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HARDWOOD RECORD 



fires and forest depredation the same as the 

 people in tlie States. 



F. T. Dooley of the Dooley-Stern Lumber Com- 

 pany, Memphis, spent spvoral days in Chicago 

 last weel! visiting his local customers. 



Herbert I.. Stern, who disposed of his interest 

 in the Dooley-Stern Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 on January 1 and retired from that organization, 

 is taking a vacation at his home in Chicago 

 before re-entering into l)usiness here. Jlr. Stern 

 is a thoroughly live wire lumberman and it will 

 not be long before ho will mix up in the trade 

 In some shape. 



Mr, Christianson of the Christianson Lumber 

 Company, Hector building, Chicago, returned on 

 February -1 from a couple weeks' pleasure trip 

 through the South. He went in company witii 

 G. H. Bulgrin of Qui.xley & Bulgrin, Chicago, and 

 stopped at all important Mississippi valley 

 points. They came back through the eastern 

 states and stopped off at Cincinnati for the con- 

 vention. 



The McLaughlin Lumber Company, located at 

 70i Fisher building, Chicago, increased its capi- 

 tal stock on January 20 to $25,000. There will 

 be no change in the personnel or business of the 

 company, the increase being merely to provide a 

 greater working capacity and to strengthen the 

 company's credit. 



NEW YORK 



C. B. Hudson, manager of the Shepard & 

 Morse Lumber Company, 17 West Forty-second 

 street, sailed from here on January 21 accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Hudson for a three weeks' 

 trip to Havana, Cuba, and the Florida winter 

 resorts. 



On January 21, at the Church of the In- 

 carnation of this city. Miss Gertrude Cassebeer, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Cassebeer, Stein- 

 way, L. I., was united in marriage to Remsen 

 Williams of the Astoria Veneer Mills & Dock 

 Company, large mahogany manufacturer and 

 storage operator of Astoria. After an extended 

 honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Williams will make 

 their home at Steinway. 



J. Douglas Moir, principal in the wholesale 

 bouse of Christy-Moir Company, 149 Broadway, 

 bas just severed his active connection with the 

 company to engage on his own account in the 

 wholesale spruce and pine trade with his 

 brother, E. H. Moir, at 40 Morningside avenue, 

 Manhattan. Both of these gentlemen are al- 

 ready known in the trade and start out under 

 the most favorable auspices. 



Among the members of the local trade who 

 are seeking brief respites from business cares 

 In sunny climes are President Russell John- 

 son Perrine of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association, who, with Mrs. Perrine, is spending 

 several weeks in the West Indies, Col. W. A. 

 Crombie of W. M. Crombie & Co., 81 New 

 street, Manhattan, and H. L. McDewell of Dav- 

 enport, Peters & Co., Boston, who recently sailed 

 from here for a tour of the West Indies. 



Fire on January 23 totally destroyed the 

 frame mill and lumber yard of the Union Mill 

 & Lumber Company, Second avenue and Eighth 

 street, Brooklyn, entailing a loss of about .$30,- 

 000, fully insured. 



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

 domestic and export hardwoods, Cincinnati, O., 

 sailed from here recently for a business trip 

 abroad. 



J. L. Cochran, wholesale hardwoods, city, has 

 moved his offices to 1 Madison avenue, which 

 will better facilitate his service to the trade. 

 He will continue as formerly to make a spe- 

 cialty of high grade poplar, ash, oak and bass- 

 wood. 



L. M. Young, of the L. M. Young Lumber 

 Company, Boston, was a visitor in town during 

 the fortnight in the interest of business. In 

 addition to its large eastern spruce and hem- 

 lock trade, the company bas just closed a deal 



to represent a large West Virginia hemlock man- 

 ufacturing company in the New England market. 



J. S. Fletcher, previously connected with the 

 Fosburgh Lumber Company's local office, has 

 formed a connection with the Appalachee Lum- 

 ber Company of Norfolk, Va., manufacturer and 

 wholesaler of North Carolina pine, hardwood 

 and cypress. This company has mills at Ports- 

 mouth, Va., Vaughan, N. C and Marianna, 

 Fla. Mr. Fletcher will have his headquarters 

 in the Flatiron building, telephone 1V75 

 Gramercy. 



The DeWitt Lumber Company of New York 

 has opened an office in the North American 

 building, Philadelphia, Pa. This company was 

 started about a year ago by George P. DeW'itt, 

 well-known in both markets, and hereafter Mr. 

 DeWitt will divide his time between the two 

 cities. The company handles high grade hard- 

 woods and has excellent mill connections. The 

 New York office is at 00 West street. 



It is announced from an authoritative source 

 that the Lumber Insurance Company of New 

 Y'ork and the Adirondack Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany of New Y'ork. headquarters 84 William 

 street, and the Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance 

 Company of Sandusky, O., will shortly be con- 

 solidated. These companies are known in the 

 lumber trade insurance field and their history 

 under the management of the Lumber Insurers' 

 (Jeneral Agency bas been such as to convince 

 those interested that the field for the business 

 has been by no means reached and that a single 

 large company would be more effective than 

 several smaller ones. This announcement will be 

 received with interest by the lumber trade, to 

 which this company has extended a large saving 

 in insurance rates in recent years. 



Ralph E. Sumner of H. H. Salmon & Co.. 

 wholesale hardwoods, 88 Wall street, has re- 

 turned from a business trip to the West, on 

 which he took in the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 annual at Cincinnati. 



BUFFALO 



\\. L. Sykes, president of the Emporium 

 Lumber Company, has been in the South for 

 some time looking after his lumber interests in 

 North Carolina and seeking recreation. George 

 B. Montgomery is spending the winter in Cali- 

 fornia : H. S. Janes is spending some time in 

 Mississippi on business ; W. W. Reilley is in 

 Florida, and A. J. DeLaplante has returned 

 from his southern trip. L. P. Graves is plan- 

 ning to spend some weeks in the South later 

 in the winter. 



James II. Walsh states that bis company has 

 recently made sales of about 500,000 feet of 

 birch. President H. E. Swezey of the J. H. 

 Walsh Company was in attendance at the retail- 

 ers' convention at Syracuse. 



W. K. Jackson recently spent some time in 

 New Orleans and vicinity with a party of 

 friends from Buffalo. 



G. Elias & Brother state that the door and 

 box business is rather quiet, but that the pros- 

 pects for better business in the near future look 

 good. The building line is counted on to keep 

 the door mill busy soon. 



The Bison City Table Company, which the 

 Kreinheder brothers of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company control, will shortly build a 

 new factory, 152 x 250 feet in dimensions, hav- 

 ing sold its present building. 



F. W. \'etter, who lately returned from a 

 business trip to New England, says that the 

 lumber business is coming along by degrees and 

 that the yard is making sales of maple, elm 

 and oak. 



F. M. Sullivan recently returned from New 

 York, where he attended the automibile show. 



The activity of the yard of A. Miller lately 

 made January a banner month in the busi- 

 ness and gives promise of making this year 

 much better than last year, when there was 

 considerable complaint of slow trade. 



The Hardwood Exchange is still inactive. 



the rea.son for calling it together at all seeming 

 to be nothing more than routine business. As 

 the social feature has been dropped for the 

 present, few meetings are held. 



S. B. Taylor of Taylor & Mason, John W. 

 Walsh of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany and Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean 

 Hardwood Lumber Company attended the meet- 

 ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of the United States recently held at 

 Cincinnati. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Robert W. Schoficld of SchoDeld Brothers re- 

 ports very satisfactory business. Their mills 

 are working steadily and turning out some ex- 

 cellent stock. The branch yard at Reading, Pa., 

 carried on as the Schofleld-Lance Company, 

 sends out excellent reports. John H. Schofield 

 is making a tour of Virginia, intent on some 

 limber propositions, and Frank E. Schofield is 

 at Honakcr, \a., looking after the output there. 

 He will also visit the mills at Geneston, W. Va. 



Daniel B. Curll testifies to increased activity 

 at mill centers and more adequate car service. 

 He states that the January trading was all that 

 could be expected and that the outlook for 1911 

 is very promising. 



Frederick S. Underbill of Wistar, Underbill 

 & Co. is disposed to be satisfied with present 

 trading and optimistic as to the future. Mr. 

 Underbill was one of the captains of the 

 hustling team which raised in a fortnight over 

 $1,000,000 for the building fund of the Young 

 Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, and 

 was re-elected president of the Philadelphia 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association at its 

 last annual meeting. T. N. Nixon of Wistar, 

 Underbill & Co. is making an extended tour of 

 the southern lumber camps on his way to 

 Nashville, Tenn. 



Jerome H. Sheip is absent on a ten days' 

 trip to New Smyrna, Fla., where he will com- 

 bine business with pleasure. He will also go 

 to Mobile, Ala., to look after conditions at the 

 mill there. H. S. Best, sales manager, says 

 the cigar box business is in good shape, with 

 a strong demand. Harry E. Olson of the hard- 

 wood department is combing New Y'ork and 

 vicinity for orders. 



L. Power & Co., manufacturers of woodwork- 

 ing machinery, have recently bought out the 

 Atlantic Works, Inc., Twenty-eighth street and 

 Gray's Ferry road. There has been a complete 

 reorganization and the plant is now under the 

 direct management of L. I'ower & Co. The 

 new concern will continue to manufacture band 

 saw blades and heavy carsbop machinery. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 states that last year's trading was eminently 

 satisfactor.v, and present indications are strong 

 for another equally active year. 



Asa W. Vandegrift of Sheip & Vandegrift says 

 that orders are coming in now to the extent 

 that if they were booked for immediate ship- 

 ment it would take five months to fill them. 

 Mr. Vandegrift states that the Philadelphia Ve- 

 neer & Lumber Company, w'hicb Sheip & Vande- 

 grift represent, is confining its business ex- 

 clusively to fancy box lumber. 



Creditors have filed a petition to have John 

 Jenkins and Bayard M. Henvis, trading as Jen- 

 kins & Henvis, and Bayard M. Henvis individu- 

 .illy of this city, adjudged involuntary bank- 

 rupts. The creditors and amounts claimed are 

 C. C. Coolbaugh & Son Company, ,?119.14 ; F. W. 

 Unkel. $503.18 : Howard L. Neff, $100. 



R. C. Brackson, the widely known merchant 

 and lumber dealer and former member of the 

 Delaware legislature, died on January 3, aged 

 sixty-four years. 



PITTSBURG 



A new lumber concern to enter the local hard- 

 wood market is the De Voss & Adelman Lumber 



