THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



The Matn About Town. 



NO ROOM THIS ISSUE. 



My frii'licl Kiiiiliall I. 'lis mr lliat because 

 of so nuicli otlior niatlor this week we 

 won't have any nmni for an arlicle in this 

 ilepnrtnient oven if I lia.l limp to write ono. 

 ■which I haven't. 



I want to say. however. That 1 attenrteil 

 the nie.-tlnu of the Wisr.nisin Hardwood 

 l.unitn'rMien's Association at .Milwanliee on 

 the If.tli. and enjoyed it very nuieh, and 

 <>ven now 1 "roll it as a sweet morsel un- 

 der my tongue." 



The lirst nieetins of tliis association 

 which I attend. ■<! was that mcnioral>ic iiicet- 

 Ing called in ISOf.. to which ("liicago, Min- 

 neapolis and MIchittan were invited to a 

 conference on rules. And eircunistancps. 

 or fate, or rrovidence. had piuided me in 

 Mich mysterious ways that I had never at- 

 tended another nieetiiiK tuitil the Jlilwau- 

 keo meeting. 



Much Imil happcmd in tiiose six years— 

 but there, there: I'll set started directly 

 and write an article in spite of myself. I'd 

 better stop before the suliject sets too 

 sfron;: a hold on me. 



LOCAI, GOSSIP. 



L. B. Lcsh, of tlie Lcsli & Matthews 

 I,uinlicr Company, has lieeii on the siclv 

 list for a couple of weelis past. lie was 

 Uireatcned with typhoid fever, but was 

 bnpplly successful in warding off the sick- 

 ness. 



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A meeting of the lioard of managers 

 of the National H.irdwiMid Lumljer Asso- 

 ciation will lie helti ill Cliicago on Sep- 

 tenilier L'l;. in tlic rooms of the Chicago 

 llardwiMHl I,iiml>cr K.xrliaiige. in the Fort 

 Dearborn liuilding. Several important 

 mrasnres will be brought before the board 

 for consideration. 



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The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Ex- 

 change will begin its rogtdar monthly 

 meeting.*, which Avere discontinued dut-- 

 ing the summer montlis. A call is out for 

 ii general niecliiig to lie held this (Satur- 

 day! afternoon at U o'cUx-k. Cicneral trade 

 conditions will be talked over, the price 

 <piestioii iirobably forming tlie chief topic. 



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The A. .T. McCausland Lumber Com- 

 pany have Hnally transferred their head- 

 quarters from Chicago- to. Mempliis, but 

 will retain a brancli office liero in a por- 

 tion of their old suite of rooms in the 

 Fort l>earborn building. Mr. Klepsteiu 

 will represent them on this market. 



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Henry Maley of Edinbrn-g. Ind.; Owen 

 MolTett. of the Mofifett-Bowmau Lumber 

 I'ompany. Madison, liid.: CIsiude Maley, 

 of M.iley & Wertz. Evansville. Ind.! 

 and William Threlkeld, of the Henry 

 Maley Lumber Comjiany, Evansville, Ind', 

 Avas a .piartette of visitors to the Record 

 office on Monday of this week ami right 

 ■welcouif they were. 



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Every reader of the Kecoid has heard 

 of or knows llem-y Maley, or. in fact, it 

 is pretty safe to assert that anvoiie en- 

 gngetl in the hardwood Inmber business 



is acipiainte<l with tlie name of that 

 pioneer liimiiermau of Indiana. When 

 XJncle Henry comes arouini talk to him. for 

 from bis fund of knowledge gained by long 

 experit'iicc you are bound to learn some- 



tiiing. 



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And Claude Jl'aley is a chip of the old 

 block. He is one of the most interesting 

 voung men in the trade to-day. and hooked 

 iip witli Dan Wertz. practical, reliable and 

 conservative, tlie tirm of Maley & Wertz 

 are well ccinipped to get and take care 

 of tlieir rightful proportion of business. 

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Owen Mott'ett informs lis tliat their new 

 mill is just at the beginning in the course 

 of erection. It is one of the Sinker-Davis 

 Company's make, which is a guarantee 

 in itself that it will l)e strictly up-to-date 

 in all resi)ects. The tirm of Moffett-Bow- 

 maii Lumber Company .iust recently ac- 

 ipiircd one of the best and largest tracts 

 of oak and poplar timber in the state, 

 near Madison, and the erection of the new 

 mill is partially due to that deal. 



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William Threlkeld is known to the trade 

 as a sincere, honest worker in the ranks 

 of liardwood lumbermen, and willing to 

 devote his time and thought to the best 

 Avelfare of the trade at large. He is a 

 valuable ad.juiict to the business of the 

 Henry Maley Lumber Company. 



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JL M'. Wall, of the Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Compan.v. and surveyor-general 

 in the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, was in Chicago this week, and 

 attended the annual meeting of the W^is- 

 consin Hardwood Lumber Association at 

 Milwaukee. Tuesday. September 16, on in- 

 vitation of that association. Mr. Wall 

 reports the business of the inspection 

 bureau as in a flourishing condition and 

 shows ail increase of 300 per cent over 

 that of last year to date. 



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Frank Vetter. of the Empire Lumber 

 Company, Buflalo, and Empire. Ark., was 

 a welcome visitor at this office last week. 

 Fi-ank hadn't been in Chicago for six 

 montlis and as he is always good for at 

 least one square meal while here, we were 

 mighty glad to see him: He says that 

 the advance in the prices of oak during 

 the past year, amoiuiting as they do to 

 from 15 to 25 per cent, have added greatly 

 to the happiness and prosperity of the 

 Arkansas manufacturers. The Empire 

 Lumber Company shipped from their mills 

 at Empire 822,000 feet of hardwoods -with- 

 out materially decreasing their stock, as 

 their production amoimted to about that 

 amount. They carry in stock at Empire 

 about 5,000,000 feet. 



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Mr. AV. W. Knight, of the Long-Knight 

 Lumber Company of Indianapolis, was 

 another of our numerous callers on last 

 Monday and one of the most -n-elcome. 



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Ml". H. C. Jackson, sales agent of the 

 M'ichigau Maple Company of Grand Rap- 

 Ids, was also here on Monday. He reports 

 stocks in Alichigan as being more nearly 

 cleaned np than in years before. 

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William Hopkins, of the Theo. Fathauer 

 Company, is up in Wisconsin fishing again. 

 That is what Hopkins tells the boys -when 

 he goes South to buy lumber. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



It has been decided that a little im- 

 promptu luncheon will be served to the 

 memliers of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association before they get down to the 

 heavy work of electing their otJicei's at the 

 annual meeting, at the rooms, IS Broad- 

 way, on October 8. The following is the 

 ticket of the nominating committee: 

 President. Richard S. White; first vice- 

 president, James Sherlock Davis; second 

 vice-president, Abner P. Bigelow; treas- 

 urer. Charles !•]. Pell. Of the thirty-five 

 trustees, some of the better known are 

 Ernest M. Price, John L. Cutler, Jr., 

 Charles L. Adiams, John F. Steeves and 

 others. This will be President White's 

 third term at the head of the organization. 

 He only consented to serve when A. J. 

 Newton and W. P. Youngs, respectively 

 first and second vice-presidents, furnished 

 important reasons why they could not 

 serve if chosen. 



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Exclusive representation for the Thomas 

 Formau Company's maple and oak flooring 

 in Greater New York has .iust been 

 awarded to W. D. Magoveni of No. 06 

 Broad street, and H. D. Bowen of this 

 city. Messrs. Magovern and Bowen 

 have .ioined forces to handle the product 

 of the Detroit house. The former had 

 been devoting his lattention exclusively 

 to maple flooring, while M'r. Bowen was 

 local agent for Cobbs & Mitchell of 

 Cadillac, Mich Besides representing the 

 western house, the new firm will handle 

 the yellow pine flooring manufactured by 

 A\'. W. Tyler & Sons at Jlontbrook, Fla. 



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That much mooted question, "Trade Re- 

 lations," will lie fully discussed b.v the 

 members of the executive and the trade 

 relations committees of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 in conjunction with tlie secretaries of the 

 various retail lumber dealers' associations 

 of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, 

 Rhode Island, JIassachusetts, Pennsyl- 

 vania and this city, on Thursday. Septem- 

 ber 18. at 0(1 Broadway. On September 17, 

 the da.v previous, the secretaries of the re- 

 tail associations in question will form a 

 permanent organization and probably in- 

 corporate it. 



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Visitors to the metropolis not already 

 mentioned were: Frank P. McNulty, rep- 

 resenting Price it Ilart, New Y'ork, at their 

 West Virginia mills; Robert G. Kay, 

 Philadelphia; T. J. Burt, secretary of the 

 Capital City Lumber Compan.v, Hartford, 

 Conn.; James S. Denning, of the Shepard 

 iV Morse Lumber Company. Burlington, 

 Vt.: John N. Scateherd. Buffalo; Lewis 

 Dill, of Dill & Co., Baltimore: W. D. 

 Young, of W. D. Young & Co., West Bay 

 City. Mich.: Win. Stiliwell, of the South- 

 ern Pine Company of Georgia. Savannah, 

 Ga.; C. E. IJoyd. of the Cherry River 

 Boom & Lumber Company. Philadelphia; 

 Curtis N. Douglas. Albany. N. Y.; M. M. 

 Darr, of the Eastern Lumber Company, 

 Tonawanda, N. Y'.; W. C. Laidlaw. of the 

 Laidlaw Lumber Company. Buffalo; F. E. 

 Willson, of WMllson Bros.. Pittsburg: Hor- 

 ace Bickford and Gardner I. Jones, of the 

 H. M. Bickford Company. Boston, and A. 

 P. Bliss and W. G. Van Auken. of Bliss & 

 Van Auken, Saginaw. Mich. 

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John B. Ransom, the hardwood manu- 



