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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Horace G. Ilazai-d of the lliiton-Duilne Liiiiilior Conipiin.v says business is 

 a little brighter, but prices are still Irregular. lie is liopctul oi: a 

 stronger market when the cold weather sets In. 



F. W. Unkel says the unsettled prices make selling more difficult at this 

 time and competition keener. Buyers are not disposed to go beyond 

 actual requirement. 



E. H. Cathrall, seventy years old. a well-known Uimlierninn, died Nov. 2. 

 He retired from active business some years ago, bc'ing suocoi'dcd by his son 

 E. H. Cathrall, Jr. 



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=■< NEW YORK >.= 



liatiou will be 



The annual meeting of tb'- N' w York Lumber Trade 

 held at headquarters on W'ednesda.v, Nov. 12. 



The Empire Stale Forest I'roducts Association will hold its annual 

 meeting and dinner in Xew York, Nov. 13. This association Includes 

 nearly all of the lumber manufacturers of northern New York and some 

 of the pulp and paper interests. It has had a good Influence on forestry 

 legislation in the state. The meeting will be held in the rooms of the 

 Merchants' Association, Woolworth building. 



Vicegerent Kammer is working hard on the Hoo-IIoo concatenation to 

 be held Nov. 14 at Lisenweber's. A good class of kittens is assured. 



The Astoria Veneer Mills & Dock Company has lately Installed a new 

 seven-foot- Clark band mill. The company Installed this additional equip- 

 ment to take care of spe/cial requirements of the trade during the active 

 period for log importations. The log pond has been enlarged to accom- 

 modate 3.000,000 feet of logs in storage. 



H. L. Black, known 1o the local hardwood trade through former con- 

 nections, is sales representalive in this section for Caflish Brothers, James- 

 town, N. Y'. Mr. Black's headquarters are at the Monticello hotel, 35 

 West Sixty-fourth street. II. W. Ailing, sales manager of the company, 

 spent several days in town during the fortnight. 



The A. Sherman Lumber Company, wholesaler of hardn-ood lumber and 

 flooring, will handle the output of the Redwood Manufacturers' Com- 

 pany of San Francisco, in local and Long Island, eastern Pennsylvania, 

 New Jersey and New England territory. 



E. S. Foster, for many years a figure in New York hardwood circles, 

 is president of a new corporation known as the Woodbury-Foster Lumber 

 Company. W. II. Woodbury, Asheville, N. C, is treasurer. The com- 

 pany operates a hardwood mill on the Southern railway and will have 

 an assembling yard at Asheville with dry kilns and planing mill. The 

 company will specialize in dressed stock, dimension, moulding, trim, etc., 

 in addition to rough lumber business. Mr. Foster is located at 81 East 

 One Hundred and Twenty-flfth street, selling office. 



L. H. Street, selling representative for Clark Brother.?, sawmill ma- 

 chinery house, Olean, N. Y., was a recent visitor to New Y'ork. He reports 

 good business and has made several sales in the metropolitan district. 



George H. ISeeves, prominent lumberman and box manufacturer of 

 Brooklyn, died Oct. 25 at his home in Greenport, L. I. He was 75 years 

 old. His entire business career had been in the lumber and box business, 

 dating back to 1870. 



A. C. Tuxbui-y, head of the A. C. Tuxbury Lumber Company, Charleston, 

 S. C, and the Northern Lumber Company, North Tonawanda and New 

 York City, died at his home in Montclair, N. J., Oct. 28. He was well 

 known in the hardwood trade of New York. 



=•< BUFFALO y- 



The Automobile Club of Buffalo held a Hallowe'en celebration on Oct. 

 29 and the lumbermen were largely represented among the several 

 hundred who took part in the festivities. The committee in charge was 

 headed by I. N. Stewart as chairman, and among the other members 

 were O. E. Y"eager, C. Walter Betts, J. B. Wail and A. W. Kreinheder. 

 The clubhouse and grounds were decorated appropriately for the occasion. 



According to Edward N. Smith of Watertown, who delivered an ad- 

 dress at the state waterways association meeting at Albany on Oct. 31, 

 the water power of New York state developed to its full capacity would 

 give employment to 3,000,000 persons and support a population of 

 12,000,000. He argued for the adoption o£ the proposed amendment to 

 the state constitution permitting the flooding of state forest lands for 

 the construction of storage reservoirs. / 



The hardwood firm of I. N. Stewart & Bro. has been dissolved, Hugh 

 A. Stewart retiring and I. N. Stewart continuing the business, in which 

 he has been interested for twenty years. H. A. Stewart has gone to the 

 Pacific coast, where he will probably engage in lumber business. 



W. K. Jackson of Jackson & Tindle, who recently returned from a busi- 

 ness trip to Michigan, is now spending some time at his new timber tract 

 in northern Ontario. 



Hugh McLean has returned from a short vacation trip to Gatineau 

 Elver, Canada. While away he attended the wedding of his niece. Miss 

 Edith McLean, daughter of Angus McLean of Montreal, to Dr. A. L. 

 Gilday of that city. 



S. B. Taylor has returned from a long trip to the lumber centers south 

 of the Ohio, where he found business decidedly quiet. He considers the 

 difficulty to have been an overbuying of stock late last season. 



Alfred Swanson has been spending some time in Pennsylvania lately, 

 looking after the shipping of hardwoods for J. M. Briggs & Co. He has 

 also been doing some pheasant hunting during the past month. 



B. F. Ridley of Davenport & Ridley, has been spending a good deal of 

 time during the past month in Pennsylvania, shipping chiefly basswood 

 and maple, for which tlie yard has a fair demand. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has been getting In some 

 oak, chestnut and poplar lately and reports that there has been a very 

 fair demand for hardwouds in general. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller are getting in fair-sized stocks of oak, chestnut 

 and maple and state that business, while not very active, is better than 

 it was during the summer. 



