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HARDWOOD RECORD 



wlieie ho met wUli fair siicicss. lie has been 

 eonlincil to Ills home with a eold for the past 

 few days. 



W. H. Fiilz & Co. feel satisfied as to the 

 full resumption of business hi inOS. They have 

 no fault to find now with tradiui;. They have 

 just engaged J. W. Floyd, formerly of the Boicc 

 Lumber Company, as salesman. Mr. Kloyd will, 

 after ,Tanuary 1. make a selling trip through 

 Canada and the South. 



The Ilazleton Manufacturing Company of 

 llazleton. Pa., have been fpiile busy right along. 

 C. .T. Klrschuer of this concern reports that 

 they have orders enough on hand to keep them 

 busy for some mouths. Mr. KIrscbner Is largely 

 interested in iln' Wilkesbarrc and Ilazleton rail- 

 way. 



The Codling-McICwen Lumber Company are 

 optimistic concerning the lumber situation. They 

 are getting business right along, and Mr. Cod- 

 ling reports sales so far in December way ahead 

 of those of November. 



The Tomb laimber Company report business 

 with them satisfactory, and that in their hard- 

 wood department chestnut and white oak have 

 been sold well ahead. 



Among the recent visitors to the city are 

 Edward D. Kiugsley of the Bridal Veil Lumber- 

 ing Company. Bridal Veil, Ore. : C. J. KIrscbner 

 of the Ilazleton Manufacturing Company, Ilazle- 

 ton, Pa., and F. O. Worden. formerly a popular 

 lumber salesman in Philadelphia, but for the 

 past few years a miner of garnet in Madison 

 county. .N'orth Carolina. 



Frank Whiting of the .Tanney-Whiting Lumber 

 Company has been in western North Carolina, 

 looking after some newly acquired interests 

 there. Charles II. Thompson of Lewis Thomp- 

 son & Co, is on a business trip in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. Benjamin C, Currie, ,Tr. of R. M. Smith 

 & Co. is spending a few days at the main office 

 in Parkersbuig. W. Va. 



The first concatenation of Hoo-Hoo, eastern 

 district of Pennsylvania, under the new Vice- 

 gerent Snark, Joseph R. Rogers, was held at 

 the Ilotel Rittenhouse. December 1.3. It was 

 one of the best affairs of its kind ever held in 

 this section. On account of unavoidably de- 

 taining circumstances, only three kittens were 

 ushered into the Hoo-Hoo world, but the de- 

 cidedly ingenious and interesting ceremony at- 

 tending this particular initiation made up some- 

 what for paucity of numbers. The affair wound 

 up with a session on the roof and a banquet. 

 .lohn .1. Rumbarger acted as toastmaster. The 

 new kittens are: Royden Albert Rothermel of 

 Edwin I'', Smith Company : Micliael Stanislaus 

 Donahue yf Powel, Clouds Company : and Ar- 

 thur ]'. Reilley of the Philadelphia Record. 

 When ,lohu .T. Rumbarger, ex-Vicegerent Snark. 

 returned to his home, the night of the concate- 

 nation, he was proudly apprised of the appro- 

 priate arrival during his absence of a son. In 

 the voice of a prophet we will say, surely 

 "The son that's born in Hoo-IIoo line. 

 To Hoo-Hoo fame will grow in time." 



The .T. G. Brill Company of this city, not- 

 withstanding the industrial depression which 

 has existed in a limited degree in this country, 

 has been continually busy. This company has 

 just shipped fifty cars to Buenos Ayres, making 

 the second consignment of this size during the 

 current year. A special train of five steam rail- 

 road cars has also been shipped to Japan. Addi- 

 tional equipment has recently been shipped to 

 Malta, a city on the Mediterranean sea. 



The Sanitary Burial Casket Company, Read- 

 ing, Pa., was recently incorporated under Penn- 

 sylvania laws with capital $5,000. 



The Pennsylvania Carriage Company, Alle- 

 gheny, Pa., obtained a charter under Pennsyl- 

 vania laws on December 7. Capitalized at 

 .$5,000. 



The Lingo Box Company of Wilmington, Del., 

 to manufacture and sell lumber and all products 

 thereof, was chartered under Delaware laws on 

 December 8. Capitalized at $50,000. 



Jhe Mexico City Motor Cab and Omnibus 

 Company, capital stock $50,000, was incorpo- 

 rated under Delaware laws Doccinbor 111. New- 

 York men are the incorporators. 



The William Rudd Furniture Company's 

 plant, at Petersburg, Va., was burned on Decem- 

 ber 10. Loss $75,000, partially covered by in- 

 surance. 



Samuel Heath, SO years old. and one of the 

 most prominent business men of Mercer county. 

 New Jersey, died recently at his home in Ewing 

 township. He was one of the pioneer lumber 

 merchants of that section. 



When George A. Freyer of Philadelphia bought 

 the Doubling Gap Spring hotel property, a sum- 

 mer resort, near Newville, Cumberland county, 

 Pennsylvania, he also bought O.OOi) acres of 

 timber land in the North mountain. Two Phila- 

 delphians. Mr. Freyer's father-in-law, John J. 

 .Mosoi'-, and his brother-in-law. A. S. .Moser. to- 

 gether with several other Philadelphia capital- 

 ists, have bought this timber and organized 

 the Doubling Gap Springs Lumber Company. 

 They intend to place several saw mills there. 



William A. Reed, well known and popular in 

 this section, who for years was secretary of the 

 J. S. Kent Company, recently started in the 

 wholesale lumber business on his own account, 

 lie has taken a large office at 1115 Stephen 

 Glrard building, where he will be glad to see 

 his friends at all times. He will handle liard- 

 woods, cypress and other woods. 



Baltimore. 



Preparations ai'e being made for llie anuual 

 meet lug of tlie National Lumber Exporters' .\s- 

 sociation at New Orleans on January 22, and a 

 special committee consisting of L. Methudy of 

 St. Louis, chairman : D. T. Reese of the Reese- 

 Scott Company of New Orleans, Ludwig Hay- 

 mann of Hugo Forcheimer. New Orleans, and 

 J. H. Gomila of the Gomila-DeMack I.,umber 

 Company, New Orleans, has been named to look 

 after the details. The Crescent City was selected 

 for the meeting out of deference to the export- 

 ers there who have recently joined the National 

 .Vssociation. At the meeting olficers will be 

 elected and the special committee on Liverpool 

 measurement will make the report, which was 

 formulated at a meeting of the committee held 

 Dec. 19 at the office of Geo. M. Spiegle & Co., 

 in Philadelphia. It is also likely that the ques- 

 tion of transatlantic rates will be considered, 

 t hough this is a matter in which the co-opera- 

 tion of all the exporters regardless of their 

 affiliation is desired. A permanent office for the 

 acting assistant secretary of the association has 

 been secured in the Hibernian Bank Building, 

 of which J. O. Elmer, secretayy of the old New 

 Orleans Association, will be in charge. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association has received a letter 

 from Charles M. Taylor's Sons. Philadelphia, 

 informing him that the Furness Line of steamers 

 will establish a tri-weekly service from I*hila- 

 delpiiia to Avonmouth Dock, just at the entrance 

 to Bristol. The first steamer is to start about 

 the middle of February. The new line, though 

 not competitive, will prove a great convenience 

 to exporters, affording direct service from a port 

 other than New York. Heretofore the exporters 

 bad to send shipments to New York, from which 

 port the rates were high and the expenses of 

 transfer, loading, &c., heavy. It is thought that 

 a considerable saving can be effected by the 

 Philadelphia line. 



Among those who witnessed the departure of 

 the big fleet under Admiral Evans from Hamp- 

 ton Roads for the Pacitic was ,Tohn L. Alcock, 

 the hardwood exporter of this city. Mr. Alcock 

 was accompanied by Mrs. Alcock, and also at- 

 tended the reception given aboard Admiral Evans' 

 tlagship, the Connecticut. last week. 



R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. of this city 

 returned last week from a trip in New York 

 State and New England. He came back very 

 optimistic as to the outlook and reported that 



slocks generally were so low that yardmen had 

 to send in orders to tide them over. In some of 

 the yards actual depletion had taken place, and 

 hurry orders were being given. 



William M. Burgan and Norman James, who 

 are heavily Interested in tlie Eddy Lake Cypress 

 Company, on the Little Pee Dee River, S. C, 

 went down to the mill last week and will be 

 gone about a week. They will attend the an- 

 nual meeting of the <-oinpany at which officers 

 will be elected. 



Tlie R. E. Wood Lumber Company has re- 

 ceived a promise tliat the road up into its timber 

 Imldlngs in Swain county, S. C. will be com- 

 lileted next month, when tlie work of hauling 

 the mill machinery to the place selected and 

 erecting the jihint will be pushed as rapidly 

 as pi.sslble. The company has waited for the 

 road over a year and steps looking to the de- 

 velopment of the tract there liave Ijeen halted. 



F. A. Kirby of the Cherry River Boom & Lum- 

 biM- Company of West Virginia, was in town last 

 week and called on some of the hardwood men 

 here. He reported business quiet, but says that 

 the mill stocks are smaller than they have been 

 in years. 



Charle.i W. Sebold. president of the Ilagers- 

 lown Spoke & Bending Company, at Hagerstown, 

 Md., died there Dec. 15 in the 03rd year of his 

 age. He had become suddenly ill in church on 

 Dec. 1 and sank rapidly. Mr. Clark's concern 

 does a large business not only in this country, 

 hut also abroad, and ships spokes to Australia 

 in Inriie quantities. 



Pittsburg, 



William l;. Coi-uelius lias hied himsflf to 

 Nashville for Christmas. That is his former 

 home and he still cherishes a fondness for the 

 mistletoe. 



D. B. Curll of the Curll & Lytle Lumber Com- 

 pany is taking an enforced vacation of a few 

 days on account of sickness. This company has 

 shut down its hardwood mill at Ilolcomb. W. 

 Va.. pending a general readjustment of business 

 conditions. 



R. W. Moorhead of the J. C. Moorhead Lum- 

 ber Company is spending a few days in New 

 York. It is in this part of the Empire state 

 that this concern has lately bagged some nice 

 orders for hardwood. 



W. E. McMillan of the W. E. McMillan Lum- 

 ber Company is much encouraged over the Im- 

 provement in general conditions. The eastern 

 office of this firm at Williamsport, Pa., is bag- 

 ging some nice hardwood business, mucli of it 

 being for shipment to Baltimore. 



President J. J. Mead of the Mead A: Speer 

 Company is looking over operations at the West 

 Virginia mills this week. He is one of the de- 

 cidedly hopeful ones and looks for a good year 

 in hardwoods in lOOS if the banks loosen up. 



The United States Chair Company at Corry, 

 Pa., has shut down for two weeks for Its an- 

 nual inventory. Superintendent Arthur J. Lyons 

 states that he expects to resume operations in 

 full January 1 and that there will be plenty of 

 orders forthcoming to keep the plant running 

 full. 



The Henderson Lumber Company has been 

 having a good trade in mine supplies this month 

 and takes an optimistic view of the situation. 

 Although Mr. Henderson does not look for a 

 boom year in 190S he believes that by per- 

 sistent digging and careful display of one's 

 wares a man can do a good business and that 

 he will not be obliged to cut prices to get good 

 trade. 



"Ash is ash. " This Is the expressiou often 

 heard nowadays among local firms which are 

 sending out inquiries everywhere to get satis- 

 factory stocks if ash. No other wood in the 

 hardwood list is now so scarce in this market. 

 The chair, implement and handle factories are 

 l)usy and are calling for more good hardwood 

 than any other class of buyers. Evidently these 

 factories are looking for a good business 



