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HARDWOOD RECORD 



$100,000. The incorporators are Jarvis E. 

 Baker, William F. Bowman and Samuel W. Cul- 

 bert. 



Harry B. Clark of Sweet, Clark & Co. has 

 given up his office on Exchange place and has 

 been elected vice president of the Boston Lum- 

 ber Company. Mr. Clark's southern and west- 

 ern business will be conducted in the future by 

 the Boston Lumber Company. 



The annual meeting of the Mutual Fire Insur- 

 ance Company of Boston was held February 27 

 in this city. The following officers were elected : 

 George W. Gale, president ; Horace B. Shepard, 

 first vice president ; Jerome C. Borden, second 

 vice president; William O. Curtis, treasurer; H. 

 E. Stone, secretary; John Dieckelmann, Jr., 

 assistant secretary ; directors, Alfred W. Booth, 



A. W. Booth & Bro., Bayonne City, N. J. ; 

 Jerome C. Borden, Cook, Borden & Co., Fall 

 River, Mass. ; Edwin Bradley, treasurer Mer- 

 rick Lumber Company, Holyoke, Mass. ; K. 



B. Currier, president Springfield Lumber 

 Company, Springfield, Mass. ; William O. 

 Curtis, president William Curtis' Sons Com- 

 pany, Boston ; George H. Davenport, Daven- 

 port, Peters & Co., Boston ; George W. Gale, 

 president George W. Gale Lumber Company, 

 Cambridgeport, Mass. ; Louis A. Mansfield, New 

 Haven, Conn. ; E. S. Nail, president Mansfield 

 Lumber Company, Mansfield, O. ; William M. 

 Paul, J. F. Paul Company, Boston ; William H. 

 Sawyer, president W. EL Sawyer Lumber Com- 

 pany, Worcester, Mass. ; Horace B. Shepard, 

 president Shepard & Morse Lumber Company, 

 Boston ; John F. Steeves, Church E. Gates & 

 Co., New York City ; John B. Bugbee, Holt & 

 Bugbee, Boston ; George E. Kimball, llingham, 

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New York. 

 The local members of Hoo-Hoo headed by Vice- 

 gerent Charles F. Fischer held a delightful con- 

 catenation at Reisenweber's Circle Hotel on 

 March 1, at which time a class of ten candidates, 

 among whom were several students of the For- 

 estry School, Yale University, was initiated. 

 Plans were also discussed for the raising of New 

 York's share of the finances necessary to enter- 

 tain the order at Atlantic City nest September. 

 Fire at Mount Vernon, N. Y., on February 27 

 totally destroyed the big planing mill, woodwork 

 ing plant and lumber yards of Hartman Broth- 

 ers, together with considerable adjoining prop 

 erty. The total loss is $300,000. 



The Astoria Veneer Mills of Long Island City, 

 the biggest manufacturers of mahogany and for- 

 eign hardwoods in the country and which does 

 practically all the sawing for the mahogany trade 

 of New York City and the East, has just in- 

 stalled a mammoth veneer slicer weighing fifty 

 tons. It was manufactured by the Coe Manu- 

 facturing Company, the- large veneer machinery 

 manufacturers of Painesville. <>.. and can resaw 

 flitches up to a size of 32x32 inches. 12 feet long, 

 with thirty-two strokes to the minute. An in- 

 teresting feature of this great machine is the 

 fact that it was built under patent owned by 

 William II. Williams, president of the Astoria 

 Veneer Mills, who has a wide experience in that 

 line of manufacture. 



Guy E. Robinson, 1123 Broadway, and Laurens 

 P. Rider, 1 Madison avenue, who are well known 

 in the local wholesale trade, returned last week 

 on the Cedric after a pleasure trip abroad. 



The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company 

 of Scranton, Pa., is now thoroughly settled in 

 its new sales office at IS Broadway, where A. S. 

 Buckman, sales representative for the metropoli- 

 tan district, will make his headquarters. E. C. 

 Collins, representative in Long Island and Brook- 

 lyn, will likewise make the office his stopping 

 place when in town. This well-known company 

 is manufacturing 10,000,000 feet of spruce and 

 hardwoodsper month and will, through the new 

 office, pay still closer attention to the demand 

 of the local market. 



Jacob Bayer, who for the past twenty-six 



years has been identified with leading retail 

 hardwood houses in the local district, has en- 

 gaged on his own account under the style of the 

 Jacob Bayer Lumber Company, 602 to 606 West 

 Fifty-seventh street, where he will conduct a 

 retail hardwood business, making his specialty 

 high-grade stock and wheelwright and automo- 

 bile material. 



George H. Storm of G. H. Storm & Co., foot 

 East Seventy-second street, is on a pleasure trip 

 with Mrs. Storm to Cuba and Florida points. 



Another addition to the local retail hardwood 

 trade is the Balfour & Koch Company, recently 

 incorporated, to operate at the foot of East 

 Thirtieth street, on the property previously oc- 

 cupied by the Jacob Doll Piano Company. This 

 company is composed of George R. Balfour, Jr., 

 and Henry Koch, both of whom were previously 

 associated with the American Lumber Company 

 of this city, and F. C. Buckhout, the well-known 

 retailer at the foot of East Thirtieth street. The 

 interest of Mr. Buckhout in the new corporation, 

 together with the wide experience of the other 

 two gentlemen, starts the corporation out under 

 most favorable auspices. They will carry a full 

 line of hardwood lumber suitable for the local 

 trade and will likewise install a complete dry 

 kilcing plant with a capacity of 50,000 feet. . 



Business is reported excellent by C. O. Shep- 

 herd,, the popular local representative of the 

 Emporium Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue. 

 The big mills of the company are running full 

 time turning out a large output of all kinds of 

 hardwood lumber, but the demands of the trade 

 are such as to keep the output well absorbed. 



George B. Breon of the Breon Lumber Com- 

 pany, Williamsport, Pa., was a recent visitor in 

 the mterest of business. His company has just 

 started up a big poplar and cypress operation 

 at Ulmers, S. C, the new mill having a capacity 

 of 40,000 feet a day. From the Williamsport 

 March 4 at the Commercial Club in this city. 

 ash and chestnut. 



S. L. Eastman, S. L. Eastman Flooring Com- 

 pany, Saginaw, Mich., was a visitor last week 

 in the interest of business. Mr. Eastman spoke 

 optimistically of the general hardwood trade and 

 looks for an active year. 



The special conference which has been ar- 

 ranged between representatives of the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association aud the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association to consider hardwood 

 inspection matters pertinent to the New York 

 market, as noted in the last issue of the Hard- 

 wood Record, has been scheduled to take place 

 in this city on March 19, at which time a promi- 

 nent delegation from both organizations will 

 consider the subject. 



Philadelphia. 



On account of the annual convention of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 held at the new Willard Hotel, Washington, D. 

 C, on March and 7, which was attended by 

 quite a number of the Exchange members, the 

 regular monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange was postponed until March 14. At 

 the request of the Georgia Interstate Saw Mill 

 Association, Tifton, Ga., for a conference with 

 those associations and exchanges which assisted 

 in the making of the 1905 rules, a committee 

 of members of the Exchange attended a large 

 meeting at Jacksonville, Fla., on February 26, 

 for the purpose of a joint consideration of 

 inspection rules, etc. 



John J. Rumbarger, treasurer of the Rum- 

 harger Lumber Company, recently returned from 

 New York, where he called upon the trade and 

 at (he company's office. Frank T. Rumbarger 

 of this concern reports all their mills actively 

 engaged, orders piling up, and with the exception 

 of the car service, business is moving along in 

 good shape. 



The Boice Lumber Company, Inc.. is busy. 

 Through Vice President C. E. Lloyd, Jr., in 

 charge of the Philadelphia end, trade has rapidly 

 increased, necessitating an extension of capacity. 



The company recently purchased the entire out- 

 put of three hardwood mills in the Tennessee 

 district, which added to the product of its other 

 mills, will enable it to meet all demands. 



Miller & Miller have engaged Geo. C. Tidden, 

 who was formerly with the Rappahannock Lum- 

 ber Company as salesman, to represent them in 

 the eastern Pennsylvania and New York district. 

 The firm reports its hardwood department active, 

 with good orders coming in. 



John Halfpenny of Halfpenny & Hamilton is 

 on a stock hunting trip in West Virginia. R. C. 

 Hamilton of this firm reports the hardwood end 

 of their business prosperous, and their New Y'ork 

 office showing good results. 



Among the recent visitors to the trade were 

 James H. Krom of Krom Lumber Company, 

 Krom, Wash. ; Mr. Mason of Saxon Lime & 

 Lumber Company, Bluefield, W. Va. ; G. W. 

 Shank of Virginia Lumber Company, Inc., 

 Staunton, Va. ; W. A. McLean, vice president 

 and general manager of Wood-Mosaic Flooring 

 Company, New Albany, Ind. ; J. M. Frost, Ethel- 

 felts, Va., and F. E. Highley, Glade Mountain 

 Lumber Company, Atkins, Va. 



The Millville National Bank of Millville, N. J., 

 an old and strong financial institution, is about 

 to erect a handsome new building on the north- 

 west corner of Main and High streets, at an 

 estimated cost of $65,000. An interesting fea- 

 ture in connection with this work is that the 

 contract has been awarded to F. Reeves & Son, 

 lumber dealers and contractors of this place, the 

 senior partner of which firm erected the building 

 now occupied by the bank, fifty years ago. 



The Kimball & Prince Lumber Company of 

 Vineland, N. J., the most extensive mill-work 

 and lumber concern in southern New Jersey, 

 reports the past year to have been an eminently 

 prosperous one in every respect, and the outlook 

 for 1907 equally good. This concern is an old 

 one, having been established in 1870, and has 

 always borne in business dealing a reputation 

 lor reliability and integrity. It traded as Kim- 

 ball & Prince until nearly a year ago, when the 

 business was incorporated. Mr. Prince, although 

 a stockholder, has retired from active work and 

 the management is now successfully conducted 

 by the president, Myron J. Kimball, and his son. 



Robert Wilson of Franklinville, N. J., who for 

 years has been a dealer in telegraph poles, owns 

 some five thousand acres of timber land scattered 

 over southern New Jersey containing cedar, oak, 

 chestnut and pine. He will invest in a portable 

 mill to cut same. 



A deal was recently announced, in which J. W. 

 Lusher of Titusville, Pa., and G. S. Hastings of 

 Tidioute, Pa., sold to W. B. Poor of Shamburg, 

 Pa., 1,144 acres of fine oak and chestnut timber 

 land on Beaver Run, about eight miles east of 

 Hickory, Pa. 



The Wills Creek Lumber Company of Pitts- 

 burg was incorporated under Pennsylvania laws 

 February 21 ; authorized capital, $10,000. The 

 incorporators are John H. Madden, Wilkinsburg, 

 Pa. ; John Eichenlaub, Pittsburg, Ta., and How- 

 ard Phillips, Meyersdale, Fa. 



The present J. G. Brill Company, recently 

 incorporated under Pennsylvania laws with $10,- 

 000,000 capital stock, is a consolidation of the 

 various car-building companies, hitherto con- 

 trolled by the Brill interests. It will assume 

 all the obligations and contracts of the old con- 

 cern, and take over from the Brill interests the 

 entire capital stock of the American Car Com- 

 pany of St. Louis, the G. C. Kuhlman Car 

 Company of Cleveland and the John Stephenson 

 Company of Elizabeth. The officers are : Presi- 

 dent, James Rawle ; vice president, John A. 

 Brill ; second vice president and general man- 

 ager, Samuel M. Curwen ; treasurer, Edward 

 Brill, and secretary, M. Herman Brill. 



Baltimore. 

 The monthly meeting of the managing com- 

 mittee of the Lumber Exchange and the quar- 

 terly meeting of the latter body were held last 



