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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hardwood News l^otes 



=-< MISCELLANEOUS >= 



The Krit Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich., recently became a volun- 

 tary bankrupt. 



The Birch Leaf I>umber Company has been incorporated at Xcw York 

 •City with $200,000. 



The Curtis, Yale, Howard Comp.any, Minneapolis. Minn., has imreasefl its 

 capital stock to $200,000. 



The Curtis Lumber & Millwork Cbiripany, Clinton. Iowa, lias increased its 

 capital stock to $].S00,0i)O 



The Cincinnati Kin- rrootDoor Company, Cincinnati. U.. lias iiicreaserl 

 its capital stock to S30,000: 



The Detroit Dathtub & Brass Manufacturing Company. Detroit, Mich., 

 recently became an involuntar.v bankrupt. • ■ . 



A fire which started in the engine room of the George L. La mil Furnituri- 

 Company, Nappauee, Ind.. burned the plant to tlic (.'round. 



The Williams Lumber Company, Trout Lake. Mich., has purcliasetl the 

 mill of the Athens Hardwood Lumber Company, .\tbens, and will move 

 same to Trout Lake. 



The P. C. Murphy Trunk Company, St. Louis, Mo., will be placed in the 

 hands of a receiver upon application of stockholders, who arc reported to 

 liave recently had a disagreement. 



Edward Hammer of Hammer Brothers. Hillsboro, Mich., died recently. 



The Cramer Furniture Company, Thomasville, N. C, has changed its 

 name to the Thomasville Chair Company. 



The Mutual Motors (Companies has been incorporated at .Tackson, 

 Mich., with $2,000,000 capital to manufacture automobiles for two Inde- 

 pendent concerns. It will occupy the former plant of the Imperial .\utonio- 

 "bile Company. 



=■< CHICAGO >■ 



J. V. Stimson, Huntingburg, Ind., with his wile anri daujihtcr. has lieen 

 spending several days during the week in Chicago. 



John M. Woods and W. E. Chamberlin of .John M. Woods & Co., East 

 -Cambridge, Mass., were in Chicago the beginning of the week. 



Charles H. Barnaby, Grecncastle, Ind., was a prominent oHt-of-towii 

 visitor in this city during the past few days. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sous Lumber <'oni|>any. I.oulsvlll. , 

 ICy., spent the first part of the week in Chicago. 



E. J. Young of Brittlngham & Young Company, Madison. Wis.. wa> in 

 -the city for a few days this week. 



W. E. Heyser of the W. E. Heyser Lumber Company, Cincinnati, ii.. 

 visited the trade during the last few days. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., stopped In Cbi- 

 cago for a short stay recently. 



Season's greetings in the form of tastily gotten up cards have come to 

 this office from : The Hdjc Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind. ; Hadentlnc 

 Lumber Company, Inc., Camden, X. J. ; Flanner-Steger Land & Lumber 

 Company, Chicago, 111. ; C. H. Pearson, New York, N. Y. ; .Northern Forest 

 Protective Association, Munising. Mich. : Richardson Lumber Company. 

 Alpena, Mich. ; a red leather pocket memorandum booklet from the Cherry 

 River Boom & Lumber Company, Scranton, Pa., and a little set of blotters 

 , from Tickle, Bell & Co., Liverpool. 



A good many pretty calendars have been received by H.irdwood Kkcoup 

 since the last issue, among them being one entitled ".\1I Love Excelling." 

 ; from the A. L. Dennis Salt & Lumber Company, Grand Rapids. Mich. : 

 "Love's Ideal," S. M. Bradley, handler of lumber and railroad ties. .More- 

 head, Ky. ; "A Trout Stream," The Central Veneer Company, manufacturer 

 -of soft yellow poplar veneers, Huntington, W. 'Va. ; "Beatrice," Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, manufacturer of "Acorn Brand" oak and 

 beech flooring, Nashville, Tenn.; "The Sweet .Tune Bride," from Geo. C. 

 Brown & Co., Proctor, Ark. ; "Lower Peninsula Hard Maple," Richardson 

 Lumber Company. Alpena, Mich.; a descriptl.-e woods' si-eiie from .1. C 

 West, president The .\tlas Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, 

 O., and from the Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company, Chicago, III., the 

 Atlas Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Parkersburg, W. Va.. and 

 ■Clarence Boyle, Chicago, 111. 



Charles Conro, Rhinelandcr, Wis., of the recently dissolved Conro Lumber 

 ■Company of that place, and J. H. O'Melia of the J. H. O'Mella Lumber 

 Company, who bought out Mr. Conro's interests and formed the new com- 

 pany, have been spending the past week in Chicago, stopping at the 

 Brevoort hotel. 



George Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., arrived in 

 town the first part of this week and will be here for several days on busi- 

 ness. Mr. Burgess states their new mill is still in operation and is giving 

 satisfaction. 



G. E. Lamb and W. B. Burke, respectively president and vice-president 

 and general manager of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss., 

 spent a few days the early part of the week in Chicago attending a. 

 directors' meeting of that company. According to these gentlemen the 

 consensus of opinion among all of the directors was distinctly optimistic 

 as to the outlook for the coming year. The company has decided to reopen 

 its Charleston operations and to extend every effort toward Increasing its 



business. .\n account of the reopening is printed elsewhere in this issue. 



W. H. Weller. secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States, was in Chicago last week in conference with J. H. 

 Himmelberger, president of that organization. Mr. Weller and Mr. Him- 

 melberger discussed plans for the coming convention. 



n. C. Johnson of the Johnson Lumber Company, Kreetan, Mich., has 

 been spending the last couple of weeks in Chicago, having returned from 

 a six weeks' trip through the South. 



Walter DeWitt, formerly of Chicago and now of Traverse City, Mich., 

 has been in the city with his family for several days. 



R. H. Downman, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, has been in the city last week closing up the selection of a secre- 

 tary to take the place of J. E. Rhodes, w'lio has been called to the secretary- 

 ship of the recently organized Southern Pine .\ssociation. 



J. W. McCiure and J. E. .Stark of Memphis, Tenn., were in the city 

 recently in conference with other members of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic .\ssociation regarding freight rate matters. 



B. F. Dulweber and Emil Thomau, Cincinnati, O., spent several days 

 in Chicago last week. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt of a complete stock list issued 

 by White Brothers, San Francisco, Cal., handlers of all kinds of hardwood 

 products. This booklet in addition to containing a complete list of the 

 company's wide variety of stock, contains photograph of the train load of 

 lumber which was the first hardwood lumber shipped to the coast via the 

 Panama Canal. It also contains description of the steamship Peter H. 

 Crowd! which carried the shipment from the southern port to the com- 

 pany's offices. 



The Curtis Door & Sash Company, Chicago, has increased its capital stock 

 to $300,000. 



=-< BUFFALO >• 



The building figures for Buffalo sliuw a decline of IS per cent for 1914, 

 as compared with the previous year. The past year has been a great year 

 for school buildings, three large high-schools liaving been put up the past 

 .vear, costing several millions, and these buildings do not figure in the 

 ligures given. This year looks like a railroad station year, it the lawyers 

 and private obstructionists keep their bands off. If the work planned is 

 carried out, it will mean an expenditure of many millions. 



.\ visit to Buffalo's veteran retired lumberman, MaJ. John S. Noyes, on 

 New Year's Day brought out a large representation from the Buffalo Lum- 

 ber Exchange. J. B. Wall and the major sang one of their old-time songs 

 and a number of other selections were rendered by the lumbermen. Maj. 

 Noyes was presented with a steamer nig by his visitors. 



Fred M. Sullivan Is running for director of the Chamber of Commerce 

 at the annual election to be held on January 13. He is popular among 

 a large acquaintance and will have a large support, including the unanimous 

 votes of the lumbermen. 



On December 2S J. Newton Scatcberd, son of J. N. Scatcherd, lumber- 

 man, of this city, was married at the liome of the bride's parents, Ogdens- 

 hurg, N. Y'.. to Miss Edith W. Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Scatcherd will live 

 at 703 Delaware avenue, Buffalo. 



Taylor & Crate are doing the average amount of business in selling lum- 

 ber, although they are not running their southern mills this winter. They 

 are looking for a fair increase In business this year. 



C. C. Slaght is spending most of his time looking after his mill operations 

 at Coudersport and Genesee, Pa., not being In his Buffalo office more than 

 once in a week or two. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is beginning to receive some 

 lumber stocks and a largo amount of both Incoming and outgoing stock 

 Is oak- M. M. Wall has been spending some time in the Southwest lately. 



C. N- Perrin has returned from a trip to the Southwest, where he bought 

 about 1,000,000 feet of hardwoods for Blakcslee, Perrin & Darling. The 

 jard has sold considerable maple lately. 



G. Ellas & Bro. have filed plans with the city building bureau for mak- 

 ing an extension to the box shop, making it much more commodious. The 

 hardwood trade Is reported quiet at present. 



Anthony Miller's yard found trade in hardwoods quiet early this montb 

 because of inventory taking, but a pretty good volume of business has 

 been done recently and early improvement Is looked for. 



Hugh McLean has returned front n business trip to Canada. 



■< PHILADELPHIA > 



J. Gibson McIIvaln. Jr., of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., has no doubt that 

 the new year will develop a substantial prosperity. He says the only 

 trouble at this time Is that if a man buys lumber and finds he can buy It 

 cheaper the day after, he stops buying — if the reverse were the case he 

 would keep on buying. 



F. X. Diebold, president of the Forest Lumber Company, believes In a 

 livening up of things for the new year. He has just returned from a 

 week's stay at the Pittsburgh office, and reports that the trade In that 

 section feels encouraged. The mill at Konnarock, Va., is working full time. 



Isaac II. Rhoadcs, for many years sales agent for George Craig & Sons, 

 and George C. Craig, who for a number of years was employed at mills of 

 latter firm In Winterburn, W. Va., have formed the firm of Isaac H. 

 Rhoades & Co., and will conduct a general wholesale lumber business. 

 Headquarters will be in the George F. Craig office, 1.301 Morris building. 



Charles G. Blake. Philadelphia manager for the Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany, has severed his connection with this house. He has been associated 



