Mediterranean. Mr. McDeweil is accompanied 

 by his family. 



Representatives of the Bruon Cooperage Com- 

 pany have been visiting \'ergeune8, Vt., with a 

 view of locating there. If suitable location is 

 found, the company will build a factory, which 

 win employ about T-'i men. 



New York. 



Doyle, Thomson & Co. have Just opened more 

 commodious quarters at 10 Beaver street. They 

 report business exceedingly satisfactory, and are 

 optimistic as to the future. 



Apropos of the financial dllficultles of the W. 

 F. Kurnlss <'ompany, nmhogany dealers of .'JOl 

 Avenue A, as noted in the last Issue of the 

 Hahdwooii Hkcohd, a petition In baidtrtiptcy was 

 filed against it last week, and .M. I. St. John was 

 appointed receiver for the assets, which arc esti- 

 mated at iSl.OOO. 



William S. Ilofstra, president of the Sea Coast 

 Lumber Company, 1 .Madison avenue, has organ- 

 Ued the Standard Fxport Lumber Company, Ltd., 

 in .New Orleanx, with a cash capital of f lOO.iiim. 

 Associated with bim in the new company Is 

 .). I/. Lacey, the weolthy timber operator of that 

 city. The com|>nny will do nn extensive domes- 



tic and export hardwood and pitch pine business. 



J. Frank Rodamor. one of the most popular 

 sales representatives of the local district, has 

 joined forces with Christy, Moir & Co., the well 

 known wholesale house of 1-11) Broadway, as 

 assistant in the selling department throughout 

 the metropolitan district. 



The partnership heretofore existing between 

 J. R.. T. B. and .\. II. Carpenter of .lamnica. 

 L. I., and Robert W. lligble. the hardwood manu- 

 facturer of io Broadway, this city, under the 

 style of ,Iohn U. Carpenter & Co., has been dis- 

 solved by tbc withdrawal of Mr. lligbie, who 

 will devote bis undivided attention to his rc- 

 ceatly acipiired .Xdlrondack hardwood (qjcration. 

 comprising :W.O(in acres. The other three gen- 

 tlemen will continue the business at .Tiiinalca 

 under the same style. 



S. M. Bloss of the Lyon Cypress Company, 

 Garyville. La., is making a brief business trip to 

 this city. I'hihulelphia and Boston. 



J. B. Langdon, prominent lumber dealer of 

 Rockville Center, I.. I., died last week at the 

 age of 73 years. 



Robert W. lligbie. luirdwiod iiiiMiulMclurcr uf 

 4."> Broadway, accompanied by Mrs. lligbie, 

 sailed from this city on March li; Un- :i three 

 weeks' trip to the Bermudas. 



K. K. Eaton, who looks after the lociil inter- 

 ests -if the W. M. Ritter Lumber Coinpany, is 

 now located in new quarters at l-'i-S West Eighty- 

 first street, lie expresses himself as very well 

 satisfied with current hardwood conditions. 



Hugh .McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company. Buffalo, was in town last week and 

 announced that ho has appointed Christopher B. 

 f:ox to represent his firm in the local market. 

 Mr. Cox has been associated with the well- 

 known .lersey City house of Vanderbeek & Sons 

 for some time past. Mr. McLean also announced 

 that Ralph E. Bond, wiio has been associated 

 with the firm in Buffalo, covering the western 

 trade, has been appointed New England repre- 

 sentative with head(iuarters at Springfield, Mass. 



Seelav & Levy, hardwood retailers, announce 

 the removal of their business to Park aveiuie and 

 170th street, borough of the Bronx. 



Sam E. Barr. Elallron Building, has secured 

 the entire hardwood output of the Dan Valley 

 Lumber Company of Mount Airy, N. C. approxi- 

 mating about seven million feet of poplar, oak 

 and chestnut, for a year, and will market the 

 stock In connection with his i;i'n(M-;il harihvooil 

 i>usiness. 



Philadelphia, 



Srholield Brolliii-s are booking orders: last 

 month was one of the best they ever recorded. 

 The splendid volume of business controlled by 

 this company makes more help necessary and 

 they have engaged the services of W. H. Hyatt, 

 formerly with the Gnuley Company, Camden-on- 

 (iauley, W. \'a., for their Weston, W. Vu., ofTice, 

 where he will assist in sidpping. C. A. Rum- 

 mels, at present with tlie Emporium Lumber 

 Company, Caleiim, Pa., will cover the New York 

 and New England territory as salesman for the 

 company, taking vip tills work April 1. ,1. II. 

 Schofleld left f<ir the South March IS to spend 

 some weeks looking after the shipments of the 

 firm. 



Max L. Pease of the tialloway-Pease Company, 

 Johnson City, Teiin., Is spending u week here. 



John J. Soble of Soble Brothers has returned 

 from a three weeks' Irli) In .New York state. 

 Soble Brothers are elated over tlic fact that they 

 have seiiiied a large bloek of chestnut whiih 

 they are offering to the trade. 



Owen M. liruncr Is out of town digging up 

 business, and Is successful as usual. He will not 

 return before the end of March. 



R. W. WIstar of Wlstar, Underbill & Co. Is 

 nmking an extensive trip through the Soulh 

 looking after the hardwood contracts of the tlrni. 

 He will be gone five or six weeks. 



C. E. Lloyd. Jr., of the Cherry River Boom A: 

 Lumber Company returned .\larrh 17 from a 

 visit to Michigan and CIdcngo. The firm finds 



the hardwood market very active and has no 



difficulty in selling stock. 



Horace C. Hazard & Co. are making jirepara- 

 tions for a heavy spring trade. Their yards are- 

 well stocked. The company lately actiuired an 

 interest in a mill of the West Florida Hardwood 

 Company at Marysville. I'la. E. B. .Vettleton. 

 who is also interested, has gone down tliere to 

 take cliarge. 



Manager Justin I't-tcrs of tlic reniisylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company Is. 

 much gratified over the continuation of the pros- 

 perous conditions ui tlie insurance business. 

 Since the regular statement issued on Jan. 1 

 business has been constantly increasing. There 

 have been no fires, and he finds the future ex- 

 tremely hopeful. 



.\ meeting of the directors of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of Philadelphia was held .March 14. 

 and Soble Brothers, J. R. Williams, R. .M. Smith 

 & Co., all of the Land Title Building, and M. W. 

 Jones of (iermantown were elected to member- 

 ship in the exchange. The next regular monthly 

 meeting will he belli on the first 'I'liursday in 

 April. 



J. W. liitTenilerfer of the J. W. Diffenderfer 

 Lumber Company is making a business trip to 

 New York. In his absence II. E. Magargel Is at- 

 tending to ilie constantly increasing Inisiness of 

 the firm. The company moved half a millloii 

 teet of oak in the last fifteen days. 



Charles K. Miller of \:,2i) Brown street, Phila- 

 ilel|)hia. has been appointed National Hardwood 

 .Association inspector for the district of I'hlla- 

 delphia, vice V. (i. Talbert, resigned. Mr. Miller 

 is favorably known to the trade here and has 

 had extensive experience as a hardwood inspec- 

 tor, having been emiiloyed in that capacity by 

 (ieo. W. Stokes & Sons and also in the South. 

 He will assume his liuties .\pril 1. 



Jo.seph P. Dunwoody has just returned from 

 a trip through eastern Tennessee. He reports 

 the market in good shape and stocks of liardwood 

 scarce. 



.\mong the visitors to llie local trade during 

 I be last few days were; 11. R. Black of the 

 K'iss Lumber Company, Jamestown. N. Y. ; 

 Cliaiies H. .Vdams of the Prescott Company, Me- 

 nominee. Mich. ; F. E. Longwell, manager of the 

 Iluntsville Lumber Company. Iluntsville, .\la. : 

 .\rthur C. Wood, president Mutual Lumber Com- 

 pany. New York : A. J. Bond of Bradford, Pa., 

 and Frank B. l.undy of the Williamsport Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, Williamsport, Pa. 



l.'harles H. Thompson of Lewis 'I'hompson & 

 Co. Is expected back from Florida towards the 

 end of March. 



On \he evening of .March 1 :; I lie Concatenated 

 Order of lloo-lloo lield a concatenation at the 

 Hotel Waltou, Philadelphia, Pa. Eighteen can- 

 didates were initiated, and they got all that was 

 coming to them. William i>. (iill of Baltimore 

 served in the capacity of Junior Hoo-lloo and 

 |iut the candidates through as only William D. 

 (iill can. .Vfler the concatenation an "On the 

 Roof" in the shape of a banquet was held, fol- 

 lowed by a vaudeville show. This concatenation 

 was voted unanimously the best ever held In 

 Philadelphia or any other city east of the MIs- 

 sisslpiil Itiver. Phllailelphla Is making a strong 

 bid for the annual lloolloo convention of liUI" 

 and expects in laud It. 



Baltimore. 



.\t the monthly meeting of the Baltimore Liini 

 her Exihange, which was held .March .'i at the 

 Mi'rchants' Club, the annual dues were raised 



li I .$l."i to .?L'."i, and file by laws will be amended 



to permit the change. The advocates of the 

 advance argued that the usefulness of the ex 

 change is being const, ml ly aiiginenled, iind thai 

 the expense of maintaining the instltiillon is 

 heavier than in former years, whlcli justified the 

 change, other matters discussed Included tin- 

 relations helween wholesaler and retailer, II be 

 lug complained that wholesalers are selling to 

 eonsiiiners lnsti>ad of restricting tlndr business 

 to the reliitlers. N'arlons routine matters wei-e 



