THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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every month thus far, and has orders 

 enough on hand to keep Mm busy until 

 fall. Some of the quartered oak recently 

 cut at the Decatur, Ala., mill measured 

 from 20 to 23 inches in width, and Ijeing 

 free from hurt or defects, occasioned con- 

 sideratile pleasant C(jninient from custom- 

 ers. 



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On Friday evening ne.xt. the 22d inst., 

 George C. Lavery, the popular secretary 

 and treasurer of the incorporated firm of 

 Collins. Lavery & Co., wholesale lumber 

 <lealers, 39 Cortlandt street, will lead to 

 the altar Miss Elise Marie Antonia Biart, 

 a daughter of Capt. Victor Biart, of this 

 city. The wedding ceremony takes place 

 xit the Central Presljyterian Church, in 

 Haverstraw, X. Y., and cards recently out 

 announce tliat tlie happy couple will be at 

 home on Wednesdays after September 15, 

 at the Hotel St. Geoi-ge, Brooklyn. 



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Prominent among the fortnight's visit- 

 ors were F. R. Whiting, president of the 

 "Whiting Lumber Comiiany. Elizabethton, 

 Tenn., who reports being very busy on 

 hardwoods; W. B. Dozier, of the Dozier 

 :. umber Comiiany, Columbia, S. C; W. E. 

 Duwdle, of Oswego. N. Y.; Edgar Holt, 

 Northumberland. Pa.; C. H. Bond, of Rath- 

 buru & Co., Oswego. X. Y.: M. M. Darr, 

 North Tonawanda, X. Y.; Horton Corwin, 

 Jr., president and treasurer of the Bran- 

 iiing Manufacturing Company, Edentou, 

 N. C, and .J. W. Martin, manager of the 

 pine department of the Norfolk Hard- 

 wood Company of Norfolk. Ya. Mr. Mar- 

 tin reports the company busy in all lines, 

 particularly hardwcods. 



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Vacation time is not yet over. O. M. 

 Hanscom, Pittsburg representative of Bliss 

 & ^'an Auken, is up along the Maine coast, 

 breasting the tierce breakers; A. .T. Bond, 

 the well-known hardwood manufacturer 

 of Bradford. Pa., accompanied l)y his wife 

 and by H. C. Bemis. of J. M. P.emis & 

 Son. of tlie same town, not to mention 

 Mrs. Eemi.s, as well, is enjoying the cool 

 breezes of North' Scituate Beach, Mass.; 

 while .J. AV. Long, editor of the Now York 

 Lunilier Trade Journal, is seeking the 

 breezes of the Pocono Mountains, over in 

 Pennsylvania. 



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The vacation season is over for E. F. 

 Perry, secretary of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, who is back 

 from his Maine trip; for X>ynde Palmer, 

 eastern representative of the St. Paul & 

 Tacoma Lumber Company and Wheeler, 

 Osgood & Co.. of Tacoma, just back from 

 Mt. Washington. New Hampshire; for 

 W. K. Kno.x. of Lucas E. Moore & Co., '■ 

 returned from the Berkshire Hills, and for 

 F. B. Williaijis. of Patterson, La., who is 

 back from Saratoga, and is now on his 

 way home. 



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During his stay in New York F. W. 

 Bartli. Jr.. of Dusseldorf. was taken in tow 

 and piloted around Iiy Mr. Ernest Price, of 



Price & Hart, the well-known hardwood 

 dealers. Price & Hart, by the way, have 

 very important and extensive dealings 

 with the German house in question, which 

 handles 20,000,000 feet a year, much of it 

 coming from -the United States. 



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As Messrs. Parmele & Flash of 3.5 Broad- 

 way have bought out the interests of Carl 

 G. King, the firm will now be known as 

 Parmele & Flash, instead of Parmele, 

 Flash & King, as heretofore. Business 

 will be conducted as before. 



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I. T. Williams A: Sons, retail hardwood 

 dealers, contemplate the erection of a large 

 sawmill, to cost .f2o,000, at or near their 

 big yard at Stapleton. Staten Island. 



Swain Bros, of Wintou Place, O., will man- 

 age the business. They will saw oak lum- 

 ber principally. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 

 The H. J. McCullough Buggy Company 

 has recently been incorporated under the 

 laws of Ohio. The capital stock of the 

 company is $.50,000. They will occupy the 

 plant vacated by the Irwin-Shaw Buggy 

 Comiiany, recently assigned. 



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W. I. Casselbery, who up to a short 

 time ago was a salesman for the T. B. 

 Stone Lumber Company of this city, was 

 found dead in his room at the Hotel Audo- 

 bon in New York City. Heart disease was 

 the cause of his death. 

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 The local lumber circles have been con- 

 siderably wrought up over the discovery of 

 a swindler in their midst. The swindler 

 operated under the name of John H. Wes- 

 sel, and as there is a John H. Wessel 

 doing a lumber business in this city, he 

 easily caught some good concerns. The 

 original John H. Wessel is in good financial 

 circumstances and is very much respected, 

 and in doing business under his name the 

 fraud had easy sailing in doing a good 

 business, despite the fact that his letters 

 were stamped on the bottom to address 

 all communications to Room 37. Carlisle 

 building, while the original John H. Wes- 

 sel is in business at 856 West Si.xth street. 

 His scheme, while not very deep, sufficed 

 nevertheless. He would buy from some 

 .■oiicern on time at whatever price they 

 quolird and then sell the lumber for cash 

 to the highest bidder, even though the 

 price realized was in some instances .fSOO 

 below the prevailing market price. The 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove, O., were hit pretty hard, and it is 

 reported that the poplar manufacturers 

 in the neighborhood of Ashland, O., were 

 caught to the extent of $4,000. Up to the 

 present time nothing has been seen or 

 heard of the fellow, although the govern- 

 ment otiicers are after him for fraudulent 

 use of the mails. 



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 The Swain & Karmire Lumber Company 

 is the style of a new firm recently com- 

 mencing in this section of the country. 

 Tliey are going to run two mills at Dill«- 

 boro. Ind. Earle Karmire, formerly with 



NASHVILLE NE"WS. 

 Mr. C. L. Adler of Lyons, Ky., was here 

 a few days ago making some purchases in 

 quartered oak. 



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Mr. W. H. Gleaves, manager of the 



Southern Lumber & Box Company of this 



city, has returned from a business trip 



North. 



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Jlr. Geo. F. Benedict, treasurer of the 



Benedict-Love Company cf Fort Hill, S. C, 



has been in the city a few days. 



Mr. Arthur Ransom, of John B. Ransom 

 & Co., speaking of trade conditions, said: 

 "Business has been good and we have 

 been rtmning our factory night and day. 

 Have no complaints to make, but are buy- 

 ing and selling considerable lumber. Our 

 business for the past six months has been 

 very satisfactory. The export trade has 

 been a little quiet with us the past few 

 mouths, but we have not missed the busi- 

 ness very much, because we had quite a 

 good demand for all of our stock on this 

 side. While wo have exported consider- 

 able lumber, we have not been pushing 

 this end of the business to a very great 



extent lately." 



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W. B. Earthman & Co., who have mills 

 at Murfreesboro, Nashville and Dickson, 

 Tenn., report that they are finding a good 

 trade and that there has in their country 

 been no lag in the summer business. In 

 fact, they have been unable to keep up 

 with the orders for six or seven months 

 past. 



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J. W. Byrn, of the Hatchie Manufactur- 

 ing Company, a spoke concern of Browns- 

 ville, was through recently en route to 

 Canada, where his firm sells considerable 

 stock. 



John B. Ransom & Co. will give the 

 annual picnic to the employes of their 

 lumber and bos factories on next Saturday 

 at AUandale. About six hundred people 

 will participate. 



IN MEMPHIS CIRCLES. 



Memphis, Tenn.. August 19. 1902. 

 This city has a "community of interests'! 

 when it comes to the lumber trade. The 

 devotees of the same are increasing at a 

 rapid rate. North, South and "Down- 

 town" Memphis are each ditinguished 

 for their lumber interests. In the two 

 siiburban portions mentioned they meet at 

 restaurants for the noon-day meal and of 

 their own fraternity occupy to the admira- 

 tion of every German proprieti'ess a very 

 long table. Down town, at the New Gayosa, 

 where the traveling lumbermen stop and 

 several of the local magnates as well, the 

 export phases and business in New York 

 and Kansas City are discussed, pro and 



