HARDWOOD RECORD 



on tile. The Chester Lumber & Coal Company. 

 of Chester, has just been elected a member. 



A change of note to the hardwood trade has 

 jceurred In the firm of Wlstar & Underbill, the 

 wholesalers of this city. Thomas N. Nixon, 

 who for the past four years has been one of 

 the firm's principal salesmen and has made an 

 enviable record, has been admitted to a fehare 

 in the business. The firm name has been 

 changed to Wistar, Vnderhill & Co.. and the 

 present location of the ofBces in the Real Es- 

 tate Trust building will be maintained. 



A. K. Leuckel, of A. R. Leuckel & Co.. of 

 Trenton. X. J., has been elected vice-president 

 of the Piedmont Springs Lumber Company, Inc. 

 C. C. Coolbaugh was re-elected president of the 

 concern and Alvin C. Birdsall secretary and 

 treasurer. 



The Parry-Righter Lumber Company has en- 

 larged its office space in the Land Title building 

 which the increase in the business and en- 

 larged force demanded. C. O. Mans, who was 

 formerly with the American Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, of Pittsburg, has been en- 

 gaged by the company to take care of trade in 

 the central and western portion of Pennsylvania 

 and New York state. 



Norman A. Perry, sales manager for Robert 

 C. Lipnincott, says there is considerable of a 

 demand for hardwoods, though the cold weather 

 has interfered much with shipments. 



New offices have been taken by Horace G. 

 Hazard & Co. on the tenth floor of the Drexel 

 building. Mr. Hillman is at Palm Beach. Fla., 

 on a vacation. Mr. Hazard reports a scarcity 

 of oak. 



Fire damaged the stock in the sheds and mill 

 of the Shamokin Lumber Company, at Shamo- 

 kin. on Monday last. The damage is estimated 

 at SllO.OOO, which is fully covered by insurance. 



The uptown yard of R. A. & J. J. Williams 

 has been busy this year on hardwoods and the 

 volume of business in January w-as above the 

 average. During the past ten days the snow 

 and ice lias made it almost impossible to handle 

 new stock. 



.T. Randall Williams. .Tr.. of J. Randall Wil- 

 liams & Co., is away on a business trip through 

 the south looking for stocks of hardwoods and 

 is not expected home for a week or ten days. 

 Mr. Williams says business is good and expects 

 a iieavy demand for spring. 



E. C. Walton, treasurer of the J. S. Kent 

 Company, reports a good demand for cypress 

 and says the inquiries out for stock indicate 

 much business ahead. 



William R. Gardy, the wholesaler, is getting 

 his share of the business about in the hard- 

 wood line. He thinks the demand will be more 

 than the stock will show when the volume of 

 spring business gets under way. 



Among the visitors in town for the past two 

 weeks were : J. L. Henry of J. L. Henry & Co.. 

 Buckhannon, W. Va. : A. J. Diebold of the 

 Forest Lumber Company, Pittsburg : Harry B. 

 Curtin of the Pardee-Curtin Lumber Company. 

 Sutton, W. Va. ; W. L. Clark, representing B. 

 E. Cogbill. Boydton. W. Va. ; J. H. Brewster, 

 of Bright and Brewster. Weston, W. Va., and 

 A. D. Updegraft, of Williamsport. 



The volume of trade has decreased since 

 Feb. 1 entirely through the bad weather that 

 has been experienced. The yards cannot see 

 the need of getting in stock while such weather 

 continues. Prices are being firmly maintained 

 in all the hardwood lines. The factories have 

 no great amount of stock and some buying is 

 being done by them. Plain and quartered oak 

 is scarce and but little success has been met 

 with by the men who have gone to the mills 

 for stocks. Oak is stiff in price and there is a 

 tendency toward high quotations. Poplar is in 

 better demand and prices are stronger. It 

 would appear that poplar is going to see a 

 better year than last. The wholesalers and 

 manufacturers are not anxious to take busi- 

 ness for late spring delivery as It is felt that 

 prices later on will favor the man who has 

 the stock. 



New York. 

 W. M. McCormick. the distinguished Phila 

 delphia wholesaler, sailed from this city on 

 one of the Hamburg-American line's Mediter- 

 ranean tours to be gone several weeks. 



E. M. Price, of Price & Hart, hardwood 

 wholesalers of IS Broadway, and ex-president 

 of I he National Lumber Exnorters' Association, 

 has just returned from' attending the annual 

 convention of that association in St. Louis 

 on Jan. 25, where he was presented with a set 

 of engrossed resolutions by the members in 

 appreciation of his past valuable services to 

 the organization. 



Sam E. Barr, who has just opened a local 

 office in the Flatiron building for the Barr ^ 

 Mill Company of Zanesville. O., reports busi- 

 ness opening up very satisfactory. His con- 

 cern is handling the hardwood lumber flooring 

 output of the Beaver Creek Lumber Company 

 of Davis, W. Va.. and are in possession of a 

 very choice line of stock for the local trade. 



Orson E. Yeager and I. N. Stewart, well 

 known Buffalo hardwood wholesalers, were vis- 

 itors in town recentl.y, coming down to at- 

 tend the automobile show in Madison Square 

 Garden, both gentlemen being enthusiastic 

 knights of the motor. 



Fire in the local district Jan. 27 destroyed 

 the planing inill and lumber yard of Robert 

 Wick. 65-1 West Thirtieth street, Manhattan, 

 entailing a loss of .$75,000. For a time the 

 fire threatened the large lumber yards of Crane 

 & Clark and the Dunbar Box and Lumber 

 Company, but through hard work on the part 

 of the department this catastrophe was happily 

 averted. 



A. L. Eraser, for many years connected 

 with the New York Central & Hudson River 

 railroad, has opened a hardwood yard at Yonk- 

 ers. N. Y. 



Louis Meisei, head of Meisel, Dahowitz & 

 Co.. large hardwood trim house of Eckford 

 street. Brooklyn, N. Y., died at his residence 

 in that cit.y on Jan. 12 in the thirt.v-eightb 

 .\ ear of his age. He was exceedingly well 

 known in his line and built up what is today 

 one of the largest businesses in that line in 

 the district. He had a host of friends in the 

 lumber trade, aud succeeding his death the 

 firm were in receipt of many letters of sym- 

 pathy from customers and friends of the firm, 

 testifying to his business ability and person- 

 ality. He organized this business in 1S95 with 

 Solomon Frank, and through his executive abil- 

 ity the firm fast forged to the front. 



Ten Eyck Lockwood, salesman for the Rice 

 & Lockwood Lumber Company of Springfield, 

 Mass.. in New Y'ork city and New Jersey, died 

 Jan. 2S at 'his residence in New Y'ork after a 

 two months' illness. He was a brother of W. 

 W. Lockwood. vice president of the company, 

 and formerly lived in Detroit. He has always 

 been Identified with the lumber business, and 

 in his association with the trade of the local 

 market he made raan.y friends. 



C. F. Fischer, the hardwood retailer of 1928 

 Park avenue. Manhattan, is planning to leave for 

 his annual southern pleasure trip which he 

 usually takes about this time each year. 



F. H. Doyle & Co., hardwood wholesalers of 

 16 Beaver street, report business as very satis- 

 factory and conditions steadily improving. They 

 are offering some very choice stocks in oak. 

 poplar and ash, and through their excellent 

 mill conditions and thorough knowledge of the 

 trade are fast enlarging their business. 



The following out of town hardwood lumber- 

 men were represented on the visiting list during 

 the past fortnight : M. C. Bums, of Palen & 

 Burns. Buffalo. N. Y. : G. N. Hutton of Hutton 

 & Bourbonnais, Hickory. N. C. ; Frank F. Fee 

 of Newark. O. : Frank C. Rice of Rice & Lock- 

 wood Lumber Company of Springfield. Mass. : 

 Orson E. Yeager of Buffalo, N, Y. ; I. N. Stew- 

 art of Buffalo, N. Y. : W. C. Laidlaw of Inter- 

 national Mahogany Company of Cincinnati. O. : 

 W. R. Butler of W. R. Butler & Co. of Boston. 



Mass. ; R. L. Walklev of Crosby & Beckley 

 Company of New Haven, Conn. 



Cincinnati. 



The movement by railroad in this market for 

 the month of January, as prepared by the Super- 

 intendent of the Chamber of Commerce, was as 

 follows : Receipts, 4,673 cars ; shipments. ,3,529. 

 The figures for the corresponding month last 

 .year were: Receipts, 3,976 cars; shipments. 

 3,270. River navigation is still suspended ow- 

 ing to heavy running ice. Cottonwood and gum 

 manufacturers had expected to get some ship- 

 ments here from Cairo, III., the early part of 

 the month, but were disappointed. 



M. B. Farrin, president of the M. B. Farrln 

 Company, will address the members of the Man- 

 ufacturers' Club at the monthly dinner on Feb. 

 13. His topic will be "Interstate Commerce 

 Legislation." Mr. Farrin is chairman of the 

 Transportation Committee of the club and well 

 posted on his subject. 



Edward Barber of Illingworth, Ingham & 

 Co., was the only local member of the National 

 Exporters' Association who attended the fifth 

 annual meeting at St. Louis Jan. 25-26. The 

 opinion was general at the session, he said. 

 that while so far there has been no decided im- 

 provement in export business, there is a much 

 better outlook. 



Chas. F. Shiels. of the C. F. Shiels Company, 

 has returned from an inspection trip to Ten- 

 nessee and other southern points. Poplar is in 

 better demand than for several months in his 

 opinion. 



The Willis Lumber Company, of Canton, has 

 been incorporated by John Willis, L. E. Willis, 

 A. N. Bordner. Calvin Seeman and B. Bord- 

 mann. The capital stock was given as $5,000. 



Clinton Crane, head of C. Crane & Co.. is 

 decidedly optimistic regarding the future of the 

 general hardwood market. He looks for higher 

 prices In the spring. Mr. Crane added that the 

 company's January business was better than 

 for the corresponding month of any year on 

 record. 



W. A. Bennett has been appointed by Presi- 

 dent Kipp of the Lumbermen's Club to represent 

 that organization in the fight the Receivers' 

 and Shippers' Association is conducjting for bet- 

 ter freight rates to Cincinnati. 



Wednesday evening, Feb. S, a large number 

 of Michigan retailers passed through here en 

 route to Steams. Ky., where they inspected the 

 property of the Stearns Lumber Co. They were 

 the guests of Justus S. Stearns of Ludington, 

 Mich. 



Three men have been arrested charged with 

 stealing more than $200 worth of walnut logs 

 belonging to the Maley, Thompson & Moflett 

 Co. The logs were taken from the company's 

 mills at Riverside and floated down the Ohio. 

 Other firms have also suffered in the same man- 

 ner lately, but to a less extent. The company 

 will vigorously prosecute when the cases come 

 up for trial. 



President H. Lee Early, of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, has appointed the following members 

 to serve on the Lumber Inspection Committee 

 for the ensuing year : T. J. Moffett, H. P. Wi- 

 borg, Thos. B. Stone, H. W. Meier, Jr., and W. 

 A. Bennett, chairman. 



O. P. Hurd & Co. have established a branch 

 office and yards at Cairo, 111., to handle ship- 

 ments from the south. 



Elbert E. Beck, president of the E. B. Beck 

 Company, is home from a buying trip through 

 Kentucky and Tennessee. 



President W. C. Laidlaw, of the International 

 Mahogany Company, is in New Y'ork to attend 

 an important meeting of the company's officers. 



William Burns, representing the Tug River 

 Lumber Co.. of Bristol, Tenn., called on the lo- 

 cal trade the fore part of the month. 



C. E. Brooks, formerly In the hardwood busi- 

 ness here, has become connected with the Lo- 

 gan-Maphet Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. He will 

 represent the company on the road. 



