THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



New York, June 24, 1902. 

 George B. Crary, fatlier of J. D. Crary, 

 the secretary of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association ami editor of the New 

 Y'ork Lumber Trade Journal, died on June 

 IT at his home in Mystic, Conn. Jlr. 

 Crary was SO years old, and had been a 

 captain in the old merchant marine. He 

 was (uU of reminiscences of the old days, 

 and one of his ships, the B. F. Hoxie, was 

 destro.ved during the Ci'^-il War. 



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A recent incorporation is that of the 

 Newbold Lumber Company of tliis city, 

 with .$2.";.00(i capital. O. L. Tunis, Balti- 

 mrire; J. H. Tuthill. Riverhead, L.. I., and 

 W. S. Newbold. New York, are the direct- 

 ors. 



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Mersrhon, Schuette, Parker & Co., Sagi- 

 naw, Mich., New York office at 18 Broad- 

 way, have Ijeen appointed sole agents of 

 S. I^. Eastman's brand o€ maple flowing. 



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The Lumber Fire and Marine Insurance 

 Company, just organized, is, from all ac- 

 counts, in a fair way toward i>ermauent 

 financial success. Like the Lumber Under- 

 writers, this new insurance body has been 

 formed by prominent national wholesale 

 lumber dealers, and the executive commit- 

 tee, with offices at G6 Broadway, with the 

 assistance of the new organiaition, can 

 now assume much larger risks than ever 

 before. Only lumber yards will be taken, 

 and the capital has been placed at .$100,- 

 000. It ■n'ill act largely as a reinsuring 

 company, assuming the excess risks the 

 otiier company are imnble to carry, and in 

 view of the recent increase in rates it can 

 safely be reckoned that it will not have 

 to do much begging for business. 



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Among the lumlier dealers and manu- 

 facturers who recently visited the metrop- 

 olis were J. M. Hastings, F. R. Babcock 

 and D. L. Gillespie. Pittsburg; Frank Law- 

 rence, of Lawrence & Wiggln, Boston ; Pen- 

 dennis White, North Tonawanda, N. Y.; 

 N. H. Whiting, of tbe Wbiting Lumber 

 Company, Elizabethtown, Tenn., and Ju- 

 lius Dietz. of the Buffalo Maple Flooring 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y. 



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A discharge in bankruptcy has been 

 gi\inted to Job JI. Reamer. S.S.3 Seventh 

 avenue, formerly a lumber dealer. Lia- 

 bilities bad been placed at .$35,362. 



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On Thursday last C. W. English, dealer 

 in lumber, sash, etc.. Montclair. N. J., made 

 an assignment to C. L. Bush. Assets are 

 placed at .fSO.OOO and liabilities at .$40,000. 

 The creditors are principally wholesale 

 lumlier dealers in other .states. Over $50,- 

 000 of the assets are outstanding accounts. 



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Bliss & Van Auken of Saginaw. Mich., 

 wiiose maple flooring enterprise made 

 them well known to the hardwood trade, 

 have just purchased a tract of yellow pine 



timberland in western Florida, which will 

 give them an annual output of 25,000,000 

 to :'>0,000,000 feet annually for the next 

 eight or ten years. 



BUFFALO BITS. 



Mr. H. S. Janes, of the Janes-Keeney 

 Lumber Company, has returned from the 

 Mississippi plant of the company and re- 

 ports they are very fortunate in having a 

 good supply of oak logs, and that they are 

 getting out a large and very fine stock of 

 both cypress and oak. 



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The Standard Lumljer Company have 

 purchased a large timVier track at Florence, 

 Ala., where they are just commencing op- 

 erations. It consists of oak, chestnut, ash 

 and pine. The Standard Lumber Company 

 has made big strides to the front rank of 

 the Buffalo hardwood lumber dealers in the 

 short time they have been in the business. 



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Mr. Tetter, of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany, report.s that the extension now being 

 built to their cypress mill will be completed 

 early next month. They have 700.000 feet 

 of cypress on sticks, ready to be shipped as 

 soon as this road is finished. They have 

 a million feet of cypress sold, and will 

 hardly catch up with their orders next 

 month. They have four mills running on 

 oak and one on cypress. 



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The Michigan Maple Association have 

 Issued instructions to all of their inspect- 

 ors that all shipments are to be made un- 

 der the rules of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, and not a stick is to 

 be shipped without a certificate showing 

 the inspection of same. The reason for 

 this is obvious. It relieves the Maple As- 

 sociation of all responsibility after the 

 shipments are once made — and any ques- 

 tion on inspection and measurement lies 

 between the Inspection Bureau and the 

 customers. Jlr. Wall, the surveyor gen- 

 eral, advises he has certificates just to hand 

 for 1,500,000 feet of maple just shipped. 

 He says there are 35 duly appointed 

 National hardwood inspectors at the 

 present time, and applications on file 

 for at least a dozen more. 



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The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany are operating a large timber tract at 

 Canaserage, N. Y. They have two large 

 stationary mills and three smaller porta- 

 ble mills, all running full time. There will 

 be four to five million feet, principally ma- 

 ple, basswood, white ash and beech. 



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The mills of Hugh McLean & Co.. in 

 Indiana, are all running full on quartered 

 oak, which keeps moving about as fast as 

 it gets in shipping condition. 



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*' I hear nothing but words of praise for 

 the very able letter in the last issue of the 

 Record from Mr. F. W. Vetter. 



NEW MEMBER IN THE TRADE. 



A new member of the hardwood lumber 

 fraternity is Jlr. Moritz Glauber, whose 

 likeness we are pleased to present here- 

 with. Mr. Glauber is a son-in-law of 

 the late E. Sondheimer. and has recently 

 purchased the widow's intere.st in the firm 

 of E. Sondheimer Company. He will 

 be an active member of the firm, having 

 charge of the finances, and will assume 

 charge of the duties of the position August 

 1. Jlr. Glauber's career has been one of a 

 series of successes, and the least we can 

 assume is that he will be a valuable pillar 

 in the firm of E. Sondheimer Company. 

 He has conducted a general store at 

 Cripple Creek, Col., for the past nine 

 jears. Five years ago. at the time of the 

 big Cripple Creek fire, his store and stock 

 of goods were completely wiped out. He 

 at once rebuilt, putting up a fine stone and 



MORITZ GLiVUBER. 



brick building, which, by the way, was the 

 first brick structure in the town, and re- 

 sumed business on a larger scale than 

 ever. Since purchasing into the lumber 

 business he has incorporated the Cripple 

 Creek business, retaining a majority of 

 the stock. His entire time and attention, 

 however, will be devoted to the lumber 

 business. 



The annual meeting of the stockholders 

 of El. C. Atkins & Co. was held at the 

 office of the company at Indianapolis on 

 Jl'ay 28. The board of directors' reported 

 the largest and most successful year in 

 the history of the company. 



The following officers and directors were 

 elected for the ensuing year: 



Directors— H. C. Atkins, M. A. Potter. 

 N. A. Gladding. A. D. Gates, T. B. Kack- 

 ley. 



Officei"s— Pi-esident and superintendent, 

 H. C. Atkins; vice-president and secretary, 

 N. A. Gladding; treasurer. JI. A. Potter; 

 astsistant ti'easurer. A. D. Gates; cashier, 

 F. C. Gardner. 



