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HARDWOOD RECORD 



worthy helpmeet, They will he at home after 

 their wedding trip to the Hoo-Hoo annual at 

 Portland at 855 East Forty-ninth street. 



E. W. Houghton of this city, largely inter- 

 ested in th" Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Kenova. \Y. Va.. left for the company's 

 plant .Sept. 1 to attend the annual meeting of 

 the company. The Kenova Poplar Manufactur- 

 Ing < 'ompany contemplates a very important ex- 

 pansion in its business, the detailed announce- 

 of which will he made later. 



III.- distinguished dean and diplomat of the 

 Memphis trade, W. 11. Russe of Russe & Burgess, 

 whs in Chicago a few days ago and favored the 

 Record with a call. 



A. \v. Nelson, Michigan representative of the 

 ican Woodworking Machinery Company, re- 

 ports a very satisfactory trade in the territory 

 he covers. 



P. Lamphrey, G. T. M. of the Detroit, To- 

 ledo & Ironton Hallway Company and of the 

 Ann Arbor railroad, has just completed a tour 

 of the lines of the latter company, which ho 

 finds in extremely satisfactory shape. 



l'..n C. Kejior of the wholesale hardwood 

 firm of Fair & Keator, Pittsburg, was a visitor 

 in this market a few days ago. Mr. Keator 

 enjoys a very handsome Chicago trade. 



I,. f.. Skillman of the Longfellow & Skill- 

 man Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, \ 

 his trade in this city last week and paid the 

 ED the honor of a call. 



Among the welcome visitors at this office last 

 week were Munis B. Thomas, sales manager 

 of the famous "Electric" brand of hardwood 

 flooring manufactured by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., 

 Cadillac, Mich. Mr. Thomas reports the de- 

 mand for maple and beech flooring to be fully 

 up to the capacity of the big Cadillac plant. 



M 1 Hittcnhouse, president of the Rltten- 

 house & Kmbree Company, the hardwood floor- 

 ing and interior finish specialists of this city, 

 in hack at his desk after a long and seri- 

 OUS illness incident to the severe accident that 

 befell him lasl spring. 



W. W. Mitchell of (lie widely known lirms 

 of Mitchell Brothers Company and Cobbs & 

 Mitchell. Inc.. Cadillac, was a caller at this 

 office on Friday last. 



George W. Schwartz southwestern freight 

 of tie Vandalia line. St. Louis, was in 

 igo the middle of list week, on his re- 

 turn home from his summer vacation. 



Boston. 

 I i 'ii enporl of i lavenport, Peters .\ 

 Co., Boston, who has been traveling in Europe 

 for the past four months, is due to arrive in 

 Boston September 20. Mrs. Davenport, who 

 has been ill, has sufficiently recovered to return 

 at the same time. 



A. L. Taylor of the Wood-Barker Company, 

 the Boston. New York and Philadelphia whole- 

 salers, leaves tomorrow on a business trip to 

 Newfoundland. 



Ralph Abbott, surve; achu- 



setts, has returned from an enjoyable three 

 weeks' outing near Old Orchard Beach, Me 



Frank H. Wyman of the Wyman Allen Lum- 

 impany of Boston has been elected Great 

 ict of the Great Council of the Improved 

 Order of Red Men. The elevation of Mr. Wy- 

 man Is a deserved tribute to one who has won 

 a high place in the confidence and affection of 

 the members of several prominent fraternal or- 

 ders. 



John W. Drake, for several years a member 

 of the old firm of Clark & Smith and for nearly 

 sixteen years a familiar figure in the New Eng- 

 land hardwood field, recently embarked in the 

 wholesale business on his own account. Mr. 

 Drake, whose office is at room 70,">, 147 Milk 

 street, Boston, will conduct a strictly wholesale 

 business In mahogany and other hardwoods, ma- 

 hogany being the specialty. 



Edward Downs, manager of the O'Nell Lum- 

 ber Company of Boston, has returned from a 

 ii at North Hatlcv. Qn 



Fred M. Stearns, president of the Cypress Lum- 

 ber Company of Boston, with mills at Apalachi- 

 cola, Fla., has been elected treasurer of the 

 company, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 

 recent sudden death of Frederick C. Moseley. 



George Van Dyke, the prominent New Eng- 

 land and eastern Canada lumber operator, has 

 just purchased over 10,000 acres of timber land 

 in Stratford, Vt., the property of the Eaton 

 estate, for a sum approximating $90,000. 



P. J. Donnelly, proprietor of the Wood Nov- 

 elty Manufacturing Company of I'ittsfield. N. II.. 

 while in Boston last week secured a contract 

 which will require a considerable quantity of 

 plain and quartered white oak and mahogany. 

 Although the plant is comparatively new, it Is 

 being extended by several thousand extra feet 

 of floor space. 



The new wood turning plant of E. B. Estes 

 & Shi of Hancock. Mass., will commence opera- 

 tions in all departments about October 1. 



The Draper Company of Hopedaie, Mass., 

 has purchased, in the vicinity of Newport, N. 



II.. timber lots aggregating 10. The 



holdings comprise almost exclusively timber 

 wlii.h will he converted into bobbin stock. 



Dumas Manufacturing Company has In- 

 corporated under Massachusetts laws; capital, 

 $10,000. Joseph Dumas is president and treas- 

 urer. The company, which is erecting a saw- 

 mill :i!nl woodworking plant at Ware. Mass.. will 

 manufacture chairs, toys and similar wood 

 goods, using, largely, native maple, chestnut and 

 oak. 



Two recent important additions to the yards 

 onnectlcut retail lumber dealers are the 

 purchase of 35,590 feet of land by the A. W. 

 Burrltt Lumber Company, adjoining Its present 

 yard in Bridgeport, and the purchase by the 

 l'. II. & A. 11. Chappell Company of New Lon- 

 don .if the business and property of George G. 

 Tyler, the New London retailer. The Chappell 

 company now own three yards in New London. 

 Including the recent Tyler purchase. 



The lumber yard and mill property owned 

 anil for many years operated by Theodore H. 

 Luck & Co., Chelsea, Mass.. will be sold at pub- 

 lic auction on Tuesday, September 19, by the 

 Chelsea Savings bank, mortgagee of the prop- 

 erty. 



Harry C. I'hilbrlck and Daniel Liny. Mason 

 building. I'.oston, returned yesterday from a two 

 weeks' trip through Nova Scotia, during which 

 business and pleasure were com! 



The liiee & Griffin Manufacturing Company 

 of Worcester, Mass.. called a meeting of its 

 creditors September 30 in Worcester. A com- 

 mittee consisting of Pliny Wood of the W. II. 

 Sawyer Lumber Company, Tonawanda, X. Y. ; 

 William Lawn of Davenport, 1'eters & Co. of 

 Boston, and Nelson Walcotl of tie- L. II. Gage 

 Lumber Company of Providence, R. I., was ap- 

 pointed anil given power to continue or discon- 

 tinue the business on behalf of the creditors. 

 The liabilities approximate $150,000, of which 

 about $37,000 Is due two Worcester banks, 

 which hold a mortgage on the property. 



New York. 



The car equipment ease of the National 

 Wholesale dumb rs' Association, now 



pending before the Ii iti stab Commerce Com- 

 mission, Is being pushed vigorously. The 



committee composed of represents I 

 nf that and other organizations, which was 

 appointed at the Ottawa meeting, is arrang- 

 ing to get together in the near future to for- 

 mulate definite plans of action in the 

 furtherance of the suit, and the setting of a 

 date for the hearing of the commission is 

 looked for any day. 



Sam E. Barr of the Ban- & Mills 1 



Flat iron building, has just returned from a 



business trip to the hardwood section of west- 



lolina and reports hardwood 



conditions at mill points very strong. Mr 



Mills, head of the western office of the com- 

 pany at Zanesville. O., was a recent visitor 

 going over local matters with Mr. Barr. 



Frank R. Whiting of the Janney-Whiting 

 Lumber Company, Philadelphia, who is also 

 one of the principal owners of the Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company of Elizabethton, 

 Tenn., was in tow : n last week on business. In 

 connection with his visit. Mr. Whiting advised 

 that he and his brother. Wm. S. W r hiting, are 

 now sole owners of the Whiting Manufactur- 

 ing Company, having bought out the interest 

 of J. W. Janney of Philadelphia. They are 

 moving their operations to Abingdon, Va., 

 where they will put up a fine band mill, dry 

 kilns and planing mill, with a capacity of 50,- 



000 feet a day, which will be logged from their 

 acres in Johnson county, Tenn. 



Schedules in bankruptcy of the American 

 Parquetry Company, manufacturers of hard- 

 wood flooring, of this city, who failed some 

 time ago, show liabilities of $38,346 and nomi- 

 nal assets of $37,707. 



J. H. Murry of J. H. Murry & Co., the 

 prominent Indianapolis hardwood house, has 

 been here looking over trade. 



11. Humphrey of H. Humphrey & Son, 

 Philadelphia, was here last week in com- 

 pany with Mrs. Humphrey on a little recrea- 

 tion trip. 



Wood Beal, who is prominently associated 

 with the large timber land interests of James 

 D. Lacey & Co., New Orleans, La., with Mrs. 

 Beal, arrived in this city last week from Eu- 

 rope, whither they went to enable Mr. Beal 

 to recover from the effects of the shock re- 

 ceived in the wreck of the Twentieth Cen- 

 tury Limited at Mentor, O., in July. 



W. S. Van Clief, the prominent retailer of 



1 oil Richmond, S. I., is president of the Rich- 

 mond County Agricultural Society, which 

 will hold the first county fair over held in 



iter New York, beginning on Labor day 

 and closing with the 9th. The fair is attract- 

 ing great attention in commercial circles in 

 the local market. 



The hardwood export house of Friodlander 

 & Oliven, tins city, has been incorporated as 

 the Friedlander & Oliven Company with a 

 ml of $30,000. The directors are: O. O. 

 dlander, New York; C. C. Corniany, Jer- 

 sey City; ami W. J. Flanagan, Brooklyn. 



Win. F. Clarke of Ferguson & Clarke, 

 Brooklyn, is spending the late summer and 

 fall at his summer residence, South Norwalk, 

 Conn. The firm are enjoying excellent busi- 

 ness activity. 



Sam E. Barr of the Barr & Mills Company, 

 Flatiron building, who has been summering 

 it Averne, L. I., has been one of the popular 

 guests at Avery's Inn, that place, and in the 

 annual athletic carnival held by the guests 

 there the latter part of August, he did the 

 strenuous life to th. taste in the tug- 



of-war and several other events. The day's 

 sport was followed by a banquet. 



The Robert Wick Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated in this city with a capital 

 of $10,000, by Robert W. Wick, P. H. Voegell 

 and H. J. Lohse. 



C. M. Carrier of Buffalo, prominent in the 

 hardwood manufacturing trade as principal 

 in the large operations of C. M. Carrier & 

 Son, at Sardls, Miss., was a recent visitor 

 among the local trade. 



C. F. Fischer, a well-known hardwood re- 

 tailer of this city, has just returned from a 

 two weeks' stay at Quonachontaug Beach, 

 R. I., where he was the guest of Nelson H. 

 Walcott of the L. H. Gage Lumber Com- 

 pany, Providence, at his summer home there. 



Fred W. Upham of Upham & Agler, Chl- 

 1, sailed for Europe for a five weeks* trip 

 .hi the Kaiser Wilhclm der Gross.-, September 

 2, accompanied by Mrs. Upham, 



Philadelphia. 

 Jacob L. Rumbarger and wife were at Fish- 



