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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sale lumber business, Mr. Welsh expects to add 

 a coal yard, aad also to deal in builders' supplies 

 some time next fall. 



The Wagemaker Company of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., is adding a two-story hrick building with 

 basement to its present plant, the .size of which 

 is about 30x100 feet. This will practically 

 double the capacity of the plant. A complete 

 new steam plant is being installed, consisting 

 of the latest type of Corliss engine, which will 

 develop 1.50 horse power, a new boiler, etc. 

 These will be in a new boiler house at the rear 



of the addition. When the steam plant is in- 

 stalled and in operation, the company proposes 

 adding some other new and larger machinery. 

 The entire cost of the improvements will amount 

 to about $20,000. The company manufactures 

 oUnce filing cabinet and supplies used in the large 

 variety of systems and is being crowded out of 

 its present quarters and compelled to build in 

 order to take care of its growing business. The 

 roof of the new addition will be constructed in 

 such a manner as to enable the company to add 

 other stories in the future. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



CmCAOO 



A new Chicago trade newspaper is the Ameri- 

 can Furniture Manufacturer, published by the 

 Trade Periodical Company, 355 Dearborn street. 

 This institution is one of the veteran trade 

 newspaper publishing houses of the country, and 

 among other publications prints that splendid 

 example of trade newspapers. The Furniture 

 .Tournal. the foremost in its line in the country. 

 The American Furniture Manufacturer is a fine 

 effort and is devoted to the technique of every 

 detail of furniture production, and naturally its 

 circulation will lie largely with the furniture 

 manufacturing trade. 



H. B. Milliken of the Advance Veneer & 

 Lumber Company of Indianapolis, Ind., paid 

 his respects to the IIecord on January 20. Mr. 

 Milliken was on his way home from a visit 

 at Grand Uapids. Mich., where he had been in 

 attendance at the furniture sales exposition. 



C. R. Ransom, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Gayoso Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn.. 

 spent a few days in Chicago last week and 

 made a call at the Record office. Mr. Ransom 

 stated that the Gayoso Lumber Company has just 

 closed a very satisfactory year's business. This 

 company operates several sawmill plants in the 

 .South and, in addition, is a largo buyer from 

 other plants. 



The Record acknowledges a call from A. M. 

 Todd of the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, St. Louis, Mo., who was a 

 Chicago visitor a few days ago. 



Harry Stimson of the Vanden Boom-Stimson 

 Lumber Compan.v, wholesale hardwoods. Mem- 

 phis. Tenn., was a Chicago visitor last week, and 

 dropped into the Record office. Mr. Stimson has 

 established a large and satisfactory business at 

 Memphis during the last year. 



Frank Barns of the McLoud Lumber Company, 

 St. Louis, son of W. E. Barns of St. Louis 

 Lumberman, was a Chicago visitor last week. 

 Mr. Barns has just returned from an extended 

 trip looking over timber properties in the North- 

 west. 



¥. T. Dooley. the hustling head of the Dooley- 

 Stern Lumber Company, mauufacturers of south- 

 ern hardwoods at Memphi.s, Tenn. spent a tew 

 days in Chicago last week and dropped into the 

 Record office. The Doolcy-Stern Lumber Com- 

 pany closed a satisfactory year's business, and 

 Mr. Dooley looks with optimism on the outlook 

 for the year to come. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody of the wholesale lumber 

 house of Fleck & Dunwoody, N'orth American 

 building, I'hiladelphia, Pa., was a welcome 

 caller at the Record office on the twentieth. 

 Jlr. Dunwoody has been ■ making a tour of 

 Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota, seeking a 

 source of lumber supply for the eastern market. 



W. D. Young, head of the big maple flooring 

 and hardwood manufacturing institution at Bay 

 t'ity, Mich., of W. D. Young & Co., was a 

 Chicago visitor on January IJ. Mr. Young 

 reports that his maple flooring factory is now 

 working full day capacity, and that very soon 

 the plant will be run with a night shift as 

 well. 



Secretary C. M. Crawford of the Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Compan.v, advises that by the 

 aid of its splash dam system, it got out 8,000 

 new logs last week delivered at its Coal Grove 

 log harbor, and started up its sawing on Jan- 

 uary IG. This is probably the earliest date in 

 poplar history that an Ohio river mill was able 

 to secure a new crop of logs and start sawing. 

 Mr. Crawford reports that the new logs are 

 "dandies," and that the company is making 

 some of the finest lumber it ever produced. 



The Record acknowledges receipt from White 

 Brothers, San Francisco, of an elaborate stock 

 list showing their holdings of hardwood lumber 

 at the present time. This list includes a com- 

 prehensive stock of almost every variety of 

 .\merican and foreign woods. It is one of the 

 most extensive and catholic stocks held in the 

 LTnited States. White Brothers make the claim 

 that it is the largest and most varied stock 

 on the Pacific coast. At its new plant 

 at , Fifth and Brannan streets, they have all 

 the latest facilities for handling, storing and 

 shipping hardwoods. They call particular atten- 

 tion to their stock of eastern Japanese and 

 Siberian oak. 



The Walker Veneer & I'ancl Works of Chi- 

 cago, which manufactures and sells the Bird's- 

 eye Walker veneer gauges, is having an excellent 

 trade in this little device. This company advises 

 that it received an order for a dozen of these 

 gauges to be shipped to Russia through its 

 advertisement in the Hardwood Record. 



X. A. Gladding, secretary and sales manager 

 of the l.iig Atkins saw house of Indianapolis. 

 Ind.. spent Saturday in Chicago in consultation 

 with his representatives at .the Chicago store. 

 Mr. Gladding reports that business is materially 

 improving in saw and kindred lines. 



The book department of Popular Mechanics 

 of Chicago just placed on the market a treatise 

 on heat, bearing that title, by J. Gordon Ogden, 

 I'h. D. The subject, as advanced by Mr, Ogden, 

 should present no material difficulties, even to 

 the lay mind. 



The Iluddleston-ilarsh Lumber Company re- 

 ports having recently laid in a large stock of 

 bay-poplar veneers. It claims that this wood 

 answers all the purposes of yellow poplar, and 

 is cheaper. This company always carries a 

 complete line of all kinds of veneers. 



R. S. Bacon of the R. S. Bacon Veneer Com- 

 pany of Chicago and Mobile, has been on the 

 road most of the time for the past few months. 

 He reports a satisfactory business. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company of Memphis, Tenn., was in Chi- 

 cago the latter part of last week, and his many 

 friends among the Chicago trade enjoyed visits 

 from him. 



John S. Ilurd. who has recently taken new 

 offices at 851 Marquette building, has just re- 

 turned from a selling trip to Indiana. He 

 reports an excellent trade. 



The Broadlands Lumber Company of Broad- 

 lands. 111., has been succeedi?d by E. B. Fidlcr. 

 who bought out the business. 



At Lena, III., the Lena Casket Supply Com- 

 pany has started business. The new company 



has an authorized capital of $20,000. 



The Labor Wagon Company has started in 

 business at Chicago Heights, 111., with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. 



Edwin Bennett of Chicago has organized the 

 Edwin Bennett Company, with offices in the 

 Chamber of Commerce building. This concern 

 will do a wholesale lumber business, and will 

 have a capital of $2,500. 



W. S. Braunum, V. N. Curtis and S. C. Dem- 

 ing have organized the Chicago Heights Lumber 

 Company of that place, with a capital of $16,- 

 000, to deal in lumber and building material. 



The Western Cabinet Works of Chicago has 

 been organized to manufacture furniture and 

 cabinet work. It has a capital stock of $15,000. 



The W. A. Karr Lumber Company of Flora, 

 III., has increased its capital stock from $50,000 

 to $100,000. 



The Mahogany Novelty Company has been 

 organized in Chicago. This company has a 

 $100,000 capital, and will manufacture mould- 

 ings, picture frames and cabinet work. 



The LaSalle Woodworking Lumber Company, 

 a new concern capitalized at $30,000, will manu- 

 facture lumber and furniture, with Chicago as 

 its headquarters. 



G. W. Jones, president of the G. W. Jones 

 Lumber Company of Appleton, Wis., stopped 

 off at Chicago last week on a return trip from 

 the mills of the company in Arkansas. 



I. A. Minnick, vice-president of the National 

 Dry-Kiln Company, and well known in lumber 

 and woodworking circles, was in Chicago last 

 week, and attended the Brickmakers' conven- 

 tion at the Palmer House. 



C. F. Lusk, chief inspector for the Northern 

 Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, with headquarters at Owen, Wis., was in 

 Chicago last week on business. 



C. C. Hubbard, the head of the hardwood de- 

 partment of George D. Griffith & Co. of this city, 

 recently made a buying trip through the mill 

 points of Arkansas and Louisiana. 



R. D. Sullivan of the Kimball-Sullivan Lum- 

 ber Compan.v, 725 Old Colon.v building, has 

 returned from a trip to Birmingham, Ala., in 

 the interests of his concern. 



Leonard Bronson, manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, is now on 

 a trip to the Pacific coast, and will stop off at 

 San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. 



C. L. I'ease of the Galloway-Pease Company, 

 Saginaw. Mich., was a recent business visitor 

 in the city. 



J. M. Attley, president of the Sagola Lumber 

 Company, with headquarters in the Railway 

 Exchange building, made a short visit last week 

 to the company's mills at Sagola, Mich. 



NBW YORK 



Max Kosse of the K. & P. Lumber Company, 

 large domestic and export hardwood operators, 

 headquarters Cincinnati, O., sailed from here this 

 week for a business trip abroad. 



A meeting of the trustees of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association was held 

 at 66 Broadway on January 12, at which time 

 important matters in connection with the forth- 

 coming annual of the association, including the 

 place and date for holding their next annual in 

 ^lareh, were gone over and discussed. Indi- 

 <*ations point to the convention being held in 

 Washington. D. C, in March. However, definite 

 announcement will be made in the course of the 

 next week or ten days. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber Under- 

 writers, the well-known trade insurance Organi- 

 zation, 66 Broadway, city, which is operated by 

 Iirominent interests connected with the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association in the 

 interest of trade insurance, was held at head- 

 (luarters on January 11. The results of the past 

 .A'ear were gone over and showed a very satis- 

 factory condition of affairs. In this connection, 

 after having been thoroughly examined by the 



