HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Mr. Lloyd has opened Bales offices in the Land 

 Title Building, Philadelphia, and his new com 

 pans plans an active business camp.aign during 

 1 lit- coming year in the eastern markets. It will 

 operate six or seven mills in the South with 

 wholesale shipping yard at Norfolk, Va., from 

 which prompl shipments will be made to the 

 . astern trade. 



The business of Chas. F\ Finch & Co., Coney 

 Niami avenue and Avenue 11. Brooklyn, is about 

 it. be Incorporated under the same style owing 

 to the recent death of Chas. II. Finch. No 

 other changes will be made in the business. 



The Iroquois Door Company of Buffalo, Large 

 manufacturers of hardwood doors, trim, etc.. 



has r mtlj added to its local force W. C. 



Mason, chief estimator of the Buffalo plant. 

 who will hereafter be associated with Manager 

 E. P. Salmon in the local office, thereby enabling 

 visitors i" receive immediate figures after mak- 

 ing selections from the large line of samples 

 which 1 hey carry her--. 



The Atlantic Lumber « 'ompany, wholesale 

 hardwood, Boston, Mass, has opened a New 

 York office a 1 66 Broad -a reel . under the man 

 age me ill of S. Herrnstadt, who tor a number of 

 years has been closely Identified with the local 

 hardwood trade. The company's mill in the 

 Tennessee district is running full time and thej 

 will have choice offerings of hardwoods Cor the 

 1 oming season. 



Sam I). Han. Flat iron Building, has just re 

 turned from a long trip to the poplar and oak 

 mills in West Virginia and Tennessee and re- 

 ports conditions as very stiiT at the manufactur 

 Ing end. Quite large percentage of the mills 



had a i'aii*l.\ g 1 stock on hand, hut it was all 



sold and held up for lack of transportation facili 

 ihs. but so Far as available unsold stocks are 

 concerned be reported them as exceedingly 

 si arce. 



Laurens P. Rider of 1 Madison avenue and 

 Guy K. Robinson of 1123 Broadway, Manhattan. 

 two «>i" the most popular local sales repre- 

 sentatives, sailed with their wives for Europe 

 nil the 22d ult. for a two months' pleasure trip. 



At a meeting of the creditors of J. II. Fink 

 & Co., Weehawken, X. J., held in this city De- 

 cember 26, a dividend of 25 per cenl was de- 

 clared January 7 The conditions of the firm 

 really warranted a paymenl of 50 per cent, but 

 thai action was advised against by the receiver 

 according to law, and il is expected that another 

 dividend of i!" or 25 per cent will follow within 

 ten days. 



A petition in bankruptcy filed August 16 

 against Wm. I'. Mohr, doing business as i\ Mohr 

 & Co.. manufacturers of furniture at 112 West 

 Forty-Sficond street. .Manhattan, was dismissed 

 by the court on December 24, owing to settle 

 im nt having been made with the creditors. The 

 business will be continued by l\ Mohr & Co., a 

 corporation just formed with a capital of 



SUM). 



T. .1- Kerry of the Kerry & Hanson Flooring 

 Company, Grayling, Mich., was a recent visitor 

 here on his way to Gloversville, N. V.. to spend 

 the holidays with relatives. While lure he 

 visited Sam E. Ihirr. Flatiron Building, who 

 looks after the local interests of his company. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, with headquarters 

 ai Memphis, Tenn.. is on a visit to New York 

 in the interest of husiness and will remain her.' 

 until the annual meeting of the association, 

 which occurs on January '.?.. 



wm I-'. Bailey of Bailey & Ailing, prominent 

 Newark, X. .7.. house, died suddenly Christmas 

 day at his home at Summit. X. J., in the 70th 

 year of his age. lie had been associated with 

 the Newark lumber trade tor a great many years 

 and was widely known throughout the slate, 



John Clifton Orr, senior head and president 

 of the John C. Orr Company, extensive retail 

 [umber dealers and trim manufacturers of Brook 

 lyn. died suddenly in Paris, Franc.-, December 

 15, as a result of an operation for intestinal 

 trouble Mr. *)]■]■ left New York in the best of 

 health Thanksgiving day for a six weeks rest 

 abroad and was taken ill on the steamer, Mr, 

 Orr was horn in New York in 1841 and entered 

 the lumber husiness m 1870, and though the 

 tii in has changed in style a number of t Imes 

 since then, through the deaths of partners and 

 otherwise, ii has been increasingly successful 



until today its operations cover a large area in 

 i In- Greenpoint disl rict of Brooklyn and com- 

 prises one of the hie^est trim manufacturing 

 plants and Lumber yards in this section of the 

 country. lie was widely known throughout the 

 eastern ami northern lumber trade and a host of 

 friends mourn his loss. His son, Henry S. Orr, 

 has sailed for Europe to accompany the body 

 home. 



Philadelphia. 

 The Lumbermen's Exchange held iis regular 

 monthly meeting on Jan, '.'.. President Geo. F. 



Craig in the (hair. There was a good attend 

 ame. but no husiness i>\' any importance was 

 transacted. The committee on railroads and 

 i ransportat ion. appointed to investigate slow 

 movement of freighl i rains, reported nothing in 

 the way of e| ue ida lion. J. N. 11 olio way *V Co. 

 have made application for membership to I he 

 exchange. John A. Calhoun, of Savannah. Ga., 

 who is of Geo. F. Craig & Co., of Philadelphia, 

 spenl Christinas in this city, was a visitor at 

 i he exchange, as was also .lames Faulkner, of 

 the Faulkner Lumber Company, Crandell, Tenn. 



The notices recently sent oul by the exchange 

 to all trade organizations, requesting them to 

 appoint delegates to meet \v. c. MacBride in an 

 effort to repeal the mercantile lax. were effica 

 cious in assembling delegates from eighteen in 

 dustrial associations, in the exchange rooms, 

 on Dec. 20, when the following resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted ; 



"Resolved, That a permanent organization be 

 effected to obtain the repeal of the mercantile 

 lax. said organization to consist of one dele 

 gate and one alternate from the various trade 

 bodies in favor of this movement. 



"Resolved, Thai a copy of the above resolu 

 tion he sen! to the trade bodies with a requesl 

 to appoint their delegates." 



The chairman has decided to call another 

 meeting to he held at the rooms of the Lum 

 bermen's Exchange, on Jan, 15, a1 1 :30 p. m. 

 Numerous other trad- bodies not represented 

 at this meeting have promised to semi delegates 

 to the next meeting. 



J. Et. Williams, finding his present quarters 

 too small for his increasing husiness, has moved 

 to 909 Land Title building. During his recent 

 tour of New Orleans, Mr, Williams made exten 

 sive purchases and established new connections. 

 Harry W. Alexander, formerly with Mershon, 

 Schuette, Parker & Co.. Saginaw, Mich., lias 



i n engaged by him as salesman to look after 



i he met ropolitan district . 



The Coppock Warner Lumber Company, Land 

 Title building, Philadelphia, has recently est ah 

 I i shed a branch office at 1 12 Law Exchange 

 building, Buffalo, under I he management of F. 

 M. Jobs OP. This step was felt necessary in 



order to hud; more closely after the company's 

 growing trade in thai territorj , 



Richard Tarpin & Co. dissolved partnership 

 on Jan. 1, Wm. S. Lilly retiring and Richard 

 Tarpin. Jr.. admitted in his place. .Mr. Lilly 

 has secured a large yard and shed at J41*.i 

 Hamilton street, where In- will conduct a retail 

 lumber business, making hardwoods a specialty. 



It is announced thai the flrm of Camp iV 

 Weber, carriage ami wagon builders, has been 

 dissolved. The husiness will he carried on un 

 der the old name h\ .i George Weber, a1 3860 

 Lancaster avenue. 



The (iwen M. Bruner Company has jusi en- 

 gaged J. A. Finley as salesman, to represent 

 the company in the metropolitan district. Mr. 

 Finley, who for a number of years was with 

 llenson & Pearson, of this city, stands high in 

 the trade. 



The Penn Coal & Lumber corporation. Bed 

 ford. Pa., is a new concern chartered under 



Delaware laws ami capitalized at $200,1 The 



incorporators are John M. Reynolds, A. I. Lyon 

 and R, C Ha der man, all of Bedford, Pa., and 

 T. Frank Bayer, of Huntingdon, Pa. 



The Keystone Veneer Company obtained a 



charier under New Jersey laws Dec. 3; capital, 

 sinn. him). The incorporators are It. M. Cole, W. 

 IL RIckenbrodc ami II. s. Crymble, h is learned 

 indii-ciiy from 1 1. \i. Cole, a resident of Sigh 

 ciift'. Tenn.. ihai the company will be located 

 somewhere in Alabama . 



The Rumbarger Lum her Company has just 

 made a deal with three large hand mills in 

 South Carolina, to handle their Output for the 

 ii"\i three years, Two of these mills are al- 

 ready in operation, and the third about to 

 start. Tin- lumber comprises poplar, plain and 

 quartered oak. cottonwood, ash. holly, red gum, 



persimmon, cypress and sycamore. A few Of 



these w Is are a new departure from the usual 



products handled and make the slock lis! of the 

 company Include all the principal hardwoods. 



i >. M Lane, for many years senior member 



of 1 1, M Lane's Sons, carriage huilders. died 

 on Dec. 21. The husiness is an old established 

 one. started by his father about a half century 

 ago. Mi". Lane was forty-seven years of age, 



F. l'. Southgate, surveyor general of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, of Chi- 

 cago, recently paid his respects to the Philadel- 

 phia i rade. 



Lewis Hosier, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, Chicago, a former 

 resilient of i his city, spent Christmas with his 

 mother, who still has her home hero. 



W. T. Laihan. buyer for the Northern Lumber 

 Company, of New York, was recently an inter- 

 esting visitor to the local trade, 



Mr Howard, of the Pocahontas Lumber Com 

 pany, Burner, W. Va.. and Merrill Wilson, of 

 the Wildell Lumber Company, Wildell, W. Va., 

 representing Lhe Wes1 Virginia Saw Mill Asso 

 eiation, spent a few days in this city consult- 

 ing with Mr. 1'aiioii. of the Pennsylvania Kail 

 road Company, concerning the car shortage in 

 tin nill districts, 



II, C Trexler ,\: Co., of Allentown, 1 a., met 

 with a tire loss on Dec. 25. Their planing mill 

 was entirely destroyed. 



Tii- Righter Parry Lumber Company has 

 found it necessary to meet expansion of busi- 

 ness to increase its staff. The services of 

 ( >gden 1 1 off ma u. formerly with the Pennsylvania 



Sash & Door Company, have I n secured to 



look after the New Jersey district. 



11. il. Mans iV Co.. Inc., report their hard 

 wood department in good shape, and that they 

 are looking forward to a sturdy activity in this 

 line right along. II IL Mans, president of this 

 company, stales thai lhe year just ended stands 

 out as the ni.'sl -ill round satisfactory for many 

 years, 



R B Wheeler & Co. report husiness in good 

 shape, wiiii prospects flattering. Only the car 

 service mars the lumberman's outlook. 



Wistar. Underbill & Co. have had a very suc- 

 cessful year. F. S. Cnderhill was one of the 

 delegates to represent Philadelphia at Hie Re 

 clprocal Demurrage Convention in Chicago. T. 

 X. Nixon, <if this concern, is looking after the 

 Arm's contracts, in Tennessee, and Messrs, An 

 di i son and Bates are buying slock iii North 

 Carolina. 



In preparation for the Ffoo-Hoo annual, lo he 

 Inhl at Atlantic city on the ninth month, ninth 

 day of 1907, a meeting will soon be held of 

 representatives of the organizations of Phlla 

 delphla. New York. Pittsburg and Baltimore, to 

 appoint committees to formulate plans and dis 



cuss means for action. 



lhe "homecoming'' of the Indiana Hardwood 



Lumbermen's Association will he a 1 1 ended by 

 Crank T. Rumbarger, ol the Rumbarger Lum 

 her Company. The Rumbargers are ex-HoosIers, 

 .1 l. Rumbarger, the veteran member of the 

 company, having moved to Indiana from Penn 

 sy"Wan ia in i860 and settled in Decatur county. 

 where he became distinguished as the first 

 manufacturer of quartered white oak in the 

 state. The present active members of the com- 

 pany. John J, ami Crank T Rumbarger, spent 



