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agents of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany and John It. Ransom & Co., both well- 

 known concerns of Nashville, Tenn. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, whose 

 Marshfield plant was burned February 17, suf- 

 fered another severe loss by tire a few nights 

 later, when its Park Falls saw and shingle mill 

 was destroyed. The estimated damage is about 

 $30,000, with $20,000 insurance. Rebuilding 

 will be commenced at once, and the company 

 expects to be running again within two months. 

 The planing mill aud lumber yards were saved 

 through hemic efforts of firemen. 



The Orange Judd Farmer reports that initial 

 shipments oi" denatured alcohol have been made 

 from distilleries at Peoria, 111., to New York, 

 where it is quoted at 37 cents a gallon in single 

 barrels and 36 cents in lots, the equivalent of 

 ::i cents in Peoria, package included. The price 

 of wood alcohol has dropped from To to 45 

 cents. 



Marion Creek of Hartford City, Ind.. has pur 

 chased a large tract of timber land in Arkansas, 

 and is about to install a sawmill and commence 

 Lumber operations. The tract contains several 

 of the valuable kinds of timber for which that 

 state is noted. 



The city of Hartford, Conn., prides itself on 

 its plentiful supply of beautiful shade trees, 

 and the city council is about to act upon an 



ordinance presented by several of its members 

 recommending the appointment "i a city fur- 

 ester. This progressive measure provides that 

 the care of trees in the city Streets shall he 

 vested in the streel board, which shall have 

 power to appoint a city forester t«i act under its 

 direction, and to reporl annually what he has 

 done and proposes to do regarding care of 

 old trees and the planting of new ones; the new 

 officer to be recompensed at not more than $5 a 

 day ami the expense of carrying out his work to 

 be borne by the city. 



The Western Wood Bending company has 

 been Incorporated at Kilbert, Calumet county. 

 Wisconsin, with a capital of $25,000 ; the in- 

 corporators are Peter Westenberger, .1. Brill and 

 IS. Schreiner. 



Reports from Birchwood, Wis., say that the 

 recent thaw has injured logging roads to a 

 considerable extent. The Arpin Hardwood Com- 

 pany, which has several camps south of Birch- 

 wood, may be obliged to leave about L',i .nun 



feet of logs on skids if the bad weather con- 

 tinues. 



A late report from the Department of Agri- 

 culture shows that Michigan mines have been 

 consuming more timber than those of any other 

 state; Minnesota, Colorado and Alabama follow 

 closely in consumption. The demand for timber 

 for mining purposes is increasing rapidly. 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD KECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



The Pullman Palace Car Company has do- 

 nated $500 to the firemen's pension fund in 

 appreciation of the successful efforts of the 

 firemen to save the lumber yards of the com- 

 pany, which were menaced by fire recently. 



A fire which for a time threatened to spread 

 over the vast lumber district south of West 

 Twenty-second street .started in over-heated dry 

 kilns of the National Box Company at West 

 Thirty-eighth street and Center avenue, Febru- 

 ary 24. Only hard work on the part of firemen 

 saved adjoining property. Lumber piles belong- 

 ing to the box company were burned and a 

 freight house damaged, their loss being about 

 $35,000. 



The plant of the E. J. Davis Manufacturing 



1 pany, makers of cabinets and shutters, at 



Wes( Twenty first and Morgan streets, was dam- 

 aged by fire February 23 to the extent of 

 $25,000. The fire swept through the lumber 

 yards and for a time threatened to do much 

 greater damage. 



The Schlimau & Mitchell Company has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 

 to manufacture and deal in picture frames and 

 moldings ; the incorporators are Benj. Schliman, 

 (lias. Mitchell and F. W. Kraft. 



F. B. Cockrell announces that the business 

 heretofore conducted by him under his name 

 at T.'is -9 National Life building, Chicago, has 

 been incorporated, and after March 1 will be 

 known as the F. B. Cockrell Lumber Company. 

 This change is made necessary for the better 

 handling of increasing business. The new offices 

 of the company will be located at 820 First 

 National Bank building, and inquiries for hard- 

 wood, yellow pine and western stock will be 

 looked after with the usual careful attention. 



An announcement from J. Richardson, Arenig, 

 Oaklelgh Park, London, England, dated February 

 16, says that on the suggestion of several firms 

 of brokers and merchants he has taken up the 

 work of arbitrator and expert in the hardwood 

 timber business. Mr. Richardson was connected 

 with Wm. Mallinson & Co. for twenty-two years 

 and has traveled in Mexico, Cuba, India, Bur- 

 mah and often through the United States and 

 Canada, so that he is thoroughly familiar with 

 the grading of American hardwoods, pine and 

 spruce, as well as mahogany, teak, all kinds of 

 veneers, etc. 



After a trip to Montreal, Quebec and other 



Canadian points, Joseph II. Dion of the promi- 

 nent hardwood firm of Maisey & Dion, this city, 

 has returned to his duties with renewed energy. 



Theodore Fathauer, president of the Theo. 

 Fathauer Company, has returned to his office 

 after a slight illness which kept him at home 

 several days. W. M. Hopkins of this company 

 is making an extended trip to Little Rock and 

 other Arkansas cities, and Memphis, returning 

 by way of Louisville and Cincinnati. 



William Wilms of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber 

 Company returned a few days ago from a trip to 

 the southern operations of the company in 

 Mississippi and Arkansas. He reports conditions 

 in producing territory more favorable than for 

 some time. 



The Hardwood Rkcokd has received a very 

 artistic calendar from Taylor & Crate of Buffalo, 

 N. Y., for which it wishes to express thanks. 



II. B. Leavitt of the Leavitt Lumber Company 

 has gone to Florida for an extended stay. As 

 soon as he recovered sufficiently from an attack 

 of la grippe, from which he suffered last month, 

 Mr. Leavitt left for the balmy climate of Florida 

 w here he is now improving steadily. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 

 was over-generous in its gift of a half-dozen 

 aluminum ash trays to its friends in the trade. 

 These convenient little articles which were de- 

 signed by Sales Manager D. S. Hutchinson are 

 a pleasant reminder of the great Nashville 

 flooring concern. 



W. C. Winchester of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 largely interested in several important hardwood 

 producing companies of northern Wisconsin, was 

 a caller at the Record office last week. 



Advices have been received from the New 

 Orleans Lumber Exporters' Association stating 

 that at a recent meeting J. O. Elmer was 

 engaged as permanent secretary. Mr. Elmer has 

 been dock agent of the New Orleans Terminal 

 Company at Port Chalmette for the last eight 

 years, and has had thorough experience in rail- 

 road and steamship matters, so that the associa- 

 tion is to be congratulated upon securing a 

 secretary who will be able to handle the work 

 so competently and successfully. 



II. I". Wiborg of the Wiborg & Hanna Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, was in Chicago recently, en 

 route home from Milwaukee. 



W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac was in the city 

 last week visiting friends. 



R. J. Clark, president of the Teninsula Bark 



& Lumber Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., 

 spent several days in town. 



.1. D. Lacey of tin 1 well known house of J. D. 

 Lacey ,^ Co., timber brokers, returned to the 

 Chicago "Hire February 27. after an eastern trip. 



Wood Beale of the sat ncern left recently 



for the Pacific coast. 



The Hardwood Record lias received from the 

 Brownlee-Kelly Company, manufacturers of 

 hardwood, hemlock and yellow pine lumber, 

 Detroit, Midi., a very neat little paper cutter. 



A meeting of the executive committee of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association was 

 held at the organization's Chicago offices on 

 Wednesday, February 27. The program for the 

 forthcoming annual meeting at Atlantic City 

 was discussed, sundry inspection matters were 

 cleaned up anil considerable routine business 

 transacted. 



A conference lias been arranged between com- 

 mittees of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation and the New York Lumber Trade Asso- 

 ciation to take place in New York on Tuesday, 

 March 19. The object of the conference is to 

 attempt to arrive at a mutual agreement on the 

 subject of the proposed union inspection rules. 

 The committee that will act on behalf of the 

 National association consists of Vice President 

 o. O. Agler, Director Earl Palmer and Geo. D. 

 Burgess, The committee of the New York Lum- 

 ber Trade Association consists of P. Moore, 

 Waldron Williams, .7. H. Eckstein, William F. 

 Clarke, Charles Grant, Charles K. Buckley, J. 

 C. Turner, Robert W. Higbie, T. S. Miller and 

 Sam E. Barr. 



His name is George Washington Kimball ; he 

 arrived on February 22; his weight is 9% 

 pounds — and he is the latest addition to the 

 family of Carl V. Kimball of the A. R. Vinnedge 

 Lumber Company. 



A. R. Vinnedge spent a few days among the 

 St. Louis trade last week. 



The Ferd Urenner Lumber Company an- 

 nounces that it has recently removed its gen- 

 eral offices to the Tank of Commerce building, 

 Norfolk, Va., from its yards at Pinners Point. 

 The company is here more centrally located and 

 will now be able to handle its large and grow- 

 ing business with greater convenience. 



A. de Jong & Zonen, timber agents of Amster- 

 dam, Holland, announce that their office has 

 been removed from Keizersgracht 211 t<> Roelof 

 Hartstraat i2:',. 



Boston. 



Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin 

 was in Washington last week in attendance at 

 the annual convention of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, held there March 

 and 7. William E. Litchfield also attended 

 this convention. 



E. S. Nail, president of the Mansfield Lumber 

 Company, Mansfield, it., was a recent visitor in 

 Boston. 



Frank A. A rend of F. A. Arend & Co., Boston, 

 has been obliged to give up active business for 

 a short time at least, due to ill health. He is 

 now abroad. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co. has been making a trip through 

 the South. 



John F. Steeves of C. E. Gales & Co., New 

 York, was in Boston recently. 



Morris A. Hall of the Hall Lumber Company, 

 this city, has returned from a trip to the Pacific 

 coast. 



It. B. Currier of t lie Springfield Lumber Com- 

 pany, Springfield, Mass.. called upon the trade 

 here last week. 



The Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston 

 is now well established in new rooms on Mer- 

 chants"" Row. The second floor is given up to 

 general business. The third floor is devoted 

 entirely to the dining room and forty to fifty 

 members of the trade are served there dally. 



The Hawkes Bay Lumber Company of Boston 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 



