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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, bids fair to be a 

 great success. Applications for over three hun- 

 dred tickets are already in the hands of the 

 secretary. This year the wives and sweethearts 

 of the members and guesls will be present and 

 view the evening's proceedings from the sixty 

 odd boxes which surround [be ball room. There 

 will be no speeches, but a high-class vaudevil'e 

 performance will provide the after-dinner fea- 

 tures. 



The furniture and cabinet works of L. Zodi- 

 kow, 334 Stanton street. Manhattan, was dam- 

 aged by fire last week, entailing a loss of 

 $10,000 covered by insurance. 



A. P. Bigelow & Co., at the foot of East 53d 

 street, have purchased the lease of the yard pre- 

 viously conducted by F. P.. Whitney & Co.. at 

 West 54th and Doth streets, to which place 

 they will remove between now and the first of 

 the year. This is one of the best appointed 

 yards in the district. 



H. O'Neill & Son, large sash and trim manu- 

 facturers, 137th street and Rider avenue, is 

 erecting a fine new up-to-date plant at Walton 

 avenue and Cheever place, just west of his 

 present plant, to which he will remove about 

 January 1. The new building is of brick and 

 its equipment will be modern in every reaped 

 Mr. O'Neill has likewise purchased a large block 

 ol ground adjoining on which he will arrange 

 his lumber yard. 



Among the recent visitors was I!. C. Currie, 

 Jr., manager of the Philadelphia office of It. M. 

 Smith & Co. of Tarkersburg, W. Va. Mr. Currie 

 expressed himself optimistically as to current 

 and prospective hardwood conditions. 



I!. W. Iligbie. 4.". Broadway, is visiting his 

 hardwood operations at Newton Falls in the 

 Adirondacks. Everything is running finely at 

 the new plant and Mr. Higbie is accumulating 

 some very choice stocks for later shipments. 



The Ross Lumber Company, with a large 

 hardwood yard at 317 West 115th street. Man 

 hattan, and main office and yard at Jamestown, 

 N. T., has incorporated under the same style, 

 increasing its capital to $250,000. Warren Ross 

 is president and treasurer and C. E. Ross, vice- 

 president and secretary. The additional capital 

 is- to be used in extending the business. For 

 years this company has been known as cherry 

 specialists and has been one of the leading 

 eastern hardwood houses. 



Philadelphia. 



Jenkins & Henvis, lumber and millwork. office 

 and yard 2600-2700 South Fifth street, is a 

 new firm recently formed, and is composed 

 of John Jenkins and Bayard M. Henvis, who 

 succeeded Kolb Bros., by whom they were for- 

 merly employed as office and yard manager 

 respectively. Edward C. Kolb. who traded as 

 Kolb Bros., has gone out of the retail lumber 

 business and will take up manufacturing in 

 Virginia. 



As a result of the burning of the big sawmill 

 plant of Hieronymous Bros., Mobile, Ala., Lewis 

 Thompson & Co., Inc., of this city, extensive 

 hardwood dealers, lost between $5,000 and 

 $0,000 worth of cypress timber stored in the 

 Mobile Hardwood Company's plant, which, al- 

 though a number of blocks away, was ignited. 

 The yards containing other more valuable tim- 

 ber of theirs escaped. The fire loss is fully cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



Miller & Miller, on the alert for future pros- 

 pects of the hardwood market, have recently 

 purchased a tract of timber land in Charles 

 county, Maryland, estimated to contain 6,000,000 

 feet of oak, chestnut and poplar. 



R. A. k J. A. Williams are preparing to 

 Incorporate under Pennsylvania laws which will 

 take effect January 5 1. This is one of the 

 oldest if not the oldest lumber concern in this 

 country, and has always been retained in the 

 Williams family, which now for the first time 

 will change it from a firm to a chartered com- 

 pany. The Williams business has a remarkably 

 clean record from its inception. Samuel Will- 



iams, who established the business, was born in 

 St. Austell. Cornwall, England, in 172P. and 

 came to Philadelphia in 17.'J3. He commenced 

 business for himself in 1751 under the unique 

 sign of Cradle & Coffin, Samuel Williams, Joiner. 

 The woods used in those days were principally 

 walnut, oak and mahogany : the logs were all 

 hauled to the city in wagons and sawed by hand. 

 Clement N. Williams is now sole proprietor. 



Eli B. Ilallowell & Co. report trade good. 

 They appreciate the condition of the hardwood 

 market and may enlarge their department in this 

 line accordingly. 



Captain Frederick A. Churchman, extensively 

 engaged in the lumber business, died in this city, 

 Nov. 12. He supplied the lumber for the 

 main building of the Centennial Exposition and 

 for the first American liners. For the last 

 twenty-five years he was in the towboat busi- 

 ness, and was president of the Towboat Owners' 

 Association. He was also president of the Na- 

 tional Board of Steam Navigation at one time, 

 and a member of the Maritime Exchange. 



The Rumbarger Lumber Company reports busi- 

 ness very g 1 in all branches, and if the car 



service at the mill districts were only better 

 "nothing more could be desired at the present 

 time. The company entertained a pleasant vis- 

 itor in J. E. Caldwell of Pulaski, Va. 



A new competitor has entered the field in 

 the shape of the Blue Ridge Lumber Company 

 nf Millersburg, Pa. It obtained a Pennsylvania 

 charter on Oct. 30 with an authorized capital 

 of $10,000. The incorporators, who are also 

 directors, are W. H. Lyter. Liverpool, Ohio; 

 F. L. Landon, treasurer, C. H. Suively and 

 II. M. Blair, all of Millersburg. Pa. 



At Union City, Pa., on Nov. 4. the entire 

 plant of the Standard Chair Company was de- 

 stroyed by fire which originated in the engine 

 room. Two hundred men will be deprived of 

 work in consequence. The loss is estimated at 

 $100,000. 



Geo. M. Spiegle & Co. report business in 

 every department active. The export trade is 

 doing nicely and the outlook for the near future 

 is bright. Their mill in Newport, Tenn.. is 

 active, but they still have the unsatisfactory 

 car service to contend with. 

 - The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company 

 is fully occupied supplying demands made. It 

 reports business in excellent condition. The 

 company is to be congratulated in having two 

 railroads running near its mill in Knoxville, 

 Tenn., thereby securing better car service. The 

 only difficulty experienced is to obtain cars to 

 haul logs to the mill. Francis Goodhue, Jr., 

 of this concern has just returned from a trip 

 through the state, is pleased with the results 

 and reports the outlook favorable. 



Vicegerent J. II. Sheip of the eastern district 

 of Pennsylvania announces a big concatenation 

 for November 24. The concatenation will be 

 held at 6 :30 p. m. in the Trades League room, 

 Bourse Building, Philadelphia, and will be fol- 

 lowed by a dinner and entertainment. This 

 meeting is held with particular reference to the 

 participation of Pennsylvania Hoo-Hoo in the 

 annual meeting at Atlantic City next Septem- 

 ber. Vicegerent Sheip writes that he expects to 

 have a large class for initiation. 



Baltimore. 

 At the last monthly meeting of the managing 

 committee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange, 

 Theodore Mottu of Theodore Mottu & Co., for 

 years secretary of the exchange, handed in his 

 resignation and insisted that it be accepted. 

 He stated that it had been his intention for 

 some time past to relinquish the office and that 

 such a step had become imperative, since he can 

 no longer give the time to the discharge of the 

 duties of secretary which they require 1 . The 

 committee reluctantly decided to look around 

 foi a successor. The sentiment in favor of 

 securing a permanent secretary who shall give 

 all of his time to the work and get a fixed 

 salary is on the increase and it is altogether 



likely that such a solution of the problem will 

 be adopted. The name of Paul Coriell, now 

 secretary of the Baltimore Retail Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, is being mentioned in this con- 

 nection, and it is not unlikely that he will be 

 chosen. John L. Alcock of J. L. Alcock & Co.; 

 Maurice Wiley of the Wiley-Harker-Camp Com- 

 pany, and George Schumacher were appointed a 

 committee to nominate officers to be voted for 

 at the annual meeting of the exchange, which 

 will take place December 3, and were instructed 

 to have the slate ready by last Saturday. They 

 have named the following ticket : President. 

 William M. Burgan, the incumbent; vice- 

 president, E. T. Gill of W. D. Gill & Son ; 

 treasurer. Luther II. Gwatney, American Lum- 

 ber Company ; managing committee, John A. 

 Berryman, Norman James, Richard W. Trice, 

 Theodore Mottu, Lewis Dill. Ridgaway Merry- 

 man, E. P. Gill, Daniel MacLea. George, E. 

 Waters, J. Edward Duker, George H. Poehlman 

 and Maurice W. Wiley. Various routine matters 

 were also discussed at the meeting of the 

 managing committee, among them hardwood 

 inspection, but no definite conclusion was 

 reached on this point. The National association 

 rules are being observed in the main and there 

 is no doubt that they will finally receive the 

 full sanction of the exchange. 



The boiler of the sawmill of D. P. Miller, on 

 Negro mountain, near Elk Lick and the Garrett 

 county border, in Maryland, exploded last Sat- 

 urday, and the mill was badly wrecked. 



The Ltenison Lumber Company of Hagerstown, 

 Md., is to be formed there with a capital of 

 $25,000. J. A. Denison, now with the Robert 

 H. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleveland, O., is 

 to be the president and treasurer of the new 

 company, and the latter will do a general whole- 

 sale business, having its principal office at 

 Hagerstown. 



Lewis Dill, the president of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, has been 

 spending ten days or two weeks in Maine with 

 triends engaged in moose hunting. 



Thomas Hughes, of the firm of Carter, Hughes 

 & Co., Union Dock, has been on a trip of about 

 fen days through parts of Virginia visiting mills 

 and placing orders for stocks wherever an oppor- 

 tunity presented itself. 



Preparations are being made for the next 

 annual meeting of the National Lumber Export- 

 ers' Association, which is to be held at Norfolk, 

 Va., January 23. A large attendance from Bal- 

 timore is expected, and various questions of 

 interest to the exporters will be discussed. 

 Among them is the shortage of railroad cars, 

 which is causing great embarrassment to the 

 trade. 



Owing to the uncertainty as to the future of 

 the lot on which its big plant is located, the 

 I'ilippe A. Broadbent Mantel Company of this 

 city is held up in its preparations to equip the 

 entire factory with electric motors. The lower 

 floor is now operated in this manner, and the 

 company was ready to give out orders for about 

 $20,000 worth of additional machinery, but as 

 the factory building, at President and Aliceanna 

 streets, is on ground that may be taken by the 

 city for a pumping station in connection with 

 the sewerage system, the contemplated improve- 

 ment halts. 



Much embarrassment is being also caused to 

 other local firms by reason of the progress of 

 the wharf improvement which will make it 

 necessary for a number of firms to vacate their 

 present yards. Just where to find space suitable 

 fur the lumber business is a serious problem, 

 there being no vacant lots anywhere along the 

 inner harbor. Of course, plenty of room can be 

 found down the river while some property might 

 be obtained on the south side of the basin, but 

 the haul from there would be so long as to 

 seriously handicap any dealers who located there. 



Gustav Joseph, who represents the Bahr- 

 Behrend Lumber Company of Liverpool, Eng- 

 land, was in Baltimore last Monday and called 

 on several firms. 



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