HARDWOOD RECORD 



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he has withdrawn troin the Valley City Lumboi- 

 Company, Ltd. as secretary and manager, and 

 is now associated with the Boland Lumber Com- 

 pany, manufacturer and wholesaler in northern 

 and southern hardwoods, etc., with offices in 

 the Murray huilding. 



The Leavitt Lumber Company, with office and 

 yard at Twenty-second and Laflin streets, Chi- 

 cago, announces its retirement from the retail 

 hardwood business in Chicago. 



The Kimball-Sullivan Lumber Company, one 

 of the newest of Chicago's wholesale houses, has 

 just added two salesmen to its force. R. A. 

 Darling recently in charge of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the CarDal Lumber Company will 

 take charge of the country trade and maple 

 flooring business and W. A. Danley will sell to 

 the yellow pine and hardwood trade of Chicago. 



The Quixley & Bulgrin Lumber Company of 

 the Fisher building, Chicago, has gotten out a 

 neat little souvenir for distribution a'mong its 

 trade in the form of an aluminum combination 

 rule, paper cutter and lumber gauge. 



Lawrence Ford, secretary of the Goodlander- 

 Eobertson Lumber Company of Memphis. Tenu., 

 said during a recent visit to Chicago that dr.v 

 stocks in the South are becoming scarce, and 

 that he anticipates a good business for 1012. 



W. E. Johns, president of the newly organized 

 Johns-Mowbray-Nelson I,umber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati, was in Cliicago a few days last week 

 lining up some orders ftir the company. Mr. 

 Johns reports that the company has already on 

 its books a considerable amount of business, and 

 that his prediction for the coming year is that 

 the hardwood trade will lie very good. 



J. W. Wells, sales manager of the Lucas Land 

 & Lumber Company of Paducah, Ky., spent "most 

 of last week in Chicago. 



G. F. Kerns of the Iverns-t'tley Lumber Com- 

 pan.y, Chicago, has been in Detroit and Toledo 

 for the past week and has sent in very satis- 

 factory reports. Business with his concern is 

 reported as all that could be expected. The 

 company's yard at Mounds. III., now contains a 

 full line of southern hardwood from which prac- 

 tically any demand can be taken care of. 



J. F. Mingea, Chicago manager for the B'aust 

 Brothers Lumber Company, Paducah, Ky., spent 

 last week at the company's yard at Cairo, 111. 

 Mr. Mingea has cleaned up a remarkably nice 

 line of orders the last six months, among which 

 have been some unusually large ones. The com- 

 pany has just taken over a big lot of the finest 

 kind of plain red oak and poplar which will be 

 stored at the Cairo yard. 



J. F. McSweyn of the Memphis Saw Alill 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., was in the city a 

 few days last week. 



J. M. Schultz of Schultz, HoUoway & Co., 

 hardwood and pine people in the Fisher build- 

 ing, has been out of the city all week on an 

 Indiana selling trip. 



C. E. Gill and Irwin Dawley, the principals of 

 the Gill-Dawley Lumber Company of Wausau. 

 Wis., were in the city a few days during the 

 past week. This concern recently started in 

 Wausau and is now going along in excellent 

 shape. 



F. B. Pryor, Chicago representative of the W. 

 M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus, O.. was 

 at the main office of that concern the latter part 

 of last week. He reports that stocks in the 

 South as a rule are low. 



^BW YORK 



Samuel H. Roebuck, head of the Roebuck 

 Weather Strip Company, 180 Fulton street. New 

 York, died at his residence 89 Seventy-first 

 street, Brooklyn, on Dec. S of heart disease. He 

 was in his fifty-ninth year. A widow, seven 

 sons and one daugliter survive him. 



The Windsor Lumber Company, wholesale lum- 

 ber dealer at 1 Madison avenue, called a meet- 

 ing of creditors on Dee. 12, at which time there 

 was a full attendance. The condition of the 



company was gone over and a settlement of 

 twenty-five cents on the dollar was offered, and 

 indications point to the same being accepted by 

 the ereditol's. 



The firm of Price & Coster has been organized 

 at D2 Broadway, New York City, by Frederick 

 C. Price and N. B. Coster, to import and whole- 

 sale all kinds of tropical hardwoods. The firm 

 has "arranged for sources of supply in Cuba, 

 Mexico and other South American countries, and 

 will also import some Philippine hardwoods. 

 Both gentlemen are well known in the local for- 

 eign hardwood trade. 



Fires during the fortnight on the local lumber 

 trade entail the following losses: National Cas- 

 ket Company. 439 Broadway, Brooklyn, .$12,000: 

 Fowler & Silberhorn and John W. McDonald, 

 retailers at Erie Basin, $5,000 : lumber yard of 

 It. Reeber & Sons at One Hundred and Fortieth 

 street and Morris avenue, Bronx, .$10,000 ; lum- 

 ber yard of J. F. Stewart Company, Jersey City. 

 $10,000. All of the losses were fully insured. 



The Tidewater Lumber Company has just been 

 organized in this city to conduct a wholesale 

 business, with a capital of ,$25,000, by F. W. 

 Crane of the F. W. Crane Lumber Company. 

 Pittsburgh, and F. E. Vossnack. formerly man- 

 ager of the New York office of the Crane Lumber 

 Company. 



R. S. Coryell of the P. O. Coryell Lumber 

 Company, Fifth avenue building, Manhattan, left 

 this week for a lengthy business trip to Seattle, 

 Vancouver and other Pacific coast points in the 

 interest of the business of the company. 



The Astoria Veneer Mills & Dock Company of 

 Astoria, Long Island City, large manufacturer 

 of mahogany and foreign hardwood lumber and 

 veneers, has just added to its dock premises at 

 Astoria a tract of ninety acres, which will be 

 utilized for manufacturing purposes. The land 

 is located on the south side of the Ireland Mill 

 road, west of Jamaica road. This purchase is in 

 line with a previously arranged plan of the com- 

 pany not only to develop its large custom saw- 

 ing business, but to serve the great commercial 

 development of Astoria through large dock and 

 terminal facilities. 



Keith Price of Price and Pierce. Ltd.. London 

 England, large hardwood brokers, arrived here 

 recently for a tour of the American manufac- 

 turing centers in the interest of business. 



S. Wood McClave has opened an office in the 

 Jletropolitan building. 1 Madison avenue, to con- 

 duct a wholesale and retail business. 



BUFFALO 



The properties of Mahar Brothers at Medina, 

 one of the largest furniture factories in the 

 slate, and also the Medina Furniture Company's 

 plant have been transferred to Charles Brennan 

 and LeGrand S. Whedon. of Medina, and O. W. 

 Keil of Grand Rapids. Jlich. The new concern 

 will be known as the Mahar Brothers Company, 

 and will contiuue the manufacture of parlor fur- 

 niture. The upholstery plant will not be started 

 until after Jan. 1. 



Blakeslee. Perrin & Darling state that their 

 trade for November exceeded that for the same 

 month last year about twenty-five per cent. The 

 present month has also been a favorable one 

 thus far. 



Anthony Miller was away from the office for 

 about a week early this month, having been 

 threatened with an attack of pneumonia, but is 

 now able to be around again as usual. 



K. D. McLean sailed for home on the Lusitania 

 on Dec. 16, after an interesting trip through Eng- 

 land and Scotland, and a short tour of the 

 Continent. He was away for several months. 



F. W. Vetter, who is looking closely after the 

 hardwood business this month, states that while 

 trade might be better, sales at his yard have been 

 well distributed. 



J. B. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, has lately been making an eastern 



business trip. J. W. Welsh has been looking 

 after the business of the company in Ohio. 



F. M. Sullivan has returned from a trip East 

 ou business. He states that there has been a 

 very good demand for maple at the yard recently, 

 with ash and elm also moving in fair quantity. 



I. N. Stewart retires next month as a director 

 of the Chamber of Commerce, having held the 

 office for five years, during which time he has 

 given it a great deal of time. 



The National Hardwood Company notes an im- 

 provement in the lumber trade within the past 

 two weeks. JIaple and liirch have been in good 

 sale, with a fair demand for oak. 



PHILADELPHIA 



U. U. Humphreys of the Hadcntiue Lumber 

 Company, Camden, N. J., has just returned from 

 Norfolk, Va., where he attended the annual 

 meeting of the Norva Land & Lumber Company, 

 manufacturer of poplar, gum, etc. 



Owen M. Brunor of the Owen M. Bruner Com- 

 pany reports a substantial improvement in trad- 

 ing, and anticipates a general advance after the 

 first of the year. H. A. Prock of this house is 

 in the South buying desirable stock. 



Charles G. Blake, manager E. V. Babcock & 

 Co., reports business in fairly good shape, and 

 the outlook promising. Although trading has 

 been spasmodic, he says a glance over the books 

 shows the total sales of 1911 in excess of 1910. 



George G. Barr of Beecher & Barr reports 

 steady trading right along, but the character of 

 orders render them at times somewhat difficult 

 to handle. Taking things as a whole, he is not 

 inclined to complain over the year's business. 



Thomas E. Coale of the Thomas E. Coale 

 Lumber Company, reports satisfactory business, 

 and his pronouncement is that 1912 will prove 

 a prolific year for trading. Mr. Coale announces 

 the opening of a branch office in Pittsburgh. 



The Pearson & Ludascher I^umber Company, 

 wholesaler and* retailer of lumljer, has just fin- 

 ished two concrete wharves, 641x110 feet and 

 641x83 feet, respectively, the largest in Phila- 

 delphia. 



The Siegfried Motor Car Company, Northamp- 

 ton, Pa., was incorporated Dec. 9 with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. 



The Virginia Lumber & Extract Company, 

 Wilkesbarre, Pa., was incorporated Dec. 9 vi'ith 

 a capital stock of $450,000. 



The Jersey Shore Lumber Company, Jersey 

 Shore, Pa., was incorporated Dec. 13 with a 

 capital stock of $25,000. 



J. Henry Cochran, a prominent and wealthy 

 Williamsport lumberman, died at his winter 

 home in Rosegill, Florida, on Dec. 5, at the age 

 of sixty-six. 



Peter Boyd of the Tradesmen's Trust Company 

 and of the Caldwell Lumber Company of this 

 city, committed suicide on Dec. 10, owing to a 

 nervous strain induced by business entangle- 

 ments. 



PITTSBURGH 



The general sales offices of the Palmer & 

 Semans Lumber Company, now located in Pitts- 

 burgh, will be moved to Uniontown, Pa., about 

 the first of the new j'ear. The greater part of 

 the luniber handled by this firm is manufactured 

 by the tinited Lumber Company, of which T. B. 

 Palmer is president and I. W. Semans, treasurer. 

 The home offices o£. both companies are located 

 at Uniontown. 



The Morlaud-Ricks-Hughes Company has fin- 

 ished its operation at Morlan, W. Va.. on the 

 JI. & K. railroad. It has about 1,000,000 feet 

 of fine hardwood and hemlock still on sticks 

 there. 



The new offices of the Thomas E. Coale Lumber 

 Company in the Oliver building are very hand- 

 some and Inviting. Sales Manager B. W. Cross 

 has two experienced salesmen to aid him and 



