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HARDWOOD RECORD 



At the conference held a few days ago in New 

 York, between representatives of the Xational 

 Hardwood Lumber Association and the New York 

 I. umber Trade Association, a general discussion 

 of inspection matters prevailed. Prominent mem- 

 bers nt botb associations were in attendance, but 

 oo executive action was possible; the meeting 

 was simply ;i friendly conference on the subject 

 ii. 'I 



Those Interested should not fail to remember 

 that Wednesday. April 17. is the date of the 

 meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, which will lie held at the Hotel 

 Pantlind in Grand Rapids. A review of market 

 conditions and a conference looking toward uni- 

 fication 'if grading rules between a committee 

 from the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's As- 

 sociation and one named by the Michigan organi- 

 zation will be features. The meeting is of such 

 importance that it should bring out every haul 

 wood producer -in the state. 



The Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company has 

 moved its offices from the second floor of the 

 Fisher Building in suite 218 in the new annex 

 of that structure. The company has here hand 

 somely appointed and ■ urnniodious quarters — 

 three large rooms mi the Dearborn street side 

 of the building. 



M. A. Hays "1 New York and C. S. chase of 

 St Louis, representing the Southern railway, 

 were welcome callers at this office March 30. 



.1. It. King, fur ilv of the King & Hartels 



Lumber Company of Cleveland, was in Chicago 



last week. 



Orson ]■]. Y'eager, the well-known wholesale 

 hardwood man of Buffalo, called on the Record 

 March 28. 



The John O'Brien Land & Lumber Company, 

 for many years located at Laflin and Twenty- 

 second stt ts, has moved its offices to ii."- Dear- 

 born street. 



K. W. Black has returned from a sunt hem 

 trip. He slates that hardwood stocks in the 

 South, notably Tennessee, are small and that 

 buyers are bustling to get bold of stocks; prices 

 range high. 



.1. 1.. Kendall was in Chicago within tin- past 

 few days, en route to the Pacific Cuast. Mi. 

 Kendall is president of the Kendall Lumber Com- 

 pany of Pittsburg, Pa., and Crellin, Md. 



Ii. G. Courtney, a large hardwood operator of 

 Charleston, W. Ya., was a visitor to this market 

 last week. 



William .1 Wagstaff ..f Oshkosh, wis., called 

 at the Record office April 5. He has recently 

 returned from a southern trip. 



A. .1. Vincent, a hardwood manufacturer of 

 Vincent, Miss., was in Chicago to spend several 

 days last week. 



Clinton Crane of the well-known Cincinnati 

 firm of c. Crane ..v Co. was in Chicago recently 

 fur a few days. 



l'atk Richmond & Co. have moved their offices 

 from 41i> Monadnock Building to suite 926 in 

 the same structure, where they have larger and 

 mure convenient quarters. Park Richmond, head 

 of ilic concern, returned a few days ago from an 

 extended trip among southern manufacturing 

 points. 



Richard Koeller, who represents the Paepcke 

 Leicbi Lumber Company at Hamburg. Germany, 

 was in Chicago a few days last month in con- 

 sultation with tin- heads of his concern at the 

 main offices here. Mr. Koeller left March 18 

 for Hie East on his way home. 



Very commodious quarters at 1113 Fisher 

 Building are now occupied by the Flanner-Stegei 

 Land & Lumber Company, whose headquarters 

 are at ebb ago Heights, 111. G. C. Flanner, 

 president of the company, and E. Blaisdell, gen- 

 eral salesman, will be located at the Chicago 

 Offices. The season's cut of the company's saw- 

 mill at P.lackwell. Wis . has been sold. It rep- 

 res, tits a total nf nut less than 16,000,000 feet 

 ■ ii basswood, maple, birch, elm and hemlock. 

 Purchases of stock have been made by the com- 



pany, however, and it will conduct a wholesale 

 business in addition to its manufacturing opera- 

 tions. 



Friends of E. 1'. Arpin, the well-known Grand 

 Rapids, Wis., lumberman, will regret to hear 

 that his eldest son, while on a hunting trip lasi 

 week, was accidentally shot and severely injured. 

 although it is probable that he will recover. 



Boston. 



The fondest hopes of the few lumber dealers 

 whii conceived the Metropolitan Lumber Ex- 

 change have been more than realized. Many 

 cars of lumber have been sold on the floor of 

 the exchange. Since the rooms were opened six 

 concerns have purchased a little ever 4,000,000 

 feet, line order for 150,000 feet at the average 

 price of $70 a thousand has been recorded. 



C. II Balkam reports that he is shipping con- 

 siderable hardwood from mills in which he is 

 interested along the Canadian border. 



William E. Litchfield left Boston early in the 

 week for a trip in the South and West. 



The II 1. Gould Company has been incorpo- 

 rated In Worcester, Mass.. with a capital stock 



of $25, i. for the purpose of dealing in lumber. 



The incorporators are II. I. and II. E. Gould 

 and Walter W. Clark. 



John I.. Young, South Lancaster, and E. 12. 

 Russell, Clinton, have purchased lumber sheds. 

 formerly the property of the Clinton Wall Trunk 

 Company, ami will start tin- manufacturing ol 

 carpetiiei's' supplies and builders' finish. 



Charles s, VVentworth, who recently returned 



from a trip through the whitew I district in 



the South, siaies that offerings of dry lumber 

 there are very scarce. He states, however, thai 

 Hie .in this winter has been large and that as 

 soon lis the roads are in good condition this can 

 l.e brought out of the woods, when prices will 

 mm doubt be a little easier. For the next lew 

 weeks, however, it is very evident that high 

 prices will rule. 



I I it- Palmer & Parker Company, Boston, has 



I a Incorporated with a capital stuck ef $240, 



lie incorporators are Irving s. Palmer, 



Harrison Parker, William I. Pal r and frank 



1 I. Saw yet. 



E. I: Reynolds, president of the Boston Lum- 

 ber Company, lias returned from a sunt hern trip 

 covering about three weeks. 



The mill nf Shaw & Itemby. Medford, Jle- . 

 was recently visited by tire 



Fred Sterritt, president of the Metropolitan 

 Lumber Exchange and manager '1 'In- tittle 

 Lumber Company, lias returned from an outing 

 at his dairy farm in Yarmouth, N. S. 



At the annual meeting of the New Hampshire 

 Lumbermen's Association, which was held at 

 Manchester, N. II.. late in March, Hie following 

 officers were elected: President, Warren Tripp, 

 Short Calls; vice president, John A. Walker. 

 Newmarket. I lire, lets : James I',. Tennanl. 

 Short falls: Samuel 1 1. Felker, Rochester 

 Frank B* Clark, Dover; Charles a. Bailey, Sun- 

 luuk ; Milton Heed. Exeter. 



The planing mill owned and operated by Ira 

 i; Mersey. Cambridge, Mass.. has been destroyed 

 by lire, causing a loss estimated at about $40- 

 000 Shortly after the tire started it was 

 feared that the plant of the Seavens Piano 

 Action Company and the Tower Piano Company 

 would also he destroyed. Several large bus of 

 dry lumber were a total less 



New York. 



The William It. Cole Company, wholesale 

 dealers in staves and cooperage stuck. 1 4.'l Lib 

 'ii I street, Manhattan, are in the hands of a 

 receiver '» P. Willman has been appointed. 

 I In application was made by the Guaranty Trust 

 Company of New York on a judgment obtained 

 ii, November, 1906, for $1,874, mi which only 

 $50 was , ullected. Other judgments aggregating 

 $12,000 have been obtained against the company. 



P. E. McLaurin, the prominent lumber dealer 

 ui' Havana, Cuba, was a recent visitor in the 



city on a brief trip to the states in the interest 

 of business. 



Sam E. Barr, Flatiron Building, is on a tour 

 of inspection to the hardwood operation of the 

 Mt. Airy Lumber Company, Mt. Airy, N. C, for 

 which he is selling agent, lie will also visit 

 the High Point, N. C, furniture district. 



E. L. Hunter, Flatiron Building, local repre- 

 sentative of the Louisiana Red Cypress Com- 

 pany, New Orleans, La., reports the cypress sit- 

 uation strong. He has made many friends since 

 he located in the metropolitan district and the 

 business of his company in this section is flour- 

 ishing. 



Superintendent of Public Works 1». C. Stevens 

 of Albany. N. Y., has decided that the statute 

 gives him no authority to close the Oswego canal 

 between May 15 and November lo. This is a 

 great blessing to lumber shippers and local buy- 

 ers, who, when the proposed closing was an- 

 nounced, immediately entered a strung protest 

 mi account of the serious handicap which such 

 closing would place on the lumber traffic through 

 ii "in western points. 



The Newark Lumber Company of Newark. 

 X. .1.. has dispensed with the services of II. S. 

 . I 'linings, former manager. 



Charles I), chase, 18 Broadway, attorney for 

 the Lumbermen's Credit Association, Chicago, 

 bas been appointed receiver for the Rubin (Iran 

 I'umpany. Incoroporated, manufacturers of sash. 

 doors and blinds, 1U-24 Eckford street, Brooklyn. 

 Mr. i Iran failed several months ago and a set- 

 tlement was made by the creditors taking stock 

 in the above corporation fur their claims in the 

 hope of working the concern out. Through gen- 

 eral dissatisfaction, however, these lattei pro 

 ceedings were necessary and it is announced 

 i hat the company's affairs will now be wound up. 



Alier a ten days' strike of the teamsters of 

 the big lumber and moulding operation of Van- 



derl k & Sons, Jersey City, N. J., the firm 



caused a complete surrender of the strikers and 

 without any interruption to business 



A. C. Dutton of the A. C. Dutton Lumber 

 Company, Springfield. Mass., with large manu- 

 facturing interests in Quebec and New Bruns- 

 wick, was a recent visitor in town in the inter- 

 est of business 



The Enion Mill Company has been organized 

 in Brooklyn with a capital of $10,000 t.. conduct 

 a general lumber and milling business by A. c. 



Brady, who has previously I n associated witli 



the wholesale house of J. s. Barron & r». and 

 II. W. Peabody of Manhattan. Associated with 

 him in the company are W. I',. Eaton of Orange, 

 V .1 .. and C. I'.. Wanamaker of Brooklyn. 



.!. C. Gahagan, head of the sash, door and 

 blind manufacturing firm of J. Gabagan's Sons, 

 Hoboken, N. J., died last week in the 62d year 

 of bis age. 



.1. II. Dickinson, head of the logging depart 

 ment of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, 120 Liberty street. Manhattan, is on a 

 lengthy trip to southern mill points en route to 

 the Bahama Islands, where he goes in the in- 

 terest of business. 



Schedules in bankruptcy of the Sexsmith & 

 Hoosier Company, manufacturers nf interior fin- 

 ish and cabinet work, ."il4 Wist Forty-sixth 

 street, filed recently, show liabilities of $11,058 

 and assets. $3,550, consisting of proceeds of sale, 

 of fixtures by the receiver, $7110, and a claim in 

 litigation. $2,850. Among the creditors are T. A. 



McKegney. $2, secured; Buchanan & Smock 



Lumber Company, $724. and John W. Helley, 

 S7i'U. 



Philadelphia. 

 The Lumbermen's Exchange called a special 

 meeting on March 2.".. President George E. Craig 

 in the chair, at which it was resolved that the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of the city of Philadel- 

 phia is unqualifiedly opposed to the passage of 

 house bill No. 224 (known as the l'ahey-Mc- 

 N'ichol traction bill, which would enable the 

 city to enter into partnership agreement with 



