HARDWOOD RECORD 



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secretary-treasurer of the Union Association of 

 I. umber and Sasli and Door Salesmen. Mr. Bar- 

 telle was en route for an extended trip to the 

 I'acific coast. 



NEW YORK 



The Lumlier Insurance Company of New York 

 lias just been admitted to do business in the 

 state of Maine. The company is now licensed 

 to do business in twenty-four states of the 

 rnion. and practically all of the Canadian 

 pi-ovinces. 



The ■innual outing of the Building Material 

 Men's Association of Westchester County, N. Y.. 

 comprising a large majority of the lumber 

 dealers of the county, took place on July 26. 

 Eighty-five members, friends, guests, wives and 

 sweethearts, enjoyed a delightful excursion up 

 the Hudson. Luncheon was had at Xewburgh. 

 followed by a trip up Mt. Beacon, and the party 

 stopped at AYest Point on the way home. 



Hugo Forchboimer. exporter of lumber and 

 timber and well-known in the export trade in 

 New Orleans and other southern points, has 

 opened an office at 4,5 Lispenard street, this 

 city. 



The Piano Manufacturing Club of the Borough 

 of the Bronx held its outing at College Point 

 on .Tuly 16, with 175 members present. A fine 

 dam-hake and a general good time was en- 

 joyed. Among the luml)er trade who attended 

 were J. H. Campbell and Ben C. Currie of Cur- 

 rie & Campbell. Philadelphia, Pa. On August 1 

 the Piano Club went into its new quarters, 

 occupying the entire floor of the Board of Trade 

 building. 



Creditors of the Mott Haven Lumber Com- 

 pany, 137th street and Fifth avenue, Manhat- 

 tan, jhave received a final settlement of fifteen 

 cents on the dollar. The liabilities of the com- 

 pany were .$121,128, 



C. W. Manning, hardwood lumber wholesaler. 

 fifi Broad street, left August 1 for a trip to 

 Kurope in the interest of business. He will 

 visit Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Hiimburg, 

 Berlin and other cities where he has built up 

 a substantial export business. He was accom- 

 panied by K. Clark Thwing of the Grand Rapids 

 Yeneer Company and the Grand Rapids Dry Kiln 

 Company. 



George D. Hendrickson has been appointed 

 trustee of the Charles R. Partridge Lumber Com- 

 pany of .Jersey City, N. J., which failed some- 

 time ago. This is a result of a meeting of the 

 creditors held recently. Mr. Hendrickson suc- 

 ceeds Wm. R. Barricklo. who was made receiver 

 at the time the petition was filed. The ap- 

 praised assets of the bankrupt firm are given as 

 $20n.421. and the liabilities S43.5.000. The yard 

 in Newark, which i;(-as in the name of W. H. & 

 H. M. Partridge, has been turned over volun- 

 tarily to the receiver. It is reported that a 

 yard in ,Tersey City, said to be run by the firm 

 of Cox & Goodfriend, former employers of the 

 Partridge company, with stock and equipment 

 appraised at lii3G,459, will he turned o%'er to 

 the bankrupt estate. Subsequent to this action 

 Jlr. Hendrickson received an offer from the 

 committee of creditors to buy in the assets of 

 the bankrupt concern. The figure placed by 

 the (ommittee was .llO.l.lS'.On and a meeting of 

 the creditors has been called to consider it. 



BUFFALO 



I'.uilding operations in Buffalo have run sov- 

 enty-six per cent ahead of last year for the first 

 six months of 1!112, and July has also been a 

 good building month. The erection of a number 

 of large office structures has stimulated the 

 local hardwood demand, and has resulted in 

 some fair contracts, although they have not all 

 b<>en taken by local dealers. The mills report 

 a good demand for doors and interior woodwork 



lor dwelling house construction. 



The National Lumber Company reports a good 

 month during July, having sold an unusual 

 amount of flooring of various sorts, including 

 oak, maple, beech, birch and yellow pine. 



O. E. Y'eager has l-ecome one of the directors 

 of the Mutual Motor Car Company, which has 

 just been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 *125,000. Mr. Yeagor is also Interested in the 

 Frontier Tiro Company. 



The yard of I. N. Stewart & P.ro. was the 

 scene of an incipient fire on July 2n. It was the 

 work of an unknown incendiary and was extin- 

 guished with small loss. Numerous similar fires 

 have kept the police and firemen bus.v. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are rebuilding the sawmill 

 connected with their door and box factory. A 

 concrete foundation is i)cing put in to make the 

 plant more solid. 



Scatchord & .Son report that tltev have fin- 

 ished their sawing at the Memphis mill, and 

 will now have to move it. as the land has l>een 

 fold for other purposes. It will probably be set 

 lip again in the same neighborhood. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 been busy receiving lake lumber lately as well 

 as making fair shipments. Receipts include a 

 number of cargoes of elm and birch. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling have a large 

 assortment of Itimber and are enjoying a good 

 local trade in mahogany. 



Anthon.v ililler's yard stock is being well kept 

 I'.p by shipments from the other side of the Ohio 

 river and occasionall.v from Canada. Consider- 

 ing the season, trade is regarded as fair. 



F. T. Sullivan is in Michigan looking after 

 lumber shipments and is sending forward from 

 there quite an amount of hardwood stock for 

 the new yard of Hamilton II. Salmon & Co. here. 



PHILADELPHIA 



A. .T. Levy, manager of the Forest Lumber 

 <'ompan.v, says that July proved the best month 

 the company has ever had, and business alto- 

 gether has been ver.v good. The company's mill 

 at Komarocik. Va., is being pushed to full 

 capacity. 



Horace B. France, secretary and treasurer of 

 llip Monarch Lumber Compan.v and of the Had- 

 dock-France Lumber Company, reports a brisk 

 trading so far this summer. A new dry-kiln and 

 new skidders will soon be in.stalled at the com- 

 I>anv"s mill at Mt. Sterling N. C. 



R. Y. ITor.sburgh of William Whitmer & Sons. 

 Inc.. will soon join his family, who have been 

 making a few weeks' sta.v in Boston, and finish 

 the summer with them at East Hiram, Me. 



Samuel B. Vrooman of S. B. Vrooman & Co., 

 Ltd.. is summering in the Province of Nova 

 Scotia. 



Ralph Souder of Hallowell & Sender, reports 

 tbat there is no zest to local buying, but that 

 the out-of-town trading is better. Mr. Souder is 

 soending the week end with his family at Bay 

 Head. N. J. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works, recently 

 booked the following order: Thirty locomotives 

 for the Southern Railway : ten, for the Central 

 i'a''ro'id o*" New Jersey : one, for the Mary- 

 land and Pennsylvania : three, for the Walsh- 

 Ivahl Construction t^ompany : ten. for the Great 

 Northern Railroad, and eight for the Virginian 

 Railway. 



PITTSBUROH 



.T. J. T,inehan of the Linehan Lumber Com- 

 pany reports hardwood factories taking much 

 more stock than last year. All hardwood dealers, 

 he says, are anticipating a shortage of stocks, 

 and of cars this fall. 



The Hilltop Lumber Company has been formed 

 nr Greensburg. Pa., by .John W. Cunningham. 

 Maurice V. Kennie, M.vlo Culler, R. J. Repert. 

 rnd L. C. Jeffries. 



The Duncan Lumber Company is a new con- 

 cern at Johnstown. Pa. The incorporators of 

 the new company are Clark J. Duncan, Howard 

 C. Cook and Dan L. Parsons. 



The A. M. Kinney Lumber Company recently 

 purchased 125 acres of virgin oak timber at 

 Shippenport, Pa. It is estimated that the tract 

 will cut 800,000 feet of lumber and Mr. Kinney 

 will put In a mill Sept. 1 to cut it off. 



J. L. and S. A. Kendall of the Kendall Lum- 

 ber Company have sold their water power rights 

 and real estate at Koseburg, Ore., to the Douglas 

 County Water & Light Company for about 

 .f600,000. 



B. W. Cross, Pittsburgh manager of the 

 Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company, spent two 

 weeks recently among the mills. He found stocks 

 low and prices coming up. 



.\lbert G. Breitwieser. a well-known lumber 

 dealer of this city, has filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. His '.labilities are .'i;l40..S3n.50 and 

 assets, $150. It is understood that this action 

 in no wly aft'ects the Breitwieser & Wilson Com- 

 pany, wholesaler, or the A. G. Breitwieser Lum- 

 ber Company, retailer. 



H. W. Henningcr of the Acorn Lumber Com- 

 pany, made a very successful two weeks' buying 

 and selling trip in West Virginia last month. 

 President H. F. Domhoff of the same company 

 will visit the Nortlrwest this week on a buying 

 expedition. 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen 

 lAtmber Company, has gone South for his usual 

 three weeks' August buying trip. He will visit 

 all the big gum and cottonwood plants while 

 Rway. 



The Sattler-Munsell Lumber Company has 

 been formed by L. L. Sattler, former president 

 of the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation, and A. J. ^Munseli, who was with the 

 r.dward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago for 

 eight years. The new company has offices in 

 the Oliver building. 



BOSTON 



The Interstate Commerce Comiuission lias sus- 

 pended the increase in freight rates on lumber 

 from Louisiana to New York and other northern 

 points until October 13. pending an investiga- 

 tion. This increase is a matter of one-half to 

 two cents per one hundred pounds. 



Judge Frederick H. Harford and Daniel P. 

 I'olib of Portland. Me., have organized a com- 

 pany under the name of the Harford & Cobb 

 Company to carp- on a lumber business in South 

 I'ortland. Me. The company has taken the 

 wharf formerly occupied by the Yalveline Oil 

 Company, and has taken the lumber from the 

 wharf of the Wilson Lumber Company, Portland, 

 which was recently badly damaged by fire. It is 

 stated that the company proposes to have direct 

 shipments of lumber from the South. 



The Ray Lumlier Company recently organized 

 in I'ortland, Me... by Winthrop B. Nye, Franklin, 

 Mass.. president, and Joseph G. Ray. Franklin. 

 Mass., treasurer and general manager, will soon 

 begin exten.sive lumber operations on a large 

 tract of timber land, which was purchased by 

 Mr. Ray about four years ago. 



The George McQuesten Lumber Company. East 

 Boston. Mass.. had two fires at its yard during 

 the month of July. The first caused quite a 

 heavy loss, but the second resulted in only slight 

 loss. 



K. T. Burrowes. president and general man- 

 a ji r of the K. T. Burrowes Company, one of 

 the largest manufacturing concerns in Portland, 

 Ml'., has retired from the active management of 

 this business. J. Frederick Cox of Hartford, 

 Conn., who for twenty-seven years has been con- 

 nected with the Pope Manufacturing Company of 

 that city, has been elected president and general 

 manager to succeed Mr. Burrowes. 



I " > S'niem Manufacturing Company of Salem, 

 N. II., one of the largest wood-working compa- 



