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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(juii-os a large vulume of sales to make a de- 

 sired profit. 



Mann & I'arker, nianiifacttirers of hardwoods, 

 northwest corner South and Water streets. Bal- 

 timore, Md., are rcasonabl.v busy. Frank A. 

 Parker states that the Octolier trading was the 

 best, the.v have had since they have been in 

 business, and that November bids fair to pan out 

 as well. Mr. Parker is in New England hunt- 

 ing up his usual good orders. 



John n. Stewart of Cambridge, Md.. one of 

 (he best-known lumbermen in that section,, died 

 on November 14. He was fifty-eight years old. 



The first engines of an order of twenty com- 

 pound locomotives for the National railways ot 

 Mexico, have recently been delivered by the 

 Baldwin Locomotive Works. 



The Mackey Motor Company, Newark, N. J., 

 was incorporated under New Jersey laws on No- 

 vember n. with a capital stock ot .f?.00.000. 

 ' The Power Piano Company. Philadelphia, was 

 incorporated under Delaware laws on November 

 10. It is capitalized at $50,000. 



The English Mahogany Company, Wilmington, 

 Del., was incorporated under Delaware laws on 

 November 13. with a capital of .$300,000. 



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BOSTON 



John D. Rice's steam sawmill at Charlemont 

 was recently destroyed by tire. The mill was 

 used to get out chair stock and for general 

 jobbing. 



Gardner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood Com- 

 pany recently returned from a busines.s trip oi 

 three or four weeks. 



James J. Mead of the Mead & Spear Com- 

 pany, Pittsburg, Pa., has been a recent visitor 

 at this market. 



S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn., called upon the trade 

 in Boston and vicinity during the past fort- 

 night. 



George .\. Gove, who for some time has been 

 connected with the Hutchinson Lumber Com- 

 pany of Lynn, Mass., will open a iumljer yard 

 of his own and carry a line of builders' sup- 

 plies. 



Tlie firm of Lewis & Brown, lumber dealers, 

 Provincetown, Mass., has been dissolved. This 

 firm has been in business for about twenty 

 years. D. F. Lewis has retired and sold his in- 

 terest in the business to the junior member, 

 Reuben F. Brown. 



Everitt J. Lake, of Hartford, Conn., was re- 

 cently elected vice-president and general manager 

 of the Northwestern Lumber Company, a Cana- 

 dian concern, whose timber lands are in British 

 Columbia. . Mr. Lake will have his office at his 

 old location in the Phoenix Bank building. He 

 Is also president of the Hartford Lumber Com- 

 pany and ex-lieutenant governor of his state. 

 Mr. Lake is planning to visit the property ot 

 the new company soon. 



The Aroostook Cooperage & Lumber Company 

 has been organized in Uoulton, Me., with a capi- 

 tal stock of ,flO,000. T. V. Doherty is presi- 

 dent and H. H. Westervelt is treasurer. The 

 company proposes to own and operate cooperage 

 shops and conduct a lumber business. 



Messrs. Appleby and Davis of the Appleby 

 Lumber Company, Jamestown, N. Y., were visit- 

 ors at the Boston market ri'cently. 



J. C. Scofleld who for a number of years has 

 been secretary and .general manager of the Pitts- 

 burg Hardwood Door Company of this city, will 

 go to Detroit soon to represent the Paine Lum- 

 ber Company in that city. He will have charge 

 of the Michigan and northwestern Ohio field. 

 Mr. Scolield was formerly connected with the 

 A. G. Breitwieser Lumber Company. 



Carl Vandervoort. secretary of the Pittsburg 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 

 made a flying trip to Atlanta, Ga., recently. 

 While in that city be ran over to Babcock to 

 inspecl the big Babcock operations. 



The American Lumber & Mfg. Company is 

 keeping its mills fairly busy. Its officials report 

 that f^om all indications there will be a stiff 

 increase in business after the first of tlie year. 

 Prices on hardwoods in general are pretty firm. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is get- 

 ting its affairs in shape for a busy winter. It 

 will put in a mill at once and cut off its recently 

 acquired tract of timber in Centre county. Penn- 

 sylvania, which will furnish it hundreds of cars 

 of mixed hardwood for mining and other pur- 

 poses. 



C. B. Rhea of Livermore, Pa., secured a big 

 order for lumber from the Buffalo, Rochester & 

 I'ittsburg Railroad Company last week. Much 

 of this stuff is hardwood and it will keep his 

 plant busy all winter getting it out. 



PITTSBURG 



William Hunter and William Enos have formed 

 the Pennsylvania Lumber Comiiany of Pittsburg 

 and are now located in roomy yards at Liverpool 

 and Metropolitan streets. They handle nothing 

 but the best grades of hardwood. Mr. Hunter 

 was for six years with the Furnace Run Saw 

 Mill & Lumber Company and is known as one 

 of the most efficient lumber salesmen in the city. 

 Mr. Enos was formerly connected with the Enos 

 Lumber Company. 



BALTIMORE 



Holger A. Koppel, an exporter of hardwoods 

 and Danish vice-consul at Baltimore, who has 

 an office in the Caroll building, slipped over to 

 Philadelphia on November 5, where he was mar- 

 ried Ijy a justice of the peace to Miss Virginia 

 Florence Cline, the daughter of David S. Cline, 

 of 2112 Seventh street. Miss Cline has been 

 Mr. Koppel's private secretary since he em- 

 barked in business on his own account, about 

 four years ago. iShe is thoroughly familiar with 

 the details of the business and is known to 

 many members ot the trade. Mr. Koppel said 

 the wedding was not an elopement, but that he 

 had gone to Philadelphia merely to avoid the 

 fuss of a church ceremony. 



The members of the special committee of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association, which 

 went to England and Belgium to confer with 

 the brokers and buyers there in regard to the 

 matter of establishing grades for wagon oal: 

 planks and settling various other matters in 

 dispute, sailed for home from Antwerp on the 

 steamer Lapland and arrived In New York on 

 November 19. According to the information re- 

 ceived here as to the progress of the negotia- 

 tions, the members of the committee expressed 

 themselves as highly gratified with the results 

 accomplished. A most cordial reception was 

 given them wherever they went and brokers and 

 buyers alike were disBpsed to meet them in a 

 friendly and conciliatory spirit. Apparently, 

 much of the feeling which had grown out of the 

 differences over the inspection rules and the 

 manner of inspecting oak planks abroad was the 

 result of misunderstanding, the great distances 

 between the two parties to the dispute tending 

 to give rise to false impressions as to intent. 

 The conferences served to eliminate this feeling 

 of antagonism and will do much toward im- 

 pressing the exporters and the importers with 

 their mutual good will. 



E. B. Wright of the Butters Lumber Company 

 of Boardman, N. C, was in Baltimore last week 

 to confer with Secretary J. McD. I'rice on the 

 action of the railroads in fixing the minimum of 

 weight of a carload of lumber at 40.000 pounds, 

 this being an advance from 34.000 pounds. Mr. 

 Wright sought out Mr. Price because the Na- 

 tional Lumber Exporters' Association was per- 

 haps the first organization to take up the matter 

 and call attention to it as working a liardship 

 on the shippers of southern woods. 



Waller J. Sharp of Churchill & Sim. the widely 

 known lumber Importing bouse of Liverpool, 



slopped in Baltimore last week as one of the 

 halting places in his journey through the United 

 States. He called on various hardwood firms 

 here and sought information about trade condi-. 

 tions. also expressing the opinion that business 

 in the United Kingdom was on the mend, and 

 that the demand for American woods might be 

 expected to increase. 



n. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, is back from a trip to the 

 company's mills in eastern Tennessee and west- 

 ern North Carolina, and states that he found 

 everything in good running order. 



C. W. Denny, the buyer for R. P. Baer & Co.. 

 of this city, in western North Carolina, who was 

 hurt in the wreck on the Murphy branch of the 

 Southern railway in October, is still confined to 

 bis room, his injuries having proved more serious 

 I ban first supposed. He dislocated a shoulder, 

 the doctiu's pronouncing the dislocation w'orse 

 than a break would have been. W. T. Mason, 

 another lumberman, was hurt in the same wreck, 

 and, on account of his age, it is feared that the 

 outcome may Ijie serious. 



The troubles of the Clinch Valley Lumber 

 Company, which resulted in court proceedings in 

 Virginia, attracted considerable attention among 

 hardwood men here. It was known that the 

 company, which made its headquarters at St. 

 Paul. Va., found it difficult for some time to 

 meet obligations, one of the means resorted to 

 being to transfer accounts to the Manufacturers' 

 I'inance Company, a Baltimore concern, as se- 

 curity for advances. The Finance company's 

 claims are said to aggregate about $27,000 and 

 are believed to be secured. The failure, it is- 

 thought, will prove a bad one. There are no 

 other creditors in Baltimore. It is stated that 

 the company had been unable to fill some of the 

 contracts for lumber taken here. 



CLEVELAND 



I'Umer E. Tiarc of I'otter Teare & Co., one 

 of the prominent lumbermen of Cleveland, was 

 re-elected president of the Builders' Exchange 

 of Cleveland during the past week by one ot 

 the largest votes ever received by a candidate 

 for the office. During the past year Mr. Teare 

 lias done much to help build up the organiza- 

 tion. 



The Wetzel Lumber Company of . Clevelandi 

 has been incorporated under the laws of Ohio, 

 with a capitalization of $10,000, by C. N. Wedge 

 and others, to do a general lumber business. 



George Bray has 'oeen named as adjuster for 

 the Georgi.an Bay Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently assigned. An inventory of the com- 

 pany's stock is now being taken preiiaratory to 

 an early settlement. * 



One of the changes in the lumber business 

 during the past fortnight was made in connec- 

 uection with (he city salesmanship of the South- 

 ( rn Lumber Company, when Frank Kimball, 

 who has been associated with the concern for 

 some time, resigned to go into business for 

 himself. It is announced that he will be suc- 

 ceeded by R. Clyde Klumph, who has been city 

 salesman for the P. T. Peitch Company. 



The newly formed Lumbermen's Club is flour- 

 ishing to such an extent that it has been de- 

 cided to hold an evening of "stunts" at the 

 Lumbermen's clubhouse on West 3rd street with- 

 in a short time, when the names of a number 

 of new members will be announced. A bitnquet 

 was held a short time ago at the Hotel Euclid, 

 which showed the members the value of such 

 an organization. 



W. B. Martin of the Martin-Rarriss Com-j 

 pany reports a good demand in his business o? 

 furnishing fine cabinet woods for big monu.Y 

 mental buildings for English quartered oak. 

 'ibis wood is irf fine demand in many of the' 

 large courthouses and postofflces throughcut 

 the country, as is also some of the finer grades 

 of mahogany and Circassian walnut. Mr. Mar- 



