HARDWOOD RECORD 



27 



The Oyster Bay Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated under the laws of New York 

 with a capital of $25,000, to succeed the retail 

 lumber firm of A. C, & E. N. Hendrickson. 

 Oyster Bay, Long Island. The incorporators 

 are G. M. Stevens, Jr., New York; A. C. 

 Hendrickson and F. D. Kellum, Oyster Bay. 



On July 10. at 11 o'clock, the assignees of 

 the New York Lumber & Storage Company 

 will sell at public auction, at their lumber 

 yard, corner 5Sth street and 11th avenue,_ the 

 entire stock of lumber of the company, con- 

 sisting of whitewood. mahogany, yellow pine, 

 white pine. North Carolina pine, oak, quar- 

 tered oak. ash, butternut, maple, birch, bass- 

 wood, cypress, elm, cherry. Cottonwood, hazel 

 and spruce, in all about 500,000 feet. 



Philadelphia. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany reports busy. It has had a prosperous 

 year, and is preparing to meet increased de- 

 mands. H. N. Pattison of this concern re- 

 cently returned from a trip through the Penn- 

 sylvania mill district, where he made a con- 

 tract for 400.000 feet of beech, and is making 

 a deal for his house for about 2.000.000 feet of 

 white pine. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody of Jos. P. Dunwoody 

 ,.ii Co. reports the Norva Land and Limi- 

 her Company of Wallaceton, Va., in which 

 his firm is largely interested, fast getting in- 

 to good working shape. They have already 

 made several shipments of poplar for export. 

 This concern is also going in largely for man- 

 ufacturing barrel stock. Mr. Dunwoody is 

 spending some time at the mill looking up 

 the situation. 



Frank F. Rambo is a busy man. He ad- 

 mits some are crying dull times, but he, per- 

 sonally, has no fault to And with conditions; 

 good orders are coming in right along and 

 from present indications this will be his ban- 

 ner year. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company has verified its prediction 

 of a few months ago that this year would 

 surpass all preceding ones in volume of busi- 

 ness. The company reports that it has writ- 

 ten twice as much new business for the first 

 six months of this year as its average annual 

 increase since the organization of the com- 

 pany. The Board of Directors' meeting will 

 be held on July 23, at the company's office. 



Ben.1. Ketcham. Jr., reports business good, 

 both in the building and furniture line. He 

 has quite a large stock of lumber on hand 

 and predicts a good fall season. 



The Stokes Bros. Company, Inc., does not 

 complain of dullness but is moving along with 

 the busy firms. The headway made during 

 the past few years has been most encourag- 

 ing. 



Sheip & Vandegrift report all departments 

 in their local plant busy and their mills all 

 active. Asa W. Vandegrift. with his wife 

 and Albert Kramer, one of the company's 

 salesmen, is attending the outing of the West- 

 ern Cigarbox Manufacturers at Detroit, Mich. 

 The Philadelphia Veneer and Lumber Com- 

 pany does not cry dull times. F. Good- 

 hue, Jr., of this company states that he has 

 just received news from his manager at the 

 mills that they have had a tide of about 

 eighteen feet, something unprecedented, 

 which has brought out a great many logs, 

 consequently they are in shape to supply all 

 demands for months to come. Mr. Goodhue 

 recently took a pleasure and business trip 

 through New England. He visited his home 

 in Attleboro, and at the same time gathered 

 in a good bunch of orders. 



The estate of Daniel Buck, one of the 

 largest hardwood retailers in the city, always 

 carries a heavy stock of seasoned material. 

 They state that business is a little quiet just 

 now, as the consumer is cautious in making 



purchases, believing a drop in values must 

 come. Stanley E. Buck of this concern left 

 for a three months' tour of Europe on July 2. 

 Soble Brothers report their mills at Honaker 

 and Okeeta. Va., working right along and 

 the firm's business creditable for this time 

 of year. John J. Soble has just returned 

 from an extended trip through New York 

 state. With the exception of a few lines he 

 found business in fair shape, consequently 

 was able to gather in some good orders. 

 Harry I. Soble is on a fishing trip in Potter 

 I'ounty, Pa., where brook trout Hshins i« of the 

 finest. 



Mr. Gumming of the Columbus Saw Mill 

 Company. Columbus, O.. and Fred J. Cronin 

 of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. Coal- 

 grove, O.. were recent visitors to the trade. 



The Producers' Lumber Company considers 

 the trade situation fair and as the builders 

 are in full swing, owing to the settled weather, 

 the company recently has closed some j;ood 

 contracts. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Com- 

 pany was visited by a severe and stubborn 

 fire a few days ago. which at one time threat- 

 ened the entire works. The fire was confined 

 to the two-story building at the corner of 

 Sixth Street and Columbia Avenue, which 

 was seriously damaged. It is impossible to 

 obtain any definite information as yet regard- 

 ing the loss, but it can safely be said that the 

 figures will not run over $60,000. The concern 

 is fully insured. The large five-story building, 

 in which they have their offices, and the new 

 building on Randolph Street, which was re- 

 cently erected in place of the one destroyed 

 by fire some few months ago, escaped without 

 injury. Repairs will be started in the burned 

 quarter as soon as possible. As the company 

 is very busy at this time they will be incon- 

 venienced somewhat by the loss of room and 

 machinery. 



The J. G. Brill Company is rushed with 

 work. They have received an order for 150 

 double-truck cars from the Chicago City Rail- 

 way Company. They have also recently 

 shipped a train of cars, nine in number, for 

 the Inland Empire System of Spokane, Wash., 

 comprising two combination passenger, smok- 

 ing and baggage cars, tour passenger trailers, 

 two parlor cars and a combination express 

 car and electric locomotive, all mounted on 

 the Brill high-speed trucks. 



The wagon works of Wilson & Childs. Man- 

 ayunk. was visited by flre on June 20; loss 

 about $500. 



A real estate deal was announced on June 

 13 in which the old buildings at 974 to 980 

 Delaware Avenue and 967 to 973 Beach Street 

 were conveyed by Thos. J. Campbell to Frank 

 Buck for $35,000, then reconveyed to James 

 M. Irwin of James M. Irwin & Co. for $40,000. 

 The lot measures 80 by 200 feet. The build- 

 ings will be razed and the plot occupied as a 

 lumber yard. 



The woodworking factory of the York Bend- 

 ing Works of York. Pa., were partly destroyed 

 by fire on June 22. Loss is estimated at $8.- 

 000 : insurance $3,800. 



A charter was applied for in Camden. N. 

 J., on June 26 by Michael P. Hewlett. John 

 J. Hewlett and Archibald Garvin of Camden, 

 under the style of the M. P. Hewlett Com- 

 pany, shipbuilders, capitalized at $300,000. 



On June 27 from the yards of the Harlan 

 and Hollingsworth corporation. Wilmington, 

 Del., was launched the steamship St. Helens 

 for the Dodge Lumber Company of San Fran- 

 cisco. Another new steamship, the Olsen and 

 Mahoney, built for the Olsen and Mahoney 

 Lumber Company of San Francisco, was 

 launched on June 29. 



June 27 by the transportation committee of 

 the National Lumber Exporters* Association, 

 which assembled to confer with the repre- 

 sentatives of the trans-Atlantic steamship 

 lines from Montreal to Norfolk. The whole 

 range of subjects involved was discussed and 

 the exporters backed their requests with such 

 emphasis that the representatives of the 

 steamship lines decided to recommend the 

 adoption of the demands without material 

 change. Until this is done no detailed infor- 

 mation will be given out. 



Thomas Hughes of Carter, Hughes & Co. is 

 on a fifteen-day visit to his partner. David T. 

 Carter, at Troutdale, Va., where the latter 

 is superintending the operations of the mills 

 run by the Iron Mountain Lumber Company, 

 an allied concern. The Iron Mountain Com- 

 pany has now not less than five mills at work, 

 the fifth having been started a short time ago. 

 The combined capacity of these plants is from 

 80.000 to 85,000 feet of hardwoods per day. 

 and to expedite operations seven miles of tram 

 road has been built. The new plant is located 

 at Jothmada. some distance from Troutdale. 

 Much rain has fallen in that section of late, 

 and from June 5 to 19 not a train arrived at 

 Troutdale. The company's tram road was 

 also washed out by a freshet. Mr. Hughes 

 will return by way of the Jamestown Exposi- 

 tion. 



Arthur A. Asendorf. a brother of J. H. Asen- 

 dorf of J. H. Asendorf & Co., wholesale lum- 

 ber dealers with offices in the Stewart Build- 

 ing, went to the morgue on the evening of 

 June 20, let himself in with i key kept in a 

 hiding place by the keeper whom he knew, 

 and turned on the gas. As the process of 

 asphyxiation was not rapid enough he went 

 inti the bathroom, closed the door and win- 

 dow^, drew the blind and lay down to die. 

 When found on the following day he had been 

 a corpse for many hours. Asendorf was 26 

 years old and unmarried. He spent much of 

 his time among the lumber piles of the Back 

 Basin and it is reported had been very melan- 

 choly for some time previous to his death. 



H. B. Olmsted, a traveling salesman for the 

 Lyon Cypress Company of Garyville, La., 

 killed himself on June 30 in his room at the 

 St. James Hotel. He seems to have stood in 

 front of the mirror and sent a bullet through 

 his head, dying instantly. Mr. Olmsted had 

 been at the hotel since last February and 

 seemed to have no worries, as business was 

 good and he freciuently exhibited large or- 

 ders. He was married and about 34 years 

 old. 



Holger A. Koppel. a hardwood exporter here 

 and Danish vice-consul, sailed today from New 

 York for Copenhagen to visit his parents. 



('. E. Williamson, general sales agent for Car- 

 ter. Hughes & Co., will start July 15 on a two 

 weeks' trip to Cincinnati and other points in 

 the Middle West. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here recently 

 was H. W. rugate of the Fugate Lumber Com- 

 pany of Ricblands, Va. He called on various 

 hardwood firms. 



C. B. Houston, a wealthy and prominent lum- 

 berman of Wilmington, Del., died at Atlantic 

 City June 27 of a complication of diseases from 

 which he had suffered for two years. He was 

 fiO years old and is survived b"y his wife. He 

 was prominent in democratic state politics and 

 served a term in the legislature, being speaker of 

 the senate. 



Baltimore. 



A meeting of much importance to the ex- 

 port lumber trade was held in New York 



Pittsburg. 



The Miller Lumber Company has applied for a 

 Pennsylvania charter. Those interested are Jo- 

 seph C. Miller, Francis E. McGillick and S. S. 

 Robertson. The company has opened offices in 

 the House building, this city, and will be man- 

 aged by J. C. Miller, who was for two years 

 Pittsburg man for the Robert H. Jenks Lumber 

 Company of Cleveland. 



