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recently bought the mill of the Helena Spoke 

 Mill Company at Helena. Ark. 



The Enterprise Parlor Furniture Company has 

 been incorporated in Chicago with $15,000 cap- 

 ital to manufacture furniture. Wm. Dechart is 

 interested in tiie new association. 



H. T. Below, trustee of the Vollmar & Below 

 Company of Marshfield, Wis., was in the city on 

 business last week. 



G. M'. Jones, president of the G. W. Jones 

 Lumber Company. Appleton, Wis., recently spent 

 the day with his local manager, A. H. Ruth. 



M. J. Fox. general manager of the Von Platen 

 Lumlwr Company interests at Iron Mountain. 

 Mich., was in Chicago last week on his way to 

 the Milwaukee meeting of the Northern Hemlock 

 & Hardwood Manufacturers* Association. 



The February edition of the Red Book pub- 

 lished by the Lumbermen's Credit Association, 

 Great Northern building, Chicago, has been ■ 

 completed and is in the hands of subscribers. 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of a novel 

 souvenir calendar from the Wisconsin Seating 

 Company of New London, Wis., successor to the 

 Wisconsin Veneer & Lumber Company, Port 

 Washington, Wis. The souvenir is in the form 

 of a five-ply quartered oak panel, cut to shape 

 representing the outline of the state of Wis- 

 consin. On this is stamped a reproduction of the 

 plant of the concern, and attached is a calendar 

 of the year 1912. 



Hardwood Record is indebted to the Carr, 

 Ryder & Adams Company, the big sash, door and 

 blind institution of Dubuque, Iowa, for a copy of 

 its five hundred page 1912 catalog. This is one 

 of the handsomest and most complete, illustrated 

 works involving everything used and usable in 

 house building, that has ever been issued. 



A. H. Ruth, vicegerent snark of IIoo-Hoo. 

 northern Illinois district, announces that there 

 will be a big concatenation at the New Sherman 

 House in Chicago on Wednesday evening, Feb. 14. 

 Dinner will be served in the Gray Room at G :30 

 and those intending to be present are requested 

 to send in reservations immediately to Mr. 

 Ruth in the Railway Exchange building, Chicago. 



NEW YORK - 



The annual banquet of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association was held on the evening of 

 Feb. 1 at Delmonico's. with about 250 members 

 and guests present. The dinner was. of course. 

 par excellence, followed by ■ exceedingly high- 

 class vaudeville. The menu cards, which were 

 sketched with pen and ink, were very attractive 

 and humorous. The banquet hall was handsomely 

 decorated and the guests entered enthusiastically 

 Into the program of the evening, the banquet 

 being pronounced one of the most enjoyable in 

 the history of the organization. 



A matter of great importance to lumber 

 exporters and shippers as well as exporters in 

 other lines of goods is the great scarcity pre- 

 vailing of sufficient tonnage to carry on the great 

 demand in foreign markets for all kinds of 

 American products. In a recent interview with 

 one of the leading steamship lines, which line 

 Is very largely used by lumber exporters, it was 

 stated that rates to all foreign ports had prac- 

 tically doubled in the past twelve months, and 

 that even at the advanced price, tonnage is so 

 scarce that many shipments are being delayed. 

 One large lumber export house has had a tr(r- 

 mendous amount of lumber held up for about 

 three months awaiting available space for ship- 

 ment. This lumber had all l>een sold and was 

 not on consignment. This Is a situation which 

 exporters and shippers should figure on, In com- 

 mitting themselves on foreign orders. 



W. B. Fletcher has severed his connection as 

 yard manager for the Ilobanllunter-Feltner 

 Company, the large cypress wholesale bouse of 

 Chapman's Docks, Brooklyn, to organize the 

 W. B. Fletcher Company, which will take over 

 the Chapman's Docks planing and sawmill on 

 Chapman's Doiks. Brookl.vn. The new company 



will do a general custom, saw and planing busi- 

 ness, and with the large experience which Mr. 

 Fletcher has had in the retail lumber and mill 

 trade, the operations of his company will be of 

 distinct advantage and benefit to the lumber 

 trade of the city. 



W. W. Dempsey, large hardwood and spruce 

 operator of Johnstown, Pa., with local office at 

 IS Broadway, is running his West Virginia opera- 

 tions full time and is in fine shape for 1912 

 business. Mr. Dempsey will cut about 40,000.000 

 feet of hardwood,' spruce and hemlock at his 

 West Virginia operations., and is also manufac- 

 turing about 12.000,000 feet of high-class gum 

 and tupelo at his operations at Pee Dee, S. C. 

 Harry Diener, manager of the local office of 

 Mr. Dempse.v, ably represents his interests in 

 this vicinity. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany. Pittsburgh, Pa., local office 1 Madison 

 avenue, spent several days in town during the 

 fortnight in the interest of business. This com- 

 pany is in tine shape for 1912 business. 



William Schuette of William Schuette & Co.. 

 the prominent wholesale house at 1 Madison 

 avenue, accompanied b.v Mrs. Schuette. recently 

 sailed for a three months' pleasure trip on the 

 continent. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess. Inc.. 

 prominent Memphis hardwood and export house, 

 spent the greater part of the fortnight in town 

 on business. 



John Raine of the Meadow River Lumber Com- 

 pany, Rainellc, W. Va., was in town during the 

 fortnight visiting with F. J. Cronin, the New 

 I'ork state representative of the company. The 

 company manufactures very high-grade hard- 

 woods, spruce and hemlock, including choice 

 poplar, and will shortly have completed an up- 

 to-date hardwood flooring plant. 



BUFFALO 



The matter of stop-over privileges on through 

 shipment of lumber has been discussed of late be- 

 tween lumbermen and the railroads, and as a re- 

 sult an appeal to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission was decided upon by members of the Buf- 

 falo Lumber E'xchange. A special party visited 

 Washington on Jan. 29 and appeared before 

 Commissioner McChord and Examiner Bo.vie and, 

 in accordance with their suggestion, a brief has 

 been submitted to the commissioners by the Buf- 

 falo lumbermen. Among the party that went to 

 the capital were the following : Horace F. Tay- 

 lor, Isaac N. Stewart, C. Walter Betts, Knowlton 

 .Mixer, James B. Wall. Arthur W. Kreinheder, An- 

 thony Miller, Frank W. Vetter, J. Newton 

 Scatcherd, William A. Perrin, Edwin W. Goer- 

 litz and William II. Frederick, general traffic 

 manager of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce. 



President W. L. Sykes of the Emporium Lum- 

 ber Company with members of his family has 

 gone to Porto UIco, where he will spend some 

 weeks. The company's mill at Austin, Pa., has 

 resumed operations and Is turning out a fair 

 amount of stock. 



Among the initiates into IIoo-Hoo at the con- 

 catenation held here by Viceregent II. T. Trotter 

 last month were W. L. Blakeslee and W. A. Per- 

 rin of lllakeslec. Perrin &■ Darling. The new 

 IIoo-IIoos numbered ten. 



I. N. Stewart Is one of the executive commit- 

 tee of the association In charge of the hundred 

 years' peace celebration to be hold on the Ni- 

 agara Frontier in 1914-15, in which all English 

 speaking peoples will join. 



A. J. Ellas recently visited Albany on business 

 and while there urged the chnirnian of the As- 

 sembly Cities Committee to hold th.' hearing on 

 the commission form of charter In Buffalo. 



F. M. Sullivan has been shipping fir to Canada 

 for use of the government, and slates that the 

 trade In maple Is showing a good deal of Im- 

 provement at hlH yard. 



R. D. McLean has returned from Washington, 

 where he attended a meeting of the National 



Lumber Exporters' Association. Hugh McLean 

 is planning to take a southern trip this month. 



M. M. Wall, with his friend Peter McNeil of 

 the McNeil Lumber Company, left late last month 

 for Mt. Clemens, Mich., where they expect to re- 

 main for a few weeks. 



Charles C. Slaght, formerly of Chestnut & 

 Slaght. has established a hardwood office on the 

 tenth floor of the Ellicott Square building and 

 will handle various stocks. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Charles K. Parry & Co. report rushed orders 

 at .their mills. At the Carolina Spruce Com- 

 pany's mill, Pensacola, N. C, they are cutting, 

 some fine poplar trees, some of them averaging 

 from 3.000 to 5.000 feet of lumber per tree. 

 .Tanuary business was fifty per cent in advance 

 of the same month in 19^. 



Ben ('. Currie of Curritwet'' Campbell states that 

 business is rapidly expanding. J. H. Campbell 

 is on a trip to North Carolina settling some de- 

 sirable contracts. W. N. Lawton, formerly of 

 Howes, Lawton & Russell, has been recently en- 

 gaged by this firm to look after the yellow pine 

 department. Harry A. Kay, formerly with the , 

 Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company, will he 

 salesman for the eastern Pennsylvania district. 

 Owing to increasing business Currie & Campbell ' 

 have been obliged to enlarge quarters by adding 

 adjoining oflices. 



A new concern to commence business on Feb. 1 

 is the W. R. Taylor Lumber Company, manufac- 

 turer and wholesaler, with office at 1023 Land 

 Title building. The officers are W. R. Taylor, 

 president, formerly with the Colleton Cypress, 

 Company, the Patton Company and at one time 

 in business for himself : F. O. Havener, vice- 

 president, who is also president of the Alto Lum- 

 ber Company, Pulaski. Va.. and of the Sewell 

 Lumber Company. Sewell. W. Va., and Otto 

 Cluss, secretary, formerly manager of the Alto 

 Lumber Company. 



The Tomb Lumber Company reports business 

 brisk. Its mills are running full capacity and 

 good orders are coming in liberally. 



G. E. Burkhalder, formerly with Beecher & 

 Barr, has recently connected himself financially 

 with the J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company. 608 

 Crozer building. Mr. Turnbull. who has been 

 confined in the hospital with typhoid fever for 

 some time, is reported bettcM". 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company testifies 

 to enlarged trading. A. J. Williams, who long ; 

 has been connected with the selling department 

 of this house, succeeds G. V. Patterson as East- 

 i-rn sales manager for this company and the 

 Colleton Cypress Company, with headquarters in 

 I'liiliuielphla. 



Jerome II. Shelp has reimived his office to 

 2223 and 2224 Land Title building. H. S. Best 

 of this house has now full charge of the Shelp 

 plant at Choctaw Point, Mobile, Ala. 



Among recent visitors to the local trade were 

 John Raine, Rainesvllle, Va. ; W. L. Shepherd, 

 New York, representing Dougherty, McKey & 

 Co.. Birmingham. Ala. : James F. Judge, secre- 

 tary Lumbermen's Exchange. Seranton. Pa. ; J. 

 A. Wilkinson. Bristol. Touu,. and J. V. Jamison, 

 llagerstown. Pa. 



SHiniiel II. Shearer & Son have engaged H. R. 

 Ilarman as salesman lo succeed .John J. Soble 

 In the" Rochester (N. Y'.l territory: Frank 

 Schaffner to take over eastern Pennsylvania, and 

 J. II. Langham, who succeeds J. E. Du Bols to 

 cover southern New Jersey. S. II. Shearer says 

 that January proved the best month his' flrm has 

 ever realized. 



The Ludowlcl l.uinlier Company. Wilmington. 

 Pel., was chartered under Delaware laws .Tan I 

 with a capital of $2O,O0O. 



The Norva Land & Lumber Company. Inc.. 

 (lied a petition In bankruptcy In the United 

 Slates Court In Norfolk. Va., on Jan. 27. George 

 Warier, Philadelphia ; John Selp and Theodore 



