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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Change in Name Only 



The wholesale lumbei- merchandising house of 

 Wistar, mderhiU & Co., of the Real Estate 

 Trust building, Philadelphia, on Feb. 1 will 

 change its title to that of Wistar, Lnderhill & 

 Nixon. 



This amendment in name involves no change in 

 the personnel of the concern, as T. N. Nixon has 

 been associated with R. W. Wistar and F. S. 

 Underbill under the old title for the past five 

 years, and the change is made simply to give 

 Mr. Nixon the additional recognition in the con- 

 cern, which he so fully deserves by reason of 

 his abilities and hard work. 



New York Has New Wholesale Hardwood 

 House 



The Sumner Lumber Company is the name of a 

 new wholesale hardwood company which started 

 off in this line of trade with headquarters at 50 

 Church street. New York City, in the Hudson 

 Terminal building, on Jan. 1. This corporation 

 is headed by Ralph E. Sumner, president, with 

 Herbert E. Sumner as secretary and treasurer. 

 These two gentlemen, father and son, it will be 

 recalled, have long been identified with Hamilton 

 H. Salmon & Co., New York, and make this new 

 departure feeling that they can better themselves 

 by doing business as a separate institution. 



The company will specialize in quartered and 

 plain gum, quartered and plain oak, quartered 

 and plain poplar, maple, birch, beech, cherry, 

 chestnut, cypress, elm, bay poplar, cottonwood. 

 ash and hickory. 



New Departure of Lumber Sales Managers' 

 Association 



Secretary E. H. Klann of the Lumber Sales 

 Managers' Association, with offices in Masonic 

 Temple, announces that at the last meeting of 

 the Board of Directors, it was decided to open 

 a nen- department to be known as the Lumber 

 Exchange Bureau. In this bureau it is the in- 

 tention to keep on file at the secretary's office 

 a list of both surplus and regular stocks of lum- 

 ber. The secretary will not send out circulars 

 covering stock lists, but will supply such in- 

 formation upon request from members. All 

 members are requested to list surplus or regular 

 stock with the secretary. 



The Board also decided to allow non-member 

 mills to list their stock with the association in 

 order to give members a wider field for their 

 requirements. 



Changft in Name and Officers 



The lumber business heretofore conducted by 

 H. H. Hitt at FalkviUe, Ala. has been reorgan- 

 ized into a stock company with a paid in capital 

 of $2.'jO,000. H. H. Hitt becomes president and 

 general manager of the new institution ; A. C. 

 Smith, .Tr., vice-president ; F. R. Seeley, secre- 

 tary and treasurer; B. M. Nash, sales manager. 



Mr. Hilt has manufactured hardwoods at Dan- 

 ville and Falkvillc, Ala. for the past two and a 

 half years, and Is well-known to the readers of 

 Hardwood Recobd. 



F. R. Seeley has had a large experience In 

 luml)er affairs, and for a number of years was 

 In charge of the lumber department of the 

 Stearns Lumber Company, Stearns, Ky., and for 

 several years was general manager of the Santee 

 River Cypress Lumber Company, Ferguson, S. C. 



Mr. Nash, the sales manager, has been asso- 

 ciated with Mr. Hitt In connection with manu- 

 facture and sales since the beginning of bis 

 operations In Alabama. For some time past he 

 has been manager of one of the mills. 



The company maniifaeturcs from Its own tim- 

 ber tracts, and logs under contract along tlie 

 Louisville & Nashville railroad, and along the 

 "Tennessee river to Its band mill at li'alkvlllc, 

 Ala., where the central ofllces are located. 



The company has flrst-class band mill plants, 

 and a complete planing mill, flooring factory and 

 a hickory producing mill. It manufactures the 

 celebrated Tennessee Valley white oak and pop- 



lar at the band mill formerly owned by the 

 Bixby Lumber Company at Decatur, Ala., which 

 is under contract to the H. H. Hitt Lumber 

 Company. 



In addition to these operations, the company 

 has two circular mills and two stave mills, 

 which it will operate, which in total will give it 

 a large output of oak, poplar, hickory and 

 staves. In addition some yellow pine and gum 

 will l)e produced, but the largest percentage of 

 output will be oak and poplar, in which the 

 company specializes. 



Death of Clarence L. Cross 



In the death of Clarence L. Cross of Chic.igo 

 rm Dec. 31, 1911, the local lumber fraternity lost 

 one of its most highly esteemed members. The 

 deceased was one of the oldest members of the 

 local lumber trade, and since his advent into the 

 lumber business in Chicago has been known as 

 the pioneer of the introduction of various woods, 

 and as being most prominently connected with 

 the cypress trade. 



Mr. Cross had a remarkable acquaintance 

 among the yard trade of the country, and every- 



TIIE LATE CLARENCE L. CROSS. 



where was highly esteemed for his good judg- 

 ment, honest business tactics and straightfor- 

 ward way of dealing. 



lie was born in Binghamton. N. Y., Aug. 5, 

 ],S."i4, and came to Chicago with his mother in 

 1857. After passing through the old Chicago 

 university, he entered the lumber yard office of 

 T. W. Harvey of this city, at the age of seven- 

 teen. He continued with Mr. Harvey and ulti- 

 mately was appointed secretary of the T. W. 

 Harvey Lumber Company on Its organization in 

 1882, continuing in this capacity until 1889, 

 when he became head of the firm of Cross, 

 Badger & Co., wholesale lumber dealers in Chi- 

 cago. In 1S7S Mr. Cross became interested in 

 home development In Nebraska, and ultimately 

 was associated with two partners owning with 

 them fifteen yards scattered throughout the state. 

 .Since 1807 he conducted a wholesaling and com 

 mission cypress business in the Monndnock build- 

 ing, Chicago. His Interests since that time have 

 been devoted entirely to the introduction of 

 cypress In which he was considered a foremost 

 expert. He represented the Louisiana Red C.v- 

 press Company up to the time of his death, as 

 well as handling a considerable amount of stock 

 from various other large cypress mills. 



A. J. Cross, son of the deceased, has been 

 associated with his father for several years and 

 will carry on the business under the style C. L. 

 Cross. 



.\lr. ('His.~ I. avis besides his son, a widow and 

 two daughters. He was closely associated with 

 the social life of his town, Riverside, 111., and 

 was affiliated with the Episcopal church. lie 

 was a member of the Union League club of Chi- 

 cago. 



The funeral services were held at the Cross 

 home on Wednesday, Jan. 3, there being in at- 

 tendance a large number of the local lumber 

 fraternity. 



Building a Veneer MUl 



The It. S. Bacon Veneer Company of Chicago 

 has about completed a new veneer mill adjacent 

 to its i)resent office aud wareroom site on North 

 Ann street. The mill will be three stories high 

 and will have a capacity of 10,000,000 feet of 

 veneers a year. It is the intention of Mr. Bacon 

 to ship all his mahogany, Circassian and other 

 foreign woods direct to Chicago on through bills 

 of lading for manufacture instead of shipping 

 them to the present plant of the Bacon-Under- 

 wood Veneer Company at Mobile, Ala. 



The new plant will be equipped with every- 

 thing up-to-date in the line of machinery and 

 labor saving devices. It will not be so large 

 that the principals of the concern cannot give 

 close personal attention to the quality of work- 

 manship. It is their intention to lay particular 

 stress upon fineness of manufacture. While the 

 capacities of the machines will only supply the 

 needs of the company, at the same time it is 

 planning to accommodate the trade in special 

 custom cutting that can be done without inter- 

 fering with the regular business. The new plant 

 will extend the company's present holdings to 

 include 211 to 225 North Ann street. 



Installs Hardwood Department 



The Breitweiser & Wilson Company, with 

 offices in the Oliver building, Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 has recently added a hardwood department to 

 its already extensive business. F. E. Smith, 

 I)reviousIy associated with the Palmer & Semans 

 Lumber Company, will assume charge of the 

 new department. Increased capital and enlarged 

 office facilities will be provided. Mr. Smith has 

 been actively associated with the hardwood busi- 

 ness since 1899. He has gone through all phases 

 of the lumber business, from the sawmill to a 

 sales position, and comes to his new duties well 

 equipped. Besides his connection with the 

 Palmer & Semans company, he has been identi- 

 fied with several other prominent southern hard- 

 wood concerns. 



Souvenirs From Wood-Mosaic Company 

 Among the late arrivals in calendars reaching 

 the office of Hakdwood Rkcohd are two most 

 handsome works of art from the Wood-Mosaic 

 Company, manufacturer of flooring, veneers and 

 lumber at New Albany, Ind. One is entitled 

 "Cruisers Making a Portage," which is repro- 

 duced by photo-color from an original painting 

 by Philip R. (loodwin, and the second, "In 

 Scottish Highlands," is a reproduction from an 

 original painting by William Davles. 



W. A. McLean's, president and general man- 

 ager of the concern, artistic taste is reflected 

 in the selection of the beautiful subjects. 



Foreign Trade for November, 1911 

 Advance sheets published by the Department 

 of Commerce and Labor show that llie imports 

 of wood goods and lumber during November, 

 1911, showed a considerable decrease from that 

 month a year ago. The total value of Importa- 

 tions of this class aggregated .fl,.'i.'i5,000 this 

 year and ?;,''>, 208,000 in November, lillO. 



In the cabinet woods, the value of all cedar 

 imported during November, 1911, was but ?36,- 

 107, a decrease of over forty per cent during 

 the year. The value of mahogany Imports, how- 

 ever. Increased from $:i04,nOG to $;i77,7O0, while 

 the value of logs and round timber brought to 

 this country In November, 1911, was $9,';, 717, as 

 against if305,:!24. The value of manufactured 



