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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



MARKET Reports 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



New York, JIa.v 13. 19* )i. 



Ifs ;m ill wind to one kind of lumber 

 tli.it lildus no goo<l to another. .Just at 

 tlie present time the liish prices demanded 

 firr white pine are beiiefitiiiir hardwoods. 

 Local manutacturers are utilizing; bass- 

 woimI. cottonwiiod and poplar for bevel 

 siding, a practice even more in evidence 

 in the Xew England states than here, ac- 

 cording to current report. 



Firmness is still a prominent feature of 

 the hardwood market generally. No one 

 doubts that poplar will continue to be 

 scarce all sea.son. especiall.v firsts and sec- 

 onds. For these .fil to .$i2 is the ruling 

 ligure. Lower grades are in s\ippl.v ample 

 enough to meet all demands, with common 

 at .?."?0 to .f.S2. and culls at .$20 ti> .f21. If 

 the utilization of the loAver grades of hard- 

 woods for white pine continues, there is 

 little ilonlit tliat liglires will go iiii. 



A good demand is noted for ipiartered 

 oak. with .$63 to .$B5 quotetl for southern 

 stock, 7 to 8 incli average, and Indiana 

 stock bringing .$2 to .$3 more. Red oak, 

 green stock, is .;noted at .$40 to .$42 for 

 tirsts and seconds, and plain white oak, 

 fur which there is a good call, can Ix" 

 had at .$42 to .$44. 



Ash is not in big s\i))pl.v at the mills, and 

 there is an increasing demand, with prices 

 ruling from .$42 to $43. For manufactur- 

 ing purposes basswoo<l, which is in limited 

 supply, is in e.vcellent demand at .$.30 to .$31 

 for tirsts and seconds, all lengths, t inches 

 and up. 



A fair supply and increased demand, 

 especially among manufacturers who are 

 substituting them for higlier priced ma- 

 terials, is noted for maple, beech and 

 birch. There are no dry stocks of chest- 

 nut, lirsts and seconds, and the new cut 

 will not be in shipping condition for four 

 months. Firsts and seconds rule at .$40 

 to .$42. 



Some 2(10 tnill workers, employed in the 

 w.'od miilding and trimming mills of Jer- 

 sey City and IIi>boken, went out on sti'ike 

 on the 1st inst. for an increase of wages 

 to $2.."0 per day. They are opposed by 

 the Hudson County Mill Owners' Associa- 

 tion, which consists of over a dozen of 

 the big concerns, and they arc actively at 

 work procuring the co-operation of similar 

 concerns in the fight. 



The N. "\V. L. D. A. has published its 

 report of the annual convention at Chi- 

 cago. As usual, the compilation is com- 

 plete, attractive, well l»ound and hand- 

 somely illustrated. 



Recent visitors to the city were: .7. N. 

 Scatcherd. oi" Scatcherd & Son. Buffalo; 



II. 10. Suiitli. of Rartleft iV: Co.. Bingham- 

 ton. \. Y.: AY. H. Mace, of tlie American 

 I>umber JIanufaeturing Company. Pitts- 

 l>urg: K. F. Hanson, of F. I'. Burton & 

 I'll., I'hiladelphia; C. H. Sliuttleworth, of 

 Sawyer & Shuttleworth, Buffalo; Lewis 

 Dill, of L. Dill & Co., Baltimore; George 

 Barker, of flie Wood-Barker Company, 

 Boston; Peadennis ^Yhite. North Tona- 

 wanda. N. Y. ; Morris Tremaine, Buffalo; 

 Julius Dietz, (jf the Buffalo Maple Floor- 

 ing Company, Buffalo, and R. H. Jenks, 

 of the R. H. Jenks Lumber Company, 

 Cleveland. 



The report of Seaman Jliller. referee in 

 bankruptcy, in the matter of James H. 

 Havens, builder, who did business also as 

 J. H. Havens & Son. lumber dealers, at 

 Fift.v-si.\th street and Eleventh avenue, has 

 been contirmed by Judge Adams of the 

 United States District Court, and the com- 

 positiiin offered to the creditors will now 

 go througli; $20,204 casli will be distributed 

 to the creditors. 



Biershank & Co., stair builders; R. Grau 

 & Co., sash, door and blind makers, and 

 Dorr & Walker, box tnakers. were suffer- 

 ers by a fire which destroyed a row of 

 buildings extending from No. 223 to 233 

 Norman aveime, Greenpoint, on M'ay 2. 

 The damage was placed at .$.50,000. 



JIa.jor H. P. Smart, former president and 

 owner of the ^'ale Royal Manufacturing 

 Company, Savannah. Ga., recently sold to 

 the Hilton-Dodge Lumber Company of this 

 city, starts out on a trip around the world 

 with his family i na few weeks. Tlie tour 

 will take a year and a half, and will be 

 by way of San Francisco, the Hawaiian 

 Islands, Japan, etc. 



A number of hardwood lumber dealers, 

 whose yards are located on the East Side, 

 are prominent in the recently incorporated 

 Di-y Dock Board of Trade of the Eleventh 

 Ward of New York City, with offices at 

 iNo. 814 Fifth sti-eet, which has for its 

 object the preservation of public dock 

 room on the east side for commercial pur- 

 poses. The members of the association 

 claim that the only good pier on the East 

 Side is at the font of Fifth street, and 

 that a large corporation is anxious to se- 

 cure its exclusive >ise. .V delegation of 

 lumber merchants visited the mayor and 

 succeeded in inducing him to refuse a lease 

 to the coir.pany in question. After having 

 gained this point they organize<l. 



On last Wednesday at the rooms of the 

 New Y'ork Lumber Trade Associiation. No. 

 IS Broadway, there was another general 

 m(>eting of the secretaries of the Eastern 

 liumber Trade associations. Everett J. 

 Lake, of the Connecticut nssocintion, pre- 



sided, and Lous A. Mansfield of that body 

 acted as seereta.ry. A resolution was 

 passeil calling ujwn the N. W. L. D. A. 

 to take a definite stand against carpenters 

 and builders, whether they own or operate 

 lumber yards or not. if not universally, at 

 least in that territoiy covered by the asso- 

 ciations represented— those of New Jersey, 

 New York, Connecticut. Massachusetts, 

 Rhode Island and Philadelphia. After- 

 voting to oi'gauize an association of retail 

 lumber secretaries of the East and to hold 

 the next meeting at New Haven, the meet- 

 ing adjourned. 



H. M. Susswein iV: Co.. hardwoods, re- 

 moved on May 1 from 1 Madison avenue 

 to One Hundred and Fifth street and the 

 East River. 



The American Wood Fireproofing Com- 

 l)any, formerly of 31 Broadway, is now 

 located at 150 Fifth avenue, corner of 

 Twentieth sti-eet. 



Thomas Wilson, Jr., and W. H. De 

 Ghuee, exporters, have removed from 26 

 Moore street— the former to offices in the 

 Produce Exchange Annex, and the latter 

 to 38 Broadway. 



Marsh «& McOlennen, 20 Broadway, have 

 moved to the Maritime building, opposite 

 the new- Custom House, now in course of 

 erection. 



The creditors of Lawrence Bros., Inc., 

 Yonkers, N. Y., met on Saturday last, and 

 it is probable that the firm's offer of set- 

 tlement in notes of 3, 0, 9 and 12 months' 

 duration, with interest, will be accepted. 



Miss Delia Lewis Newton, daughter of 

 Albro J. Newton, the poi>ular Brooklyn re- 

 tail lumber dealer, will be married to 

 Etigene S. Graves on June 4, in that 

 borough. 



Lumber conflagrations have been numer- 

 ous of late. On the 4th inst. the building 

 at 223 to 233 Norman avenue. Brooklyn, 

 was gutted, with a damage of .$50,000, the 

 sufferers being Bierschenk & Co., stair 

 builders; R. Grau and W. H. Post. sash, 

 door and Mind manufacturei's, and Doit & 

 Walker, box manufacturers. I'esterday 

 there were two Mazes nearer home. The 

 big wooden packing box factory of John 

 Ryan & Son, 137 and 139 King street, was 

 completely destroyed, and I. N. Burdlck's 

 lumber yard adjoining damaged. Total 

 loss, $10,000. The Dunbar Lumber Com- 

 pany, Eleventh avenue and Twentj--ninth 

 street, was also damaged by fire to the 

 extent of about $9,000 yesterday. 



The saw mill owned and operated by 

 Samuel Long near Nashville. Ind., was 

 destroyed by fire, as was also a quantity 

 of lumber. The loss is estimated at $0,000. 



