March 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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SECTION OF LOG CRIB AT MILLS. LONG ISLAND CITY. SHOWING MAHOGANY LOGS OF 

 CHOICE QUALITY WAITING TO BE MANUFACTURED INTO LUMBER AND VENEER 



HUDDLESTON- MARSH MAHOGANY COMPAN 



Importers and Manufacturers of 



Mahogany Lumber and Veneers 



Manufacturing and Wholesale Office: Western Office and Distributing Yard: 



33 West 42nd Street, NEW YORK 2254-2266 Lumber Street, CHICAGO 



Mills and Yards, Long Island City, N. Y. 



estate of the Racine concern on the previous <l:iy. The Racine stool 

 company was forced into bankruptcy some months ago as a result of 

 the collapse of the Commercial Savings Bank of Racine. The plant was 

 bid in on March 3 by Racine business men who had planned on operating 

 the plant and placing Mr. Grollman in charge. The price paid was $15,000, 

 the bidders assuming the $75,000 liabilities on the plant and site. 



The big sawmill of the Willow River Lumber Company at Hayward, 

 Wis., has been placed in operation and is giving employment to about 

 200 men. The company has five lumber camps in operation and has 

 several million feet of logs on hand at its mill at the present time. 



The E. J. Pfiffner Lumber Company of Stevens Point, Wis., is making 

 several changes at its plant. A new dry kiln for hardwood flooring and 

 interior finish will be erected and considerable new equipment will be 

 installed. New office quarters have also been arranged. 



Indications are that the long drawn out strike of the employes of the 

 Paine Lumber Company of Oshkosh, Wis., will be settled soon. The 

 striking workmen recently voted 488 to 50 to accept the terms of settle- 

 ment outlined by the special committee of prominent citizens and busi- 

 ness men of Oshkosh. The strike has been on since January 31 and 

 affected 1,200 men. It is understood the proposition contemplates an 

 arbitration of the question of taking back a number of the 153 men 

 discharged January 17, or of stating reasons why they will not be taken 

 back. The receivers of the Paine concern will present the proposition to 

 its attorney, when he returns from Honolulu about March 20. 



E. D. Keeveny, wholesaler of hardwoods at 17 Battery place, has brought 

 to New York a large cargo of soft yellow poplar in order to meet the needs 

 of the trade. The car freight situation had become so troublesome that 

 Mr. Keeveny took the long look and brought the stock here by water. The 

 stock is stored in full carlots of each grade, all inspected under national 

 rules. 



=-< BUFFALO >= 



=-< NEW YORK >.= 



The W. E. Hooper Lumber Company is the style of a wholesale concern 

 at 115 Broadway, recently organized from the business of the C, J. Decker 

 Company. W. E. Hooper, C. J. Decker and A. F.. Hall are the principals, 

 all having been associated with the hardwood business for a long time. 

 Mr. Hooper comes from Chicago, where he was In the business for more 

 than twenty years, while Messrs. Decker and Hall have been at .Vsheville 

 in the manufacturing business. The company does .a wholesale commission 

 business in southern hardwoods and yellow pine, being exclusive agents as 

 well for mills in Tennessee, West Virginia and North Carolina, cutting 

 hardwoods, and in the gulf yellow pine country. 



Sara E. Barr, wholesaler of hardwoods and hardwood flooring, is back 

 from a trip to the mill sections where he did some good business. Mr. Barr 

 bought quite a block of dry oak lumber, which is none too plentiful and 

 which he expects will be in big demand. His flooring business continues 

 to show the results of his specializing, his mills being sold up for a month 

 ahead. 



February building permits for this city amounted to $084,000, which is 

 an increase of 125 per cent over the same month last year, when the total 

 was $307,000. The total for the first two months of 1916 is $1,194,000, 

 as compared with .f;688,000 in the same period of last year. Things are 

 opening up well in the building line here, though work is going forward 

 slowly at present because of the severe weather. 



Buffalo will be well represented at the annual convention of the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association at Philadelphia on March 

 15 and 16. From present appearances at least a dozen lumbermen will 

 attend. 



The ocean marine appears to be trying hard to rob the Great Lakes 

 of small boats, .\nything that will go through the Welland canal, which 

 means a length of 250 feet or less, will bring an astonishingly big price, 

 sometimes more than the cost twenty years ago. It is estimated that 

 forty vessels have already been sold to go to the coast. The lumber trade 

 suffers most from this depletion. 



Homer T. Kerr is one of the members of the hardwood trade who is 

 anxious to see spring and the opening of the lakes. He is trying hard to 

 sell off his winter stocks and then plunge into the woods again at Che- 

 boygan for another big season. 



A. W. Kreinheder, as one of the city's five councilmen, has turned over 

 the building bureau to Councilman Malone, but is a very busy man with 

 the big department of public works to administer, giving it all his 

 time. 



J. B. Wall has gone to Tennessee and Alabama in the interest of the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company. The company reports a substitution 

 of other woods for gum nowadays, because of high prices. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company states that shipments of hardwoods are 

 being much interfered with on account of railroad embargoes, which apply 

 especially to New England and Canada. 



The yard of Anthony Miller is getting in stocks of half a dozen different 

 hardwoods in anticipation of improvement in business this spring, though 

 trade is not very active as yet. 



F. M. Sullivan is planning a business trip to New Tork and New Eng- 



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