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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



is therefore strictly ui> to date. It contains, 

 as usual, the credit and financial standing 

 of practically everyboily concerned in buy- 

 ing or selling lumber. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



Alexander & Ellis, retail hardwood deal- 

 ers, of No. -125 Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, 

 have dissolved partnership by mutual con- 

 sent. Charles L. Brown will continue un- 

 der the old firm name and along the old 

 lines. George B. Ellis, the other partner, 



retiring. 



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The Fourth started in liadly for the 



trade. It had hardly been ushered in — 



lieing but a few moments after midnight — 



when a sky-soaring sky rocket with its 



business end still lit, dropped down on the 



planing mills of John Crawford. 2.'>('> and 



2.iS West Twenty-eighth street. Three 



mills — big five-story affairs two of them, 



and another, edifice adjoining on Eighth 



avenue, all belonging to Sir. Crawford, 



were gutted. There were several narrow 



escapes. The damage has been estimated 



at $.30,000. 



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Holger A. Koppel. secretary-treasurer of 

 the Sterling-\Yest Company, hardwood 

 lumber exporters of Baltimore, sailed re- 

 cently for Europe. He will lie absent sev- 

 eral months. 



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W. E. Uptegrove & Bro., the hardwood 

 dealers, whose mills in East Tenth street 

 w-ere destroyed by fire last fall, are rapidly 

 getting into shape again. Their new mill 

 in Greenpoint is almost completed, and in 

 about six weeks they will be able to get 

 into their new otflce building on the old 

 site. Both are handsome, model struc- 

 tures. 



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A rate-cutting war is likely between the 

 steamship Hues running between this city 

 and South African ports. A bi-weekly 

 service has recently been inaugurated by 

 the John C. Seagar Company, and the 

 combination of three lines which had 

 theretofore controlled the trade at once re- 

 duced the freight rates and offered a 10 

 per cent rebate to shippers not patroniz- 

 ing the new line. At present all four lines 

 are being kept busy, the bulk of the 

 freight, of which lumber is no inconsider- 

 able item, going to Natal and Algoa Bay. 

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Gouverneur E. Smith, tlie jioinilar young 

 hardwood dealer of IS Broadw.-iy, is off on 

 a second honeymoon tour. He went to 

 Old Point Comfort to spend the Fourth, 

 and from there he plans to go up to the 

 woods of Maine. He may be absent from 

 business a month or more. 

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Many visitors were hei'e before the 

 Fourth and after. Amon.g them were: J. 

 N. Penrod. of the Penrod Walnut Corpora- 

 tion, Kansas City, 5Io. ; Julius Dietz, of the 

 Buffalo Maple Flooring Company, Buffalo; 

 Wm, S. Whiting ,of the Whiting Lumber 



Company. Elizabethton, Tenn.; Ed. F. 

 Henson, of E. P. Burton & Co. Philadel- 

 phia; Alfred Haines, of Haines & Co., Buf- 

 falo; John Hyde, of the Seymour Lumber 

 Co., Cordele, (Ja.; H. Weston, of Weston 

 & Co., Jacksonville, Fla.; E. C. Fosburgh, 

 of the Cummer Lumber Company. Nor- 

 folk, Va., and John N. Scatcherd of Buf- 

 falo. 



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Joseph Rathborne, president of the 

 Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company of 

 New Orleans, accompanied by his son, 

 Cornelius, spent several days in New 

 York recently and on July 2 the couple de- 

 parted for Europe to seek new and novel 

 sights on the continent. They will be ab- 

 sent two months at least. 



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J. P. Uptegrove. of W. E. ITptegrove & 

 Bro.. contemplates erecting a summer 

 home at Boonton, N. J., with which su- 

 burb, as a residential resore. he is reported 

 to be enraptured. 



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Paul N. Hayes, hardwoods, of 18 Broad- 

 way, has chosen Bath Beach as his rest- 

 ing place for the summer. 



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The Union Woodworking Company of 

 New York has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $20,000. Directors: G. F. Pur- 

 rington, and T. J. IMacGowan, Mt. Vernon, 

 and T. S. Johnson, NeAV York. 



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Kd. F. Henson. of E. P. Burton i.V- Co.. 

 Philadelphia, paid a visit to the city re- 

 cently to see his wife who left on the Um- 

 bria on June 28 for Europe. 



is very scarce at the mills and that the 

 manufacturers are holding out for higher 

 prices than prevailed a few weeks ago. 

 He says prices are proportionately higher 

 at the mills than in the St. Louis market. 



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W. \. Bonsack. of the Bonsack Lumber 

 Company, reports that his trade has been 

 excellent during the past month and that 

 the prospects for a heavy fall trade have . 

 never been better. He thinks it will be a 

 question of more moment to secure than to 

 sell lumber during all the rest of the year. 



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A number of the hardwood people were 

 more or less worried over the rapid rise in 

 the river of last week, as a result of the 

 heavy rains. A large amount of lumber 

 on the levee was in danger and it took ener- 

 getic work to save it. 



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^\■alter A. Zeluicker, the supply man. has 

 incorporated his business as the Walter A. 

 Zelnicker Supply Company, with a capital 

 stock of $200,000. A branch house will be 

 opened at Mobile, Ala., in charge of Jas. 

 H. Zelnicker. This business has been in- 

 creasing very rapidly ever since it started 

 and is now one of the important supply 

 house.-; of the country. 



ST. LOTJIS NOTES. 



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

 pany, reports that he has succeetled in 

 booking a large number of orders for oak 

 car stock during the past thirty days and 

 that he has seldom seen this liranch of the 

 liusiness in better shape. He dabbles 

 rather extensively in this class of business 

 and is an authority. 



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Geo. E. W. Luehrniann. of the Chas. F. 

 I-uehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 contemplates leaving for Europe during the 

 early part of August, to be gone several 

 weeks. His company has succeeded in 

 building up quite a heavy foreign busi- 

 ness and the trip of Mr. Luehrmann is 

 mainly to get acquainted with his cus- 

 tomers and to try and extend the business. 

 He will spend the most of his time in Ger- 

 many. 



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August J. Lang states that his business 

 is in excellent shape, his main difficulty 

 being in bringing in the lumber as rapidly 

 as it is needed. He says his business dur- 

 ing June was heavier than during any 

 month of his business career, which makes 



a big record. 



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Aleee Stewart, of Alcee Stewart & Co., 

 has just returned from a trip tlirough the 

 Memphis district, and reports tliat lumber 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 



Details of the organization of the new 

 .fun, 00(1 Inmljcr tlrm mentioued in another 

 issue of the Record have now been given 

 out. It has been known for some time 

 that the Nashville Lumber Company, com- 

 posed of Nat Gennett and Sam B. Ransom, 

 would dissolve and a new firm would be 

 organized. This new company will be 

 known as the Gennett-Ransom Lumber 

 Comjiany. It will be capitalized at $iiO,- 

 000. which will probably be increase;! later. 

 Twenty-five thousand select trees of iiop- 

 lar, ash and white pine, situated in Haber- 

 sham and Rabun counties. Geogria. Jack- 

 sou and Macon counties, North Carolina 

 and Oconee County. South Carolina, have 

 been purchased. These trees are scattered 

 over 10.000 acres. There is no tree In 

 the lot which has a circumference of less 

 than two feet. It is estimatetl that there 

 .will be about .3.3.000.000 feet of lumber in 

 the lot. A switch of several miles will be 

 built, the river near the timber brought into 

 requisition for rafting and several mills 

 will be erected. The logging will be in 

 charge of Sam Ransom, an experienced 

 lumberman and a brother of J. B. Ran- 

 som, another, well-known lumberman of 

 this state. The saw mill and timber sales 

 will be in charge of Nat tiennett and A. IT. 

 Gennett will have charge of the office. The 

 company will work a force of To men. 

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The Davidson-Benedict Company is un- 

 doubtedly oue of the most versatile wood- 

 eral counties in other sections of the state 

 They are operating in Nashville and sev- 

 eral counties in other sections of the state, 

 .ive large band saw mills, fifteen circular 



