THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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Kirl).v. of the Kirby Lumber Company, 

 Houston, Tex.: W. L. Sykes, pre.sident of 

 the Kmiioriiim lAimber Company, Keetiug 

 Summit, Pa.: Pendennis White ami John 

 X. Scatcherrt, Htiffahi. 



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James F. Weleh, formeiiy a himljer deal- 

 er at One Hundred and Thirty-seventh 

 street and Fifth avenue, has been dis- 

 eharged in bankruptcy. His liabilitie.s were 

 about .$45,000. 



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Fire destroyed the Brad1)ury piano fac- 

 toi-y in Brooklyn last Wednesday, causing 

 a less of fully $250,000. 



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Tlie Holioken planing mill strike is 

 ended. The w(]rkingmen have accepted 

 the owners' terms. 



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The courts having confirmed the com- 

 position of G. L. Schuyler & Co., lumber 

 dealers. Ninety-eighth street and the East 

 liiver, of 10 per cent cash and stock in 

 the new company: the latter has been in- 

 corporated at AIl>any with .$200,000 capi- 

 tal. The directors are S. M. Richardson 

 and J. J. Curry. Xew York, and G. I. Col- 

 lins, .Terse.y City. 



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The executive committee of the National 

 Wholesale Luml)er Dealers' Association 

 was in session this week at the offices, 

 <>(■, Broadway. This was tlie first meeting 

 since the convention at Chicago. It is l)e- 

 lieved that many vital riuestions came up 

 for discussion and settlement, but the ses- 

 sion being an executive one, the proceed- 

 ings are not known. 



. CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



.Mtssrs. Gregory S. Stewart and Atliel 

 V. .Tackson announce that they liave 

 formed a partnership under tlie firm name 

 of Stewart & Jackson, with head(iuarters 

 in tills city, for the purpose of dealing in 

 W'hole.vale quantities of hardwoods, jiopltir 

 ami yellow pine. They will have an otflec 

 in the Union Trust building. 



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E. L. Edwards of Dayton, O., was in 

 town lately and reports business up his 

 way as satisfactory. 



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J. H. Trump, formerly with Farrin-Korn 

 Lumber Company, but now connected with 

 the Minnesota Lumber Company of Moul- 

 trie, Ga,, also spent a few hours with local 

 dealers. 



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Ferd Brenner, of the Ferd Brenner Lum- 

 ber Company of Chattanooga, was another 

 welcome visitor from the South. 



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yv. H. stark, a prominent lumberman 

 of Orange, Tex., spent some time in Cincin- 

 nati on his way en route to New York. 



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The plant of the Ohio Scroll & Lumber 

 Company of Covington, Ky., was totally 

 destroyed by fire on May 10. The loss is 

 estimated at .$100,000. 



BOOKS AND CATALOGUES. 



The American Blower Company of De- 

 troit, Mich., have sent us a copy of tlieir 

 illustrated catalogues, one of them being 

 devoted to the exploitation of the famous 

 "A B C" Dry Kilns, and the other one to 

 ^'entihlting Fans. The former is a book 

 of more than 70 pages, and is strictly high- 

 grade typographically and otherwise. It 

 describes fully the "A B C" moist air and 

 Blower systems and shows the adaptabil- 

 ity of l)oth. The Disc Ventilating Fans as 

 manufactured by them are fully described 

 in a separate book and shows the numer- 

 ous and varied applications to which they 

 arc put. 



OBITUARY. 



We are in receipt of catalogue ''B." is- 

 sued by R. R. Howell & Co., manufactur- 

 ers of saw mill machinery, Minneapolis, 

 Jlinn. It is quite a comprehensive affair, 

 showing their entire line of goods, both in 

 a descriptive and illustrative way. 



The report of the tenth annual meeting 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, held in Chicago, on March 

 5 and 6 of this year, is at hand. It 

 is (juite an interesting and valuable docu- 

 ment. Besides the annual reports of offi- 

 cers, the proceedings in detail, etc., it in- 

 cludes the new standing committees and 

 a list of members numbering more than 

 300. 



T. K. Edwards, lumber agent of the Illi- 

 nois Centi'al Railroad, has prepared a list 

 of the saw mills, shingle mills, stave and 

 heading mills, spoke mills, etc.. located on 

 its various lines in Kentncky, Tennessee, 

 ■Mississippi and Louisiana. Col. Edwards 

 was assisted in the compilation of this 

 liciok by the representatives all along its 

 lines, and it is thereiore narticularlv com- 

 plete and accurate as well as comprehen- 

 sive. It contains the name of the mill 

 owner or operator, name of station at 

 which located, pnstofflee address, kind of 

 lumber manufactured and capacity per day. 

 It is the desire to circulate this book 

 "i^-herever there is anyone interested in the 

 lumber product along the Illinois Central 

 lines. To that end it may be seucred from 

 T. K. Edwards, lumber agent, 99 Adams 

 Street, Chicago: ^^^ E. Keepers, general 

 freight agent, Chicago; F. B. Bowes, gen- 

 eral freight agent, Louisville, Ky.; W. M. 

 X.'hett, genei-al freight agent. New Orleans, 

 I.a., or from any agent or representative 

 of the Illinois Central in the United States 

 or Europe. 



The Forestry Department at the ^A'orld's 

 Fair at St. Ix)uis has issued their first cir- 

 cular, which gives the plan and scope of 

 the work intended in that department. It 

 also contains the official classification, 

 which was published some time ago in 

 these columns. A copy of this circular can 

 be obtained from Acting Chief Department 

 of Forestry, Tarleton H. Bean, World's 

 Fair. St. Louis, Mo. 



C. W. GOODLANDEB. 



The death of Charles W. Goodlander, at 

 Fort Scott, Kan., last week, removed one 

 of (he prominent lumljermen of the United 

 States and a well-known and beloved char- 

 acter. 



He was born in Milton, Pa., in 1S:U. and 

 started west in 1855. finally landing at 

 Fort Scott, Kan., where he has since re- 

 sided. He has been prominently identi- 

 fied with the lumber interests, largely In 

 the .yellow pine industry. He was presi- 

 dent of the Southern Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association for two years, and at the 

 time of his death was vice-president of the 

 Central Coal & Coke Company of Kansas 

 City, Mo., besides being interested in 

 many live retail yards throughout the 

 West. 



Wliile Mr. Goodlander was best known 

 as a lumberman, he was identified with 

 various other lines of business. He took 

 great pride in the welfare of his adopted 

 city. He recently built the Hotel Good- 

 lander at a cost of .$200,000, at Fort Scott, 

 was president of the Citizens' National 

 Bank and twice elected mayor of Fort 

 Scott. He left a mark of his apprecia- 

 tion of Fort Scott. Kan., in a book of 

 memoirs, which he published a year or 

 so ago, under the title of "Becollectious of 

 Early Days in Fort Scott." 



I'ersonally he was a man of energy, 

 and spirit, open-handed and liberal, with 

 probably as many warm personal friends 

 as any lumberman in the conntrv. 



GEORGE P. MASSENGALE. 



The death of George P. JIasseugale, the 

 active member of the hardwood lumber 

 arm of Russell-Massengale Commission 

 Company, St. Louis. JMo., which occurred 

 on Ma.v 6, was sad news to his many 

 friends in the trade, Mr. Massengale was 

 on the road to recovery from a five weeks' 

 seige with typhoid fever when conges- 

 tion of the lungs developed and hastened 

 his death. 



Jlr. Massengale was born in Wrights- 

 boro, Ga., in 1843. He enlisted in the 

 Confederate army at the age of IS and 

 .served four .years, rising to the rank of 

 colonel. He went to Nashville, Tenn., at 

 the close of the war, engaging in the 

 grain trade, and in lS7(i transferred his 

 business interests to St. Lotiis. Some 

 time later the Russell-Massengale Com- 

 mission Company was formed, and he 

 gave up the grain trade to engage in the 

 lumber business, which he followed up to 

 the time of his death. He was a member 

 of the Royal Arcanium, the Confederate 

 Veterans Association and Lumberman's 

 Exchange. 



Mr. Massengale was of a cheer.y, sociable 

 disposition, and will be remembered for 

 his courteous manner and a strict adher- 

 ence to what he believed was his plain 

 duty. 



