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HARDWOOD RECORD 



at that point and shipped throughout the United 

 States 



The officers of the Laguna Company are 6. 

 Watson French, president: Nathaniel French, 

 vice president; .1 .1 Merrill, treasurer: A \v. 

 Vanderveer, secretary: .1 II Hill, Jr., man- 

 ager of lumber department. 



Executive Board Meeting. 

 The Executive Board of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States held 

 a meeting in the association's offices in Chicago 

 on Saturday, January o, and made plans cover- 



ing the program of the forthcoming fifth annual 

 meeting at Memphis, which is to be held on 

 January i".> and 30. This program, while not 

 yel fully completed, will include the reading 

 of papers by quite a number of gentlemen 

 prominent in forestry, lumber, railroad and 

 other interests. There will be a good many mat- 

 ti is of pertinent interest tii the hardwood in- 

 dustry discussed at this meeting, and much new 

 and important business will come before it. It 

 is anticipated that the ((invention will be the 

 largest in numbers that this association has 

 ever held. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.) 

 Chicago. 



George Kelley, of the firm "t" J. Slimmer & 

 Co., hardwood wholesalers of 65 W. 22nd St.. 

 has just returned from a business trip through 

 out the South. While away Mr. Kelley estab- 

 lished a purchasing office for his concern at 

 Citronelle, Ala., in charge of Fred W. Schaefer, 

 formerly with the .1. M. Card Lumber Company, 

 of Chattanooga. Tenn. 



E. F. Taenzer, of the well known lumber firm 

 of E. E. Taenzer & Co., of -Memphis, Tenn., was 

 a Chicago visitor the latter part of I >< tuber. 



Hans l-'oreliheimer. of the prominent export 

 inu firm of Hugo Forehheimer, of Frankfort-on- 

 ilie.Main. Germany, is making a tour of the 

 I iiitcd States. lie is at present visiting the 

 concern's branch office at New Orleans, La., 

 where he will re in for the winter, 



Victor Thrane. of .lames 1 1. Lacey .V. Co.. tim- 

 ber brokers of New- Orleans, I. a., was in Chicago 

 last month on his way. to New Orleans, where 

 the firm makes its winter headquarters. Mr. 

 Thrane had been on the Pacific coast for several 

 months looking after the concern's increasing in- 

 terests there, and will return early in the new 

 year. 



Alter being confined to his home for two weeks 

 by a sprained knee, .lames s Trainer, of the 

 Trainer Bros. Lumber Company, is again at his 

 office looking after business with his accus- 

 tomed energy. The company reports business 

 active and has an excellent assortment of lum- 

 ber on its yard to supply the wants of iis trade 



The Hardwood Record lias prepared for the 

 Paepcke-Leichl Lumber Company, of Chicago, 

 a very handsome calendar composed ,,f six 

 sheets, each bearing on.- of the familiar lumber 

 characters which have appeared from time to 

 time as supplements to this publication. It is 

 attractively printed in red and black on heavy 

 enameled paper ii ml is a most appi'opi'i a t e re- 

 minder of this gnat manufacturing concern. 



William D. Hitchcock, once prominent in the 

 hardwood lumber trade of Chicago, died in h 

 tour. Mich.. Dec. :M. after a long sickness. 

 Years ago .Mr. Hitchcock maintained an office 

 in Chicago and made his home in Evanston. He 

 was seventy years old- at the n ,,f i,j s death. 



G. G. Roberts, sales manager of D. G. Conn 

 ney. Charleston, W. V"a., was i„ Chicag busi- 

 ness the early part of the week, and visited the 

 i: tD - iffice. 



The name of tie Penrod Walnut Corporation 

 of Kansas City. M... of which John N. Penrod, 



1 ll '' -walnut king." is president, has I n 



.hanged. The company will henceforth be known 

 as the 1'' mod Walnut Veneer Company. 



Invital ems hi \e Been received in this ■ it\ t,, 

 the marriage "t Bole'na May Saunders, daughter 

 of Mr and Mrs lianiel Green Saunders, of Kan 

 sas City, Mo.. io John Alfred Cochran, which 

 will take place in that city .Ian 12 



F. s. Underbill, ol Wistar, Cnderhill & Co., 

 Philadelphia, was a caller at tie- Record office 

 .Ian :; 



M. A Hayward, hardw I wholesaler of Co- 

 lumbus, (i.. visited Chicago on business las: 

 week 'anil called on the Record. 



D. .1 Peterson, of Toledo. 0., was in this city 

 (luring He- holidays, accompanied by his wife. 



E. 11. Eldridge. of Indianapolis, made the 

 Record a short call w-nile in Chicago lasl week. 



The Reciprocal Demurrage Convention held in 

 Chicago last week called to the city a large 

 number of well known hardwood men. Mem- 



phis was represented by the largest delegation. 

 luit a good many people prominently identified 

 with tin- industry from Cincinnati. Philadelphia, 



Si I. "His. Cadillac and other hardw d trade 



( enters were present. 



Harry Rankin, the well known head of the 

 Manufacturing Lumbermen's Underwriters ol 

 Kansas city, was in town on Friday. Mr. Han 

 kin says that his company closed the year with 

 more than thirty per cent more business than 

 lasl year, and its record of saving on insurance 



(■"■si t" its members is al t forty per cent. 



Mr. Rankin has achieved an enviable record in 

 his management of this great lumber insurance 

 company. 



.1. W Mayhew. sales manager of the \V. M. 

 bitter Lumber Company, of Columbus, 0., was 

 a welcome caller on his Chicago friends Jan. 8. 



During the past fortnight the Hardwood 

 Record has received a number of verj accept 

 able gifts from the various members of the 

 trade, for which it wish.-s to express iis grati- 

 tude Calendars came from the following: 

 Thus McFarland Lumber Company, Cairo. III.: 

 Bryan Lumber Company, Bristol, Ya. Tenn. : I.. 

 \V. Radina & Co. Cincinnati, 0. : John Dul- 

 weber & Co., Cincinnati; Righter-Parry Lum- 

 ber company. Philadelphia: Mitchell Bros, ('..in 

 pany. Cadillac, Mich.: Mackle Lumber Company. 

 Piedmont, \Y. Va. ; Win. II. Fritz & Co., Phila- 

 delphia . Bliss & Van Auken, Saginaw, Mich. : 

 John M Woods & Co., l-aisi Cambridge, Mass 

 s. M Brady. Morehead, Ky. : Barker ,y Co 

 Inc. Boston, Mass.; McClure Lumber Company. 

 Detroit, Mich.: .Hruckinan Lumber Company, 

 Allegheny, Pa.; Duhlmeier Bros., Cincinnati. 0. : 

 American Wood Working Machinery Company, 

 Nl w \ uk cit, Anderson-Tullj Co., Memphis, 

 and Colonial Lumber Company. Philadelphia 



1 the ]•:. n Fldridge Lumber Company, of 



Indianapolis, Ind.. came a very mat little loath 



1 ' r I id pocket blank book with the editor's 



name inscribed on it in gilt letters: from the 



Louise of Philadelphia was r ived a daily 



calendar pad also one from E. E. Price, of 

 Baltimore, .Mil : s M. Bradley, of Morehead, 

 Ky.. in addition to the handsome calendar, sent 

 three excellent lead pencils and .lames Crow-ell. 

 of Newark. X. J., sent an artistic card hearing 

 a \e« Year's greeting from r.ior Richard. 



Boston. 



Morn. A. Hall, in speaking of the cypress 



situation, states that h< nsiders the market 



favorable. The general review of the past year 

 show-.-d considerable activity with advancing 

 prices He states that stocks are not large and 

 In- is inclined to consider the situation of this 

 wood and its prospects as good as any other 

 "'""1 in the market and that some time will 

 elapsa before a supplj is found sufficient to 

 meet the present and prospective demand. 



William Bacon, of Davenport, Peters & Co.. 

 says that several of the large poplar mills ,1 ■ 

 pi iiding on their supph of logs to come in by 

 water, nave waited months for tides. In other 



ctions wb i ■ poplar logs are hauled ten to 

 twenty-five miles over roads, there have been 

 rains bj actual count everj day in four months 



■ Pi fifteen days, leaving the roads in such 



'-"1 '■ iition thai no logs could be hauled ovet 



""■" He stated thai he knew- of one firm in 

 the southwest, who has hen caused a heavy 

 dally loss no a long period on account of too 

 i" 1 " 11 water in the rivers, in speaking of hard 



WOOlls, he State,] ,h.lt tile OUSloril mills ill W'esl 



Virginia and North Carolina were receiving a 

 very heavy demand from western centers and 

 that in many instances eastern buyers had found 

 that their western competitors have negotiated 

 fur the entire cut of a mill that they had al- 

 ways been accustomed to getting supplies from. 



At the last meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Wholesale Lumber Association, several mem- 

 h: is of the Lumber Trade Club of Boston were 

 present as guests and an informal discussion 

 relative "To the Metropolitan Lumber Exchange 

 was held. Xo definite action was taken. II. 

 1 1. Wiggin. who is a member of the committee 

 of the proposed exchange, stated that the object 

 was simply a betterment of the conditions of 

 and between the wholesale and retail trade. 

 'The identity of the respective associations is 

 to be retained, but heretofore the work and 

 efforts of the two bodies had been along sim- 

 ilar lines and naturally one large association 

 would he more influential than two small ones. 

 E. W. Cottle, of Hie Curtis & Pope Lumber 

 Company, stated that In heartily favored any- 

 ihing which would tend to a better acquaint- 

 ance of lumber dealers. 



A committee comprised of J. <;. Rugl II D. 



Wiggin. Fred Joyce and Morris A. Hall have 

 si hi out a report to the trade of an informal 

 meeting of tie wholesale and retail lumber deal- 

 ers of greater Boston, which was held at 

 Young's hotel. Nov. 21, to consider the advisa- 

 liiliiy of organizing an association represent 

 •ug jointly the wholesale and retail branches of 

 tie trade. Accompanying this report is a set 

 oi bj laws drawn up by the committee in which 

 it siat.-s th-- association shall be called the 

 Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston. A 

 final meeting will he held in Huston. .Ian. s. at 

 Young's Hotel. Many prominent dealers have 

 signified their intention of joining such an ass,, 

 . iat ion 



William E, Litchfield," of Boston, is visiting 

 his luoiher at their mill ,-u North Vernon. Ind. 

 lb will attend the convention Io lie held in In- 

 dianapolis. .Ian. 11. and will then leave for 

 Washington. Ii c. to attend a meeting .Tanu- 



ai-. 14. 



New York. 

 The current conditions sin rounding the re- 

 ceipts and delivery of lumber shipments, de- 

 murrage charges, etc. which have been the sub- 

 ject of recent meetings and conferences among 

 tin- New Jersey Lumbermen's Protective Asso 

 elation and the Building Material Men's Club of 

 Newark, and the New York Lumber Trade Asso- 

 ciation, are best summed up in the following 

 resolution adopted last week by tin- Building 

 Material Men's Club at another meeting called 

 for a discussion of the matters mentioned: 



"Resolved, That the merchants of the metro- 

 politan district are entitled to as liberal terms 

 as given any town. city, or state to load and un- 

 load cars, we wish to protest and call atten- 

 tion to th.- following discriminations: The N. 

 Y.. N. II. & II. and the X. Y. ('. and B. & O. 

 allow ninety-six hours at the Boston terminal 

 and forty-eight hours at New York : the Penn- 

 sylvania, seventy two hours at Norfolk and other 

 Virginia points and ninety-six hours in Ohio. 

 The Erie and X. Y. C. and Lake Shore allow 

 i in- n six hours at some western points, and 

 fortj eight hours in the metropolitan district.'' 



All tic- organizations mentioned an- busily cii- 

 gag.,1 in this matter and Iat.- advices are n, the 

 effect that the ear service association and the 

 railroads are revising their local regulations, 

 en completion of which further conferences will 

 be held and it is hoped conditions much im- 

 proved. 



Tie car stake matter was the subject of a 

 recent conference in this city between Lewis 

 Hill. Baltimore; F. Ii. Babcock, Pittsburg 

 R. W. Iligl.ie. New- York, and Secretary E. F. 

 Perry, at the National Wholesalers' head 

 ciiarters. 66 Broadway. It was announced that 

 i he sixty-odd cars which are being equipped by 

 th.- eastern roads for trial with the committee 

 stake are about ready to he loaded and will be 

 thoroughly tried out. after which joint commit 

 tees will undoubtedly get together promptly and 

 it is hoped finally settle the matter. 



C. E. Lloyd. Jr., of Philadelphia, was a visitor 

 lasi week in the interest of his new connection. 

 Hi Boice Lumber Company ai Abingdon, Va. 



