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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the Pevier Improved Wood I'aring Company of 

 220 Broadway, New York. 



The Southern Cypress Selling Company, Ltd., 

 of New Orleans, La., controlling a large major- 

 ity of the output of the Gulf mills, is arrang- 

 ing to open an office in this city under the man- 

 agement of E. L. Hunter of New Orleans, who 

 has heretofore been associated with the large 

 cypress operations of R*. H. Dowuman. Mr. 

 Hunter is expected in town about this c'ate and 

 will immediately arrange location. 



J. M. Jackson of the Everglade Cypress Lum- 

 ber Company of Parkersburg, W. Va., was in 

 town last week in the interest of business. 



Sam E. Barr, Flatiron building, left today for 

 a ten days' trip in West Virginia hardwood 

 fields. 



J. H. r. Smith of R. M. Smith & Co., Farkers- 

 burg, YV. Va., has been spending several days 

 in town on pleasure. 



Philadelphia. 

 At the present time the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change is much interested in the question of 

 canal facilities, which will come before the 

 National River and Harbor Congress during the 

 early part of this month. S. B. Vrooman of 

 the S. B. Vrooman Company of this city, one 

 of our best-known and widely-experienced lum- 

 bermen, has been selected by the Exchange to 

 represent them at the Congress. 



W. G. Underwood of the Albemarle Lumber 

 Company, Hartford, N. C, was a recent visitor 

 at the Exchange. 



Norman B. Taylor, late of Justice P. Taylor 

 & Co., died on November 21, in his twenty- 

 sixth year. He was a son of the late Justice 

 P. Taylor, who established the business, and 

 who died some six or seven years ago. Young 

 Taylor, then only twenty years of age, con- 

 tinued the business. His partner, Harry S. 

 Field, will continue under the old firm style. 



The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company 

 has been making new busiuess arrangements. 

 The Philadelphia office will now be used for a 

 salesroom only, and all official matters will be 

 transacted hereafter at the home office in Scran- 

 ton, Pa., where C. E. Lloyd, Jr., manager, will 

 make his headquarters. The company antici- 

 pates good trading for the winter months. Their 

 four salesmen, E. C. Collins, A. S. Buckman, 

 J. G. Jobson and C. Holden, have been in Rich- 

 wood and Camdeu-on-Gauley. W. Va., for a few 

 days. They were accompanied by F. A. Kirby 

 of the Scranton office. 



Joseph H. Sheip of Sheip & Vandegrlft has 

 recently returned from Hanover, Mo., where 

 one of their mills was destroyed by fire on No- 

 vember 15. The fire started in the veneer room 

 and the damage sustained was $20,000 on the 

 machinery and between $5,000 and $6,000 on 

 stock. There was only a partial insurance. The 

 loss of this mill will gre*atly inconvenience the 

 firm at this time, as Mr. Sheip reports a rush 

 of orders, and, though they are manufacturing 

 1,500,000 feet of veneered and imitation woods 

 a month at their Knoxville, Tenn., mill, they 

 find themselves unable to keep up with their 

 increased business. This firm has applied for a 

 charter under Pennsylvania laws to take effect 

 on January 1, 1907. Authorized capital, $250,- 

 000. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company reports continued success, 

 and has on its books about eighty per cent of 

 the most successful lumber firms in this section. 

 The company recently issued a small check book 

 with fac simile copies of dividend checks re- 

 turned to policyholders, showing their share of 

 the earnings of the company ; also a neat 

 pamphlet 'containing copies of letters received by 

 them from parties who have been visited by 

 disastrous fires, among whom are the Morgan 

 Sash & Door Company, Chicago, 111. ; J. Gibson 

 Mcllvain & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; the Wood 

 Mosaic Flooring Company. New Albany. Ind. ; 

 the Whissel Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y'., 



and others. These letters testify to the fair ad- 

 justment and prompt settlement of claims by 

 this concern. All the mutual lumber fire insur- 

 ance companies in the country now co-operate 

 harmoniously upon a uniform basis, which is a 

 vast improvement over the former desultory 

 methods, and which will ultimately result in a 

 curtailing of expenses, a reduction of the fire 

 loss, and as a consequence the issuing of larger 

 dividends. 



Halfpenny & Hamilton speak favorably of the 

 hardwood department of their business, which 

 they are arranging to enlarge. Mr. Halfpenny 

 of this firm reports very encouragingly of a 

 recent trip to the East, and he is now absent 

 on a tour through West Virginia looking for 

 additional connections. 



John W. Coles is just home from a trip 

 through Virginia and North Carol na, where he 

 has been making new connections. He is look- 

 ing forward to more extensive trading in the 

 hardwood line in the near future. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 is pushing every department to the utmost to 

 keep up with the increased demands, and its 

 mill in Verona, N. C, is taxed to its capacity. 

 The loss of their burned building is being felt, 

 and the erection of one to replace it is in 

 progress. The company has just purchased an- 

 other property adjoining their p^ant on Sixth 

 street for $22,500, where it intends to erect a 

 six-story building at an estimated cost of $40,- 

 000. 



The members of the National Hardwocd Lum- 

 ber Association in the eastern states are actively 

 preparing for the coming meeting at Atlantic 

 City, N, J., in May, 1907. 



J. J. McDonough, president of the Savannah 

 Locomotive Works & Supply Company of Sa- 

 vannah, Ga., recently spent a few days in Phila- 

 delphia. He is a prominent man in bis section 

 and an ex-mayor of Savannah. 



The Hoo-Hoo of the Eastern District of Penn- 

 sylvania held its first concatenation cf the sea- 

 son on Saturday, November 24, in the Trades' 

 League room. Philadelphia Bourse building. 

 Vicegerent Snark J. H. Sheip officiating. The 

 transformation of four gentlemen, Albert Kramer, 

 Frank Vansant, Joseph Shea and Horace A. 

 Tompkins, into Hoo-Hoo kittens was as usual a 

 unique and interesting ceremony. A dinner fol- 

 lowed in the Bourse restaurant with Frank T. 

 Rumbarger as toastmaster. The next concatena- 

 tion will take place in January, 1907, when 

 committees will be appointed to see that every 

 effort is made to make this first Hoo-Hoo annual 

 to be held in the East an event long to be re- 

 membered. 



Baltimore. 



The annual meeting and banquet of the 

 Lumber Exchange was held December 3 at 

 the Merchants' Club with eighty members in 

 attendance. As is the custom, the business 

 meeting took place first, the yearly reports be- 

 ing read, officers elected, topics of sperial inter- 

 est discussed and other matters disposed of. 

 The election, there being only one ticket in the 

 field, resulted as follows : President, William 

 M. Burgan : vice-president, Edward P. Gill ; 

 treasurer, Luther II. Gwaltney ; managing com- 

 mittee, Richard W. Price, Lewis Dill, Theodore 

 Mottu, John A. Berryman, Norman James, 

 Rldgaway Merryman, Edward P. Gill. Daniel 

 MacLea, George E. Waters, J. Edward Duker, 

 George H. Poehlmaun and Maurice M. Wley. 



The suggestion that the city acquire the 

 square bounded by East Falls and Eastern ave- 

 nues, President street and Canton avenue for a 

 park has been made and it touches the members 

 of the Exchange in a vital spot. The block in 

 question is located right in the heart of the 

 lumber district and its reservation for park 

 purposes would necessitate the removal of a big 

 planing mill as well as of other establishments. 

 besides further curtailing the space, already en- 

 tirely too small, where lumber may be unloaded 



from vessels and stored. The park idea has been 

 advanced because the city intends to establish 

 a pumping station nearby in connection with 

 the projected sewerage system. The members 

 of the Exchange emphatically oppose the scheme, 

 especially since the park would be in a busi- 

 ness instead of a residential district, and strong 

 statements concerning the project were made at 

 the meeting. The question of a paid secretary 

 was also discussed, but action was laid over. 

 The name of Paul Coriell, who is now the secre- 

 tary of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 has been mentioned in connection with the of- 

 fice, and it is not improbable that he will be 

 chosen. 



M. S. Burger of Cumberland, Md., has pur- 

 chased 15,000 acres of timber land in Walker 

 Mountain and 1'Oglesburg Valley, Virginia, for 

 $70,000. The property is to be developed. 



Miller & Winston have begun the erection at 

 Manchester, Va.. of a sawmill of a capacity of 

 60,000 feet per day. The plant is to be equipped 

 with all modern appliances and work is being 

 rapidly pushed. 



The Bowen Lumber Company of Virginia has 

 been chartered with S. C. Bowen as president 

 and Samuel E. Bowen as secretary. The main 

 office is to be at Charleston, where a plant is 

 already in operation. 



Samuel Eccles, Jr., for years engaged in the 

 lumber business here and prominent in the 

 trade, died early on the morning of November 

 21 after an illness of more than a year. He 

 was a member of the firm of Tunis, Eccles & 

 Co. until five years ago, when he retired, al- 

 though he retained an active interest in the 

 trade. 



E. E. Trice, the hardwood exporter, has just 

 closed a deal for the purchase of a walnut 

 tree of unusual size. The tree will yield a log 

 14 feet long and 50 Inches thick 3 feet from 

 the ground, two smaller logs of 10 feet each 

 cut from the trunk, and several logs of the 

 thickness of the average tree from the limbs. 

 The tree has been a landmark for years and is 

 centuries old. 



Pittsburg. 



The Ruskauff Lumber Company is now lo- 

 cated in the Lloyd building, East End, having 

 moved there from the Park building, where It 

 was located several years. This is one of the 

 best-known hardwood concerns in the city. 



The Blairsville Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has sold its plant at Blairsville, Pa., to 

 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has 

 been itself absorbed in the Alabama Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, which has opened offices in 

 the Farmers' Bank building. Mr. Murphy, for- 

 merly head of the Murphy Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany, is the controlling spirit in the Alabama 

 company. 



The Colonial Trust Company has been ap- 

 pointed receiver of the Baker Contracting Com- 

 pany, which recently asked its creditors to take 

 some action leading to a settlement of its af- 

 fairs. The Baker company did a large amount 

 of government work on the local rivers and 

 had over 400 men employed. Several Pitts- 

 burg lumber firms are among the big creditors. 

 Those which can prove that their lumber was 

 used in permanent work on the rivers will get 

 their pay, as the -bondsmen of the contracting 

 company are obligated for these debts. If, how- 

 ever, the lumber was used in sheds, scaffolding. 

 etc., temporary work, the creditors can only look 

 to the Baker company for their pay. 



The Commercial Sash & Door Company is 

 carrying a stock at its plant at Liberty avenue 

 and Thirty-third street which is valued at $100,- 

 000. At its Beaver Falls. Pa., plant, where the 

 company manufactures work to special order, it 

 is turning out $25,000 worth of stock a month 

 and employs 125 men constantly. 



President George W. Nicola of the Nicola Lum- 

 ber Company says that his company has been 

 forced to turn down orders lately on account 



