HARDWOOD RECORD 



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lucal office, 1 Madison avenue, on a western 

 business and vacation trip. 



E. M. Price of Price & Hart, IS Broadway, 1- 

 l>ack from a three weeks' stay at Lakeville, 

 Conn. F. P. McNulty, their Pittsburg manager, 

 was here last week on a visit to headquarters 



Among the other pleasure seekers is Albert 

 Steinbach. local manager of the Rumbarger Lum- 

 ber Company, Philadelphia, who with his family 

 are sojourning at Asheville, N. C, the scene of 

 his early endeavors in lumberdom. 



Patrick Moore, head of Moore Bros., Twenty- 

 fourth street and Eleventh avenue, suffered the 

 loss of $800 worth of property recently through 

 the entry of Uiieves into his summer home at 

 Deal Beach, X. J. 



I. F. Balsey of the Mead & Speer Company, 

 Pittsburg, was here last week looking over the 

 local trade. 



F. T. Weed, 39 Cortlandt street, was released 

 from bankruptcy last week. His petition was 

 filed some weeks ago. 



\V. W. Lockwood, local manager of the Rice 

 & Lockwood Lumber Company, Springfield, Mass., 

 has departed for the west on a vacation trip. 



Doyle, Thomson & Co., 16 Beaver street, are 

 doing an active business in hardwoods and are 

 well satisfied with current and prospective con- 

 ditions. They have a particularly strong call 

 for plain oak. 



Philadelphia. 



John H. Schofield of Schofield Bros., Pennsyl- 

 vania building, and F. W. Whitman have been 

 away for a week at their mills in the western 

 part of the state, looking after shipments. They 

 report the mills as behind in orders. 



Owen M. Bruner, the popular head of Owen 

 M. Bruner & Co., spent several days recently at 

 Atlantic City cooling off. 



Clem E. Lloyd, Jr.. of the Cherry River Boom 

 & Lumber Company has been away on a com- 

 bined pleasure and business trip through New 

 England. 



Emil Guenther has been running a foundry in 

 connection with his lumber business, but has 

 lately sold the foundry to the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 way Company for siding purposes. 



J. Wistar Evans of the Philadelphia Veneer 

 & Lumber Company lias returned from a trip 

 through the South. He reports business in the 

 veneer line in that section as better than he ex- 

 pected and that he landed some very satisfac- 

 tory orders. 



The Frambes-Difenderfer Lumber Company, 

 Real Estate Trust building, has dissolved by 

 mutual consent. James W. Difenderfer will 

 continue the business as the J. W. Difenderfer 

 Lumber Company at the same address, while 

 Smith S. Frambes has joined the forces of 

 Owen M. Bruner & Co. in the Land Title build- 

 ing. 



Charles L. Meckley of Strong & Meckley. Real 

 Estate Trust building, announces that he has 

 made arrangements to handle a full line of 

 hardwoods. As this firm has done a fine business 

 in white pine, it is a surety that they will be 

 able to place their line of hardwoods to the 

 best advantage. 



Eli B. Hallowell of Eli B. Hallowell & Co. 

 has gone to Maine for a vacation after one of 

 the busiest seasons in the history of his firm. 

 Ralph Souder of the same firm has been at 

 Alton Bay, N. H., for his vacation. 



L. E. Walton and I. P. Walton of J. S. Kent 

 Company, Harrison building, have just returned 

 from a camping trip at the Thousand Islands, 

 where they report fish as very plentiful. 



Robert C. Lippincott, North American build 

 ing, has returned from a buying trip. 



I. D. Miller, Real Estate Trust building, states 

 that business with him has been very good, but 

 that for the past few days there has been a 

 slight falling off in demand. He thinks this is 

 merely temporary and can see no reason for any 

 price cutting. 



Goodhue & Evans, Land Title building, report 

 business good. 



*V. Sri,, ,i i f Schofield Brothers, 

 vlvania buiM 

 weeks' stay at Atlantic City, He . 



aied bi \i 

 Jr. 



Norman B raj 



Ci u aildlng, rep 

 very nood. but i i ag, -locks. 



He was at North Tonawanda a few day! 

 and says that sti the lowest that 



he has seen at this season lor yen,,. 



It. Wyatt Wistar of Wistar. Underbill .. 

 has been taking a vacation at Cape May. As 



IS lie returns F. S. Underbill 

 0' an City for his resting spell. They report 

 a fine season's business with no indication of 

 :my fall in either demand or prices. 



Charles II. Thompson of Lewis Thompson & 

 1 '". is making an extended trip in the West, 

 looking over hardwoods to replenish stocks after 

 an unusually busy season. 



Cincinnati. 

 T. J. Moffett, president of the Maloy, Thomp- 

 son & Moffett Company, spent several days in 

 Chicago recently on important business. While 

 he was away he was chosen director of the 

 Third National bank. He is also president of 

 the Cincinnati Business Men's Club. 



Leland G. Banning has returned from a 

 three weeks' vacation, spent in the wilds of 

 Canada. 



Will S. Sterrett, formerly with the Farrin- 

 Korn Lumber Company, has gone into business 

 for himself, being located at 224 West Fourth 

 street. He is immensely popular in the trade 

 and has its best wishes. 



Floyd Day, a prominent timber land operator 

 of Manchester, Ky., was here recently on a 

 secret business mission. 



At the National Reciprocity Conference to be 

 held in Chicago this month, the Business 

 Men's Club of this city will be represented by 

 T. ,T. Moffett of the Maley. Thompson & Moffett 

 Company. Thomas P. Egan of the J. A. Fay & 

 Egan Company will act for the Manufacturers' 

 Club, and George P. Altenberg of the same com- 

 pany will represent the Metal Trades A 



tion. 



The wonderful activity in the building indus- 

 try in Cincinnati is shown by the report of the 

 building inspector for July. There were 392 

 permits issued, with improvements estimated at 

 $777,222. These figures are exclusive of a large 

 hotel to be erected, which if counted would 

 swell the amount to more than $2,000,000. For 

 the same month last year 392 permits were 

 granted, with improvements estimated at $743,- 

 800. 



Samuel Richey of Richey, Halsted & Quick is 

 home from a month's tour of the Northwest and 

 1'acitic coast states. Before returning he stopped 

 in Chicago for a brief period. 



The lumber movement for July, according to 

 the Chamber of Commerce records, was as fol- 



Reeeipts, 5,885 cars: shipments, 3 

 cars. During the same month last year 4,896 

 cars were received and 3.43S shipped. 



Articles of incorporation of the Cincinnati, 



Burnside & Cumberland River railway were filed 



in the courts at Covington, Ky., on August 2. 



The capital stock of the company is $250,000 



and the purpose is the building and operating of 



a road from Burnside Junction, in Pulaski 



county, Kentucky, by way of Bui Ddlng 



iievllle Station on the Cincinnati Southern 



railway, a distance about fourteen miles. The 



proposed route passes through rich timber lands. 



The incorporator W. 



K. T. lleai inatl : 



M. R. Hubbard, i • and M. !'. Molloy. 



All the Incorporators are with the 



anatl Southi'io 



George P. Alt- manager of 



,1. A. I'ay ,\. Egi mpany, who is In Canada 



on a vacation, wrl es that the recen 



of the United Si '<un- 



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i rable 



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Of ■ 



, this 

 city 



ii.e Manufacturers' Club, through Its 



of the irrln Lumber Company 



v effort to bring the commi- 



licre. 



■on. Ky.. on M 

 Taylor & Crati 



Iron \ I.., 

 uel Noble, I'. W. Flefc her and D 

 plaintiff company all. l 

 tract of timber land in Pi 



tucky, anil that the Breathitt Coal, Iron & Lnm- 

 as been unlawfully rutting valu 

 able timber there. A temporary injunction was 

 granted. 



A second petition I -of the H 



rage Company of Richmond. Ky . wat 

 " Co Ington i.i . Lugusl : for an involuntary 

 order of bankruptcy. 



The roungstown Lumber Company of Yoi 

 town. (p.. has been incorporated by A. <;. Cun- 

 ningham. M r. Fitzgerald, w. B. MeElvay, J. J. 



and .1. .1. Hamilton, 

 of si. ooo. 



Pittsburg. 



The Pittsburg Saw Mill I. um py is 



the latest concern in the field. Its members are 

 C l' and I' B Evans and II A, Cllins. 



The Reliance Lumber & Maim.:! hiring Com- 

 pany has been incorporated under the law- of 

 Pennsylvania by A. M. Turner of the A. M. 

 Turner Lumber company, ". II Rectanue and 

 YV. II. Mace. 



The Pennsylvania law n lacted pro- 



viding for a rebate of taxes on timher lands Is 

 going to have a very good effect, Deports from 

 the northeast counties of the state already Indl- 

 a disposition on the part of the smaller 

 land owners to plant large numbers of hardwood 

 and on file part of owners of large tracts 

 io pre Ing timber. 



J. .1. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany says the bardw I trade is in much b 



condition than two weeks ago. judging by In- 

 quiries. The firm has six circular mills run 

 ning full force in Kentucky and West Virginia 

 in. I Is to make a big rut i his fail. 



( ialc bill i let with .1, 1 



Mcllvain & Co. for the past month. The\ 

 booking some good orders and cutting some fine 

 timber in West Virginia. 



The Ohlopyle Lumber Company, which pur- 

 chased a big tract of oak and hemlock at Ohio 

 pyle, Pa., last spring, is preparing to do a large 

 business there this winter. The company 

 has two mills cutting a day, and by 



October 1 expects to double this output. 



The Nicola Brothers Company has been doing 



a rushing business in hnrdw I all summer and 



fall trade. E. 

 ainard of that company has just left for 

 a mi: ' vacation. 



A new firm Io 

 • 



plant Is on tbe Coal & Iron 



Run, Pa. 



g run of 

 small ding op remark- 



ably well -men 



flint and Irv- 



■ pany Is going 



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