THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



31 



HOTEL WALTON 



PHILADELPHIA 



YOUR commendation in the past, only makes renewed 

 efforts for your comfort and pleasure the endeavor of 

 the management. 

 Situated on South Broad Street in the midst of Phila- 

 delphia's commercial palaces, less than 300 feet from the 

 Bellevue-Stratford, where the meetings of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Dealers" Associaiion will be held on 

 Thursday and Friday. March 2d and 3d, 1905. 



Your patronage solicited. Rates tor this occasion as 

 follows: 



Single Rooms, without bath, SL50 aad up 

 with " 2.50 



Double " wiihoul " 2.00 

 with " 4.00 



Reseri-ations made al once will insure the dest in iht 

 house, and will be promptly acknowledged, 



OEO. W. SWETT. Manager. 



PIERCE LU/VIBERCO. 



Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in 



HARDWOOD LUHBER 



J^-We will saw Red and Wlilte Oak 

 exclusively for Ibe next year. 



OFFICE and MILLS. OLYPHANT. ARK 



Wholesale Dealers In 



HARDWOOD 



OFFICE AND YARDS: 



520 to 530 rR4NKLIN STREET 

 DETROIT, MICHIGAN. 



Correspondence Intnted on All Ilardivoods . 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company has now 

 about 3.500.000 feet in its yards consisting o£ 

 all grades of hardwoods. The plant, as well as 

 all the mills of this city is running full time. 

 'iTie company's foreign representative, W. O. 

 Barter will take a trip east in a few days after 

 which he will take up his work in Europe. 



MirmeapoKs. 



Several local dealers in liardwood joined a 

 party of business men which left here the 

 evening of January 15 for iUssissippi. where 

 tliey went to Investigate a hardwood timber 

 proposition on the line of the Illinois Central 

 cut off. in the Yazoo valley. They went at 

 the invitation of interested parties who want 

 to form a stock company and begin the manu- 

 fTclure of the timber. Among the junketers were 

 V>'. c. Bailey and F. H. Lewis, veteran dealers 

 of this city : A. H. Barnard and P. W. Strick- 

 land, of Barnard & Strickland, the well known 

 hardwood wholesalers ; Geo. H. Tennant, plan- 

 ing mill operator ; A. A. Carlson, sash and door 

 liiauufacturer : W. W. Morse, manager of the 

 Security Warehouse Company, and J, E. Ware, 

 cashier of the St. Anthony Falls Bank. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a short business trip 

 over in Wisconsin, where he found logging op- 

 erations moving at a good rate once more, the 

 d<rep snow having settled somewhat. The Kuby 

 Lumber Company of Ruby, Wis., in which they 

 are interested, has a good stock of logs and 

 is sawing at full capacity. P. R. Hamilton 

 of the same company reports a good factory 

 trade, especially in basswood upper grades. 



D. F. Clark, of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, has been down in Chicago on busi- 

 ness the past week. They report yard trade 

 rather quiet, but some call for wagon stock and 

 maple flooring, while red oak is in good demand. 



E. Payson Smith, who has been prominent 

 in the hardwood trade here for three or four 

 years past, has moved iis business to Chicago, 

 and opened an office at 1404 Fisher Building. 

 He made his decision rather suddenly, and his 

 associates in the trade here were surprised 

 to learn of it. Mr. Smith deals entirely in 

 southern stocks, mainly hardwood, and his busi- 

 r.ess is largely In eastern cities. As it has 

 been expandinj in that direction, he felt the 

 need of being nearer both his source of supply 

 and his market. Mr. Smith's family will re- 

 main in Minneapolis until warm weather, when 

 the home will also be moved to Chicago. 



I. P. I>ennon of I. P. Lennon & Co. the 

 local wholesalers, says he is finding the factory 

 trade somewhat interested in the supply of 

 birch and oak stocks, and he looks for a lively 

 movement in September. 



M. J. Bell of Superior. Wis., who has a 

 hardwood mill at Blueberry. Wis., was in Min- 

 neapolis a few days ago looking over local 

 m.-irket conditions. 



A new lumber company which will handle 

 hardwood has been organized in Minneapolis. 

 It will so under the name of Robert Ilolliday. 

 who has been well known to the trade as a 

 manufacturer at Barron. Wis. Associated with 

 Mr. Holliday is H. G. Dalton, who has been 

 with F. n. Lewis for several years past. They 

 have olhccs at 703 Lumber Exchange. 



The local demand for birch has been helped 

 somewbat by F. H. Lewis, who has purchased 

 a stock on the Wisconsin Central at a point 

 which usually ships to Chicago, and has placed 

 it on the Minneapolis market. 



The Hardwood Door Company is the name of 

 a new St. Paul concern, which will do a retail 

 business in veneered doors and moldings, hard- 

 v.ciod flooring and lumber, beside a stock of 

 white pine. The head of the new company is 

 V. Hinrichs, formerly manager of the L. Lamb 

 Lumber Company's business in St. Paul. The 

 company occupies a four story brick building at 

 Fourth and Exchange streets, and starts out 

 with excellent prospects for successful business. 



Cincinnati. 



Local handlers of Cottonwood and gum are 

 anxiously waiting for the ice in the Missis- 

 sippi river to run out so that tows of both 

 classes of lumber may be started from lower 

 Mississippi ports for here. Representatives 

 of a number of local firms are in the south 

 to see that the shipments are started as soon 

 as navigation is possible. Stocks of both Cot- 

 tonwood and gum are at a low ebb. Hard- 

 wood men state that the ice in the Ohio is 

 not much of a disturbing factor. 



Messrs. Rodmann & Galle of the Galle Hard- 

 w'ood Lumber Company have returned from a 

 buying trip through Kentucky and Tennessee. 

 According to both stocks as a whole are low, 

 while the demand is gradually increasing. 



Max Kosse, president of the K. & P. com- 

 pany, has decided to remain with that com- 

 pany. Several weeks ago on Mr. Kosse's re- 

 turn from a trip to EXirope it was said that 

 he would leave the K. & P. company and lo- 

 cate with the American 'VS'alnut company, 

 ■oh intended opening a branch office at 

 Chicago. 



Chester A. Korn of the Farrin-Kom Com- 

 pany, when asked his opinion concerning gum 

 , nd Cottonwood, said: "Both are in excellent 

 demand and we are having all the business 

 that we can attend to. We expect to get sev- 

 eral barges through from the Green river 

 shortly, and will then continue to ship until 

 . next summer." 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & W'itte is home 

 from a trip through Indiana. The early part 

 of the month he was in Indianapolis, where 

 he took in the annual convention of the In- 

 diana Retail Lumber Dealers' Association. 



George Ehemann. connected with the Mem- 

 phis office of Bennett & Witte, has returned 

 to his post after a business and pleasure visit 

 here. 



The firm of Mowbray, Robinson & Emswiler 

 has been dissolved, C. C. Emswiler retiring. 

 The company was formed three years ago, 

 Mr. Emswiler furnishing the principal finan- 

 cial support. The other members of the firm, 

 E. O. Robinson and P. W. Mowbray, have "re- 

 funded to Mr. E:mswiler the capital he invested, 

 together with a neat profit. The business will 

 be continued on West Sixth street under the 

 name of Mowbray & Robinson. As heretofore a 

 specialty will be made of oak and poplar. 



T. J. MofEett of the Maley, Thompson & Mof- 

 fett Compauy is in New York, from where be- 

 fore the end of the month he will sail for Cuba 

 to look after extensive holdings which the com- 

 pany controls there. 



A member of the firm, in speaking to the 

 Hakdwood Record correspondent, said export 

 business with Great Britain promises great im- 

 provement before spring. 



Word has been received in Cincinnati that 

 Thomas P. Egan, president of the J. A. Fay & 

 Egan Company, extensive wood-working machin- 

 ery makers, was recently presented to President 

 ralma of Cuba and to the rulers of other 

 southern countries. Mr. Egan, wife and daugh- 

 ter are spending the winter months in southern 

 countries. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company has purchased 

 an acre of land on Cummins street. Fairmount. 

 on which they will erect a building for their 

 offices. The company incorporated tie early 

 part of the month at $500,000. The business 

 will be greatly enlarged. 



The C. E. Littell Company, recently burned 

 out of its plant at 1610 Hunt street, incorpo- 

 rated last week with $20,000 as its capital 

 -»ock. The incorporators were C. E. Littell. 

 K. W. Littell, W. T. Clark, M. D. Clark and 

 \. S. Clark. The company is looking for a new 

 location. 



The E. S. Conkling Company of this city was 

 incorporated Jan. 14 to manufacture boxes and 

 deal In lumber on $50,000 capital stock. Ed- 



