HARDWOOD RECORD 



29 



H. W. St. John, who has been bookkeeper for 

 the ('<ilnmbiis f'otfin Company for the past eisihteen 

 months, has been elected secretary and treasurer 

 of the company In place of C. M. Anderson, who 

 resigned a short time ago. A meeting of the 

 .stockholders of the company will be held .Tune 



20, hut no changes in the board of directors or 

 officers will be made. 



J. A. Petty has recently pui'chased the lum- 

 ber yards and sawmill of S. B. Chesbro at Syca- 

 more, O. Mr. Petty's sawmill was wrecked a 

 short time ago by a boiler explosion. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(B7 HABDWOOD SECOBD Special CorraspondentsO 



Chicago. 



The Soutli Side Interior Finish Company has 

 been Incorporated at Chicago, with a capital of 

 .110,000, to manufacture mill work and interior 

 finish. Edw. .T. Ruder, August Nowgren and 

 August Newquist are the principals. 



Ira B. Bennett of the IIume-Bennett Lumber 

 Company, large operators in Pacific Coast wood-; 

 at Sanger, Cal., was a visitor to this city last 

 week. 



The Carbolineum Wood Preserving Company 

 has been incorporated to manufacture wood and 

 stone preservatives and paints. The members 

 are Morse. Ives; C. C. Bodenstab and Adam 

 Lauth. 



D. S. Hutchinson of the Nashville Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, Nashville. Tenn.. spent a 

 week visiting the Chicago market recently. 



The Blllmeyer Lumber Company, a large oper- 

 ator at Cumberland, JId., is sending out to its 

 friends in the trade a neat and useful advertise- 

 ment — a brass-edged foot-rule, on the face of 

 wiilch reads "Don't talk — w-e haven't the time 

 unless to buy or sell lumber" ; the back tells the 

 company's name and location, the line it car- 

 ries, etc. 



W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, O., was a Chicago visitor on 

 June 20, en route to review a large timber 

 property in Mexico, in which he is interested. 



E. F. Sawyer, a prominent veneer manufac- 

 turer of Cadillac, Mich., was in the city on busi- 

 ness June 21. 



Frank J. Heidler, president of the Fink-Heidler 

 Lumber Company, was quietly married the after- 

 noon of June 19 to Miss Frances Anderson of 

 074 West Twenty-first street. On their return 

 from a honeymoon among the Wisconsin lakes, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Heidler will reside in a new house 

 which Mr. Heidler has built at 201 South Hum- 

 jjbrey avenue, Oak Park. 



The Frederick W. Black Lumber Company, 

 which purchased property in West Nashville re- 

 cently, will have the only exclusive veneering 

 plant in that city. A more detailed account of 

 the new enterprise will be found in another sec- 

 tion of this issue. . 



Charles L. Harrison of the Himmelberger-Har- 

 rison Lumber Company, Morehouse, Mo., was in 

 Chicago a week ago. This concern is the largest 

 handler of red gum in this country. Jlr. Harri- 

 son still complains of bad logging conditions in 

 the South, and says that their result is to make 

 the cost of logging ninety per cent more than it 

 should he. 



John II. Davis of the John R. Davis Lumber 

 Company, rhillips. Wis., was a visitor to this 

 market recently. 



Advices from the Cordesman Rechtin Company 

 of Cincinuntl, builders of woodworking machiucr.y, 

 state that they will enlarge their factory so as 

 to increase their output fully fifty per cent. 



W. A. Gilchrist of Memphis made a business 

 trip to this city last week. 



A. P. Waterfleld wf the Cherry River Boom & 

 Lumber Company, Scranton, Pa., lately called 

 upon a number of his friends in the Chicago 

 trade. 



Dr. Herman von Schrenck of the St. Louis Bo- 

 tanical Gardens, an authority on forestry mat- 

 ters, spent the latter part of the week in this 

 city. 



On Wednesday, June 19, there was celebrated 

 the wedding of Ralph Edmund Gilchrist to Miss 



Hester Hill, at the home of the bride's mother 

 in Evanston. The ceremony was performed by 

 Dr. Frank Ounsaulus, and was attended only by 

 the immediate relatives and friends of the couple. 

 Miss Hill is one of the cliarming belles of the 

 Chicago suburb and Mr. Gilchrist is the third son 

 of F. W. CJilchrist of .\lpena. Mich., and Is a 

 well-known young lumberman of that city. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Gilchrist left on Wednesday evening for 

 an e.^tended bridal trip in the East and upon 

 their return will reside at Alpena. 



Boston. 



H. "W. Bowler has recently been appointed 

 inspector for the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. This makes two inspectors now 

 located in Boston. Mr. Bowler's headquarters 

 will be at S8 Broad street. 



One of the leading hardwood merchants in 

 the East, who because of modesty does not wish 

 his name mentioned, says: "Tiie difliculty 

 today is to get lumber, not orders. The high 

 prices have made buyers conservative, and 

 now when they are in the market they want 

 stock as quickly as it can be had. It is not as 

 easy to locate a desirable stock for quick ship- 

 ment as it was." Another prominent lumber- 

 man reports all gi-ades of beech as moving 

 freely and says the present activity is the 

 result of buyers seeking substitutes for higher 

 priced woods, 



Li. L. King, sales manager for the W. H. 

 White Company, Boyne City. Mich., has been 

 visiting eastern markets. This firm makes a 

 specialty of white rock maple flooring. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company. Buffalo. N. T., was a recent visitor 

 in the Boston market. 



E. L. Gedney, representing Richard P. Baer 

 & Co.. Baltimore, Md., was in Boston last 

 ■week. This firm is a large handler of hard- 

 woods. 



Pi'ominent among the visitors in Boston of 

 late was J. B. Henderson of the Henderson 

 Lumber Company, of Sanford, Ala. 



Morris A. Hall of the Hall Lumber Company 

 and secretary and treasurer of the Metro- 

 politan T,umber Company of Boston, has been 

 m.aking a trip through British Columbia in the 

 interests of business. 



Charles C. Batchelder, treasurer of the Bos- 

 ton Lumber Company, is planning a trip 

 abroad this summer. Mr. Batchelder intends 

 sailing June 27. He will spend about two 

 months in Switzerland and Germany. 



Resolutions have been adopted by the 

 Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association 

 stating that since the association is in favor 

 of uniformity in grading rules for all sections 

 of the country, in so far as is practicable, 

 it should appro\'e any action on the part of 

 other associations of liunber dealers which h;is 

 for its object the establisliment of uniform 

 lules for the grading of lumber, provided, 

 however, that such action does not in any 

 way impair the usefulness, or disturb the 

 etHciency of the existing Survey law, as at 

 present administered in Massachusetts and 

 interpreted by the sui-veyor general of Boston 

 and his deputies. 



("'. W. Manning, the prominent wholesaler 

 of 66 Broad street. New York City, has 

 opened an office in this city at 415 Old South 

 building. This branch will be in charge of 



J. H. Chesley, and will handle largely white 

 pine, mostly eastern stock. Mr. Manning has 

 also maintained a branch office at Hagerstown, 

 Md., for the past year, under direction of 

 Coleman Rogers, handling West Virginia and 

 Maryland stock for that section. 



Ne'w York. 



The latest acquisition to the wholesale hard- 

 wood trade in the metropolitan district is Bemis 

 & Vosburgh of Pittsburg. Pa., with large milling 

 interests in West Virginia, who has just opened 

 a local sales office at 12 Broadway, Manhattan, 

 in charge of W. W. Powell, Jr., who was pre- 

 viously associated with the Nicola interests of 

 Pittsburg. This company is a large manufac- 

 turer of West Virginia hardwoods, spruce and 

 hemlock, with mills at Bemis, W. Va., where 

 it operates under the style of J. M. Bemis & 

 Son. Although the concern has enjoyed con- 

 siderable business in this vicinity previously, 

 the opening of the local office is in the interest 

 of extending tlie same. 



George W. Henderson, for the past year or 

 so secretary and treasurer of the Holcomb & 

 Caskey Lumber Company, 12 Broadway, severs 

 his connection July 1 to assume management 

 of the extensive lumber interests of T. B. 

 Basselin in the Adirondack region of New York 

 state, with headquarters at Croghan. F. N. 

 Loomis, brother-in-law of K. E. Ilolcomb of the 

 company, will be the new secretary and treas- 

 urer, and will take up his active duties on his 

 return from abroad September 1. 



The Adirondack Fire Insurance Company, S-J 

 William street, Manhattan, which is owned and 

 operated by lumbermen in the Interest of re- 

 duced insurance rates, has Just closed its first 

 year, and the reports of its condition show re- 

 markable success. If there were any doubts in 

 the minds of Its managers as to the jjnssibility 

 of a second $300,000 lumber insurance company 

 establishing a sufficiently large volume of busi- 

 ness to justify the capital and surplus invest- 

 ment, they were set at rest by the varioun 

 successful results of the first year's business. 

 The very general patronage of the new company 

 by the lumber trade resulted In an aggregate 

 business which equalled and slightly exceeded 

 the first year's business of the Lim^ber Insurance 

 Company of New^ York, which was placed in 

 the field under the same administration and 

 management two years before. And this result 

 was accomplished on a basis of smaller lines 

 on individual risks than were taken by the Lum- 

 ber Insurance Company in its fii'st year. To 

 those lumbermen who have already experienced 

 the benefits of insuring in the lumber specializ- 

 ing companies no argument is needed to prove 

 the desirability of an Adirondack policy. 



The lumber firm of George W. Jump & Co., 

 Oakland and Newell streets, Brooklyn, is In the 

 hands of a receiver. Charles D. Chase of 110 

 Nassau street, Manhattan, being appointed. The 

 assets, plus secured liabilities, are approximately 

 .$00,000, with total liabilities of about $110,000. 

 A composition settlement will probably be of 

 fered to the creditors. 



Considerable stir was created in local hard- 

 wood circles on June 9 when a petition in hank 

 iut)tcy was announced against the Ross Lumber 

 Company, retailers at .117 West ll,"ith street, 

 Manhattan, witli exteuslve wholesale hardwood 

 interests at Jamestown, N. V. Fred J. Moser 

 lias been appointed receiver in bankruptcy with 

 bond at ,$15,000, and will continue the business 

 for a brief period, until such time as definite 

 arrangements can be made. The assets of the 

 company at first figures are placed at approxl. 

 mately $100,000, with liabilities about $85,000, 

 and in view of certain circumstances which ne- 

 cessitated the action against the company. It is 

 believed that it will liquidate its indebtedness in 

 full in due course. At a meeting of the creditors 

 held June l."i a committee was appointed to look 

 into the affairs of the company and report at 



