HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Saginaw, Mich., was in Chicago this week look- 

 ing after some important patent litigation. 



Irvine McCauley, president of the McCauley- 

 Saunders Lumber Company of the Fisher Build 

 ing. left Dec. 4 for New Orleans, where he will 

 visit the company's milling operations. He ex- 

 pects to get things into shape there in a few 

 days so as to take care of orders more promptly 

 than has been possible during the car shortage. 

 This company has become one of the important 

 [ai tors in the cypress trade of this city and sec 

 lion during the past few years. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, is absent in the Fast 

 on an extensive trip, visiting members of that 

 ass* 1 iation. 



A handsome new booklet, receipt of which is 

 herewith acknowledged, has just been issued by 

 the Iiussel Wheel & Foundry Company, Detroit, 

 Mich. The work comprises a series of some fifty 

 half-tone engravings, made from photographs of 

 actual operations in the woods, showing the va- 

 rious skidding and loading appliances manufac- 

 tured by this company. Copies can be secured br 

 those interested on application. 



It is with regret that the Hardwood Record 

 announces the death of S. S. Saunders of the 

 well -known D. G. Saunders Lumber Company of 

 Kansas City, Mo. About three years ago Mr. 

 Saunders was injured in a railroad wreck in 

 southern Kansas and since that time has been 

 in poor health. He died Nov. 20 of rupture of 

 1 In- heart. 



The Buffalo Maple Flooring Company has is- 

 sued an attractive booklet containing manufac- 

 turers' specifications for hardwood flooring as 

 adopted by the different manufacturers' associa- 

 tions. It also contains much valuable informa- 

 tion regarding flooring for roller skating rinks, 

 howling alleys, etc. 



A. C. Campbell of Antlgo. Wis., manager of 

 the T. D. Kellogg Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Polar, on Dec. 7 shot and killed Dr. 

 Benjamin Harris, formerly of Antigo, in the 

 St. ck Exchange Building, this city. The per- 

 sons involved are doubtless victims of misrepre- 

 sentations and blackmail, which culminated in 

 the recent tragedy. Details have been fully cov- 

 ered by the daily press. 



Arthur A. Watts, representing the Seaman- 

 Kent Company, Ltd., Meaford, Ont., Canada, was 

 a late caller at the offices of Hardwood Record. 

 His company is a large manufacturer of flooring, 

 supplying the Canadian trade very generally 

 from New Brunswick to the most western prov- 

 inces. 



"Sunset" is the inscription on the calendar 

 for 1007 just received by the many friends of 

 the Southwestern Lumber & Box Company of 

 New Orleans, La. This handsome wall panel 

 with its harmony in color and design is a strong 

 piece of advertising, for even a glance must 

 prompt happy memories and equally pleasing 

 thoughts of the sender. 



The McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company of 

 the Fisher Building, Chicago, is sending out to 

 its many friends in the trade a seasonable 

 gift — a very artistic four-page calendar. I. F. 

 McLean, extensive manufacturer of staves and 

 lumber at Nashville, Tenn., is also sending out a 

 very practical calendar to his friends and cus- 

 tomers. 



Boston. 



The outlook for a much larger export lumber 

 business from Boston is bright, as the Boston & 

 Albany Railroad Company has brought forward 

 fifty cars of lumber from Buffalo, N. Y., which 

 are being loaded at East Boston for South Amer- 

 ica. This is the first time this railroad has 

 sought this trade. Heretofore the bulk of the 

 lumber for South American ports has been loaded 

 ;it Mystic after being brought here by the Los- 

 ton & Maine Railroad. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association will be asked to send delegates in 

 February to a conference of all eastern associa 

 tions to be held at Jacksonville. Fla. A commit- 



tee was appointed at a meeting of the Georgia- 

 Florida Sawmill Associaii n to arrange for this 

 i'lim meeting in hopes of bringing about closer 

 business relations, 



The Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company of 

 New Britain, Conn., has voted to Increase its 

 capital stock from $230,000 to $400,000. 



Car shortage is still a serious handicap to 

 trade here. All dealers complain and some orders 

 have been lost because lumbermen could not 

 promise delivery at the time wanted. 



Aimer Atwood of the Atwood-Crawford Com- 

 pany, manufacturers of fancy wood turning. 

 Pawtucket, R. I., died at his home la'.e lait 

 month at the age of 81 years. He had been a 

 member of this firm since 1860 and was its pres - 

 dent at the time of his death. 



The Enterprise Lumber Company has bei n 

 organized in Rochester, N. H., to conduct a 

 wholesale lumber business. The Incorporators 

 are George W. Marston, Charles L. Sibley and 

 E. F. Marston. 



The Enfield Lumber & Coal Company of En- 

 field has been incorporated to take over the busi- 

 ness of the late Amos D. Bridge of Thompson- 

 ville. Conn. The capital stock is .$50,000. The 

 incorporators are H. S. Bridge, A. G. Bridge, 

 H. E. Bridge and W. T. Bell. 



Mr. Swift of Nellis, Amos & Swift of Utica. 

 X. Y., visited Boston and the East recently. 



Several Massachusetts lumber dealers are men- 

 tioned as candidates for public office. Among 

 them are L. A. Williston of the Ely Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Williston is talked of for mayor 

 of Holyoke, and Albin M. Richards as an inde- 

 pendent candidate for mayor of Cambridge. 



Mitchell & Harding, lumber dealers, South 

 Lawrence, Mass., have enlarged their yards by 

 the purchase of 12,000 feet of land. 



The Glentz Woodworking Company of Pitts- 

 tield, Mass., sustained a loss of about $4,000 by 

 fire recently. 



Representatives of the George D. Emery Com- 

 pany, large mahogany importers and dealers, 

 have been investigating the timber prospects in 

 the locality of Campeche, Mexico. 



New York. 



Among recent business visitors was Frank T. 

 Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia. His company has pur- 

 chased the output of three new mills in the 

 South, which will give them a large amount of 

 cottonwood, gum and cypress in addition to hard- 

 wood. They have not handled these latter com 

 modifies in the past, but are aiming to conduct 

 an active business compaign in their interest 

 during the coming year. 



Chairman C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. of the special com- 

 mittee of arrangement and entertainment f r 

 the convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, which will be he d 

 at Atlantic City, N. J„ in May, 1007. 

 has announced the appointment of the fol- 

 lowing committees to handle the work. 

 He advises that every member of the various 

 committees has entered enthusiastically and vig- 

 orously into the work, and It is their intention 

 to make the approaching annual a record-breaker 

 from every standpoint. 



The permanent committee of arrangements 

 representing members of eastern states for the 

 annual meeting in May, 1007, at Atlantic City, 

 N. J., are : 



Boston — John M. Wocds, Jchn M. Woo !s >V 

 Co. ; Gardiner I. Jones, Jones Hardwood Com 

 pany. 



Providence — Nelscn H. Walcott, L. H. Gase 

 Lumber Company. 



New Haven, Conn. — E. A. Beckley, Crosby & 

 Beckley Lumber Company. 



New York — Harry I. Dewey, Dixon & Dewey ; 

 E. S. Foster, National Casket Company ; Sam E. 

 Barr. 



Philadelphia — J. J. Rumbarger, Rumbarger 

 Lumber Company ; J. P. Dunwoody, J. P. Dun- 

 woody & Co.; C. E. Lloyd, Jr. 



Baltimore — K. E. Wood, R. E. Wood Lumber 

 ''< mpany ; J. L. Alpock, J. I.. Alcock & 1 



Pittsburg I. I'. Balsley, Wilson Bros. I.umb.r 

 t ompany. 



West Virginia — B. C. Currie, Jr., R. M. Smith 

 & Co. 



Norfolk — II. M. Dicks Dickson Lumber Com 



pany. 



Officers— C. Ii. Lloyd, Jr., chairman; E. A. 

 Beckley. treasurer. 



Finance committee 1. F. Balsley, John M. 

 Woods, R. E. Wood. 



Hotel and entertainment committee — J. p. 

 luimvoody. J. J. Rumbarger, B. C. Currie, Jr. 



Railroad and transportation committee — Harry 

 I. Dewey, Gardiner I. Jones, J. L. Alcock 



George F. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Mem- 

 phis. Tenn.. was among recent arrivals from 

 abroad, where he spent several months on both 

 business and pleasure. 



The Barnes Manufacturing Company if Jersey 

 City, which lost its plant by fire some months 

 ago, has completed the erection of an up-to-date 

 sash, door and trim plant, which lias just 

 started operation. It is one of the best plants 

 of its kind in that vicinity. 



Doyle, Thomson & Co., 16 Beaver street, re- 

 port hardwood trade as very satisfactory. 



Philip L. Cohen of the Mott Haven Lumber 

 Company, one Hundred and Thirty-seventh 

 street and Fifth avenue, was united in marriage 

 on November 2 to Miss Edna Belle of Harlem. 



The Ross Lumber Company, large hardwood 

 wholesalers, headn,uarters at Jamestown, N. Y., 

 and branch yard at 317 West One Hundred and 

 Fifteenth street, Manhattan, has increased its 

 capital stock under the formation of a new 

 corporation of the same style to $250,000. The 

 increased capital will be utilized in further ex- 

 tending the business and the corporation in- 

 cludes the entire business of the company at 

 both places. Thfe president and treasurer is 

 Warren Ross, vice-president and secretary, C. 

 Edward Ross. The Jamestown, N. Y., operation 

 has been one of the leading wholesale hard- 

 wood enterprises of the East for a number of 

 years, making a specialty of cherry. The New 

 Y'ork branch yard, which has been in opera- 

 tion for several years, has developed an exten- 

 sive business on the upper west side, all of 

 which necessitated increased facilities for 

 handling. C. Edward Ross of the company was 

 recently married at Sherry's to Mis. Josephine 

 Bates : they are spending their honeymoon 

 abroad. 



Ion II. Benn of Hunter, Benn & Co., London, 

 England, was a recent visitor, having come to 

 visit Canadian lumber producing points. 



George B. Breon of the Breon Lumber Com- 

 pany, Williamsport, Pa., was a recent visit, r, 

 and announced that his company is preparing 

 for an active hardwood campaign next year. 



James Graham of Graham, Roxburgh & Mc- 

 Laughlin, proprietors of the Firhill Saw Mill, 

 Glasgow, Scotland, sailed from this port after 

 an extended visit to leading lumber manufac 

 tilling centers in Canada and throughout the 

 territory east of the Mississippi river. Mr. 

 Graham was much impressed with the general 

 methods of conducting business and lumber 

 manufacturing in this country. 



Col. J. S. II. Clark of J. S. II. Clark & Co., 

 Newark, X. J., has returned from Europe after 

 a brief pleasure trip. 



Roswell Henry Johnson, retired, for many 

 years one of the leading retail lumbermen of 

 the metropolitan district, as a member of the 

 firm of Johnson Bins.. Brooklyn, died recently 

 at bis residence in New Rochelle, in the seventy 

 seventh year of his age. 



J. Douglas Miir, Christy, Moir & Co., 110 

 Broadway, sails on Hie eighth to spend the 

 Christmas holidays with his relatives in Eng- 

 land. 



A. Trice & Co., wood workers and turners of 

 Passaic, N. Y.. are in bankruptcy, as is also 



