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thing like 2,000. The Red Book is exceedingly 

 valuable to lumbermen, and none of them should 

 attempt to "keep house" without it. 



For several years past the office of the big 

 timber house of J. D. Lacey & Co. has been 

 migratory, it having been located in the Old 

 Colony building, Chicago, during the summer 

 season, and in the winter In the Hennen build 

 ing, Now 'oilcans. With the increased business 

 of this big concern it was obliged to open 

 an office at Seattle last year, and during the 

 greater part of this winter it has been obliged 

 to keep open its Chicago office as well. Victor 

 Thrane of this house has spent a good portion 

 of his time in Chicago to care for the wauts of 

 clients, but has made occasional trips to the 

 coast and to New Orleans. 



F. W. Gilchrist, the eminent Alpena, Mich., 

 lumberman and ship owner, spent a day in Chi- 

 cago last week en route home from Memphis. 



A. B. Baker of the F. .1. Hellmann Company, 

 of Soddy, Tenn., was a Chicago visitor February 

 7 and honored tin- Recobd with a call. 



F. A. Curtis has retired from the firm of 

 Houston & Curtis, 737 Marquette building, man- 

 ufacturers of wagon wood stock, to take the man- 

 agement of the Vehicle Woodstock Company, 

 with offices in the Fisher building. His entire 

 interest in the firm of Houston & Curtis has 



I a purchased by J. S. Houston, and will be 



continued under the firm name of ,T. S. Houston 

 & Co. J. S. Houston & Co. have just purchased 

 a large tract of land near Grenada, Miss., and 

 are now erecting a sawmill which will be readj 

 for operation in March. They will produce oak. 

 poplar and yellow pine. The firm will also 

 continue the operation of its band mill and 

 bending factory at Memphis, and its circular 

 sawmill at Newport, Ark. 



A welcome Chicago visitor on Thursday last 

 was Seeley Parker of Parker Brothers, the well 

 known lumbermen of Findlay. O. Mr. Parker is 

 a large lumber buyer through the Chicago mar- 

 ket, and was in town placing orders to replenish 

 stock. 



The Hardwood Recokd is indebted to the 

 Boss Lumber Company "t Jamestown, N. Y., and 

 C. M. Crini & Son of Salem. Ind., for very 

 artistic calendars. 



Boston. 



Theodore P. Green, for many years active in 

 Hi, lumber business, died in Boston January 23. 

 Mi. Green has not been engaged in active busi- 

 ness during the past live years, but up to that 

 time he was widely known as a manufacturer 

 and had a Boston office in the Exchange build- 

 ing. 



C. P. Chase of C. P. Chase & Co., Springfield, 

 Mass., has recently returned from a trip to New 

 York. 



Chas. S. Wentworth of C. S. Wentworth & 

 Co. returned last week from a trip to the prov- 

 ince of Quebec. 



Henry A. Grimwood & Co., Providence, R. I., 

 have recently sustained a loss of $00,000 by 

 fire. 



John M. Rice, president and treasurer of the 

 Bnttrick Lumber Company, Waltham, Mass- 

 died suddenly at his home January 31 of heart 

 failure. Mr. Rice was a Mason and member 

 of the G. A. It. As a young man he engaged 

 in the lumber business in his home town, 

 Hampden, Me., and about twenty-five years ago 

 came to Waltham and purchased an interest in 

 the lumber business of Francis Buttrlck, which 

 concern later became the Buttrick Lumber Com- 

 pany. A widow and one daughter survive. 



Herbert A. Fuller has been engaged by Fur- 

 ber, Stockford & Co. as salesman, to take the 

 place of the late Frank W. Holmes. Mr. Fuller 

 is of the well known lumber family of Fullers 

 of Brighton, Mass. For the past year he has 

 been in the employ of Lindsay Shepard. 



Charles C. Batchelder of the Boston Lumber 

 Company is making an extensive trip through 

 the south. 



Samuel C. Hutchinson of the Hutchinson 



Lumber Company, Lynn. Mass.. with Mrs. 

 Hutchinson is making a trip to the Mediter- 

 ranean and will visit Egypt and Hie Holy Land 

 before returning home. 



A slight change has been made by the new 

 Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston rela- 

 tive to location. Quarters have been secured at 

 7 Merchants' Row instead of in the Broad Ex- 

 change building, as was first suggested. 



New York. 



The twentieth annual banquet of the New 

 York Lumber Trade Association, which was held 

 in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria 

 on Hie evening of January 22, was pronounced 

 one of the finest of its kind ever held. Dinner 

 was served to 400 members and guests, the lat- 

 ter representing many prominent associations of 

 tin' country. Dinner was served in the Waldorf's 

 famous style, the ballroom being beautifully 

 decorated, and one of the most attractive fea- 

 tures was the presence of the many women who 



upied the boxes surrounding the ballroom. 



Each was served with fancy ices and cakes and 

 a handsome box of candy as she entered the 

 box, and the social interchange between box 

 parties added greatly to the enjoyment of the 

 evening. At the close of the dinner President 

 James Sherlock Davis made a brief but inter- 

 esting address and called for Secretary J. D. 

 Cruiy, to whom lie presented a handsome Tiffany 

 purse containing a certified check for $3,500 as 

 a token of appreciation of the members for his 

 long and valued services to the organization cov- 

 ering the past twenty years. The balance of 

 the evening was devoted to the enjoyment of 

 an excellent vaudeville entertainment. 



John M. Woods of J. M. Woods & Co., promi- 

 nent Boston hardwood house, lias sailed from 

 this port for a six weeks' pleasure trip abroad. 



J. S. Coleman, general manager of the J. S. 

 Coleman Lumber Company of Asheville, N. ('.. 

 was a recent visitor, accompanied by Mrs. Cole 

 man. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., is spending several 

 days in town in the interest of business. 



John J. and Frank T. Rumbarger of the Ituiii 

 barger Lumber Company of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 were recent visitors, attending the annual din- 

 ner of the New York Lumber Trade Association. 

 Vicegerent Charles C. Fischer, the prominent 

 Manhattan hardwood retailer, is arranging a con- 

 catenation to be held here on February 21, at 

 which a big class of the Yale Forestry students 

 and a number of other candidates will be initi- 

 ated. 



The annual meeting of the New Jersey Lum- 

 bermen's Protective Association has been called 

 for February 20 at the Board of Trade rooms, 

 704 Broad street, Newark, N. J., to be followed 

 by the usual banquet. 



Church E. Gates & Co., extensive Harlem 

 dealers, have sold their entire yard properly at 

 138th street and Mott avenue, running through 

 to the Harlem river, for a consideration amount 

 ing to more than $500,000. 



Halfpenny & Hamilton, spruce and hardwood 

 wholesalers at Philadelphia, have opened a 

 branch selling office in room 325, New York Life 

 building, 346 Broadway, under the management 

 of George E. Demming. 



The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad 

 last week shipped a carload of veneers for Fer- 

 guson & Clark, the leading Brooklyn hardwood 

 bouse, to Toledo, O., in two days. This is cer- 

 tainly a record for quick shipment in these days. 

 President r. B. Yates of the Berlin Machine 

 Works, Beloit, Wis., was a recent visitor in the 

 city, combining business with pleasure. He was 

 accompanied by Mrs. Yates. They were inter 

 ested attendants at the Automobile Show. 



Edward Hines, the distinguished Chicago lum- 

 berman, sailed from this city on January 20 on 

 Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse for a three months' 

 pleasure trip abroad. C. F. Weihe accompanied 

 him east. 



Philadelphia. 



The Saltkatchie Lumber Company of rimers. 

 S. C., in which Seholield Brothers are heavily 

 interested, has completed the building of its 

 sawmills and is installing the necessary ma- 

 chinery. Tie- company has approximately 10,000 

 acres of timber land wooded principally with 

 cypress and a very fair grade of poplar. R. W. 

 Seholield is manager of the new concern. The 

 product will be handled chiefly through Scho- 

 liebi Lies., whose experience in manufacturing 

 and in marketing lumber insures a successful 

 future for the new company. 



Jos. 1'. Dunwoody & Co. are preparing for 

 extensive hardwood dealings and will handle 

 the output of the Norva Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Wallacetown, Va., in which they are 

 interested, Mr. Dunwoody having recently been 

 elected treasurer. The company is a new one 

 and is located near Norfolk, Va. ; it has acquired 

 the sawmill plant of the Virginia Land & Lum- 

 ber Company and expects to start sawing about 

 March 1. It owns some 11,000 acres of timber 

 land, the product of which comprises principally 

 poplar, gum, pine and cypress. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular 

 monthly meeting on February 7. Only routine 

 business was transacted. Recent visitors to the 

 Exchange wen, G. W. Hoover of Williamsport, 

 Pa., and Ghas. G. Blades of the old Blades Lum- 

 li"i Company of Elizabeth City and Newbern. 

 X. C. ; the latter left New Y'ork on February 7 

 for an extended Mediterranean trip. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has engaged the services of William D. Kauf- 

 man as buyer. Mr. Kaufman will have his 

 headquarters at Elkins, W. Va. 



The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company 

 is installing a new taping machine for dimen- 

 sion veneer ill its mills at Knoxville, Tenn. A 

 recent heavy tide in the Holston and Clinch 

 rivers brought the company a large quantity 

 of choice logs. It now has on hand a lot of 

 sawed flitches selected for width and figure. 

 The past year was Hie most successful in the 

 history of the company, an increase of 00 per 

 cent in sales being noted. 



Sheip & Vandegrift are installing a new elec- 

 tric light plant in their establishment on North 

 Lawrence street. They have also added sev- 

 eral of the latest woodworking machines to 

 their factory lately. 



The hardwood department of the Righter- 

 l'airv Lumber Company, lately established, is 

 now in full swing. The company is handling 

 mostly southern hardwood. Among its output 

 are beech, birch, maple, chestnut, poplar and 

 oak. 



T. N. Nixon of Wistar, Underbill & Co. has 

 just ret iiriied from an extensive southern trip. 

 Mr. Nixon reports that conditions in the sec- 

 lions he visited are excellent. He brought back 

 a bunch of orders. 



Recent visitors to the local trade were T. II. 

 [rugate of Richmond, Va., a well-known hard- 

 wood lumberman of this section, and R. H. 

 Phillips of William Phillips' Sons of Charles- 

 town. \V. Va. 



J. W. Floyd, a popular young lumberman with 

 the Bolce Lumber Company, Inc.. was married 

 on January 31 to Miss Emma Campbell of 4433 

 Chestnut street. 



Samuel II. Shearer & Son are making exten- 

 sive preparations to push their hardwood busi- 

 ness. They have established a southern office at 

 I'barlesiown, W. Va.. with John Hall as buyer 

 Chas. L. Mackley is rapidly coming to the 

 front as a hardwood dealer. He makes a spe- 

 cialty of ash, oak and elm squares. He re- 

 cently made a ten days' tour through Ten- 

 n -see and contracted to handle the entire out- 

 put of two small mills in that section, the 

 product comprising red and white oak, chest- 

 nut, poplar and elm. 



Plans have been posted for erecting a new 

 building for the Boyertown Burial Casket Com- 

 pany of Boyertown, Pa., on the lot at 1211 to 



