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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ber concerns, wlio Ii<ad their headquarters in this 

 building. The following companies have been 

 obliged to move : The William II. Gray Lumber 

 Company, which will hereafter be found in room 

 504, 88 Broad street ; W. D. Noyes at 33 Broad 

 street ; John Butler in the Postofflce Square 

 building ; John W. Drake at room 002, Oliver 

 building, and the Perry & Whitney Company, 33 

 Broad street. 



William Curtis of William Curtis' Sons Com- 

 pany. Itoxbury. JIass., is making a trip to the 

 Pacific coast, accompanied by his wife. His lirst 

 slop will be Vancouver. Mr. Curtis is not com- 

 bining business with this trip. 



Charles Ilolyoke. who lor some time past had 

 an office at 141 Milk street, Boston, has removed 

 to the Oliver building. Mr. Holyoke reports 

 prices on hardwood firm, and states that he looks 

 tor a much larger demand for the fall trade. 



Dudley D. Johnson of Ilolyoke, Mass., died 

 July 30, at the age of 03 years. Mr. Johnson 

 has been in the lumber business for the past 40 

 years, and up to three years ago, when he was 

 obliged to retire because of poor health, he had 

 conducted a business under his own name for 20 

 j-ears. He leaves a widow and eight children. 



The counsel for the California Sash, Door and 

 Lumber Company of Fitchburg. Mass., has peti- 

 tioned the Superior court for a dissolution of the 

 corporation. This step was necessary as sub- 

 scribers of stock failed to come forward with 

 their money when it was demanded. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Association 

 will hold a meeting in Manchester, N. II., in Sep- 

 tember, at which time definite action will bo 

 taken relative to alleged overcharges of freight 

 rates by the Boston and Maine Railroad Com- 

 pany. 



A new lumber company has been organized in 

 rrovidence, R. I., with a capital stock of $51,000 

 to carry on a wholesale and retail lumber busi- 

 ness. This company will be known as the Frank 

 F. Carpenter Company. The incorporators are ; 

 Frank F. Carpenter, George Fuller and Clifford 

 S. Tower. 



James A. Ilurd of the James A. Hurd Lumber 

 Company has been obliged to stay away from 

 business owing to sickness. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association will hold its outing Aug. 21, weather 

 permitting. The party will leave Lewis Wharf, 

 Boston at 1 :30 p. m., for the Corinthian Yacht 

 Club, Marblehead. 



J. J. Mead of the Mead & Spear Company. 

 Pittshurg, Pa., dealers in hardwoods, was in Bos- 

 ton last week. 



J. B. Buffum and E. B. Shaw, formerly located 

 at 141 Milk street, have taken a new office at SS 

 Broad street. 



W. C. B. Eobbins, manager of the Suncook 

 Valley Lumber Company has closed his office at 

 S8 Broad street. Mr. Robbins, it is understood, 

 will take up business in an entirely new field. 



George Cade of the George D. Emery Company 

 has been spending his vacation on the coast of 

 Maine. 



F. B. Witherbee of the II. M. Bickford Lumber 

 Company, Boston, has been spending his vacation 

 at the Annapolis Basin, N. S. 



New York. 



The usual movement of crops together with 

 special demands for cars being made in various 

 lumber shipping sections has resulted in a car 

 shortage being already felt by local shippers, who 

 from advices at hand, look for a very serious car 

 shortage during the fall and early winter. To 

 that end buyers are being urged to get in their 

 orders for fall wants immediately. 



W. L. Sykes, head of the Emporium Lumber 

 Company, Keating Summit, Pa., with branch of- 

 fices at 1 Madison avenue, Manhattan, was a re- 

 cent New York visitor. lie reported business of 

 very satisfactory volume and the several big 

 p,lants of the company running full time. 



S. F. Mintcr, the hardwood man of 1 Broad- 

 way, accompanied by Mrs. Minter, has just re- 



turned from a visit to his old home in Matthews 

 county, Virginia. Mr. Minter makes a specialty 

 of glued-up hardwood stocks and reports busi- 

 ness as very satisfactory. 



15. W. Higbie, head of tlie 11. W. Iligbie Com- 

 pany, 45 Broadway, has just returned with his 

 family from a brief vacation at Lake Cayuga, 

 N. Y. While North he visited his new hard- 

 wood plant at New Bridge in the Adirondacks. 

 and states that operations are proceeding along 

 very satisfactory lines. The company now has 

 on stock at its mill, a very choice run of maple, 

 beech and birch. 



Frederick W. Cole, 20 Broadway, is summer- 

 ing with iris family at Seagate, L. I. He enjoys 

 the close proximity of this point to New York 

 and in view of his active business during the 

 summer season, he is enabled to visit his office 

 daily. 



J. C. Turner, head of the J. C. Turner Lum- 

 ber Company, 1123 Broadway, is on a trip with 

 his family to Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast 

 points. His trip is purely one of pleasure. 



F. L. Peck of the Lackawanna Lumber Com- 

 pany. Scranton, Pa., passed through the city on 

 an extended auto trip. 



R. L. Gilliam, who has just assumed charge 

 of the new Philadelphia oflice of the W. M. Bit- 

 ter Lumber Company, 1402 Land Title building, 

 wa.'i a recent visitor in town looking over the 

 market. His office will cater to the wants of 

 the trade in the eastern markets and he will be 

 assisted therein by a corps of seven competent 

 salesmen. This company is manufacturing on an 

 average of 100,000,000 feet of hardwoods and 

 white pine this year at their various plants in 

 the South. 



The New York Lumber, Storage and Construct- 

 ing Company was organized last week with 

 a capital of .1:25,000, to succeed to the business 

 of the New York Lumber and Storage Company 

 at 57th street and llth avenue, Manhattan, re- 

 cently liquidated. The lease of the old property 

 and good will, etc., have been taken over by the 

 new company, who, in addition to a continuation 

 of the old line of operation, will make a specialty 

 of lumber trncking in the local district. 



Among the recent departures for Europe was 

 that of H. S. Tatt of the Owl Bayou Cypress 

 Company. Cincinnati. O. 



W. A. Ropps, who for some time past has been 

 representing the Pennsylvania Door and Sash 

 Company. Pittsburg and Philadelphia, Pa., in the 

 local market, ba.^ resigned, effective Aug. 15. 

 Mr. Ropps left immediately for a business and 

 pleasure trip West and on his return will enter 

 the wholesale sath and door business on his 

 own account. 



The wholesale hardwood lumber business of 

 Herbert Mead, Jr., 20 East 42nd street, Man- 

 hattan, has just been incorporated liy Mr. Mead 

 under the style of the Mead Lumber Company, 

 with a capital of $25,000. The business will be 

 conducted along the same lines as heretofore. 

 The directors are Herbert Mead, Jr., and Clara 

 C. Mead of Peekskill, and F. A. Camp of New 

 York. 



E. D. Dunlop of the Bay Ridge Lumber Com- 

 pany, Brooklyn, has returned from an extended 

 pleasure tour of Nova Scotia, Canadian and 

 Adirondack points. This company has just pur- 

 chased a new yard site at 2Sth to 29th streets 

 on 3rd avenue, Brooklyn, which will be utilized 

 as a branch of their present yard at Fifth ave- 

 nue and G5th street. A fine new concrete lum- 

 ber slied has been constructed, which marks a 

 new departure in that character of building in 

 the local lumber trade. 



Charles F. Fischer, C. F. Fischer Lumber Com- 

 pany and treasurer of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association, left last week for a week's 

 stay with N. II. Walcott of the L. H. Gage Lum- 

 ber Company, Providence, R. L. at Mr. Walcotfs 

 summer home at Quonochontaug Park, R. I. 



F. A. Kirby, sales manager for the Cherry 

 River Boom and Lumber Company was a recent 

 visitor in Ibe interest of business, going over 



matters with Manager W. Vi. Welch at the local 

 office, 1 Madison avenue. He reports trade as 

 very satisfactory. The big mills of his com- 

 pany are running full time on a good volume of 

 spruce and hardwood business. 



A. A. Lydecker of the underwriting department 

 of the Lumber Underwriters, CO Broadway, is 

 taking his summer rest in camp in the northern 

 p;irt of the state. 



John J. Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lum- 

 ber Company, Philadelphia, Pa., was a recent 

 visitor at the local office of the company, 1 Madi- 

 son avenue. Manhattan. Mr. Rumbarger is cue 

 of the leading figures in the work of preparation 

 for the entertainment of the Hoo-IIoo at Atlantic 

 City next month, and stated that from the gen- 

 eral wind-up of the plans in the hands of the 

 various committees every indication pointed to a 

 loyal time. 



Secretary E. F. Perry, National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, is taking his sum- 

 mer vacation cruising on the northern waters 

 of the Hudson river in his handsome motor boat 

 with his family and a party of friends. Mr. 

 Perry resides at Nyack, N. Y., right on the Hud- 

 son river. 



The New York Parquet Flooring Company has 

 been incorporated, with headquarters at 70 Man- 

 hattan street, Manhattan, to manufacture par- 

 quet fiooriug. The incorporators are L. G. Greer, 

 M. W. Walch and L. L. Tompkins. 



The Edwards Export and Lumber Company 

 was launched at Jersey City last week, with a 

 capital of $125,000, to conduct a general export 

 lumber business. The incorporators are J. J. 

 Rodriguez, E. I. Burt and Theodore Rurode. 



George II. Mell, wholesaler and manufacturer 

 of Kane, Pa., was a recent visitor in the interest 

 of business. His new operations under the style 

 of the Montezuma Lumber Company in the vi- 

 cinity of Bristol, Tenn., and the Mitchell Lum- 

 ber Company of Swanannoa, N. C, are both run- 

 ning full time on hardwoods, spruce and hem- 

 lock products, whiclt are marketed through the 

 office of Mr. ilell at Kane, Pa. He has some 

 choice oak on hand now and looks for a very fair 

 volume of trade for the balance of the year. 



Peter L. Wilber, for many years a prominent 

 sash and trim manufacturer of West 42nd street. 

 Manhatlan, died at his residence last week at 

 Fairhaveu, N. J., in the 90th year of his age. 



The Parker-Thompson-Veeder Company has 

 lieen incori)orated by well-known local financial 

 interests, together with J. B. Veeder. who for 

 many years has been manufacturing hardwoods 

 at Valhalla, N. Y. The capital of the new com- 

 pany is .f 100,000, with a surplus of .f 35,000. It 

 has just acquired a 9,000 acre tract of hard- 

 woods and white pine in Burke county. North 

 Carolina, which it will develop immediately. The 

 parties in interest are : J. A. Parker of the 

 banking house of J. A. Parker & Co., 37 Wall 

 street ; H. E. Thomson of J. K. Farriugton & 

 Co., bankers of the same address, and Mr. Veeder. 

 The latter will be general manager of the com- 

 pany and in charge of the southern operation. 

 Three mills will be immediately installed on the 

 property and eighteen miles of railroad built 

 from Morganton, N. C, which will be the south- 

 ern headquarters, to Ravenscroft Falls, tapping 

 (be timber holdings of the company as well as a 

 wealth of other available timber in that section. 

 E. L. Edwards, the prominent hardwood man 

 of Dayton. 0., accompanied by Mrs. Edwards and 

 daughter, sailed on the Augusta Victoria for a 

 lour of England and the continent. They will 

 return the latter part of October. 



The Crosby and Beckley Company, large whole- 

 salers of hardwood lumber, with headquarters at 

 New Haven, Conn., has closed its New York office 

 at 1 Madison avenue. The company enjoys an 

 exfensive trade in hardwoods and has western 

 offices at Columbus, O. Its principals are the 

 controlling interests in the Holly Lumber Com- 

 pany of Pickens, W. Va., and the Douglas and 

 Walkley Company of Drew, Miss., large manu- 

 facturing corporations. 



