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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Woods is rliairinan ol' several important com- 

 mittees and a member of a number of others. 

 A recent life o£ Senator Woods, publislied in 

 the Somerville Journal, contains many inter- 

 esting references to Senator Woods' business 

 career. .\fter reviewing his early life, during 

 whidi he learned the business of shoemaker, 

 his active and progressive career is desci-ibed 

 and we learn that in 1S67 he began in the 

 lumber business as a clerk for Clark & Smith, 

 Imrdwood lumber dealers of Boston. Senator 

 Woods is nothing if he is not methodical, and 

 as a result of his method he still preserves 

 "his first housekeeping bills. On his salary of 

 .$12 a week he paid ?5 every Monday for rent, 

 and his receipts sbow that he paid at the rate 

 of .$1.5 for a barrel of flour and S15 for eoai. 

 other necessities being bought at a proportion- 

 ate price. In 1872 he was admitted to partner- 

 ship of Clark & Smith and a year later the 

 partner.ship was dissolved. In 1879 he was 

 emploved by Holt & Kugbee and shortly after 

 became eastern agent of George D. Emery, then 

 of Indianapolis, with whom he continued until 

 188-1, after which te began business on his own 

 account, and since then has admitted to part- 

 nership Charles H. Sherborne, his son-in-law, 

 and Edwin D. Walker and W.alter M. Chamber- 

 lain, who are especially able men in the trade. 

 Senator Woods is a member of many fraterni- 

 ties and is a ready after dinner speaker and an 

 interesting lecturer on a variety of topics. He 

 has been president of the Massachusetts lietail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association and has done much 

 to advance the interests of lumber organizations 

 in this section of the country. 



Among the Boston lumber dealers who at- 

 tended the annual meeting of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association at Phila- 

 delphia are Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & 

 Wiggin, William E. Litchfield. Warner R. But- 

 ler and Frederick .7. Caulkins, New England 

 manager of the Lumber Insurance Company of 

 New York. 



Edwin D. Walker and Walter M. Chamberlain 

 of the firm of John M. Woods & Co. repre- 

 sented the Lumber Trade Club, Incorporated, 

 of Boston, they being delegates from that body 

 to the annual meeting of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association in Philadelphia, 



William I. Palmer of Palmer, Parker & Co.. 

 mahog.any manufacturers and hardwood dealers, 

 who is "now with Mrs. Palmer spending the 

 month on the island of Jamaica, writes that 

 the climate there is so hot that he is persuaded 

 that its effect must have reached Boston and 

 melted the snows of the Hub. Mr. Palmer 

 took with him on his trip his automobile, in 

 which it is understood he is touring the island, 

 .lohn Bugbee of Holt & Bugbee is planning 

 intervals of retirement during the coming sea- 

 son to his beautiful summer residence near 

 (Juilford, N. H., which overlooks Lake Wime- 

 I>ausaukee. in the ranges of the White moun- 

 tains. 



Blacker & Shepard Company suffered a slight 

 loss by fire last week. That the damage was 

 nor greater was due to the prompt action on 

 the part of Howard C. Mor.se. secretary, an.l 

 Herbert Barker, vice president of the company. 

 Tlirt fluLiiage was approximately .$5,000. 



George L. Cade, treasurer of the George D. 

 Emery Company, was confined to bis home tor 

 a numbei of days recently, but has so far re- 

 • cvered that on Friday last he, in comp:iny 

 with his attorney, attended the hearing on the 

 bill to prohibit smoke issuing from factories in 

 the vicinity of Boston, 



Lawience & Wiggin will move into their 

 l-.andsoniely fitted new offices on the seco'jd 

 floor iu the Mason building, Boston, on or 

 about April 1. 



Richard W. Douglas, secretary of the Lum- 

 h.?r Tri.cie Club of Boston, has sufficiently fe- 

 ci vercd from an attack of tonsilitis to give 

 his attention to business. Mr. Douglas, on the 

 behalf of the woodworking interests of Boston, 

 will appear against a bill to prohibit the dis- 



charge of smoke from manufactories, the hear- 

 ing to be held at the State-house on Thursday 

 next. 



Osgood-Bradley & Son of Worcester, Mass., 

 has recently received a large order from the 

 N. y., N. H. & H. R. U. for passenger coaches, 

 which will" probably necessitate the running 

 of the plant on the overtime basis up to Sep- 

 tember next. 



A. T. Stearns of the Cypress Lumber Com- 

 pany is sojourning at Palm Beach. Fla. Mr. 

 Stearns will probably return to Boston the 

 eariy part of next month. 



K. W. Hobart of Hobart & Co. left yester- 

 day for a four weeks' trip atnong the hardwood 

 mills of the South and Middle West. 



W:!liam Hollister of the Pine Plume Lumber 

 Company of Montgomery. Ala., was a visitor 

 at the New England headquarters <1 the 

 ILiKDwooD Record today. Mr. Hollister re- 

 ported a remarkably heavy demand for south- 

 ern lumber and predicted a shortage in the 

 near future. 



William F. Hubbard, a well-known manufac- 

 lurer of sash, doors and blinds doing business 

 in Manchester, N. H., died at his home re- 

 cently. The business will be continued for a 

 rime by Mr. Hubbard's widow. 



Frank Page of Parker & Page, the Boston 

 wholesale hardwood dealers and dowels speeiol- 

 ists. has been ill and confined to his home 

 for several days. 



Harry B. Clark of Sweet, Clark & Co. left 

 for the South on an extended tour among the 

 '.li'te piuo and hardwood mills. 



One of the most interesting and practical 

 contributions to fire insurance literature ap- 

 peared in the JIarch number of the ".Vmerican 

 Industries." which was written by Frederick 

 C. Moseley of the Cypress Lumber Company, 

 also of the A. T. Stearns Lumber Company. 

 Boston. Mr. Moseley's article contains a very 

 careful and accurate statement of the insur- 

 ance situation and his presentation of the facts 

 will' go far to improve tire insurance conditions 

 among manufacturers and merchants. It is to 

 be regretted that Mr. Moseley does not more 

 freciuently present his views through the medi- 

 um of the press, as he adds to a high sense 

 of business honor the clear light of a disciplined 

 mind working accurately. In analyzing busi- 

 ness conditions atul reducing the expression of 

 those conditions to the lowest terms, Mr. Mose- 

 ley has no superior among the lumber dealers 

 of the East. 



Frank H. Wyman of the Wood, Barker Com- 

 pany and Perry -Mien of the Standard Storage 

 Cotupany. both of P.oston. have fortned the 

 Wyman-Allen Lumber Company, with headquar- 

 ters in the former offices of the Standard Stor- 

 age Company at Mystic Wharf, Charleston. 



Pittsburg. 



F. F. and O. P. Nicola, with Charles Donnelly, 

 .have purchased the Scbenley farm of 103 acres 

 iu Oakland, near the Schenlcy hotel, for $3,- 

 000,000. Improvements and building projects, 

 which they will start as soon as the weather 

 permits, will cost ,$10,000,000 more. The tract 

 is in the heart of the city and will be improved 

 with high-priced residences. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany attended the National convention of the 

 wholesale lumber dealers at Philadelphia last 

 week and also ran down to Washington for the 

 inauguration. His company, lately organized, 

 is getting in a full line of hardwoods and re- 

 gards the outlook for spring trade as exception- 

 ally good. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company dou- 

 bled its capital stock two weeks ago. Its 

 business last year ran fully $100,000 over expec- 

 tations and is increasing rapidly under the man- 

 agement of W. H. HerbertsoB, secretary and 

 treasurer. Last week it sold thirty carloads of 

 maple for manufacturing trade. Its mill at 

 Point Marion, Pa., has been shut down three 



weeks by cold weather, but will now begiii 

 cutting 20,000 feet a day of poplar, chestnut 

 and oak. The company has four years' cut- 

 ting at this point. Mr. Herbertsou is also 

 figuring on an 8.000-acre tract and if he secures 

 it will put in mills at once. 



An indication of bow fast the hardwood fever 

 is growing in Pittsburg is seen in the business 

 of the Paine Lumber Company. Limited, which 

 established offices in the Farmers' Bank build- 

 ing two years ago. It secures all its veneer 

 stock from its headquarters at Oshkosh. Wis. 

 The call for veneered doors and hardwood floors 

 is almost phenomenal this spring and the com- 

 pany reports business fully 100 per cent better 

 than one year ago. It has lately put in two 

 large stocks in the city, one with A. G. Breit- 

 weiser Company on the south side and the other 

 with the Penn Door & Sash Company in Sec- 

 ond avenue. Within three months the company 

 has sold over 10,000 birch doors. A new and 

 very popular feature has been introduced lately. 

 Rotary cut birch is stained with oak stains. 

 making a finer finish for high light than oak 

 itself. W. M. Wolcott is manager of the com- 

 pany. 



The annual flitting of the lumber companies 

 will shortly begin, several of the leading firms 

 seeking larger and more convenient quarters. 

 The Ruskauft" Lumber Company will move from 

 the Park building to the House building. The 

 J. H. Lindsay Lumber Company will go from 

 2003 and 2004 Farmers' Bank buildinL.' to roota 

 1101 in the new Diamond National Bank sky- 

 scrapper. The Forest Lumber Company will 

 move from the Park building to the Diamond 

 also. Miller and Coulson will also go to the 

 Diamond National building from the Farmers' 

 liuilding. W. E. Terhune & Co. will go from 

 the Park building to the House building 



A. P. Irish, vice president of the Fuller and 

 Rice I-umber & Manfifacturing Company of 

 Grand Rapids, was in the city recently gettingr 

 a line list of orders for white pine. 



F. G. Lille of the J. H. Lindsay Lumber Com- 

 pany has been one month in North Carolina. 

 South Carolina and Virginia buying timber. G. 

 II. Trump of the same company has been malt- 

 ing an extensive buying tour throughout Penn- 

 sylvania. 



E. V. Babcock of the Babcock I.umlier Com- 

 pany sold over 900.000 feet cif maple in Phila- 

 delphia last week. The company rc'port.s an 

 excellent demand for hardwoods, especially loi- 

 manutacturlng purposes, 'llie plant at Babcock 

 has a capacity of 12."j,000 feet, including the 

 product of the timber mill, the flooring and 

 siding mill and the sheeting fuiil. The com- 

 pany also has two mills at Ashtola, Pa., which 

 are cutting 5.000.000 feet a month. E. V. Bab- 

 cock has recently returned from a southern 

 trip, where he reports everything sold clo.se up. 

 to tbe saw. Mill men, he says, can hardly be 

 coaxed to take a five-car order because they 

 are booked so far in advance. 



Tliere is a call just now for good hardwood 

 salesmen in the Pittsburg district. Several 

 firms would put more men on the road if they 

 could secure reliable hustlers. 



The Reliance Lumber Company ' lately .sold 

 200,000 feet of poplar mill culls, for which 

 there is an excellent demand. The company 

 also reports a good business in box lumbei, 

 chiefly white pine and hemlock, and has sold 

 several blocks of 100,000 feet. 



'ITic East Ohio Lumber Company established 

 yards at Steubenvilli\ Dillcnvalc .\msterdam and 

 Rush Run. O. W. J. Harris is general man- 

 ager. 



III. W. Henninger, president of the Reliance 

 Lumber l.'ompany, has just made a very success- 

 ful trip up the Monongahela river, taking In the 

 towns of Monongahela, Charlerol and other im^ 

 portant points. 



Among the Pittsburg hardwood firms which 

 were represented at the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association convention in Phil- 

 adelphia last week were the following ; Flint. 

 Irving & Stoner, Babcock Lumber ConipaiiT. J. 



