HARDWOOD RECORD 



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<Joiiipany of Helena, Ark., spent Saturday of 

 last week in this city and favored Haiujwood 

 ItECORD with a call. 



The entertainment committee of the Chi- 

 cago Lumbermen's Club has provided for an 

 elaborate entertainment on the evening of 

 Oct. 12, to be staged in the club rooms. 

 Everything possible has been done to make 

 the affair enjoyable and to bring out a large 

 attendance. 



Hardwood Recced is ■ just in receipt of the 

 September issue of Mcllvain's Lumber News 

 published by J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., of 

 Philadelphia. 



L. H. Wheeler of the Wheeler-Timlin Lum- 

 ijer Company of Chicago and Wausau, Wis., 

 leturned early last week from a two weeks' 

 business trip in the North. 



T. G. Jones, manager of the Minneapolis 

 branch of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company, 

 .^ppleton, Wis., was in Chicago during the 

 liasi week in conference with A. H. Ruth of 

 the local office. 



G. von Platen of Grand Rapids, Mich., spent 

 Oct. 3 in this city on business. 



O. P. Kurd, Jr., of Cairo. III., was in town 

 (in Oct. 5 in conference with his local selling 

 ' representative, J. S. Hurd. 



W. B. Burke, sales manager of the Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss., 

 spent last week in Chicago. 



Park Richmond of Park Richmond & Co.. 

 this city, has returned from a trip to southern 

 mill points, where he had great difficulty in 

 securing any reasonable amount of dry hard- 

 wood lumber. 



R. H. Edwards of the Edwards-Fair Lumber 

 Company, Lansing, Ark., spent a few days last 

 week in the local trade. 



H. F. Below of Vollmar & Below Company. 

 Marshfield, Wis., passed through Chicago on 

 Tuesday on his way to Detroit. 



F. M. Baker of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company, this city, is on an extended buying 

 trip to southern points. H. C. Miller of the 

 same company is scouring northern mill 

 toints for hardwood stocks. 



J. H. Mingea of the Faust Brothers Lumber 

 Company, is another member of the local trade 

 who has just completed a trip to southern 

 mills, where he took up considerable quanti- 

 ties of hardwoods for his concern. 



MiW YORK 



The plant of the C. II. Partridge Lumbur Com- 

 liuuy, Jersey City, X. J., has been sold to the 

 Interstate Lumber Company for .$126,150. The 

 deal Includes twenty-five lots and other property 

 with stock, fixtures, lumber on hand and stock 

 tarried by W. H. & M. H. I'artridge and the 

 (ieorge J. Kummeric Lumber Company, Brooklyn, 

 allied concerns. 



C. W. Manning, wholesale hardwoods, 66 Broad 

 street, returned during the fortnight from a 

 European business trip. 



E. W. Hill, for many years identified with the 

 hardwood inspection work of the Metropolitan 

 district, has opened an office for specializing in 

 that class of work at 2101 Church avenue, 

 Brooklyn. 



George Walker, formerly of the wholesale hard- 

 wood house of Gouvcrneur E. Smith & Co., has 

 opened an office in the Marbridgc building, Man- 

 hattan, and will conduct a wholesale business on 

 his own account. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 heen filed against the William A. Balianee Com- 

 pany, lumber dealer, 122 Wallabout street, by 

 the Tide Water Lumber Company, the White. 

 Potter & Paige Manufacturing Company and J. 

 Gibson Mcllvain & Co., who allege they are 

 iTcditors with respective debts of $1,740, $1,697 

 and J21S on notes. 



On Sept. 21, at Craigston. Windham. Mass.. 



Miss Ellen Bradshaw of Brookline, Mass., was 

 united in marriage to Julian Rice, head of the 

 New York office of the Rice & Lockwood Lum- 

 ber Company, Springfield, Mass. Miss Bradshaw 

 is the daughter of Mrs. Charles Bradshaw. After 

 an extended honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Rice will 

 take up their residence at 454 Riverside drive. 

 New York. 



Harold Weston, prominent lumberman of Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., arrived here last week from a 

 lengthy so.iourn in &irope. He was accompanied 

 by Mrs. Weston. 



Wm. Schuette & Co., prominent wholesale 

 house, 1 Madison avenue, removed on Oct. 1 to 

 a handsome suite of offices at 220 Fifth avenue, 

 corner of Twenty-sixth street. 



W. J. Eckeman of the M. B. Fariin Lumber 

 Company. Cincinnati, O.. spent several days in 

 town during the fortnight enroute to Europe lor a 

 business and pleasure trip. He sailed from here 

 on Sept. 26 via the Hamburg-American line and 

 will be gone several weeks, during which he will 

 visit the leading lumber markets in England 

 and the Continent. 



W. H. Partridge, formerly of W. II. & M. H. 

 Partridge, Newark, N. J., who recently became 

 involved in the financial difficulties of the Charles 

 R. Partridge Lumber Company, has leased the 

 premises formerly occupied by the Cabot Manu- 

 facturing Company, 1416-1428 Adams street, Ho- 

 boken, N. J., including considerable yard space 

 and complete mill plant. Mr. Partridge will con 

 duct a general liardwood business at that point. 



Hamilton Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., wholesale 

 hardwoods, Nashville. Tenn., spent several days 

 in town during the fortnight. 



D. D. Nellis of John M. Woods & Co., Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., spent several days in town during 

 the fortnight in the interest of business. 



Sam E. Barr, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Madison 

 avenue, is on a business trip to Middle West 

 hardwood points picking up stock for his local 

 trade. 



The executive committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers" Association held an 

 important meeting at headquarters, 66 Broadway. 

 Manhattan, on Oct. 2. Routine matters were 

 discussed and plans mapped out lor fall work. 

 There was a lull attendance of the committee. 



BOSTON 



There has been a moderate volume of new- 

 business reported in the market for hardwood 

 lumber during the past two weeks. Prices 

 throughout the market are very firmly held with 

 the tendency toward a higher level, especially 

 for lumber sold for anything like prompt deliv- 

 ery. The car shortage is making itself felt and 

 .some manufacturers write that it is impossible to 

 get cars to make shipments on time. Large 

 manufacturing plants which are consumers of 

 hardwood lumber are carrying fair sized stocks 

 in some instances, but in the majority of cases 

 they are good weekly bu.vers. The demand for 

 veneers is moderately active and manufacturers 

 anticipate a good fall business. One of the 

 strongest features of the hardwood market is 

 plain oak in thick stock. Offerings of this class 

 of lumber have been very small with demand 

 good. Quartered oak has also been attracting 

 more attention, and buyers have been willing to 

 place more liiwral orders. The demand in this 

 market for brown ash is fairly good, but chest- 

 nut and elm move rather slowly. 



Arthur M. Moore was united in marriage 

 Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, to Miss Sarah Ray- 

 mond Pendergrace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Edward II. Pendergrace, of Wakefield, Mass. Mr. 

 Moore is well known in the Boston lumber trade 

 through his long connection with William E. 

 Litchfield. Mr. Moore has been in Mr. Litch- 

 field's employ lor the past fourteen years and 

 for the past four years has been assistant secrc- 

 tarv and treasurer of the Massachusetts Whole- 



sale Lumber Dealers' Association. Mr. and .Mrs 

 Moore will reside in Melrose Highlands. 



The plant of the Central Lumber & Supply 

 Company, New Bedford, Mass., which was recent- 

 ly damaged b.v fire, will be rebuilt. 



The United States Clothespin Company, Mont- 

 pelier, Vt., has purchased the equipment and 

 .good-will of C. C. Putnam & Son of Putnamville, 

 who also are manufacturers of clothespins. 



The building in Bradford, Vt., occupied by 

 Church & Hooker, veneer manufacturers, was re- 

 cently badly damaged by fire, causing a loss esti- 

 mated at about $20,000. 



The Springfield Manufacturing Company, 

 manufacturer of portable houses, Springfield. 

 Mass.. will remove Its business to Keene, N. H, 

 The company was formerly known as the Spring- 

 field Portable House Construction Company. 



The Decatur & Caddick Lumber Company is 

 the name of a new concern to start in business 

 in the Charlestown district, Boston. Both 

 Messrs. Decatur and Caddick were lormerl.v with 

 the Clark & Smith Company, hardwood lumber 

 dealer, which concern has been liquidating its 

 business. 



John M. Woods of John M. Woods & Co., Cam 

 liridge, hardwood lumber dealers, has been at- 

 tending the lourth National Conservation Con- 

 gress in Indianapolis as a delegate from the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 and the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



D. A. Webster and O. S. Webster will open a 

 wholesale lumber office in Springfield, Mass.. as 

 .-i branch of the firm of George Webster & Sons, 

 lumber dealers of Swanton, Vt. 



BUFFALO 



About lour hundred foreign visitors, delegates 

 to the International Chambers of Commerce meet- 

 ing at Boston, were eutertained in this city on 

 October 1, being taken to the Country Club and 

 various local Industrial plants, and later given 

 a banquet at the Lafayette hotel. The visitors 

 were leading business men of over forty different 

 countries. The hardwood men took a prominent 

 part in the entertainment, which proved highly 

 satisfactory. 



Several thousand leet ol birch and maple lum- 

 ber were destroyed by a fire at the plant of the 

 Buffalo Maple Flooring Company on October 1. 

 The loss is estimated at .$3,000. A stock of 

 300.000 feet ol flooring escaped the flames. 



W. Clyde Sykes, son ol President W. L. Sykes 

 ol the Emporium Lumber Company, was mar- 

 ried at Syracuse on October 1 to Miss Marion I 

 Chappell o'f that city. Jlembers of both families 

 and a few friends were present. Mr. Sykes is 

 connected with the company's operations in the 

 Adirondacks and after December 1 will make his 

 home at Conifer, a new town which the company 

 has been building in that section. He has had 

 charge of the company's operations there for 

 some months, spending but little time In Buffalo. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 about completed and is now occupying its oand- 

 some new office on Baitz avenue. The office room 

 is very commodious and upstairs will be rooms 

 for a caretaker and a dining-room tor employes. 



Hugh McLean has gone to the South, where he 

 will inspect the company's mill. R. D. McLean 

 has Just returned from an extended visit to the 

 South. 



H. A. Stewart has returned from a business 

 trip to Charleston. W. Va.. where he looked after 

 the shipping of a good stock of lumber. The 

 yard reports a better demand for hardwoods, in- 

 cluding chestnut. 



Anthony Miller finds the trade in hardwoods 

 picking up. The chief drawback at present is the 

 scarcity of cars. Tliere is also a lack of labor ia 

 the local market. 



F. M. Sullivan has been keeping In mind the 

 opening of the hunting season here .and in Can- 

 ada, and has been out once or twice so far in 

 the hope ol finding a plentiful supply ol pheas 

 ants, in which he was rewarded. 



