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HARDWOOD RECORD 



i'ebruary 10, 1922 



Specialists on 

 Veneer Dryers 



We have specialized on dryingf machinery for 

 nearly forty years. 



The value of this long experience in one 

 line of work is evidenced by the wonderful 

 results obtained by the "Proctor" Auto- 

 matic Veneer Dryer. 



This machine is drying veneer perfectly 



in many of the largest and best known 



plants. Its principle of construction 



meets every requirement for highest 



quality results — uniformly dried. 



flat, pliable veneer, at all times. 



Users of "Proctor" Dryers can 

 always count on performance 

 notably free from trouble ; 

 lowest cost of operation and 

 upkeep; output up to, or 

 well above, the guaranteed 

 capacity — all the result 

 of our unequalled ex- 

 perience in building 

 (Irvers. 



.^cnd for Catalogue Xo. 57. It explains the 

 "Proctor" Dryer and gives the experi- 

 ences of well-known users. 



PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ, Inc. 



Formerly the Phila. Textile Mach'y Co. 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



ested. Mr. Isaacsen is a large distributor here of poplar, white oali and 

 all hardwoods. 



Col. H. B. Curtin and wife of Clarksburg, W. Va., sailed recently from 

 this city for Nassau on a pleasure trip. Col. Curtin is owner of the Pardee- 

 Curtin Lumber Company of West Virginia. 



Alex Chatin, New York manager of the Overseas Lumber Company, 18 

 Broadway, is on a business trip to New Orleans, where he is organizing 

 his export trade in that city. Mr. Chatin will visit Nashville and Cincin- 

 nati on his way home. 



Ralph A. Brown became associated with the John A. Daley Lumber 

 Company, 1133 Broadway, on February 1 as manager of their hardwood 

 lumber and flooring department. Mr. Brown started in the white Dine 

 business at Buffalo, N. Y., twenty years ago. He has since been associated 

 with hardwood mills In Canada and in the South. For the past Ave years 

 Mr. Brown has been conducting a wholesale hardwood business in this city. 



BUFFALO 



Orson E. Yeager has been appointed by Mayor Schwab as a member of 

 the city hospital commission to till a vacancy and the appointment has 

 been confirmed by the city council. A shake-up has taken place in the 

 board, owing to charges brought by the mayor. 



Thomas H. Wall, vice president of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Co., 

 has returned to business after an operation which laid him up at home for 

 about three weeks. 



A new folder has just been issued by G. Elias & Bro. showing a large 

 view of their plant, together with smaller views of departments. Some- 

 thing Is told of the history of the concern, as follows : 



"In 1S81 we started with desk room at No. 12 Exchange street ; we out- 

 grew this in a very short time, when a larger office was opened at No. 22 

 West Swan street, where telephone, stenographers, typewriters, and all 

 modern office appliances were Installeil. Later, having outgrown these 

 quarters, we established more commodious offices at Nos. 78 and 80 Ex- 

 change street, with pine yard at Michigan and Ganson streets. In 1888 

 we were able to lease for five 3'ears the whole block, bounded by Michigan, 

 Exchange, Chicago and Carroll streets, for use as a hardwood yard. This 

 yard was continued until 1893. During the term of this lease we purchased 

 the property at Elk. Maurice. Orlando, Babcock and Prenatt streets and 

 Buffalo River and moved on the same In 1893." 



The lumber mill of (ioo & Hopkins, Delevan, N. Y., has been sold to O. M. 

 Pierce, of Olean, N. Y., who is planning to enlarge the buildings and make 

 a number of other Improvements. The business will be managed by G. B. 

 Cudworth & Sons. 



Numerous teams bringing In logs to the manufacturing plants of Sala- 

 manca, N. Y., during the good sleighing of the present winter, are reminis- 

 cent of the days when timber was plentiful in that section. About 60,000 

 feet of logs have lately arrived, most of the timber being for the Fltz- 

 patrlck & Weller last block factory and some for the Salamanca Panel 

 Co.'s plant 



Willis K. Jackson, president of Jackson & Tlndle, sails on the steamer 

 "Empress of France," from New York on February 11, for a three months* 

 ^Mediterranean trip. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The mill of the Boyertown Planing Mill Company, of which Abel P. 

 Griffith Is secretary and general manager, has been destroyed by fire. The 

 loss Is estimated at $50,000. Several hundred thousand feet of lumber was 

 destroyed. 



Hugh Mcllvaln, hardwood dealer, has opened offices at 1420 Chestnut 

 street. He formerly was a partner with his brother in J. Gibson Mcllvaln 

 & Company. 



Application Is made to the state for Incorporation of the Anderson 

 Woodworking Company, mlllwork. Those who are Incorporating the firm 

 are, Frank (J. Anderson, Burnt A. Rosander and Allen Yost. 



The J. B. Van Sclver Company, large furniture manufacturers, an- 

 nounce that business is almost on a normal plane. 



BALTIMORE 



M. L. HImmel & Son, office furniture manufacturers at Baltimore, who 

 last summer purchased the old LIpps Candy Company factory on Calverton 

 road, are gradually moving their stock and eiiuipment to the new location. 

 Improvements estimated to cost $35,000 are being made preparatory to 

 complete removal. The firm will have offices and salesrooms at Fayette 

 and Hanover streets. In the Albert building. 



G. L. Wood, vice-president and manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company, hardwood distributors and manufacturers, with offices in the 

 Continental building, Is back from a trip to the company's sawmill at 

 Fontana, N. C, where he went to confer with the superintendent as to 

 operations. The plant Is running, but has not yet attained capacity pro- 

 duction. George B. Jobson, the new sales manager of the company, has been 

 making get-aiquainted trips to Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Northern Georgia and even to Eastern Tennessee, calling on mills with 

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