HARDWOOD RECORD 



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=■< CHICAGO >-= 



Secretary George G. King of the Lumbermen's Club of Chicago has sent 

 out a notice of a special meeting to be held at the club rooms on Monday, 

 Aug. 4, at 12 :30 p. m., to consider and act on certain proposed amend- 

 ments to the by-laws. 



Charles H. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind., president of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, spent the first few days of last week in> 

 Chicago on general matters pertaining to the lumber business. 



S. J. Williams of the Kib Lake Lumber Company, located at Eib Lake. 

 Wis., and John Rehfeld, sales manager of the same company, located at 

 Merrill, Wis., were in Chicago Monday of last week. 



H. B. Sale, secretary of the Hoffmann Brothers Company of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind., spent several days of last week in this city. 



Earl Bartholomew, sales manager of John B. Ransom & Co., Nashville, 

 Tenn., was in Chicago for one of his regular visits during last week. 



J. W. Wheeler of J. W. Wheeler & Co., Madison, Ark., was one of the 

 prominent local visitors from the South during the past week. 



J. F. McSweyn. president and manager of the Memphis Band Mill 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., has been spending quite a little time recently 

 with the local trade. 



Clarence Boyle, who has been connected with D. K. JefCris & Co., 

 Pullman building. Chicago, for a number of years, .announces that he is 

 planning to enter business on his own account and that he will maintain 

 his headquarters at Chicago. 



Elmer E. Perkins, who for a great many years has managed the dry- 

 kiln department of the A. H. Andrews Company, Chicago, has discon- 

 tinued his connection with that concern and will continue in the same 

 line of business manufacturing dry kilns and condensing driers and acting 

 as a dry-kiln expert. Mr. Perkins will maintain offices at 457-59 

 Monadnock block, Chicago. 



Dan W. Baird, well known throughout hardwood circles, announces that 

 he has decided to conduct his business as the D. W. Baird Lumber Com- 

 pany, his recent partnership with George Coale having been dissolved. 

 The style of that partnership was the Baird-Coale Lumber Company. 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of a postal communication from 

 W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greasou Lumber Company of St. Louis. Mo., 

 who is spending a vacation with his family at Longs Peak Inn, Longs 

 Pe.ak, Colo. 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of a picture postal containing a print 

 of the new Hotel Chisca, Memphis, Tenn., which is the newest structure 

 of this kind in the city of Memphis. It contains four hundred rooms and 

 is fireproof and modern in every detail. 



=-< NEW YORK y- 



A large number of wholesalers from New York took in the outing 

 of the Westchester association on July IS. In spite of low skies and 

 rain in the early morning, the attendance was up to the average. 



S. E. Slaymaker, whose company is sales agent for the West Virginia 

 Pulp & Paper Company, says the recent purchase of 10,000 acres of 

 spruce in West Virginia includes the best body of spruce timber in that 

 state, the home of spruce. Besides the spruce which is the leader for 

 S. E. Slaymaker & Co., large quantities of hardwoods are handled. 



Sam E. Barr, local hardwood lumber and flooring dealer, reports a good 

 run of business, chiefly in flooring which has come to be his leader. He 

 shipped over a million feet of flooring in June, and looks for a bigger 

 volume for July. 



W. E. Van Wert, manager of the local office of the Emporium Lumbrr 

 Company, returned last week from a trip to the mills in Pennsylvania. 



R. A. Brown, local manager for the Strable Manufacturing Company, 

 spent last week at his home near Buffalo. 



John W. Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., Nashville, has taken a summer 

 residence at Sea Gate, the exclusive ocean colony near the city. 



The Kirby Lumber Company has formally opened a New York office 

 and has made the Harry S. Lafond Company its eastern sales agent. 

 Lee Caruthers, formerly of the St. Louis office of the Kirby Lumber 

 Company, has come to New York to assist in the management of the 

 Kirby business. 



Lorberbaum Brothers, cabinet makers of Brooklyn, have been petl-- 

 tioned into involuntary bankruptcy. 



=-< BUFFALO >-- 



The Buffalo lumbermen are very active in the summer outing line this 

 season. Following the June picnic at the Automobile Club the Hoo- 

 Hoos became active. Vicegerent Bernard Brady held a concatenation 

 on July 9 and took in seven members, giving a river party next day, 

 which was well attended, the ladies being invited as usual. The day 

 was not very pleasant at the outset, but it cleared off and closed glori- 

 ously, so that the attendants were greatly pleased with the day as a 

 whole. Invitations are now out for a second outing of the Lumber 

 Exchange at the Canoe Club on July 23. A third one is expected to be 

 given. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is opening a new yard at St. 

 Bernard, near Cincinnati. The company is running its mill at Chatta- 

 nooga night and day and hopes to get the Memphis mill running on the 

 same time soon. The L. A. Kelsey Lumber Company of North Tona- 

 wanda is also locating a yard at St, Bernard. 



O. E. Yeager is putting in the usual amount of southern hardwoods. 

 His sawmill at Campbellsville, Ky., is making a specialty of quartered 

 oak flooring, which finds a ready market anywhere. 



G. Elias & Bro. are actively in the lake trade and are now bringing 

 down a cargo of Norway pine, of which they have always made a 

 specialty. The city building is good, so that the door mill is busy. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are able to report that the first half of July showed 

 a better run of business than the first half of the same month a year 

 ago. The specialty of elm and black ash is kept up by lake receipts. 



M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company gives it as his 

 opinion that the dullest part of the season is over. The company is 

 bringing up a host of various hardwoods from the South, the yard 

 being filled with loaded cars. 



There is always business doing in the yard of I. N. Stewart & Bro., 

 as the demand for oak and cherry is enough to keep ever.vbody busy. 

 H. A. Stewart was in Rochester lately, to keep in touch with his regu- 

 lar territory. 



Oak, ash and poplar is coming up from the South to keep up the 

 stock of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. The report is that 

 business shows a disposition to improve from now on. 



The planing mill concern of the Joseph Metz & Sons Company is in 

 difficulty, being thrown into involuntary bankruptcy on the complaint 

 of the Atlantic Lumber Company, the Empire State Lumber Company 

 and Thomas F. Fisher, all of which have claims against it. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



F. X. Diebold, president of the Forest Lumber Company, reports a 

 seasonable amount of trading at this time, and sufficient orders com- 

 ing in to keep the mill at Konnarock, Va., running full time. He keeps 

 in close touch with the lumber situation and is optimistic as to the 

 outlook. 



William N. Lawton, the popular young lumberman who has been 

 looking after the manufacturing interests of Currie & Campbell, in Jack- 

 sonville, N. C, where they control a mill carried on as the Onslow Lum- 

 ber Company, has returned to Philadelphia for a stay of some months. 

 His sale arrival here was somewhat doubtful as he navigated a forty- 

 foot gasoline yacht of the concern which they wished brought to the city. 

 Mr. Lawton has been made secretary and general manager of the 

 Onslow Lumber Company. He is looking much improved after a recent 

 illness. 



The recently built planing mill of Samuel H. Shearer & Son, at Atkin- 

 son, N. C, was destroyed by fire just as they were getting fairly under 

 way for business. William P. Shearer has been superintending the re- 

 building. 



J. B. Murphree of the Standard Lumber Company, Alton, Fla., recently 

 visited the Lumbermen's Exchange and local trade. 



The Bigelow-Wiley Motor Company, this city, was chartered under 

 Delaware laws, July 9, capitalized at $50,000. 



The Southern Timber Securities Corporation, Dover, Del., obtained a 

 charter under Delaware laws, July 9, with an authorized capital of 

 $200,000. 



=-< BOSTON y- 



The sawmill owned and operated by Horace E. Robbins near Searsport, 

 Me., has been destroyed by fire. The company recently installed new 

 machinery. 



The yard of the P. S. Huckins Company in East Boston has been 

 damaged by fire to the extent of about $20,000. 



Oscar Foss, one of the leading lumber merchants of New Hampshire, 

 died early in the month following an operation at the Corey hospital, 

 Brookline, Mass. Mr. Foss was sixty-seven years of age and had been 

 in the lumber business for forty-six years. 



The New Britain Wood Working Company, has been incorporated in 

 New Britain, Conn., with a capital stock of $10,000, for the purpose of 

 engaging in the manufacture and sale of interior and exterior finishing. 

 The paid in capital is $1,500. The incorporators are Johannas Obison, 

 William Watson and Frank Lambert. 



The sawmill of Frank Dearborn, New Boston, N. H., has been des- 

 troyed by Are. In addition to the loss of the mill the fire destroyed about 

 3,000,000 feet of sawed lumber. 



William E. Litchfield, a prominent Boston hardwood lumber dealer, 

 has been appointed by Judge Dodge in the U. S. district court a re- 

 ceiver for George T. Eeudle, a Boston contractor. Walter A. Sherburne 

 of Wolfboro, N. H., a dealer in lumber and pilings has brgught a bill in 

 equity against George T. Eeudle. Mr. Litchfield's bond is fixed at 

 .^35,000. Claims amount to about $50,000. 



The Schmick Manufacturing Company has removed its business from 

 Hamburg, Pa., to Oakland, Me., and will begin operations in its new 

 quarters about Aug. 1. The reason given for the removal of this busi- 

 ness was the scarcity of lumber. The company does hardwood cabinet 

 work and manufactures broom handles. 



There is less building being done in New England this year than last 

 and fewer large buildings are planned. The building contracts awarded 

 since the first of the year are over $15,000,000 less than for the cor- 

 responding period a year ago. 



