HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Itasket nnd Box Company of Paducah, Ky. ; 

 Mensi'l Brothers Company of Louisville for Its 

 IlU'knmn. K.r., plant, nnd to tbe New Albany 

 Vcnwr and I'nnel (."ompany of New Albany, Ind. 

 Tbe equipment recently installed for J. K. Co- 

 nant & Co. at Suulb Vickaburg, Miss., will be 

 started up November 1. 



Boston. 



1- iiiliTick 1;. Fay. retired lumber dealer, died 

 at bis biime In Worcester. Mass., October 10. 

 .Mr. Fay was seventy years of age. 



George E. Cade, manager of tbe George D. 

 Emery Company, larye handlers of mahogany, I3 

 spending a few weeks In Europe. 



A new wholesale hardwood company has been 

 organized, with bead ollices in Boston. Tbe con- 

 cern is known as the C. O. Skinner Company 

 and Is comprised of George W. Stone, C. 0. Skin- 

 ner and F'rank Schuiuaker. Both Mr. Stone and 

 Mr. Sohuniaker are members of the Stone Lum- 

 ber Company. C. O. Skinner is president of the 

 new concern. The ollices of this (.ompany are 

 located on tbe same lloor with tbe Stone Lum- 

 ber Cotupany, at 4 Liberty square, Boston. 



Gardner L J6nes, one of the best-known hard- 

 wood dealers in Boston, is expected home this 

 week from a trip through the South. 



Arthur W. Godfrey, son of the well-known 

 lumber dealer, L. M. Godfrey, Boston, who was 

 married early in October, has returned from a 

 pleasant western trip. 



A new firm has been organized in Boston 

 known as Fisher, Cary & Bryant. The business 

 of this company will be confined largely to for- 

 estry, although it will make estimates as to 

 standing timber. Both Mr. Fisher and Mr. Cary 

 are professors in the Harvard F'orestry School 

 and Mr. Bryaut is a recent graduate. 



Kdward S. Loomis of the New York office of 

 the Blanchard Lumber Company is slowly re- 

 covering from a severe attack of typhoid fever. 



\V. E. Litchfield, one of the largest wholesale 

 hardwood dealers in Boston, has been honored 

 by being elected treasurer at the last meeting of 

 the -Associated Board of Trade. 



The Mount Forest Manufacturing Company has 

 been organized in Portland. Me., for the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing all kinds of woods, with 

 a capital stock of ?3cK).i)UU. The president is 

 M. E. Ward and treasurer H. N. Gardner. 



The Griffin Lumber Company. Sandyhill. N. 

 v.. has been granted permission to do business 

 In the state of Vermont. 



Michael P. Shea of New London, Conn., who 

 was formerly engaged in the lumber business, 

 but who of late has been highway commissioner, 

 bas purchased tbe lumber in the yard of the 

 Kastern Ship Building Company. It Is reported 

 that be will engage in the lumber business again. 



The chair plant of Smith, Day & Co., Baldwin- 

 vllle. Mass., has been visited b.v fire, causing a 

 loss of $.")0,000. The company carried insurance 

 amounting to $37,000. 



At a meeting of tbe Metropolitan Lumber ex- 

 change on October 10 it was decided to close 

 the dining-room, and a committee, consisting of 

 the president, two vice-presidents and the treas- 

 urer, was appointed to look after the property 

 of the association. After October 20 the dining- 

 room will be closed. 



New York, 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against 

 the N^w York l-"lreproof Column Company, Man- 

 hattan, by creditors. The company was organ- 

 ized four years ago with a capital of *20,000, 

 which was increased to $30,000 in May last. 

 It was alleged that the company admitted in 

 writing Its inability to pay debts and its will- 

 Ingneaa 10 be adjudged bankrupt. William P. 

 Allen bas been appointed receiver with bond of 

 $4,000. Two creditors attached the factory at 

 lloboken. but a restraining order has been grant- 

 ed by the court staying further proceedings. 

 Liabilities are $40,000 and assets $2."),000. 



A petition In bankruptcy was filed agaiur.L 

 the American Mantel Company, manufacturer^ 

 of mantels, etc., at 20u Bowery, October 14. by 

 creditors, alleging that the company Is Insol- 

 vent and transferring casb, outstanding ac- 

 counts and bills receivable to other creditors. 

 S. J. Goldsmllli has been appointed receiver 

 with bond at $5,000. The company has been 

 in business two years. 



The big plant of the Newark Box and Lumber 

 Company at Newark was destroyed by fire Octo- 

 ber 14, together with the trunk and box fac- 

 tory of John Zipfel. entailing a total loss of 

 $30,000, with partial insurance. 



H. C. Bcmis of the Pittsburg headquarters of 

 Beinis & Vosburgh. hardwood and spruce manu- 

 facturers, has been making his headquarters at 

 the local office, 12 Broadway, for about ten 

 days, renewing old acquaintances in tbe trade 

 and going over matters at this end of the line. 

 Mr. Bemis is not only well satisfied with gen- 

 eral business conditions but is very well pleased 

 with the progress made by the local otfice thus 

 filr. 



A. P. Bliss of Bliss & Van Auken, hardwood 

 and yellow pine flooring manufacturers of Sag- 

 inaw, Mich., and Otter Creek, Fla., was a recent 

 visitor In consultation with F. J. .Johnson, the 

 able representative of those interests In tbe lo- 

 cal market. 



W. n. Busse of Ilusse & Burgess. Memphis, 

 sailed from this port last week on tbe steam- 

 er Blucher of tbe Hamburg-American line, for a 

 visit in the Interests of the large foreign trade 

 of his Arm. Mr. Kusse will be gone until the 

 latter part of December. 



H. M. Bicktord of tbe H. M. Bickford Com- 

 pany, Boston, arrived from Europe on the Cu- 

 nard liner Umbria the early part of the month 

 after an extended pleasure trip. The local force 

 of this company, 1 Madison avenue, has been 

 increased by tbe addition of E. V. Baltzer, who 

 v."ill represent the company In the local trade 

 together with Manager Spoak. 



H. T. Trotter of the Trotter-Koeln Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., was in town during 

 the fortnight on business. 



Col. H. B. Shepard of the Shepard & Morse 

 Lumber Company, Boston, spent several days 

 during the fortnight visiting Manager C. E. Ken- 

 nedy of the local office of the company, 18 

 Broadway. 



M. J. E. Iloban of the Hoban & Curtis Lum- 

 ber Company, wholesale cypress, 1 Madison ave- 

 nue, recently returned from an extended trip in 

 the southern cypress fields, during which he 

 visited a number of the mills with which his 

 company has connections. He found cypress 

 conditions very strong at manufacturing points, 

 with only suffii lent dry stock available for 

 about sixty or ninety days of good trade, which 

 condition leads him to believe that the cy- 

 press market for some time to come will con- 

 tinue firm. 



There was a meeting of the trustees of the 

 New York Lumber Trade .Association on Octo- 

 ber 7 at 18 Broadway, at which time the A. D. 

 Lamson Lumber Company, retailers at Meserole 

 avenue and Gem street, Brooklyn, were elected 

 to membership, and tbe membership of Dixon 

 & Dewey was transferred to U. S. and James 

 E. Dewey. Besolutlons of condolence were also 

 passed on the death of Wilson Godfrey, an hon- 

 orary member of tbe association. 



Kobcrt W. Hlgbie of the It. W. Ulgble Com- 

 pany, harcjwood manufacturers, 45 Broadway, 

 .Manhattan, has been signally honored by the 

 banking Interests of his home town, Jamaica, 

 I... I. Last week he was elected a trustee of 

 the Jamaica Savings Bank. Mr. lllgble's many 

 friends in tbe trade not only congratulate him 

 on this honor but the Jamaica Savings Bank 

 as well In being able to secure his services. 



Floyd E. I.ongwell has rejoined the National 

 Casket Company of Uoboken, N. J., as buyer and 



-igcr of Its lumber department. Mr. Long- 

 well was for many years, up to about two years 

 ago, tbe active head of that department, but 

 left at that time to engage in tbe hardwood 

 trade up the state. He has now, however, re- 

 suiued his old duties, and the wide circle of 

 friends he made in the extensive business of this 

 department of the National Casket Company 

 will undoubtedly be glad to welcome him again. 

 Mr. Lungwell succeeds E. S. Foster, Mr. Foster 

 making arrangements to enter the wholesale 

 luuiber trade, announcement of which will be 

 made In due course. 



President E. M. Wiley of the Wiley, Uarker 

 & Camp Company, Manhattan, was painfully In- 

 jured In an automobile accident week before 

 last In a collision with another auto on Klver- 

 side drive. His hip was dislocated and be re- 

 ceived a number of painful bruises, but through 

 careful doctoring has again resumed bis busi- 

 ness duties. 



The twenty-first annual meeting of the New 

 Y'ork Lumber Trade Association occurred at 

 local headquarters, IS Broadway, October !), 

 with 107 members In attendance, making one 

 of the largest meetings In the history of the 

 organization. The meeting was presided over 

 by President James Sherlock Davis of Brook- 

 lyn and was preceded by a fine Delmonico 

 luncheon. The report of the board of trus- 

 tees showed a membership which Included prac- 

 tically all the dealers In the district, with a 

 total of 124 retailers, eighty five wholesalers 

 and fourteen non-resident members. During the 

 year but one member was lost by resignation, 

 and five through discontinuing business. The 

 building code committee, which is looking after 

 tbe interests of the association during the re- 

 vision of the building code, reported that It 

 had held many sessions and kept in close 

 tpuch with the subject and was successfully con- 

 serving the interests of the trade in that con- 

 nection. The trustees also referred to the re- 

 port of the Inspection committee and the rules 

 which they had submitted for the consideration 

 of the association. The committee stated that 

 in the compilation of inspection rules "Ih? 

 yard man's voice should certainly be heard, 

 and that the classification and grading must 

 conform to the requirements of the customers, 

 and that therefore the yard man Is the best 

 versed in regard to such requirements." The 

 trustees' report also referred to the yellow pine 

 conference at Philadelphia and the recommenda- 

 tions to the various associations, wliic)i was 

 followed by the adoption of the resolution pro- 

 posed at Philadelphia that the 1005 rules be 

 reatllrmed, with the understanding that the 

 first paragraph of the general rules is not to 

 be construed to admit short leaf pine In long 

 leaf shipments. The report of tbe treasurer 

 showed a net gain over all expenses of the 

 year of about $1,000. The committee on lum- 

 ber submitted its annual report outlining the 

 conditions prevailing In the local trade, which 

 was In the main very satisfactory. The elec- 

 tion of officers resulted as follows: President, 

 James Sherlock Davis : first vice-president, John 

 F. Sleeves ; second vice-president, Uussell Per- 

 rlne ; treasurei', Charles F. Fischer. Tbe elec- 

 tion of -Mr. Davis to the presidency marked his 

 fourth consecutive term and was accompanied 

 by loud applause, which Mr. Davis responded to 

 in a very interesting address covering tlic gen- 

 eral status of tbe work of the organization. 



F. It. Whitmer, the prominent Philadelphia 

 wholesaler, accompanied by Mrs. Whltmer, was 

 in towu tbe past week visiting the local office 

 of bis firm In the Flat Iron building. 



F. R. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., and George F. Craig of George V. 

 Craig & Co., Philadelphia, both of whom are 

 prominent In the wholesale lumber trade of 

 their respective markets, have been admitted tu 

 the Lumber rn<ierwrlters, a prominent trade 

 Insuring organization at Oti Broailway, and here- 



