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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Tliere will be a nueting of tUo croililors lield at 

 the office of the company in the Tennessee Trust 

 building, Memphis, on November 15. at which 

 time a plan of settlement will bo submitted for 

 the purpose of liquidating the liabilities of the 

 company and insuring an economical and speedy 

 reduction of the assets of the company to cash. 



Not only the creditors of the E. Sondheimer 

 Company but many lumbermen will be much 

 pleased to get this report of the condition of the 

 Institution. It has been felt that this company's 

 receivership was permitted for the sole purpose 

 of preventing the sacriflcc of assets, and that the 

 institution will be able to pay its debts in full 

 and have very handsome assets remaining. 



Important Change at Memphis 

 The most iuipurtant change in Modiphis lum- 

 ber circles for some time has just come to light 

 through the announcement of the retirement of 

 W. L. Crenshaw from the Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company, of which he has been president since 

 its organization in 190G, when the interests of 

 Crenshaw & Cathey and Thompson & McClure 

 were merged. He has sold his interest in the 

 company to John W. McClure and T. M. Cathey 

 and purposes later to go into business on his 



plans will lie made as soon as they have been 

 more fully completed. 



Mr. Crenshaw has been very prominently 

 identilied with the hardwood business of this city 

 and section for a number of years and at one 

 time enjoyed the distinction of lieing president 

 of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. lie was 

 a member of the firm of Crenshaw & Cathey be- 

 fore becoming identified with the Bellgrade Lum- 

 ber Company, and he is now a large stockholder 

 In the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company. 



Business Not Intemipted 



The lire which destroyed about 2.000,000 feet 

 of flooring in the establishment of the M. B. 

 l'':irrin Lumber Company recently has not inter- 

 fered with its business seriously. The day after 

 the fire work was begun on a sectional shed 

 which can be enlarged at will to meet the re- 

 quirements of the company's flooring business. 

 The financial loss, which was about .$140,000. 

 was adjusted fully within three days, and settle- 

 ment has been made on a large portion of that 

 amount. W. ,T. Eckman. vice-president of the 

 company, expects a nearer approach to normal 

 business conditions after the first of the coming 

 year. 



furnish the material and do the work, but the 

 demand will soon be supplied by local dealers, aa 

 a number are entering the field. The Houston 

 Hardwood Floor Company, representing the In- 

 terior Hardwood Company. Indianapolis, Ind., 

 has opened an office and display room in the 

 .Scanlon building. Houston. Tex., and has a large 

 assortment of tine parquetry and hardwood tloor- 

 in.g samples. 



New Philadelphia Limiber House 



The Maris & Do Witt Lumber Company, manu- 

 facturer and wholesale dealer in lumber. 1414 

 South Penn square, is the latest addition to the 

 list of Philadelphia lumber dealers. The com- 

 pany has made some very desirable connections 

 in the hard and soft wood camps of the South, 

 and has also a small sawmill in west Phila- 

 delphia, where it is making lumber from the 

 timber secured from the Philadelphia and West- 

 ern railroad, and cut on the land acquired on its 

 right of way. 



,7. M. Maris, who looks after the financial and 

 clerical department of the business, comes of one 

 of the oldest families in the business history of 

 Philadelphia, and stands high in the regard of 

 all with whom he is brought in contact. 



JOHN W. McCLtJHE, MEMPHIS, TENN. 



own account, the time and place depending upon 

 his conclusions regarding timber .land proposi- 

 tions which he Is now investigating. Several 

 years ago A. N. Thompson, of the old firm of 

 Thompson & McClure. sold out his Interest In 

 the Bellgrade Lumber Company, the stock being 

 taken over by Messrs. Crenshaw, Cathey and 

 McClure. The two last named have bought the 

 holdings of Mr. Crenshaw and have reorganized 

 the Arm. with T. M. Cathey as president and 

 .lohn \V. McClure as secretary and treasurer. 



The sale of his Interest In the company was 

 made voluntarily by Mr. Crenshaw. He made 

 the offer to sell to his associates and they Im- 

 mediately completed the purchase. There has 

 been no Ill-feeling engendered by the transfer, 

 the rclalloDB between the several gentlemen In- 

 terested having been and sllll being entirely cor- 

 dial. ITie Bellgrade Luml>er Company will con- 

 tinue operations as heretofore. Us plant and 

 tlml)er land holdings ore located at Bellgrade, 

 Miss., and at or near Midnight, Miss. 



Mr. Crenshaw believes there arc larger pros- 

 pects of prollt In a company where there arc 

 fewer Interesti'd and he Is making arrangements 

 for opening a business of his own. lie will have 

 offlces Id the Kandolph building for the present. 

 A more dcflnllc announcement regarding bis 



W. L. CRENSHAW, MEMPHIS, TENN. 



Hard'wood Flooring Notes 

 The plant of the Nichols *: Co.k Lumber Com- 

 pany at Grand Haplds, Mich., has been remod- 

 eled and enlarged and % flooring has been added 

 to its line. An addition 82x100 feet is being 

 made to its 400-foot lumber shed, which was 

 erected last spring, giving It a holding capacity 

 of ,'5,000,000 feet. 



The American Column & Lumber Company, St. 

 Albans, W. Va., has discontinued the manufac- 

 ture of columns and Is making hardwood lumber, 

 flooring, celling and siding. 



The Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company's 

 famous "Chickasaw" flooring, an exceptionally 

 fine article, will be sold exclusively by the Bar- 

 nett Lumber Company In the Birmingham, Ala., 

 territory. This concern, whose plant anil mills 

 are at Tblrty-llflh street and Fifth avenue, Is 

 recognized as one of the best equipped and most 

 extensive in Alabama. 



. Building developments In the Gulf coast coun- 

 try have assured the success of the hardwood 

 flooring business In that section, especially In 

 southern Texas. Many tine residences are being 

 erected In the larger cllles and thi're Is a grow- 

 ing di'niand for oak and other hardwoods for 

 their doors. In the last few years New York 

 and Cblcogo concerns have been called upon to 



GEO. P. DE WITT, PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



George P. De Witt, his partner, and the prac- 

 tical man of the firm, has been engaged in the 

 lumber business all his life, and has acquired a 

 thorough knowledge of his calling from the 

 stump up. He was formerly of the Pe Witt 

 Lumber Company. New York city, and Is ac- 

 quainted throughout the wholesale hardwood 

 consuming district of the Fast. His many 

 friends In the trade extend their best wishes for 

 his success. 



Has Large Hardwood Holdings 



The Crenier Lumber Company lias been organ- 

 ized, with a capital of J2,200.O00, to o|ierate in 

 hardwoods and yellow pine, which It will obtain 

 from Us 80,000-acre tract In Calhoun. Bradley, 

 I'nlon. Ashley and Wichita counllis, Arkansas. 

 The new company owns approximali'ly 014.000.- 

 000 feet of timber. 400.000.000 feet of which is 

 the finest oak in the state. .T. C. Cremer Is 

 president, and the other olDccrs will be an- 

 nounced soon. The mills are to he situated at 

 Cremer. Ark.. In the midst of Us timber, with 

 good rail facilities, and will make hardwoods a 

 specialts'. 



For twenty years Mr. Cramer has been con- 

 nected with the Chicago Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany and has acquired a thorough knowledge of 



