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HARDWOOD RECORD 



■< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



William Liutoln of the Lincoln rurnitLue Company says that lie bas 

 bei'n uninterruptedly busy up to date. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & Son reports good out-of- 

 town orders, hut local trading slew to materialize. Mr. Shearer has 

 just returned from Atkinson, N. C, where they are erecting a new planing 

 mill. The old one was recently destroyed by fire. 



Harry R. Humphreys of the Hadentine Lumber Company says that com- 

 pany has recently acquired about 10.000.000 feet of hemlock, spruce and 

 hardwood, which contains some of the best stuff ever placed on the mar- 

 ket and which has been moving very fast. Tlie company will hold its 

 annual meeting next week at which its books will show a copious year's 

 business. It is renovating its oflQces at Third and Market streets, Cam- 

 den, N. J. 



Isaac Dufield Harbert. seventy-five years old, a retired lumberman, died 

 recently. His father, Charles Harbert, in 1824 organized the lumber firm 

 known as Harbert-Russell Company. Isaac Dufield Harhert entered the 

 business at an early age, retiring mere than twenty years ago. 



J. D. Este of the Charles Este Company says, although business gen- 

 erally is reported quiet, his company has no reason to complain, as it 

 has been getting some very desirable orders right along. 



C. C. Coolbaugh & Sons Company reports a subdued local trading. Its 

 warehouse and out-of-town business, however, has been more satisfactory. 



E. B. Humphreys of H. Humphreys & Co., Camden, N. J., testifies to a 

 slight increase in businees during the last few v\'eeks, but buying is 

 mostly on the hand-to-mouth order. 



Major A. T. Goodman, assistant secretary of the Lumbermen's Exchange, 

 from Apr. 16, 1S92, to Apr. 20, 1S9S, when he was made secretary, from 

 which office he resigned Aug. 30, 1904, died at his home, Ridley Park. Pa., 

 on Sept. 20. He was eighty-one years old. 



N. B. Gaskill & Sons, Incorporated, is the latest concern to enter the 

 lumber field. The company is composed of Nathan B. Gaskill, recently 

 with William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., and his sons, Edward and Frank 

 Gaskill. They have opened offices at 832 Hrexel building. 



William F. Wagner of the Pooley Furniture Company says his plant has 

 been running full capacity right along and orders are multiplying. He is 

 optimistii as to outlook. 



The l'hilad('lphia Lumbermen's Golf Club's monthly game is schedulod to 

 be played on the links of the Spring Haven Country Club on Oct. 21, when 

 it willbe the guest of Joseph P. Comegys. 



Frederick S. Underbill of Wistar, Underbill & Nixon says business 

 is holding up fairly well, considering the tariff and currency disputation 

 in congress. The market he reports a little steadier of late. 



J. M. Maris of the Maris & De Witt Lumber Company has just returned 

 from a western trip, where he has been enjoying the wonderful scenery 

 in and about Colorado since June. He reports a slight betterment in 

 trading during the last fortnight. His son, Arthur Mcllvain Maris, who 

 was a passenger on the train which was wrecked near New Haven, Conn.. 

 Is steadily improving. 



Ellis K. Guilford, a well-known and much liked young salesman of 

 Wistar, Underbill & Nixon, while out in a thunderstorm recently received 

 a shock of electricity which so shattered his nerves as to necessitate 

 special treatment in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. His 

 friends will be glad to learn that he is recovering fast and will soon 

 be able to cover his territory. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >■= 



The Liimbf'rmL'ii's riub of rittsl)Virgh of wbicli !•:. ,M. Diebold is presi- 

 dent, will organize its fall campaign next week at a big luncheon to he 

 held at the Hotel Annex. This is likely to be one of the strictly live 

 organizations of greater Pittsburgh. 



The state of Ohio and especially the Western Reserve is sorrowing 

 much over the fact that farmers in Geauga and Portage counties are 

 selling off their beautiful groves of maple trees. This will take away 

 from Ohio its prestige as the second state in the Union in the manufac- 

 ture of maple sweets, Vermont only leading. Prices which the farmers 

 are offered for these maple trees are too tempting to be resisted longer. 



E. V. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co. is trying hard to get out of 

 Pittsburgh councils. He resigned last summer but owing to the fact 

 that he is recognized as one of the best councilmcn I'ittsburgh ever had, 

 his colleagues refuse to release him. 



J. N. Woollett. president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, visited the 

 Cincinnati and Grand Rapids markets lately and found business rather 

 slow. As a rule purchasing agents are not buying much beyond their 

 immediate needs on orders. 



The Youngstown Barrel & Cooperage Company has been organized at 

 Youngstown, 0., with a capital of .$10,000 bv O. II. Altschuler and others 

 of that city as a manufacturing concern. 



The Foster Lumber Company is now running fourteen mills in western 

 Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio cutting hardwoods, chiefly oak. It re- 

 ports a splendid trade with the railroads and construction companies. 



I. F. Balsley of the Balslcy & .McCrackcn Company is feeling mighty 

 good over some nice hardwood orders that have lately come its way. The 

 company is just finishing its first year in business and is well pleased 

 with the results. 



H. E. Ast of the Mutual Lumber Company says that present hardwood 

 business of the company is the best it has been since it started. He is 



pulling down some good Canadian orders as well as getting a nice line 

 of manufacturing trade. 



The Duquesne Lumber Company reports a considerable gain over August 

 and early September business. Sales Manager G. C. -\dams spent Ave 

 weeks in the eastern markets lately. 



Joseph J. Linehan is having good success this fall marketing the 

 splendid stocks of the Mowbray & Robinson Company. He has been 

 working the Ohio trade most of lat.\ 



-< BOSTON y- 



A fire on Brown's Wharf, I'ortlanci. JIc. rcenlly resulted in a .^lO.OOO 

 loss to the Portland Cooperage Company and an estimated loss of aboot 

 $.3,000 to tho Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company. 



The Wm. E. Bent Co., Springfield, Mass., has recently been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. William E. Bent is president, BernharO 

 Radding, treasurer and J. G. Gottesman. is a director of the new con;- 

 pany. Mr. Bent is well-known as a lumberman in Springfield. lie was 

 for a number of years connected with the Elm City Lumber Company of 

 New Haven. Conn., but more recently ot" the firm of Smirh & Bent, whole- 

 salers. The new company has taken two floors in the new building 

 at .53 Sharon street, Springfield, and will carry a lull stock of inside finish 

 of all kinds. They will also carry a line /af fleering. 



The exporting of lumber from Boston has been quite active during the 

 past few weeks. As high as $11 a thousand feet has been paid for freight. 

 Five ships have been loading at the Mystic Docks, Charlestown, which 

 is the largest number at one time in a long time. 



Plans are being made by Boston shipping interests for direct service 

 between Boston and the Pacific Coast via the Panama Canal. The 

 Harper Transportation Company which has a fleet ot vessels, has made 

 arrangements for two steamers to run from Boston to San Francisco 

 and Seattle. Tlie company expects to secure good lumber freights for 

 its return trips from the Pacific. 



A. L. Brooks & Co., Lowell, Mass., have been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $(!0.000 to d<al in lumber. The incorpiu-ators an' A. 13. Wood- 

 worth, Artemus B. Woodwnrth and A. .1. Murkland. 



The M. K. Smith Company, Worcester, Mass.. has ln-en incori)orated with 

 a capital slock of .$:;.'>, 000 to deal in lumber. The incorporators are 

 Malcolm K. Suiilh, Helena .Mahoney. 



The Carlos Ruggles Lumber Company. Springfield, Mass.. has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 by Carlos Ruggles, C. B. 

 Martin and JIary A. Ruggles. 



The Chapin-Holbrook Lumber Co.. Springfield, Mass., has been incor 

 porated with a capital stock of .$23,000 by Fred A. Ilolbrook. George D. 

 Chapln and Clinton E, Bill. 



^-< BALTIMORE >■- 



The steamer Templcmorc of tlie Johnston Line, which was burned at 

 sea on her last trip from Baltimore to Liverpool, carried a considerable 

 lot of lumber and other wood products. The shipments included ]2t>,0;57 

 feet of oak planks, liO.OOO feet of walnut lumber. 4V3 bundli-s of boj 

 shooks, 'S.i'i packages of desks and parts of desks, 1.503 bundles of han-' 

 dies, one and a half cars of staves and 27" crates of tables. The entire 

 cargo was valued at upwards of $600,000. the value of the vessel bringln,"; 

 the total loss above a million dollars. The Arcadia brought the crew of 

 the Templcmore back to Baltimore, which port they had left the week 

 before. The Templemore was built for the Baltimore trade and has 

 taken out large quantities of lumber during her career. 



A meeting was held here last Thursday under the auspices of the Board 

 of Trade, with which the Baltimore Lumbei- Exchange is affiliated, when 

 the advisability of arranging an exposition of products designed to demon- 

 strate the resources of Maryland in connection with the celebration of the 

 Star Spangled Banner Centennial next September was discussed. The ex- 

 position is to be gotten up by the various industries and trades, and it 

 is in contemplation to have the lumber indtistry represented. The idea 

 would be to show strikingly the wealth of the slate in merchantable 

 timber and to put on display the product of woodworking factories. What 

 the precise character of the exposition shall be has not yet been deter- 

 mined, but the display, if decidi'd upon, will be housed at the Fifth Regi- 

 ment Armory, which offers a large floor spaci'. The representatives of the 

 Lumber Exchange in the Board of Trade are Theodore Mottu of Theodore 

 Mottu & ("o., president ; Lewis Dill of Lewis Dill & Co.. and Itidgeway 

 Merryman. 



John L. -ilcock of John L. Alcock & Co.. the well-known hardwood 

 exporters with ofliccs at Baltimore and Gay streets, sailed for ICurope on 

 Sept. 23 from New York aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II of the North Ger- 

 man Lloyd, and is expected to be away about six weeks. He will visit 

 various points on the Continent and then cross over to England, gettini; 

 in touch with lumber trade conditions there. Much of his time will 1k' 

 devoted to sight-seeing. Mrs. Alcock accompanied him. 



=-< COLUMBUS >• 



The report of the Columbus bnildini: inspector for the month ot Sep- 

 tember shows that 237 permits were issued having an estimated valuation 

 of $473,193 as compared with 230 permits and a valuation of $313,62.'i 

 in September of the previous year. Since the first of the year the 

 department has issued $3,303 permits of a valuation of $4,0S7,073, as com- 



