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into shaft strips, rim strips, readies, singletrees, 

 cross bars and man.v otlier dimensions of tliis 

 kind. Tile new mill has an output of three cars 

 per week. 



Wm. M. Stephenson, the new Supreme Repre- 

 sentative of Hoo-Hoo of St. Paul, Minn., ap- 

 pointed at the last annual of this Order, paid 

 the Record a call on November 5. Mr. Stephen- 

 son is working out plans to inject some new life 

 into Hoo-Hoo and try to reclaim a good many 

 of tile pioneer members of the association for 

 the fold. 



E. C. Morshon. the well-known resaw manu- 

 facturer of W. P.. Mershon & Co.. Saginaw, 

 Mich., was a IIardwood Record caller on October 

 22. Mr. Mershon reports that bis concern is 

 very busy in the manufacture of its resawing 

 specialty machinery. 



H. E. Schadt. sales manager of the Hyde 

 Lumber Company, South Bend. Ind., was a Chi- 

 ■cago Tisitor last week and incidentally made a 

 call at the H.\rdwood Record office. 



Harvey S. Hayden of the Hayden & Westcott 

 Lumber Company, Railway Exchange, this city, 

 who recently returned from an extended trip 

 among the lumber manufacturing plants on the 

 Pacific coast is spending the current week at 

 Michigan manufacturing points. 



NEW YORK 



Doyle, Thomson & Co.. wholesalers and re- 

 tailers of hardwoods, with yards at the foot of 

 East Thirtieth street, Manhattan, have just 

 leased several additional lots adjoining their 

 pri'mises and arc opening up a large mahogany 

 ■department, as well as devoting attention to the 

 public storage of lumber. In addition to a 

 large and well assorted stock of domestic hard- 

 woods, they have put in over 150.000 feet of 

 a'l grades and thicknesses of mahogany and are 

 developing a nice business therein. 



There was an important meeting of the 

 Executive Committee of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association on October 20 and 

 the Board of Trustees on the 21st, both held at 

 headquarters, GG Broadway. There was a full 

 attendance of both official bodies. Many mat- 

 ters of importance to the trade in connection 

 •with the work of the Bureau of Information and 

 the Transportation Bureau, forestry legislation 

 and railroad subjects were discussed and acted 

 upon. Special attention was paid to the pro- 

 posed increase in the minimum weights of cargo 

 lots from 30.000 to 34.000 pounds by the rail- 

 roads to water competitive points. General re- 

 ports covering the departmental work were sat- 

 isfactory. 



The Seacoast Lumber Company, wholesalers 

 of cypress, hardwoods and yellow pine, 1 Madi- 

 son avenue, has just opened a southern pur- 

 chasing department at Jacksonville, Fla., in 

 charge of A. L. Ligon, who will look after its 

 affairs in that vicinity. 



E. H. Quinby, a well-known export hardwood 

 timber and piling wholesaler, has Ju.st received 

 a big order from the War Department for the 

 timber and wood piling to be used in connec- 

 tion with the raising of the battleship Maine 

 in the Havana harljor. 



The following lumbermen were eastern ar- 

 rivals from European trips: George H. Storm, 

 G. H. Storm & Co.. hardwood flooring special- 

 ists at the foot of East Seventy-second street, 

 Manhattan, accompanied by Mrs. Storm ; Lewis 

 Dill, Baltimore, Md.. Lewis Dill & Co., accom- 

 panied by .Mrs. Dill ; R. H. Downman, the large 

 cypress manufacturer of New Orleans, and his 

 family : Joseph Kathbun of the Louisiana Cy- 

 press Lumber Company, Harvey, La, 



The wholesale house of D. P. Fairchild & 

 Co.. 1 Madison avenue. City, and Oswego, N. T., 

 is in liquidation. George V. Gray, one of the 

 members of the firm, has engaged in the whole- 

 sale commission business on his own account 



at 1 Madison avenue. In connection with hand- 

 ling a general line of lumber, Mr. Gray will 

 act as selling agent in this territory for the 

 J. J. Newman Lumber Company of Hattiesburg, 

 Miss. 



The Hoban-Hunter-Feitner Company, a whole- 

 sale cypress house with distributing yards at 

 Chapman's Dock, Newton Creek, Brooklyn, re- 

 cently lost a big cypress cargo comprising 825,- 

 000 feet, which was en route from New Or- 

 leans on the schooner Holliswood. About three 

 days' out the schooner ran into a hurricane and 

 lost her deck load, masts, etc. The company 

 has ample supplies for current wants as well 

 as for other shipments on the way. 



W. D. Young, of W. D. Young & Co., well- 

 known Ray City, Mich., flooring manufacturers, 

 spent several days in town on business the past 

 week. He reports trade fair in the West, with 

 every indication of still further improving after 

 election. 



Other prominent hardwood visitors during the 

 fortnight were W. W. Knight, Indianapolis. 

 Ind.: J. W. Difenderfer. Philadelphia. Pa.; 

 H. F. Taylor and Orson E. Yeager of Buffalo ; 

 H. C. Philbrick, Boston : ,R. J, Lockwood. Mem- 

 phis Hardwood Flooring Company : Chas. R. 

 Ransom, Gayoso Lumber Company : E. A. Good- 

 lander, Goodlander-Robertson Lumber Company, 

 and L. R. Brown, George C. Brown & Co., all of 

 Memphis. 



The hardwood mill and yard of B. Jacob- 

 son & Son Company. Elizabeth, N. J., was 

 destroyed by fire last week, entailing a loss of 

 $30,000 with no insurance. 



W. C. Laidlaw of the R. Laidlaw Lumber 

 Company. Buffalo, N. Y.. and Toronto, sailed 

 October 10 for a European trip. 



Moore Bros., who recently suffered a total 

 fire 10.SS, are rapidly cleaning up their premises 

 and have filed plans with the building depart- 

 ment for a brick lumber storage and stable 

 building and three frame sheds adjoining, to 

 cost about .$23,000. They are pltinning to soon 

 start to rebuild their premises along modern 

 lines. In the meantime they are using adjoin- 

 ing lots for the accumulation of new lumber 

 stocks. 



BUFFALO 



The firm of J. M. Briggs & Co. has been or- 

 ganized, Mr. Briggs having taken in as a partner 

 Alfred Swanson. who will look after the out-of- 

 town interests of the firm. They are handling 

 (onsideralile dimension lumber in oak and pop- 

 lar, and Mr. Swanson is now in the South look- 

 i.ig up stock. 



No meetings have yet been held by the Hard- 

 wood Exchange and nothing of much impor- 

 tauco has come up to call the lumbermen to- 

 .gether. While the good weather lasts they have 

 decided to indefinitely prolong the automobile 

 season. It is also good weather for hunting. 



President Sykes has been spending some time 

 in the Adirondacks getting ready for winter 

 cutting of the timber of the Emporium Lumber 

 Company. His company reports October as be- 

 ing a good month in its business. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 reports its dry kiln busy. Its only trouble is 

 that its capacity is not large enough. The 

 southern yards and mills of the company are 

 running full force. 



The Pascola Lumber Company has a large 

 stock of gum at the mills in Missouri. It is 

 selling considerable quantities of it in the East, 

 some of it coming as far as Buffalo, 



The RulTalo Hardwood Lumber Company in- 

 terests are associated in the new River Forks 

 Timber & Lumber Company, incorporated to 

 acquire, sell and develop timber lands in British 

 Columbia, with capital stock of $200,000. 



F. M. Sullivan is selling lumber pretty fast, 

 but is able to go pheasant hunting occasionally 



and is watching his chance at present to go 

 after chestnuts in the country near Buffalo. 



F. W. Vetter is selling a good deal of plain 

 and quartered oak. Oak and maple are the 

 principal sellers at his yard. Like other deal- 

 ers he is finding some thicknesses of maple 

 quite scarce. 



The yard of A. Miller is adding a quantity 

 of oak and chestnut to its stock. Mr. Miller 

 says business is better than it has been and 

 the prospects for its continuing so appear to be 

 good. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. say that cherry and 

 walnut are quiet, but that the trade in chestnut 

 and poplar is improving. The inquiries in hard- 

 woods are coming in better at present than a 

 short time ago. 



O. E. Yeager has been getting a new stock of 

 oak and poplar and notes an improvement in 

 trade. 



PHILADELPHIA 



William I'. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Sou reports a substantial advance in trading 

 of late with a promising outlook. Samuel H. 

 Shearer has returned with his family from his 

 sumnior residence in North Wales, Pa. 



Frederick S. iTJnderhili of Wistar. Underhlll 

 & Co. confirms the reports coming from eastern 

 quarters of a decided betterment in trading, 

 lie sa.vs inquiries are increasing with good busi- 

 ness results. 



Frederick C. Righter, president of the Righter 

 Lumber Company, gives a willing word as to 

 improved business conditions. Inquiries fere 

 multiplying and the outlook grows brighter daily. 

 The company is making considerable improve- 

 ment in its office to better facilitate increasing 

 business. It has recently issued a neat and 

 practical souvenir in the shape of a small 

 leather bound memorandum book, on the cover 

 of which appears in gilt letters the company's 

 name and address, and the inscription, "Write 

 Righter for Right Prices." 



Daniel B. Curll reports October business 

 everything that could be desired. The worst 

 thing he has had to contend with has been the 

 unavoidable delay in shipping, owing to the 

 inconvenient car shortage. If things continue 

 to progress in the same ratio during November, 

 he thinks there will be every reason to be sat- 

 isfied with conditions. 



II. B. Tomb of the Tomb Lumber Company 

 reports a fair volume of business right along. 

 The output of the company's mill at Watoga, 

 W. Va., is being increased. The prevailing car 

 shortage is the only handicap which troubles 

 it at present. W. A. Tomb is at the mill look- 

 ing after affairs there. 



The .Stony Brook Lumber Company of Lopez, 

 Sullivan county. Pa., has been granted a charter 

 by the state and is the owner of the well- 

 known Everbart timber tract of 2,250 acres, 

 located in Wyoming county, the deed coming 

 from the heirs of the late John T. Everbart of 

 West Pittston. Work has already started toward 

 the operation of this tract of virgin timber. A 

 railroad eight miles in length will be built from 

 the property to the Lehigh Valley at Lopez. 



The largest movement of cars reported in 

 the Ilarrisburg yards since June, 1907, was 

 recorded in the office of the Penn.sylvania Rail- 

 road Company about a week ago, when 7,500 

 cars were handled. The average daily move- 

 ment of cars is between 5,500 and 0,000. This 

 is an encouraging sign for a general improve- 

 ment In business conditions. 



.Mien .\lbright. a retired carriage manufac- 

 luicr of Easton. Pa., died on October 19, aged 

 sixty-nine years. 



Joseph Yokn, for fifty years a carriage manu- 

 f:icturer, died at Pottstown, Pa., on October 

 23. aged seventy years. 



The International Automobile and Engine 

 Company, Yeardon, Pa., obtained a charter under 



