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=-< MISCELLANEOUS ">•- 



Tlip Arkniisiis Ilipkory Cmnpnn.v lias hocii iucoi'ijoratod at MarvoU, Ark. 

 Till! concern lias a capital stock of $.'i,000. 



The Coppos, Zook & Mutscliler Company of Nappaneo, Ind., announces 

 that Albert and Charles Mutscliler have withdrawn. 



The l^elyh Handle Company has been Incorporated at Bridtjeporl. La., 

 with a capital of fjiin.OOO. 



The Maple Chair Company of Shandaken, N. Y., has sold out to the 

 Kulton Furniture Company. 



The Foss Woodworking Company has incorporated at Cleveland. O., 

 under that name, the capital stock being .flO.OOO. 



The lludilleson Lumber and Supply Company has been Incorporated at 

 Huntington. W. Va.. with a capital stock of $50,000. 



< CHICAGO >- 



W. S. Sterrett, sales mauuger for the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company. 

 Cincinnati, spent several days In Chicago on business recently. 



Frank Donnell, sales manager for Young & Cutslnger. Evansville, Ind., 

 was In Chicago for a couple of days recently on a hurried business trip. 



Henry Ballou, general manager of Cobbs & Mitchell. Inc., Cadillac. 

 Mich., was in Chicago for a few days of last week, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Ballou. The purpose of this visit was to take care of some necessary 

 shopping In connection with the Christmas season. 



T. II. Dunlap of the Dunlap Lumber Company, Nashville, Tenn., spent 

 a few da.vs In Chicago recently. 



F. W. Dugan of the Dugan Lumber Company. Memphis. Tenn.. spent 

 a few days of last week with the local trade on business. 



Thomas McFarland. the hardwood man of Cairo, III., visited the local 

 trade recently. 



Robert Maisey of Maisey & Dion, Chicago, left on December 17 for a 

 buying trip of several days' duration to mill points in southern Tennes- 

 see. Mr. Maisey said he expected to pick up several large quantities of 

 stock. 



Uakdwood Record acknowledges a very handsome publication Issued 

 by the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 through Its secretary, R. S. Kellogg. The booklet is designed to increase 

 the sale of hemlock, and judging from its character it should certainly 

 do so. Mr. Kellogg is to be congratulated. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Chicago held another of its informal dances 

 at the club rooms on Wednesday evening, December 17. As at former 

 and similar functions, Miss Ruth Stonehouse was engaged to teach the 

 new dances. 



Haedwood Record acknowledges the receipt of a very valuable book 

 entitled "The Tribulations of Tim Burr Owner." The pamphlet is well 

 printed and Illustrated with pen drawings, each showing a forest Are 

 scene, and the specific cause in each case. There is a verse in each of 

 the pictures which tells rather humorously of the cause of the Are. The 

 purpose of the book is to secure increased support for the Northern 

 Forest Protective Association on the part of timber owners in Michigan. 

 This association is located at Munising, Mich. Frank B. Wyman is 

 manager. The association aims to protect forests. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt of a Christmas greeting in the 

 form of a handsomely engraved and embossed card from the Tennessee 

 Oak Flooring Company, Nashville, Tenn. 



E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., the saw manufacturers of Indianapolis, have 

 gotten out their seasonable greetings with the usual individual touch 

 which this concern puts into all its publicity matter. The greeting is in 

 the form of an engraved announcement with the usual Christmas felicita- 

 tions in each envelope and enclosed the personal cards of N. A. Gladding 

 and Henry C. Atkins. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges a handsome memorandum book bound 

 in leather gotten out by Williams Brothers Company, Cadillac, Mich. 



The Gorham Brothers Company, panel manufacturers of Mount Pleasant, 

 Mich., have issued a very handsome calendar of a practical nature and of 

 pleasing appearance. 



The Midland Lumber Company, Parker.sburg. W. Va., has maintained 

 Its reputation this year for the high character of the calendars which this 

 concern has been getting out for years past. 



The John B. Y'ates Lumber Comjiany, Pennsboro, W. Ya., has issued a 

 very artistic calendar. 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn.. have expressed their season's 

 greetings to their friends in the trade by means of a pleasingly engraved 

 card. 



The Regan Printing House of Chicago has just published a handsome 

 and exhaustive book entitled ".Vmerlca's Triumph at Panama," by Ralph 

 Emmett Avery. The book is a complete history of the construction of the 

 Panama canal from ocean to ocean, and affords the most beautiful photo- 

 graphs the world has ever seen. 



Christmas greetings have been sent Hardwood Record by G. D. Crain. 

 Jr., Louisville, Ky., in the way of a beautifully engraved card expressing 

 his best wishes for Christmas and the New Y'car. 



The Building Material .Men's Association of Westchester held its annual 

 meeting and election at White Plains on December 11. at which time a 

 good number of the members were present. John F. DInkel of the Dinkel 

 & Jewell Company, Tarrytown, was elected president, succeeding E. M. 

 Yerks, who had served several terms. Mr. Ulnkel has always been 

 active In the work of the association and an ardent supporter of all the 

 principles of trade organization. E. N. I..eete, Mount Kisco, was elected 

 vice-president; Robert Haviland and Tracy Cowen were re-elected treasurer 

 and secretary respectively. 



The association will hold Its annual dinner at the Manhattan Hotel, 

 New York on January 27. 



The association is co-operating with others in an effort to secure a 

 new lien law In New York. 



The Acorn I,umber Company, hardwood wholesaler of Pittsburgh, has 

 opened an oflice at No. 1 Madison avenue, in charge of G. H. Trump. 



As a result of efforts on the part of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association the New Y''ork Central & Hudson Ulver railroad 

 lighterage rule has been changed in the following particular: 



"Flooring, celling or other lumber stock (whether for export or local 

 (leliviiy), less than 4 inches wide, 1 inch thick, or commercially known 

 as "iiicb lumber." and 6 feet long, in either dimension, unle.ss in bundles, 

 and excepting joist and scantling." 



Heretofore some lumber dressed to % was lightered at an extra 

 charge. Under the new rule such lumber will now be delivered In New 

 York lighterage free. 



The new building code will not be reported to the Board of Aldermen 

 of the present administration. There is unquestionably some demand for 

 a new code that will assure more protection against Are, but it is 

 reassuring to note the failure of the latest effort, which was a very bad 

 makeshift. 



< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



Charles K. Parry & (_'o., owners of the Carolina Spruce Company, 

 Pensacola, N. C, report mill getting out some excellent stock, and that 

 they have over two million feet of hardwood on sticks. Within thirty 

 days they will cut only spruce and hemlock. Trade has kept up fairly 

 well, which Is attributed to the fact "that they are carrying certain grades 

 which are unusually scarce at this time. Mr. Parry is spending a week 

 at the mill sizing up the stock situation. 



John W. Floyd of the Floyd Lumber Company, reports things moving 

 along satisfactorily for this time of the year. No decided change in the 

 situation is looked for until after the first of the new year. 



Ralph Souder of Hallowell & Souder testifies to fair trading right 

 along. More or less of a business hiatus is to be expected during the 

 holidays. After January 1 a little more buoyancy is looked for. 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon are preparing for a holiday rest. Their 

 salesmen will all spend Christmas in their respective homes. Mr. Under- 

 hill says in some lines prices have been well sustained, in others there 

 has been some shading, but they are not disposed to disparage their 

 share of business. E. Wyatt Wistar is spending some time at their mill 

 in Sumter, S. C. 



Owen M. Bruner of the Owen M. Bruner Company says business is 

 spotty, but a fair volume of trading is admitted for this time of the year. 

 The.v look for a more copious activity after the holidays. The company is 

 giving out a few handsome Maraschino white pine desk calendars as 

 souvenirs. 



The D. B. Curll Lumber Company has no fault to find with conditions. 

 Mr. Curll says they have been able to place their goods right along and 

 have no unusual accumulation of stock at mills. 



T. W. Noch of the Oregon Lumber Company, Baker City, Ore., while 

 visiting his mother here, is taking in the local trade, and has called at the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange. A. S. McGaughan, who makes his headquarters 

 at the Exchange rooms, is the Philadelphia representative of this western 

 concern. 



Schofieid Bros., owners of the Saltkeatchie Lumber Company, Schofield, 

 S. C, and the Schofield, Lance Company, wholesale distributing yard. 

 Reading, Pa., report a fair volume of business right along for this time 

 of year. Frank E. and Robert W. Schofield and George F. Lance, Jr., of 

 the Reading branch recently visited Schofield, S. C. ; also made a tour 

 of all the mills in which they are interested. Frank E. Schofield says 

 everything Is moving along in good shape and there is no accumulation of 

 stock anywhere. 



S. P. Bowers of the S. P. Bowers Company says business has not been 

 so bad considering present conditions and October w^as the best month 

 they ever had. Railroads are retrenching somewhat at this time, but It 

 is only a matter of time when they will come into the market and probably 

 pay more money for lumber than they could buy it for now. 



=-< BUFFALO y 



M. M. Wall has secured for Buffalo the next convrnlion of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, which will be held on March 4 

 and 5. It is expected that 500 or more lumbermen will come here for 

 the meeting. Mr. Wall, who is one of the trustees of the association. 

 was in New York about the middle of the month, to attend a meeting of 

 the board. 



I. N. Stewart, who has been in the hardwood business at S92 Elk 



