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H A R D.W OOD RECORD 



spruce, pine and hemlock yearly. A large part 

 of Its output will be marketed here. 



The twentieth annual meeting of the New 

 York Lumber Trade Association, one of the big- 

 gest meetings in its history, occurred at the 

 association rooms, 18 Broadway, October 10, 

 preceded by a fine luncheon served by Delmon- 

 ico. President James Sherlock Davis presided, 

 and the reports rendered covering the work of 

 the past year proved it to be one of the most 

 active and satisfactory in the history of the 

 organization. There was only one ticket in the 

 field and the following officers were unanimously 

 elected: President, James Sherlock Davis; 

 first vice president, Guy Loomis ; treasurer, 

 Charles F. Fischer. 



The report of the Board of Trustees and Sec- 

 retary were exceedingly interesting and showed 

 the membership of the present day to be 213 

 retailers, wholesalers and non-residents. The 

 credit system so successfully operated by the 

 association in the collection of claims for a 

 number of years was reported as having col- 

 lected J342.S07.96 back debts, or a total of 43 

 per cent of all the claims filed with it. 



Calmes Bros., hardwood manufacturers of 

 North Carolina, have opened a local sales office 

 at 41 Broad Street. 



Sam E. Barr, Flatiron building, has just 

 returned from a business trip through Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



In the arrangements for an extensive enter- 

 tainment for the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association at its next annual meeting in -May, 

 1907, at Atlantic City, Harry S. Dewey of Dixon 

 & Dewey, Flatiron building, and E. S. Foster, 

 head of the lumber department of the National 

 Casket Company, Hoboken, N. J., have been 

 appointed members of a committee from this 

 district. 



The Charles F. Fischer Lumber Company has 

 added a new auxiliary yard to its extensive 

 retail hardwood business in Harlem. The new 

 yard is located on the north side of 134th 

 street, between Madison and Park avenues, and 

 is being stocked with a complete assortment of 

 choice hardwoods. 



M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., was a recent visitor 

 on business. 



G. E. Smith,- wholesale hardwoods, 17 Battery 

 place', has opened a branch office in the Broad 

 Exchange building, Boston, in charge of H. A. 

 Savage. 



E. W. Higbie, hardwood manufacturer of 45 

 Broadway, returned on the 5th after another 

 visit to his operations in the Adirondacks. He 

 announces that the 10-mile railroad into his 

 big tract of timber has been completed and the 

 mill started October 1 with a good supply of 



very choice logs. 



Philadelphia. 



Thomas B. Hammer speaks encouragingly of 

 the outlook for the coming fall and winter 

 season. 



Charles F. Felin & Co. report their hardwood 

 department moving satisfactorily, with chestnut 

 and ash high and scarce. This firm is well 

 stocked with most woods and has not expe 

 rienced much difficulty in receiving supplies, as 

 it fortunately had ample conveyances chartered 

 to meet any unforeseen obstacle in this direc- 

 tion. Mr. Ludascher, the practical member of 

 the firm, reports the market firm and strong, 

 and indications are for a continuance of this 

 condition. 



Henry C. Riley of Charles S. Riley & Co. is 

 spending a month in South Carolina In connec- 

 tion with the mill interests of his firm. 



The East Penn Lumber Company, a new con- 

 cern, with headquarters at Analomink, Pa., ob- 

 tained a charter under Pennsylvania laws on 

 October 2 with an authorized capital of $20,000. 

 The incorporators are George B. Decker, Charles 

 W. Detrick, S. T. Detrick, all of Analomink, 

 Pa. ; George L. Nyce, Bushkill, Pa. : W. H. 

 Jacques and G. B. Cocker & Co. of East Strouds- 



burg. Ta. ; Theodore Price. Cresco, Pa. ; 3. B. 

 Williams, Stroudsburg, Pa. ; W. R. Cord, Boon- 

 ton. N. J., and George T. Cobb, Hoboken, N. J. 

 ili-' purpose of the company is to manufacture 

 and sell lumber. 



A. J. Cadwallader of George F. Craig & Co., 

 Edwin B. Malone of Watson, Malone & Sons, 

 and George W. Smith are enjoying a moose hunt 

 in the Maine woods. 



B. C. Currie, Jr.. Philadelphia manager of R. 

 M. Smith & Co., has just returned from head- 

 quarters at Parkersburg, W. Va. He reports 

 the hardwood market firm with poplar scarce 

 and high and mills unable, on account of the 

 m.a! demand, to accumulate stock. 



William M. McCormick of the Clearfield Lum- 

 ber Company. Inc., and the Little River Lumber 

 Company, has been making a prolonged stay in 

 Tennessee, looking after the mill interests there. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company reports continued success. 

 It is highly gratified at the company's showing. 

 W. Z. Sener, a member of the finance committee, 

 made his first appearance at the meeting of the 

 committee after an absence of two months in 

 Europe. 



Josiah R. Williams is home from a trip 

 through the western lumber districts, where he 

 has, made new connections. Mr. Williams, 

 t bough a thoroughly experienced lumberman, has 

 been in business only about a year, and his 

 friends look upon him as one of the coming 

 successful dealers. 



As the properties of his company in eastern 

 Tennessee and western North Carolina require 

 occasional supervision, Frank T. Rumbarger of 

 the Rumbarger Lumber Company has just made 

 a short trip through these localities. He found 

 matters in good shape with no obstacles save 

 the temporary difficulty in hauling, owing to a 

 rain-soaked soil. The statement made in a 

 previous issue that the Rumbarger Lumber 

 Company had recently obtained 8,000 acres of 

 timber land in western North Carolina was er- 

 roneous. It is the Snow Bird Lumber Company, 

 controlled by the Rumbarger people, which has 

 made this large acquisition of timber land. 



According to report, F. L. Andrews, repre- 

 senting a syndicate of financial men of Couders- 

 port. Pa., is buying a 60,000-acre timber tract 

 at Gainesville, Ga. 



Oscar Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., Pitts- 

 burg. Pa., has been visiting the local trade. 



W. W. Reiley of -W. W. Reiley & Bro. of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., has also been in town. 



While engaged in conversation on business 

 matters, J. H. Turrell. the well-known member 

 of the Trexler-Turrell Lumber Company of 

 Wilkes Barre, Pa., was stricken with apoplexy 

 on October S and died a few hours afterward. 

 He was a prominent member of the trade in 

 eastern Pennsylvania and his death is keenly 

 regretted by a large number of friends. 



The committee appointed to investigate the 

 failure of the Keystone Casket Company re- 

 ported that it has brought to light methods that 

 could not be carried out in any enterprise with 

 impunity. The deficiency of $28,000 was unex- 

 plainable by those in charge of the works, but 

 the committee's report revealed, as a simple 

 instance of the methods pursued, that casket 

 shells which cost $4 and over were sold for 

 $2.50, a figure below the actual cost of lumber 

 used in the manufacture of the articles. As 

 no better offer than the one made at the meet- 

 ing of October 3 could be obtained by the com- 

 mittee of the creditors of this company, and as 

 bankruptcy proceedings would simply mean lit- 

 tle or nothing for those interested, it was de- 

 cided to recommend that the offer of 40 and 25 

 per cent in cash to the merchandise and bor- 

 rowed money creditors respectively be accepted ; 

 tin- signatures of the creditors are now only 

 necessary. 



Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania, reports 

 a land deal made a few days ago by the Shohola 

 Falls Company, which conveyed to Congressman 



Wright of Susquehanna for $200,000 the com- 

 pany's rights in a timber tract with a lumber 

 estimate placed at 600,000.000 feet. A railroad 

 will be built from Port Jervis to the property 

 via Milford. 



The Henry II. Sheip Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which recently suffered a disastrous fire, 

 has ordered plans and specifications to be pre- 

 pared for a new factory building at 1712-14-16 

 North Randolph street, the approximate cost of 

 which will be $75,000. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange is still the Mecca 

 for the local lumber dealers. It is a rare event 

 not to find one or more of the members there. 

 Horace G. Hazard of Horace G. Hazard & Co. 

 recently made a call at the rooms, the first since 

 his two months' vacation in Europe. Another 

 visitor was C. Frank Williamson of Media, Fa. 

 A pleasant outing was anticipated by Charles 

 I'. Maule, Herbert P. Robinson, Joseph P. Dun 

 woody, F. A. Dudley and Frank M. Gillingham. 

 who left the exchange rooms on Friday, October 

 12. for an automobile trip to Toms River, N. J., 

 where they will spend Saturday on Mr. Maule's 

 yacht, returning Sunday evening. 



Baltimore. 



The sale of some 4,500 acres of timber land 

 in Giles and Bland counties, Virginia, on Wolf 

 creek, and extending along the line of the New 

 River. Holston & Western railroad, which is 

 being built into Bland county, is reported from 

 Cumberland, Md. The land was purchased from 

 the Giles Lumber Company of Franklin, Va., by 

 Norman E. Knepper and Isaiah Good of Somer- 

 set, who intend to erect sawmills and proceed 

 with the development of the property. A large 

 veneering plant in Virginia will probably get 

 most of the timber, much of which is a fine 

 quality of hardwoods. The consideration is said 

 to have been $20,000. 



Randle Cooke of the firm of James Cooke & 

 Co., timber brokers and importers of American 

 hardwoods at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, 

 stopped in Baltimore during a tour of the timber 

 sections and lumber markets of the country, and 

 called on a number of firms here. He had been 

 down South and intended to return to that 

 section in a short time. His trip was for obser- 

 vation and education in American lumbering 

 methods, being the first he has ever made. In 

 the course of his travels he closed a number of 

 contracts for delivery of stocks and established 

 connections for his firm. 



Henry G. Tample of Baltimore was married 

 October 3 to Miss Lucy C. Anderton, of Tappa- 

 hannock, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Temple have taken 

 up their residence at Fulton, Ark., where the 

 groom has established a lumber business. 



John F. Fountain, an inspector of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, was in Balti- 

 more two weeks ago to look over the field and 

 ascertain how T the inspection rules here are 

 working. He found that the rules are gaining 

 in favor and that they are the means of pre- 

 venting much friction that might otherwise arise 

 between the manufacturers and the wholesalers 

 or retailers. 



Pittsburg. 



The Empire Lumber Company notes a lit- 

 tle slackening in the call for maple. Until 

 lately maple flooring has been one of the 

 strong pullers with the hardwood firms and 

 some very nice orders have been placed for 

 use in the skyscrapers and warehouses which 

 are now being inclosed. 



M. Simons' Sons, whose big planing mill in 

 Allegheny burned over a year ago, have nearly 

 completed their new three-story brick plan- 

 ing mill on the old site at Anderson and Rob- 

 inson streets. The plant will be one of the 

 finest in the city, as it is to be equipped with 

 the very best machinery. Pending its erec- 

 tion the firm has carried on business at its 

 lumber yard in the lower part of Allegheny, 

 which it will still retain when back in its 

 mill. 



