HARDWOOD RECORD 



furniturp. The directors are W. E. Deutsch, D. 

 M. Bechtel and J. F. Shepard. 



The Day Lumber Company. Biddeford, Me., 

 lias been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 ?100,000 to do a general lumlx'r business. The 

 officers of the new company are W. B. Xye, presi- 

 <lcnt. and S. G. Day. treasurer. 



Tile Bishop Lumber Company, Bishop. Tex., 

 recently filed an amendment to its charter, In- 

 creasinsj its capital stock from $10,500 to $25.- 

 000 ; value of shares from $50 to $100 : and re- 

 ducing directorate from five to three members. 



The Home Furniture Company, Worcester, 

 Mass., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $50,000 to manufacture furniture. The 

 officers of the new compan.v are M. S. T. Nahig- 

 ian. president, and F. H. Nickerson, treasurer. 



The Central Veneer Company, Huntington, W. 

 Va., is installing a new veneer cutter, dryer, 

 etc., in its phint. which in connection with its 

 present equipment will make the plant one of 

 the most modern in the country. The improve- 

 ments will cost about $15,000. 



The Bennington Lumber Company. Bennington, 

 Kas., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The incorporators are W. G. 

 Baruett of Bennington ; W. J. Leeper of Denison. 

 Tex. ; H. T. Childs ot Caddo,; 1'. A. Vineyard of 

 Bennington and Nettie Grassham of Caddo. 



The Wilson Lumber & Box Company of Tona- 

 wanda. N. Y., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock ot $100,000, and will manufacture 

 and deal in lumber and boxes. The incorpo- 

 rators are T. .T. Wilson and A. M. Hathaway of 



North Tonawaurta, and F. E. Caldwell ot Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y. 



The South Mountain Lumber Company of 

 Lebanon. Pa., has recently purchased 1,800 acres 

 of timber land in West Cornwall and South 

 Londonderry townships, east of Mt. Gretna. The 

 company will install lumber, lath and shingle 

 mills, and market the timber, which is mostly 

 chestnut and oak. 



The Bigelow Brush Company. Baltimore, Md., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $100,000 to manufacture brushes. The incor- 

 porators, who are also directors for the first 

 year, are Wm. Kleinle, Wm. F. Bigelow, Myer 

 Rosenbush, Edward A. Weller and Ambrose 

 Vogt. The new company will begin business 

 about Aug. 1. 



The Virginia Veneer & Panel Company, with 

 a plant in Cliesterfield. Xa.. recently filed a 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The com- 

 pany's liabilities were placed at $15,156.85, with 

 assets of $29,4-15. Real estate and stock con- 

 stitute the principal part of the assets. Roland 

 T. Thorpe and W. P. Hilton were appointed re- 

 ceivers for the bankrupt company. 



The Defiance Machine Works, Defiance, O., 

 recently increased its capital stock from $100,000 

 to $600,000. The company has also made ar- 

 rangements for two large buildings ot the saw- 

 tooth type. The mechanical equipment will be 

 overhauled and there will be a number of addi- 

 tions made to it, which will make this one of 

 the best equipped concerns of its kind in the 

 countr.v. 



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Hardwood iSJews ^otes 



CHIC AGO 



Secretary H. S. Kellogg of the Northern Hem- 

 lock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association an- 

 nounces that the next regular meeting of that 

 association will be held at Houghton, Mich., on 

 .July 17. 



E. M. Stark, sales manager of the American 

 Column & Lumber Company, St. Albans. W. Va.. 

 spent the better part of last week in town. Mr. 

 Stark is on the board of managers of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association and came 

 early to attend the meeting of the board on Tues- 

 day. Mr. St.irk's idea of the present and imnu*- 

 diate future of the lumber business is very chei'r- 

 ful. 



J, F. MeSweyn and his son George of the Mem- 

 phis Saw Mill Company of Memphis. Tenn., were 

 among outside visitors who came to town sev- 

 eral da.vs before the National convention. Mr. 

 McSweyn says that the Memphis situation is 

 improving decidedly in the last few weeks, and 

 that while right now there is a temporary lull. 

 a. continued increase in volume of business and 

 prices is looked for. 



H. A. Batchelor of the Tennessee Oak Floor- 

 ing Company. Nashville, Tenn., was in attend- 

 ance at the National convention at the Sherman 

 House, and also spent several days in town prior 

 to the convention. 



M. M. Wall and ,1. W. Welsh of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, Buffalo. N. Y.. 

 were among the out-of-town meml>ers who came 

 to Chicago early and transacted a little business 

 before the convention. 



li. M. Holland tif the Cartier-IIollanil Lumber 

 Company of I.udington. Mich., was in attendance 

 at the National convention, and also participated 

 in the meeting of the liUmber Sales Managers' 

 Association held last Friday afternoon at the 

 Luml)ermen's Club of Chicago. 



Wm. Schreiber. who for years has been prc.m- 

 inently associated \\\X\\ the I'l-.-iiicis Beidler in- 



terests and th'- H. II. llettler Lumber Company 

 of Chicago, incorporated on ,lune 1 under the 

 style Wm. C. Schreiber &. Co. Mr. Schreiber 

 will do business at Throop and Twenty-second 

 streets, Chicago. 



W. W. Dings of the Garelson-Greason LumU-r 

 Company. SI. Louis, Mo., was in town a good 

 part of last week on business, and was in at- 

 tendance at the National association meeting. 

 Mr. Dings is a director of the Sales Managers' 

 association, and was in attendance at the meet- 

 ing of tiuit bod.v. 



The Chicago office of the Louisiana Red 

 Cypress Lumber Company, in charge ot T. A. 

 Moore, has been moved to 412 Otis building. 

 Mr. Moore's new telephone numlnr is Franklin 

 1 066. 



Ralph McCracken. sales manager ot the Ken- 

 tuck.v Lumber Company. Cincinnati. O., was a 

 welcome caller at the office of Hahdwooi> Record 

 on June 5. Mr. McCracken says the ICentticky 

 Lumber Contpany is running its mills at Burn- 

 side and A\'illiarasburg. Ivy., at full capacit.v, 

 and has a full stock of logs for the season in 

 boom for the Burnside mill, and is logging 5(t,oiio 

 feet a day on its LaFollette timl)er for the Wil- 

 liamsburg mill. He reports trade conditions very 

 satisfactory. 



George F. Kretsclimer, Sr., president of the 

 Southern Veneer Manufacturing Company, Inc., 

 Louisville, Ky., was a caller at HAiiDwoou 

 Rkcdud offices on .Tune 5. He reports a satis- 

 factory volume of trade, but contends that prices 

 I'uling are too low. 



RiccoKD had the [)leasure of a call ou June 6 

 from S. M. Nickcy and W. E. Nickey of the 

 (Ireen River I^umber Compan.v and Nickey 

 Brothers, the well-known hardwood manufac- 

 turers of Mem|)his. W. V.. Nickey left Chicago 

 on the evening of June ij for an extended I'acilic 

 coast trip. 



Among the distinguished foreign visitors at 

 the last week's Chicago convention of the Na- 

 tional Ilard\M'od Lumber Association were S. T. 



Cobbett of Cobbett & Co., London, England, and 

 lien Ueubenstein, of the Great Eastern Timber 

 Compan.v of the same city. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago is- 

 sued Number 1 of Volume 1 ot a four page 

 paper known as "Lumbermen's News." during 

 the recent convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association. The paper was made up of 

 a directory ot officers and members of the asso- 

 ciation : a review of its objects ; and consider- 

 able bunk, piffle and joll.v about local and visit- 

 ing members of the trade. 



A caller at Record office on June 10 was E. 

 D. McConnell, president of the Tennessee River 

 Veneer Company, Sheffield, Ala., who will attend 

 the annual meeting of the National Veneer & 

 Panel Manufacturers' Association to be held in 

 this city June 11 and 12. 



H.VRDWOOD Record acknowledges receipt of the 

 official report of the twentieth annual meeting 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, which took place at Louisville, Ky.. 

 March 6 and 7. 1912. The report is gotten up 

 in about the usual style and is .so designed and 

 printed as to !>e worthy of a place in the busi- 

 ness library of an.v member of the association. 



Hardwood Record is desirous of .tnnouncing 

 to the veneer trade that its second bulletin cover- 

 ing the specific requirements of veneer and panel 

 consumers of the I'nited States is off the press, 

 and ready for distribution. This bulletin gives a 

 ver.v considerable amount of additii>nal informa- 

 tion of this character, over that i-outained in 

 previous bulletin. 



NEW YORK 



The regular quarterly meeting of the New 

 Y'ork Lumber Trade .Association will be held rit 

 headquarters, 18 Broadway, on June 12. The 

 board of trustees will also meet on the same 

 date. 



C. H. Turner, whoh'sale lumlier. 1 Madison 

 avenue, has removed his offices to the Fifth 

 .Vvenue building. Fifth avenue and T^'enty-third 

 street. Manhattan. 



II. W. Palen's Sons, large* trim and mill-work 

 manufacturers with plant at Kingston, N. Y.. 

 have removed their office from 1 Madison avenue 

 to 45 Broadwa.v, Manhattan. 



Tlie Dunn-Oliver Lumber Compan.v has just 

 opened offices at 00 West street, Cit.v, to con- 

 duet a general wholesale lumber business. The 

 new company is ca|iitall/ed at $50.0(10 of which 

 .'i:26.iMM> is paid in. ami is composed of John E. 

 Dunn of I'lainfield, N. J., and X. C. Oliver of 

 .\tlantic Highlands, N. J. The former has been 

 in the lumber trade practically all his life, hav- 

 ing been connected for many years with Sargent 

 Brothers and the J. D. Louzeaux Company. 

 Mr. Oliver was formerly connected with the 

 Newark office of Wm. Whitmer & Sons, and dur- 

 ing the past two years has acted as sales repre- 

 sentative for the Cox Lumber Company of Ash- 

 boro. N. C. and the Salt Lick Lumber Company 

 of Salt Lick, K.v. 



The Stevens-Eaton Company, large wholesale 

 lumber house of 1 Madison avenue, on June 1 

 removed its offices from the fifth floor on the 

 Foiu-th avenue side of the Metropolitan building 

 to the fourth floor ou the Madison avenue side 

 of the same building. The conii>nny announces ;; 



that it has appointed J. W. Worth, formerly i 



New York inspector for the National Hardwood *= 



Lumber Association, superintendent of the whole- J 



sale hardwood yards of the company at Gilman ^ 



and Elkins. W. Va., to succeed W. H. Hyatt. I 



BUFFALO 



The annual outing of the lUift'alo Lumber Ex- 

 cliiingi' will he held June 18 at Cascade Park, 

 which the lumliermen will have to themselves 

 for the day. The trip will be made in automo- 

 biles which will start from the north side of 

 the P.utTnlo Public Library building at 9:00 n. m. 



