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HARDWOOD RECORD 



N. D. Allen, for thiity-two years connected 

 with the C. L. Colraan Lumbor Company of I.a 

 Crosse, Wis., has resigned and will lake a much 

 needed rest. 



,T. M. West has been appointed receiver for the 

 Trinity County Lumber Company of Houston, 

 Tex., ft concern with a capital stuck of .$001), DOo. 



An Interesting meeting of the Ohio Sialc for- 

 estry Society was held in Townsond Hall, Co- 

 lumbus, O., Jan. 15. 



Col. Ben Holt has installed a (Ine sawmill on 

 his estate eighteen miles east of Seguin, Guada- 

 lupe county, Tex. Much of the timber brought 

 to it is burr oak, hickory, ash, elm and other 

 hardwoods. 



The Salmcn lii-ick & Lumber Company, Ltd., 

 of Sildell, La., has commenced to run eleven 

 Instead of ten hours a day. 



Joseph. Whitolcy and George Wiles have opened 

 up a factory for the manufacture of hickory 

 handles at Hich Hill, Mo. They have good facili- 

 ties in the way of limber supply. 



Two hundred employes of the Richmond Cedar 



Works of Richmond, Va., went on a strike Jan. 

 1(1, following a recent reduction In wages with 

 corresponding Increase in tasks. The recent cut 

 ad'ects some men ns much as 83 cents a day. 



The Milcbcll Lunibcr (,'<iuipany has been incor- 

 porated al Shawnee, Okla., with a capital of 

 ifJ,j,lHlO. 



The Bouton-I'erklns Lumber Company of Van- 

 couver has Increased its capital slock frorii 

 IfiO.OOO to .$30. 000. 



The W. K. Hall Lumber Company is making a 

 number of improvements in its Louisville plant. 



The Michigan Agricultural College will conduct 

 a summer school fourteen miles north of Au 

 Sable on land which is part of the original grant 

 made by the governmcnl to the agricultural col- 

 lege. The <'ourse will commence July 0. 



The L F. I'orce Handle Company of Xew Al- 

 bany, Ind.. dons a large export business, sending 

 its handles to Alaska, South Africa. Australia. 

 India and elsewhere. Its display at the James- 

 town Exposition last year was awardcii first 

 premium. 



Hardwood NeWs, 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



The Federal Lumber Company of New York 

 city announces that owing to the increased vol- 

 ume of its business throughout the New England 

 states, and desiring to be more centrally located, 

 it has removed its general offices to Broad Ex- 

 change, 88 Broad street, Boston, Mass., where 

 all correspondence should be addressed. 



Ira B. Bennett of the Hume-Iiennett Lumber 

 Company, Sanger, Cal., has been spending the 

 past two weeks in this city and in visiting Mich- 

 igan points. 



The Mossman Lumber Company, of Jasper, 

 Ind., has removed its general olHces to Evans- 

 vllle, where it will continue to manufacture and 

 wholesale all kinds of lumber. 



Burdis Anderson of Munisiug. Mich., presi- 

 dent of the National Veneer and Panel Manu- 

 facturers' Association, was a caller at the Rkc- 

 uHD office January 22. Mr. Anderson was en 

 route to Cincinnati in the interests of his asso- 

 ciation. 



■ The trustees of Hie National Wholesale Lumlter 

 •Dealers' Association held a meeting at that or- 

 ganization's Broadway office. New York city, 

 January i), and decided to bold the next annual 

 meeting at A\'asliington, March 4 and .5. .\p- 

 idicatiou has been made for the usual reduc- 

 tions in railroad rates on the cerliticate plan. 

 Details regarding program, banquet, speakers, 

 etc., will be announced later by Secretary Perry. 



D. S. Hutchinson, sales manager of the Ar- 

 thur Hardwood Flooring Company of Memphis, 

 nas in Chicago several days this week. Mr. 

 Hutchinson attended the various association 

 meetings at Indianapolis, January 14-13-16. 



E. 1*. Arpin of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Wis., was in Chicago 

 January 21 and 22. attending a hearing given 

 shippers by a railroad commission, relative to 

 traffic matters. 



The Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt 

 of handsome calendars from Hamilton Brothers 

 of Pittsburg, Henry S. Holden Veneer Com- 

 pany of Grand Uapids, Barker & Co. of Boston ; 

 also a leather note-book from the Cherry River 

 Boom and Lumber Company of Scranton. Pa. 



V. S. L'pperson, manager of the Lumbermen's 

 Underwriting .\lliance of Kansas City, paid the 

 RI5COBD a call January 9. 



C. P. Crosby of Rhineland, Wis., accompanied 

 by Mrs. Crosby, made a visit to Chicago this 

 week en route to the Pacific coast, where they 

 will spend the remainder of the winter in rest 

 and recreation. 



John N. Pritchard, secretary of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, and of the 



Long-Knight Lumber Company of Indianapolis, 

 was in Chicago last week on business connected 

 with his company. 



Theodore Fathauer, the well known Chicago 

 hardwood man. was a visitor and entertaining 

 speaker at the recent meeting of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association at Indi- 

 anapolis. 



Abner Fellabaum, a prominent handle manu- 

 facturer of Frankfort, Ind., was a caller at the 

 Record office January 20. 



J. A. Braum, formerly with W. O. King & Co. 

 of this city, is now acting as representative of 

 the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company in Chi- 

 cago and vicinity — one of the prominent hard- 

 wood concerns of St. Louis. Mr. Braun main- 

 tains his headquarters at 173 Oaknood boule- 

 vard, telephone Douglas 4738. Mr. Braum is 

 one of the best known and highest esteemed 

 salesmen in the Chicago market, and his alliance 

 with the big hardwood manufacturing house of 

 St. Louis is certainly a good one. 



The reports of the proceedings of the Handle 

 Manufacturers' ,\ssociation of America and of 

 the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, 

 both of which met a few days ago at Indian- 

 apolis, are given in another part of this issue 

 of the Record, and are the only detailed steno- 

 graphic proceedings published. 



J. C. Clair, industrial commissioner of the 

 Illinois Central railroad, at a meeting of the in- 

 dustrial representatives of upwards of fifty 

 railroads of the United States, held at St. Louis 

 this week — was elected president of that new 

 and important organization. 



For several years past the Hardwood Record 

 has had in .\shland a lady as correspondent. 

 For the second time in two years these corre- 

 spondents have listened to blandishments of the 

 sterner sex and married. The last to go over 

 this well-known road is Miss Lucy Medllcott 

 Jones, who was married on January Hi to Dr. 

 George William Moore, of Ashland. It Miss 

 Moore makes as good a wife as she has a news- 

 paper correspondent. Dr. Moore has secured a 

 treasure. The congratulations of the Record are 

 extended. 



Sam E. Barr, the ubiquitous and impressible 

 hardwood wholesaler of the Flatiron Building, 

 New York City, is in Chicago this week looking 

 'em over. Jlrs. Barr is with him. 



M. G. LaPierre of the LaPierre-Sawyer Handle 

 Company, Jackson, Mo., was a welcome caller at 

 the Record office January 24. Mr. LaPierre is 

 enthusiastic over the new handle association and 

 a firm believer in the benefits to be derived 

 from it. 



Among the most attractive little advertising 

 pamphlets which have come to hand of late 

 are those recently Issued by the HluimelbiMger- 

 Harrison Lumlier Company of Morehouse, Mo., 

 exploiting red gum. and by llitcholl Brothers 

 ('(unpany of Cadillac, Mich. The former Is 

 entitled "Hear Us"; the latter — "Michigan 

 Trees and Mitchell's Products" — Is the work of 

 M. K. Tbonuis, the enterprising sales manager 

 of the Cadillac concern. Both have interesting 

 lext and handsome illustrations, with a wealth 

 of Information regarding their respective sub 

 Jects. 



(;. G. Roberts, sales manager for D. G. 

 Courtney of Charleston, W. Va., was In Chi- 

 cago on business January 10. Mr. Roberts 

 called upon the editor about noon time ami 

 successfully maneuvered to secure an expen- 

 sive lunch. 



The Emporium Lumber Company, manufac- 

 turers of hardwood and white pine lumber, 

 with general offices at Keating Summit. Pa., 

 announce that C. O. Shepherd after creditably 

 filling the position of manager of their New 

 York sales office for the past five years, has 

 withdrawn from their employ. Until his suc- 

 cessor Is appointed, W. J. Armstrong of tlie 

 Galeton mill office, will have charge of New 

 Y'ork business. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lum- 

 ber Company, St. Louis, was a Chicago visitor 

 January 8 and ',). 



Boston. 



The Metropolitan Lumlier Exchange Associa- 

 tion held its annual meeting at the Exchange 

 Club, Boston, January 13. The following offi- 

 cers were elected : Fred Sterritt, president ; 

 Gardiner I. Jones, Fred Joyce and C. W. Leath- 

 erbee, vice presidents. These gentlemen repre- 

 sent the three divisions, hardwoods, spruce and 

 hard pine, in the order named. The treasurer 

 and secretary is William E. Litchfield. The 

 board of directors is comprised of wholesalers 

 aud retailers. Wholesalers, L. N. Godfrey, Ed- 

 ward J. Hammond, J. C. Kennedy, Charles C. 

 Batchelder, A. W. Hayford ; retailers, E. W. 

 Cottle, Howard C. Morse, Edward S. Tenney, 

 William J. Barry, Edward Sawyer and George 

 E. Kimball. About twenty-two firms were rep- 

 resented at the meeting. 



Charles Gardner of I'otter & Gardner, Provi 

 dence. R. I., was in Boston recently. 



Herbert Wingfield of Virginia has been a vis- 

 itor in the Boston hardwood district. 



E. N. Kames of the Boston Lumber Company 

 is in the South on a business trip. 



Fred Badger, n-lth the Shepard & .Morse Lum- 

 ber Company, is the proud father of a baby 

 girl. 



Thomas Kerr, representing the Atlantic Coast 

 Lumber Company, Norfolk, Va., visited Boston 

 last week. 



William J. Barry, president of the Buttrick 

 Lumber Company, Waltham, recently spoke be- 

 fore the meeting of the Carpenters' and Joiners' 

 Union in that city. 



Thayer & Collins of Keene, N. II., have opened 

 a Boston office. II. C. Abbott, a salesman for 

 this firm, is in charge. 



The Woodstock Lumber Company has recently 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $200,- 

 laio. This company has purchased tlie standing 

 and cut -timber of the Publishers' Paper Com- 

 pany at North Woodstock, N. H., and has also 

 leased the latter company's large saw mill. It 

 is stated the mill cost .$12.5,000 to build and 

 equip. 



C. P. Chase & Co., lumber dealers. Spring- 

 field, Mass., have removed to their new yard in 

 that city. The company is now located -along- 

 side of the tracks of the Boston & Maine rail- 

 road. 



The Berkshire Lumber Company, Pittsfield. 



Mass.. has leased its new planing mill to Dillon 

 & ITmbs. 



Ivers P. Lawrence of Fitchburg, Mass., has 

 withdrawn as a partner in the firm of E. A. 



