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HARDWOOD RECORD 



after the T'nderwrltei's will number fifteen In- 

 stead of thlrlien. The aci]ulsHlon of such prom- 

 inent Interests as these still further strengthens 

 hoth the polley and system of Insurance con- 

 ducted by the Lumlier Vuderwrlters, which Is 

 today one of the strongest In the country. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, (l(i Broadway. Is hard at work through 

 a special coninilttie compllluK an olllclal list of 

 weights of the dlflerent kinds of lumber, in 

 which they are asking the cooperation of the 

 trade. Any one having suggestions In that con- 

 nection It Is hoped will make them to the as- 

 sociation. This Is an important work, In which 

 every one should be Interested. 



Philadslphia. 



.lolin II. l.ank. secretary (f the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange, with his wife, recently spent a few 

 days at the home of the latter. A. S. Mc- 

 Gaughan has returned from a trip of a tew days 

 to Niagara Kails, and .Useph II. O'Neill and 

 wife are on a tour to the .lamestown Kxposi- 

 tion, Newbern and Wilmington, N. C. 



William II. Fritz & C"o. report very fair 

 trading, with the outlook promising. K. B. 

 Ilayn.an of this firm is on a selling trip through 

 eastern I'ennsylvania. 



The Central Lumber Company is a compara- 

 tively new concern which has been working with 

 old machinery, but the business has now so 

 Increased they are about to erect a new saw- 

 mill at Boswell. Ta. They manufacture pop- 

 lar, ash. chestnut, etc. 



Ell B. llallowell & Co. are getting a good 

 share of trading and report conditions fairly 

 satisfactory. Kalph Souder of this firm is visit- 

 ing the southern mills looking up the stock 

 situation there. 



Robert C. Lippincntt reports business tiiough 

 not as active as last year, on the whole satis- 

 factory, with outlook for fall trading fair. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son are receiving some 

 good orders, and William P. Shearer is making 

 some good sales in New "i'ork. Samuel H. 

 Shearer Is on a business trip through eastern 

 Pennsylvania. 



J. Haiiilall Williams has no fault to find with 

 trading. .7. Uandall. .Tr.. is making "n extensive 

 tour of the southern mill centers. 



The Brawley & Smith Company reports busi- 

 ness fair for the time of year and that with a 

 few exceptions hardwood values are holding 

 firm. 



The Patterson Lumber Company, with mill at 

 Patterson Mill, tireene county. Tennessee, of 

 which Elbert Smith Is secretary and treasurer, 

 is rapidly getting Its plant into shape. The 

 company manufactures hardw^oods and has al- 

 ready gotten out some excellent woods. 



II. B. Tomb of the Tomb Lumber Company 

 has been confined to his home through illness 

 for several weeks. His friends will be glad to 

 know that he is now convalescent. His com- 

 pany reports business keeping up very well, 

 with no complaint but the poor car service. 



Soble Bros., though not rushed, are always 

 busy. Their plants at Ilonaker. Va.. are active. 

 Charles Soble is looking after the firm's inter- 

 ests at the mills, and J. J. Soble is making a 

 selling trip through New York, where he is 

 gathering a good bunch of orders. 



n. >I. Smith & Co. are receiving many in- 

 quiries, and Benjamin C. Currle, Jr.. sales man- 

 ager, reports mills running steadily and business 

 keeping up fairly well. 



The Producers' Lumber Company is cheerful 

 over conditions. They report trading not quite 

 up to same period of last year, but moving 

 along fairly well, with favorable outlook. 



Miller & Miller have had the best trading 

 so far this year since the firm was formed. J. 

 Clark Miller, who looks after the selling and 

 office departments, is much pleased with their 

 showing and regards the outlook promising. 

 Frank B. Miller looks after the mill end of the 

 business. 



Creditors filed a petition on October 15 to have 

 (ieorgc II. Desh, carriage builder, 208 North 

 Twenty-second street, adjudged an Involuntary 

 bankrupt. The creditors and amounts clalmeil 

 are .Jacob Gerhab, $1,208,40 ; C. H. Howell & 

 Co., $;i;tl.lS, and the Keystone Spring Works, 

 .'iil3.34. 



Articles of incorporation were recently tiled 

 lu Camden, N. ,1., by the Camden Shipbuilding 

 Company, to build vessels and operate steam- 

 ships. The capital stock is .f20U,00() and the 

 incorporators named are Francis J, McDonald, 

 Barola.v .Johnson and John A. MacPeak. 



In honor of their twentieth wedding anni- 

 versary, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome II. Sheip enter- 

 tained at their home, "Craggynook," on Fern- 

 brook avenue, ^^'yncote, I'a., on October 11, 

 nearly two hundred guests from Philadelphia, 

 Wyncote. Jenkiutown, Ogontz and other sub- 

 urban towns. Mr. Sheip is of Shelp & Vande- 

 grift. Inc., extensive cigar box and veneer man- 

 ufacturers, and also is the popular vicegereut 

 snark of the Concatenated Order of IIoo-IIoo of 

 eastern Pennsylvania. 



The Kighter-l'arry Lumber Company reports 

 business holding up well. They have lieen get- 

 ting in some good orders, and their hardwood 

 department is moving along smoothly. Charles 

 K. Parry is making a tour of the mill districts 

 in North and South Carolina, where he has, made 

 some desirable contracts, and Ogden Hoffman 1.^ 

 making a selling trip through southern New 

 Jersey. 



The J. S. Dent Company is complacent over 

 conditions and outlook. Their men are all hust- 

 ling and meeting with fair success. J. E. Troth 

 of this concern is visiting the southern mill 

 districts and will take in the Jamestown Expo- 

 sition on his return trip. This company re- 

 cently engaged J. G. Wells as salesman to look 

 after New York state and the coal territory 

 of Pennsylvania. Mr. Wells comes from Blooms- 

 burg. Pa., and is a son of Mr. Wells of the well 

 known firm of Wells & Christy of that city. 



The old business of Jos. 1*. Dunwoody & Co. 

 will hereafter be carried on as Seymour Y. 

 Warner & Co. at lillO Witherspoon building. 

 They will handle white and yellow pine, spruce, 

 hemlock and hardwoods. They will be selling 

 agents for the Itcanoke Railroad and Lumber 

 Company, Norfolk. Va. 



Baltimore. 



The recent action of the railroads, among 

 them the Virginia & Southwestern, the Norfolk 

 & Western and the Southern, in raising the 

 minimum car weight from 30.000 to 35.000 

 pounds, is causing a loud protest here. The 

 lumber manufacturers all through the section 

 lapped by the roads in question talk of making 

 an (U'ganized protest, and it is probable that 

 the subject will be brought before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. 



The matter of getting the New Orleans Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association to join the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, which was 

 brought to the point of the former giving assent 

 to consolidation under certain conditions, the 

 directors of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association being afterwards asked to pass upon 

 the conditions, has been referred for final action 

 to a committee consisting of Gustave A. Farber 

 of Memphis Tenn., thairman : John L. Alcock 

 of Baltimore and William H. Russe of Memphis. 

 The committee is expected to go over the whole 

 subject and make a report at an early date. 



Much regret was expressed here over the death 

 at his home. 221 East Preston street, this city, 

 on October 12, of William M. Willson, who was 

 for years secretary of the Baltimore Lumber 

 Exchange. Mr. Willson had been ill for four 

 years. He was in business here under the 

 firm name of William M. Willson & Co., and then 

 as the William M. Willson Company, at the 

 southeast corner of Eastern and East Falls ave- 

 nues. Mr. Will.son rendered signal service to the 

 exchange and was highly esteemed for his per- 



sonal worth as well as for his knowledge of the 

 business. Even after illness prevented him from 

 giving bis attention fo the work of the exchange 

 he was continued as secretary. Theodore Mottu 

 being named as the active official in his stead. 

 A special meeting of the managing committee of 

 the exchange was held on October 14, at which 

 resolutions of regret were adopted. 



The sawmill ol W. W. Micks, In SpottsylvanIa 

 county. \'lrginia, was badly damaged by the 

 explosion of the holler at noon on October 17. 

 The crew happened to be at dinner ana no one 

 was hurt, but the carriage was blown to pieces 

 and the plant otherwise damaged to a consid- 

 erable extent. 



During a hurricane which swept over Dela- 

 ware on (Jctober 18 the large barrel factory of 

 Lloyd Bros, at Seaford was demolished and a 

 large part of the ruins were blown Into the 

 river. The damage will amount to thousands of 

 dollars. 



The Potomac I'laning Mill In Cumberland, ad- 

 joining tile Footer dye works, which were badly 

 damaged by fire last week, was burned to the 

 ground on the morning of October 18. the loss 

 bi'liig about .$7,500. The luml)er yard had been 

 reccnily sold to the Fooler dye works, and 

 the machinery of the mill, valued at about 

 $4,000, to the Cumberland Lumber Company. At 

 the time of the fire the |)lant was being dis- 

 mantled. 



James Hunt, representing Robert Coltart & 

 ('<;.. extensive timber brokers of Liverpool, Eng- 

 land, stopped in Baltimore about ten days ago 

 m the cfuirse of a tour of the lumber centers 

 i;f the United States. He said tliere was much 

 ii:;k and other lumber in Liverpool, and warned 

 against Indiscriminate shipments. 



Frank Price of Price & lleald, this city, has 

 l>een for about six weeks in North Carolina, 

 taking up shipments and looking around for 

 stocks, the firm's buyer there being 111. 



R. P. Baer & Co. have lately purchased several 

 tracts of timber in North Carolina, and are de- 

 veloping ore, while a mill is being erected on 

 another. There is about 2,500,000 feet on one 

 tract and some 4,000,000 feet on another, much 

 of it acid wood. 



Pittsburg. 



The McDonald Lumber Company Is coming to 

 the front in Pittsburg hardwood circles and will 

 apparently never have reason to repent its move 

 to the Bessemer building, Pittsburg, from El- 

 klns, W. Va. With its headquarters in Pitts- 

 burg and its big mill near Elkins. with other 

 West Virginia connections well established, the 

 company is in position to take care of the hard- 

 wood business in a very efficient way. 



Hamilton Bros, are pegging away at the 

 trade from their offices in the Fulton building 

 and seem to have no reason to growl at things 

 in general. Since their advent into the whole- 

 sale field they have made some big deals in the 

 local trade and are well satisfied with their ex- 

 pansion experience so far. 



E. V. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co. re- 

 ports that during September the Babcock com- 

 panies shipped more spruce and hemlock than 

 they manufactured, which is not a bad show- 

 ing by any means this fall. He says that rift 

 flooring is in excellent call and that the ear 

 shortage is getting to be very noticeable in 

 North and South Carolina, West Virginia and 

 some parts of Pennsylvania. 



H. H. Weimer, B. F. Price, Dr. Louis Frank 

 and M. H. Stover of Johnstown, Pa., have 

 bought 50.000 acres of timber land in McGoffln 

 county. Kentucky, and will start a big opera- 

 tion there as soon as the title Is examined. 



The Gauley Company of West Virginia has 

 sold to the Cherry River Boom and Lumber 

 Company 70,000 acres of hardwood timber In 

 West Virginia. 



President George W. Nicola of the Nicola 

 Lumber Company Is anxiously awaiting the sign- 

 ing of a large order which will place the com- 



