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HARDWOOD RECORD 



H. S. Snider of the Dudley Lumber Com- 

 pany of Grand Rapids, Mich., passed through 

 this city during the past week en route to 

 the company's mill in northern "SVisconsin. 



H. C. Hughart, Jr., of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 president of the Memphis Saw Mill Compan.v 

 of Memphis, Tenn., was a local visitor a few 

 days ago. 



M. L. Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company 

 of Saginaw, Mich., made one of his periodical 

 selling trips to the Chicago market last week. 



W. S. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lum- 

 ber Company, returned a few days ago from an 

 extensive lumber buying trip among the south- 

 ern hardwood mills. 



H. B. Leavitt of the Oconto Company, Ocon- 

 to, Wis., was in the city the biggest part of 

 last week in conference with the Chicago office 

 of that company. 



G. W. Jones, head of the G. W. Jones Lum- 

 ber Company, Applcton, Wis., spent part of 

 last week with A. H. Ruth, his Chicago rep- 

 resentative. 



C. L. Willey, the prominent veneer and fancy 

 woods manufacturer of Chicago spent most of 

 last week on a business trip to New York. 



J. D. Laeey. head of the big timber and land 

 house of J. D. Lacey & Co., headquarters in 

 Chicago and New Orleans, is expected in Chi- 

 cago this week from the South. Mr. Lacey 

 spends his winters in New Orleans and his 

 stay in Chicago will merely be an Interruption 

 ef the trip to his summer home at Xewburgh- 

 cn-the-Hudson. 



R. F. Hodges, hardwood wholesaler of Mil- 

 waukee, spent several days of last week in Chi- 

 cago and attended the opening of the new Chi- 

 cago Lumbermen's Club on Saturday night. 



With the retirement of G. H. Hollowa.v from 

 Schultz, Holloway & Co., of the Fisher 

 building, that company was recently reorganized 

 as the Schultz-Holloway Company. The com- 

 pany has acquired the services of F. C. Joy, 

 formerly local sales agent for several southern 

 mills, and will follow the same general policy 

 as heretofore. 



The Huddleston-Marsh Lumber Company, one 

 of Chicago's leading mahogany houses, reports 

 an excellent business and steadily improving 

 prices during the last couple of months. 



H.^BDWOOD Recced is in receipt of "Logging 

 and Lumbering, or Forest Utilization," the 

 latest work of Dr. C. A. Schenck, director of 

 the Biltmore Forest School. The volume is 

 intended as a forest school text book and con- 

 tains 190 pages of condensed information cov- 

 erlr.g active lumbering operations in proijress 

 over the world. 



Ira B. Bennett, the well-known lumberman 

 of Sanger, Cal., spent the greater part of last 

 week on business in Chicago. Mr. Bennett has 

 in contemplation the establishment of a per- 

 manent home at Oakland, Cal., so as to be near 

 educational facilities for his daughter, but will 

 probabl.v retain his fine house and estate at 

 Sanger for residence a portion of each year. 



E. C. Groesbeck, until recently secretary of 

 the Stearns Company, Grand Rapids. Mich., 

 was a Chicago visitor last week en route from 

 the coast to visit his daughter, who Is attend- 

 ing an eastern ladles' seminary. Mr. Groesbeck 

 contemplates making his permanent home at 

 Seattle. 



I/eonard Bronson, manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, announces 

 It has been decided by President Grlgcs and the 

 board of governors that the office of the associa- 

 tion be returned to Chicago, so that Mr. Bron- 

 son can be in close touch with the general ad- 

 vertising campaign of the National as.soclatlon 

 and work along that line In conjunction with 

 the advertising committee. This association's 

 offices will bo reopened In the Fisher building, 

 :H3 South Dearborn street, until May 1, after 

 which permanent headquarters will be estab- 



lished for both the office of manager and cam- 

 paign committee. The present offices in the 

 Fidelity building, Tacoma, Wash., will be re- 

 tained in charge of A. H. Landram, for the 

 use of President Griggs during his term of 

 office. 



S. G. McClellan, formerly in charge of tlic 

 Arkansas operations of the Newhouse Mill *: 

 Lumber Company, an allied house of the Esta- 

 brook-Skeele Lumber Company. Chicago, re- 

 cently resigned his position to accept the 

 gener.ll management of the big lumber manu- 

 facturing plant of the Berwind Lumber Com- 

 pany .It Berwind, W. Va. Both the Berwind 

 Lumber Company and Mr. McClellan are to 

 be congratulated on this alliance. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt of a 

 handsome pamphlet on the subject of "Oak 

 Flooring" which has been issued by Secretary 

 ClaBFey, in charge of advertising of the oak 

 flooring producers. 



BUFFALO 



The severe effects of floods in this part of the 

 state have been felt most at Jamestown, where 

 about a dozen factories have had to close down 

 on account of high water in the Chadakoin river. 

 A number of furniture plants have been sufferers 

 by water, among them being the Empire Case 

 Goods Company, the Bailey Table Company and 

 the Jamestown Lounge Company, all of which 

 are among the largest factories in the city. 



S. A. Cook, head of the furniture concern bear- 

 ing his name at Medina. N. Y., died on Apr. 1 

 at Daytona, Ela., where he had been for several 

 months in search of health. 



The Xevr England Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Wilmington, Vt., formed by Gardner I. 

 Jones of Boston, H. S. Janes of Buffalo, and 

 others, takes Mr. Janes out of Buffalo. He will 

 leave for the mills May 1 to manage the cut of a 

 40,000-acre tract. 



Anthony Miller states that not much stock is 

 coming in from the South on account of the 

 roads there being in such bad condition. He is, 

 however, getting in some western stocks of brown 

 ash, elm and basswood. 



The National Lumber Company has made ar- 

 rangements to handle the oak flooring of a Ken- 

 tucky mill, and is also selling maple flooring 

 through this section from its connections in 

 Michigan. 



NEW YORK 



Arthur C. Wood has taken up his residence at 

 305 Hancock street. Brooklyn, after having closed 

 out his lumber interests at Montgomery, Ala., and 

 will conduct a general wholesale business in this 

 city. 



The Dykes Lumber Company, 137 West Twenty- 

 fourth street. Manhattan, has opened a branch 

 yard at 348 West Forty-fourlh street, which will 

 double the capacity of its business, 



E. H. Coonrod. formerly manager of the New 

 York office of the .Tohn L. Koper Lumber Com- 

 pany, Norfolk, Va., has been appointed general 

 sales manager at the Norfolk office to succeed 

 C. M. Troutner. The local office of the company 

 has been closed out, but Walter Colton. who 

 previously assisted Mr. Coonrod. will continue to 

 represent the <-ompany In this vicinity. 



E. J. Allen, formerly vice-president of the 

 Gress Manufacturing Company. 1 Madison avenui'. 

 opened an office at IS Broadwa.v, to conduct a 

 general wholesale lumber business. Ho will rep- 

 resent large Alabama manufacturers. 



Sched\iles In bankruptcy of the James A. Noon<' 

 Lumber Company, 09 Nassau street, show liabili- 

 ties of .?.'')0,L'18 and assets of $1,770. 



A pel II Ion In bankruptcy has been filed against 

 the C. E. Ross Lumber Company, with office at 

 One Hundred Forty-fifth street and Broadway. 



The court has appointed W. H. K. Davey receiver 

 lor the company. The assets are estimated at 

 .?1,000. 



PITTSBVRQH 



Hardwood couditious her._^ are generally more 

 favorable than two weeks ago. Better weather 

 is helping very much to start the yard trade, 

 and to make outside construction work of all 

 kinds possible. More inquiries are coming in 

 from railroads and trolley lines, as plans for 

 outside work are definitely determined. The 

 worst trouble just now is in getting stocks. All 

 mill stocks are badly broken, and good hard- 

 wood for this reason is extremely hard to And. 

 There is a tendency toward higher prices in all 

 lines, even low-grade hardwood sharing in this 

 propensity. 



J. F. Henderson, president of the Henderson 

 Lumber Company, reports a fair volume of busi- 

 ness, but prices still under the profitable notch. 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company is 

 u'etting Into splendid headway at its Pittsburgh 

 nflice, whiclr is in charge of B. W. Cross. The 

 company's trade in this district is already well 

 established and Ben is going to shove up some 

 new high records this year. 



On April 3 and 4 the government Inquiry 

 into the so-called retail lumber trust was 

 put on in this city. Assistant Attorney 

 General Clark McKereher was in charge of the . 

 prosecution and the case was entered against the I 

 Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, comprising about 150 members, and also 

 the meml>ers individually. The eastern retailers, 

 except the Philadelphia association, were repre- 

 sented by Attorney Alfred B. Cruikshank of New 

 York. Attorney Charles B. Brophy of New 

 York appeared for the Philadelphia association. 

 The line of inquiry was all about the same, and 

 the testimony to the effect that all wholesale 

 concerns mentioned had had at different times 

 disagreeable experiences with some of the east- 

 ern associations, usually in the payment of cash 

 or cancellation of contracts in order to appease 

 their wrath. 



Carl Van der Voort, secretary of the Pitts- 

 burgh Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany, has moved his headquarters from the Ber- 

 ger building to the Park building. 



A new lumber concern at Coraopolis, Pa., is 

 the Rougert Lumber Company. Mr. Rougert was 

 formerly with the Coraopolis Lumber Company. 



PHILADELPHIA 



John J. Rumbarger of the John J. Rumbarger 

 Lumber Company reports business greatly exceed- 

 ing expectations, the last week's sales eclipsing 

 anything he has ever had. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company reports a steady business. The 

 assistant manager, W. J. Pelstring, has just made 

 an extended tour of New York state, where the 

 company is writing some valuable business. 



The McFai'land Lumber Company, composed 

 of James B. McFarland, Jr., and Charles A. Addi- 

 son, the latter acting as sales-manager, opened 

 an office at 701 Crozer building. Mar. 15. At 

 present the company is making a specialty of 

 southern pine and cypress. 



Requiring more space, the Summit Lumlx^r 

 Company has moved to 1019 Real Estate Trust 

 building. Business has been Interrupted some- 

 what by adverse weather conditions, but on the 

 v.hole has not been disappolnllng. 



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

 & Co., says It is Impo.sslble at this time to supply 

 the demand for low-grade lumber In some lines 

 and that prices are sllffening all around. When 

 good settled weather has arrived he anticipates 

 an Increased activity. 



George M. Hoban has connected himself with 

 the Hnrdlng-Flnlay Lumber Company, to take 



