THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



27 







J. S. GOLDIE 



LUMBER AND POSTS 



CADILLAC. :: MICH. 



Hardwood Dimension 

 Stock a Specialty. 



FOR SALE 



BY 



The R. G. Peters Salt 

 AND Lumber Company. 



No. 3 Common Hard Maple, I, IK. 2 and 3 inch. 

 No. 2 Common and Better Rock Elm, 1 and IH inch. 

 No. 2 Common and Better Beech. 1, lU and 14 inch. 



EASTLAKE. 



MICH. 



Martin-Barriss Co. 



= Wholesalers and Manufacturers = 



Mahony and Fine Hardwoods 



Cleveland , 



Ohio. 



A. R. VINNEDGE 

 LUMBER CO. 



WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



Wc ARE Buyers of Both Northern and 

 Southern hardwoods 



134 MONROE STREET, CHICAGO 



WINTER TOURIST TICKETS 



ARE NOW ON SALE VIA 



Louisville & Nashville 



RAILROAD 



TO 



Florida, 



Gulf Coast Resorts, 



Cuba, 



At Very Low Rates. 



For rates, time tables or beautifully illus- 

 trated booklets on Florida, the Gulf Coast, New 

 Orleans or Cuba, address nearest representative. 



F. D. BUSH, D. P. A Cincinnati 



J. E. DAVENPORT, D. P. A St. Louis 



H. C. BAILEY, N. W. P. A Chicago 



J. H. MILLIKEN, D. P. A Louisville 



C. L.STONE, Gen'l Pass. Agent, - Louisville, Ky. 



This presented an opportunity for talking over 

 the business of the coming year. Those who 

 came up from the South included Robert R. 

 Ilorsburgh, superintendent of the Coketonl mill, 

 D. S. Cunningham, S. S. Steele, S. F. Davis. 

 W. T. Latham, C. A. Dean, W. E. Cooper, and 

 W. K. Merrick. John J. Rumbarger reports 

 business as having been quiet for the past three 

 weeks, though he looks for a large volume of 

 trade very soon. 



Ellwood B. Haymann, of the firm of William 

 H. Fritz & Co., has been spending a couple 

 of weeks at his home here, there being few or- 

 ders to secure on the road. He says the hard- 

 wood markets are in good shape and he looks 

 forward to considerable business. 



December was a heavy month in the matter 

 of car shipments from the big yard of J. Gib- 

 son Mcllvain & Co., in West Philadelphia. There 

 are millions of feet of hardwoods plled^ In the 

 yard, a larger winter stock than is usually car- 

 ried, in anticipation of a great spring trade. 



Wm. M. McCormick, the wholesaler and pres- 

 ident of the Little River Lumber Company, says 

 that the outlook foi' the coming season is the 

 brightest for several years, and altogether he 

 takes an optimistic view of the situation. He 

 will make a trip to the mill at Townsend, 

 Tenn., the latter part of the month. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 has made several purchases of property adjoin- 

 ing its plant at Randolph street and Columbia 

 avenue for the purpose of enlarging its factory. 

 The damage to the buildings recently visited 

 by fire has been nearly repaired, and much new 

 lumber to take the place of that destroyed put 

 in the sheds. 



The hardwood firms about town are not busy 

 for the time being. Stock taking has been the 

 rule ac the yards of Lewis Thompson & Co., 

 Inc.. George M. Spiegle & Co., Richard Torpin 

 & Co., R. A. & J. J. Williams and Wilson H. 

 Lear. 



Little is doing at the yard of S. B. Vrooman 

 & Co., Ltd., on the river front. The mill has 

 sufficient orders on hand to keep it running 

 and no shut down will be made. Mr. Vrooman 

 looksl for good business in the spring and sum- 

 mer. 



J. Wistar Evans, of Goodhue & Evans, spent 

 two weeks at the home office, and a couple of 

 days ago returned ta the mill of the Philadel- 

 phia Veneer & Lumber Company, at Knoxville, 

 Tenn., in which Goodhue & Evans and the firm 

 of Sheip & Vandegrift are interested. He says 

 that the operation is now in pretty good shape 

 and shipments of lumber and veneers are being 

 made. 



Horace A. Reeves, Jr., of Robert B. Wheeler 

 & Co., is on a short trip through the south. 

 As is the case with many of the large con- 

 cerns, trade is quiet with the company at pres- 

 ent, though some inquiry is being received for 

 oak and chestnut. 



Horace G. Hazard, of H. G. Hazard & Co., 

 is back from a business trip among the mills 

 of West Virginia. 



J. Randall Williams, Jr., of J. Randall Wil- 

 liams & Co., Is another of the absent whole- 

 salers. The firm has shipped considerable oak 

 and poplar during the past month from several 

 of its connections. 



Eli B. Hallowell, of Eli B. Hallowell & Co., 

 has been ill for the last ten days, suffering 

 from a heavy cold which kept him away from 

 the office. 



Baltimore. 

 The mill foremen and managers of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company had a gala time during 

 the holiday week. They were feted, dined and 

 wined, and taken around to see the sights by 

 the president, R. E. Wood, to an extent that 

 made them loath to go back to the woods again. 

 They came here at the invitation of the head 

 of the company to talk over the year's business 

 and plans for the future, and Mr. Wood proved 



to be a capital host, who took good care that 

 business should not absorb too much of the 

 time. He got out his automobile and in it the 

 visitors were taken around the city, out to 

 Druid Hill park, through the burnt district, 

 and to various other points, and nearly every- 

 where the auto stopped a pleasant reception had 

 been provided. The closing entertainment was 

 a banquet at the Hotel Rennert, which was 

 served in Mine Host O'Conor's best style, and 

 which kept the company together until a late 

 hour. Those present were : 



E. R. Wood, president, 



Robert Wood, of Williamsport, father of R. E. 

 Wood. 



G. L. Wood, general manager of the company, 

 who has charge of the West Virginia plant, sit- 

 uated at Sandy Huff. 



C. E. Wood, assistant general manager, who is 

 stationed at Sandy Huff, W. Va. 



E. L. Warren, in charge of the Tennessee 

 plant and purchasing agent of the company. 



W. L. Taylor, attorney for the company. 



H. L. Bowman, sales agent. 



J. K. Painter, secretary and treasurer of the 

 company. 



E. L. Warner, of Calhoun, S. C, in charge of 

 the mill there. 



Kyle Connor, manager of the logging camps, 

 with headquarters at Sandy Huff, W. Va. 



J. L. Sands, western representative. 



M. N. Edwards, of Williamsport, Pa. 



C. Cochran, eastern representative. 



Frederick Miller, of Williamsport, Pa. 



Joseph King. 



J. m Yost. 



G«orge M. Speigle, of Philadelphia, a member 

 of the special committee appointed by the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Exporters" Association to take 

 up the matter of clean through bills of lading, 

 recently made complaint in behalf of the asso- 

 ciation before the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion against a prominent railroad in order to 

 bring the matter to a head and fix the responsi- 

 bility somewhere. The committee is fully au- 

 thorized to take any action it deems proper, and 

 the outcome of the petition is awaited with great 

 interest. 



The new hardwood inspection rules, which 

 were put in operation during the latter part of 

 1904, are eliciting much favorable comment, and 

 it is thought that the trade will be materially 

 benefited. 



Carter, Hughes & Co., a well known hardwood 

 exporting firm, recently took possession of their 

 temporary brick office, built on the site of the 

 old one at Union Dock, which was destroyed in 

 the great fire. All the summer they occupied 

 a fiimsy frame shanty, with a leaky roof, which 

 necessitated much dodging In rainy weather to 

 keep the desks and papers out of the drip 

 through the crevices, and which afforded no 

 shelter against cold. The new office Is comfort- 

 able and even boasts of a genuine maple floor, 

 the one item of extravagance about it. The 

 firm will of course have to move as soon as the 

 contemplated dock improvements are under way. 



Richard Price, of Price & Heald, who was ill 

 for a time recently, has fully recovered his ac- 

 customed strength and vigor and was able to 

 celebrate the holidays with zest. Gustave Far- 

 ber, of the firm, who has been in South Caro- 

 lina for some time looking after the milling 

 interests of the firm there, was on for a short 

 visit during the holidays. He is in excellent 

 health. 



In a recent interview, John L. Alcock of 

 J. L. Alcock & Co., has the following to say 

 concerning export conditions : 



The year 1904 was not a good one for various 

 reasons, but mainly on account of heavy stocks 

 that were carried over from 1903 and the con- 

 tinued forwarding of large consignments of all 

 kinds of unsold lumber in the face of dull 

 trade conditions existing in nearly all large 

 lumber consuming and manufacturing districts 

 throughout Great Britain and Germany, which 

 are the principal importing countries of Amer- 

 ican hardwoods. Throughout England and Ger- 



