HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Clarkston Furniture & Buggy Company bas been incorporated at 

 Clarkston, N. C, witli .^10,000 capital stocl!. 



Tlie United Furniture Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at 

 Port Allegheny, Pa., with a $25,000 capital stock. 



H. R. Whyte has beea appointed receiver for the Buena Vista Veneer 

 Company at Des Arc, Ark., and South Bend, Ind. 



The Pioneer Box Company of Crawfordsville, Ind., manufacturer of wire 

 bound boxes, will establish a factory at St. Louis. 



The Oakville Wagon Company has been incorporated at Watertown, 

 Conn., with $25,000 capital to manufacture wagons. 



A creditors' committee has been appointed to take over the affairs of the 

 Kimball-Lacy Lumber Company, Arkansas City, Ark. 



The Bluepoiut Mangle Roller Company has been incorporated at Der- 

 rick, N. Y., with an authorized capital stock of $45,000. 



The Capitol City Carriage Factory, Des M6ines, Iowa, was partially 

 ■destroyed by fire recently. The loss is reported to be $40,000. 



The Baker, Coleman & Carroll Company, manufacturers of garden plows, 

 has selected Shenandoah, la., as the location for a new factory. 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company, Gladstone, Mich., is 

 reported to have suffered a $20,000 loss by fire about a week ago. 



The A. M. Maxwell Company is reported to have been incorporated with 

 4300,000 capital to manufacture automobiles at Indianapolis, Ind. 



Fire destroyed the plant of the Hickory Manufacturing Company at 

 Johnson City, Tenn., on December 11. The loss reported is $100,000. 



The Williamson & Brown Land & Lumber Company at Whiteville, N. C, 

 recently lost its plant by fire, which destroyed $75,000 worth of property. 



William E. Field of St. Louis, formerly superintendent of the Cupples 

 Woodenware Company, dropped dead at a restaurant table in that city 

 recently. 



Cohen & Danovitz has been incorporated under that style at New York 

 City to manufacture sash, doors, trim and woodwork. The capital stock 

 Is $10,000. 



The Master Talking Machine Manufacturing Company has been incor- 

 porated at New York with a capital stock of $500,000. This concern will 

 manufacture talking machines. 



It is announced from Warsaw, N. Y., that the American Master Organ 

 Company will establish a plant at that place, and that the Warsaw busi- 

 ness will be Incorporated with $100,000. 



The Alaska Lumber Company is the title of a recently incorporated con- 

 cern which will operate at Bryson City, N. C, with a capital stock of 

 -$100,000, for the manufacture of lumber. 



A report comes from Whitesburg, Ky., that George M. Adams and others 

 ifrom Sandy Lick Creek, Ky., are planning the establishment of a planing 

 mill at Whitesburg, shortly after the first of the year. 



It Is reported from Houston, Tex., that efforts are being made by the 

 Texas Forestry Association to perfect the formation of a state forestry 

 commission and to create the position of state forester at the next session 

 -of the legislature. 



It is reported that a furniture concern to be known as the Peerless 

 Manufacturing Company will shortly be incorporated at Holland, Mich. 

 H. E. Adcna, formerly of the Holland Furniture Company, is reported to 

 'be behind the new enterprise. 



=-< CHICAGO y 



Hardwood Recohd gratefully acknowledges receipt of a variety of beauti- 

 iful and artistic calendars from : 



The Radford-Portsmouth Veneer Company, manufacturer of rotary cut 

 veneers, Radford, Va., entitled "Daphne of the Roses" ; E. W. Pratt, Jr., 

 Hopkinsville, Ky., who can supply bounds, felloes and plow beams in car- 

 load lots, and D. H. Day, manufacturer and dealer in hardwood and hem- 

 lock lumber, bark, etc.. Glen Haven, Mich., each sent in one descriptive 

 •of "Winter Evening"; "Vivian," from both the Johannesburg Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Johannesburg, Mich., wholesaler of northern hardwoods, 

 •and the Miller Lumber Company, manufacturers of hardwood lumber and 

 box shooks at Marianna, Ark. ; Wood-Mosaic Company, manufacturer of 

 lumber, flooring an^ veneers, with headquarters at New Albany, Ind.; 

 S. D. Chllds & Co., handlers of all kinds of office stationery and supplies, 

 Chicago, 111., and a good sized oBice calendar from the American Veneer 

 •Company, manufacturer of built-up panels and veneer seatings, Hoboken, 

 N. J. 



Frank Purcell, handler of walnut logs, veneers and lumber, Kansas City, 

 -Mo., has been in Chicago for the last few days on business. He left Tuesday 

 night for Kansas City, as he was very anxious to get home before the 

 holidays. 



Robert Maisey, formerly associated with J. H. Dion of Maisey & Dion, 

 hardwood wholesale yard people, Chicago, has recently sold out his In- 

 terest in the firm to Mr. Dion. Mr. Maisey has been connected with the 

 hardwood business in Chicago for the last thirty years. The present 

 liusiness was organized a number of years ago and has been carried on very 

 ■successfully since. Mr. Dion will handle the entire affairs of the company 

 ■.from now on. 



Charles Dregge of the A. L. Dennis Salt & Lumber Company, Grand 

 JRaplds, Mich., spent a few days in Chicago last week. 



R. L. Jurdcn of the Penrod-Jurden-McCowen Lumber Company and the 

 Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company, Kansas City, is spending a tew days 

 in Chicago on business. 



D. J. .\rpin, president of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company, Grand 

 Rapids, Wis., was a Chicago visitor last week. 



W. D. Greeley, assistant forester of the United States Forest Service, 

 Washington, D. C. and U. F. Weiss, director of the Forest Products Labora- 

 tory, Madison, Wis., wore two prominent visitors who came to Chicago 

 to attend the meeting of the lumbermen at the Hotel La Salle. 



Walter C. Winchester of the Turtle Lake Lumber Company, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., passed through Chicago last Wednesday on his way north. 



D. L. Hutchinson of the Dickson Planing Mill Company, Dickson, Tenn., 

 was in the city on December 15, 



H. D. Tlemann. wood technologist in charge of investigations along this 

 line at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., spent several days 

 in Chicago a week ago in connection with bis work. 



The United States Barber Furniture Company of Chicago has recently 

 sustained an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt of a very useful and well gotten 

 up booklet entitled "Belt Sanding." issued by the Mattison Machine Works, 

 Beloit, Wis. This is the fourth number of the series which contains 

 practical articles on belt sanders. 



This office acknowledges receipt of a pamphlet on inter-insurance by 

 Charles F. Simonson. recently appointed manager of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' .\ssociation inter-insurance exchange. 



A book entitled "Merchandising of Lumber"' has just come to Hardwood 

 Record from the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. It contains 

 a complete report of the question of merchandising of lumber as discussed 

 before the annual convention of that association at Chicago. last May. 



=•< l<iEW YORK >-. 



Sam E. Barr finds present business all to the good, though of course 

 he could take care of some more. He reports a good number of orders 

 for January and February shipment which gives a good start to the 

 new year. He is making a specialty of hardwood flooring and finds a 

 steadily increasing demand for this very meritorious article. 



W. D. Mngovern, local hardwood flooring specialist and the pioneer in 

 the warehouse scheme for prompt delivery, has increased his facilities on 

 the upper west side so that he now carries about 1,000,000 feet of stock 

 at all times. He handles the famous Forman hardwood flooring and 

 Jackson Lumber Company's long leaf yellow pine flooring. 



The wholesale firm of Rouse & Van Dusen will be dissolved December 

 31. F. B. Van Dusen and W. J. Rouse are partners. 



The local office of the Emporium Lumber Company reports only sea- 

 sonable activity but looks for better things in early spring. W. L. 

 Sykes, head of the company, is spending the winter in Los Angeles. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against E. Schloss & Co., Inc., 

 manufacturers of furniture, with plant at 530 Cherry street. Liabilities 

 are $35,000 and assets $5,000. Charles L. Brookhelm has been appointed 

 receiver. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against the Norfolk Lumber 

 Company of 245 East 137th street. It is alleged that the company made 

 an assignment on December 17. The company was incorporated in June, 

 1911, with capital stock $10,000. Its principal business was dealing in 

 hardwood floors. 



=-< BUFFALO >•- 



H. L. Vetter of the National Lumber Company has returned from a 

 business trip to Boyne City and other points in Michigan, where he 

 placed a number of orders for maple flooring. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling report the hardwood trade as picking up. 

 Trade this month has been on a satisfactory scale, having largely ex- 

 ceeded that of three months ago. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company reports that the Inquiries 

 for lumber are on the increase and it is believed that business will show 

 a good gain within the next two or three months. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller state that the hardwood trade is inclined to be 

 quiet this month, but a number of orders have lately been received for 

 oak, maple and poplar. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company has bad a pretty good amount 

 of business of late in the better grades of quartered oak, in which prices 

 arc holding up better than in most woods. 



M. M. Wall has been elected treasurer of the New York State Motor 

 Federation, an organization composed of automobile clubs of Buffalo, Ro- 

 chester, Syracuse, Utica and New York, with 11,000 members. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report the brown ash demand as keeping up well. 

 In spite of the quiet in most other hardwoods. Sales of this wood have 

 been large during the past month. 



The Yeager Lumber Company has found plain oak one of the chief 

 hardwoods in demand during the past two weeks. Trade Is expected to 

 pick up within the next few weeks. 



It la reported that the Pierce-Arrow Automobile Company has received 

 another order within the past two weeks for several hundred motor 

 trucks to go abroad. The company is now filling a French army order 

 tor trucks. 



A. A. Mason has lately been calling on the furniture trade at James- 



