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HARDWOOD RECORD 



for logging and all other services, has removed 

 its local offices from 25 Broad street to 111 

 Broadway. 



I K. Sniedes, hardwood wholesaler of 1 Mad- 

 ison avenue, is now representing the Tennessee 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Potts- 

 ville, Pa., one of the representative manufactur- 

 ing concerns of that state. 



Joshua Oldham & Sons, well-known sow man- 

 ufacturers of Brooklyn, have, owing to the eon- 

 stantly increasing demand for their products, 

 enlarged some of their most important depart- 

 ments. 



J. W. Dickson of the J. W. Dickson Lumber 

 Company. Memphis/ Tenn., made several busi- 

 ness calls among the trade last week. 



Max Kosse of the K. & P. Lumber Company, 

 Cincinnati, accompanied by Mrs. Kosse, was in 

 this city last week on a brief pleasure trip. 



C. S. Wentwortb of C. s. Wentworth & Co., 

 Boston, Mass., was in New York last week. 



Among the other hardwood wholesalers visit- 

 ing the market were: E. A. Smith. E. A. Smith 

 Company, Boston: E. B. Currier. Springfield, 

 Muss. : II. Humphrey. II. Humphrey & Son, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and G. I. Jones. Jones Hard- 

 wood Company, Boston, Mass. 



A. A. DeLoach, president of the DeLoacb Mill 

 Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of saw- 

 mill machinery, with headquarters at Atlanta, 

 Ga„ and local offices on Liberty street, in this 

 city, spent several days during the fortnight in 

 collaboration with the managers of the l"cal 

 office, on business matters. 



J. II. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company, 

 Bristol, Tenn., was in New York last week and 

 called on his many friends in the trade. 



A petition in bankruptcy was tiled on the 

 1st inst. in this city against the American Par- 

 quetry Company, manufacturers of parquet 

 flooring, 540 Wesl Fifty-eighth street. It was 

 alleged that the corporation is Insolvent, has 

 transferred pan of its property, has allowed 

 creditors to obtain a preference, and on Jan- 

 nary 27 receivers were appointed for its prop- 

 erty. The liabilities are $35,885, and nominal 

 assets $25,700. Judge Holt appointed Win. Blau 

 receiver of the ass, -is. with a bond of $1,500. 



I. T. Williams iV Son, the widely known hard 



w 1 bouse al Eleventh avenue and Twenty-fifth 



street, announce the admission on May 1 of 

 Thomas Resolved Williams ro partnership. Mr. 

 Williams is a son of Thomas Williams, senior 

 on ruber of the firm, and one of the promising 

 young business men of the district. He is in 

 bis twenty fourth year, and has been associated 

 wltn the linn for Six years, and is at present 

 managing their mahogany department. 



Win. E. Dptegrove .V Bro, the large mahoganj 

 ami hardwood house of this city, announced that 

 on May 1 they would remove their offices from 

 the fool of East Tenth street, this city, to 

 their mills and yard ai the foot of Kent street, 

 Brooklyn, from which point they will hereafter 

 conduct their hardwood and cigar box lumber 

 business as well as their southern manufactur- 

 ing interests The business will hereafter be 

 under the personal supervision of Wm. E. I pti 



grove I be mahogany and vei r business will 



ii Inued at the old headquarters at thi 

 leiiih street, Manhattan, as heretofore, by 

 Jerome T. Dptegrove and John l;. Beckwith. 

 woo has been associated with the linn for a 

 aumber of vems. under the style of i ptegrove 

 -\ Beckv I'th. This a uncemenl maris impor- 

 tant changes In the corporation, but the re- 



ii' in no wl ii- 



of Wm. B. Uptegrove & Bro., which continues 

 as heretofore, except that w. E. Uptegrove has 



■ he o i "i -i i' Upti 



grove in the old corporation and now owns a 



COnl I Oiling interest t Im'i ' i 



Woods & Co. says that, owing to the demands of 

 business, lie will not be a candidate for re- 

 election, but it is hoped that for the special 



good of the lumber trade Senator \Y Is may lie 



induced to again stand as candidate, which would 

 be equivalent to re-election. 



Among the measures introduced to the legisla- 

 ture this year was "An act to prohibit the dis- 

 charge of black or gray smoke from any plant." 

 The bill had a powerful backing, several hearings 

 were held, at each of which appeared in opposi- 

 tion a number of lumber manufacturers and 

 their representatives, among whom was i.eorge 

 I.. Cade of the Geo. D. Emery Company. Mr. New- 

 ton, with the C. W. Leathcrbee Lumber Com- 

 pany, and Kichard W. Douglas, secretary of the 

 I. umber Trade Club, all of whom vigorously op- 

 posed the measure with the result that a time 

 limit of six minutes per hour was allowed for 

 the discharge of smoke, after wdiich the bill 

 passed the house. In the senate this week the 

 bill was amended to exclude woodworking plants 

 from the provisions of the act. The trade in this 

 single instance has been saved from an unneces- 

 sary requirement that would have practically 



ruined w dworking plants within a radius of 



sixteen miles of the state house in Boston. This 

 •ast result is due in no small measure to the 

 i .ml Intelligence which Senator Woods brought 

 to bear on the measure. 



The captain and crew of the Philadelphia 

 barge on which was found a quantity of ma- 

 hogany stolen from Palmer, Parker & Co. were 

 let off with a moderate sentence owing to the 

 company's intercession on behalf of the men, 

 w bos,, families would have been the greatest 

 sufferers In event of the imposition of a long 

 senteni e 



E. A. Smith, the Boston wholesaler, and N. II. 

 Walcoti. a wholesale hardwood dealer of Provi- 

 dence, R. I. spent a portion of the week in the 

 New York City market. Mr. Waleott devoting part 



of bis time to a meeting ■>< banlv 'I dealers. 



William E. Litchfield of Boston and N. II. Wal- 

 eott of Providence are the New England repre- 

 sentatives on the hardwood inspection committee 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation. New England is represented by two 

 Other lumber dealers on the National Wholesalers' 

 committees, Fred s. Morse id' Morse ,v Patterson, 

 Springfield, Mass., being chairman of the trades 

 relations committee, and Horace L. Hearse of 

 the Owen Bearse & Son Company, mahogany 

 specialists of Boston, being on the membership 

 committee, 



Charles C. Batchelder of the Boston Lumber 

 Company has purchased a new Stanley automo- 

 bile, in which he takes regular week-end trips to 

 his summer home in Bolton. 



For many months the Eastern I Hedging Com- 

 pany has been engaged in transferring a large 

 Ion of the flats of the Mystic river. Charles- 

 town, to the site of the new wharves and piling 

 yards of Holt & Bugbee and Lawrence & Wiggin. 

 The work is now so far advanced that it is safe 

 to say that there will be no wharves in New 

 England better adapted to wholesale hardwood 

 purposes than tlie two mentioned. The railroad 

 facilities aie exceptional, the water advantages 

 first-class and the piling area ample for the 



l:i I ges| of stOekS. 



Lawrence & Wiggin of Tabasco, mahogany and 

 general hardwood fame, have moved into their 

 offices in the Mason building. Boston. The 

 interior finish is in quartered oak. of a figure that 

 requires the word magnificent to describe it. It 

 is one of the handsomest offices in the East. 



Boston, 

 fohti M Woods of John M. 



Pittsburg. 



II. w. iicnninger, manager of the Reliance 



Lumber tpanv. which recently moved to 01d 



Ferguson building, reports prices vers firm in 

 the lumber market, with No. 1 and No. 2 oak 

 ;oing up about si'. 



A .barter lias been taken out at Harrisburg, 

 Pa., by the E. M Diebold Lumber Company of 

 Pittsburg, with a capital of si".' The direc- 



ic is are E. M. Diebold. Whiteash, Pa., and A. J. 

 and I). N. Diebold of Pittsburg. 



The Bruckman Lumber Company, which carries 

 a big stock of oak. ash. walnut and other hard- 

 woods, is doing an extensive business. It is 

 located on the North Side and has its yards 

 as follows: 370x200 feet on the Baltimore & 

 Ohio railroad in Allegheny. 100x100 feet in Cal- 

 fc inia avenue. Allegheny, and 150x100 feet in 

 Wesl Market street, Allegheny. 



The Nicola Building Company, which is con 

 nected with the Nicola Lumber Company, has 

 just received the contract for building 100 frame 

 bouses at Collinwood, Ohio, for the Lake Shore 

 Land Company. The bouses will cost about 

 $1,600 each and will be for employees of the 

 I.. S. & M. S. railroad shops. 



Extensive lumber dealers in Glen Campbell. 

 Pa., are associated with other capitalists in the 

 purchase of the lands and buildings of the 

 Tennessee Lumber Company for about $500,000. 

 It is estimated that the tract will cut 15.000,000 

 feed, mostly oak. A large mill and twenty-five 

 miles of railroad were included in the deal. 



The l.vtle Lumber Company of Deshler, Ohio, 

 has been incorporated by David, C. R. and S. P. 

 Lytic. J. B. Grihbell and A. F. Duhler. The 

 capital I- $15, ' 



The 1'ittsburg Lumber Company has been 

 formed by Fred Mitchell, who is president; A. W. 

 Hays, treasurer, and w. A. Coleman, secretary. 

 Ibe company, which has offices at 410 and 411 

 Ferguson building, will carry an extensive line 

 of hardwoods and will supply many small con- 

 cerns up the Moiiongahela river. 



Frank M. Graham is a new dealer in hard- 

 wood lumber at 810 Keystone building. 



.1. .1. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Company 

 lias been making an extensive tour of West Vir- 

 ginia, Kentucky and the southern states buying 

 hardwood, (lis company is doing a big business 

 in oak and has lately picked up several nice 

 Iraets of timber In the South. 



The J. H. Lindsay Lumber Company is having 

 the best trade in mill work for factory buildings, 

 big manufactories and railroad buildings of any 

 year since 1000. The company makes a spe- 

 cialty of estimating this class of work and its 

 officials say the outlook for a remarkable year in 

 Ibe building of new plants is very encouraging. 



The Diebold Lumber & Manufacturing Qpm- 

 pany is doing a big business In hardwood interior 

 work for high .lass houses, sides and office build- 

 ings. 



Smith t v Ireland, who are the largest dealers 

 in timber laud in Pittsburg, report an immense 

 demand for tracts of hardwood timber. They say 

 it is very difficult to get timber to suit the 

 buyers anywhere within easy shipping distance 

 of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania hardwood is prac- 

 liealjv exhausted. Many deals are being made 

 in West Virginia, but the demands of local firms 

 for good standing timber in maple, hickory and 

 ash are very hard to 1111. 



The hardwood flooring business in Pittsburg 

 is coming to the front in a way that surprises 

 even architects. The Pittsburg Floor Company, 

 with offices in the Farmers Bank building, reports 

 fully double the business it had last year. The 

 W. i'. Allen Company, which in addition to its 

 floor business has a big trade in renovating and 



grill work, -ays business is in g 1 shape in 



everj way. The big increase in house building 

 has brought about an unusual demand for hard- 

 wood Hours, grill and wainscoting, but a very 

 large pari of the business is done in the older 

 bouses. Oak is used most, but ibis year there 



is a big call for fancy tl patterns in which 



cherry, walnut and maple are used tor borders. 

 Considerable birch is also being used for wain- 

 scoting and the trade in bircb veneered doors 

 is picking ii|' wonderfully. Nol I lie least encour- 

 aging feature of the hardwood Situation In 

 Pittsburg is ibe big Increase in tin- trade In 



hardw I fixtures in office buildings. 



of which there are an unusually large number 

 i i 1 erection. 



