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HARDWOOD RECORD 



pany has been organized at Niles, Mich., with 

 a capital stock of $40,000, to manufacture a 

 line of high-class furniture. 



The Ritter Folding Door Company has Ijeen 

 organized by business men of Columbus, O. ; 

 capital stock $50,000. 



Elizabeth, W. Va.. is the home of the re- 



cently organized Mountain State Casket Com- 

 pany, which has engaged in the manufacture 

 of caskets on an extensive scale; capital 

 stock $50,000. 



The Wisconsin Art Cabinet Company has 

 been incorporated with $35,000 capital stock, 

 to be located at Fond du Lac. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By KABSWOOD BECOSD 



Chicago. 



Burdis Anderson of the Great Lakes Veneer 

 Company. Munising, Mich., was a Chicago 

 ■ visitor .July 16. Mr. Anderson was en route 

 to a meeting of the Rotary Cut Club, held at 

 Indianapolis on July 17. From there he went 

 to Cincinnati and Grand Rapids before re- 

 turning home. 



Franklin Greenwood, general manager of 

 the Louisiana Red Cypress Company of New 

 Orleans, was in the city July 12. Mr. Green- 

 wood was making a tour of the company's 

 various oflices. coming here from Cincinnati 

 and going home via St. Louis and Kansas 

 City. 



J. S. Garetson and daughter. Mrs. W. W. 

 Dings, of St. Louis, were Chicago visitors for 

 a few days last week. 



Robert Fair of the Edwards-Fair Lumber 

 Company of Lansing. Ark., spent a week in 

 Chicago recently. His company has just es- 

 tablished a spoke factory and bolting mill 

 with Ave turning lathes in Lansing and will 

 make wagon spokes from hickory, of which 

 it has large holdings. Mr. Fair is well known 

 in Wisconsin and Chicago, having formerly 

 been in business here. He has been in the 

 South about eight years. 



J. H. P. Smith of R. M. Smith & Co., Park- 



ersburg, W. Va., was in Chicago July 11-12. 



John W. Dickson of the J. W. Dickson 



Lumber Company. Memphis, was a welcome 



caller on the trade last week. 



Tickle, Bell & Co., 5 St. Albans Road, Liver- 

 pool, general brokers and dealers in mahogany 

 and American lumber, announce that they 

 will in future conduct their business from 

 '36 State Insurance building, 14 Dale street, 

 Liverpool, the cable and telegraphic address 

 to continue as at present— "Corolla, Liver- 

 pool." 



E. P. Alberts has removed from Allenville 

 to Rockview, Mo., where he has entered the 

 sawmill and lumber business, and built a 

 handsome new home. 



The Vehicle Woodstock Company of this 

 city held a meeting at the Great Northern 

 Hotel, July 17-lS. The deliberations were 

 executive in character. 



Edward E. Skeele of the Estabrook-Skeele 

 Lumber Company. Fisher building, this city, 

 is in the North on a fishing trip. 



Ryan & McParland, local manufacturers 

 and dealers in hardwood lunjber and wagon 

 stock, have removed their office and yards to 

 873-81 Laflin street. 



The Hardwood Kkcord office was illumined 

 July 17 by the presence of George H. Lusk. 

 the veteran hardwood operator of Thorp, Wis., 

 of Nye, Lusk & Hudson Company, and his 

 son, Frank H. Lusk, of the recently organ- 

 ized Ryan-Lusk Lumber Company of Cairo, 111. 

 In a letter received from the Grand Rapids 

 Veneer Works they state that they have in- 

 stalled between sixty and seventy of their 

 new dryers within the past year and as they 

 are only infants In the dry kiln business they 

 naturally feel highly gratified at the results. 

 Incidentally, they compliment The Hardwood 

 Record on its value as an advertising medium 

 in assisting them to exploit their new drying 

 apparatus. 



George B. Maegly, dealer in wholesale yel- 



Bpeclal Correspondentl.) 



low pine and hardwood lumber, located at 417 

 Long building, Kansas City, Mo., was a wel- 

 come caller at the Record office July Iti. 



N. A. Gladding, vice president and man- 

 ager of sales for E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., of 

 Indianapolis, left on July 15 for his regular 

 tour of inspection of the company's western 

 branches. Mr. Gladding intends to stop in 

 Chicago. Minneapolis and Omaha before pro- 

 ceeding to San Francisco, Portland and Seat- 

 tle. He will be away about a month. 



The Record is indebted to the Indiana Quar- 

 tered Oak Company, lumber wholesalers, at 

 5 East Forty-second street. New York, for 

 a handsome little letter opener. 



The office of the secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States was removed on July 19 from 1535 

 First National Bank building. Chicago, where 

 it has been located for the past eighteen 

 months, and is now established at 1020 Stahl- 

 man building, Nashville, Tenn, The telephone 

 number is Main 710. 



So-long. Lewie: 



How we hate to see you go: 



So-long, Lewie; 



Lewie, we will miss you so. 



And we'll all be longing for you, Lewie. ^ 



While you roam! 



So-long, Lewie; 



Don't forget to come back home, 



Dreyfus & Mayer-Dinkel of Mannheim, Ger- 

 many, announce that Herr Leopold Mayer- 

 Dinkel, son of a partner in the firm, has also 

 become identified with the house in that ca- 

 pacity. 



Boston, 



C. S. Wentworth of ('. S. Weutworth & Co. 

 has been on a trip to New Brunswick. 



Henry McDewell of the Davenport, I'etcrs 

 Company sailed for Em-ope last week. 



William K. Litcbfleld left Boston last Satur- 

 day (or a ten days' trip in the West. 



A. A. Titcomb, for several years salesman tor 

 Waldo II. Bigelow, is now associated with the 

 Jones ll.nrdwood Company. 



The Export Lumber Company, recently organ- 

 ized in Maine with a capital stock of *50CI.00(I, 

 retains the old office at .53 State street. Boston, 

 which has been occupied for some time by the 

 old Export Lumber Company and the Atlantic 

 Coast Lumber Company. W. A. Taft is presi- 

 dent of the new organization ; Charles Weston, 

 vice president, and W. W. Weaver, treasurer. 

 W. Allen Taft. Jr.. is secretary of the company 

 and H. K. Weaver, assistant treasurer. The 

 old Export Lumber Company went into the 

 hands of a receiver about five years ago and 

 has been in this condition until recently. The 

 president of the new company was a re- 

 ceiver of the old company. 



The Johnson Lumber Company, Quincy, Mass.. 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 .$5(1.000. The promoters are Benjamin Johnson. 

 Robert T. Johnson and Morris I. Gatcomb. 



C. W. I,eatherbee of the C. W. Leatherbee 

 Lumber Company, Boston, is spending the sum- 

 mer at Marion, Mass. 



Frank J. Orcutt is now general manager of 

 the wholesale department "f Nellis, Amos & 

 Swift of Utica. N. Y. Mr. Orcutt has been 

 closely associated with the lumber business for 

 the past nineteen years, having been formerly 



with Weston & Bigelow and for the past seven 

 years with W. II. Bigelow. lie has secured 

 an office at ooii I'enn Mutual building. H .Milk 

 street. Boston. The retail and wholesale busi- 

 ness of this company has in the past been con- 

 ducted through Utica, N. Y.. but the concern 

 has now separated the two branches and in the 

 future the wholesale business will be operated 

 from Boston. Dorr D. Nellis. senior member of 

 the concern, will be located in the South, where 

 he will buy and ship hardwood lumber. Charles 

 11. Swift will represent the firm on the road, 

 and Mr. Amos, it is reported, will continue in 

 charge of the firm's retail business in Utica. In 

 addition to the lumber business, they operate a 

 large furniture and box plant in Utica. This 

 company has never dealt in a large way in 

 southern and western hardwoods, but these lines 

 are to be added. The firm will handle all kinds 

 of hardwoods, including maple flooring, etc. 



The Frost Veneer Seating Company of New- 

 port. Vt.. plans to erect a new warehouse l.'iOxiJO 

 feet, two stories high. 



George W. Ilartzell of Dayton. ().. who has 

 large hardwood interests, was among thf recent 

 visitors in Boston, 



Horatio Sprague McDewell, son of Henry M. 

 McDewell of the Davenport, Peters Company, 

 was recently graduated from Harvard College, 

 and received the degree of S. B. in mi chanical 

 cnginiering. M(i(jna Cum Lauile. 



Ne'w York. 



F. A. Kirby, sales manager of the Cherr.v 

 River Boom & Lumber Company, headquarters 

 Scranton, I'a., was in town visiting W. W. Welch, 

 representative of the company in the metropoli- 

 tan district and throughout this section. 



II. Shumway Lee of Mixer & Co., Buffalo, ar 

 rived in New York recently after a motoring trip 

 through New England, on which he combined 

 business with pleasure. He was accompanied 

 l>y Mrs. Lee. 



Lewis Dill of Baltimore, accompanied by Mrs. 

 iiill and (ieorge F. Craig of Philadelphia, sailed 

 from Europe July 13 after an extended trip 

 abroad. 



Walter Sharp of Churchill & Sim, London. 

 England, was in New York during the last fort- 

 night. He sailed for home on tife Lncania of 

 Ihe Cunard Line. 



George H. Mell of Kane. Pa., who is exclusive 

 selling agent of the Mt. Mitchell Lumber Com- 

 pany, Swannanoa, N. C, manufacturers of hard- 

 woods, hemlock and white pine, paid a visit to 

 this city, accompanied by John F. Tyler, who 

 was recently associated with H. D. Wiggin of 

 Boston. Mr. Tyler will represent Mr. Mell's 

 interests in the East. 



W. II. Ames, manager of the oak flooring de- 

 partment of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company. 

 Cincinnati. O.. is in the city to remain several 

 days, looking after the company's local Interests. 

 J. C. Turner of the J. C, Turner Lumber Com- 

 pany and Mrs. Turner, accompanied by W. A. 

 Burnham and wife, are on tour to California and 

 the Pacific Coast. Jlr. Turner will look over 

 lumlier and timber matters in which he is in- 

 terested and expects to return in about six 

 weeks. 



F. R. Whiting of the Janney-Whiting Lumber 

 Company, Philadelphia, was in New York on his 

 way to the summer home of Clayton W. Nichols 

 at Brewsters, N. Y., where he will make quite a 

 vacation visit. 



Adler. Siegel & Co. have started in the sash, 

 door and blind business at 340 Junius street. 

 Brooklyn. 



Transatlantic tourists have been much in evi- 

 dence recently. F. B. . Williams of the F. B. 

 Williams Cypress Company. Patterson, La., sailed 

 some time ago. Joseph Uathborns of the Louis- 

 iana Cypress Lumber Company, Harvey. La., 

 recently sailed tor Liverpool and will be in Eng- 

 land and on the continent until about the first 

 of September. 



