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HARDWOOD RECORD 



cern is a large producer of oak, gum and Cot- 

 tonwood, and he was in Chicago making ar- 

 rangements to market a considerable portion of 

 his product here. 



D. S. Hutchinson, sales manager of the Nash- 

 ville Hardwood Flooring Company, was a Chi- 

 cago visitor a few days ago. 



W. E. Kelley, the versatile and enterprising 

 head of the Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company 

 of Traverse City, Mich., was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



This office was illumined a few days ago by 

 the presence of William J. Wagstaff of Oshkosh. 



Among the recent visitors to this office was 

 John S. Porter, president of the Porter Cedar 

 Company of Saginaw, Mich. 



Ira B. Bennett of San Francisco, who has 

 spent a considerable length of time In Chicago 

 and vicinity during the past month, has returned 

 to California. 



Frederick W. I'pham, accompanied by his 

 wife, has cast off business and political cares, 

 and is abroad on a pleasure trip. 



The Hardwood Record is advised by Frederic 

 Wilbert. president of the Southern Cypress 

 Manufacturers' Assoi iation, that the next meet- 

 ing of this organization, which was scheduled 

 for October 11, has been postponed until Wed 

 nesday, November 22. The meeting will be held 

 in the links building, New Orleans, and will 

 convene at 10 a. m. 



John X. Wo.xlbury, manager of the lumber fie 

 partment of the Ozark Cooperage Company of 

 St. Louis, was a caller at the Record office 

 September 19. He reports the lumber business 

 of his firm as In excellent condition. 



'Hie hickory handle manufacturers of the 

 country, members of the Hickory Manufacturers' 

 Association, held a business meeting In Chicago 

 hist week. 



A well known visitor at the Record office on 

 the 20th was Clem ES. Lloyd, Jr., of Philadel- 

 phia, sales manager of the great Cherry River 

 Boom & Lumber Company at Richmond, W. Va. 

 Mr. Lloyd was on his way to attend the meet- 

 ing of the executive board of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association at Indianapolis 

 on September 21. lie reports that trade condi- 

 tions in the Last are in excellent shape but 

 that there Is a remarkable shortage of stock 

 with which to meet the fall demand. 



The many friends of B. F. McMillan of Mc- 

 Millan, Wis . will he glad to know of his safe 

 return home from an Alaska trip. Mr. McMillan 

 reports having had a most delightful outing. 



Boston. 



In the death of Thomas Webster Van Cleave 

 the lumber trade loses one of its most popular 

 and successful members. Mr. Van Cleave died 

 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Sept. 

 9, of Bright's disease. He was born In St. 

 Louis March 23. 1869. Mr. Van Cleave was 

 related to the famous pioneer, Daniel Boone, 

 and his family was associated with the early 

 history of Kentucky. J. Proctor Knott, ex- 

 governor of Kentucky, was his cousin. Mr. 

 Van Cleave was vice-president of the Boston 

 & Baracoa Company, eastern manager of the 

 Chicago Coal .t Lumber Company, with offices 

 in the Board of Trade building, and a heavy 

 stockholder in the Van Cleave Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Greenlaw Lumber Company of 

 Louisiana. Funeral services were held at 

 Louisville, Ky. 



The Boston Burial Case Company is making 

 extensive alterations in their factory at Somer- 

 vllle. 



Arthur J. Clifford, vice-president of the 

 Howe Lumber Company, Marlboro, Mass., died 

 suddenly early in the month of peritonitis. Mr. 

 Clifford entered the employ of the Howe com- 

 pany as a bookkeeper 23 years ago and became 

 a member of the firm only two months ago, at 

 the time of Austin B. Howe's death. 



ar G. Poor, of the firm of Titus & Poor, 

 building contractors, has purchased an Interest 



in the Hutchinson Lumber Company at Lynn. 

 Mass. Mr. Poor also purchases with Lloyd C. 

 Lewis a part interest in the business of J. T. 

 Wilson. Nahant. Mr. Lewis was formerly fore- 

 man for S. N. Breed, whose business was 

 bought a number of years ago by Samuel 

 Hutchinson. Mr. Lewis has been associated 

 with the Hutchinson Lumber Company since 

 it started in business. The firm of Titus & 

 Poor will be dissolved as soon as they complete 

 their contracts and the plant at Swampscott 

 will be discontinued. 



A change has been made in the lumber firm 

 of H. J. Arnold & Sons of Adams, Mass., by 

 the retirement of H. J. Arnold, owing to ill 

 health. Mr. Arnold has turned his interest in 

 the company over to his sons, William H. and 

 John, who will continue the business under the 

 old name. The sons have been brought up in 

 the business. 



An Involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 been filed against the Rice & Griffin Manufac- 

 turing Company of Worcester. Through the 

 committee representing the creditors, consist- 

 ing of Wm. Bacon of Davenport, Peters & Co.. 

 Boston: W. W. Lockwood of Rice & Lockwood. 

 Springfield, and Nelson Walcott of the I.. H. 

 Gage Lumber Company, Providence, R. I., an 

 offer of settlement was made, but it was consid- 

 ered too small. This company manufactured 

 builders' finish. 



Joseph T. Bates & Co.. lumber dealers, Dan- 

 bury. Conn., have been succeeded by the Peck- 

 Burkett Lumber Company. 



Frank Lawrence of Lawrence *: Wiggln re- 

 ports a very satisfactory business. Prices are 

 showing strength and stocks are not large. 



Waldo H. Bigelow has beer, absent from the 

 city for a f' w days. 



Edward Downs, manager of the O'Neil Lum- 

 ber Company of Boston, now occupies the posi- 

 tion of secretary of the Lumber Trade Club of 

 Boston, made vacant by the resignation of R. 

 W. Dough- 



New York. 



The Maley. Thompson & Moffett Company, 

 nnati. O., has entered the local market in 

 the extension of its Eastern and export busi- 

 ness. It has leased a large piece of prop- 

 erty at the foot of East Thirty-first St., Man- 

 hattan, where it will carry a full line of 

 mahogany and hardwood lumber and veneers 

 supplied by its four band mills and 

 veneer plant In the West. This branch will 

 be under the management of W. H. Stubbs 

 and Edgar Burgess. E. W. Bobbins of the 

 Cincinnati end of the business is here closing 

 up final details and the yard will be ready for 

 business within a short time. This company 

 is one of the most prominent in its line in the 

 country, and its entry Into the metropolitan 

 district is a distinct gain for this market. 



H. A. Singer, local representative of the 

 American Hardwood Lumber Company, St. 

 Louis, announces the removal of his office 

 from 22 E. Thirty-first St. to 92 St. Nicholas 

 Ave. The company's business in this locality 

 is increasing very satisfactorily. 



The Lumber Insurance Company of New- 

 York. 66 B.oadway, has just been admitted to 

 do business in Minnesota, which adds another 

 state to its already large field. In this con- 

 nection the company will open a northwestern 

 agency at once at Minneapolis in charge of 

 Erick Anderson, formerly of the New York 

 office. 



T. S. Miller, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of Stevens-Eaton Company, 1 Madi- 

 son Ave., returned recently from a southern 

 buying trip, trie results of which, together 

 with their regular arrangements at supply 

 sources, gives some choice offerings of poplar, 

 oak and chestnut for the fall trade. 



Joshua Oldham, head of the well known saw 

 manufacturing firm of Joshua Oldham & Sons, 



Brooklyn, sailed for Europe on Sept. 16, ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Oldham. He will tour 

 Great Britain and the continent. 



Fowler & Silberhorn have purchased the 

 hardwood business of Donald Macdonald, Erie 

 Basin, Brooklyn, and will continue it along 

 the same lines. 



There has been considerable difficulty in 

 the local box trade during the fortnight, sev- 

 eral plants being closed down by strikes in 

 the Boxmakers' Union. The union called it 

 off a few days ago and everything is again 

 running smoothly. 



Sam E. Barr of the Barr & Mills Company, 

 Flatiron Building, is on a business trip to the 

 hardwood mills in Tennessee. North Carolina 

 and West Virginia. 



Robt. N. Clyde has opened a local sales 

 office at 213 West One Hundred and Thirty- 

 sixth St., for the Franklin Lumber Company. 

 Hackettstown, N. J., manufacturers of hard- 

 wood trim. 



J. C. Turner of the J. C. Turner Cypress 

 Lumber Company, 1123 Broadway, has just 

 returned from a trip to Georgia and Florida 

 points inspecting his extensive operations in 

 those sections. 



H. D. Billmeyer, Billmeyer Lumber Com- 

 pany. Cumberland, Md., is here this week 

 looking over the local hardwood market and 

 reports conditions strong. 



L. K. Smedes, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Madi- 

 son Ave., announces the removal of his main 

 office to 137 Park Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. T.. 

 at which latter location he will conduct the 

 general part of his business, keeping his 

 branch office in this city. 



F. C. Fischer, head of the Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Company. Coal Grove, O., during the 

 fortnight visited his customers in the local 

 trade. 



James E. Stark. J. E. Stark & Co., hard- 

 wood manufacturers at Memphis, Tenn., was 

 at the Imperial on a brief visit to the 

 Metropolis. 



Hamilton Love, of Love, Boyd & Co.. large 

 Nashville hardwood house, spent several days 

 In town last week visiting among his friends 

 and looking over the local hardwood situation. 



Charles G. Stirling of the Pittsburg office 

 of Price & Hart, IS Broadway, lias been here 

 going over matters with his principals. 



Baltimore. 



The E. K. Wood Lumber Company Is pushing 

 work on its new mill In the Sapphire country 

 of North Carolina. Some of the machinery has 

 already been delivered. Rights of way have 



I d secured for practically all of the Southern 



Railway's extension into the tract, and the 

 road will be finished as soon as possible, at 

 least as far as the projected mill. The com- 

 pany does not expect to be able to make ship- 

 ments much before next summer and certainly 

 not before spring. Mr. Wood states that there 

 is much valuable chestnut timber in the upper 

 reaches of the mountains, which is a valuable 

 addition to the wealth of this section. 



The Stirling-West Lumber Company, Liberty 

 and Barnet streets, has leased new quarters on 

 the fifth floor of the Franklin building. The 

 new location Is only about two squares from 

 the old one and in the heart of the business 

 section. The building is modern and has ample 

 light, the offices being on the corner of the two 

 streets mentioned. The company will move 

 about the first of October or soon thereafter. 



Baltimore is to have a new hardwood export- 

 ing concern In the Deepwater Lumber Com- 

 pany, which has been organized at Bluefields. 

 W. Va., by E. L. Bailey, B. II. Spangen and J. 

 L. Rhea. Mr. Bailey has been engaged In the 

 hardwood business for some time and has been 

 very successful. Mr. Bailey was in this city 

 last week looking for headquarters and mak 

 Ing other arrangements preparatory to removal 



