HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Schultz & Cowan Company of Chicago is reported to have gone out 

 of business recently. W. W. & A. J. Schultz have started a wholesale 

 lumber and pole business on their own account. 



The Stewart Wood Finish Company, of Chicago, was recently incorpora- 

 ted with a capital stock of ?30,000. 



--<, BUFFALO >• 



The burning of 3,610,000 feet of lumber in the yards of Brady Brothers, 

 North Tonawanda, in an incendiary Are late last month, put lumbermen 

 there on guard against any recurrence of such an event and startled 

 everybody connected with the trade in this section. The lumber dealers 

 got together and decided to offer a reward of .$500 to the person or 

 persons furnishing information which would lead to arrest and convic- 

 tion of the incendiary. Other individual rewards bring the total amount 

 offered up to $1,100. 



The H. T. Kerr Lumber Company has been organized, with $5,000 

 capital. H. T. and A. P. Kerr and D. F. Paddock are the directors. The 

 company will look after the cutting and sale of Michigan hardwoods. 

 H. T. Kerr has been in the hardwood trade here for some years and 

 will continue his Pennsylvania hardwood business as before. 



The A. .T. Chestnut Lumber Company is finding the hardwood trade 

 dull, but there is a fair demand for the hardwood flooring output of 

 beech, birch and maple at its New Hampshire mills. 



Miss Evelyn T. Jackson, daughter of Willis K. Jackson of the hard- 

 wood firm of Jackson & Tindle. was married at the family home on 

 October 28 to John M. Prophet, Jr., who is connected with the canning 

 Arm of Winters & Prophet, Mt. Morris. N. Y. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have another cargo of brown ash coming in shortly, 

 this being a wood which is a specialty at the yard. Elm is also being 

 received and orders for it show Increase. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has been getting in some 

 stocks of oak and ash from the Cumberland river district during the 

 past month. Trade is called quiet in the different hardwoods. 



The Yeager Lumber Company reports increased business developing in 

 cypress during the past month, most of it being used by tank builders. 

 Some elm is also moving. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller have been 'getting in stocks of oak lately. This 

 wood continues to be most in demand among hardwoods, although sales 

 are also being made in maple, basswood and hickory. 



M. M. Wall, who is president of the Buffalo Automobile Club, is now- 

 busy arranging the details for the motor show which the club will hold 

 at the Broadway Auditorium in .January. The exhiljition will be the 

 largest the club has yet held and will cover most all kinds of motor 

 conveyances for navigating land, air and water. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



The Honaker Lumber Company, Honaker, Va., which is controlled by 

 Schofleld Brothers, Philadelphia, was visited by fire on October 17. 

 Frank E. Schofield was on a visit to the plant at the time. Fire broke 

 out at midnight and destroyed the entire plant. The recent heavy rains 

 and the hard work of the bucket brigade saved all the lumber in the 

 yard, which will enable orders to be filled without a hitch. Although no 

 figures could be obtained as to the actual loss, it is learned that the mill 

 was fully insured. 



Charles Atherton & Co. have moved from the Bulletin building to 1018 

 Commercial Trust building. 



The Barker-Bond Lumber Company has moved from the Burd building 

 to 613 Commercial Trust building. 



William B. Lance of Reading, Pa., formerly with William Schuette & 

 Co., New York, has associated himself as salesman with Charles M. 

 Betts & Co., this city. He will make his headquarters in his home town 

 and look after the coal region and northern New Jersey. 



The EMte & Arbelo Company, R. Samuel & Co. and Foreman-BIader 

 Lumber Company filed a petition to have the Carolina Lumber Company 

 of this city adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. 



The Garbout Lumber Company obtained a charter under Delaware 

 laws. October 29. It is capitalized at $1,000,000, its object being to 

 acquire timber and woodlands. The incorporators are from Wilming- 

 ton, Del. 



.< PITTSBURGH >. 



The Pittsburgh Industrial Development Commission has located another 

 industry on the Northside. This will be a big addition to the plant of 

 the Diamond Forging & Manufacturing Company and will employ 300 

 men. The Commission has located 30 industries for Pittsburgh during the 

 past three years and is now sending J. Rogers Flannery to London to 

 work up English business for its Foreign Trade Commission, 



The Kendall Lumber Company is running all its mills and is doing a 

 pretty steady business. President J. L. Kendall and Sales Manager 

 G. M. Chambers were east on a business trip last week. 



J. H. Henderson, a well-known hardwood wholesaler, formerly in 

 business in this city and now a member of Henderson Brothers at Clarks- 

 burg, W. Va., called on his Pittsburgh business friends a few days ago. 



The West Fork Boom and Lumber Company, which has considerable 

 business in this city, has been re-organized with R. B. Newman, president ; 

 E. E. Cockrell, vice-president, and George A. Ecker, secretary-treasurer. 



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