HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Seavei's riano Action Company. Inc., has started business at 

 Buffalo, X. Y. The capital stock of this company is $500,001), and the 

 incorporators all are Buffalo men. 



The W. H. White Company. Bo.vne City, Mich., is planning the installa- 

 tion of a new shingle mill at that point. This mill will lake the place 

 of one destroyed by fire a year ago. 



The F. H. Haskell Luniber Company Las succeeded Frank H. Haskell at 

 Lynn. Mass.. and incorporated with a capital of $25,000, by F. H. 

 Haskell. H. A. Haskell and C. E. Haskell. 



The Michigan Hearse & Automobile Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., is 

 planning to make a two-story addition to its factory at that point, and 

 also increased its capital stock from .f.'iii.OOO to .$50,000. 



The Sturtevant-Larrabee Company, manufacturer of auto truck bodies. 

 located at Binghamton, N. Y., is preparing to add to the line limousines 

 and other pleasure car bodies as well as bodies for taxicabs. 



The Washington, X. C. Buggy Company of Washington, N. C, is 

 planning to double the capacity of its plant at that point. The new 

 building will be 435 feet long by 100 feet wide, and three stories high. 



George F. Robertson, manufacturer of sash, doors and wood automobile 

 parts, has merged his business into a stock company at Romeo, Mich., 

 under the style of the George F. Robertson Company, with an authorized 

 capital stock of $13,500. 



The Becker Cabinet Company situated in the Bronx. Xew York City, 

 recently took out articles of incorporation with the secretary of state of 

 Xew York. The company will manufacture and sell musical instruments. 

 Its capital stock is $5,000. 



^-< CHICAGO y 



T. J. Christian of Maley & Wertz. EvansTille. Ind., was in the city on 

 business. Apr. 23. 



Rudolph Sondheimer of the E. Sondhcimer Company. Memphis. Tenn.. 

 has been in the city several days making final arrangements relative to 

 the big timi>er sale which this company recently made. 



This ortice is in receipt of a copy of a telephone card issued by the 

 owen M. Bruner Company. Philadelphia. It contains space for the nota- 

 tion of Philadelphia telephone numbers. 



Xi<:hoIs & Schuppert have commenced business in the wholesale and 

 retail hardwood lumber field, and are located at 2420' S. Loomis strict, 

 Chicago. 



Karl L. Cook, J. R. Xewport and Samuel W. Newman have formed the 

 Xewport Lumber Company with a capital of $100,000, to manufacture 

 timber products at Chicago, 111. 



The Belmont Mill Company is the style of a recently incorporated 

 concern at Chicago, which has a capital stock of $20,000. 



The FriUs Company is the name of a new concern in the local trade. 

 This company will manufacture special furniture -and interior finish. It 

 is located at 2020 W. Kinzie street, and has an authorized capital stock 

 of $10,000. 



II. P. Keith of the Keith & Hiles Lumber Company. Crandon. Wis., 

 was in town on Apr. 18. 



F. D. Timlin, manager of the Wisconsin ofiice of the Wheeler-Timlin 

 Lumber Company, situated at Wausau, Wis., spent several days recently 

 in conference with Mr. AVhccIer. win) handles the Chicago end of the 

 business. 



Harold Smtth. buyer for the Raciue Manufacturing Company. Racine, 

 Wis., was in the city on Apr. 22. 



Walter X. Kelley of Walter N. Kelley Company, Detroit, Mich., well- 

 known in northern hardwood lumber circles, was iu town on Apr. 12. 

 together with M. L. Martin of the Embury-Martin Lumber Company. 



E. B. Ford, sales manager for C. C. Mengel & Brother Company, Louis- 

 ville, Ky.. spent several days of last week on business in Chicago. 



A. W. Seeley of Phillips & Seeley. Saginaw, Mich., prominent hardwood 

 wholesaler, spent Apr. IS with the local trade. 



W. W. rtings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo., 

 was one. of the distinguished vitistors to the local trade recently. 



Charles A. Phelps of the Hackley-Phelps-Eonnell Compan.v, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., passed through Chicago on his way to Madison, Wis. 



J. S. Weidman of Mount Pleasant. Mich., spent a day recently with 

 the local trade. 



W. T. Culver, vice-president and general manager of the Stearns Salt 

 & Lumber Company, Ludington, Mich., was one of the prominent visitors 

 witli the local trade the last week. 



Charles II. Bradley of C. H. Bradley & Co., Duluth, Minn., spent Apr. 

 10 With the local trade. 



X'. F. Rittenhouse of the Biltenhouse & Embree Company, Chicago, has 

 Just returned from a week's visit to Canadian mill points. 



J. H. Faust of J. H. Faust & Co.. Paducah, Ky., spent part of last week 

 with the local trade on a selling trip. 



The semiannual edition of the "Blue Book" published by the Xational 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corporation of St. Louis, Mo., dated April, 

 1013, has just been received. 



HARDWfioD Record acknowledges receipt of a very handy table showing 

 parcels post rates, gotten out by the Linderman Machine Company, 

 Muskegon,' Mich. The table is printed on metal and shows the rates on 

 parcels of different weights between zones. 



J. F. McSweyn and Otis A. Felger of the recently organized Memphis 

 Band Mill Company, Memphis, Tenn., spent a few days in town on 



business in connection with their new organization. Mr. McSweyn and 

 .Mv. Felger favored Hardwood Recokd with a call on Apr. 22. 



The April issue of Mcllvain's Lumber News issued by J. Gibson Mc- 

 llvain & Co.. Philadelphia. Pa,, has Ix-en received at this "office. 



=-< NEW YORK >.= 



Rohrut W. Iliubie. hardwood manufacturer of Xew York, was elected 

 president of the Chamber of Commerce of Queens last week. Mr. Higbie 

 is interested in several financial and commercial enterprises of Queens 

 county, where he makes his residence and is an active worker for the 

 betterment of the commercial life of the county. 



The Weber Piano Company has leased property in Long Island City 

 where it will establish a factory buildin.g. The plant will include dry 

 kilns, boiler house, varnishing room and every other department repre- 

 sented in a finished piano. Lumber storage sheds will be built to care 

 for the large stock of hardwoods the company consumes. The Aeolian 

 Company owns the Weber Piano Compan.v: 



Edward De Groot, representing the Standard Dry Kiln Company of 

 Indianapolis, was a visitor to Xew York during the fortnight. 



A change in the local hardwood trade took place last week when it 

 was announced that J. C. Burgess and Edgar Eurgess had resigned from 

 the Maley. Thompson v^- Moffett Company and would engage in the whole- 

 sale hardwood lumber and veneer business on {heir own account under 

 the style of Burgess Brothers. The new company has leased yard premises 

 in the Erie Basin section of Brooklyn. The Messrs. Burgess have been 

 with the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company of Cincinnati, and Moffett. 

 Robbins & Company, Havana, Cuba, for many years and are well expe- 

 lienced in the business and known to the trade. 



\^'. .\. Monroe, for many years in the Xew York office of the Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Compan.v, has been appointed manager of that office 

 to succeed Edgar Burgess, resigned. The office at 65 Beaver street will 

 be contiuued as well as the yard at Erie Basin. Brooklyn. There will be 

 no change in the conduct of the business in this city. Mi-. Monroe is 

 well qualified for the position to which he has been advanced. 



Charles II. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind., president of the Xational 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, was a New York visitor last week. 



-< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



Jam(s H. Campbell of Currie Oi: r'ampljell s:i.\s busini'ss is satisfactorily 



responsive and the outlook continues favorable. Ben C. Currie has just 



returned from their mill in Jacksonville. X. C. which -is in charge of 



. William X'. Lawton. He reports the plant working full capacity turning 



out roofers, flooring, etc. 



Daniel B. Curll is on a visit to his mills in Tennessee looking up the 

 stock situation, etc. The natural inference from reports emanating from 

 the Philadelphia office is that business as usual is in excellent shape. 

 Prices in all lines are firm. 



The Forest Lumber Company has moved to Xos. 825 and 826 Stock 

 Exchange building, where it has better facilities for handling increasing 

 business. A. J. Levy, manager, sa.vs the March business was the biggest 

 in the history of the house, and that April so far bids fair to repeat 

 the record. F. X. Diebold, president, is at the company's mill in Kon- 

 narock. Va., looking after affairs there. 



The wholesale and retail lumber business of the Henry C. Patterson 

 Company has been taken over by the Whiting Lumber Company, which 

 after May 1 will move from No. 2029 Land Title building to the new 

 offices and yards at Glenwood avenue and Dauphin street, where it will 

 conduct the business of both companies tinder the name of the Whiting 

 Lumlx'r Company. It has recently erected an office building on the 

 premises. E. P. Haubert. assistant treasurer, testifies to a positive expan- 

 sion in trading, especially in the hardwood market, with stronger prices. 



Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry ,& Co. says the plant of the Caro- 

 lina Spruce Company, Pensacola, N. C. is now in fine working order 

 and a lot of excellent stock is being turned out. There is no dearth of 

 business and prices are stiffening. Indications point to good business 

 for the summer. 



Charles G. Blake, manager of the Babcock Lumber Company, reports 

 the company very busy : orders are exceeding the supply at this time 

 and prices are firm. O. H. Babcock stopped in Philadelphia recently on 

 his way to the various eastern offices. 



J. W. Turnbull of the J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company reports a swell- 

 ing business, with prices well sustained. The company's schooner, the 

 Lotta A. Russell, with a cargo of about 300,000 feet of Tennessee lum- 

 ber from Charleston, S. C, went down some forty-five miles off of Cape 

 Hatteras on Apr. 13. The crew was saved by a tramp steamer, and the 

 lumber was insured but the vessel is a total loss. 



J. N'. Holloway of the Imperial Lumber Company says that as far as 

 selling lumber is concerned business is all right, but the getting of stock 

 is a different problem. 



The Meyers-Kress Lumber Company. Wind Gap, Pa., was chartered 

 under Pennsylvania laws Apr. 5. Capital. $15,000. 



--<, BUFFALO y 



The building records for March were unusually satisfactory, showing 

 as they did that Buffalo held the palm among the big cities of the coun- 

 try in the extent of its increased showing of costs. The outlook is for a 

 busy season this spring. Many large projects are under consideration. 



