January 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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F. E. Gary of the Crcnsbaw-Gary Lumber Company, Memphis. Tenn., 

 was in the eity on a business trip for a few days the past wee!;. 



J. C. Rodahaffer, sales manager for George W. Hartzel, Piqua, O., spent 

 a few profitable days in Chicago during the past week. 



Otis A. Felger, president of the Felger-Robbins Company of Flavana, 

 Cuba, and the Felger Lumber & Timber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 made a short business trip to Chicago last week. 



C. A. Owen of the John S. Owen Lumber Company, Owen, Wis., was 

 in the city the latter part of last week. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus, O., has advised the 

 trade that after January 1 the address of its home office will be 115 East 

 Rich street instead of the Harrison building. 



M. D. Reader of Boyne City, Mich,, has moved to l.^>01 Fisher building, 

 Chicago. 



--<, NEW YORK ^- 



The New York hardwood trade is much pleased with the announcement 

 that Charles F. Fischer has been named to succeed the late Patrick 

 Moore as a member of the inspection rules committee of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. Air. Fischer is well qualified for the place 

 and will no doubt perform the duties of the position in a fitting manner. 

 He has long been a member of the inspection committee of the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association. 



The Walker Bros. Lumber Company has been incorporated by Georsc 

 and Stewart D. Walker, heretofore trading as George Walker. The con- 

 cern handles hardwoods and pine at wholesale, with offices in the Mar- 

 bridge building. 



W. F. Harrison, Jr.. has been added to the selling force of Milne 

 Brothers Company, wholesaler of hardwoods and North Carolina pine. 



The Plunkett-Wolister Lumber Company is a new corporation, organ- 

 ized to succeed to the business of the fii-m of the same name. The 

 business is wholesale, specializing in northern and southern hardwoods. 

 The officers of the corporation are : J. F. Plunkett, president ; E. R. 

 Plunkett, secretary, and Ora S. Webster, treasurer. 



M. E. Cummings of the M. R. Flooring Company is back from a trip 

 to Canada, where he found conditions greatly improved. Locally every- 

 thing is satisfactory, and indications point to steady improvement and a 

 big year 1916. The M. R. Company is a Mowbray &. Robinson institu- 

 tion, the principal ofBce of these interests being at Cincinnati. 



Black & Yates, Inc., the new mahogany concern, the organization of 

 which was noted in previous issues of Hardwood Record, has re- 

 ceived its first consignment of Philippine mahogany at the Patersou 

 yards. The first lot Is a matter of about 1,000,000 feet, more being on 

 the way. The stock is s-aid to be fine in color, figure and texture, and can 

 be brought here under favorable conditions as to prices, etc. The New 

 York office is at 604 W. 112th street. 



Herbert F. Southmayd. a specialist in the hardwood log business, died 

 suddenly at his home in East Orange, December 29. Mr. Southmayd suc- 

 ceeded his father, the late Frederick A. Southmayd, the founder of the 

 business, and known prominently as an expert in the log industry. The 

 firm was known as F. A. Southmayd & Son, and its activities made it 

 known both at home and abroad, the exporting of logs representing an 

 important branch of Its business. 



=■< BUFFALO >•- 



The new year is one of unusual interest to the local hardwood trade be- 

 cause of developments in local municipal politics. A. W. Kreinheder has 

 entered upon his duties as one of the five new eouncllmen under the city's 

 commission form of government. I. N. Stewart, long connected with the 

 local hardwood trade as a member of I. N. Stewart & Bro., has been nomi- 

 nated as city treasurer. J. B. Wall has retired as police commissioner, 

 which office has been abolished. He was presented with a gold watch by 

 members of the force and made an honorary police officer. 



A banquet was given by the lumbermen to Mr. Kreinheder and Mr. Wall 

 on December 28 at the Iroquois hotel. 



A New Year's visit to the veteran lumberman. Ma]. John S. Noyes, was 

 made by about twenty lumbermen, and practically all the hardwood yards 

 were represented. Henry I. George was in charge of the arrangements 

 and the major was presented with a fine bouquet of roses. He was much 

 pleased to be again remembered by his friends and former associates. 



.\nthony Miller fiuds the hardwood trade not quite up to normal, but i.s 

 expecting busiuess to improve during the coming year. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is moving quite a fair amount 

 of oak, besides some birch and poplar. 



Frank T. Sullivan calls business good and says he is going into the lake 

 trade quite extensively next summer, having considerable stock already 

 bought, a good deal of it maple. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company is selling oak, maple and chestnut and 

 reports the demand for hardwoods showing a big improvement. Dry stocks 

 of all kinds are scarce. 



The Yeager Lumber Company notes a steady, though not rapid, improve- 

 ment in the hardwood trade. Thick maple and poplar are among the woods 

 moving well, with some thick elm also. 



Hugh and R. D. McLean spent New Year's Day at their former home at 

 Thurso, Quebec. The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports hardwood 

 shipments on a better scale than a year ago. 



The yard of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling is receiving stocks of oak, ash 

 and maple and trade is reported fair at present. 



The H. T. Kerr Lumber Company reports a good year in business. For 

 some reason this company became active sooner than most others, and 

 brought down a large amount of hardwood stock, mostly maple, which was 

 sold readily. 



The National Lumber Company, which makes a specialty of maple and 

 oak flooring, states that the demand is a good deal heavier than a year ago 

 and stocks at the mills are not large. 



T. Sullivan & Co. finds a good demand for brown ash and elm, and not 

 so much delay in purchasing is noticeable at the inventory season this year. 

 F. M. Sullivan was lately confined to (lie house with an attack of grippe. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



Building work in this city for 1913 exceeded the total for 1914 by 

 more than $4,000,000. The total for 1915 was $39,444,125 as compared 

 with $35,419,605 for the previous year. The figures for 1915 have been 

 exceeded only three times in the history of the Bureau of Building In- 

 spection. 



J. B. McFarland. Jr.. of the McFarland Lumber Company, and George 

 C. Craig, a son of George F. Craig, are being congratulated on the arrival 

 of babes in their respective families recently. 



William R. Taylor, who has been out of active trading for some little 

 time owing to poor health, is back in harness again and has opened an 

 office in the Lincoln building, Broad and S. Penn square. 



W. N. Lawton has just returned from a trip to the mills in the South, 

 where he was hustling along shipments. 



J. W. Difenderfer, North American building hardwood specialist, has 

 started a new mill at Sylvia, N. C. 



The January meeting of the Lumbermen's Exchange was held on Janu- 

 ary 6 in the Exchange rooms. Dinner was served In Griffith Hall preceding 

 the meeting. Several of the members spoke on the benefits of the ex- 

 change and how it can be made more useful. 



At the annual banquet of the Sawdust Club, William T. Betts, of C. M. 

 Betts & Co., was elected "baby" member. Fifty-one members and friends 

 attended the affair. The speakers were General J. H. Wilson and Gov- 

 ernor Miller of Delaware ; Colonel John Gribbel, president of the Union 

 League ; and the Hon. J. W. Davis, Washington, D. C. John Riley at- 

 tended to the duties of toastmaster in fine style. 



The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association will 

 be held at the Hotel Walton, this city, January 26-27. The first day will 

 be devoted to election of directors and routine matters. The second day 

 will be given over to reading of papers and debates on subjects of Interest. 

 A big banquet will wind up the affair. 



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