HARDWOOD RECORD 



45 



li. D. McLean sailed for Cuba early this montb on a business trip Id the 

 interests of the McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company. The company 

 has lately taken an office in the White building. 



.Vnthony Miller states that the hardwood trade has shown no Iniprove- 

 nient during the past month and that little stock is now being received. 

 Conditions are not likely to show much change .this montb. 



Blakeslee. Perrln & Darling are selling a pretty fair amount of cypress 

 at present. The hardwood trade has not shown much improvement, though 

 a better feeling prevails among bU3'ers. 



O. E. Yeager is attending the Kivers' & Harbors' Congress at Washing- 

 ton on December 9-11. The ofTice of the Yeager Lumber Company states 

 that cypress is in fair demand. 



The U. T. Kerr Lumber Company Is bringing down a stock of maple 

 from the Mackinaw district of Michigan, but will leave the bulk of it for 

 lake shipment next season. 



W. K. Jackson has gone to the mills of .lackson & Tlndle In Michigan 

 tor a short business trip. A new mill has lately been put up at Pcllston 

 to replace one that was burued. 



F. M. .Sullivan has been in Chicago lately on a business trip. T. 

 .Sullivan & Co. received one of the last of the lake cargoes of hardwoods 

 to arrive here this season. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is doing some hardwood export 

 business at present, but it is reported that since the war a big advance 

 has been made in ocean freight rates, thus interfering with many ship- 

 ments. 



The project for an exposition building at .Jamestown to accommodate 

 ■ ■.shlbits of furniture is making some headway and the manufacturers 

 have been assured a large sum toward its erection. .Tamestown is an 

 important furniture market and the new building would be a great help 

 to the marketing of the furniture output. 



A "Lumberman's Acquaintance Day" was announced to be held at the 

 Chamber of Commerce rm L>ecember 4, and a letter from President A. W. 

 Kreinhcder, of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, urged every lumberman to 

 be present and bring others with him. On the acquaintance committee 

 of the Chamber of Commerce which looked after the affair were the follow- 

 ing lumbermen : Charles N. Perrln, J. S. Hayward and .John R. O'Toole. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



A. S. Arthur, for many years connected with Pittsliurgb lumber firms, 

 has associated himself with the Highland Lumber Company, Inc., Seth, 

 W. Va. He will look after the Philadelphia and surrounding trade and 

 assist in the office work here. Mr. Arthur is one of tiie best-known young 

 lumbermen in this field and his many friends will give him a warm 

 welcome. 



Harry Uussell, for many years the head of Henry C. Patterson & Co.. 

 and later of Howes & Kussell, has associated himself with the C. J. Decker 

 Company, hardwoods, -Vsheville, N. C, which has opened office In the 

 Bellevue-Court building, this city. Mr. liussell will be connected with the 

 sales department. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company, located for some years 

 in the Keal Estate Trust buldng, has retired from business. 



The Henrico I^umber Company. Eugene W. I'ry, president; Southern 

 Transportation Company, of which Mr. Fry is treasurer and active head, 

 and the Jessup & Moore Paper Company, E. W. Fry, vice-president, have 

 jointly taken the whole of the eighteenth and part of the seventeenth 

 Boors in the new section of the Commercial Trust building, Fifteenth 

 and Market streets. They are extensive manufacturers of Maryland 

 lumber and pulp wood. 



Frederick S. Underbill of Wistar, fnderhill & Nixon, says they are 

 getting a number of inquiries and some fair orders are booked. Prices, 

 however, at this end remain unchanged while manufacturers of lumber are 

 curtailing their output and asking stifFer prices In .some lines. 



Franklin A. Smith's Son, with large yard and mill located on the 

 Schuylkill river below Spruce street, has sold out bis entire business, 

 yard, lumber, tools, etc.. to the Yellow Pine Company of Philadelphia. 

 J. Edward Smith, proprietor of the above business, has decided to take 

 a much needed rest before again entering business. He Is still associated 

 with the Producers' Lumber Company, 



J. K. Smith, Jr., son of the proprietor of Franklin A. Smith's Son, and 

 formerly associated with this concern, was married to Miss Beatrice M.vers 

 on November l.S. After a short honeymoon trip they are now settled at 

 their home, 921 South Fifty-fourth street. Mr. Smith, now associated 

 with the Producers' Lumber Company, is one of the popular young lum- 

 bermen in this city. 



K. G. Scudder & Son, Camden, N. J., have removed their yard to White 

 Horse Pike and City Line, in South Camden. 



The Carolina Lumber Company, this city, was adjudged an involuntary 

 bankrupt on November 2.1. 



The Parke Noble Lumber Company, Jersey City, N. J., obtained a 

 charter under New Jersey laws November 24. Capital, $100,000. 



=-< PITTSBURGH '^ 



The Universal Lumber Company has been organized by Aaron and 

 Samuel J. Horvitz and William Lichtenstul of Pittsburgh to do a general 

 lumber business In this city. 



The Pittsburgh Industrial Development Commission Is now represented 



Indiana Oak 



GUARANTEED 



Do you remember from experience in the old days, that 

 peculiar satisfaction in working the rich, mellow 

 softness and smoothness of real INDIANA OAK? 



You are probably leary of that term now as you don't 

 knoic the origin of the stock purported to grow in 

 this state. 



In fact that very misrepresentation Is the strongest 

 endor.sement of INDIAN.\ O.VK as the oak. 



You would like to again experience that .satisfaction If 

 you could know that the stock you are oBEered is just 

 what you uncd to yet. 



Your customers would be pleased if their goods showed 

 that quiet beauty and even color and figure that for 

 all time has eiven to goods made from INDIANA 

 OAK an Individuality. 



You can pleane them again. How? 



Simpl.v by bnyluK a parcel of almost anything in lumber 

 or Veneers from our vards. You can select from a 

 full assortment. We positively carry no Southern 

 stock and lan prove it. 



-And remember — We have built up our business by giving 



Juat a little better quality than you expect 



Charles H. Barnaby 



Greencastle, Indiana 



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