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ably be some time before be takes up business 

 again. 



The lumber business conducted in BecbeTllIe 

 bj Amos S. Beebe will In the future be conducted 

 under the name of A. S. Beebe & Son. 



New York. 



Much unfavorable cummeut has been made 

 In local circles on the aunouncement of an 

 additional charge which the Xew York Central 

 and West Shore railroads are levjlng begiuoing 

 November 15 for trackage storage besides the 

 usual demurrage charges. The reason for these 

 additional charge.*, as explained by the railroads. 

 Is the slow unloading by consignees. Under the 

 new schedules forty -eight hours' free time for 

 unloading is maintained with a charge of one 

 dollar for two days additional, two dollars per 

 day for the two next succeeding days, three 

 dollars for the next two and four dollars per 

 day for succeeding time. These charges will 

 apply in addition to the usual car service 

 charges. Without doubt the local trade will 

 Immediately take action to oppose these charges, 

 as they are deemed unreasonable and unjust. 



The New York Partition Company, Manhattan, 

 recently petitioned in bankruptcy, has made o 

 settlement with creditors of fifty cents on the 

 dollar, payable twenty cents in cash and thirty 

 cents in notes at four and eight months, secured 

 by chattel mortgage to trustees, and bankruptcy 

 proceedings have been dismissed. Liabilities 

 are placed at ?5,400. 



Subsequent to the appointment of receivers to 

 the Eccleston Lumber Company, 44 Broadway, 

 Manhattan, as previously noted, a petition in 

 bankruptcy has been filed against the company 

 by creditors alleging that it is insolvent, etc., 

 and W. D. Dowd has been appointed receiver 

 with bond at $2.oiju. Liabilities are placed at 

 $40,000 and assets .^o.OOO. 



A petition in bankruptcy was filed on No- 

 uber 12 against the S. E. Kellar Lumber 

 mpany, retailers, lltb avenue and oUth street, 

 by the following creditors : S. L. Eastman 

 Flooring Company, Saginaw, over $10,000 ; A. 

 T. Schnieder, $1,455, and L. K. Kraus, $135. 

 It has subsequently been said that the Eastman 

 Company's total interest is in the neighborliood 

 of $60,000, while it is generally understood that 

 S. L. Eastman was one of the original backers 

 of the company. The company was incorporated 

 on i'ebruary 7, 1903, with a capital of $50,000. 

 Stanley E. Kellar is president, and was pre- 

 viously connected with the wholesale trade in 

 this city. The company did a large business, 

 much of which was with speculative builders. 

 The liabilities are approximately $274,000 and 

 assets $100,000. The failure of the company is 

 attributed largely to the heavy losses with 

 bnilders and also to the order issued by the 

 Building Department of this city some months 

 ago ruling out 4x8 limber in favor of 3x10 

 timber in city building, the company having a 

 large stock of 4x8 on hand. George D. Graves 

 has been appointed receiver by the court under 

 bond of $5,000 and authority to continue the 

 business for thirty days. 



George 11. Meil of Kane, Pa., who is interested 

 in the Mount Mitchell Lumber Company of 

 Swanannoa, X. C, and the Montezuma Lumber 

 Company of Bristol, Tenn., was a visitor in 

 town last week In the Interest of business. 

 Operations have been discontinued at both 

 plants, he reports, until the manufactured 

 stock on hand has been disposed of. 



I. N. Stewart, I. N. Stewart & Uro., and 

 Orson E. Yeager, both of Buffalo, N. Y., have 

 spent several days In town during the fortnight 

 In the interest of businrss. 



Paul T. Cheriton, manufacturers' agent for 

 hickory and ash handles, 02 Reade street, Man- 

 hattan, made an assignment on November 13 to 

 Charles A. Ilauk. The business was started 

 thirty years ago by his father, Thco. T. ^.'herl- 

 ton, who died June last. Paul T. Cheriton 



became a partner In July, 1904, and the style of 

 the firm was T. F. Cheriton & Son. 



Schedules In bankruptcy of the Boss Liunber 

 Company, 317 West 115th street, Manhattan, 

 and Jamestown, N. Y'., whose failure was noted 

 In a previous Issue, show liabilities of $138,439 

 and good assets of $80,520. 



James Crowell, prominent retailer of Newark. 

 N. J., jnst purchased the entire hardwood stock 

 and good will of the E. I'. Backus Lumber 

 Company, 400 Ogden street, that city, and is 

 selling out the stock thereon. The E. P. Backus 

 Lumber Company and E. P. Backus, for many 

 years Its head, will retire from the retail hard- 

 wood business, although Mr. Backus may engage 

 in another branch of the hardwood trade. The 

 acquisition of this stock is a valuable one to 

 Mr. Crowell, in addition to his regular hard 

 and soft wood business. 



The local trade was much interested this week 

 in the arrival on November 12 of the Steamship 

 Earl of Douglas from Portland, Ore., with a 

 cargo of 10,000,000 red cedar shingles and 

 1,700,000 feet of Washington cedar lumber, all 

 of which was consigned to Arnold & Co., the 

 large Albany house. Arthur E. Lane, the pop- 

 ular local representative of the Seattle Lumber 

 Manufacturing Company, 1 Madison avenue, 

 will have the selling agency of this cargo. In 

 addition to being the biggest cargo of lumber 

 and shingles ever shipped, it is the first cargo 

 of its kind received in New York. The Earl 

 of Douglas established a new record around the 

 Horn, covering the 15,000 miles in just seventy- 

 five days. 



Ernest M. Kenna, the California redwood 

 wholesaler of 60 Broadway, is a close second to 

 the above accomplishment, as he has now load- 

 ing at Portland. Ore., a cargo of 3,000,000 feet 

 of Oregon fir on the ship Acme for New York, 

 which he is expecting to arrive here early next 

 year. 



Frank .1. Uill, wholesale and hardwood com- 

 mission man of 21 Beekman street. Is president 

 of the Lynbrook Lumber Coijpany. just incor- 

 porated to manufacture sash, doors, blinds, etc., 

 at Lynbrook, L. I., with a capital of $10,000. 

 Associated with him are George J. Cadoo and 

 Annie W. Cadoo, who were formerly identified 

 In the building trade in Manhattan. This com- 

 pany will put up a new plant and arrange a 

 lumber yard at Lynbrook, L. I. 



C. C. Wright, representing C. Leary & Co., 

 large hardwood house of London. Eng.. arrived 

 recently on his annual visit to hardwood produc- 

 ing centers in the West and South. 



John Cathcart, prominent hardwood manu- 

 facturer and Inspector, with plant at Decatur. 

 Ala., and principal in the C. & W. Lumber Com- 

 pany, IS Broadway, New York, Is closing out 

 his operations at Decatur and will hereafter 

 devote himself exclusively to the wholesale and 

 export trade through the activities of the C. & 

 W. Lumber Company. 



.\t Philadelphia recently Miss Annie E. Bailey 

 of that city and J. P. Comegys, manager of the 

 ■ Philadelphia ofBce of Barker & Co., Boston, 

 Mass., and IS Broadway, New York, were united 

 in marriage. They spent their honeymoon in 

 New Y'ork. 



P. B. Fuller, previously connected with Barker 

 & Co. of Boston, has assumed management of 

 the wholesale cypress business of the Associated 

 Lumber Company, 18 Broadway, and bead- 

 quarters, Boston, Mass. 



Advices Just received in New York announce 

 the failure of two big Prussia companies, Al- 

 brecht & Co. and L. Goldharder, lumber firms, 

 of Danzig, Prussia. The liabilities of the former 

 arc about $200,000 and the latter .$250,000. 

 Both firms are trying to make arrangements to 

 continue business. 



J. n. Eckstein of Cooney. Eckstein & Co., one 

 of the leading wholesale houses In the trade, 

 was instantly killed In his automobile at Har- 

 rington .Station, on the West Shore railroad, on 

 November 10, the chauifeur endeavoring to 



cross the tracks In front' of a freight engine 

 ond caboose. Ills death was a great shock to 

 his wide circle of friends In the trade. Mr. 

 Ecksiein's wife and two other occupants of the 

 machine were vitally Injured, but Mr. Eckstein 

 was killed Instantly. 



Among the visitors during the past week 

 were : J. H. P. Smith, R. H. Smith & Co., 

 I'arkersburg, W. Va. : Gardner I. Jones, Boston : 

 W. J. Eckman. M. B. Farrin Lumber Company. 

 Cincinnati : H. D. Bilimeyer. Biilmeyer Lumber 

 Company, Cumberland, Md. ; II. McLean, McLean 

 Lumber Company. Buffalo. 



The conference on hardwood inspection at 

 the Hotel Astor, this eUy, on November 14, to 

 consider a tentative set of rules promulgated by 

 the New York Lumber Trade Association, was 

 well attended. After a full discussion of the 

 subject the rules as submitted by the Inspection 

 Committee of the New Y'ork Lumber Trade 

 Association were taken up clause by clause and 

 a number of additions and alterations were 

 made. Then followed a consideration and 

 acceptance of the rules as a whole with a vote 

 that the same be reported back to the various 

 associations represented for such action as they 

 deemed proper. It was also voted that the 

 rules should be called the Northeastern rules for 

 the measurement and Inspection of hardwood 

 lumber. The rules will not be made public until 

 after final action by each organization. 



Philadelphia. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber- 

 mens' Exchange, preceded by the usual inviting 

 luncheon In Griffith Hail, was held on November 

 7, President Wm. B. Rice in the chair. The 

 following resolutions were adopted : "Resolved, 

 That it is the sentiment of this Exchange, that 

 -it would be desirable to have the railroad com- 

 panies, who have fixed the minimum required 

 weight of shipment of lumber at 34.000 pounds, 

 insert a clause in their notices to the effect that 

 when a car is apparently loaded to Its full ca- 

 pacity, and It is evident that it Is a physical 

 impossibility to load sufficient lumber to make 

 up the 34,000 pounds, such shipment shall be 

 billed out at the actual weight of the lading. " 

 A motion was adopted that this Exchange send 

 delegates to the Rivers and Harbors' Congress, 

 which will be held In the New Wlllard hotel, 

 Washington, D. C, on December 4, 5 and 6. A 

 motion was also adopted that the president and 

 two other members represent this Exchange at- 

 the Atlantic deeper water ways conference, to 

 be held at Bellevue Stratford hotel, this city, 

 November 19 and 20. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 reports business for last month very good and 

 at present trading far from bad. They are push- 

 ing the completion of their new concrete ware- 

 house, now going up on the site of the one de- 

 stroyed by fire some months ago. 



The Righter-Parry Lumber Company reports 

 shipments in October far in excess of the same 

 month of last year, with the November showing 

 to date very satisfactory. They recently opened 

 a buyers' and shippers' office in Johnson City, 

 Tenn., which will be looked after by W. H. 

 Yates, a competent man in every respect They 

 have just closed some desirable contracts In the 

 South for poplar, chestnut and oak. W. M. 

 Stouck, who was formerly connected with hard- 

 wood mills In West Virginia, has been engaged 

 as salesman to look after western Pennsylvania 

 and New York state for them. 



The Codllng-McEwen Lumber Company Is get- 

 ting orders right along, as F. B. Codling of this 

 concern Is always on the alert for business. He 

 is now visiting the mills at Ashevllle, N. C, 

 looking up the stock situation. 



J. Randall Williams & Co. report business fair 

 for time of year. J. Randall Williams Jr. re- 

 cently returned from Salisbury, N. C, and is now 

 on a selling trip to New York. 



J. Gibson Mcllvaln & Co. report business mov- 

 ing fairly well considering general conditions. 

 They have a large stock of excellent hardwoods 



