HARDWOOD RECORD 



25 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(.By HABSWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



D. S. Hutchinson, sales manager of the Nash- 

 ville Ilai'dwood Flooring Company, has just 

 returned to Nashville from an extended sales 

 trip as far as the chief cities of the Pacific 

 coast, where he had an exceptionally good busi- 

 ness for the Acorn Brand of flooring. 



R It. Babcock of Pittsburg, chairman of the 

 railroad and transportation committee of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers" Association, 

 suggests that there will likely be some advances 

 made by railroads on lumber rates in the near 

 future, and that it is advisable for every lum- 

 berman to protect his interests as far as possible. 

 He therefore thinks it would be wise in making 

 sales or naming prices to endorse with a rubber 

 stamp all such documents with the notation, 

 "All quotations made and orders accepted are 

 based on present freight rates." This notation, 

 he contends, will properly safeguard lumbermen's 

 interests and provide for proper distribution of 

 an increased cost of transportation. Tlie sug- 

 gestion of Mr, Babcock seems an eminently 

 wise one. 



W. M. Piatt, formerly associated with W. E. 

 Barrett & Co., has gone into the wholesale and 

 commission lumber business on his own account. 

 His office is Room 02S, Stock Exchange, Chicago. 

 Mr. I'iatt is a gentleman whose business methods 

 have always been clean-cut : he has had con- 

 siderable experience in the lumber business and 

 his man.y friends wish him the greatest possible 

 success in Ills new undertaking. 



The H-\RDW00D Record had a call a few days 

 ago from E. A. Armstrong, the well-known hard- 

 wood salesman of Kokomo, Ind. 



A. F. Anderson, the hardwood operator of 

 Cadillac, Mich., dropped into the Hardwood 

 Record office last week on his way home from an 

 extended Pacific coast trip. Mr. .\nderson has 

 been engaged for some time in rounding out a 

 large timber purchase in Oregon, and has now 

 secured about 10,000 acres. He has three or 

 four years' more cut of hardwoods in the 

 Cadillac district, after which he expects to 

 remove to the coast and enter lumber operations 

 there. On his recent trip Mr. Anderson was 

 accompanied by his family. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber 

 Company of Memphis was registered at the 

 Annex May 8. 



Among the Chicago visitors within the last 

 few days were C. A. Gilbert and Arthur Boutell 

 of tlie Saginaw Manufacturing Company' of 

 Saginaw, Mich., the foremost makers of wood 

 split pulleys. 



A^'. A. McLean of the Wood Mosaic Flooring 

 & Lumber Company, New Albany, Ind., was in 

 town Wednesday. 



Pliss & Van -\uken of Saginaw, the well-known 

 producers of the Wolverine Brand of maple floor- 

 ing, have sent monthly calendars out as an 

 .advertising medium for several years. This 

 season they portray the Teddy bears in various 

 exploits, and make unique and attractive adver- 

 tising mediums. 



A few days ago the ILvrdwood Record had 

 the pleasure of a call from John W. Woyka of 

 John W. Woyka & Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, who 

 is making an extended trip throughout the 

 I'nited States and Canada, not only making 

 direct purchases of lumber for his Scottish trade, 

 which includes many varieties of hard and soft 

 woods, but has also purchased high-class veneers 

 extensively. Mr. Woyka also is marketing in 

 this country maliogany logs and lumber and 

 incidentally is introducing to the jobbing trade a 

 three-ply veneer made of alder wood which his 

 house produces in Russia. The wood has the 

 .general appearance of basswood, but is almost as 

 dense and strong as birch. This three-ply stock 

 is cemented together with waterproof material 

 and is an excellent piece of laminated work. It 

 is particularly well suited to drawer backs and 

 bottoms, mirror backs, etc. The surprising fea- 

 ture about the material is that it can he laid 

 <iown in this country, in spite of an import 



duty of 25 per cent, at slightly above .$20 a 

 thousand feet, in 3-16 thicknesses. ' This is the 

 fifth trip to this country that has been made 

 by a member of Mr. Woyka's concern. Mr. 

 Woyka reached New York on April 15, and since 

 that time has visited Baltimore, Cincinnati, 

 Columbus, Louisville, Indianapolis and Chicago. 

 He will continue his tour to Ottawa, Montreal 

 and Quebec, and will sail for home within the 

 month from New York. 



A pleasant caller from "the other side" on 

 April 27 was Ralph Shirley, a director of the 

 Timber Trades Journal of London. 



Two new inspectors have been appointed for 

 the Chicago market by the officials of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, making 

 three resident inspectors for this city. They are 

 F. R. Burk of Lexington, Ky., who formerly cov- 

 ered eastern Tennessee inspection for the associa- 

 tion, and George Kelley, a well-known inspector 

 and lumberman of Chicago. 



The Henry Sanders Company of this city, a 

 large manufacturer of built-up columns, recently 

 increased its capital stock from ,$25,000 to $75,- 

 000. This concern enjoys a wide trade in its 

 line which is the direct result of its expert 

 manner of manufacture. 



Victor Thrane of the well-known house of 

 J. D. Lacey & Co., timber brokers at Chicago, New 

 Orleans and Portland, Ore., has recently been east 

 on business connected with the purchase of large 

 Oregon properties by W. W. Mitchell, Cadillac, 

 Mich. Mr. Thrane discussed in an interesting 

 manner the coming timber shortage of the coun- 

 try and said that at the present rate of cutting 

 based upon the standing timber now left in the 

 country only about a quarter of a century w'ould 

 elapse before something would have to be found 

 to take the place of wood, unless the government 

 enforces a vigorous reforestation policy. 



Frederic Wilbert, president of the Southern 

 Cypress Manufacturers' Association, has called 

 a meeting for all members for May 15 and 16. 

 at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, the first 

 session to be called at 10 :30 a. m. A large 

 number of important matters will be under con- 

 sideration, and all members are strongly urged 

 to attend the meeting, although in case of neces- 

 sary absence proxies may represent them, but 

 no member may vote more than two proxies. 

 Changes in grading rules will come up. and it 

 is essential that there be a full attendance. 



A meeting of the executive board of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States will be held at the Grand Hotel, Cincin- 

 nati, on Saturday, May 11. It is expected that 

 the meeting will be attended by every member of 

 the board. 



The Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt 

 of an invitation to be present at the forthcoming 

 Atlantic City meeting of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, May 23 and 24, at the 

 hands of W. H. Russe, president. 



The Recced Is in receipt of a very handsomely 

 printed and illustrated booklet from T. G. Wiu- 

 nett, general freight and passenger agent of the 

 Detroit & Mackinac railway, whose headquarters 

 are at Bay Cit.v, Mich. The book describes and 

 pictures the scenery along the line of the Turtle 

 Route, and gives a large amount of information 

 that would appeal to everyone interested in gun 

 or rod. Copies of this handsome book may be 

 obtained on application to Mr. Winnett. 



.\pparently owing to the fact that some of the 

 lumber mutual insurance companies have removed 

 their headquarters from GQ Broadway there has 

 been a rumor that the location of the Lumber 

 Underwriters' offices has been changed. Such is 

 not the case ; they have not moved from GO 

 Broadway, where they have been located for 

 more than eight years, but on the contrary have 

 recently renewed their lease and enlarged their 



oflSces because of increased business. The man- 

 agement of this company remains with E. F, 

 Perry, attorney in fact : Lewis Dill, Robt, C, 

 Lippincott and Robt. W. Iligbie continuing as 

 executive committee. 



Milton Miller of Miller Brothers is spending 

 some time at their mills in Macon, Miss, 



John AI. Dawson has joined the force of 

 Schultz Bros. & Cowen. He left the city this 

 week for a trip through the South on the com- 

 pany's business. 



Park, Richmond & Co. have moved their offices 

 from 410 Monadnock building to 926 in the same 

 building. 



A, W. Wylie, wholesale dealer whose offices 

 are iu the Fisher building, reports that business 

 is very good with him. Mr. Wylie makes a 

 specialty of oak, gum and yellow pine. He 

 says that dry stock is hard to get just now. 



F. S. Hendrickson of the Hendrickson Lumber 

 Company, whose offices are in the Masonic 

 Temple, states that business is in splendid 

 shape, though the rains in the South make log- 

 ging difficult. 



James C. Cowen leaves the early part of next 

 week for a trip through Virginia, where the 

 Schultz Bros. & Cowen mills are located. He 

 will take in the Atlantic City convention on hie 

 way home. 



John Schoen of the Columbia Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company states that business has eased off 

 some this month. Speaking of the railroad 

 situation, Mr. Schoen said that switching charges 

 have been advanced. A short time ago they 

 paid twent.v cents per ton and are now com- 

 pelled to pay sixty cents for the same work. 

 Situated as their yards are on the north side 

 of the city and on a railroad it sometimes takes 

 longer to switch a ear after it has reached 

 Chicago than it does to get It from the mills. 



R. A. Hooton, one of the latest wholesalers 

 to enter this market, states that he now has 

 his business in shape to handle hardwoods. 

 All the buying will be at the home office. The 

 yellow pine end of the business will be handled 

 by the Interior Lumber Company of St. Louis, 

 Mo. The office of this allied company is located 

 at 1208 Wright building. The officers of the 

 company are : R. A. Hooton, Chicago, president : 

 J. F. Oldham, St. Louis, vice president and 

 general manager, and L. D. Walker, St. Louis, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



Fred Jeffries of the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 pany in tlie Pt^llman building said that business 

 was good. The car situation is considerably 

 better than it has been, he says; especially this 

 is true of the shipments from the Coast. This 

 company has just secured a tract of 51,000 

 acres of high quality timber in Louisiana and 

 will erect a mill at Forest. At present the lines 

 of the tract are being surveyed and the details 

 of the mill have not as yet been decided. The 

 timber on the property consists of oak, ash and 

 gum. W. B. Peckman will be manager of the 

 plant. They will commence building the railroad 

 very soon. 



A. H. Ruth. Chicago manager of the G. W. 

 Tones Lumber Company of Appleton. Wis., has 

 just returned from a trip through the North. 

 He visited the company's mills and stated that 

 they were very busy at all the plants. Those 

 in the South have difficulty in getting logs, 

 though they have not been obliged to shut down 

 for want of material. 



J. N. Woodbury, manager of E. B. Lombard in 

 the Railway Exchange building, states that 

 business is keeping up in excellent shape. He 

 has several large contracts on hand. 



Boston. 



Several of the hardwood lumbermen of Bos- 

 ton are planning to attend the annual conven- 

 tion of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, which will be held at Atlantic City, 

 N. J., May 1'3 and 24. John M. 'ft'oods will 

 be accompanied on this trip by Mrs. "Woods. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion held a meeting in Manchester late in 



