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HARDWOOD RECORD 



=-< NEW YORK y 



The directors of the Lumber Mutual Casualty Insurance Company of 

 New York held their flrst quarterly meeting recently and are able to 

 report Sne progress for this new trade insurauce organization. The 

 company has $100,000 of premium income, and to date has had com- 

 paratively tew losses, so fcjw in fact that there is every likelihood of a 

 substantial return dividend to policyholders if the present experience is 

 maintained throughout the year. There are over 200 policyholders, cover- 

 ing ovir 0,000 lumber trade employees. 



H. J. Gott, manager o£ the local Babcock office, returned recently from 

 a business trip South. He says things are looking up and expects better 

 business wilh the new year. 



Charles Adsit, who is one of Alex. Morton, Jersey City hardwood 

 specialists, has been receiving a lot of inquiry of late. No, it's not all 

 business. He was recently visited by Dr. Stork, who left two fine boys 

 at the AC&it home, .so when the news became known there was much in- 

 quiry from bis friends in the trade. 



\Vm. E. Van Wert. Emporium Lumber Company : Geo. F. Gray, A. 

 Sherman Lumber Company, and Ferris J. Meigs, Santa Clara Lumber 

 Company, were New Yorkers present at the annual meeting of the Em- 

 pire State Forest Products Association at ttica, November 12. Mr. Van 

 Wert continued to Conifer, where the new Emporium mill is turning 

 out a fine hardwood output. 



S. S. Spiro, hardwood wholesaler, is^ now in charge of the hardwood 

 department of W. It. Gardy, prominent Philadelphia wholesale lumber- 

 man. He spends part of each week in the Quaker city headquarters, but 

 finds time to keep in close touch with the New York trade, which he 

 covered for so long for H. H. Salmon & Co. 



The Sumner Lumber Company reports a fair run of business, con- 

 sidering the universal quiet. Herb Sumner says the first of the year 

 is going to bring real and lasting business to the good of all. 



=■< BUFFALO >• 



One of the events of interest to the hardwood trade is the first exhi- 

 bition which the Jamestown furniture manufacturers have ever held. 

 It has been on in that city this month, with a good attendance of 

 buyers and some satisfactory results in the way of sales. Jamestown 

 manufacturers have hitherto depended upon the Chicago and Grand 

 Rapids shows to exhibit their goods and they have reached the conclusion 

 that the buyers of the chief eastern cities can be interested in an exhi- 

 bition held in Jamestown. An exhibition building is needed and a move 

 is on foot to build one. 



The rewards offered at North Tonawanda for conviction of the in- 

 cendiary who caused the Brady Bros.' fire now amount to $1,000. A 

 suspect named Albert Lamb has been arrested at Niagara Falls who de- 

 clines to answer questions about lumber yard fires, though he admits set- 

 ting fires at Niagara Falls. 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company reports a change in the condition 

 of the hardwood flooring trade. For some reasons competitors are cut- 

 ting prices badly and threaten to spoil what has been a good proposition 

 through the dull lumber season. 



Hugh McLean was recently in Bathurst, New Brunswick, looking over 

 the operations of the Bathurst Lumber Company, in which he is inter- 

 ested. The company has its new pulp mill under roof and will make 

 pulp by July 1 next. 



Davenport & Ridley are finding a good local demand for 4-4 and 8--J 

 white ash, in which they have been among the largest dealers here 

 lately. Other hardwoods are reported dull. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling find trade picking up a little, the principal 

 trade recently having been in thick oak and thick maple. Local inquiry 

 for lumber is on the increase. 



T. H. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has been In 

 Canada lately on a hunting trip. The local yard finds trade rather quiet 

 this month. 



The Ferd. Brenner Lumber Co., Alexandria, Louisiana 



Manufacturers of High Grade Hardwoods oi'Lv omcitt 



125000 FEET 



The J. M. Briggs Lumber Company is now located on the ninth floor 

 of the Ellicott Square building. The company was recently organized 

 as a successor to J. M. Briggs & Co. 



The Buffalo Lounge Company has filed plans with the bureau of build- 

 ings for a four-story brick addition to its warehouse and factory at 567 

 Exchange street. The cost will be $10,000. 



T. Sullivan & Co. had a cargo of brown ash on the steamer Bradley, 

 which arrived here a tew days ago. The demand for this wood and 

 other hardwoods has been rather light of late. 



The National Lumber Company reports a dropping off recently in the 

 demand for flooring, which was good during the summer. The yard is, 

 however, handling some oak and maple flooring ot present. 



The Yeager Lumber Company states that oak and maple continue to 

 be the best sellers among hardwoods, with a steady sale for cypress. 



--< PHILADELPHIA y- 



William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., this city, have taken over the oflice of 

 the Peale-Cor.vell Lumber Company, New York, which concern formerly 

 handled the Whitmer lumber in that territory. J. S. Richards, long 

 connected with the Philadelphia company, will be in charge of the New 

 York office. 



The Highland Lumber Company, Inc., Seth, W. Va., recently opened 

 offices at 1125 and 27 Real Estate Trust building, this city, which will 

 be the main selling headquarters, in charge ot George Houck, general 

 manager. The company manufactures strictly hardwood, and makes a 

 specialty of oak. It has a band mill cutting 7."»,000 feet of hardwood 

 per day, seventy-five per cent of which is oak, the remaining twenty-fire 

 per cent being made up of poplar, chestnut and basswood. The com- 

 pany intends to erect a four-band electric mill in the early spring, 

 which It says will be the most complete and up-to-date hardwood mill 

 in the South. 



John W. Coles, the popular young wholesale lumberman, recently re- 

 turned from one of his annual deer hunting trips in the Maine woods. 

 The fame of John as a crack shot had evidently gone before, for the deer 

 were conspicuously absent, but a big black six-foot bear was foolish 

 enough to keep up his parade — result, "dead bear." John is justly proud 

 of his good luck. 



John J. Rumbarger has Just associated himself with the Babcock 

 Lumber Company, and will start December 1 on a tour of the com- 

 pany's mills to thoroughly acquaint himself with the stock situation 

 before going on the road. 



A disastrous Are which started in Monger & Bennett's lumber yard, 

 Camden, N. J., on November 12, also swept through the plant of the 

 West Jer.sey Paper Manufacturing Company, causing a total loss of 

 about .$1'25,000. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works recently received an order from Russia 

 for thirty locomotives, two hundred machine tools and other work, which 

 will aggregate about $1,5UO,000. These engines will have to be shipped 

 in two months, which will mean rush work. 



Yokum rsrotbers, Reading, Pa., were visited by fire November 9, which 

 destroyed a six-story cigar factory, a three-story Junk shop, lumber yard, 

 two-story wheelwright shop and four dwellings, causing a loss of $130,- 

 000, of which Y'okum Brothers' loss is placed at $100,000; Reuben Hoffa, 

 lumber yard $12,000, wheelwright shop and frame dwellings $2,u00. 



■|'he Orchard Knob Lumber and Coal Company, Wilmington, Del., 

 obtained a charter under Delaware laws, November 17. It is capitalized 

 at $1,200,000. 



=-< BOSTON >.= 



The Jlassachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will hold 

 its annual meeting and election of officers at Young's hotel, Wednesday 

 evening, December 2. As the program includes the report of the special 

 committee on incorporation, it is probable that definite action on this 

 imponant cliange in tbe organization will he taken at an early date. 



At Portland, Me., the Itobhins Point Lumber Company has taken out 

 a charter of Incorporation with capital of $10,000. A. F. Jones is presi- 

 dent. 



Herbert A. Fuller, a well-known northeastern lumberman, died at his 

 home in Walertown, Noveml>er S, aged forty-eight. He is the son of 

 Granville Fuller of the old firm of G. Fuller & Son of Brighton District 

 and vice-president and treasurer of the Fuller-Smith Lumber Company of 

 Boston. The latter firm is now reported as being liquidated. Mr. Fuller 

 entered the business with his father when a .voung man and has been 

 constantly active among the lumbermen. 



=•< BALTIMORE >•= 



Tlie decision of the Russian government to put an embargo upon the 

 exports of all lumber and woo<ls. Including Circassian walnut, Is proving 

 unfortunate for at least one Baltimore firm, John L. Alcock & Co., the 

 well-known hardwood exporters, having coni'Inded aiT;ini;ements last 

 summer for shipments of Circassian walnut logs direct from Batoum. 

 Mr. Alcock bad succeeded, after protracted negotiations, in establishing 

 a connection whjereby he was enabled to get consignments, the first ship- 

 ment having come by way of New Y'ork. Another shipment was made 



