HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Ilaiiinier Furniture Company has been iucorporated at La Salle, 

 111., with .f 10,000 capital stock. 



llAitDwoou Record acknowledges receipt of Volume 2, No. 10 of the 

 official liullotiu of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. This 

 bulletin contains the usual valuable information. 



James E. Stark of James E. Stark & Co., Memphis, Tenn., spent several 

 days of last week with the Chicajio trade on business. 



K. J. Lockwood, secretary and general manager of the Memphis Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, Memphis, Tenn., made one of his frequent visits 

 to Chicago during the past week. 



C. A. Goodman of the Sawyer-Goodman Company, Marinette, Wis., was in 

 the city the greater part of last week. 



Otis A. Felger of the Felger Lumber & Timber Company, Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., has been in Chicago a good part of the time during the past couple 

 of weeks on business in connection with his Chicago interests. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, 

 Ky., was in Chicago for a day last week on business in connection with 

 the National Hardwood Lumber .\ssociation. 



B. ^y. Lord, Chicago Veneer Company, Danville, Ky., spent a few days 

 in Chicago on one of his frequent visits the early part of last week. 



W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., passed 

 through Chicago last week on his way from a visit to Canadian points. 



Sam Burkholder, head of the S. Burkholder Lumber Company, Crawfords- 

 ville, Ind., stopped in at Hardwood Record offices as the paper was going 

 to press, and states he has just returned from quite a stay at the com- 

 Ipany's mill at Homer, La. 



C. H. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind., passed through the city this week. 

 He is taking his daughter home from the school she Is attending In this 

 vicinity. 



W. W. Brown, lumber buyer of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 

 Two Rivers, Wis., was in Chicago on Wednesday. Mr. Brown had just 

 come from Louisville, where he purchased a good block of mahogany. He 

 says he is getting the Hamilton company's stocks in good shape in antici- 

 pation of leaving on April 15 to take charge of the hardwood department 

 of the Park Falls Lumber Company at Park Falls, Wis. 



=■< NEW YORK ^- 



Sam E. Barr, the hardwood flooring specialist, has just returned from a 

 trip to the South, where he spent some lime at oak flooring mills in Ten- 

 nessee .nnd Virginia, whose outijut he handles in this market. He reports 

 complete stocks and a surplus of seme i?x2^-iuch plain and quartered oak 

 flooring, on which he is ready to quote attractive prices for April and May 

 dielivery, during which (irae it will be necessary to move about 1,;;00,000 

 feet of clear and selects. He is shipping clear flooring with sap and select 

 with "not a knot." 



Harry Magovern, who for a year has been with bis father in the wholesale 

 Jiardwood flooring business at 11 Broadway, is now about ready to make the 

 circuit of the trade. Mr. Magovern reports a gradual improvement In busi- 

 ness and looks for a fair amount of spring and summer trading. 



F. C. Hooton of the Strable Manufacturing Company, Saginaw, Mich., 

 recently spent some time at the local oflice of the company. Mr. 

 Hooton Is manager of the lumber department of the business. He was 

 accompanied by Mrs. Hooton. 



Col. John M. Woods, the venerable hardwood manufacturer and wholesaler 

 of Boston, Mass., was a visitor in New York on March 19. He was on his 

 return home from a vacation spent at Pinehurst and his countenance showed 

 the beneflts of his stay in the South. 



.-< BUFFALO >• 



The hardwood business of Davenport & Ridley has been incorporated with 

 capital stock of ?25,000. The company's yard is at 1146 Seneca street. 

 Directors are A. E. and Ella S. Davenport and B. F. Ridley. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company finds plain oak, ash and poplar 

 in the largest demand among hardwoods at present, though trade is still 

 reported to be ratlier quiet. 



The McLean Lumber Company states that the hardwood trade Is about 

 the same as for a number of weeks. Plain oak holds steady in price. The 

 yard is getting in new stocks as needed. 



Miller, Sturm & Miller are selling principally oak, maple and ash. They 

 state that th.Te is a slightly improved volume of business, though not up 

 to the ordinary season's sales. 



Blakeslee, I'errin & Darling are shipping out a steady amount of hard- 

 woods and getting in new stocks as well. Oak and maple are leading, though 

 cypress shows Improvement. 



G. Ellas & Rro. report the Iniiiding trade as improved. Mooring is now 

 selling in fairly good shape. The firm has received a permit from the city 

 to enlarge its mill at a cost of $l,.'i00. 



The Yeager Lumber Company has been increasing its stocks of cypress 

 lately, owing to a larger demand for this wood. There is a fair demand 

 also for plain oak and ash. 



The Evwin Lumber Company is finding a better market for hardwoods in 

 the South and is turning out quite an amount of stock at its two mills at 

 Erwln, Tenn. The market is stronger than some weeks ago. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report the hardwood trade as holding up about steady, 

 with a good demand for low-grade stocks. Brown ash is selling In larger 

 volume than earlier in the year 



The National Lumber Company reports that maple flooring Is selling more 

 readily at present than for some time and that a larger sale exists also tor 

 oak flooring. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company states that birch Is moving fairly 

 well at present and that plain oak Is In fair sale. 



•< PHILADELPHIA >■ 



The New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N. J., has booked contract 

 for two large oil conveying steamers for the Standard Oil Company. They 

 will be the largest vessels of their type ever constructed and will be used 

 for the coastwise trade. This concern also has .secured contract for the 

 building of live colliers for the .\tlantic Coastwise Company of Boston, Mass. 



The William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company has booked 

 a contract for the building of a large-sized modern liner for the W. R, 

 Grace Company of New York. 



The J. G. Brill Company is manufacturing trolley cars at its local shops, 

 which will be the flrst installment of Philadelphia-made cars to be shipped 

 to South .\merican ports. The flrst lot will go on the steamship Royal 

 Sceptre, a South American packet, and are Intended for San Paulo, Brazil. 

 Others will soon be sent to Bogota. Columbia-Four cars are being built for 

 government railways in Venezuela, and two for the trolley service In Quito, 

 Ecuador. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works have just closed a contract for fifty 

 freight locomotives for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 

 at a cost of over .fl,O0O,000. The order calls for twenty locomotives of the 

 Mikado type, fifteen of the Pacific type and fifteen of the Santa Fe type. 

 The company is now busy on the construction of one hundred small locomo- 

 tives for the French government for use in Morocco. 



John A. Calhoun and C. E. Gordon, both formerly associated with George 

 F. Craig, have formed tli" Calhoun Cordon Company, wholesale lumber, with 

 office at 1433 Commercial Trust ImildinL'. 



-.■<, PITTSBURGH >-= 



John C. Donges, president of the J. C. Donges Lumber Company, was 

 recently elected president of the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association. Mr. Donges is the youngest man ever elected to that office. 

 The other officers chosen are : J. T. Montgomei.v. vice-president, and J. G. 

 Criste, secretary and treasurer ; W. H. Sehuette, O. H. Babcock, Alexander 

 Willson, A. J. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Company and E. S. Dun, 

 directors. 



The Standard Lumber and Supply Company is a new concern in Pittsburgh 

 organized by A. B. Morris, G. F. Pollock and W. C. Johnston. 



The Germain Company recently received an order for .'10,000 standard 

 railroad ties to be shipped to Greece. The ties were sold on American 

 specifications and will be loaded from the company's ports at Tampa, Fla., as 

 fast as possible. 



The Aberdeen Lumljer Company is not making any disturbance on account 

 of hard times. On the contrary President J. N. Woollett announces that 

 this month is the best month he ever had In business. A good reason for 

 this is the fact that he is shipping a nice lot of ash, Cottonwood, and gum 

 to Liverpool, England, to be cut up into stretcher handles, coffin boxes, gun 

 carriages, etc. Business so far has been very satisfactory with this firm. 



The .\merican Lumber and Mjinufacturing Company has taken over the 

 H. K. Jlorse Lumber Company of New York City. Mr. Morse is largely 

 interested in the .\merican and represented that concern in the Metropolis. 



Garling & Splane will move their offices from the House building to the 

 Arrott building in the near future. Mr. Garling spent all bis early years In 

 the lural)er business and in that building as a member of the force of the 

 Empire Lumber Company. 



The Johnston-Davies Lumber Company, a leading hardwood concern, has 

 moved its office from the I^nion Bank building to the eleventh floor of the 

 Bene<lum-Trecs building on Fourth avenue. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has been getting a good lot of business down 

 East and finds that by hard plugging an order list can still be kept up to a 

 fairly satisfactory point. President II. F. DomhoCf has added some to bis 

 force of salesmen this year and is well prepared to handle the wholesale 

 hardwood business in any part of the country. 



The Western Lumber Company, which has liecn in business about five 

 years, filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy following the failure of the 

 German National Bank, in which lis loans were carried. President W. W. 

 Wilson, Jr., also filed a similar petition. The company was doing a good 

 business at its offices In the Oliver building and has the sincere sympathy of 

 the lumber public. 



=■< BOSTON >-==== 



Clifton F. Leatherbee. wlio has l..iig been identllicrt with the trade of 

 Boston and until recently with the Boston Lumber Company, has entered 

 the wholesale business on his on-n account with his office at 70 Klll>y street. 



The Vermont Valley Ltmiber Company, with offices at 1026 Old South 

 building, Boston, has been incorporated with capital of $00,000. Frank W. 

 Wood is president and W. A. Carpenter treasurer. 



At Lynn the Wm. A. Fay Lumber Company has been incorporated. Wm. 

 A. Fay, president, has been In the lumber business In that city for many 

 years. 



IVo large creditors of the Boston & Maine Lumber Company allege that 

 certain parties having property ot that Arm In their name have sought to 

 gain possession of equities, etc., of the corporation worth about »1S0,000 



