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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The day of days In New England lumber cir- 

 cles is approaching when everybody gets to- 

 gether for a good time except the rival ball 

 teams of wholesalers and retailers who 

 are going in to win. The annual out- 

 ing of the baseball teams of wholesalers and 

 retailers Is set for Saturday, June 24. It is 

 hoped that the same wholesale battery, Edward 

 Saunders of the Blauchard Lumber Company, 

 pitcher, and Frank Lawrence of Lawrence & 

 Wiggin, catcher, will officiate. 



M. Walter Hart, the Boston hardwood whole 

 saler, reports an active demand among the 

 trade since earlj in the year, although the 

 volume has lessened somewhat during the past 

 month. 



Llndsiey II. Shepard, Shepard, Farmer & Co.. 

 of Boston, advises that he has completed ar- 

 rangements by securing the necessary tun. is with 

 which to pay the creditors of the company on 

 the basis of 37% cents on the dollar. 



The affairs of the T. n Buck Lumber Com 

 panj of Chelsea, Mass., have been handled so 

 well and with such dispatch thai the ered 

 of the ei mpanj maj no« expect a settlement in 

 the near future of 63 to 75 cents on the dollar. 

 i i :d B. cutler of Stetson, ' ntler >x Co., is as 

 signi e. 



■r. M. W. Hall of Wellman, Ball & Co. of 

 Boston Is being urged to accepl place on the 

 republican state ticket this year as candidate 

 for tli.- "iii, e i i lieutenant governor. It is the 

 hope of many thai Ex Mayor Hall may decide 

 to reenter political life and that the trade maj 



1 in . elect Ion to the I position 



in the gift of the commonwealth. Mr. Hall - 

 long and suci — iful business career, his con 



servative methods an<i rich experle In the 



conduct i i' measures for the public benefit, In 

 Which be has taken a leading pan. have marked 

 him as one eminently lined to creditably dis 

 charge I be duties of such an office. 



New York. 

 Returning pilgrims from the National Hard 

 wood Lumber convention at Buffalo, S v., had 



nothing but praise to offer as to the 



plishmenl it I ionization during the past 



year, the pros] ts tor the future, as well as 



'I- gem , i i ndui I ol the convention I 



Following the ting quite a number of the 



prominent western i ont lug i d the 



tropoiis before returning home, among whom 



were : G -•■ 1 1 Bt rgess oi Russe & Bui 



J. \v. Thompson, J. W. Thompson Lumber I om 

 i i Taenzer of E. E. Taenzer & Co. and 

 R. II McClure of Thompson ,\ McCIure, all of 

 Memphis : W. 0. King, W. I >. King & O 



and !■', w. Lawrence, Lawrence & Wiggin 

 Boston, Ma 



The Amerii an Hardwood Lumber Compan 

 St. Louis i- about to open a local sales office 



let ii"' management of II A. Singer, to a 



to the trade of the metropolis. Mr. Singer has 

 not e ured office quarters. 



■ e well-known wholi all bardvt i i 



F. II. Doyle & Co., composed of Fred A. Doyle 

 ami William c. Thompson, has announced a 

 be iii iii name to Doyle, Thompson >v: 

 ' " >'" ' these gentlemen are exceedingly well 

 and favorably known In the local trade and the 

 change in name Is simply a recognition of Mr. 

 Thompson, in this connection the firm report 



a vet ■ iard I I ade and st 



thai they are well supplied with hardwoi & 



Henry W. Kali, for many years associated 

 with w. P. Jiou Manhattan, is about 



to s.- Miction with that company to 



engage on his own account through the fo 



tlon of a iy. in which he will be 



r. I. and Charles It. Crauncll 



of Albany, under the style of the Kali Lumber 



mcement will be made 



as to the place of business and general conduct 



in ill" 



Secretary E. F. Perry of the National Whole- 



salers and Henry ('ape, a well known hardwood 

 wholesaler of this city, are at present the guests 

 of J. M. Hastings, a distinguished Pittsburg lum- 

 berman, at his extensive operations in Nova 

 s, otia. 



F. J. Cronin, the genial representative of the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove, 

 Ohio, who so ably looks after its eastern 

 business, was a visitor in the local trade and 

 reports business very satisfactory. 



\V. H. -Martz of the Hoyt & Woodin Manu- 

 facturing Company. Memphis. Tenn.. has been 

 it the local office of the company for several 

 days looking after matters at this end of the 

 line. 



William Elreen of William Breen's Sons, 

 Brooklyn, is on a brief business and pleasure 

 trip to Portland, Me., accompanied by their 

 sales representative, John It. Hughes. 



E. E. Wheeler, head of the Wheeler Lumber 

 Company, with a fine new hardwood manufac- 

 turing plant at daily. W. Va.. was in town 

 last week and announces that their plant is 

 ready for operation on a fine body of 

 hanlw ood 



Charles E. Dingee, son of P. M Dlngee, head 

 of the well known foreign and domestic hard- 

 arm "I" P. M, Dingee ,\. Sons, died at his 

 residence In Broi klj n, May 23. 



R. A. Walkley of thi I .v. Beckley Com- 

 pany, extensive hanlw 1 manufacturers and 



wholesalers, with headquarters at New Haven, 

 conn.. Is spending considerable time at the 

 local mpany, looking after their 



constantly Increasing trade in the metropolis. 



i erdinand Brenner of the Ferd Brenner I. urn- 

 tier i i i. Tenn., was a New 

 York visitor last week. 

 The .National Plumbei Wood Work Manu 

 pany lias iie.-u Incorporated in 

 this city to (vood work utilized in 

 the plumbers' trade, with a capital of $10,000. 

 The Incorporators are P. Epstein, Joseph Eman- 

 uel, Joseph Akst of New York and Isaac Slo- 

 minsky of Brooklyn. They propose to erect a 

 plant for the manufacture of this material in 

 the Boi - ii of Manhattan. 



r. A, Wilson, general manager of the sales 

 department of the W. M. Rltter Lumber Com- 

 pany, Columbus, 0., was. In town last week look 

 Ing after the local situation In company with E. 

 !•:. Eaton, the company local representative 



Among the hardwood lumbermen visiting the 

 metropolis during the past fortnight were the 

 following: W. 0. King, w. O. King .x Co., 

 Chicago, III.: W. s. Itlauvell, w. S. Blauvelt 

 v Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; E I Quay, Whitehall 

 Lumber Company, Whitehall, X. Y. : i: C. Mer 

 shon, YV. B. Mershon A Co., Saginaw. Mich.; 

 J. A. Prendergast, Prendergast Lumber A Coal 

 Company, Marion 0., and 6. W. Stone, stone 

 Lumber Comj an; Boston, Mass. 



William F. Clark.- of Ferguson & Clarke, 

 i lyn. has Just returned from a brief pleas- 

 ure trip. 

 John Cathcart, manufacturer, wholesaler and 



exportet ol bardw Is, with mills at Glasgow, 



Ivy . and Decatur, Ala., Is at the latter place 

 putting In a new planing mill and rebuilding, 

 with modem equipment, the whole plant, which 

 burned a year ago January. The entire opera- 

 tion will 3i me running order with an 

 excellent inn of logs cut from Mr. Cathcart's 

 timber lands In that vicinity. 



Philadelphia. 



There yv:,- ,-, iiideial.le uioie activity in build- 

 moot of the lumber dealers 

 thought. The report of the Bureau of Building 

 Inspection Cor the month of May shows that 

 there were permits granted for 1,976 opera- 

 tions, to cost $4,390,980. Of this amount 

 $2,648,085 (rill be expended for the erection of 

 1,197 dwellings So far this year the bureau 



< authorized the erection of 1,790 dwellings 

 at a cost of $10,735,465; the corresponding 

 period of last year showed permits for ."..171 



dwellings, at a cost of 87,284,050. an increase 

 this year over last year of nearly thirty- 

 live per cent. The demand for manu- 

 facturing plants is also shown in the thir- 

 teen permits granted for work, to cost $433,050. 

 Other buildings contemplated will place the fig- 

 ures far ahead of those of previous years. 



William I'. Craig', representing William Whit- 

 mer & Sons. Inc., has been in the Norfolk dis- 

 trict the past fortnight inspecting stocks at 

 several of the mills in view of getting some 

 material much wanted by the firm. The com- 

 pany has engaged the services of Lindsley H. 

 Shepard to manage their New England interests 

 with headquarters in Boston, where an office 

 will be opened shortly. 



William II. Fritz of William II. Fritz & Co. 

 says Hi mpany's biggest demand for hard- 

 woods is coming from outside the city. Most 

 of this is for building lumber, although the 

 company has a large trade among the mills and 

 bop , 



The splendid assortment of stock In the yard 

 ii.iaini.i Keieham, Jr.. is a feather in the 

 cap of that firm, as not many concerns can show 

 so many unbroken lines. An Increase of busi- 

 ness over each preceding month has been the 

 rule ;his year. 



Charles L. Meekley of Strong & Meckley has 

 aed from a western trip and reports that 

 business throughout the west Is in splendid con- 

 dition He says that sales have been large in 

 i he Tonawanda 3 a rd. 



w. <;. Underwood, representative of the Wood, 

 Barker Company in Philadelphia and vicinity, 

 has been elected vice president and secretary of 

 the Albemarle Lumber Company of Hertford, 

 N. C., manufacturers of North Carolina pine 

 and cypress Mr. Underwood will have charge 

 of the sidling end with headquarters at the 



11 d place. His resignation with the 



w I. Barker Company takes effect June 15. 



Smith s. Frambes of the Frambes-TMfenderfer 



Lumber C pany, who has 1 1 ill. is again at 



his desk. ||e states that business with his 



1 . . 1 t 1 ■. 1 exceptionally good, and that they 



are considerably behind with orders. Mr. Dif- 

 enderfer has just returned from a trip on be- 

 half of the com] 



Horace A. Reeves, Jr., of it. B. Wheeler & Co., 

 one of the Quaker City Lumbermen who attended 

 the Buffalo convention, was much pleased with 

 the amount of business transacted and t be so- 

 cial features He says that all the Phlladel- 

 phians pies, ni realize the advantages of the 

 and will try to increase the member- 

 □ this city. 

 Camden. N. J., is experiencing a building 

 1 '1 and all kinds of lumber are in great de- 

 mand Many dwellings and manufacturing es- 

 tablishments are being erected and local lumber 

 dealers are > < •■ :■ busy, in fact, many homes are 

 being built within a radius of fifteen miles of 

 Camden and all the material is drawn from the 

 yards of Camden. 



Justin Peters manager of the Pennsylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Is 

 of the opinion 1 hat stocks are fairly large In 

 the hands of the retailers, if the insurance busi- 

 ness can be taken as a basis for estimating. 

 The new business written during the past two 

 months Is the best showing, for a similar period, 

 In the bistory of the company. 



L. A. Nagle A Co. of Ogontz was elected a 

 member of the Lumbermen's Exchange at a 

 monthly meeting held June 1. 



Josepb i' Dunw Iy, the wholesaler, says he 



has 1 n getting bis share of the orders for 



the hardw I- lie is pretty well satisfied with 



conditions, excepting the slow deliveries during 

 the spring sea on. 



Business iii the hardwood line has picked up 



during the pasl week with S. B. Vi man & Co., 



Ltd., and \ard and mill are kept busy. 



Most of the lumber is wanted in a hurry, show- 

 ing that the consumers are without even small 

 stocks. 



