HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The K. S. Bacon Veneer Company of Chicago 

 cut its first logs in its new veneer mill adjoining 

 the old establishment on Ann street on Saturday. 

 May 4. This mill is a model in every respect, 

 and while not large will turn out as much high- 

 grade veneer in the course of a day as an ordinary 

 establishment covering two or three times the 

 area. It is equipped with a brand new Capital 

 slicer. and with a saw for making flitches. The 

 flitches will be transported from the saw to the 

 tank, and from there to the slicer by means of 

 overhead traction. Mr. Bacon has every reason 

 to be proud of his new establishment. 



The G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Appletou. 

 Wis., announces that its Chicago oflice was 

 moved on May 1 from the top floor of the Kail- 

 way Exchange Building to room .327 in the same 

 building. Its telephone numbers are Harrison 

 2902 and DOS. A. H. Ruth is in charge of the 

 Chicago trade of the Jones Company. 



J. C. Turner, the well-known cypress magnate 

 of New York City, spent May 2 in Chicago on 

 business, and left here for St. Louis and points 

 further south. Mr. Turner reports reasonably 

 satisfactory cypress sales in the Metropolitan 

 district at the present time. 



The John Gillespie Lumber Company announces 

 its removal to the new yard and oflice at Twen- 

 ty-second and Laflin streets, the former quarters 

 of the Leavitt Lumber Company. The Gillespie 

 Company also maintains a yard at 72.5-729 West 

 Harrison street and handles a general line of 

 pine and hardwood yard stock. 



H. H. Heinemann. active manager of the 

 Heinemann Lumber Company. Heinemann, Wis., 

 favored H.vrdwood Ukcord with a call on May S. 

 This company recently purchased one of the mills 

 of the Robbins Lumber Company, Rhinelander, 

 Wis., which it will move to Heinemann. 



J. N. Woollett, of the Aberdeen Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburgh, Pa., was in Chicago for several 

 days last week. 



B. A. Llnderman. head of the Linderman Ma- 

 chine Company. Muskegon, Mich., manufacturers 

 of the famous dove-tail glue jointers, visited the 

 quarters of the Chicago Lumbermen's Club a week 

 ago. 



R. E. Thompson of the Thompson Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, one of the most aggressive of 

 Cincinnati's hardwood jobbing houses, was a 

 visitor at the club headquarters this week. 



E. Bartholomew of John B. Ransom & Co., 

 Nashville, Tenn.. spent several days recently 

 visiting his friends in the local trade and lining 

 up business in the city. 



M. L. Pease of Galloway-Pease Compan.v. Pop- 

 lar Bluff. Mo., spent several days last week call- 

 ing on his local trade. Mr. Pease is a member of 

 the Chicago Lumbermen's Club, and spent con- 

 siderable time in the club's quarters in the 

 Great Northern building. 



J. G. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, Louisville. Ky., was one of Chicago's 

 recent visitors to the lumber trade. 



The Monarch Cabinet & Fixture Company was 

 recently organized in Chicago with a capital of 

 .S.i.OOO. The company will manufacture cabinets 

 and a general line of fixtures. 



'Schram Brothers of Chicago have recently been 

 r( organized and the style changed to Schram 

 Brothers Company. The authorized capital stock 

 of the new corporation is S35.000. 



The Cable Store & Oflnce Fixture Company 

 is a new incorporation in Chicago, located at 

 1339 W. Twenty-first street. The company has a 

 capital of $6,000. 



C. L. Faust of Faust Brothers Lumber Com- 

 pany. Paducah. Ky.. has been in the city for 

 the past week conferring with his local represen- 

 tative J. F. Mingea. 



J. H. p. Smith of the Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati was confined during the past 

 week to his room in the Sherman House, Chicago, 

 with inflammatory rheumatism. Mr. Smith re- 

 covered suflBciently on Thursday to get out for a 

 short time and is now in much improved condi- 

 tion. 



NBW YORK 



^'anderbeek & Sons, large lumber and mill- 

 work house of Jersey City, N. J., have just opened 

 a wholesale and lumber storage department. 

 This department will be under the management 

 of Charles E. Adsit, with headquarters at the 

 Vanderbeek office in Jersey City. The company 

 has acquired a fine piece of property opposite 

 its main oflice. with large shed room for dressed 

 stock, and yard capacity capable of taking care 

 of sixty cars. The yard is conveniently located 

 to handle and store material at the lowest cost 

 and in addition to doing a general storage busi- 

 ness the company will also sell stock where de- 

 sired for the account of shippers. 



The Lumbermen's Credit Association, pub- 

 lisher of the "Red Book", has removed its local 

 oflice from 1 Madison avenue to 55 John street, 

 Manhattan, where it has secured larger quarters 

 for its increasing business in this territory. 



A meeting of the executive committee and the 

 board of trustees of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers* Association will be held on 

 May 15 and 16, at headquarters, 66 Broadway, 

 for the transaction of important business. 



The A. Sherman Lumber Company, wholesaler 

 and manufacturer of Canadian and New York 

 State spruce, white pine and general lumber, has 

 removed its local sales oflice from 50 Church 

 street to 1 Madison avenue, where Manager 

 George F. Gray will have attractive quarters. 

 The wholesale department of this company is 

 steadily increasing. 



The George Webster Lumber Company, large 

 hardwood manufacturer of Swanton. Vt., has 

 opened a local sales oflice at 25 West Forty- 

 second street, in charge of E, R. Plunkett, to 

 cater to the Metropolitan district trade. The 

 company manufactures northern and southern 

 hardwoods, and specializes in birch and maple. 

 It owns five mills in Vermont and the Adiron- 

 dacks. Mr. Plunkett has been associated with 

 the company for several years, and has repre- 

 sented it in this vicinity for the past three years. 



The White. Potter & Paige Manufacturing 

 Company, for many years prominent in the trim 

 and mill-work trade of Brooklyn, with plant at 

 415 Willoughby street, has sold out its property 

 for general industrial purposes, and is retiring 

 from business. 



Daniel Edwards, who was formerly head of 

 the Edwards Lumber & Coal Company, head- 

 quarters Long Branch, N. J., has organized the 

 Coast Mill & Lumber Company. The Edwards 

 Lumber & Coal Company suffered financial diffi- 

 culties a few months ago, and at a recent sale 

 by the receiver of the old Edwards property at 

 Long Branch Mr. Edwards, acting for the new 

 corporation, purchased the plant for $18,305, 



Herbert Mead. Jr.. wholesaler of lumlaer, an- 

 nounces that after May 1 his office will be 

 located at 501 Fifth avenue. 



F. W. Vetter, who brought a good deal of lum- 

 ber to this market from Pennsylvania a few 

 vaonths ago, has been disposing of the bulk of it 

 and is looking for good trade in this wood this 

 summer. 



Trade has been very good for the past month 

 with the yard of T. Sullivan & Co. There has 

 been a better demand than looked for in hard- 

 woods, and fir sales have also shown an increase. 



In another month it is expected that the office 

 of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company will 

 be located at the new yard on Baitz avenue, 

 where already about 750,000 feet of stock have 

 been assembled. 



Anthony Miller has been getting his share of 

 the hardwood trade during the past month, hav- 

 ing added fair quantities of elm, basswood and 

 other stocks to the assortment at his y^rd. 



BUFFALO 



The directors of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation held their annual meeting at Lake Clear 

 Junction. N. Y., on May 3. when they took the 

 opportunity of inspecting the forestry operations 

 of the Conservation Commission in the Adiron- 

 dacks. Superintendent o'f Forests Pettis showed 

 the visitors plans for three new tree plantations 

 on state lands. The state is now planting 900.- 

 000 trees there. 



Fire caused a loss of about $30,000 to the 

 hardwood lumber yard of E. A. Comstock at 

 Rochester. N. Y., on May 3. About 2,000,000 

 feet of lumber were destroyed, including a stock 

 of red oak. Mr. Comstock stated that the loss 

 is covered by insurance. 



O. E. Yeager is now president of the Victor 

 Motor Truck Company, of this city, a new con- 

 cern which is making not only lumber and other 

 trucks, but turning out motor fire apparatus for 

 various cities. 



PHILADELPHIA 



W. H. Harding of the Harding-Finley Lumber 

 Company reports a fair volume of trading, and 

 shipping a little easier. He recently engaged 

 F. L. Scott, as salesman to cover eastern Penn- 

 sylvania and New York state, ilr. Scott is a 

 thorough lumberman, having worked into the 

 business from the stump up. For six years he 

 was connected with the Williams & McKeithan 

 Lumber Company of Lynchburg, Va., and for 

 two years was with .Jacob Savage of Petersburg, 

 Va. 



Thomas B. Rutter. Jr. of Mingus & Rutter re- 

 ports a well sustained business with encouraging 

 prospects for spring and summer trading. Ship- 

 ping is a little easier but stocks are still scarce. 

 The Coppock-Warner Lumber Company after 

 the liquidation of its affairs will retire from the 

 lumber business. Charles J. Coppock has gone 

 to Picayune. Miss., where he will act as secretary 

 and treasurer of the Cybur Lumber Company. 



The Woodland Lumber Company. 720 Arcade 

 building, capitalized at $50,000, is the latest ar- 

 rival in the lumber field. Percy T. Kneale, late 

 of the Kneale Lumber Company, is president, 

 with Harry W. Campbell, vice-president, and 

 Jerry T. Robinhold, secretary and treasurer. All 

 have been connected with Ell B. Hallowell & Co. 

 They will handle North Carolina and Georgia 

 heart pine and cypress, and as opportunity per- 

 mits will take up hardwood. 



The members of the well-known Saw Dust 

 Club of the Union League of Philadelphia, with 

 a few additional guests, were delightfully enter- 

 tained, on April 25, by Horace A. Reeves, Jr. of 

 R. B. Wheeler & Co., and Ralph Souder of Hallo- 

 well & Souder, at a plank shad dinner, given at 

 Castle Lingstetter, the up-river house of the Un- 

 dine Barge Club, on the Schuylkill river. The 

 affair was an informal one. Some of the gentle- 

 men who thirsted for an opportunity to exhibit 

 their culinary skill, insisted on doing some of 

 the cooking, others shone as self imposed waiters 

 and a few distinguished themselves as bartenders, 

 etc., etc. It is needless to say that in unfetterel 

 stag freedom ail did ample justice to this 

 luscious piscatory feast, and that they will long 

 remember the unique and festive occasion. 



James Rawle, president of the J. G. Brill Com- 

 pany, builder of trolley cars, died May 1, at the 

 age of seventy years. 



The Jacob Wenger's Coach Works at Paradise, 

 Pa., was visited by fire .\pr. 26, entailing a loss 

 estimated at $7,000. 



Beecher & Barr. wholesalers of lumber. !orm- 

 erlv located at 1030 Land Title buildins have 

 removed their offices to 442 of the same building. 



PITTSBURGH 



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The Palmer & Semans Lumber Company is get- 

 ting out a fine lot of hardwood at its new plant 

 at Humbert, Pa., on the Baltimore i Ohio Rail- 

 road. I. F. Balsley of this concern reports that 

 the mills are cutting mostly bill stuff, and that 

 demand is fair. 



