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HARDWOOD RECORD 



din-ing the last month between South Haven. 

 Mich., where his family has been spending 

 the summer, and visiting the Chicago trade. 



J. S. Houston of J. S. Houston & Co., Chi- 

 cago, and of the Memphis Veneer and Lumber 

 Company of Memphis, Tenn., is dividing his time 

 between the Memphis plant and the Chicago 

 office. 



T. S. Estabrook of the Estabrook-Skeele Lum- 

 ber Company is in northern Wisconsin trying 

 to unload a severe attack of hay fever, and in- 

 cidentally duplicate Ed. Skeele's prowess in 

 Ashing. 



John C. Spry, the well-known timber operator 

 of the Corn Exchange Bank building. Chicago, 

 presents to prospective timber investors or saw- 

 mill operators a very alluring piece of Arkansas 

 timber in the advertising columns of this issue 

 of H.iBDWOOD Record. Mr. Spry has owned 

 this timber for some years and it has been very 

 carefully and intelligently cruised. Those in a 

 position to know allege it is one of the best, if 

 not the best, oak proposition in the entire Mis- 

 sissippi valley. 



Acknowledgment is made of the receipt of a 

 handsomely framed show-card from the Maple 

 Flooring Manufacturers' Association, whose 

 headquarters are in Chicago, showing pictures of 

 maple, beech and birch forest trees in halftone, 

 and illustrations of specimens of flooring made 

 from these three woods, together with a de- 

 scription of the distinct characteristics of floor- 

 ing made from each of the varieties. 



Clint Crane, the big sawmill man of Cincin- 

 nati, O., spent several days last week visiting 

 his old home in Peru, Ind., and dropped into 

 Chicago for a day. 



W. E. DeLaney, president of The Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, and manager of The 

 Kentucky Lumber Company with headquarters 

 at Cincinnati, was a Chicago visitor Sept. 6. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, this city, who 

 has been away on a two weeks' eastern business 

 trip, returned to his office a few days ago and 

 reports business conditions in that section of 

 the country as very good. 



Fred W. Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson, 

 Cincinnati, O., dropped into Chicago on Sept. 

 6 for a tew days' visit to his local customers. 

 Among the Chicago visitors during the last 

 week of August was Charles A. Phelps of the 

 Hackley - Phelps - Bonnell Company of Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., who was on his way to Detroit. 

 W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc., Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., returned from a two months' 

 European trip last week. 



W. E. Johns of the Johns-Mowbray-Xelson 

 Company of Cincinnati, O., was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



Lawrence Ford of the Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., together 

 with a few of his friends, has been motoring 

 through Michigan, but is now back at his desk. 

 E. E. Goodlander. president of the Goodlander- 

 Robertson Lumber Company, Jlemphis, Tenn., is 

 en.ioying a visit in the West. 



James F. McSweyn, manager o£ the Memphis 

 Saw Mill Company. Memphis, Tenn., was in 

 Chicago on Sept. 3, and called on the local 

 trade. 



J. S. Stearns, the well-known lumber opera- 

 tor who resides at Ludlngton. Mich., spent a 

 few days in Chicago recently. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 Memphis, Tenn., accompanied by his wife, ar- 

 rived in Chicago Sunday morning for a little 

 period of rest and recreation. W. H. Russe of 

 this house has just returned from Europe, 

 which enabled Mr. Burgess to get away from 

 the Memphis office. 



J. A. Lamb, manager of the dimension plant 

 of the Larkin Company at Memphis, was a Chi- 

 cago visitor the first of this week. 



J. A. Gillette of Gillette Brothers, Memphis, 

 is spending several days in Chicago at the pres- 

 ent time. 



NEW YORK - 



H. Isaacsen, 561 First street, Brooklyn, eastern 

 sales representative of the Yellow Poplar Lum- 

 ber Company, Coal Grove, O.. has just returned 

 from a visit to the mills of the company which he 

 reports is in fine shape on its usual choice stock 

 of .vellow poplar. In addition to this, as has 

 already been announced, the company is now 

 manufacturing some very choice oak, chestnut 

 and basswood, making a specialty of quarter- 

 sawed white oak. 



The Virginia-Carolina Lumber Company, 

 Lynchburg, Va., has just appointed Robert W. 

 Brownson as manager of its New York sales 

 office just opened at 1 Madison avenue. Mr. 

 Brownson has been connected with the local 

 wholesale trade for a great many years and will 

 look after the interest of the company in the 

 Metropolitan district. The company is a large 

 manufacturer of oak, poplar, chestnut, cypress, 

 red gum, white pine, short and long leaf yellow 

 pine. 



H. D. Billmeyer of Cumberland. Md., was in 

 town during the fortnight in the interest of 

 business, which he reported has materially im- 

 proved in his specialty, which is heavy hard- 

 wood ship and dock timber. He looks for sub- 

 stantial business this fall and winter. 



P. J. Feitner of the Hoban-Hunter-Feitner 

 Company, large wholesale cypress house of 

 Brooklyn, returned last week from a lengthy 

 tour of the cypress mills in the gulf states, 

 where his company has large interests and rela- 

 tions. He found conditions in the cypress trade 

 improving, with stocks well held, inquiries more 

 plentiful and prospects bright for an active 

 fall trade. His company is carrying a big sup- 

 ply of cypress on hand at its Brooklyn yards for 

 (|Uick shipment to the trade. In addition to this 

 it is maintaining large facilities at mill points 

 for car shipments. 



E. L. Edwards, prominent hardwood manu- 

 facturer of Dayton and Cincinnati, O., spent the 

 greater part of the fortnight in town on business 

 and pleasure. 



Secretary E. F. Perry of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, arrived home 

 on Aug. 23. from a pleasure trip of several 

 weeks abroad. 



Charles F. Fischer of the Chas. F. Fischer 

 Lumber Company, wholesale hardwoods, 1038 

 Park avenue, Manhattan, is just back from a 

 trip West and a visit to Nelson H. Walcott of 

 Providence, R. I., at Lake Quonachontaug, R. I. 

 R. H. Downman, the distinguished cypress 

 manufacturer of New Orleans, La., passed 

 through the city during the fortnight en route 

 lo join his family on the Massachusetts coast. 



Charles M. Hamlin, secretary of the Hamlin 

 Lumber Company, white pine and hardwood 

 house, 29 Broadway, New York, has been spend- 

 ing several weeks in the hardwood districts of 

 the South on a buying tour. 



Arthur Bailey, formerly of the New York 

 Dimension Supply Company, and Milton JIay. 

 formerly of the Albert Haas Lumber Company of 

 Atlanta, Ga., and later manager of the northern 

 branch of the English Lumber Company of New 

 York, are continuing the business that Milton 

 May established in New York under the firm name 

 of Arthur Bailey & Co., at No. 1 Madison avenue. 

 This house specializes in poplar, red gum and 

 other hardwoods and in dimension stock. 



BUFFALO 



John F. Knox, R. D. McLean, A. W. Kreinheder. 

 W. P. Belts and E. J. Sturm. 



Frank A. Beyer, who has been serving as 

 county treasurer on the Republican ticket during 

 the past term, and who was elected largely 

 through the efforts of the lumbermen, has been 

 nominated by the party as county clerk. With 

 a three-cornered fight on in local politics this 

 fall, the situation promises to be interesting. 



G. Ellas has returned from an eastern business 

 trip. The concrete work on the improvement to 

 the sawmill of G. Ellas & Bro.. which recently 

 underwent repairs, is now completed. 



J. D. McCallum of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company has returned from a short trip to his 

 former home in Canada. The company looks for 

 an increased scarcity of cars during this month. 



0. E. Yeager states that the hardwood trade 

 shows a slight improvement. He is planning to 

 attend the meeting of the International Chamber 

 of Commerce in Boston late this month. 



1. N. Stewart has returned from a vacation of 

 two weeks in Canada, during which he covered 

 a good deal of ground by automobile. He states 

 that the demand for hardwoods is increasing. 



B. E. Darling of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, 

 left late last month for the Southwest to pur- 

 chase lumber. The yard is handling a fair 

 amount of hardwoods, and reports gum as quite 

 strong and active. 



A. Miller states that the car shortage seems to 

 have started earlier than usual this year. Ordi- 

 narily he looks for trouble of the kind in October 

 and November, but it is from four to six weeks 

 ahead of time. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company finds 

 an excellent demand for birch. It has unloaded 

 two barge loads of it within the past week and 

 is also shipping it from the Adirondacks. 



A. W. Kreinheder will act as referee of the 

 annual reliability run of the Buffalo Automobile 

 Club to be held four days this month. He says 

 it will be the best automobile test the club has 

 yet held. 



Nelson S. Taylor of Taylor & Crate, has lately 

 been making a yachting trip on Lake Erie, as the 

 guest of Buffalo friends. He recently returned 

 from an automobile tour through New England. 



F. M. Sullivan has been spending much time 

 at Wanakah, on the Lake Shore, recently, where 

 his family has been this summer. 



J. N. Scatcherd is back from a vacation trip 

 to East River. Conn., his former summer homo. 

 He has also been visiting his large farm in the 

 neighborhood of London, Ont. 



The most important social event the lumber- 

 men have participated in for some time was the 

 second outing of The Buffalo Lumber Exchange, 

 held on Sept. 4 at the Buffalo Canoe Club. The 

 trip was made by Crystal Beach steamer. The 

 day's programme included baseball, tennis, row- 

 ing, canoeing and other sports. Luncheon and 

 dinner were served at the clubhouse. The com- 

 mittee in charge of the outing was as follows : 



PHILADELPHIA 



W. J. Mingus of Mingus & Rutter, says busi- 

 ness is too good. This statement is not so 

 cryptic as it would seem when he explains that 

 it is easy enough to sell goods these days, 

 but quite another thing to get them, as stocks 

 of all standard woods are scarce, and high in 

 price. He anticipates good trading for the fall 

 and winter season. 



Mrs. Sarah I. Tennant. mother and partner 

 of J. C. Tennant of the Summit Lumber Com- 

 pany, after an illness of about nine days, died 

 at her summer home at Harvey's Lake, Pa., on 

 Aug. 18. It is understood that the death of 

 Mrs. Tennant will not affect the finances of the 

 Summit Lumber Company. Mr. Tennant, who 

 has recently returned from a business trip 

 through the coal region, reports conditions there 

 much improved since the settlement of the 

 strike, and outlook for winter trading promising. 



It is the pronouncement of W. J. Glantz, 

 Philadelphia representative of the Kendall Lum- 

 ber Company, who recenlly made a tour of east- 

 ern Pennsylvania and Maryland, that trading all 

 along the line is good, and that the prevail- 

 ing optimistic feeling can but augur an opulent 

 fall and winter business. 



W. A. Jackson of the Jackson-Wyatt Lumber 

 Company, reports easy selling, but difficult ship- 



