HARDWOOD RECORD 



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flee headquarter^ and carried on a large and 

 steadily increasing business. In ins? the firm 

 sold and immediately leased the building con- 

 taining its headquarters, Mr. (.'lark having died 

 in March of that year. After the death of 

 Willis L. Smith, in 1899, a further change took 

 place in the personnel of the firm and on May 

 1. WOO, a five years' partnership contract was 

 passed between George L. Smith. Frederick R. 

 Smith, his son, and John W. Drake, who was 

 at that time salesman for the concern, 

 and the presently used yard and offices, 

 231 Medford street. Charlestown, Mass., 

 were occupied for the tirst time. The con- 

 tinued illness of George L. Smith produced 

 an uncertainty which made it difficult for the 

 remaining two partners to extend the company's 

 large business and this state of affairs continued 

 until the death of the senior member of the 

 firm, on January 30, 1904. Since then a differ- 

 ence of opinion has existed between the remain- 

 ing partners as to the conduct of the business, 

 which resulted in May In the formation of the 

 new corporation bearing the old name, for the 

 purpose of carrying out tlte new policy of one 

 of the oldest and most substantial hardwood 

 concerns in the East. The officers of the new 

 corporation are Frederick It. Smith, president 

 and general manager, and M. Z. Downing, treas- 

 urer. The business is capitalized at $50,000, 

 a large amount of the stock being held by Mrs. 

 George L. Smith and Fred K. Smith. 



The hardwood trade, especially in whole- 

 sale circles, is quiet. Furniture manufacturers 

 are perhaps the least busy, interior trim manu- 

 facturers the most busy, by comparison. The 

 piano manufacturers are having a fairly good 

 trade, but many of them are finding time to 

 attend the fourth annual convention of the 

 National Association of Piano Dealers of Amer- 

 ica, which is being held this week at Put-in Bay 

 on the Great Lakes. Among those who will 

 attend the convention are K. N. Kimball of the 

 Hallet & Davis Piano Company, Henry F. Mil- 

 ler of the Henry F. Miller Piano Company. 

 Handel Pond of the Ivers & Pond Piano Com- 

 pany, Edward S. Payson of the Emerson riano 

 Company, Edward 1*. Mason and A. E. John- 

 stone of the Mason & Hamlin Company and C. 

 R. Putnam of the Estey Organ Company, all of 

 Boston. 



The factory building owned by the L. J. 

 Coburn Land & Lumber Company at New Brit- 

 ain, Conn., has been attached for a claim of 

 $5,000, the building being the one now occu- 

 pied by the H. B. Olmstead Company, man- 

 ufacturers of plumbers' woodwork. 



R. W. Douglas, secretary of the Lumber 

 Trade Club, Boston, at the meeting held on 

 Thursday, announced his intention of going to 

 the Pacific coast in August for the purpose of 

 acquiring a working knowledge of Pacific coast 

 lumbers in their relation to the Eastern mar- 

 ket. 



It is Mr. Douglas' intention to return to the 

 Eastern field as the representative of west 

 coast manufacturers as soon as he considers 

 himself as qualified. 



New York. 



An important decision was rendered to the 

 customs authorities in the United States cir- 

 cuit court in this city on June 9 when the 

 court decided on a test case that all imports 

 of wood chemically treated, known as fire- 

 proofed wood, must pay thirty-five per cent 

 ad valorem under the Dingley law for "man- 

 ufactures of wood.'' The suit was brought 

 on a recent shipment, the claimants taking 

 the ground that such lumber was only dutia- 

 ble at $2.00 per thousand feet. 



Current reports indicate that the next step 

 which will be taken by the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association in their ef- 

 forts to secure the 500 pounds allowance in 

 weight for standards and stakes used in flat 

 car equipment will be in the direction of a 



suit through the In Comm 



mission n 1 1 :. i ii 



by a joint suit iral of the lea 



i nizations. 

 A petition In bankruptcy was filed oi 



1 _' 1 1 ■ in i ist the C. G. Schwartz I 



in i. lumber and planing mill operator 

 white Plains, b; three creditors, who claim 

 that the company is Ii at. The Schwartz 



company wa ■ d with a capital of $200.- 



000 in September. 



W. M. Ritter. head of the W. M. Rlttet 

 Lumber Companj ol Columbus, O.. was at 

 the Waldot i tl k on a pleasure trip. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Maniif.i' im i i - oi iation of tin I 



States, was likewise in the East on a business 

 trip and spent some days in the district, dur- 

 ing which he incidentally took in Coney Is- 

 land. He reports association affairs as ex- 

 ceedingly satisfactory. 



The Kalt Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized to conduct a general wholesale and re- 

 tail mahogany and hardwood business, with 

 yards at Sixty-fourth street and Second ave- 

 nue, by Henry W. Kalt, who for years has 

 been associated with Wm. P. Youngs & Bro., 

 this city. Associated with Mr. Kalt in the 

 new company are F. F. and Charles R. Cran- 

 nell, prominent Albany wholesalers. The 

 company is arranging a fine and up-to-date 

 yard at the address given and will carry very 

 complete stocks of their specialties. Mr. Kalt 

 has a host of friends in the trade who are 

 wishing him full measure of success in his 

 new undertaking. 



The Carmody Wood Working Company has 

 been incorporated in Brooklyn with a capital 

 of $2,000, to conduct a general woodworking 

 and trim business. The directors are S. C. 

 and Hiram Williams and George Carmody. all 

 of Brooklyn. 



The American Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of St. Louis. Mo., has opened a New York 

 office at 22 East Thirty-first street, Manhat- 

 tan, under the management of H. A. Singer, 

 for years associated with prominent St. Louis 

 houses. This step was made owing to the 

 rapid increase in eastern trade of this com- 

 pany. 



L. A. Kimball, the well-known local rep- 

 resentatives of the Simmonds Saw Company, 

 was conspicuous on two of the most impor- 

 tant committees of the Union League Club 

 during the entertainment of President Roose- 

 velt over Decoration day. 



Grover D. Smith, who for years has catered 

 to the New Jersey trade for White. Rider & 

 Frost, of this city and North Tonawanda, has 

 severed his connection with that company to 

 engage on his own account, with offices at 

 Montclair, N. J. 



G. Hoyt & Co., hardwood dealers of Brook- 

 lyn, have closed out their business. Part of 

 the stock and equipment has been purchased 

 by Charles W. Werkheiser and Edward J. 

 Glenn former employees, who have opened a 

 retail hardwood yard at Kent avenue and 

 Taylor street, Brooklyn, under the style of 

 Werkheiser & Glenn. 



C. W. Manning, the hardwood wholesaler of 

 66 Broad street, was a participant in a most 

 unfortunate accident in the Adirondacks on 

 June 1. He. in company with Edward J 

 Roys, the prominent wholesaler of Springfield 

 and Boston. Mass.. were on a fishing trip 

 and through an accident the boat was 

 ancl Ml R was drowned in his efforts to 

 reach shore. Mr Manning and the guide had 

 a very narrow escape in ma I shore 



themselves on the upturned boat. Mr. Man- 

 ning Is suffering greatly from shock and the 

 sorrow incident to Mr. Roys' death. 



T. H. Griffin, representing PI lerce, 



Ltd' London, who has been visiting I 

 wood sources of the country, sailed for home 

 last week. 



Gal •■ ay-Pease 

 Ity, Tenn., has been 1 



Virginia hardwi 

 manm 

 sale house of 1 ■ 



I < of the 

 fortnii matters at this end 



of the line. 



R. H. Downman. the cypress manufacturer 

 of New Oil ! a recent visitor In the 



local market. 



J. E nt. Kitchen & Co., Ash- 



land. Ky.. dd Square last ■■ 



on a business trip, closing up deals at thiv 

 end of the line. 



M. ]!. Fan-in of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., spent the 7th and 

 Sth in town on a little visit, going from 

 to Washington, where he appeared for a 

 prominent Cincinnati commercial body before 

 the senate committee which is taking testi- 

 mony on governmental freight rate regula- 

 tion. 



The plant of the New Ymk ami Brooklyn 

 Casket Company, Brooklyn, was wiped out 

 by fire, June 10, together with considerable 

 lumber, entailing a loss of $300,000. This com- 

 pany is an extensive purchaser of hardwood 

 lumber and it is announced that the plant 

 will be rebuilt as soon as possible. In the 

 meantime, the company is looking for tem- 

 porary quarters. 



Robert w Higbee Is on a trip to his hard- 

 wood mills at Tip Top 



Theodore Mottu, secretary of the Baltimore 

 Lumber K aa was here on the Sth in 



connection with association affairs. 



James Cockshot, the well-known English 

 exporter of Charleston, S. C, was here on 

 some export deals last week. 



Julius Deitz, head of the Buffalo Maple 

 Flooring Company, was in New York on a 

 business trip June 7. He reports the maple 

 flooring trade in very fair shape. 



Among the other hardwood lumbermen in 

 town during the fortnight were: C. R. Scatch- 

 erd, Batavia and New York Woodworking 

 Company, Batavia. N. Y.; W. B. Lance. .1 C 

 & W. B. Lance, Reading. Pa.; F. R. Whiting, 

 Janney-Whiting Lumber Company, lie: 

 phia, Pa.; F. W. Lawrence. Lawrence & Wig- 

 gin, Boston, Mass.; Michael Baer, R. P. Baer 

 & Co., Baltimore, Md., and J. W. I • 

 Frambes-Difenderfer Lumber Company. Phil- 

 adelphia. Pa. 



G. F. Wilkins. superintendent of the Gau- 

 ley Company, Camden ,. it Oauley. YV. Ya., for 

 which Price & Hart, of IS Broadway, city, are 

 is in town this week, accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Wilkins, on a brief pleasure 

 trip. 



E. W. Robbins, of Moffett & Robbins. Cin- 

 cinnati, who are closely allied with tie 

 ley, Thompson & Moffett Company in the ma- 

 hogany trade, is at the Imperial with 

 Robbins t "> connection with 



foreign business. 



F B. Williams, the distinguish. 

 manufacturer son. La., sailed for 



Europe June 13. 



R. J. Darnell, the well-known Met 

 porter also sailed on the 17th for his u 

 visit to the Great Britain and Conti.. 

 markets. 



C. O. Shepherd, who so ably look.- 

 local business of the Emporium Lumber t 

 ting Summit. Pa., will enjoy a 

 it his old home in Hillsbm 

 latter part of the month, with Mrs - 

 The shingle ■ he Buffalo t 



located at El. " ■ N. C. were 



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