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cabinet woods will be carried by A. J. Oliver 

 and I. M. Cook at 9-13 Soutli Ann street, this 

 city, where they recently opened warerooms. 

 ISoth these gentlemen are experts in this line. 

 having been identified with the lumber and 

 veneer business of Chicago for many years. They 

 have connections which will enable them to sup- 

 ply superior stock in almost any quantity de- 

 -■sired at very reasonable figures. 



John B. Ransom, the distinguished hardwood 

 magnate of Nashville and vice president of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, was a Chi- 

 cago visitor on April 3. 



One of the Record's callers during the past 

 few' days was S. G. McClellan, manager of the 

 Simmons Lumber Company of Simmons, Mich. 

 My. McClellan's concern is a large producer of 

 birch. Its bircli timber lies in the best belt of 

 this wood in the United States, and is inter- 

 spersed with maple, beech, elm and hemlock. 

 The company owns a timber area of sufficient 

 size to keep its mills running for more than a 

 <lecade. 



C. L. Willey, the big foreign wood and veneer 

 producer of Chicago, has recently returned from 

 a trip to Memphis, where he has arranged ail 

 the details for the building of his new double 

 hand sawmill. This mill will not only produce 

 oak and other hardwoods in the form of lumber 

 but will supply flitches for the big Chicago 

 veneer plant. 



A. H. Daugherty. manager of W. E. Kelley & 

 Co., is off on another Pacific coast trip in the 

 interests of the business of his concern. 



William Wilms, vice president of the Paepcke- 

 Leicht Lumber Company and president of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, is home 

 from a trip to the company's mills in Arkansas. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, is on a tour of the 

 South, where he is installing new inspectors for 

 his association. 



The Hardwood Record has a letter from the 

 Roy Lumber Company of Nicholasville, Ky., 

 under date of March 30, in which it is stated 

 that general rains are prevailing in Kentucky 

 and all indications point to good log tides in 

 Kentucky streams, which will mean a better log 

 crop than for several years past. This will be 

 specially pleasing to all the mills located on the 

 Kentucky river from Jackson to Erankfort, as 

 they have received only moderate deliveries for 

 several years past. 



It was decided by the Mississippi members at 

 the recent Memphis district meeting of the Hard- 

 w-ood Manufacturers' Association to hold another 

 meeting for the benefit of hardwood manufac- 

 turers farther south, at the Elysian Club, Green- 

 ville, Miss., on Wednesday, April 23. It is pro- 

 posed at this meeting that several of the active 

 members of the association will address the 

 manufacturers of that district on the aims and 

 achievements of the association. It is expected 

 that a large number of lower Mississippi valley 

 operators will be present and join hands with 

 the big association. 



The Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company, the 

 lumber, wagon and implement stock wholesalers 

 of the Fisher building, are moving their oflices 

 from the seventh floor to suite 203 in the same 

 building, which will give them larger and more 

 attractive quarters. 



O. O. Agler, Upham & Agler, is just back from 

 a visit to the firm's Cairo distributing yard and 

 a brief trip to Memphis. 



Will Martin of the Embury-Martin Lumber 

 Company of Cheboygan, Mich., was in Chicago 

 on Friday. Mr. Martin states that his company 

 will cut about 30,000,000 feet of lumber during 

 the coming season, quite a proportion of which 

 will be hardwoods. 



The T. Wilce Company has received the first 

 cargo of lumber of the season. The Edward 

 Buckley arrived on March L'3 with 250,000 feet 

 of maple lumber from Manistee, Mich. On 



.\piil 4 the vessel arrived with a second load of 

 27U.00O feet of maple, consigned to this com- 

 pany from the same port. Coal laden vessels 

 have been passing up the Detroit river en route 

 to Lake Michigan ports from Buffalo for several 

 days. The ice is still solid at the Straits of 

 Mackinac, but it is expected that navigation on 

 the lower lakes will be fully opened within the 

 week. 



The Hardwood Record is indebted to Henry 

 C. Riley, on behalf of the committee, for an 

 invitation to attend a banquet at the Union 

 League Club, I'hiladelpbia, on Thursday, April 

 12, at 7 p. m., following the nineteenth annual 

 meeting of the Lumliermen's Exchange of that 

 city. 



This office had the pleasure of a call a few 

 days ago from E. W. McCuUough of Wilmette. 

 111., secretary of the National Wagon Manufac- 

 turers' Association. 



Boston. 



Moses Brown of the Newell Coal &. Lumber 

 Company, I'awtucket, R. I., retired from active 

 business March 31, after about thirty years of 

 continuous service with this company. Mr. Brown 

 intends to spend part of his time traveling. He 

 is known as one of the best yard managers and 

 the best judges of lumber in New England. He 

 is strictly honest, and at the same time a very 

 shrewd buyer. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Wentworth 

 & Co. left on the evening of April S for a two 

 weeks' trip among the mills in the South. 



Mr. Trounce of tlie Good.vear Lumber Com- 

 pany, Buffalo. N. y., recently spent a short 

 time in Boston. 



The E. A. Smith Company, Boston, is reported 

 to have made an assignment. 



George Davenport of Davenport Peters & Co. 

 has returned from a trip to Florida, in which 

 business and pleasure were combined. 



Charles W. Leatherbee of the C. W. Leather- 

 bee Lumber Company, who has been visiting the 

 mills in North Carolina, has returned to Bos- 

 ton. 



The A. F. Tyler Company of Athol, Mass., 

 will build an addition to its plant in the spring, 

 which will be used for the manufacture of doors, 

 sash and blinds. 



A regular meeting and dinner of the Massa- 

 chusetts Wholesale Lumber Association will be 

 held Wednesday evening, April 11. at Young's. 



The A. G. Moore Company of this city, manu- 

 facturer of hardwood floors, is reported as hav- 

 ing made an assignment. 



E. A. Beckley of the Crosby-Beckley Company, 

 New Haven, Conn., dealers in hardwood lumber, 

 visited the Boston market during the week. 



New York. 



W. L. Holahan of 540 West Fifty-seventh 

 street. Manhattan, has been appointed official 

 inspector for this market by the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association to succeed I'. J. Bres- 

 nahan. 



The C. & W. Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized with headquarters at 18 Broadway by John 

 Cathcart and W. L. Willich to handle the New 

 York business of Mr. Cathcart. Mr. Willich 

 has been associated with Mr. Cathcart for nine 

 years. F. C. Jennings still retains his interest as 

 special partner in the manufacturing end of 

 the business with Mr. Cathcart, who is now 

 devoting his entire attention to that branch, 

 with headquarters at Decatur, Ala. 



Amoug the recent entries into the wholesale 

 trade Is Laurens P. Rider, who withdrew from 

 White, Rider & Frost, and the Hoban & Curtis 

 Lumber Company, formed by J. E. Hoban, for- 

 merly with the J. C. Turner Cypress Lumber 

 Company for the past ten years. Both have 

 opened offices at 1 Madison avenue. 



Norman G. Wright of Wright, Graham & Co., 

 Liverpool, accompanied by his brother, arrived 

 liere last weelt for a business and pleasure 

 trip. 



Another arrival from abroad is Frank Harri- 



son of Liverpool, who landed from the Cedric 

 last week, completing his hundredth ocean trip. 



Leopold Mayer-Dinkel of Dreyfus & Mayer- 

 Dinkel, Mannheim, Germany, was in the city 

 this week after a visit to North Carolina mill 

 points. He will spend the balance of the year 

 touring the country sightseeing. 



William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., have moved 

 their offices from 143 Liberty street to 1104 and 

 1103 Flatiron building, where they have very 

 commodious quarters. 



Y'eandle & Co. recently Incorporated at Jersey 

 City to manufacture hardwood trim, etc. : capi- 

 tal, $5,000. Incorporators are T. C, G. W. and 

 J. A. Yeandle, all of that city. 



John S. Loomis, one of the leading lumbermen 

 of the district and head of the J. S. Loomis 

 Company, extensive millwork manufacturers and 

 lumber dealers of Brooklyn, died suddenly of 

 heart disease at Brunswick, Ga., on March 22. 



The foreign mahogany and cedar trade has 

 seldom been more active than at present. The 

 demand for mahogany lumber and veneers and 

 i-edar lumber is large, and the arrivals of logs 

 is in no way sufficient to keep supplies up to 

 the normal, with the result that both are bring- 

 ing top prices. 



E. W. Robbins of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company, Cincinnati, spent last week at 

 the local yard of the company, going over mat- 

 ters at this end. 



J. C. Turner. J. C. Turner Cypress Lumber 

 Company, is just back from an extended tour 

 of his Pacific coast interests and is planning an 

 active campaign in the eastern end of that de- 

 partment. Mr. Turner is a heavy holder in the 

 J. L. Jenkins Lumber Company of Blaine, Wash., 

 and will handle much of its product here. 



The local office of the Rice & Lockwood Lum- 

 ber Company has been removed to 1 Madison 

 avenue, where W. W. Lockwood will continue 

 to make his quarters in catering to the local 

 trade. C. H. Rawson of Newark,' N. J., will 

 solicit the New Jersey and New York trade, as- 

 sisting Mr. Lockwood, and N. Whiffen of Utica 

 will act in like capacity to L. L. Ashley of the 

 company in northern New York. 



The regular spring meeting of the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association will be held at head- 

 quarters, 18 Broadway, April 11, at which time 

 many matters of importance will be discussed 

 and acted upon. The affairs of the organiza- 

 tion are in excellent condition and a large 

 meeting is anticipated. 



Philadelphia. 



The past fortnight has been prolific in fires 

 among the lumber trade and allied business in 

 Philadelphia, the total losses amounting to 

 nearly $500,000, in great part covered by insur- 

 ance. 



On the night of March 24 fire completely 

 destroyed the warehouse of the Haney-White 

 Milling Company, at Fifty-eighth street and 

 Woodland avenue. The damage amounted to 

 about .$50,000, almost entirely covered by ip- 

 surance. 



The same night a small heap of benzine-soaked 

 waste, lying near a shaft in the box manufactur- 

 ing plant of Docker & Edwards, Inc., at 16 and 

 18 North Fifth street, in the heart of the whole- 

 sale district, ignited, and in a few minutes the 

 entire building was in flames. The fire spread to 

 an addition, also occupied by the company, and 

 set fire to other buildings. The total loss is 

 estimated at $60,000. The damage is well cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



On Tuesday night, March 27, the lumber yard 

 of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., twelve acres in 

 extent, at Fifty-eighth and Woodland avenue, 

 was almost completely wiped out, eight of the 

 twelve acres of lumber being destroyed. 



The stock totaled about 12,000,000 feet of 

 lumber and, with little exception, was choice, 

 seasoned stock, mahogany, oak, ash and cherry, 

 and was the largest assortment ever accumulated 

 by this company. The fire also consumed a 



