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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Elm City Lumber Company of New Haven, 

 Conn., lias Increased Its stock from $50,000 to 

 $100,000. 



Albrccht & Co. and L. GoUbarder of Danzlc, 

 Prussia, have suspended payment. The former 

 concern bns liabilities of about $200,000 ; the 

 latter of $250,000. 



Tbe Novelty Wood Works of Waterloo, la., 

 has outgrown Its present quarters and Is now 

 erecting a new factory. 



The new woodworking plant for the manu- 

 facture of "D" bandies recently established by 

 Indiana capitalists at Denlson. Tex., has com- 

 menced business. About .$20,000 has been In- 

 vested and most of the handles manufactured 

 will be exported. Ash timber Is the material 

 employed, and the plant will turn out about 

 2,000 dozen handles per week. 



The new plant of R. Challey at William, 

 Md., will have a daily capacity of about 50,000 

 feet of lumber. 



The Illinois Refrigerator Company of Morri- 

 son, III., has abandoned tlie manufacture of 

 school furniture and will make refrigerators ex- 

 clusively in future. Last year more than 15,000 

 were mnnufactuied. and it is hoped to break that 

 record the coming season. 



Operations at the plant of tbe I. Stephenson 

 Company, Weils Mich., have been suspended 

 for the present or until the new dry kilns, to 

 take the place of those recently destroyed by 

 tire, can be erected. The loss was considerable, 

 as a fine lot of maple lumber was destroyed in 

 the sheds. 



The three plants of the Tnscolameta Spoke 

 Company, at Walnut Grove, Miss., which closed 

 some time ago, have resumed work, and are 

 now running on full time. A $20,000 plant is 



being built near Carthage and will be in op- 

 eration by Jan. 1. It will be the fourth spoke 

 factory that has been started In the hardwood 

 belt of Mississippi within the last year. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company, 

 Nashville, Tenn., is Installing a 1,000 horsepower 

 engine In its great plant. 



Dispatches from Bemidjl, Minn,, state that 

 for the first time in years weather conditions 

 at the beginning of the logging season have 

 been favorable. The swamps have been gradu- 

 ally freezing, and as yet there has been no 

 snow to prevent the hardening of their surfaces. 

 The three preceding seasons the ground has been 

 soft until New Year. Word from northern Michi- 

 gan shows a vast Improvement In the labor 

 situation. Logging contractors are now receiv- 

 ing applications from workmen, where they had 

 previously had to go out and beg for their serv- 

 ices. 



The plant of the Westwood Turning Company, 

 of Fremont, Ohio," was destroyed by fire Nov. 

 ID. The loss was about $10,000. 



John F. Butcher, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich,, maiiu- 

 facturers of folding crates, has moved his plant 

 to Baxter. 



Arthur A. Clemens and others have Incorpo- 

 rated tlie American Sanitary Floor Company, 

 at Chicago; capital $12,000. 



The Schuh-Mason Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Cairo, Hi. ; capital $25,000. 



The State Federation of Women's Clubs of 

 Illinois, at the recent session in Bioomington, 

 adopted a scheme lo secure some pine woods 

 in Ogle county as a state forest reserve. This 

 is a measure which has been before the state 

 lcc:islaiare several times, and was once passed 

 by both bouses, only to be vetoed by Governor 

 Yates. , 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By EABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



C. L. Willey has just received two of the 

 largest mahogany logs ever shipped to this coun- 

 try. They are African wood and were purchased 

 in Liverpool. One is 25 feet long and over 54 

 inches in diameter and will measure over 1,000 

 t'eet, log measure. The entire shipment con- 

 sisted of 210 logs, all finely figured, Mr, Willey 

 Is at present visiting his Memphis mill, 



Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Strickland of Greenville. 

 Miss., announce the birth of a daughter Novem- 

 ber 10. The little girl will be called Ruth Le- 

 Grande Strickland, 



E. C, Mershon of W. B. Mershon & Co,, Sagi- 

 naw, Mich., was a' Chirago visitor this week, 



William Trainer of tlie Trainer Brothers Lum- 

 ber Company is spending a month in Memphis, 



The Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company has 

 brought in over 15,000,000 feet of hardwoods 

 by water this season. The company has closed 

 down its mill at Gould, Ark,, but is keeping up 

 its logging operations and anticipates having 

 a good stock on hand for the next year's run, 



George H, Chapman ot the Northwestern Lum- 

 ber Compani', Stanley, Wis,, was a Chicago visi- 

 tor during the week. 



On November 13, at Boyne City, Alich., oc- 

 curred the marriage ot Pearl Evelyn White, 

 daughter of William U. White, the well-known 

 luml>crman of that city, to J. Ralph Aldendifer 

 of Pittsburg, Pa. The ceremony took place in 

 the Methodist Episcopal church and the occasion 

 was one of tlie most notable of the kind ever 

 held in Boyne City. Following it a wedding 

 supper was served at tbe White home to a large 

 number of relatives and friends. The house 

 was elaborately decorated with flowers and de- 

 lightful music was furnished during the recep- 

 tion. The couple will reside in Pittsburg. 



R. E. MacLean of the I. Stephenson Company, 

 Wells, Mich., was a visitor among the Chicago 

 trade November 10, Mr, MacLean reports con- 

 ditions in his part of tlie country very good, 



niid that his company has its cut all sold up 

 to January 1, He says that a feeling of "panic" 

 is practically unknown in his neighborhood, and 

 as far as the lumber business is concerned he 

 believes stumpage a mighty good asset and one 

 not likely to decrease in value, 



John McGiU Ralston, a young attorney of 

 Pittsburg, Pa„ and Grace Edith Flint, daughter 

 of J, B, Flint of the Flint, Erving & Stoner Com- 

 pany, were married last week. After a wedding 

 trip through Florida they will occupy a new 

 home near tliat of the bride's parents in Pitts- 

 burg, 



Arboriculture for November is an especially 

 beautiful issue of that excellent publication and 

 leflects great credit on its editor, John P, Brown 

 of Connersville, Ind, The number is devoted 

 especially to American street trees and contains 

 valuable matter regarding different trees suitable 

 fi,r planting in cities and towns in various sec- 

 tions of the country, advice on what kinds to 

 plant, how to plant them, etc. It contains 

 numerous illustrations made from original photo- 

 graphs taken by the editor and presented "for 

 the especial purpose ot arousing an increased 

 interest in civic improvement and in beautify- 

 ing the avenues and parks of our towns and 

 cities." 



William R. Barksdale of the Barksdale-Kellogg 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn.. was a re- 

 cent Chicago visitor and called at the Record 

 ofl^ces. 



Jesse Thompson, the popular head of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company of Memphis, was a 

 welcome caller at this office last week, 



Harry P. Coe of the Coe Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, large manufacturers of veneer machinery 

 at Painesville, O., was a recent Chicago visitor. 



The wood carving business of William F. De- 

 Weese of this city has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $15,000 under the name of 

 the riiicago Wood Carving Company. Mr. De- 

 Weese has been in business for over twenty-five 



years and conducts probably the lart'.si fat 

 tory of the kind in the country. Tlie plant 

 is equipped witli modern machinery tliroughout 

 and has facilities for gluing, sawing, carving 

 and finishing; in fact, for handling the work 

 from start to finish. Under the new organiza- 

 tion the plant will be enlarged and the scope 

 of opera lions extended. 



The annual convention of the Northwestern 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association will be held 

 in St. Paul, Tuesday, Dec. :!, at Carllng's Up- 

 town Restaurant, corner of Fifth and St. Peter 

 streets, in the Louis XIV room, second floor. The 

 business session will convene at 3 p. m., a ban- 

 quet will be served at 6, and at 8 :15 a theater 

 party will be given. The secretary, J. F. Hay- 

 den, wishes to know by Friday, Nov. 29, Just how 

 many will attend and requests that he be notified 

 in each Instance. A large attendance is assured, 

 and a number ot lumbermen from the Chicago 

 district have signified their Intention of being 

 present, 



W. H. Roddis was a visitor in the Chicago 

 market during the past week. Mr. Roddis has 

 closed down his sawmill at Park Falls, Wis., and 

 is running his Marshficld veneer plant on shorter 

 time than usual. 



Present conditions of trade indicate that a 

 meeting ot the Michigan Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association will not be held prior to Jan. 

 1 unless something special demands it. Reports 

 of amount of stock on hand, unfilled orders, 

 stock unsold Oct. 1, etc., have been complied 

 and mailed to members. 



The following notice has been sent out to the 

 creditors of the Ross Lumber Company of James- 

 town, N. Y., by Nathaniel A. Prentiss, referee 

 in bankruptcy : "Notice is hereby given that on 

 the sixth day of November, A. D. 1907, the 

 Ross Lumber Company was duly adjudicated 

 bankrupt, and that the first meeting of creditors 

 will be held at the office of Nathaniel A. Pren- 

 tiss, referee in bankruptcy. No. 120 Broadway, 

 in the city of New Y'ork, on tbe fifth day of 

 December, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, at which 

 time the said creditors may attend, prove their 

 claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, 

 and transact such other business as may prop- 

 erly come before said meeting."' 



E. C. Atkins & Co. presented some very hand- 

 some souvenirs to the manufacturers who at- 

 tended the handle meeting in Indianapolis last 

 week, in the shape of silver teaspoons hand- 

 somely embossed with the company's trade-mark 

 "A A A" — Atkins Always Ahead, This siog.nn 

 certainly holds good in their advertising met)i 

 ods, as well as in the quality of their faiiiou- 

 saws. 



Boston. 



George Cade of the George D. Emery Com- 

 pany, handlers and importers of mahogany, re- 

 cently returned from Europe. In speaking of 

 the trade on the other side he says that It Is 

 dull, and that it has not changed much in the 

 past few years. Receipts of mahogany in Eng- 

 land are not large, hut prices hold steady. 



The Sargent & Thorpe Lumber Company has 

 been organized in Boston. Mr. Sargent of this 

 corporation is a member of the Sargent Lumber 

 Company of Boston. 



C. H. Swift of Nellis, Amos & Swift, Utica, 

 N. y., was in Boston last week. 



George F. Cobb, manager of the Pope-Cottle 

 lumber yard, Chelsea, Mass., Is making a trip to 

 Bermuda. 



The Wilder P. Clark Company has been organ- 

 ized in Winchendon, Mass., to succeed the busi- 

 ness formerly conducted by W. P. Clark. The 

 capital stock of this corporation is $300,000. 



George J. Barker of Barker & Co., ot Boston, 

 has recently returned from a New York trip. 



William Curtis ot the W. O. Curtis' Sons Com- 

 pany ot Boston has returned recently from a 

 trip to the Pacific coast. While in Seattle Mr. 

 Curtis was taken ill with typhoid fever. He has 

 practically recovered from this but it will prob- 



