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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Earl ['aimer, president of the National Sard 

 wood Lumber Association, was in the city 

 last week c-n his waj to Omena, Midi., for his 

 summer vacation. His family is already in 

 stalled in liis summer cottage at that picturesque 

 lake Michigan. 

 The National Lumber Manufacturing Company. 

 Ashland b!i .- . lias arranged with the 



son & Kimix Lumber Company as exclusive 

 agents tor their Jackson, Ala., mill 

 pat, and with the Curll ft Lytle Lumber Com- 

 pany. Pittsburg, for the exclusive sale of the 

 its H est Virginia mill. 

 A I.. Dennis of Dennis Brothers, the well- 

 known hardwood lumber and maple flooring 

 manufacturers oi* Grand Rapids, was a visitor 



in the i !hi( ag arkel lasl 



Among the welcome visitors in town a lew 

 ago it :i 3 I 'anie! I take, tie- veti 

 wood mairii.o (in . rerse City, Mich. 



C. M. c,.:rk sales manager for the Swan 

 Lumber Company, clay City, Ky . who is about 

 .1 i nown in ciio ago as he is on his as 

 i from a prot! 

 fever. It will be welcome 

 to his many friends to know that he is 



In the loin 



ii" iiw;i'W Record is indebted to the 



en Lumber Com] j for a useful little 



pad i"i- moistening envelopes, which this com- 

 pany Is evidei tiding to ii- friends a- a 

 gift, li is ;, us. lui ami attractive little novi 



ing b->ta rime and tongue. 



Boston. 



Theod H. Buck, prin 



lumber firm of T. H. Buck & Co died 

 week at his Wlhthrop home, in his sixty- 

 fifth year. .Mr. Buclt i lucks- 



Me., to which [„wn his family had 

 given Its none As o youth ho cami 

 sea and in the earl iblished the 



firm of 'I', ii. Buck A Co., which has grown 

 to be one of the lar| II businesses in 



: us. Th.- lumber trad 



hi ami vicinity held a general meeting 

 anil passed resolutions of respect to his mem- 

 ory. 



In Robinson, the Springfield, Mass , v. 

 sale lumber dealer, last week when return- 

 ing from a two week's Ashing trip in his 

 launch, with his son and n pilot as 

 panions, during the night f . 1 1 overboard prob 

 ably while asleep. The river was dragged ami 

 i found. Th.- funeral was hi I" 

 lay. Mr H..1,! , native "f De- 



troit, Mich., in his forty-fifth year, tie 

 sessor of an extensive business. 

 During the second week of July a 



ry origin started in the 

 F I. ami. & Co., Boston, ami swept 



mil. ii i '.. iii|.aiiv. re- 

 sulting iii -,, total loss of al.out $200,0'" 

 which approximately $50,000 will fall ..i 



erty of B. F. Lamb & I '•.. ami something 

 under {35,000 on that of tie i ' W Leatb 

 Lumber Company Mr Portunato, oni oi 



ninent empl i I hi I «athi t bei I '.mi 



pany, had a narrow and th.- w 



man who was assisting him put up the 

 officers shutters was th, so sud- 



i flames. I ,l. ,\ 



opened a temporary office at 380 



Alba.. ,-t kte.wn what th. 



will do I- i 



but it is understood that the c. \\\ 

 Leathei be. Lumber I lompany will n 

 its Alban ird, but will establish a 



•low.; -^ already 



i at its Swett street yard. 

 A number of incendiary attorn 

 made on Boston lumber yards i 



Iiur M. Moore, office manager for Win. 

 E. Lit 1 'So Id, the Boston wholesaler, is en- 

 Joyir- ation in the "balmy 



atmos tin- country." 



H. A. Savage, with the Cypress Lumber 

 Company, will leave Boston next Saturday 

 for a two weeks' outing. 



Charles i '. Batchelder. treasurer of the Bos- 

 ton Lumber Company, is spending his Satur- 

 days and Sundays at his summer home in 

 Bolton. Sir. Batchelder makts the t rip to 

 and from Bolton in his handsome new auto- 

 mi ibile. 



John M. Woods, ..t John M. Woods & Co., 



- much of his time at his Sot 

 ville residence, although making trips at In- 

 tls to tin- Corinthian Facht Club at Mar- 



blehead, of which he is a member. E. D. 

 Walker, flrsl vie- president of the Lumbet 



111.- flrm of John M. Woods & 

 Co., is enjoying the plea- imping at 



ind, near Essi v Mass. Mr. \\ 

 has power boat. 

 Galen Parker, of Parker >v- Page, hardtt i 



- ami .low is. l.-av.s Bos- 

 ton .oi Tuesday next for a three weeks' so- 

 journ in i glon of New 1 1 

 shire. Mr. Francis Page, of th.- same com- 

 pany, is summering on tie- north shore, being 



■ itly situated at Clifton, U 

 R. W. Dougi thi i limber 



Trade Club Is at thi Colonial fan, Winthrop 

 i ind alternates between business 



One day lasl week Mr. Doug- 

 brought in. single handed, seventy ■ 



pound sea fish— said to be the i rd 



catch ..f the season. 



Tie- midsummer outing of the Ma 

 Wholesale Lumber Association, held on 

 Wednesday last was a 



Th •-.■in tin Vesta conveyed tie- pony to 



•lia ami Manchester by the S -i re- 



turning stopped at the hous --; thi Corinthian 

 yacht i 'int.. Marblehead, Mass., where a 

 dinner was served. Addresses were made i>\ 

 dent Win. i-:. Litchfield; Wm. Bacon, of 

 port, Peti : .v ''.. chairman of the 

 outing commltti ' i ford, of the 



11 M. Bickford Lumber Company, ami otl 



New York. 



The program ol the National Wholesale i.uni 

 l.er Dealers' Association to be held al Ottawa 

 August in. 17 ami IV shows that the meeting 

 will he an interesting one from the many im- 

 portant topics t" come up for discussion. New 



York win I..- well represented on ii tcaslon, 



many deali glad t. take advantage of 



the opportunity of visiting one of the most at- 

 tractive spots ..t tin- Dominion at the most de 



I -.. n ..1" the j .-:i i 



John Cathcart, tin- bardwood manufacturer 

 Kiel exporter, 115 Franklin street, la at his De 



Ala., plant for a three months' stay. 

 Reports from him through the local office slab- 

 thai tin- plant is turning out more and better 

 lumber than ever before and that L905 bids fair 

 I.. I..- the banner year in hi- operations. A fine 

 new planing mill has been added t-i the plant 

 which gives Mr. i atbcarl one of the best south- 

 ern hardw I operations of the present time. 



Gerhard Merlins, representative for Price & 



Pierce, Ltd., London, who has t n visiting the 



prim ipai hardwood manufacturing points in the 

 West ; i ii < i South, Bailed for home on the Oceanic 

 July 5, after a SSful trip. 



Th.- Gauley Company's big mill at Camden-on 



.. \v. Va I. I'm-. \ Hart, 18 



Broadway, are selling agents, is running full 

 time on a fine lot of bardwood ami spin..- logs. 

 The new train road recently Installed assures a 

 for the mill which pre- 

 viously was depend tides. 



.i Shepard, local manager of th.- Empo- 

 rium Lumber Company's interests, with office 

 at i Madison avenue, has returned from a - 

 lion spent at his old home in Ilillshoro. Ohio. 



Harry 1,. Dewej ..i Dixon ft Dewey, Flatlron 

 Building, reports the hardwood trade as fair, bul 



would like p. see a little more activity among 

 Hie Inlying trade. This firm has a very choice 

 line of stork ami will he right in it with the 

 opening of the fall demand, which from present 

 indications gives promise of a renewed activity 

 all along the line. 



Sam E. I'.i ir of llie llarr ft Mills Company. 



Flatlron Building, has just retiir 1 from a two 



woks' trip to Tennessee and West Virginia mill 

 points. II.- reports conditions there firm, with 

 supplies short ami Indications that the fall will 

 see higher prices. Mr I'.arr is spending the sum- 

 mer wilh his family at Arverne. I.. I., going hack 

 ami forth daily. 



It. 1.. Waikley, head of the local ..line of 

 the Crosby & Beckley Company, New Haven. 

 Conn., at l Madison avenue, i- on a imsin. ss 

 trip to i ihio points. 



J. I'.. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, was at the imperial for a 

 coupl days last week on a brief business trip. 



ll. M. Bickford, II. M. Bickford Company, 

 Boston, was looking into the New York market 

 last week. 



R. C. Scatcherd, son ••! John \l Scatcherd of 

 Buffalo, who is load of the New STork ft Bata- 

 vla w Iworklng Company, Batavia, \\ v.. was 



in l.ovn lasl week Closing up some business deals 



His company is furnishing some of the handsom 

 •■si t rim t hi in.s east . 



I'eiiileniiis White ,,i Buffalo was in town for 

 the greater pan of the fortnight at He- head 



quarters of the Lumber Insurance Com] j of 



Sen 1 ork, of H bli b In- is president. 



K. s. Morrison, local representative for the 

 Lumbermen's Credit Association of Chicago pub- 

 lishers of th'- Red Book, has severed his connec- 

 tion with that concern to sail for England pur 

 suanl io advices that he had i n left a large 



. -slate. 



]■;. w it. ,1.1. iiis. Moff.-ti. Robblns ft Co., Clneln 



which firm is . i. .s.-iy allied with Maley, 



Thompson ft Moffett, was a visitor last week on 



business and pleasure, accompanied bj Mrs Rob 



bills. 



li. W. llighie, hardwood wholesaler of 45 

 Broadway, is on a business ami pleasure trip to 

 the Adirondacks. 



E. M. Price, of Price ft Hart. 1s Broadway, 

 has returned to the office from a three weeks' 

 stay at Lakeville, Conn., where he has been re- 

 cuperating from a slightly rundown condition, 



George t, (..ok. manager of the Maple. Birch 

 ft Beech Flooring Company's ..p. -rations at 

 . Pa., was ;, visitor last week on business 

 and pleasure. 



Then- was a meeting "ii -Inly 14 ..1 ll .-.I 



hois oi the American Parquetry Company of 

 this city, which recently went into bankruptcy, 



at which thirty claims were filed. Charles M. 

 Beam and William I'.lau wen- both candidates 

 for trustee, but no agreement was reached and 



eetlng ad *ned to a later date. 



A meeting of the creditors of the International 

 Mahogany Company, New York. Cincinnati and 

 Pittsburg, was held July 1 I. E. 1! Finch was 

 unanimously elected trustee. The schedule tiled 



-hows liabilities of ST 10. ' and nominal assets 



of $643, 



Baltimore. 

 Lumbermen here are deeplj Interested In the 

 complaint brought before the Interstate Com 

 ineree Commission by the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association against a number 

 ot eastern railroads, in which the petitioners ask 

 thai the railroads 1..- compelled to furnish equlp- 

 ment with their flat cars in the way of racking 

 for loading lumber and to make an all. -wan 

 ..on pounds per car In the freight charges for 

 ibis equipment. The lumbermen, while contend- 

 ing that it was wrong to compel them to furnish 



the racking, were disposed to effect a eompro 

 mis l the basis ,,f the railroads making an al- 

 lowance of 500 pounds in the weight of each car. 

 lb. i ib. railroads flatly refused t.. make any 

 ions, and ' !"•■ Nations I al nally 



