HARDWOOD RECORD 



string of orders which he will not be ah\c tn i 



guess, Inasmuch as we have about liOJMMf, : 



we will shut down until the market <!■ m i 

 George W. Dodge, president of the «\]ii. 

 Plaquemine, La., accompanied by Mrs. ||"'1l 

 month at Glen Springs, N. Y., where he has 



V. He said, •Well I 

 itiiiil)er in the yard, 

 ik and gum." 

 I nr.Ts' Association, 

 n spending the last 



taking the rest cure. 



E. Sundhury, Mr. Dodge's partner, came in the other day from the South 

 on his way to Wisconsin. Mr. Sundbury is a versatile operator and re 

 ports their two inills running full tilt in Louisiana. lie is investigating 

 dairying in Wi.sconsin and this with his other varied interests is inclined 

 to keep him busy. He says the Louisiana Cooperage Company is busy, 

 the sugar trade having picked up some, and there is a fair demand fov 

 Xo. 2 stock in Cuba. 



W. H. Russe, Memphis, Tenn., spent several days in Chicago this week 

 and says that inasmuch as his foreign buyers liave all gone to war he 

 has decided it most desirable to renew acquaintance with his old custom 

 ers In the interior trade. While he is somewhat discouraged about the 

 foreign situation he really was treated very kindly when he visited our 

 midst and picked up orders tor ten or fifteen carloads. He reports that 

 his firm expected to have the new mill running by September 1, but ma- 

 chinery has lieen delayed so it will probably Ix; October 1 before the saws 

 are running. His partner, George Burgess, sailed last Saturday from Eng- 

 land after having just caught the last train out of Germany, I''ranee, Den- 

 mark, etc. 



W. W. Dings o£ the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, St. Louis, Mo., 

 is soliciting his well-known customers around Chicago and does not find 

 them so anxious for southern oak right now ; nothing the matter with 

 the oak. He said be guessed he would have to go home without taking 

 any orders. 



C. S. Keith, president of the Central Coal and Coke Compan.v, Kansas 

 City, Mo., and H. C. Clark of the Shevlln Carpenter interests in the 

 Northwest, were in Chicago for an hour Tuesday last en route to an ex- 

 ecutive committee meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United 

 States of America, which went into conference with Secretary of the 

 Treasury Mc.\doo at Washington on the question of insurance on marine 

 shipments and legislation covering the new era of a great nation like 

 America buying a few more boats, as It has only two now and has finally 

 awakened to the fact that we need a few more to remove our crops. In 

 speaking about our new merchant marine a friend of mine wrote me from 

 London the other day and said, "It is a damn shame to be an American 

 when you know we have only two l>oats, the poor old St. Louis and 

 St. Paul." 



=-< NEW YORK >•- 



President E. V. Babcock and Secretary Frauk Fish were recent visitors 

 in New York in the interests of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion. The national association is a big organization and Messrs. Babcock 

 and Fish are out to make it liigger. They're a strong team and should 

 produce results. 



Herbert Mead, Jr., hardwood specialist, is now at 403 Lexington avenue, 

 a location, he says, which offers better facilities than his old one. 



The hand of death has removed two old figures from the local trade. 

 .Toel W. Hatt, for many years prominent in the retail hardwood business 

 at Newark, N. J., and W. R. Beare, formerly in the wholesale trade of 

 New York and New Jersey. Both were popular and each represented 

 the old school of lumbermen of the two distributing classes. 



C. L. Newman has been made receiver for tlie Nickerson-Hoppcr I^umlier 

 Company, Ridgewood, N. J. 



--<, BUFFALO >•- 



R. D. McLean returned from Europe on the Maurotania. which was 

 obliged to put into Halifax on account of the danger of capture on the 

 ocean. It was an unusual as well as exciting trip. 



G. Elias & Bro. have received a good deal of lumber by lake within 

 the past two or three weei^s, though none of it has been hardwoods. 

 Hemlock and white pine arrived on three different steamers. 



T. Sullivan & Co. state that outward shipments of lumber lately have 

 included maple and oak. Hardwood trade in July was on a larger scale 

 than a year ago. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has been handling mostly oak 

 and birch during the past two or three weeks. Trade is uncertain, but 

 on the whole not at all active. 



I. N. Stewart, who recently sold his interests in the hardwood trade 

 to the Yeager Lumber Company, is looking after his. building business, 

 with office in that of John A. Murphy. ,, t 



.\nthony Miller finds hardwoods moving a little less actively than 

 usual this month, but is hopeful of improvement as soon as general busi- 

 ness feels the effects of inerrasi'd crop movement tliis fall. 



=-< PHILADELPHIA y. 



Frederiok S. Underhill of Wistar. Underbill & Nixon says things Just 

 now are naturally upset by the war, but it is his opinion that business 

 will take a sudden turn before long for the better. He states that the 

 South American and African markets will now be open to us, and that 



Hooton Hardwood Co. 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOOD LUMBER, 

 LOGS AND TIMBER 



CHOICE WHITE OAK 



Even color — soft texture 



7 cars — 4-4 Ists and 2nds Plain 

 12 cars— 4-4 No. 1 Com. Plain 

 5 cars — 4-4 No. 2 Com. Plain 



Good widths and lengths — Dry 



Also large stock all grades and 

 thicknesses plain Red Oak 



Terre Haute, Indiana 



Revived Inland Navigation 



Our cargo of 350,000 feet of Oak and 

 Gum from our Jeffris, La., mill on its 

 way up the Mississippi River on the 

 new Gas Producing, Self Propelled 

 Steel Barge. 



This cargo was unloaded at St. Louis, Mo., 

 and Alton, 111., on August 1st and 2nd 



WE HAVE MORE IN STOCK 



D. K. Jeffris & Co. 



CHICAGO 



YELLOW PINE 



M.4NCHESTER SAW MILLS 



Manchester, Ala. 



