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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Gilchrlst-Foi-dney Company, a new yel- 

 low pine enterprise recently formed at Memphis, 

 Tenn., announces that although its mills are 

 located at Laurel, Miss., its sales department 

 will be maintained at 1406 Tennessee Trust 

 Ijuililinu'. Memphis, and all imjuiries for stock 

 should be directed there. The new company is 

 allied with the Three States Lumber Company. 

 An account of its organization was given in 

 the Record of June 10. 



Frank V. Fish, secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, is spending the 

 week in Michigan among the lumber trade. 



S. G. McClellan, recently manager of the Earle 

 Lumber Company at Simmons. Mich., and pre- 

 viously of the Simmons Lumber Company for 

 many "years, has resigned his position to embark 

 in the lumber business on the Pacific coast. He 

 is succeeded by .John C. King, formerly of the 

 King & liartles I,umher Company of Cleve- 

 land, (I. 



Henry Thayer, the well luiown lumberman- 

 capitalist of Ridgeway. Pa., accompanied by his 

 wife, daughter and Mrs. Hyde, spent last Sunday 

 in Chicago. The party was en route to the 

 Pacific Northwest. Mr. Thayer has extensive 

 timber interests in Idaho and he and his asso- 

 ciates have recently acquired large West Vir- 

 ginia hardwood holdings. 



N. L. HeatoD. assistant to Secretary Doster 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, is 

 In the East taking a well earned rest. 



There has just been added to the forces of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association W. L. 

 Jones, an experienced and thoroughly competent 

 hardwood lumberman of St. Louis. Mr. Jones 

 will make his headquarters at the general offices 

 of the association and will have personal charge 

 of the inspection bureau and the handling of 

 the traveling inspectors. 



Boston. 



Joe Kennedy, well known as the representa- 

 tive of the Berlin Mills Company in this sec- 

 tion, has severed his connection with this con- 

 cern and has become associated with Wendell 

 F. Hrown & Co., wlio are the selling agents tor 

 the Conway Company of Conway. N. H. The 

 latter is a new company and is well equipped to 

 do an extensive business. 



M. F. Amorous of the Union Pinopolis Saw 

 Mills, Atlanta. Ga., has returned South from 

 his recent visit to Boston. Mr. Amorous came 

 North for the purpose of installing his family 

 for the summer at Cotuit, Mass. 



The Child Lumber Company, Putnam, Conn., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000. The promoters are Chester B. Child, 

 John W. Shipple, Hiram S. Whipple and John 

 F. Carpenter. 



The Dobsis Lumber Company, Fitchburg, 

 Mass., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000. The promoters are Seth L. 

 Low, Albert M. Low and Albert L. Walker. 



The Keene Manufacturing Company has been 

 incorporated to do business in Keene, N. H. 

 The company will manufacture chairs and 

 other articles of hardwood. The capital stock 

 is $12,000. The incorporators are Charles Gif- 

 fln, Merrill D. Parker, Fred A. Ellis, John A. 

 Knight and Charles O. Whitney. 



Daniel W. Pingree. who for the past 15 years 

 has been engaged in the lumber business in 

 South Lawrence, Mass., died at his home 

 June 19 at the age of 75 years. He conducted 

 this business under the name of the D. W. 

 Pingree Lumber Company. 



A recent shipment of 3,009 logs of mahogany 

 has been received by George D. Emery Com- 

 pany at their yard at Chelsea, Mass. The ves- 

 sel was loaded at Prinzapulco and Port Limon. 



The B. S. Pond Company of Foxboro, Mass.. 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $25,000. The company will deal in lumber. 

 The incorporators are B. S. Pond, Harry B. 

 Leavitt and Adeila O. Drake. 



It is reported that E. B. Dickinson, Essex, 

 Conn., has been in Huntington, Mass., looking 

 over the proposed site for a birch plant. He 

 was accompanied by the manager of his Con- 

 necticut plant, William P. Gladwin. 



A new lumber firm has been formed under 

 the name of Morrow & Paton, A. H. Paton, 

 Danvers, having purchased the interest in the 

 lumber business of Roscoe Morrill of Ames- 

 Imry. 



The drying room of I'. Derby & Co., 

 Gardner. Mass., was destroyed by Are recent- 

 ly, causing a loss of $5,000. Only hard work 

 on the part of the fire department prevented 

 the fire from spreading through the entire 

 plant. The fire was confined to a basement 

 in the rear of the plant, in which oak and 

 chestnut were being seasoned. 



The Wellington Piano Case Company has 

 filed its annual statement. This concern is 

 located in Leominster, Mass., and has a cap- 

 ital stock of $30,000. 



On July 1 the Jones Hardwood Company. 

 Inc., 147 Milk street, moved to new and very 

 commodious quarters at 33 Broad street, in 

 the Employers' Liability building. 



New York. 



Members of the National Lumber Export- 

 ers' Association met the Executive Committee 

 of the trans-Atlantic Freight Conference, 19 

 Broadway, last week for the purpose of con- 

 sidering matters affecting the exportation of 

 lumber. The lumbermen present were J. L. 

 Alcock and E. M. Terry, Baltimore, president 

 and secretary of the National Lumber Export- 

 ers' Association; Harvey M. Dickson, Norfolk, 

 chairman Transportation Committee; Richard 

 W. Price, Baltimore; B. Stringer Boggess, 

 Clarksburg. W. Va.; and W. E. Wheatley, 

 traffic manager for the W. M, Ritter Lumber 

 Company, Columbus, O. The lumbermen were 

 well received and the Executive Committee 

 of the trans-Atlantic conference agreed to rec- 

 ommend to their lines certain suggestions for 

 adoption, and it is expected some interesting 

 announcement will be made later by the Ex- 

 porters' Association. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company and the Haines Lumber Company, 

 Buffalo, N. Y., was in town a few days last 

 week calling on his customers and looking 

 over the hardwood situation. He states that 

 all hardwoods are in good demand and that 

 prices are strong except a slight easing off in 

 birch which appears to be coming in a little 

 faster than formerly. Mr. McLean is very 

 sanguine of a good trade in July and says his 

 companies have all the business they can com- 

 fortably handle. 



R. H. Downman. New Orleans. La., has been 

 in this neighborhood for a week or ten days, 

 spending a day or two at Atlantic City. He 

 was on his way to Loon Lake, N. T., where he 

 expects to spend part of the summer. He 

 said that he regards the cypress situation very 

 strong and believes there is every prospect of 

 a further advance in prices; also that avail- 

 able supplies at mill points are lower than 

 usual for this time of the year. 



The affairs of the Ross Lumber Company, 

 317 West One Hundred and Fifteenth street, 

 against which a bankruptcy petition was filed 

 last month, are progressing slowly. Shortly 

 after the filing of the petition a meeting of 

 creditors was called-and a committee was ap- 

 pointed to investigate and report to the cred- 

 itors, the committee consisting of J. D. Moir 

 of Christy. Moir & Co.; F. J. Johnson of Bliss 

 & Van Auken; T. A. Uptegraft of the Red 

 Cliff Lumber Company; H. S. Dewey of Dixon 

 & Dewey, and a representative of a bank in 

 Jamestown. The liabilities amount to about 

 $153,000 with available assets of $S5,000, and 

 it appears that the discrepancy is due to ac- 

 commodation paper of which the Ross Lumber 



Company is an endorser, and as the result of 

 which suits were instituted by banks forcing 

 the bankruptcy petition. A second meeting 

 of the creditors was held July 2 and the com- 

 mittee above named suggested that five cred- 

 itors be elected directors in the Ross Lumber 

 Company to continue the business, restock the 

 yard and operate the finances until the cred- 

 itors have received sixty-five per cent of their 

 claims. This will be placed before the cred- 

 itors •for consideration. 



The woodworking plant of the Weisberg 

 & Mark Comjiany. '.)2nd street and East river. 

 New York, was badly damaged by fire last 

 week, causing a loss of approximately $10,000 

 over insurance. The company states that 

 business will be resumed, and that the only 

 loss will be that resulting from the delay in 

 making deliveries. 



J. S. H. Clark of the wholesale firm of J. 

 S. H. Clark & Co., Newark, N. J., and pi-es- 

 ident of the retail concern of Clark & Co., 

 Newark, died June 27 after a tew days' ill- 

 ness in the Memorial Hospital at Long Branch. 

 Mr. Clark was born in Germantown, Pa., 

 fifty-seven years ago, and leaves a widow anCt 

 five children. He was one of the organizers 

 and the first president of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, the tirst 

 president of the New Jersey Lumbermen's 

 Pi'otective Association, and besides his inter- 

 ests in the lumber concerns above mentioned 

 was an organizer of the Wood Fireproofing 

 Company, 29 Broadway. He was a member 

 of the staff of Governor Werts and General 

 Joseph W. Plume. Several years ago Mr. 

 Clark moved his wholesale lumber in- 

 terests to Tonawanda, N. Y., and then to 

 Bay City, Mich., but for a long while he has 

 been operating at Newark. The funeral serv- 

 ices were held on June 29 at the home of his 

 mother in Elizabeth, N. J. 



Howard C. Jennings, fonnerly manager of 

 the Newark Lumber Company, Newark, N. J., 

 who was arrested in the west a short time 

 ago, was brought to trial last week on the 

 charge of defalcation to the extent of about 

 $35,000. He pleaded guilty and is to be sen- 

 tenced next week. 



Ernest M. Kenna, 66 Broadway, has just 

 returned from the Pacific Coast where he 

 chartered a steamer to carry a cargo of about 

 three million feet of redwood to Glasgow, 

 Scotland. Through his New York office Mr. 

 Kenna is also making some redwood ship- 

 ments to Germany to be used by piano man- 

 ufacturers there in making sounding boards. 

 Experiments in the use of redwood for this 

 purpose have proven satisfactory and Mr. 

 Kenna is developing a good trade in this 

 line. 



The Sea Coast Lumber Company, 1 Madison 

 Avenue, cypress wholesalers, report a strong 

 cypress situation. B. J. Marsh, secretary, 

 was in the South recently, and he figures on 

 an increase in demand this month, saying 

 that while heretofore trade has been slow, 

 local assortments are rather bad and inquiries 

 indicate that buyers will need stocks quickly. 

 Mr. Marsh does not hesitate to say that he 

 looks for a substantial advance in prices. 



The Vacherie Cypress Company, Jersey 

 City, N, J., is the name of a new lumber 

 company, organized under the laws of New- 

 Jersey with a capital of $600,000. The in- 

 corporators are William H. Wooden. John S. 

 Hoyt, and Francis L. Slade. The hardwood 

 trade will recall the first two as members of 

 the Hoyt & Wooden Cypress Manufacturing 

 Company of New Y'ork and Memphis, Tenn. 

 Frank R. Whiting of the Janney-Whiting 

 Lumber Company. Philadelphia. Pa., and the 

 Whiting Manufacturing Company, Abingdon, 

 Va.. made a few calls on the hardwood trade 

 in this market last week. He looks for a 

 good trade during July and says orders are 

 now coming in at a very satisfactory rate. 



