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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



I'l'dlialily tlu' most iinportMiU events of 

 the uioiith just ended were the two meet- 

 ings that took ])hice on the 17th and 18th 

 inst. in tliis city. The tirst one was sim- 

 ple enough. It had lieen «>lled for the 

 purpose of consolidating- tlie various retail 

 lumber dealers' associations of tlie East 

 into one body, and this was done, those 

 present lieing unanimous as to the deci- 

 sion that the new association lie incor- 

 porated under the laws of the state of 

 New York, with a term of existence of 50 

 years, under the name of the Eastern 

 States Retail Ivumber Dealers' Association, 

 'j-he principal ottice will be in New York 

 City, while the directors for the first year 

 are: Richard S. White, Alfred B. Ayres, 

 Pliny W. Wood, .Tames E. Kenyon and 

 Elliott B. Brouson. 



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The meeting where the incorporation 

 was decided upon took place at No. 18 

 Broadway, the rooms of tlie New Y'^ork 

 I^unil)er Trade Association. From there, 

 on the day following, the presidents and 

 secretaries of the six or seven associa- 

 tions going to make up the new associa- 

 tion took a trip up to No. Gli Broadway, 

 where a conference had I>een arranged 

 with a majorit.v of the members of the 

 executive and trades relations committees 

 of the National Wholesale Lumljer Deal- 

 ers' Association. Tlie conference "n^as not 

 a long one. It was in executive session 

 and no one cared to talk about what hap- 

 pened, but it is an open secret now that 

 the vital question to retailers particu- 

 larly—of wlietlier certain people shall con- 

 tinue to be classed as whoiesalers with 

 the sanction of the wholesale a.ssociatioii, 

 was asked rather iwintedly. The reply 

 is to come from the Iward of trustees of 

 the National association, and uixin the na- 

 ture of that reply much is said to depend. 



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Not long since the yards of the E. H. 

 Ogden lyumber Company, retailers, at the 

 foot of West Twenty-second street, were 

 taken by the city for docking purposes, 

 and the result lias been that the company 

 in question has purchased the stock of, 

 and will succeed to the business of, H. E. 

 Stevens & Son, retailers, foot of West 

 Fort.A'-seventli street. The latter firm own 

 tlie yard propei-ty. and this will be merely 

 leased l>y the other concern. 

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And now there is a report that they are 

 trying to make yellow pine furniture. 

 Hardwoods are scarce, it is true, but for 

 a time at least manufacturers need not 

 worry. Tliere are lots of uses for the 

 better grades of hardwoods, even if fur- 

 niture was entirely eliminated fnmi the 

 list, which is anything but proluilile. 



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.Tohn Cathcart, of No. ll."> Franklin 

 street, hardwood wholesaler and exporter, 

 plans sonic big improvemnts for his 

 Decatur (.Via.) plant. The old mill had a 



capacity of 30,000 feet daily, and Mr. 

 Cathcart will add a new band saw mill, 

 whicli will liring it up niucli liigher. Be- 

 sides that he has purchased at a cost of 

 .$2,000 the steamer Isabella King, to be 

 used in still further facilitatin.g his busi- 

 ness ventures. 



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It is a fairly good commentar.v on the 

 present lianiwood conditions to state that 

 when Herr F. W. Barth, .Ir., the German 

 timber dealer, sailed away from this port 

 on the Kronprinz on the 23d inst., he had 

 not left behind him a single order of im- 

 portance for hardwoods, althougli the os- 

 tensible ob.iect of his visit was business, 

 and he purchases here frequently. ilr. 

 Barth admitted that the jirices that were 

 prevailing on the other side would hardly 

 permit him to purchase at the present 

 values in this country. llr. Vogelsang. 

 Mr. Earth's traveling companion, did not 

 sail across with him. lie will remain 

 liere another week or two. 



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\ strike wliich lasted just one day oc- 

 curred in the molding mill of E. Bailey 

 iV Sons, Patchogue, L. I., on the 20th inst. 

 The men had demanded a nine-hour work- 

 ing day, with tlie ten-hour day iwy. The 

 firm had intended complying witli their 

 demands later, l>ut work on hand to last 

 for three months had been contracted for 

 on the old basis. Finally a compromise 

 was effected by which the flrni agreed 

 to put the plan into effect on December 

 1. so the men went liack to work. 



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The metropolis was a resting place dur- 

 ing the month for sucli well-known lum- 

 bermen from out of town as John I.. 

 (\icliran. of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company. Coal Grove, O.; W. D. Young, 

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

 Mich.: .lohn B. Ransom. Nashville; A. P. 

 Bliss and W. G. Van .\uken, of Bliss iV: 

 Van Auken, Saginaw: F. E. Willson. of 

 AVillson Bros., Pittsburg; Robert C. I.ip- 

 pinseott, Philadelphia, and Owen T. .Jenks, 

 of the Owen T. .lenks Company. Cleveland. 



BUFFALO BITS. 



Mr. Robert McLean, of the firm of Hugh 

 Jlcljean & Co.. has returne<l from a two 

 weeks' \Tacation spent in and around New 

 York City, .\tiantic City and Washington. 

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 Mr. R. H. M. Hopkins, manager tor Jl'essrs. 

 Scatdierd & Son, met with a very painfid 

 and at the same time a very unusual acci- 

 dent "While on his way home a few even- 

 ings ago. A boy riding a wlieel had met 

 with some little misliap. sufli<-ient to draw 

 a crowd, and Mr. Hopkins, who was on 

 an open car along with Mr. Jlcllraine of 

 Philadelphia, stepped down onto the sec- 

 ond step and leaned outward to see what 

 the trouble was. evidently not noticing a 

 wagon which was close by tlie track. The 

 monieiituni of the car caused Mr. Hopkins 

 to strike the wagon with sutlicient force 



to cut two deep gashes over his eyes and 

 render him unconscious for the time, be- 

 sides bruising him severely on the head 

 .ind body. It will probably be a couple of 

 \\eeks liefore Mr. Hopkins will feel tit to 

 undertake another street car ride. 

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Mr. H. S. .Taiies is still in Buffalo look- 

 in.g consideralily better than when he came 

 home from the South. He was suffering from 

 malaria at that time. Mr. .lanes is inter- 

 estetl in farming, or rather, getting land 

 from which lie has cleared the timber in 

 good shape to farm, and is making quite 

 .1 success of it in JHssissippi and Arkansas, 

 where he is operating. 



SITE FOB HOUSE OF HOO-HOO. 



St. Louis. Oct. ].— With much pomp and 

 ceremony the site of the House of Hoo- 

 Hoo. the lumliermen's club building to be 

 erected on tlie grounds of the Ixiuisiana 

 Purchase Exposition, was presented to the 

 Board of Governors to-day, and practically 

 all of the local lumbermen and a number 

 from other cities were present to accept 

 the gift. Tbe site for this building is one 

 of the prettiest and Ijest located on the 

 .grounds. On a liill. nearer the main ex- 

 ixisition buildings than any of the state 

 and smaller Vniildings, it will command a 

 view of the greater part of the whole 

 grounds. The building is planned with the 

 idea that it would be placed on a hill, 

 right in the edge of the forest, and the 

 setting selected could hardly be improv(>d 

 upon. 



The cerem{my of presenting the site 

 was very impressive. David R. Francis, 

 president of the Ix)uisiana Purchase E.\- 

 position Comiyany, made a short talk coiu- 

 mendin.g the enteiprise as the greatest 

 thing Hoo-Hoo has ever attempted, and 

 ended by presenting Director of Works 

 Isaac S. Taylor, who formerly transferre<l 

 the site and presented a silken banner to 

 Nelson W. McLeod, president of the House 

 of Hoo-Hoo, who accepted in a general 

 little speech and then introduced J. A. 

 Freeman, who made the speech of accept- 

 ance. 



SOMETHING NE'W IN UNIFORMS. 



"The Mobile \- Ohio Itaihoail h.is in- 

 augurated its dining car service between 

 St. Louis, New Orleans and Mobile. .\ 

 sti'iking innovation is tlie uniforms worn 

 by the conductors. Garbed in silk-faced, 

 brown broadcloth tuxedos, with trousers 

 to match and higl\-cnt vests of whi*^f. 

 corded pique, \\ itli gilt buttons, they pre- 

 sent a natty appearance. The color and 

 the absence of all insignia, to say notliin.g 

 of the evident expensiveness of the ma- 

 terial and the workmanship, constitutes a 

 marked departure from all established 

 jirecedents in railroad uniforms, and is very 

 pleasing to the jiasscngers." — From the St. 

 Louis Dailv (ilolic-Deniocrat. 



