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HARDWOOD EECORD 



ber Company is making an extended southern 

 trip; he will visit Cairo, Memphis and other 

 mill points at which his concern has interests. 

 Fred W. Blaclt of the Fred W. Blaclt Lum- 

 ber Company has gone to Memphis on busi- 

 ness for his house; from there he will visit 

 other Tennessee and Mississippi points. 



Boston. 



The Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company 

 of Gardiner, Mass.. is contemplating the erec- 

 tion of an addition to its plant at Gardiner. 

 The addition will be 440x75 feet and will be 

 four stories and basement. Another build- 

 ing will be erected for the office. 



Collier & Keyworth, manufacturers of go- 

 carts, Gardiner, Mass., will build another 

 story on their plant. 



C. F. Schurster, who for over twenty years 

 has been connected with the Connecticut Val- 

 ley Lumber Company, has resigned and will 

 give his entire time to the affairs of the Green 

 Mountain Lumber Company, 



The Hilton Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated in New Haven, Conn., with a cap- 

 ital of $20,000. The incorporators are C. H. 

 Hilton, J. W. Palmatier, William Aufort, E. 

 C. Sloan. Mr. Hilton has recently returned 

 from Bellevue, Fla., where the mills of the 

 company will be located. He secured an 

 option on a large tract of land there con- 

 taining oak, baywood and other hardwoods. 



The cofiln manufacturing plant of -Miller 

 & Burnham, Hartford, Conn., was recently 

 destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about 

 $10,000. 



Lawrence & Wiggin are making ciuite a 

 specialty of mahogany veneers. Fred W. 

 Kirch, formerly of New York, who has been 

 in the veneer business for several years, has 

 been engaged as salesman in this department. 

 He is showing some fine samples of mahogany 

 veneers. 



William E. Litchfield, who has been visit- 

 ing his mill in Indiana, has returned. 



Among the southern visitors to this market 

 recently have been: M. F. Amorous of At- 

 lanta, Ga.. and J. J. McDonald, Savannah, Ga. 



A leading dealer in hardwoods states that a 

 few years ago it was customary for him when 

 opening his morning mail to first look for 

 orders, then checks and finally shipments. 

 Conditions have changed. Now he looks for 

 shipments, checks and orders. 



Mr. Bacon of the Davenport-Peters Com- 

 pany, says whitewood is still held at high 

 prices. Manufacturers are able to mdrket 

 their product as fast as they have it in ship- 

 ping condition. Dealers here are buying only 

 what they need and are not anticipating 

 wants. 



The New England lumbermen will hold their 

 seventh annual outing at Narragansett Bay, 

 June S. The train leaves South Station. Bos- 

 ton, at 10:45 a. m. for Providence, where con- 

 nections will be made with the steamer War- 

 wick. Dinner will be served at Fields Point, 

 after which the party will proceed to Pru- 

 dence Park. Howard C. Morse of Blacker & 

 Shepard, is one of the leaders in this outing. 

 It is hoped tliat the lumbermen will turn out 

 in large numbers. 



Fred S. Morse of the F, S. Morse Lumber 

 Company, Springfield, has recently returned 

 from a trip South. 



Elmer L. Gibbs, president of the- O. M. 

 Bearse & Son Company. Chelsea, Mass., has 

 returned from a western trip, with a very 

 satisfactory volume of orders. It is reported 

 that he took one order for 1,000,000 feet of 

 mahogany, 



K. W. Hobart of Hobart & Co.. Boston, re- 

 turned from a southern trip recently. 



J. M. W. Hall, president of the Machias 

 Lumber Company, returned last week from 

 a trip to Maine. 



New York. 



Labor troubles are infesting certain sec- 

 tions of the metropolitan lumber district, 

 which, while they have not as yet assumed 

 momentous proportions, are, nevertheless, 

 causing considerable speculation as to what 

 the future will bring forth. In every case 

 where trouble has arisen the places of the 

 strikers have been immediately filled by strike 

 breakers and nonunion help, and there has 

 been absolutely no interference with the con- 

 duct of business on the part of the dealers 

 affected. The New York Lumber Trade Asso- 

 ciation has the situation well in hand and 

 is preparing to cope witli trouble of any pro- 

 portions should occasion require, and tlie fact 

 of its absolute preparation in tills respect bids 

 fair to prevent general spreading of the 

 trouble. As a matter of fact, the trouble 

 is not due to any dissatisfaction on the part 

 of the men, but is caused by the activity of 

 walking delegates. 



As the time approaches for the lumbermen's 

 golf tournament, which will be held at the 

 Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Md., June 

 12 and 13, everything is reported to be pro- 

 gressing finely and a large number of entries 

 have already been received. The tournament 

 will be held under the auspices of tlie Lum- 

 bermen's Golf Association, of which Wm. D. 

 Gill of Baltimore is president, and Henry 

 Cape, 1 Madison avenue, New York, secre- 

 tary. Arrangements for the comfort and en- 

 tertainment of the contestants at Baltimore 

 are in charge of Mr. Gill. Any lumberman or 

 anyone engaged in any of the allied lines of 

 the lumber business is not only eligible but 

 cordially invited to enter tlie contest. 



The official report of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association's last an- 

 nual convention has just been issued in its 

 usual attractive style, containing handsome 

 illustrations of the officials for the current 

 year, a full list of committees, etc., together 

 with the annual proceedings. 



The Lumber Underwriters of 66 Broadway 

 recently enlarged and renovated their quar- 

 ters at that address and now have a very 

 handsome suite of offices. They have just 

 Issued a very handsome calendar, containing 

 a beautiful reproduction of a famous forest 

 fire scene. Accompanying the calendar is a 

 booldet giving some interesting and valuable 

 pointers as to their system of insurance, the 

 character of their policy, financial resources, 

 etc.. which they will be very glad to mail 

 to any one interested on application. 



The executive committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will 

 hold its first regular meeting of the year at 

 the headquarters, 66 Broadway, on May 22. 

 at which time reports will be received cover- 

 ing the work thus far this year and plans 

 will be discussed for future operations. 



Mrs. Lewis Dill, wife of I^W'is Dill, the 

 distinguished Baltimore lumberman, sailed 

 from this port on May 7 for a summer stay 

 in Europe, and will be joined by Mr. Dill 

 a little later. 



The regular annual meeting of the stock- 

 holders of the Cross. Austin & Ireland Lum- 

 ber Company, big Brooklyn house, was held 

 at the company's offices on May S, at which 

 time officers and directors were elected. The 

 oflicers are: President, Jas. Sherlock Davis; 

 vice president, J. S. Carvalho; secretary, 

 Bruce W. Belmore; treasurer, Charles L. 

 Adams, Jr., and assistant secretary and treas- 

 urer, Wm. Dubocq. The Board of Directors 

 of last year was re-elected. The retirement 

 of N, Irving Lyon because of ill health was 

 announced. Bruce W. Belmore, the new secre- 

 tary, has been associated with the company 

 for a number of years. The gigantic improve- 

 ments which have been under way at the 



company's premises during the past year or 

 more are Hearing completion, at which time 

 the premises will represent one of the biggest 

 and most up-to-date operations of its kind in 

 the country. 



The wholesale lumber business of John Mc- 

 Clave of 1 Madison avenue has been incor- 

 porated under the name of the McClave Lum- 

 ber Company, with a capital of $150,000. The 

 incorporators are S. W. McClave and John 

 McClave of New York. 



The local branch office of the Lumbermen's 

 Credit Association of Chicago, publishers of 

 the Red Book, has been removed from 18 

 Broadway to 116 Nassau street, where Man- 

 ager Charles D. Chase is enjoying larger quar- 

 ters for the conduct of their business. 



John R. Glover of W. R. Adams & Co., 

 Van Brunt and Bowne streets, Brooklyn, is 

 on a business trip to Buffalo and Tonawanda 

 markets. 



G. Wetherhorn, local representative of 

 Wetherhorn & Fischer, manufacturers of 

 cypress sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, etc., 

 of Charleston, S. C, has removed from 150 

 Nassau street to 146 Broadway, where he has 

 increased facilities. The plant of the com- 

 pany at Charleston has undergone some im- 

 provements and additions which will increase 

 the daily output forty per cent. 



Philadelphia. 



Chas. F. Felin & Co. report their mills and 

 factory working to full capacity, orders coming 

 in right along, 



Eli B. Hallowell & Co. have been busy for 

 the last few months, and have no fault to 

 find with conditions. Their hardwood depart- 

 ment is doing nicely. They have a man in 

 West Virginia looking up these woods. Their 

 business is extending so rapidly that a good 

 man for Pittsburg and one for New York 

 territory is to be considered. Eli B. Hallo- 

 well of this firm and wife, are sojourning in 

 Wernersvillo, Pa. 



Soble Bros, report trade in excellent con- 

 dition. Frank D. Folsom of this concern has 

 been called home on account of the serious ill- 

 ness of his son. John J. Soble is at the mills 

 in Honaker, Va., looking after their interests 

 there. H. P. Minard, superintendent of the 

 Okeeta Planing Mills Company, in which the 

 Soble Bros, are largely interested, spent a few 

 days at the home office in Philadelphia re- 

 cently. 



J. R. Williams, 909 Land Title Building, re- 

 cently returned from a Canadian trip. He is 

 very busy and reports his liardwood depart- 

 ment in good shape. He has just made con- 

 nection with the largest mill work concern in 

 the northwest. 



The Righter-Parry Lumber Company is 

 reaping good results from its hardwood de- 

 partment. Frederick C. Righter recently re- 

 turned from a selling trip through the Pitts- 

 burg territory with a good bunch of orders. 

 Charles K. Parry is making a tour of North 

 and South Carolina and Georgia, visiting the 

 mills and making some desirable connections. 



The Codling Lumber Company, wholesaler 

 of lumber at Twenty-second and Bellevue 

 streets. Tioga, is moving its offices into the 

 Land Title building. 



M. F. Amorous, president of tlie LTnion- 

 Pinopolis Lumber Company. Atlanta, Ga., re- 

 cently visited the local trade. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company reports business at the 

 present time the best in the history of the 

 company. In the past their banner year 

 showed a total of about $1,000,000 insurance; 

 for 1907, so far, the company has written up 

 insurance amounting to over $800,000; this 

 prosperity is imdoubtedly due to the conscien- 

 tious and careful policy of its manager. 



James Ruth of Sinking Spring, Pa., a well 



