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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The American-Woodstock Company has been 

 organized, witli lieadquarteis at Jersey City. N. 

 J., and 30 Churcli slieet, Manlialtan. to act as 

 a selling company for the American Lumber 

 Company and the Woodstock company, old es- 

 tablished houses of Jersey City. The new com- 

 pany is controlled by the same interests as 

 those associated with the American and Wood- 

 stock companies, and has been organized to 

 facilitate and centralize the large business in 

 hardwoods and mill products heretofore indi- 

 vidually conducted by the respective concerns. 

 The officers of the new company are : President, 

 C. n. Grant ; secretary and treasurer, H. 13. 

 Nims. Both of the old companies continue their 

 corporate existence as well as tlie buying of 

 stock, the new company devoting itself ex- 

 clusively to selling. 



George Dwyer. manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the J. S. Richards Lumber Com- 

 pany, wholesalers, 1 Madison avenue, was united 

 in marriage last week to Miss Sophia M. Finch 

 of this city. After an extended honeymoon, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Dw.ver will take up their residence in 

 the Harlem district. 



Among the prominent visitors in town during 

 the fortnight were L. L. Barth, Edward Hines 

 Lumber Company, Chicago, 111. ; J. M. Hastings. 

 J. M. Hastings Lumber Company, Pittsburg, 

 Pa. : F. K. Whiting, Whiting Manufacturing 

 Company, rhiladelphia. Pa. ; Lewis Dill, Lewis 

 Dill & Co., Baltimore, Md. ; J. N. Scatcherd, 

 Scatcherd & Son, Buffalo. N. Y., and Maurice W. 

 Wiley, Wiley-Homer Company, Baltimore, Md. 



W. E. VanWert, manager of the Emporium 

 Lumber Company, big Pennsylvania manufac- 

 turer, headquarters 1 Madison avenue, reports 

 business fair. The new maple flooring plant of 

 the company at Oaleton, Pa., is now running 

 to its fullest capacity, and this class of stock 

 In addition to its general hardwood lumber 

 supplies Is being increasingly appreciated by 

 the trade. 



The annual banquet of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association has been set for Thursday 

 evening. January 26, at the Waldorf-Astoria. 

 This wll! be the big social event of the year 

 in local trade circles and the patronage will be 

 as large if not larger than ever. 



The Lincoln Manufacturing Company, head- 

 quarters 225 Fifth avenue, and plant at 152nd 

 street and the Harlem river, is making large 

 additions to the plant. Including dr5*-kilns and 

 machinery of all kinds, its purpose being to 

 transform hardwoods into representations of 

 other high-class cabinet woods, such as Italian. 

 French and Circassian walnuts. American black 

 walnut, mahogany, rosewood, etc. This company 

 Is also doing considerable business in flreproof- 

 lug woods to be \\<oi\ in ImiUUngs over 150 feet 

 in height. 



BUFFALO 



F. M. Sullivan has been getting in a stock 

 of maple and black ash, and a good quantity 

 of Pacific coast lumber, which will put the 

 .yard In an excellent position this winter. 



The yard stock of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, both here and in the South- 

 west, is the largest it has ever been, and, as 

 It Includes Pacific coast lumber, it is a most 

 excellent equipment for local and eastern trade. 



A. Miller has found business better this fall 

 than It was a while ago and his stock of south- 

 ern hardwoods is constantly receiving additions. 

 60 that he Is able to meet any sort of demand. 



F. W. Vetter elected his man to the assembly, 

 overcoming a very large opposition vote, and is 

 now entirely out of politics. He is selling oak, 

 maple, poplar and other good hardwoods at a 

 very satisfactory rate. 



G. Ellas & Bro. has added much to their stock 

 this fall from the lake trade, though they often 

 found the Michigan prices pretty high in hard- 

 woods and inclined more to pine and hemlock. 



R. D. McLean did not start home from Europe 

 as soon as expected, but will arrive early this 

 month. While there he was able to meet many 

 lumbermen and make some very good sales. The 

 McLean mills are all active. 



0. E. Yeager reports that poplar lumber is 

 still a good seller, though poplar squares have 

 mostly given way to glued-up stutE from the 

 West, made up of spruce, pine and Pacific coast 

 woods. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. are adding to their as- 

 sortment, so that if cherry remains quiet they 

 will sell all the more of oak, chestnut and pop- 

 lar. Cherry is improving somewhat in demand 

 and should soon be active again. 



The gum stock of the Pascola Lviraber Com- 

 pany is running down pretty fast, while the 

 oak was mostly sold some time ago. What the 

 next move will be is not settled upon, though 

 the members of the company will still be lum- 

 bermen. 



At the first of the year A. E. Davenport will 

 retire from the Pascola Lumber Company, of 

 which he has been secretary, and connect him- 

 self with the firm of T. Sullivan & Co. 



Though the appointment has not yet been 

 announced, the western New York vice-gerency 

 of the Order of Hoo-Hoo will go to Charles 

 Johnson of Scottsville, who is associated with 

 E. A. Comstock of Rochester. Mr. Johnson's 

 Hoo-Hoo number is 33,815. 



PITTSBVRQ 



PHILADELPHIA 



Thomas E. Coale of the Thomas E. Coale Lum- 

 ber Company is far from disquieted over busi- 

 ness conditions. He admits the volume is not 

 quite up to the mark, but there is a fair trading 

 right along, and indications point to more ani- 

 mation in the comparatively lagging lines of 

 trade in the near future. 



E. M. Bectel of William Whitmer & Sons, 

 Inc., says business is moving along better than 

 they anticipated for this time of the year. The 

 Whitmers have removed to the third floor of 

 the Franklin Bank building, where they have 

 extended their clerical department. 



J. W. Mingus of Mingus & Rutter, preserves 

 his trnnquility as to business prospects and re- 

 ports fair trading right along. Thomas B. Rut- 

 ter. Jr.. is searching the eastern field for orders, 

 and wherever there is a prospect of closing a 

 fieal he appears forthwith on the spot. 



Chapin L. Barr. secretary and treasurer of 

 the Whiting Lumber Company, testifies to a fair 

 volume of business, and states that they could 

 do a great deal more if they would sacrifice 

 profits to meet the price cutters. He is opti- 

 mistic as to an early improvement in affairs. 



Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & Co. 

 says business for the last seven consecutive 

 months has been the best he has had since he 

 has been in the lumber business. Although 

 not anticipating any decided advance in trading 

 during the winter, he rc'^ards the outlook as 

 promising. 



An order for fifteen engines was received by 

 the Baldwin Locomotive Works from the Cin- 

 cinnati, Southern & Texas Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany on November 30. The Baldwin concern 

 has received other important orders recently and 

 reports that the number of men employed, which 

 is 15,500, is regarded by the management as 

 normal. 



The Boyertown Burial Casket Company has 

 purchased the plant of the T. DeLong Furni- 

 ture Company at Topton. which recently went 

 into bankruptcy. It is valued at $40,000. The 

 establishment will be enlarged and used as an 

 auxiliary coffin factory by the new owners. 



Tlie machinery, tools and stock of the South 

 Mountain Lumber Company, Lancaster, Pa., 

 were destroyed by fire on November 20. 



L. H. Allen & Bro., Jersey City, were incor- 

 porated under New Jersey laws on November 

 28, with a capital stock of $12,000, to deal in 

 wood, lumber, etc. 



The Pittsburg Wood I'reserving Company has 

 increased its capital stock from $5,000 to $150, 

 IjOO and will extend its operations largel.v. 



The McDonald Lumber Company has been do 

 ing a splendid business in spruce and hardwood 

 down East this fall, the proportion being three 

 to one. 



A. G. Breitwieser, president of the Breit- 

 wieser & Wilson Company, has been elected presi- 

 dent and general manager of the Penn Motor 

 (_'ompnny, recently incorporated here with a capi 

 tal of $150,000. The company will have a big 

 plant in the East End ready for operation about 

 January 1. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is making a spe- 

 cialty of the boxing and crate business and is 

 now in a position to supply heading and lids 

 cut to exact widths. The company is carrying 

 a large stock and believes that this is justified 

 by the outlook for next year. 



The Palmer & Semans Lumber Company has 

 secured George H. Y'oung, a well-known member 

 of the Babcock force, as its office manager. 

 Frank Smith, who formerly held that position for 

 Palmer & Semans Compan.v will work the trade 

 in the East from tills time forward. 



The J. C. Donges Lumber Company has been 

 making good inroads into the Michigan furni- 

 ture trade lately. It has a fine stock of No. 

 1 common and better dry ash, totaling over 

 100,000 feet, at its plant at Seevert. W. Va., 

 and is also doing some business in gum. Mr. 

 Donges reports yard trade a little quiet in the 

 Pittsburg district, as retailers are holding off 

 until after January 1 to buy. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company is getting 

 a large number of pit posts on its new tract 

 in Centre county, Pennsylvania, and will install 

 a dry oak stave mill very shortly to cut 5,000,- 

 000 staves, under the direction of W. A. Clay. 

 The Caughey company has also secured a tract 

 of timber at Colliers Station, W. Va., and will 

 cut 300,000 feet of white oak there this winter. 



The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce has pro- 

 cured for lumber shippers in Pittsburg a big ad- 

 vantage in getting the railways entering Pitts- 

 burg to do away with a proportion of the heavy 

 interswitching charges which have formerly been 

 so burdensome to the lumber interests. 



President J. N. Woollett of the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company has. secured Charles Cruikshank, 

 who formerly represented the Cypress Selling 

 Agency of New Orleans in the East, to handle 

 his gum and Cottonwood trade in the Middle 

 West. He says that prospects for the cotton- 

 wood business are improving right along. 



F. W. Crane Lumber Company last week booked 

 an order for 600,000 feet of sound, wormy 

 chestnut which was sold to Jlichigan furniture 

 manufacturers. It has lately added to its sell- 

 ing force Ed. B. Shew, who served a long time 

 with the W'illson Brothers Lumber Company 

 and the McDonald Lumber Company of this 

 city. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company is going 

 right ahead with operations on its tract of 

 4,200 acres of hardwood timber on the French- 

 ton & Arlington Railroad in TJpshur county. 

 West Virginia. The property, including the rail- 

 road, cost $250,000. J. A. Newell is right on 

 the job and will remain there most of the 

 winter. It Is estimated that the tract will 

 yield 10,000,000 feet of hemlock and 20,000.000 

 feet of oak and poplar. 



CLEVELAND 



Cleveland bids fair to sma»h all existing build- 

 ing records this year, according to the totals 

 which are piling up in the building inspector's 

 office. The total amount as represented by the 

 permits for November was $1,134,000, bringing 

 the total for the first eleven months of the year 

 considerably over $12,000,000. 



