HARDWOOD RECORD 



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John II. .Tenks. vice president of the Robert 

 H. Jocks Lumber Company of Cleveland, was a 

 welcome Chicago visitor en Saturday. 



Boston. 



George J. Barker of the Wood-Barker Company, 

 with offices in Boston and New York, leaves to- 

 morrow night for a trip to Newfoundland and 

 will return about August 1. 



Elmer Gibbs. president of the Owen Bearse & 

 Son Company, who has just returned from a 

 three weeks' trip among the large consuming 

 centers of the middle West, reports trade as 

 generally quiet in those centers. Mr. Gibbs will 

 spend the remainder of the July days at the 

 seaside near North Falmouth. Cape Cod, where 

 he will lay aside the cares of business. 



Mr. Hobart of Hobart & Co., Boston whole- 

 sale liardwood dealers, intends to leave Boston 

 on the last of July for an extended trip among 

 the hardwood mills of the South and West. 



M. J. Connolly, southern buyer for the Wood- 

 Barker Company, has left for the southern states, 

 where he will remain some time. 



Hon. J. M. W. Hall of Wellman, Hall & Co. 

 of Boston has, much to the regret of his numer- 

 ous business friends and political followers, de- 

 clined to receive the nomination for lieutenant 

 governor of Massachusetts. With the voluntary 

 and regretted retirement of State Senator John 

 M. Woods of John M. Woods & Co. from politics, 

 the trade is without any prominent political rep- 

 resentative in state affairs. 



Horace L. Bearse, treasurer of the Owen Bearse 

 & Son Company, has arranged to spend the 

 month of August at his summer residence in 

 Osterville, on Cape Cod. 



Lindsley H. Shepard of Shepard, Farmer & Co., 

 Boston, who recently made an offer with his 

 creditors at 37% ceuts on the dollar, has had 

 his offer accepted in due form, and is now mak- 

 ing out checks in settlement of all claims. The 

 liabilities of Shepard. Farmer & Co. approximated 

 §90,000. 



New York. 



Schedules in bankruptcy of the International 

 Mahogany Company of this city, with branches 

 in Cincinnati and l'ittsburg, show liabilities of 

 $746,069, of which amount $501. lull is secured. 

 Among the secured creditors is the Knicker- 

 bocker Trust Company of New York, $325, uuo. 



The Whitewood Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in this city with a capital of 

 §11X1,000. The directors are : Leon Isaacson 

 of Brooklyn and Albert Falck and M. H. Ellison 

 of New York. 



Doyle, Thompson & Co., 16 Beaver street, 

 report the hardwood trade as good. They are 

 making a specialty of high-class hardwoods, and 

 with the excellent mill connections at sources 

 of supply the firm is fast forging to the front 

 as one of New York's leading hardwood firms. 



F. I. Nichols of the Nichols & Cox Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been here 

 looking over the local situation with a view to 

 still further increasing bis eastern business. 



Harry A. Gorsuch of Kansas City, Mo., who 

 so ably looks after the interests of the two 

 thousand members of the Southwestern Lumber 

 Dealers' Association, covering Missouri, Kansas 

 and Oklahoma, paid New York a brief visit the 

 early part of the fortnight en route home from 

 a convention of the cement and building mate- 

 rial men at Atlantic City. 



John H. Ireland of the Cross, Austin & Ire- 

 land Lumber Company, Brooklyn, sailed for 

 Europe on the 5th for a visit to his daughter, 

 who resides abroad. 



Joshua Oldham & Sons, saw manufacturers of 

 Brooklyn, have issued a very attractive Fourth 

 of July mailing folder, the contents of which 

 include pertinent suggestions as to the quality 

 of their celebrated saws. 



The employees of the American Wood Work- 

 ing Machinery Company at their head offices, 

 136 Liberty street, have one of the best com- 



mercial ball teams in this vicinity. They have 

 beaten but once this year and are cleaning 

 up everything in sight. 



The Southern Saw Mill Company, Ltd.. New 

 Orleans, La., with local sales office at 1 Madi- 

 son avenue, recently shipped one of the big- 

 gest single carloads of Louisiana red cypress to 

 this market that was ever received here. The 

 car contained 120,240 feet of 1 % and 2-inch 

 selects, forty live per cent of which were 16 

 feet with an average width of 11 u inches. The 

 total value of the car was $1,074.04. 



Frank F. Fee of Newark, O., spent several 

 days in town during the past fortnight pushing 

 the sale of his well knowu quartered oak and 

 other hardwood specialties. 



Sam E. Barr, who so successfully manages 

 the new local office of the Barr A: Mills Com- 

 pany, has just completed a tour of the firm's 

 eastern mill points. He states that they are in 

 excellent shape, with a fine line of stock to 

 take care of the wants of the local trade and 

 from the way business is coming in, it is evi- 

 dent that local buyers appreciate this fact. 



Dixon & Dewey, who handle the products of 

 the John T. Dixon mills in West Virginia, North 

 Carolina and Georgia, are also enjoying their 

 full share of business. Their stock is second to 

 none that comes into this territory and includes 

 a full line of all the hardwoods and flooring. 



John Cathcart, hardwood wholesaler, manu- 

 facturer and exporter of this city, is still at 

 his Decatur, Ala., operation, and reports re- 

 ceived from him by the office indicate that 

 everything is in first rate shape. 



Schedules in bankruptcy of the C. G. 

 Schwartz Company of White Plains, whose em- 

 barrassment was noted in the last issue, show 

 liabilities of $26,0(36 and assets of $42,167. 

 Stephen F. Thayer of Y'onkers has been ap- 

 pointed receiver for the company. 



There was a special meeting of the Board of 

 Trustees of the New York Lumber Trade Asso- 

 < Eation at the headquarters, 18 Broadway, on 

 June 23. Six new members were admitted as 

 follows : E. H. Coonrod. sales agent for the J. 

 J. Newman Lumber Company and the Lacka- 

 wanna Lumber Company, of Scranton, Pa. ; 

 Norris H. Norden. 101 West 118th street : F. 

 H. Watkins Lumber Company, 1 Madison 

 Avenue : S. F. Minter, 1 Broadway ; H. R. Dun- 

 iway, 18 Broadway, and Swain, Allcock & 

 Swain, 39 Cortlandt Street. The resignation of 

 Ogden & Co., one of the charter members of 

 the association, was accepted with regret owing 

 to the fact that they were retiring. E. D. Mac 

 Murray of Lawrence & MacMurray, Hoboken, 

 was elected to fill a vacancy on the Board. 



Richard T. Baer, of R. T. Baer & Co., Balti- 

 more. Md.. was in town on the 30th on a busi- 

 ness trip arranging for increased representa- 

 tion for his firm in the New England district. 



L. T. Davidson, manufacturer of hardwood 

 lumber, Glasgow, Ky., spent the Fourth of July 

 holidays in the city on a brief business and 

 pleasure trip. 



William C. Gellibrand of Gellibrand, Hayward 

 & Co., London, arrived in the city June 30 on 

 his way home after an extended tour of the 

 hardwood supply sources of the country. He 

 sailed on the Campania July 1. 



Philadelphia. 

 The sum of $20,784,220 was expended in 

 building operations during the past six months 

 ending June 30 in this city, which sum repre- 

 sents 4.455 permits for 0.451 operations. For 

 the corresponding period of last year 4.210 per- 

 mits for 7.7S0 operations, at a cost of $17,364,- 

 955, were issued. This year's figures show an 

 increase of $3,41 0.205 in cost over those of last 

 year. This increase is mainly due to the un- 

 usual number of dwellings that are being erect- 

 ed in West Philadelphia and the northern sec- 

 tions of the city. The figures show that so far 

 this year permits have been granted for 5.821 

 dwellings, to cost $13,344,260, as compared with 



4,150, to i $9,565,950, in the corresponding 



period of last year, an increase in cost of $3,- 

 778,310. 



That the erection of dwellings has been keep- 

 ing pace with industrial developments is shown 

 by the permits issued so far this year for 62 

 manufacturing plants and warehouses to cost 

 $1,263,875. For the six mouths of last year 

 work was begun on 58 buildings lor manufac- 

 turing purposes to cost $1,097,475. The figures 

 also show the erection of 10 warehouses, to cost 

 $468,775, and 1 :; houses of worship, costing 

 $246,700. There are also 12 schoolhouses be- 

 gun, at a cost of $1,097, 5 buildings for 



the city, to cost Sl^T. ; ..no hospital, costing 



$51,400, and one charitable institution. 

 000. For the month of June 886 permits were 

 issued for 1,708 operations to cost as estimated 

 $4,567,52u. 



Robert G. Kay says he has more than he can 

 take care of in the West Virginia spruce line. 

 While the mills have been working day and 

 night and the output thus largely increased, it 

 is difficult to keep pace with the orders and ob- 

 tain cars fast enough to satisfy the demands of 

 the trade. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. find the demand 

 for high-grade hardwoods so good that they are 

 adding to their yard force and making every 

 effort to keep up with orders. The policy of 

 handling the best stock of hardwood obtainable 

 is proved by the increasing trade. 



John Soble, of Soble Bros., who spent con- 

 siderable time in Baltimore and vicinity looking 

 up business connections and placing stock, says 

 that the mills of West Virginia are all very 

 busy and that the demand for hardwood lum- 

 ber was probably never better. There are per- 

 haps no unsold stocks in the hands of manu- 

 facturers, and the millmen have orders ahead 

 for months to come. 



Cypress conditions are most satisfactory ac- 

 cording to Horace A. Reeves. Jr.. of It. B. 

 Wheeler & Company, and inquiries for the sum- 

 mer trade are most encouraging, the only diffi- 

 culty is in getting stock as fast as desired. 



Sailing tonnage shows a decided improve- 

 ment and in some cases a firmer tendency, is 

 felt in the rates for the future. The owners of 

 foreign craft report a better freight for the 

 Soutli American section than for some time past. 

 I. D. Miller of I. D. Miller & Co. returned home 

 from a trip to the cypress mills of Louisiana 

 and other southern mill points last week. Mr. 

 Miller says that manufacturers are receiving or- 

 ders as fast as they can handle them, and that 

 while stocks are nicely assorted manufacturers 

 are not accumulating any stock. 



Weather conditions have remained favorable 

 during the past fortnight and a slight increase 

 in the output of hardwood lumber is the result 

 is reported by Miller & Miller. 



The Little River Lumber Company, of which 

 the ever popular W. M. SIcCormick is one of the 

 principal owners, rep., its shipments for the past 



month as over 2,( feel of poplar, ash and 



hemlock. The company's mill is turning out on 

 an average of about 60,000 feet daily. 



President Sykes of the Emporium Lumber Com- 

 pany. Buffalo, is on a visit to this market. He 

 says Pennsylvania hardwoods are selling well. 



Brawley & Smith are finding quartered oak 

 more active than formerly, and are of the opinion 

 that it wil' sell more on a level in volume with 

 plain oak. 



annua] baseball game between the Lumber- 

 men and the Master Builders was held June 21. 

 The stands of the Philadelphia National League 

 grounds were well tilled with enthusiat 

 tators. The score was 11 to 9 in favor of the 

 builders. 



W. M. Ritter. head of the W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company of Columbus, O., was in Philadelphia 

 last week on a pleasure trip. 



Henry II. Benners of William J. Benners a 

 Sons has gone abroad for the summer rather un- 

 expectedly. The family physician who has been 



