HARDWOOD RECORD 



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tliin will recommend to their assoelatlon tliiit 

 they will not mlvlse the adoption of the National 

 Hardwood LumlH>r Associations rules for inspec- 

 tion. ti> lie cfTectivc December 1, 1907, except 

 that a guarantee of ones shall be in the ones 

 and twos sradlng. If a specific amount of ones 

 Is Inserted in the rules the Massachusetts Whole- 

 mle Lumber Assix'iatlon committee will give the 

 adoption of your rules its support." It was 

 voted to continue the committee to deal with 

 delegates that may be sent by the National As- 

 sociation to deal with them. 



Gardiner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood Com- 

 pany. Iloston. has been in Chicago recently. Mr. 

 Jones attended a committee meeting of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association. 



The New England (_"igar Box Company has 

 been incorporated In Boston with a capital stork 

 of JKI.OOO. The Incorporators are Valentine 

 Itlcliier. Joseph W. Schaefer and Harry C. 

 Brooks. 



The Sargent & Thorpe Lumber Company. Inc.. 

 has been incorporated in Boston with a capital 

 stock of $40,000. The incorporators are Charles 

 I Sargent. J. Henry Thorpe and Eltore Forte. 



The Morrison-Stoddard Company has been or- 

 ganized to do a woo<lworking business in Wake- 

 aeld. Mass. : capital stock. .$3,000. 



Julian A. Klce. son of Frank C. Rice of the 

 Rice & I.ockwood Lumber Company. Springfield. 

 Mass.. is to become associated with this business. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's .Association 

 held a special meeting in Manchester. N. II.. De- 

 cember 1^. The chief subject for discussion was 

 the proposed suit against the Boston & Maine 

 Kailroad. After a very lively gathering the meet- 

 ing adjourned without any further action. Sev- 

 eral of the leading members were oppo.sert to 

 bringing suit. 



New York. 



There was another meeting of the creditors 

 of the S. E. Kellar Lumber Company, Man- 

 hattan, whose affairs were reviewed in our 

 last report, on December 11, at which time a 

 proposition of settlement of 15 cents cash in 

 thirty days, 15 cents in sixty days and 5 cents 

 In eight months, with proper endorsement, was 

 made, but the same was not presented in defi- 

 nite shape. The meeting yoted to proceed and 

 call a creditors' meeting In bankruptcy and 

 elect a trustee in the usual manner, at which 

 meeting some definite action will be taken in 

 regard to the last ofTer of settlement, as above. 



K. 11. Barton of the Barton. Thompson Com- 

 pany, timber agents and brokers, London, ICng- 

 land, sailed for home from hero on the Lusi- 

 tanla on December 14, after having spent about 

 three months at hardwood and pitch pine manu- 

 facturing centers. 



Fire in the large plant of the Carroll Box 

 and Lumber Company, foot of East Eighteenth 

 street, Manhattan, on December 5, resulted in a 

 loss of SGO.OOO. Considerable lumber In the 

 yard was also burned. 



Hugh .McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company of BufTalo. N. Y., was here recently for 

 the pur[)ose of renewing acquaintances among 

 tin- local trade. 



The annual banquet of the New York Lum- 

 bvT Trade Association will occur at the Waldorf- 

 Astoria on January 30 next. This banquet will 

 mark the twenty-first anniver-sary of the associ- 

 ation and the committee In charge is making an 

 cITort to eclipse all previous occasions. 



I'. C. Thwlng of the Grand Rapids Veneer 

 \\'>rks, Grand Rapids, Mich., spent several days 

 In town during the fortnight for the purpose of 

 purchasing mahogany veneer and dry-kiln ap- 

 paratus. 



John N. Scatcherd of Scatcberd & Son, promi- 

 nent Buffalo hardwood boose, spent several 

 days liere during the fortnight renewing ac- 

 quaintances and looking after business. 



The California redwood trade was promi- 

 nently represented on the visiting list during 

 the fortnight through the personages of A. B. 

 Hammond. Hammond Lumber Company, San 

 Franclsi". and C. J. Flack, of Kansas I'Iry. Mo.. 



eastern sales agent of the Redwood Manufac- 

 turing Compan.v, Black Diamond, Cal, 



Carl Teering, a lumber and log Inspector of 

 Savannah, Ga., sailed last week lor a brief visit 

 abroad. 



President F. C. Buck of the Lufkin Rule 

 Company, Saginaw. Mich., arrived in port last 

 week from Europe, where he had been spend- 

 ing two months on business in connection with 

 his company. He was accompanied by W. C. 

 Bexlield, manager of their London office, who 

 comes to get In touch with business matters on 

 this side. 



S. F. Minter, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Broad- 

 way, Is on a business trip to Norfolk, where 

 lie will visit his wholesale yard. 



Knowlton Mixer of Mixer & Co., BufTalo, and 

 popular secretary of the Buffalo Lumber Ex- 

 change, sailed from here on the 12th for Paris, 

 where he will join Mrs. Mixer and family. He 

 expects to return about I'ebruary 1. 



J. M. Hastings of Pittsburg, president of the 

 National Wholesale I,umber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, was here during the week in the interest 

 of association affairs. 



The Newton Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated in Brooklyn with a capital of §50,000 

 by Emmet !•'. Newton. Slgefrldus G. van 

 lUggersma and ICniory V. Dyckman of Brooklyn. 



A meeting of the creditors of the Itoss 

 Lumber Company, retailers, of Manhattan and 

 Jamestown, N. Y., was held December (i, at 

 which time claims were filed and Louis A. 

 Strouse of Williams. Folsom & Strouse, attor- 

 neys, of 115 Nassau street, was elected trustee, 

 with bond of ?25,000. Schedules show ?13S,459 

 and good assets of ?S6,520. 



An ancillary receiver has been appointed for 

 W. E. lUptegrove & Bro.. Brooklyn hardwood 

 house, in the state of A'irginia. for tlie property 

 of the firm located there. C. M. B. Weaver of 

 Norfolk. Va.. has been appointed. The action 

 was taken under the suit of the American Cigar 

 Box Lumber Company et al. against W. E. 

 Vptegrove & Bro., now pending in the United 

 States Circuit Court in New York. The local 

 receivers are W. E. Uptegrove and Charles A. 

 and John T. Decker. 



The Associated Lumber Company, cypress 

 wholesalers, IS Broadway, have removed their 

 office to 17 William street, where President 

 J. M. Conolly has leased commodious offices. 



Will.^on. Adams & Co., for many years one of 

 the most prominent houses in the retail trade 

 of the district, with extensive premises at One 

 Hundred and Forty-ninth street and Harlem 

 river, ICast, have retired from the retail yard 

 business, having sold their extensive premises 

 to railroad Interests. At the time of the .sale 

 the firm bought a substantial Interest In the 

 Cross. Austin & Ireland Lumber Company of 

 Brooklyn, and the latter company has taken 

 over the hardwood stocks and a portion of the 

 old premises in Harlem, which it will continue 

 as a branch yard. Willson, Adams & Co. have 

 also oijened a selling office at 1123 Broadway 

 in conjunction with the Manhattan sales office 

 of the Cross, Austin & Ireland Lumber Com- 

 pany, where they will continue to take care of 

 their trade through the latter company. The 

 retirement of Willson, Adams & Co. from active 

 .vard business is received with much regret, as 

 it means practically the retirement of Charles 

 L. Adams, Its distinguished head, to the enjoy- 

 ment of private life, J, S. t^arvalho and J. J. 

 McKenna will continue In active business In 

 the sales office of Wlllson, Adams & Co., above 

 mentioned. 



Richard P. Baer of R. P. Bacr & Co.. Balti- 

 more, Md., was a recent visitor In the interest 

 of business and reports many mills closed down 

 in the hardwood manufacturing district, but he 

 is a firm bfllever In hardwood lumber values In 

 the future and looks for a turn In conditions 

 after the first of the year. 



(.'. E. I.loy<l, Jr.. of the Bolcc Lumber Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia, Pa., was a recent visitor In 

 the interest of business. He was accompanied 

 by C. Ilolce. presUlent of the company. -Mr. 



Lloyd Is distinctly optimistic In regard to 

 future hardwood conditions. 



The American Burial Case Company has been 

 lncori)orated In Jersey City to manufacture cof- 

 fins, caskets, etc., with a capital of $100,000, 

 The Incorporators are E, B. Towns, Jr., L. E. 

 Slubenvell and (ieorge A. Ilennecker. 



Among other prominent hardwood visitors dur- 

 ing the fortnight were A. J. Bond of Bradford, 

 Pa., and W. L. Syki's, Emporium Lumber Com- 

 pany, Keating Summit, Pa. 



Gardner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood 

 Company. Boston, Mass., was in town recently In 

 connection with Inspection matters. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 liiad(iuarters .Vashvllle, Tenn., was a New York 

 visitor this week in the Interest of association 

 affairs, after visiting his mother at Ridley 

 Park, Pa. 



J. L. Bobbins of the Krebs Lumber Company. 

 Clarksburg, W. Va., was a recent visitor on 

 business. This company has just sold a big 

 tract of West Virginia timber. 



John Morrow of the Craggy Lumber Com- 

 pany, Swannanoa, N, C, was also here in the 

 interest of business. This company owns 11,000 

 acres of choice hardwoods and is cutting about 

 25,000 feet per day. 



Philadelphia. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular 

 moiitl'.ly meeting, preceded by the usual lunch- 

 eon, on December 5, President William L. Klce 

 In the chair. The following resolution was 

 adopted : "Whereas, The interstate commerce 

 law now in effect does not contain any provision 

 whereby a hearing is required before a change 

 in any Interstate freight rate may become effec- 

 tive: and whereas, experience has fully demon- 

 strated the urgent necessity for an amendment 

 to remedy this serious defect ; therefore be it 

 resolved, by the Lumbermen's Exchange of Phil- 

 adelphia, that at the present session of congress 

 an amendment shall be offered providing sub- 

 stantially that when any railroad company 

 seeks to advance or lower any published through 

 freight rate used In interstate commerce, or 

 change classification of any commodity, it must, 

 if objection be made thereto, receive the ap- 

 proval of the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 liefore such rates or changes in classification 

 shall become effective. Resolved, that a copy of 

 this resolution be mailed to each of the sena- 

 tors and representatives in congress from the 

 state of l^enusylvania and the Oregon and 

 Washington Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion." As the Atlantic Deeper Water Ways 

 Association has now been organized into a 

 permanent association, the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of Philadelphia has had its name entered 

 as a member of the association. 



The Plilladel|ihla Textile Machinery Company 

 has had a prosperous year in the "dryer" de- 

 partmint. Some of the concerns which have 

 installed their machines are as follows: J. F. 

 Conant Manufacturing Company. Cedars, Miss., 

 wliicli reports it has Installed one of the Proc- 

 tor girt conveyor dryers : the United States 

 Veneer Company of Winston-Salem, N. C, which 

 states that this dryer Is giving perfect satis- 

 faction, meeting all requirements; and the Men- 

 gel Box Company, which has purchased a large 

 Proctor girt conveyor dryer for their plant In 

 Hickman, Ky. 



Schofield Brothers report business brightening 

 up, but naturally they do not expect much trad- 

 ing just at this time. However. Inquiries do 

 not cease to come in, and the outlook Is prom- 

 ising. It. W. .Schoiield Is still suffering from 

 the effects of blood poisoning, contracted while 

 in the forests of the South. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son arc pleased with 

 the outlook. They report orders coming In 

 steadily at present and a comparatively cheerful 

 feeling as regarils trade. Collections, however, 

 are as yet somewhat slow. William P. Shearer 

 has returned from a business trip In the East, 



