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HARDWOOD RECORD 



S!. E. Kellar. who for some time past has con- 

 duct ert a general wholesale maple and oak floor- 

 ing business with warerooms at Fifty-sixth street 

 and Eleventh avenue, has organized the S. E. 

 Kellar Lumber Company, with a capital of 

 $30,000, as a separate company, but will con- 

 (inuc in the wholesale maple and oak flooring 

 busiLess as heretofore. 



Ten Eyck Lockwood. for many years salesman 

 for the Rice & Lockwood Lumber Company. 

 Springfield, Mass.. in the metropolitan district 

 and vicinity, died recently at his apartments 

 In this city after a two months' illness. He had 

 many warm friends in the Jtrade. who were 

 grieved to learn of his death. 



Charles H. Mead, of the large lumber firm of 

 Mead & Taft. at Cornwall-on-Hudson, died there 

 Feb. 6. He was 74 years old. This firm is one 

 of the largest hardwood operators in the Hudson 

 river valley. 



The wholesale trade of the metropolitan dis- 

 trict has lost one of its oldest and most dis- 

 tii])ruished members in the person of Isaac Ep- 

 plnger, Eppinger & Russell Company, 66 Broad 

 street, who died on Feb. 5, aged 78 years. 



R. W. Higbie. hardwood wholesaler and manu- 

 facturer, 45 Broadway, and who is chairman 

 of the railroad and transportation committee of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, addressed the senate committee on the 

 freight rate legislation at Washington last week, 

 together with E. F. Perry, secretary of the asso- 

 ciitioL. Mr. Higbie is one of the best posted 

 lumbermen on interstate commerce affairs and 

 has become a prominent figure In the efforts 

 being put forth for increased powers to the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission. 



The International Mahogany Company, with 

 offices in this city and Cincinnati. O., and yard 

 in the Greeljpoint district. Brooklyn, has been 

 issuing postal cards among the local trade to 

 the effect that it has decided to close its ma- 

 hogany lumber yards and that its present stock 

 of 1,000,000 feet is offered for sale at attrac- 

 tive prices. 



W. E. Marsh of Marsh & McClennen, hardwood 

 dealers, 45 Broadway, made a flying business 

 trip to Chicago during the fortnight, where, it 

 is rumored, he was negotiating an extensive deal. 



J. N. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut Corpora- 

 tion, St. Louis, is in town to-day on business. 



Dixon & Dewey, the new hardwood house just 

 starting in the Flatiron building, as noted in a 

 recent issue, are fast wliipping things into shape 

 and report trade as already opening up very sat- 

 isfactorily. 



Among the visiting hardwood lumbermen dur- 

 ing the fortnight were: Frank C. Rice, Rice & 

 Lockwood Lumber Company, Springfield. Mass. ; 

 M. P. Harlow, Harlow, Todd & Co.. Hartford. 

 Conn. ; A. J. Brady, Brady Bros., Buffalo. N. Y. ; 

 E. A. Smith. E. A. Smith Company, Boston. 

 Mnfs. ; R. C. Scatcherd, Batavia-New York Wood 

 Working Company, Batavia, N. Y. 



Philadelphia. 



There is a feeliug of contentment shown by 

 the wholesaler and retailer at the bright sun- 

 shine and warm rain in the past couple of days 

 and business is already showing a change to 

 activity. 



Harry I. Soble of Soble Brothers says the 

 hardwood market is in a very satisfactory con- 

 dition considering the prolonged cold and dis- 

 agreeable weather. The outlook for spring 

 business Is most encouraging and he expects 

 the decided firmness of present prices to re- 

 main only for a short time as the scarcity of 

 stock will have a tendency to gradually in- 

 crease the prices. John J. Soble is at his 

 home with the prevailing winter trouble — gi-ip. 



The hardwood end of the business of Wil- 

 liam UV Fritz & Co. has been very satisfac- 

 tory to the company. Mr. Fritz, who pays 

 particular attention to the middle west, says 

 there Is a steady demand In that section with 

 more coming when the weather settles. 



Edmund Pennell, the wholesaler, says there is 

 a large inquir,y for maple fiooring and prices 

 are being held strictly to list. Mr. Pennell. 

 who is an enthusiastic horseman, has enjoyed 

 the sleighing this winter. 



Hanscom & Huganir, the wholesalers, have 

 dissolved partnership. O. M. Hanscom is now 

 with the Janney-Whiting Lumber Company in 

 the capacity of a salesman. George H. Huga- 

 nir will continue in the wholesale business 

 and retain the present oflice in the Girard 

 building. 



Smith S. Frambes of the Frambes-Difenderfer 

 Lumber Company, who has been sick for sev- 

 eral weeks past, has gone to Atlantic City 

 for a short stay. 



Edward Humphreys of H. Humphreys & Co. 

 has returned to the city after an extended 

 trip to the West Indies. On his way home 

 he stopped off at Ormond. Fla., to witness the 

 automobile i-aces. 



The cigar box lumber business of the Phil- 

 ndelpbia Veneer ,!c Lumber Company has been 

 steadily increasing during February, says Fran- 

 cis Goodhue, Jr. He closed several large or- 

 ders while on a trip throughout the state last 

 week. 



Frank T. Rumbarger, vice president of the 

 Rumbarger Lumber Company, who met with 

 an accident early in January, is about the 

 ofllces again and says a better demand for hard- 

 woods has become apparent and the volume 

 of business will undoubtedly surpass former 

 years. 



Horace G. Hazard sees nothing the matter 

 with the hardwood market. He reports more 

 than an average demand and finds It hard to fill 

 some orders owing to the shortage In stocks. 

 Spring stock orders have stai'ted off well and 

 he looks for brisk business. 



Ralph Souder of Eli B. Hallowell & Co. says 

 business with the company has kept up well 

 all winter. A large number of orders have 

 been booked for spring stock and he looks 

 for plenty to do from now on. Mr. Souder 

 placed a number of large orders with the mill- 

 men while In the south the past three weeks. 



R. B. Horsburgh, secretary and manager of 

 the Coketou Lumber Company, Cokelon, W. Va.. 

 was in town several days last week. Other 

 visitors were Albert E. Peoples, of the Lum- 

 bermen's Manufacturing Association. Washing- 

 ton, and Paul W. Fleck, president of tlie Paul 

 W. Fleck Lumber Company. Bristol, Va. 



The Michigan Lumber & Fiber Company was 

 incorporated under the laws of New Jersey on 

 Feb. 18. Capital $100,000. The incorporators 

 are J. T. Nemachul, O. Schwarz and George 

 Maurer. 



In a lire of unknown origin on Feb. 10 the 

 extensive plant of the Kroll Furniture Com- 

 pany, at Allentown, Pa., was entirely destroyed. 

 The company, managed by John W. Sepp, was 

 one of the largest manufaclurers of parlor 

 frames, gilt chairs and center tables east of 

 Mic'higan. The buildings, stock and machinery 

 were inventoried at $110,000, and are a total 

 loss. The Insurance is said to be $72,000. The 

 plant employed over 300 hands. 



After a few days' sickness with pleuro- 

 pneumonia and typhoid fever Lee Cooke Him- 

 rod, the wholesaler, died on Feb. 12. He was 

 born about 45 years ago on a farm near 

 Waterford, Erie county. Pa. After filling va- 

 rious positions at the Michigan lumber camps 

 he purchased a mill near Sutton. Braxton 

 county, Va., and began the manufacturing busi- 

 ness. A few years later the mill burned down 

 and Mr. Himrod formed a partnership with 

 Frank L. Winchester, and in 1898 the firm 

 opened oflices in Philadelphia and engaged in 

 the wholesale business. He married Miss Mary 

 Lee at Sutton. Va., in 1897 who, with a daugh- 

 ter, survive him. He was a member of the 

 Presbyterian church and Brotherhood of St. 

 Andrew. 



The death of A. B. Howland of Titusville. 

 Pa., is reported. Mr. Howland was manager 

 of the Enterprise Transit Company of Phila- 

 delphia, engaged in the production of lumber, 

 gas aud oil. 



Jonathan Boynton of Clearfield. Pa., and a 

 pioneer in the lumber and banking interests 

 of the Schuylkill Valley, died suddenly on 

 Feb. 11. at the cottage of his daughter, Mrs. 

 E. Dill, 323 Atlantic avenue, Atlantic City, at 

 the age of 95. Mr. Boynton was one of the 

 best known business men in central Pennsyl- 

 vania, having been connected with a number of 

 large enterprises before he retired and went 

 to the seashore about a year ago. 



Cleveland. 



Cleveland has achieved the distinction of being 

 one of the largest commercial centers for hard- 

 wood distribution in the middle west. This 

 city is the home of the big Advance Lumber 

 Company, one of the largest manufacturers 

 and distributers of hardwoods in the country. 

 This company has its seats of milling opera- 

 tions scattered through a halt dozen states, 

 both north and south, and besides its own out- 

 put is a large buyer in the open market. 



Tlie Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company, orig- 

 inally organized as a building woods house, has 

 now become a no inconsiderable factor in hard- 

 wood distribution. It maintains a separate de- 

 partment for hardwoods aud makes a specialty 

 of poplar. 



The well-known house of iNicoia. Stone & 

 Meyers has for many years been prominently 

 identified in the wholesaling of hardwoods and 

 maintains yards both at Cleveland and Cincin- 

 nati. 



T'he firm of King & Bartles is almost ex- 

 clusively a hardwood institution, and beyond 

 their own manufacture are large buyers of out- 

 side mill products. 



The veteran local manufacturing, distributing 

 and retailing hjirdwood house of Cleveland is the 

 Martln-Barris Company, which is not only an 

 importer and dealer in fine foreign woods, hut 

 handles high class American hardwoods as well. 

 This company has a fully equipped sawmill 

 plant at Cleveland. 



The latest addition to the Cleveland whole- 

 sale lumber contingent Is the Central Lumber 

 Company, a well capitalized concern backed by 

 men of experience, which will make a specially 

 of hardwoods. 



F. II. Enwright. manager of the Kentucky 

 Lumber & Veneer Company of Robbins, Tenn., an 

 allied institution of the Advance Company of 

 this city, was a visitor at the home office last 

 week. 



New Orleans. 



The "Frisco" road has secured over two miles 

 of river front tor its terminals here and when 

 the improvements are completed will have the 

 most extensive wharfs in the country. Its ter- 

 minals will extend from the lower end of the 

 city to Chalmette, and the only breaks In Its 

 ownership of the entire river front between these 

 points will be the Chalmette monument, mark- 

 in.g the site of the Battle of New Orleans, and 

 the National cemetery. The Improvements will 

 remove a number of old historical places, for 

 which this section is noted. The road contem- 

 plates building a ship basin connected with the 

 river that will be 1.500 feet long and forty feet 

 deep. This basin will be built of concrete. 



The mill of the Jefferson Saw Mill Company. 

 Ltd., Front and Robert streets, is running 

 steadily these da.vs, cutting cottonwood and 

 cypress. It has a large stock of dry lumber 

 on hand, but F. W. Harrison, the president of 

 the company. Is very optimistic as to the lumber 

 business this year and feels he cannot have too 

 large a stock. J. W. Wood, the secretary of 

 the company. Is In the East getting a taste of 

 real winter and incidentally selling lumber. 



F. E. Creelman of the F. E. Creelman Lum- 

 ber Company, Cairo, III., was in the city a few 



