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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25. 191T 



Thp liurton VciiPer Company lias been incorporated at Mobile, Ala. 



E. I.. Gibbs Lumber Company is tbe same business as carried on hereto- 

 fore under the style of Owen Bearse & Son Company. Boston. Mass. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Central 

 Wheel & Manufacturing Company, Sturgls, Mich. 



The Boone Timber Company, Clothier, W. Va., has sustained a $50,000 

 loss by fire, partly covered by insurance. The mill will be replaced by a 

 larger plant and will have a greater capacity. 



The Baldwin Lumber Company, Crete, Neb., has been succeeded by tbe 

 Hayes Lumber Company of Lincoln. 



The H. & M. Lumber & Shingle Company has been incorporated at 

 Buffalo. N. Y. 



H. \V. Bogart. president and treasurer of the Minneapolis Sash & Door 

 Company, Minneapolis, Minn., died recently. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company, Saginaw, Mich., is reported to 

 have sustained a loss by fire. 



William J. Gels. E. A. Hasse, A. C. Hasse, E. Kline and O. F. Haeberle 

 have formed the Geis-IIasse Company at Cleveland, O., to manufacture 

 doors. Capital $5,000. 



The Ileyman Package Company will locate a box, crate and basket 

 factory at Grand Haven, Mich. 



The Economy Folding Box Company has been incorporated at Cincinnati. 

 O. F. H. Houghland, Charles L. Hopping. L. E. Orr, 3. C. DeFooset and 

 0. O. Andress are the incorporators. The capital is $15,000. 



A. S. Musselman, president of the Boyne City Lumber Company, Boyne 

 City. Mich., died recently. 



The Uermott Tupelo Lumber C(.mi)any has recently been organized at 

 Dermott. Ark. 



The capital of the Litton Veneer Company, Rockford, III., has been 

 increased to $100,000 and that of the Sraeed Box Company, Cleveland, O.. to 

 $100,000. 



The business carried on tor years under the name of F. W. Haupeter 

 (estate) is now known as the F. W. Hanpeter Furniture Company, St. 

 Louis, it having been incorporated with $60,000 capital. 



The Moon Desk Company. Muskegon, Mich., has gone out of business. 



.\t Carrollton, Ky., the United States Cabinet Manufacturing Company 

 has I.ieen incorporated. 



Other incorporations are : The Winn Cypress Company, Cleveland, O., 

 capitalized at $5,000 ; the North Eastern Lumber Company, Brooklyn, 

 N. y.. .$10,000 capital stock, and tbe Currie-Sweeoey Company, New York, 

 $5,000. 



C. A. Hamilton, president of the Racine Manufacturing Company, died 

 at Racine, Wis. 



The Bigelow-Cooper Company, manufacturer of flooring at Bay City, 

 Mich., has increased its capital from $l."i0.000 to $250,000 and the capital 

 of the Luce Furniture Company. Grand Rapids, Mich., increased from 

 $250,000 to $400,000. 



The Pioneer Furniture Manufacturing Company has been incorporated 

 at Cleveland. O., by John H. Hayner, Hugh Jones, W. A. Williams, J. J. 

 Babington and D. E. Cotton. Capital. $10,000. 



H. L., E. H. and S. L. Greene are the incorporators of the Greene 

 Brothers Corporation, manufacturer of coffins, caskets, lumber, etc., at 

 Rutland. N, D.. capitalized at $25,000. 



— < CHICAGO >■ — --^^ 



The Chicago Wood Novelty Company has been incorporated at Chicago. 



Edward Vail of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse, 

 spent a day or two in Chicago last week on his return from the Pacific 

 Coast, where he attended the conference of forestry clubs at Seattle. 



C. P. Crosby of Rhinelander, Wis., with Mrs. Crosby, was In the city 

 Tuesday, March 13. • 



E. V. Knight. New Albany Veneering Company, New Albany, Ind.. 

 P. L. Zaug of the Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Company, New London, Wis., 

 A. E. Gorbam. Gorbam Brothers Company, Mt. Pleasant, Mich., George H. 

 Chapman, Northwestern Lumber Company, Stanley, Wis., E. W. Benjamin. 

 Cadillac Veneer Company. Cadillac. Mich., and John T. Breece of the Breece 

 Manufacturing Company, Portsmouth, O., were in the city March 13 attend- 

 ing a panel meeting. 



D. E. Kline with Mrs. Kline was in Chicago last week, Mr. Kline coming 

 here for the panel meeting. 



The Pekin Cooperage Company, Pekin, 111., has increased its capital 

 to $2,000,000. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Monarch Chair & Furniture 

 Company, Rockford. 



The Liberty Lumber & Mill Company has been incorporated here, its 

 capitalization being $5,000. 



A bill for accounting has been filed by the Independent Harvester Com- 

 pany, Piano, III. 



J. N. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company of Kansas City, 

 Mo., spent Tuesday of this week in Chicago in conference with his Chicago 

 representatives and in connection with other matters important to tbe 

 walnut business. J. C. Rodahaffer. now sales manager for George W. 

 Hartzell. Piqua, O., who will become sales manger for Mr. Penrod's concern 

 on the first of the month, was in the city at the same time. 



Other prominent lumber manufacturers who were here on Tuesday were 

 L. C. Moschel of the Langton Lumber Company, Pekin, 111., and Mr. 

 Haskell of the Pickrel Walnut Company, St. Louis, Mo. 



W. E. Heyser of tbe W. E. Heyser Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., spent 

 several days of this week in the city on business. 



A. B. Ransom of the Nashville firm of John B. Ransom & Co.. was Id 

 conference with his local representative. Earl Bartholomew, this week. 



Dr. Hermann von Schrenk. the noted lumlier technologist of St. Louis, 

 Mo., spent several days in the city during the week on matters of general 

 interest to the lumber industry. 



=•< BUFFALO >• 



Charles H. Stanton died on March 7, aged seventy-three years. He was 

 born in New Y'ork state, but spent much of his early life in Wisconsin and 

 other Western states, where he was steadily engaged in the lumber 

 business. He located in Buffalo about twenty years ago as the represen- 

 tative of the H. M. Loud Sons Company of Michigan, which position he held 

 until going into business for himself. Until his last sickness 

 he maintained an office in the Law Exchange. His love of sociability and 

 good fellowship made him always an enthusiastic Hoo-Hoo, of which he 

 was vicegerent more than once, and he died holding that position, Ms 

 number being 3140. He leaves a wife and son. Harry L. Stanton, assistant 

 secretary of the Detroit Trust Company. Remains were taken to Detroit 

 for burial. Fitting resolutions were passed by the Buffalo Lumber Ex- 

 change at its last meeting. 



The Buffalo lumber trade is well represented at the annual convention 

 of the National WHioIesale Lumber Dealers' .Association at Pittsburgh. 

 Among those who attended were Hugh McLean, J. B. Wall, H. F. Taylor, 

 Knowlton .Mixer. O. E. Yeager and E. J. Sturm. 



Fre^ M. Sullivan was at the head of the big delegation of lumbermen 

 and their employes and families attending tbe Billy Sunday tabernacle In 

 a body on the evening of March 8. The hardwood yards and ofiices gener- 

 ally closed at 4 p. m., to permit the employes to go. Some of the yards 

 distributed over 100 tickets to their employes and practically every yard 

 was well represented. The tabernacle meetings closed on March 25 and 

 bids are now being received on the lumber. 



The outlook for hardwood lumber receipts by lake this spring is said to 

 be poor. Freight rates are high and lumber prices at the mills are said 

 to be several dollars above a year ago ; so there is little inducement tor the 

 wholesalers to make the effort to lay in stocks during the early part of the 



:< PITTSBURGH >-= 



The Aberdeen Luniber Company reitorts a tr^'inendons demand for ^um 

 and Cottonwood and says the supply of cars has been much hi'tter the past 

 ten days on the lines throujrh the Southwest. President J. X. Woollett 

 believes that there is a long period of prosperity ahead for wholesalers. 



The Satler-Hamilton Lund>er Company reports that business was never 

 better. It is simply a case of getting- cars. Maniifactviriiig and railroad 

 demand is better than any other. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is having splendid business in the hard- 

 woods, especially in mixed grades which are selling well to mining com- 

 panies. Prices received are the best ever and the only cumplaiut is a 

 shortage of cars. 



-< BALTIMORE y^ 



David T. Carter & Co., wholesale hardwoods, will move this week from the 

 Law buibling to the new yard established on Siiuth Paca street. A one- 

 story brick office has been erected there, together wdth sheds and other 

 improvements. The yard is near the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and In a 

 district where a number of woodworking factories are located and where the 

 demand for hardwoods is large. 



■Andrew Dietrich, surviving partner of Dietrich Brothers, has lilcd a peti- 

 tion in the circuit court of this city, asking that a receiver be appointed 

 tor the II. B. Herring Company, wholesale lumber dealer and builder, con- 

 tending that the corporation is insolvent. The company recently filed a 

 reply denying the allegation. It is contended that the company was never 

 indebted to the petitioner, and that it can pay every creditor in full and 

 have sufficient left to refund its stockholders tbe par value of their stock 

 and give them a bonus besides. The B. C. Blbli Company, upon its petition, 

 was made a party plaintiff in the receivership case, it being alleged that the 

 Herring company owes it $:!74.50 for ranges, stoves and furnaces put In 

 houses on Fullerton avenue for the Herring company. 



=-< COLUMBUS >-- 



The Lumbermen's Club of Columbus was incorporated last week with a 

 preliminary capital of $5,000 for the mutual benefit of its members, who 

 are wholesalers and retailers of Columbus. The incorporators are John R. 

 Gobey, E. Doddlngton, W. E. Hyde, W. L. Whitacre, D. S. Benbow, A. E. 

 Legg, J. E. McNally, F. H. Lumbert and C. B. Brown. The club starts 

 with an initial membership of forty. It has secured permanent quarters 

 at Chestnut and High streets, where a dining room will be operated for the 

 benefit of the members and their guests. Officers are ; John R. Gobey, 

 president; J. E. McNally, first vice-president; A. E. Legg, second vice-presi- 

 dent ; R. M. Lucas, secretary ; and F. H. Lumbert, treasurer. 



The Matthews Company has been succeeded by the Matthews Boat Com- 

 pany of Port Clinton, Ohio. 



The Kile Manufacturing Company, Akron, O., has been succeeded by the 

 Kile Lumber & Building Company. 



