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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



fore for appendicitis. Mr. Stanton .says he 

 feels like a new man. He certainly looks 

 as though he felt pretty good. 

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 The tirm of W. H. White & Co. of 

 Koyne City, Mich., and Tonawanda, N. Y., 

 have an offlce in the Prudential Ijuilding, 

 UuCfalo. N. Y., where they will be glad 

 to see their nuuierouy business friends and 



acquaintances. 



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The lumber lirm of Holland, Manbert & 

 Graves has taken in a new partner, j\rr. 

 Luther P. Graves, and the style of the 

 firm is now- Holland. Graves. JIanbert & 

 George. MV. Graves will attend to the 

 mill end of the business. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



R. I. Kidman, of Churcliill it Sims, the 

 Iiromiiient .Vnierican hardwood lirokers of 

 London, England, who had been visiting 

 in the States for several weeks in the in- 

 terest of the firm's business, conchided.all 

 his important affairs last week, and on 

 Satm-day last sailed back for home on the 

 Lucauia of the Cunard Line. 

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At the meeting of the e.'cecutive com- 

 mittee of the National "Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association it was decided, among 

 other things, to appoint a special com- 

 mittee to discuss the question of trade re- 

 lations with the secretaries of the eastern 

 retail associations. No date has yet been 

 set for this joint meeting, but it is hoped 

 to have it take place here this month. An- 

 other important step was the appointment 

 of a committee of three, with A. L. Stone, 

 of the Nicola, Stone A: ilyers Company of 

 Cleveland, to begin an aggressive cam- 

 paign for uniform terms of sale throughout 

 the entire country. Flattering reports as 

 to the financial conditions of the associa- 

 tion and of the good work done by its 

 insurance department were received. 



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A creditors' petition has been filed 

 against the American Piano Manufacturing 

 Company, No. 207 East Forty-ninth street. 

 The allegation is that since becoming in- 

 solvent the company has given chattel 

 mortgages for $70,000, and that substan- 

 tially all the property has been sold to 

 satisfy this indebtedness. 



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Theodore S. Fassett, of Smith, Fassett & 

 Co., who is prominent in National Whole- 

 sale Association affairs, sfTiled for Europe 

 last Saturday. The trip is for pleasure, 

 and Mr. Fassett will spend about three 

 montlis abroad Vicfore returning. 



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There have been the usual number of 

 visitors in the city. Included among them 

 may be mentioned: S. Hinckle, of S. Hin- 

 kle & Co., Weston, W. Va.; Guy Gray, of 

 the Mills-Gray-Carlton Company, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio; Horace F. Taylor, of Taylor & 

 Crate, Buffalo; H. F. Tifft, Tiffton, Ga., 

 and M. V. Gress, of the Gross Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Tiffton, Ga.; P. K. Yonge, 



vice-president of the' Southern States 

 Lumljer Company, Pensacola, Fla.; C. H. 

 Prescott, of the Saginaw Bay Company, 

 Cleveland, Ohio; John Coleman, Williams- 

 port, Pa.; F. L. Stowell, of the Union 

 Planing Mill Company, Olean, N. Y., and 

 .Ma.v L. Pease, of the Galloway-Pease 

 Company, Detroit. 



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An involuntary petition in bankruptcy 

 has been aled against Clarke & Hogan, 

 window frame manufacturers. No. 412 

 East One Hundred and Fourth street. A 

 receiver had been appointed on March 7. 

 Liabilities are placed at .$14,00(.>. 



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Charles W. Manning, the popular whole- 

 sale hardwood dealer of No. CO Broad 

 street, left this citj' last Wednesday for a 

 trip through the western and southern 

 mills he represents. He will be absent 

 from town about two weeks. 

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Mr. Pease's visit, by the way, gave him 



liis first view of New Y'ork. He has had 



several opportunities thus far of tinding 



out what a great place the metropolis is. 



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The Watkins Brothers Company, capital 



$0,UOO, is a newly incorporated lumber 



concern. W. W. and Joseph Watkins and 



C. H. Batterman are the directors. 

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Schedules of the George Hagemeyer & 

 Sons Lumber Company show liabilities of 

 .•(;14,307; nominal assets, $11,070, and ac- 

 tual assets, . $2,769. The principal cred- 

 itors are S. Hermstadt, $1,925; Stetson, 

 Cutler & Redman, $1,228, and the Louis 

 Werner Saw Mill Company, $1,052. 



prominent lumberman why recently visited 



tlie local market. 



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C. W. RodlifC of Boston, representing 

 Shepard, Fanner & Co., was another 

 visitor. He reports business in his section 

 as good, but prices are too high in his 



estimation. 



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S. R. Lewis, of the St. Louis Lumber- 

 man, and John B. Williams, of the Lumber 

 Trade Journal of New Orleans, were recent 

 visitors to the Queen Citj*. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



The Cincinnati Lumberman's Club holds 

 its monthly meeting and banquet at the 

 Zoological Giirdens Friday night, the 13th; 

 The ■ wives of the lumbermen will also 

 enjoy the spread this time. As guest of 

 the occasion the club will have W. D. 

 Hurlbut, head of the freight U'afflc de- 

 partment of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association. A large attendance is ex- 

 pected. 



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Mill No. 1 of the plant of C. Crane & 

 Co. of this citj- was dcvtroyed by fire re- 

 cently. The loss is estimated at from 

 $5,000 to $10,000, partly covered by insur- 

 ance. This ■ is the sec-ond fire that has 

 visited the above firm in the last few 



months. 



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Oscar Onken & Co., manufactui-ers of 

 picture frames and moldings, also had a 

 fire and their losses are estimated at $4P,- 



000. 



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J. H. Whalen, of I. T. Williams' Sun of 

 New York, spent a few days in Cincinnati 



recently. 



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E. Maphet, of Logan & M'aphet of Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., spent a few days among local 



dealers. 



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J. H. Penrod, of the Penrod Walnut Cor- 

 poration of Kansas City, was another 



ST. LOTJIS NOTES. 



E. H. Hill, of tlie Hallett Lumber Com- 

 pany, is again down at the Arkansas mill 

 of his company. This mill is turning out 

 an excellent quality of oak and is doing 

 so nicely that Mr. Hill rather likes tj he 

 down there watching things go. 



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W. A. Bonsack, of the Bonsaek Lumber 

 Company, reports an excellent trade situa- 

 tion and says he has seldom seen a brighter 

 outlook for summer and fall trade. He 

 has been studiously making improvements 

 in his stock of hardwoods ever since win- 

 ter, and while his stock is not nearly so 

 large a'S he would like, it is above vhe St. 

 Louis average and is still gaining. 

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It is announced that Hari-y Teckemeyer 

 and Frank Wehinger have jointly pur- 

 chased the interest of Andrew- Hader in 

 the Teckemeyer, Hader & Wehinger Ltim- 

 ber Company, and tliat the name has been 

 changed to the Teckemeyer & Wehinger 

 Lumber Company. Business is reported 

 as being in excellent shape, the sales of 

 this spring having been especially large. 

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August J. Lang states that his business 



during the month of May was larger than 



.during any month in the history of his 



business. He looks upon this as a sign of 



the times and thus considers the times vei-y 



bright indeed. His sales of oak, cotton- 



woi.d and gum are especially heavy, he 



making something of a specialty of these 



woods. 



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The next affair of note ni St. Louis lum- 

 l)erdom is the ninth annual lumbermen's 

 picnic, which will lie held to-morrow. It 

 has become the custom to give these out- 

 ings each year and the fraternity has come 

 to look upon them as so much a necessity 

 that it now has to be done to satisfy the 

 people. And they are wonderful outings. 

 Everyone closes up shop, takes family, 

 salesmen and the office force and goes out 

 for the one day in the year when a lum- 

 berman can meet a lumberman without 

 fear of a tug of war. These affairs have 

 done much for the good of St. Louis. It 

 lias given tlie lumbermen a social acquaint- 

 ance with each otlier which is particularly 

 valuable and which could not bo obtained 

 any other way. Again, the name lumber- 

 men's picnic does uot mean hardwood peo- 

 ple or pine people, but everyone connected 

 with the trade. This year's affair is to 



