HARDWOOD RECORD 



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=-< NEW YORK >-= 



S. C. Major, tlie proraiiicnt liardwood luinliorman of Memphis, was a 

 recent visitor to New York on business. 



Tile Stevens-Eatou Company, wholesaler of hardwoods, is issuing a 

 monthly stock list of lumber that can be delivered at short notice. The 

 immediate delivery provision so common in lumber orders at present 

 might have been responsible tor the new list. .Vt any rate it should prove 

 of value to the firm's customers. 



The local golf club will have Its first meet at the Oakland links. Long 

 Island, where Peter H. Moore, the hardwood retailer, plays his best game. 

 The date is May IS and the boys are pulling for good weather on their 

 initial tournament. 



The National Show Case Company, one of the district's large lumber 

 users, was visited by a serious fire on .\pril IS. The loss to the plant, 

 etc., at 480 Leonard street. Brooklyn, is estimated at $10,000. 



Sam E. Barr is now settled in fine quarters on the seventeenth floor of 

 the Hudson Terndnal building, 50 Church street. Mr. Barr reports a 

 favorable denianri for hiiniwood flooring but rough lumber is still quiet. 



=•< BUFFALO >.= 



.•V. spring furniture show will be held at .lamestown, N. Y., from May 10 

 to 29 and more than seventy-five factories will join in the displays. It 

 is expected that a more elaborate show will be given this spring than 

 last October, when the plan was started to hold a local exhibition. The 

 manufacturers lack an exposition building, and so will give the show in a 

 number of different store rooms and warehouses, but they are hopeful of 

 raising funds for a building soon. 



Orson E., Frank G., Charles A. and Peter N. Yeager, members of the 

 I'eager Lumber Company, were in Moscow, Pa., .\prll 17, attending the 

 golden wedding anniversary of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. 

 Yeager. 



R. 1). McLean, president of the McLean Mahogany & Cedar Co., is locat- 

 ing bis oflice at 1128 Seneca street, removing there from the White 

 building. 



W. L. Sykes, president of the Emporium Lumber Company. Utica, N. Y., 

 called on friends in the hardwood trade here recently, after having spent 

 an extended vacation in California. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have made a season contract for supplies of lumber 

 to come in by lake this season. Orders have been placed for a large 

 quantity of ash and hemlock. 



M. M. .ind J. B. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company and 

 Peter McNeil of the McNeil Lumber Company have been spending about 

 two weeks' vacation at .\lden Mineral Springs, N. Y. 



William A. Quast, formerly with T. Sullivan & Co. as a salesman, has 

 become one of the newly-incorporated hardwood concern of Davenport & 

 Ridley and will devote most of his time to selling. 



G. Elias v<c Bro. report some improvement in the demand for building 

 lumber, including hardwoods, the volume of business being quite a little 

 larger than a few weeks ago. 



Blakeslee, Perriu .& Darling have been receiving a good lot of hard- 

 woods, and receipts since the beginning of the year have been about 

 1,000.000 feet. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company states that trade is improved 

 over a few weeks ago. especially in plain oak and maple. Receipts of 

 these woods have been fairly large recently. 



The National Lumber Company states that the demand for flooring Is 

 less active than some weeks ago. .-V good trade was enjoyed early in the 

 year in both maple and oak flooring. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller find the hardwood trade holding about steady 

 and below the normal tor this season, although a number of woods, are 

 being sold, including oak and maple. 



The .McLean Lumber Company reports a little better inquiry for plain 

 and quartered oak. Both the Birmingham and Memphis mills are run- 

 ning regularly. 



•< PHILADELPHIA > 



The Pennsylvania Railroad, on .\pril IT, announced that it would ar- 

 range at once for $20,000,000 worth of new equipment. This includes 144 

 locomotives, 146 passenger coaches, and approximately 10,000 cars. This 

 is the largest single outlay made by the railroad in many years. The 

 announcement bears out the statement of the company that it would make 

 large additions to equipment as soon as it got the five per cent increase 

 in freight rates. It also indicates a return of general prosperity, the 

 "Lehigh Valley Railroad recently having announced a million dollar order 

 for new equipment. 



The crew of seven men of the schooner Flora W. Kendall, carrying 600 

 tons of spruce, was rescued when the vessel grounded on the Barnegat 

 Shoals on April 10. The vessel was bound for New York. 



Four of the convicted officers and promoters of the International Lumber 

 & Development Company swindle went to jail on Saturday, April 10, in 

 this city. Another started his term in the Eastern Penitentiary the fol- 

 lowing Monday. President Wilson having refused them a pardon after 

 granting a thirty-day respite to look into the case. 



The Philadelphia office of the R. T. Jones Lumber Company, Tonawanda, 

 .N. Y., has made application for membership in the Lumbermen's Exchange. 



Harry Steelraan of the Lippincott Lumber Company, Fifth and Cambria 



streets, was notified on April 10 that his father, the commander of the 

 lumber schooner, Josephine, had been drowned and his body washed 

 ashore near Elizabcthtown, N. C. He went South at once to claim the 

 body. Captain Steelman lived at Dorchester, N. J. 



Wistar, mderhill & Nixon recently received a visit from E. H. Von 

 Os;trand, president of the Craig Mountain Lumber Company, Winchester, 

 Idaho. Wistar, Underbill & Nixon are the eastern agents for the com- 

 [lany which Mr. Van Ostrafld heads. 



The Highland Lumber Company has removed from the Real Estate Trust 

 Building, Broad and Chestnut streets, to the Finance Company of Penn- 

 sylvania building. South Penn Square. George Houck, general manager of 

 this company, which manufactures hardwoods and hemlock at mills in 

 West Virginia, reports that stocks which were broken while the mills 

 wore closed are now being rounded out in good shape. 



D. C. Burkholder of the J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company has returned 

 frotn a selling trip of three weeks through New York. He was accom- 

 panied l)y W. O. Came of the Bristol Door & Lumber Company, Bristol, 

 Tenn. The Turnbull company represents the Tennessee concern in Penn- 

 sylvania, New York and New Jersey. 



Carl Saye, vice-president and local manager for the McLeod Lumber 

 Company of Ilattiesburg, Miss., has gone West on a pleasure trip to last 

 half a year. In his absence from the local office of the company in the 

 Lincoln building, Mr. Saye will be represented by J. S. Gordon, who has 

 severed his connection with the Uayden & Westcott Lumber Company of 

 Chicago. 



The new hardwood mill of Schofield Brothers, at Honaker. Va., is being 

 operated. The old mill was destroyed by fire last fall. 



Dissatisfied creditors of the Pooley Furniture Company have taken 

 action against the receiver and creditors' committee, charging discrimina- 

 tion in payments. S. II. Burbank, the second receiver, has been put In 

 charge pending the outcome of the litigation. 



The Beech Mountain Lumber Company, capitalized at $.300,000, has 

 been formed by 11. 11. Klosterman and J. R. Cochran of this city, and 

 T. H. Jackson of Camden, N. J. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Flooring Company, with a capital of $10,000, 

 has been incorporated at Wilmington, Del. 



. The .Vnderson Lumber Company, capital $450,000, and the Ocmulgee 

 River Lumber and Manufacturing Company, capital $:!00.000, recently 

 obtained charters at Wilmington, Del. 



=-< PITTSBURGH >.= 



The Kendall Lumber Company has been filling some big contracts with 

 automobile concerns, which with its large contracts with railroads, 

 gives the company a big total every month. 



The Mutual Lumber Company is doing a very nice business in hard- 

 woods, much of its trade being with the automobile concerns. ■ Manager 

 H. E. .\st of this company spent a week in Detroit and Cleveland lately. 



The .-Vberdeen Lumber Company has been shipping considerable fine ash, 

 gum and Cottonwood lately on war orders. President J. N. Woollett Is 

 very well satisfied with prices received for this lumber. 



The E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company, a live hardwood concern, has 

 moved its offices from the House building to the Hartje building, where 

 it has splendid quarters on the ninth floor. 



The J. W. Cottrell Lumber Company has been selling a nice lot of stuff 

 lately to the coal companies and other concerns. Its mill Is on the 

 N. & W. R. R. in Virginia. 



President W. D. Johnston of the American Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company has gone West for a month's business trip. The American's 

 trade is beginning to show up a little better. , 



The -Vllegheny Lumber Company reports trade Irregular and hard to 

 get. Y'ard orders are not so large or so plentiful as they should be 

 at this season, although business in this line has increased slowly. 



Sales Manager G. C. Adams of the Duquesne Lumber Company an- 

 nounces that business in general is pretty quiet. The eastern market 

 does not show up any better in hardwoods than the Pittsburgh district. 



■< BOSTON y- 



Lawrence & Wiggin have transferred their main office from 70 Kilby 

 street to 50 Terminal street, Charlestown, thus placing their entire whole- 

 sale wharf and yard business in one location close to their large plant on 

 the Mystic river. 



The E. O. Lake Lumber Company, which was located in Boston up to 

 the death of E. O. Lake, has again opened offices here at 200 Devonshire 

 street. 



The Brown Lumber Company has been incorporated for $50,000 by the 

 following prominent lumbermen : Wendell F. Brown, president, Frank N. 

 Brooks, treasurer, and Eugene P. Carver, Jr., Julius H. Blodell, Thomas 

 S. McGowan. This organization dated April S marks an important devel- 

 opment in the old Boston house of Wendell F. Brown & Co. 



=-< BALTIMORE >= 



.\moug recent visitors to Baltimore were E. G. Caflisch. manager of 

 the Caflisch Lumber Company, Hamilton. W. Va. ; C. H. Holden, Fall 

 Run Lumber Company, Parkersburg, W. Va. : Mr. Whecdon, W. D. Young 

 ,& Co.. Bay City, Mich., and F. X. Hoffman. Hoffman Bros. Company, 

 Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. Caflisch was accompanied by his wife, who was 



