December 25, 1915 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The HUDDLESTON-MARSH LUMBER COMPANY 



desire to announce that the firm name has been changed to 



Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Company 



and that they are now 



Importing Mahogany Logs and manufacturing same into Lumber 



and Veneer 



with manufacturing- and wholesale offices at 



33 West 42d Street, New York 



and distributing yards and general offices at 



2254-2266 Lumber Street, Chicago 



where they will continue to carry their general line, including 

 Fancy Woods, Veneers and Glued-Up Stock 



Mills and Yards: Long Island City, New York 



run not far from $12,000,000, whicb is fully up to the past records for 

 this city. Up to December 1 the permits were in excess of the same 

 period a year ago. 



The lalie lumber trade has been more to the apparent advantage of 

 the Eastern lumbermen this year than for some time, as is shown by the 

 movement of cargoes after December 1. The leading stock in hardwoods 

 from that direction is maple. 



M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has been 

 elected president of the New Yorls State Motor Federation, representing 

 10.000 automobile owners. The federation has just concluded a meeting 

 at Utica and one of the matters discussed was an automobile relief corps 

 as related to war preparedness. 



The H. T. Kerr Lumber Company had one of the last hardwood cargoes 

 of the lake season, consisting of 700,000 feet of maple on the steamer 

 W. H. Sawyer. The company has had in 5,000,000 feet of hardwoods this 

 season. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company reports an increase in trade 

 this month, much of it in plain oak. There is not much dry stock ana 

 prices show a tendency to stiffen. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company, which has not been so very active 

 during the recent dull stage of the lumber trade, is beginning to look 

 about for new operations and will probably go back to New' Hampshire for 

 a resumption of its old development of hardwood flooring, haying sus- 

 pended the work when flooring prices went down. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller state that business is picking up. Oak and 

 maple are leading in the demand and poplar is a steady seller. Basswood 

 has lately been moving less freely. 



Davenport & Ridley have been having a good trade in thick maple, 

 which is now one of the best selling woods. A large amount of beech 

 is being moved right along. 



The Yeager Lumber Company has been adding largely to its hardwood 

 stocks on account of good business, finding oak, maple, ash and cypress 

 among the woods in chief demand. 



Charles N. Perrin of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling- has returned from 

 a, business trip to West Virginia. The yard is busy receiving as well as 

 selllng^tock. maple being a leading seller. 



G. Mias & Bro. are about ready to start work upon a new dock at 

 the yard and all the material, including iron and concrete, has arrived. 

 The hardwood demand is said to be improving. 



F. M. Sullivan has lately been making a business trip to Chicago and 

 the Michigan mills, looking over hardwood stocks at the latter. T. 

 Sullivan & Co. say that December business is unusually good. 



■< BOSTON y- 



In the account of business troubles of the local lumber interests are 

 reported the assignment of C. H. Annable of Springfield, Mass., the 

 bankruptcy of Wm. Henry of Greenfield, Mass., with liabilities of $22,192 

 and Clinton W. Kinsella of Fairhaven, Mass., with liabilities of $980,805. 



A new boat and shipbuilding industry has been incorporated at Boston, 

 known as Francis E. Perkins, Inc., with capital of $25,000. 



H. N. Mullan, senior member of the Mullan-Gilpin Lumber Company, 

 was instantly killed on December 16, while walking on the B. & M. R. R. 

 tracks, near the Everett depot, having been struck by a train which he 

 evidently did not hear, on account of another in the opposite direction. 

 He is survived by his wife and daughter, a sister in Pennsylvania and 

 two brothers in Chicago. 



=•< BALTIMORE >= 



. John L. Alcock & Co. have finally gotten word from the shipment 

 of Circassian walnut logs which left Batoum, Russia, shortly before the 

 war was declared and which was last heard reported as having been taken 

 into Constantinople for safety. This was long before Turkey got into 

 the conflict, so that, for many months the shipment was believed to be 

 secure. The entrance of the Ottoman Empire into the strife complicated 

 conditions. The logs have been requisitioned by the Turkish government, 

 and J. L. Alcock will look to It for reimbursement, making claims 

 through the American ambassador. It Is thought that the logs were taken 

 for war uses. The firm had a short time before the war completed ar- 

 rangements for the importation of Circassian walnut logs, which were to 

 be distributed from Baltimore throughout the country among manufac- 

 turers of veneers and other consumers. One shipment, brought here by 

 way of New York, arrived safely, and the second, which was to come 

 direct to Baltimore, was on the way, as stated. It had been practically 

 placed, so that the firm stands to face a serious loss by reason of the 

 diversion of the cargo. Much was hoped from the arrangement to get 

 Import logs, the firm having found the trade in the United States very 

 receptive to the proposition. The war, of course, has for the time being, 

 baited this business. 



The e.\port situation, so far from undergoing any improvement In the 

 matter of ocean freight rates and shipping facilities, has become even 

 worse than it was. For a time it was possible to get some tonnage, but 

 now there is every prospect that the exporters here will be cut off prac- 

 tically. Of course, the shippers have contracts, but these are of no 



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