HARDWOOD RECORD 



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manufactiii-ei- of Xewaik, 1.1.. was a caller ou the 

 local trade recently. 



F. W. McCulloiigh. tlie hardwood exporter of 

 Norfolk. Ya.. made a flying trip to New Yorl< 

 last week. 



S. L. Eastman of the S. L. Eastman Flooring 

 Companj-, Saginaw, Jliih., spent several days 

 in town last weet looking after his maple floor- 

 ing business. 



Nelson H. Walcott, president of the L. II. Gage 

 Lumber Company. Providence, R. I., who enjoys 

 a large business in the metropolitan district, 

 Tisited the trade on March 22. 



T. H. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, was another New York vis- 

 itor last week. 



U. C. Scatcherd of the Batavia & New York 

 Woodworking Company, manufacturers of in- 

 terior finish. wa.« here last week, Icwking after 

 his company's business. 



F. J. Cronin. the genial individual who looks 

 after the interests of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company. Coal Grove, O., was a visitor during 

 the past fortnight. 



The coflin factory of ,T. & .1. W.'Stoits Coffin 

 & Casket Company, East One Hundred and Sixth 

 street. Manhattan, was gutted by Are on March 

 22. entailing a loss of .«;100,00U. The loss was 

 fully covered by insurance. 



Felix A. Mulgrew. senior member of F. A. 

 Mulgrew" & Sons, mahogany importers and manu- 

 facturers of East Eighth street. Manhattan, died 

 on March 20 in the seventy-second year of his 

 age. He had been associated iu the mahogany 

 and veneer business for the past fifty years. 



The Louisiana Stave & Tie Company has been 

 incorporated in this city with a capital of 

 $200,000. The directors are Henry and F. L. 

 Beckerle and C. E. Woolthan, all of Richmond 

 Hill, L. I. 



C. O. Shepard, New York sales manager of the 

 Emjjorium Lumber Company, reports the hard- 

 wood business as showing a steady improvement. 



Dixon & Dewey, hardwood manufacturers and 

 wholesalers in the Fiatiron building, report them- 

 selves as well satisfied with present trade con- 

 ditions. This firm is getting out a very attrac- 

 tive stock list entitled "Everymonth." 



Among other hardwood lumbermen visiting the 

 metropolitan district during the last fortnight 

 were J. M. Hastings, Pittsburg ; G. H. Northrup. 

 Walcott, N. Y. : E. C. Brainerd of the Nicola 

 Brothers Company. Pittsburg ; J. H. Difenderfer, 

 Philadelphia : R. B. Currier, Springfield, Mass., 

 and L. II. Briggs. Saginaw, Mich, 



M. A. Hull, who has been associated with 

 William E. L'ptegrove & Brother, has engaged in 

 the barwood business on his own account, at 

 Avenue D and Eighteenth street. Mr. Hull is 

 well and favorably known in both the foreign 

 and domestic lumber and veneer business. 



F. E. Longwell, vicegerent snark of eastern 

 New Yorli, will hold a concatenation at the 

 "N'endome Hotel, New York Citj', next Wednes- 

 day evening, April 12. Mr. Longwell is the 

 lumber buyer of the great National Casket Com- 

 pany and has his principal oflice in Hoboken, 

 N. J. He is a most loyal Hoo-Hoo and is doing 

 good work tor the order in the East. 



Philadelphia. 



Weather conditions are now suitable to out- 

 door work and building operations of every de- 

 scription are under way .in almost ever.v section 

 of the city. That Philadelphia can claim the 

 name of "City of Homes" is evident by the 

 number of two and three-story dwellings for 

 which permits have been issued. During the 

 first quarter of the year 1,609 permits were 

 issued for operations, at an estimated cost of 

 .'iiS,514,780, a gain of ,$3,089,150 over a corre- 

 sponding period of 1904, The cost of the con- 

 struction of dwellings has increased nearly 40 

 percent in the last ten years. This is due to 

 the advance in the cost of building material, 

 and also to the fact that the workers in the 

 building trades are receiving more pay. 



nie business session of the eighteenth annual 

 meeting of the Lumbermen's Exchange will be 

 held in its rooms at the Bourse on Thursday, 

 April ia. President A. J. Cadwallader will be 

 ui-ged to accept a renomination. as the associa- 

 tion has been most successful under his admin- 

 istration. In case he declines to serve again, 

 which is probable owing to pressure of other 

 business. Vice President E. B. Malone will 

 !)■? elected. A change from the usual form of 

 entertainment will be made this year. The busi- 

 uess session will be followed by a banquet at 

 the Union League in the evening, the theater 

 party which has been the custom for several 

 years past being dispensed with. 



I'orest fires are destroying much valuable 

 cedar tinilwr at and near the town of Waterford, 

 N. .1. Several hundred acres have been burned 

 over and the loss, as reported by the owner 

 of only one tract, is $2.5.000, 



Robert W. Schofield of Schofleld Bros, and 

 George W. Lance, a salesman, are making a trip 

 through West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee 

 to purchase hardwoods. Mr. Schofield writes 

 that tly?y have been successful in making several 

 good contracts, although not as many logs have 

 been cut this year as formerly. 



\A'ilson H. Lear has returned from au ex- 

 tended trip to California, where he has been 

 resting for the past six weeks. Business at the 

 yards was brisker during March than for sev- 

 eral years past. 



The Rumbarger Lumber Company has been 

 busy riglit along and reports that the various 

 mills in which it is interested are filled up with 

 orders. The company anticipated a large amount 

 of business from the beginning of the year and 

 prepared for it. The concern, like all other lum- 

 bermen, has suffered to some extent by a poo'- 

 supply of cars. Men on the road report every- 

 thing in a very satisfactory condition. The 

 business developed so far has been entirely as 

 expected. John J. Rumbarger was in I'ittsburg 

 for a few days last week. 



The .7. G, Brill Company, car builder of this 

 city, has an order for a large number of cars 

 for the Manila electric tramways and made 

 their first shipment of part of the order the 

 latter part of March. Tile woodwork is East 

 Indian teak. This variety of wood is necessary 

 liecavise the ants that infest the Philippines 

 destroy the kinds of wood commonly used. 



Charles K. Parry of the Parry-Righter Lum- 

 ber Company is back after a trip down East 

 calling on tlie trade. He has been away about 

 five weeks, having spent some time in .North 

 Carolina, where the company is interested in a 

 mill. Business is running along nicely with 

 the company and considerable has been done in 

 hemlock. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son are very busy and 

 say business has gotten down to the warm 

 weather standard. The demand for maple floor- 

 ing because of the extensive building going on 

 has kept this line active with them and thoy 

 are sanguine of a good year's business. 



The spruce and hemlock business of Robert C. 

 I.ippiucott is reported by Salesmanager Perry 

 as being heavier than this time last year, with 

 prospects rf large increase as the season ad- 

 vances. 



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

 who was elected by the Twenty-fourth ward on 

 the Republican ticket in February, took his 

 seat in Select Councils on April 3. His chair 

 was banked on every side with floral offerings 

 from his constituents. This is Mr. Ilallowell's 

 first time in the select body, although he served 

 two terms in the lower branch and has been 

 placed on several committees of prominence, 

 where bis well-known capabilities found an 

 outlet. 



Salesmanager Clem E. Lloyd, Jr., of the 

 Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company says 

 March was a big month in the point of ship- 

 ments, considerable new business coming in to 

 both tlie Philadelphia and Pittsburg offices. Not 

 only was the main mill of the company kept 



running steadily to its full capacity but outside 

 stocks were drawn upon as well. 



A good steady demand has been the rule at 

 the big .yard of J. Gibson Mellvain & Co. all 

 season, not only in the hardwoods but in build- 

 ing lumber as well. There is quite a call right 

 along for oak. both quartered and plain, and 

 the heavy stocks of the company are well drawn 

 upon. 



Justin Peters, manager of the Pennsylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 

 reports a remarkably prosperous condition of 

 that organization. The new offices of the com- 

 pany on the ninth floor of the Drexel building 

 are being handsomely fitted up. The increasing 

 business of the company necessitated the move 

 to larger quarters. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody of Joseph P. Dunwoody 

 & Co. is home after a brief trip up the state. 

 He says the hardwood business for interior fin- 

 ishing can be depended upon to keep the dealers 

 busy for a long time. 



W. J. Betts, a prominent Clearfield lumber 

 producer, was a visitor in this city last week 

 for several days, as was also John E. DuBois of 

 DuBois. Pa., and Robert K. Rumbarger from 

 Elkins, W. Va, 



The Tomb Lumber Company of Philadelphia 

 has been incorporated with a capital of $50,000. 

 The incorporators were : Curtis T. Baker, Her- 

 bert Harris and William E. Zellers. 



John .\irey, formerly a well-known lumber- 

 man of this city, died March 27. Mr. Airey 

 was 51 years of age. He was president and 

 general manager of Stokes Brothers Company, 

 Inc., since its organization. Mr. Airey gained 

 his knowledge of the lumber business in the 

 yard of Hugh Mellvain & Son (now J. Gibson 

 Mellvain & Co.). Starting as a boy of 15, he 

 soon showed the ability to sell lumber and rap- 

 idly pushed himself to the front. His sterling 

 qualities won him many friends while on the 

 read. A widow and one child, a boy, survive 

 him. 



Theophilus W. Smaltz, a retired lumber mer- 

 chant and builder, died March 25 at his home, 

 1724 North Sixth street, aged 57. Mr. Smaltz 

 at one time bad a yard at Ninth and Oxford 

 streets and other places. He was a Knight Tem- 

 plar and also a member of St. Luke's Evan- 

 gelical Lutheran Church. He is survived hy a 

 widow, a daughter and two sons. 



It may seem strange when such a scarcity of 

 oak exists that oak logs are being cut in the 

 city, but nevertheless it is true. A tract of 

 land heavily timbered in the western section of 

 the city has until recently withstood the en- 

 croaching population, but is now being cut into 

 building lots. The trees are being felled by 

 Charles W. Ash, who purchased the timber 

 rights and is shipping them to West Chester to 

 be sawed. 



Baltimore. 



Mottu & Buckingham, the new hardwood firm 

 with offices in the Builders' Exchange building, 

 which some time ago purchased a tract of about 

 C,000 acres of hardwood timber in Atigusta and 

 Rockbridge counties, Xa.., and is erecting a mill 

 on the tract, will be ready shortly to make 

 shipments. The machinery is being installed 

 and the mill is expected to be in ninniag order 

 by the first of next week. Mr, Rudolphe Mottu, 

 the senior member of the firm, left last Sunday 

 to be present when the plant is put into opera- 

 tion. A little later he will visit the various 

 lumber centers of Great Britaitu and the con- 

 tinent and establish connections for his firm, 

 which will give much attention to the export 

 trade. Mr. Mottu is thoroughly familiar with 

 conditions aiiroad and speaks a number of Euro- 

 pean languages. 



The managing committee of the Lumber Ex- 

 change held its monthly meeting last Monday 

 afternoon, witli President Norman James in the- 

 chair. It was stated after the meeting that 

 only routine matters had been taken up, sucll 



