HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Following the disastrous tire in the largo 

 hardwood premises of Moore Brothers, Twenty- 

 (itth street and Kleventh avenue, as reported in 

 the last issue of the Uecohd, the firm has leased 

 temporary offlces at .T^.T West Twenty-fourth 

 street, and is already busy cleaning up the 

 premises preparatory to restocking and resum- 

 ing business. In the meantime the firm has 

 also made outside arrangements through which 

 it will be able to take care of its trade. 



A. .T. Cadwallader of George F. Craig & Co., 

 Philadelphia : E. B. Malonc, Watson, Malone & 

 Sons, that city, and President James S. Davis 

 of the Cross, Austin & Ireland Lumber Com- 

 pany, Brooklyn, left here oil the 14th for two 

 weeks' hunting trip in Maine. 



The wholesale hardwood flooring business of 

 H. D. Bowen and the white cedar and North 

 Carolina pine business of J. B. Mitchell have 

 been merged under the style of H. D. Bowen & 

 Co., with headquarters at 1 Madison avenue. 

 All the previous mill connections enjoyed by 

 both parties have been taken over by the new 

 <'ompauy, and as all parties in interest are 

 widely and favorably known, their future activi- 

 ties should be successful. They will make a 

 specialty of hardwood and pine flooring as well 

 as handling considerable general lumber at whole- 

 sale. 



H. D. Billmcyer, Billmeyer Lumber Company, 

 Cumberland, Md., specialist in heavy hardwood 

 timber, was a recent visitor in town on busi- 

 ness. Mr. Billmeyer, as chairman of the special 

 committee of business men of Cumberland, re- 

 cently accomplished the good %vork of raising 

 S60.000 in ten days for a Cumberland Younn 

 Men's Christian Association Gymnasium, which 

 is certainly going some in these times. 



The new hardwood flooring warehouse of W. 

 D. Magovern at Second avenue and Fortieth 

 street, Brooklyn, is now nicely in operation and 

 the facilities thus provided for quick shipment 

 to the trade on all hardwood flooring stocks is 

 being increasingly appreciated by the dealers in 

 that section. The' new warehouse is stocked 

 with some of the finest brands of hardwood and 

 yellow pine flooring in the country. 



C. L. Willey, prominent veneer manufacturer 

 and wholesaler of Chicago, and branch ware- 

 house at the foot of East Tenth street, Man- 

 hattan, is spending several days in town. 



Frederick Bnse, for many years a leading pack- 

 ing box manufacturer of this city, with large 

 plant at Thirtieth street and First avenue, Man- 

 liattan, died October 10 in his sixty-seventh year. 

 His business will be continued along the same 

 lines by his son, Frederick Buse, Jr. 



During the fortnight the following new mem- 

 bers have been elected to membership in the 

 Lumbermen's Club of New York ; 



F. R. Merrall, F. R. Merrall & Co., New York 

 City. 



G. B. Woodhull, H. M. Stratton, New York 

 City. 



John Carrington I'ates, New Y'ork City. 



E. H. Comstock, Edward Comstock, Rome, 



N. \: 



Joseph P. Dunwoody, Fleck & Dunwoody, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. 



Chester T. Hubbell, C. T. Hubbell & Co., Al- 

 bany, N. Y. 



Plorace G. Hazard, IT. G. Hazard & Co., New 

 Y'ork City and Philadelphia, Pa. 



John R. Meyers, F. W. Meyers & Co., Rouses 

 Point, N. Y. 



John W. Love, Love, Boyd & Co., Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



Henry Patton. Patton & Co., Albany. 



.lames H. Williams, Williams Towing Line, 

 Albany, N. Y. 



Harry Rankin. Goshen, N. Y. 



H. A. Todd, Plainfleld, N. J, 



Among out-of-town visitors to the Lumber- 

 men's Club during the past week were F. C. 

 Hughson, Albany; J. M. Hastings, Pittsburg; 

 W. H. Judd. Stamford, Conn. ; O. C. Quarter- 

 man, East Orange, N. J. ; R. A. Fowler, Brook- 

 lyn : G. J. McDonald, New York City ; J. C. 

 King, Norfolk, 'Va. ; R. L. Jones, Saginaw, Mich. ; 

 Spencer Smith, New Y'ork City ; Joseph Bailey, 

 Patchogue. N. Y. : William D. Gill, Baltimore ; 

 ;E. L. Fischer, Cleveland, O. 



Charles (Jrecnieaf Street of the American 

 Woodworking Company, New York, manufactur- 

 er of woodwork, died October 14, at the Seney 

 hospllal, of general debility superinduced by 

 kidney trouble. Mr. Street was born at Fish- 

 kill, N. Y., sixty-one years ago and moved to 

 New York in 185,"i. He engaged in the fireworks 

 business till 18G2 and later became associated 

 with various other business enterprises. Sev- 

 eral years ago he became heavily interested in 

 the American Woodworking Company. Mr. 

 Street was a member of many of the leading 

 clubs of the city. He is survived by tw'o sons 

 and a daughter. 



BUFFALO 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is re- 

 ceiving a large amount of lumber by lake and 

 has lately been loading a cargo of 700,000 feet 

 of birch, basswood, elm and ash. Considerable 

 Tennessee red cedar is also being sold. 



The Pascola Lumber Company is shipping a 

 good quantity of gum and other lumber, but in 

 common with most members of the trade, re- 

 ports business as not being very brisk. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 getting in some plain and quartered oak from 

 the South. This company is also selling some 

 chestnut, which it says is not very plentiful. 



G. Elias & Bro. are building a power house 

 and storage shed, the latter being 500 feet by 

 r.0 in size. These additions will give the firm 

 better facilities than they had before the re- 

 cent fire. 



Hugh McLean is back from a trip to the 

 southern mills of the McLean interests. He 

 states that these mills are running full and that 

 the operations in Canada are also being carried 

 on in good volume. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. are finding poplar and 

 oak the best sellers, with a fair trade in chest- 

 nut. D. N. Stewart was actively interested in 

 making the Buffalo Industrial Exposition a suc- 

 cess. 



O. E. Y'eager was also much interested in the 

 success of the exposition, and says the crowds 

 were fully as large as expected. Mr. I'eager is 

 getting orders for all grades of poplar and also 

 for plain and quartered oak. 



F. M. Sullivan is getting in Canadian elm as 

 well as Washington fir and spruce. He is im- 

 proving this fine weather by heading a chestnut- 

 ting expedition of local lumbermen, who say this 

 year's crop is fine. 



J. N. Scatcherd & Son's mill at Batavia is 

 running full, as it usually does, though, like 

 other lumbermen, the firm does not speak very 

 hopefully of general trade. 



The yard of F. W. Vetter is active, not only 

 taking in but selling a nice lot of quartered oak. 

 Maple sales are also pretty good and receipts in- 

 clude a good showing of elm and ash espe- 

 cially. 



The report comes from the oflJco of A. Miller 

 that October is a pretty good month in the 

 business. Lumber is not only coming in freely, 

 but all hardwood Is selling at a good rate. 



President Sykes of the Emporium Lumber 

 Company is preparing to add largely to his tim- 

 ber holdings in the Adirondaeks, where the com- 

 pany already has in the neighborhood of 65,000 

 acres of timber. 



Instead of sawing the logs to be taken from 

 the great Potato Creek territory at Austin as 

 announced, the Goodyears are clearing ground 

 to build a mammoth mill at Norwich, McKean 

 county, right in the lumbering territory, and 

 by so doing expect to save .1!800,000 in trans- 

 portation. It will take at least ten years to 

 clean up this territory, and a big town will 

 spring up at this point. 



The P. H. Fairlamb Company, tor thirty years 

 one of the best-known concerns dealing in build- 

 ing materials in Philadelphia, and by reputa- 

 tion one of the most substantial, was a de- 

 fendant in bankruptcy proceedings October 15. 

 It is said that the former financial manager 

 diverted its funds into a get-rich-quick coal 

 mine in Kentucky. A petition in involuntary 

 bankruptcy was filed by three creditors, but 

 was thrown out of court on a technicality. It 

 will be presented again in revised form, it is 

 believed. 



Harry T. Cramer, a prominent lumberman of 

 Williamsport, Pa., died on October 6 of ap- 

 oplexy. 



John Griflith, who was engaged in the furni- 

 ture business for forty years in Phoenixville, 

 Pa., died on October 16 at the home of his 

 daughter at Haddonfleld. 



The Harris Auto Company, Atlantic City, ob- 

 tained a charter under New Jersey laws on 

 October 12. Its capital stock is $60,000. 



The Barnes Automobile Fender Company, As- 

 bury Park, was incorporated under New Jersey 

 laws October 12, with a capital of ?250,000. 



National Water Power Company, to construct 

 windmills, waterwheels and motors of every 

 description, was incorporated October 18 under 

 Delaware laws. The incorporators are Walter 

 H. Fieroe. John W. Fierce and Melvlna Beyer 

 of Atlantic City, and Harry W. Davis of Wil- 

 mington. Del. The company is capitalized at 

 •$500,000. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The J. W. Paxson Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased from Michael H. Mechan the dwellings 

 at S-10-12 Laurel street, lot 42x56 feet. It has 

 also purchased from Julia Meehau the dwell- 

 ing at 6 Laurel street, lot 14x56 feet 6 inches. 

 The company also owns the dwellings 2 and 4 

 Laurel, 14 to 22 Laurel and 28 to 38 Laurel 

 street. All these properties adjoin its lumber 

 yard on Delaware avenue below Laurel. 



PITTSBURG 



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The Ellwood Lumber Company has leased a 

 site at Ambridge, Pa., and will open a branch 

 office and lumber yard there at once It also 

 has big yards at Alaquippa, Pa. 



H. C. Bemis of Bemis & Vosburgh has been 

 putting in considerable of his time lately at 

 Norlina, N. C, where he bought 8,800 acres of 

 timber land in the summer. He is arranging 

 to open a railroad in through the 55,000.000 feet 

 tract of yellow pine timber about January 1. 



The lumber mill and power plant of Alva 

 Rigby at Vrooman. Franklin county. Pa was 

 burned with 20,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 October 2. 



■The Schwob Grain Cradle Factory at Mounds- 

 ville, W. Va., which was burned in the summer 

 has resumed operations in part and is able to 

 take care of its orders. A new building has 

 been provided. i 



The Paint Bank Lumber Company has been 

 formed at Somerset, Pa., by F. D. Grander 

 n J. and L. A. Beabes, W. L. Hoover and 

 others of that place and will do a general lum- 

 ber business. 



The Breitwieser & Wilson Lumber Company Is 

 putting down a nice lot of business this month 

 especially in low-grade hardwoods. Its manu- 

 faetunng trade is also improving. 



The Kane Blind & Screen Company, whose 

 plant at Kane. Pa., was burned a few months 

 ago. has secured another site and will build a 

 uew factory at once. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is prospering 

 in every way. A few changes are being made In 

 Its force this fall, chief of which is the bringing 

 of James K. Fawcett, its eastern representative 

 tor the past two years, to Pittsburg to become 

 assistant secretary. G. M. Chambers, who has 

 held the latter position, has gone to Philadel- 

 phia to open up the Kendall office there 



The Palmer & Semans Lumber Company ac- 



