HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Philadelphia. 



()u .SfptcmliiT 1- 111'' I.iimbermen's Exchange 

 will rosume its reyul;ir montliy meetings. Ar- 

 i-nugenients are abont complete for llie Autumnal 

 excursion to the Gettysburg battlefield, Pa., and 

 the Itluc .Mountain House, .Mtl., on September 24, 

 L'.j and 'M ; from present indications there will 

 be an appreciable turnout. Among tli« recent 

 visitors to the Exchange rooms were : W. W. 

 r.rice, I'ittston, I'a., and Eugene B. Nettleton, 

 .Marysville, Calhoun county, Florida. 



Schofield Uros. report good business right 

 along, consequently they are too busy to bother 

 about trade conditions. 1!. W. Schofield is mali- 

 ing a selling trip through the state and J. II. 

 Schofield hiis .lust returned from an extensive 

 trip through the western mill centers, where he 

 has made some desirable contracts. They are 

 pushing the work of installing machinery in the 

 Saltkeatchie Lumber Company's mill at Ulmers, 

 S. C, as rapidly as possible, and w'ill soon have 

 things in good running order. 



Soble Bros, are among the hustlers, conse- 

 quently, share in the general prosperity. John 

 .T. Soliie is making an extensive tour of New 

 York state and Harry I. Soble is visiting their 

 mills and at the same time is on a general stock 

 iiunt througli the South. 



J. It. Williams reports that business has been 

 a little off, but that August trading has bright- 

 ened up considerably. Mr. Williams is gradually 

 increasing his field and has just engaged W. D. 

 Martin, formerly of Johnson City, Tcnn., as 

 salesman, to look after the >s'ew- York state ter- 

 ritory. Mr. Williams reports his hardwood de- 

 partment doing well. 



The I'hiladelphia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 states that business has been moving along stead- 

 ily and that it regards the outlook as very satis- 

 factory. II. N. rattison of this concern is trav- 

 eling through the mill sections of West Virginia 

 looking for desirable stocks of hardwoods. 



John W. Coles i.s satisfied with the improve- 

 ment in trading of late and anticipates a good 

 fall business. He recently engaged Gartley W. 

 Wright as salesman, to look after the northern 

 New Jersey field. Mr. Wright is well known in 

 trade circles, as he was formerly with the Penn- 

 sylvania Door and Sash Company. 



Henry II. Sheip Manufacturing Company is 

 about to replace the old burned building at the 

 northeast corner of Columbia avenue and sixth 

 street with an absolutely fireproof structure of 

 reinforced concrete and brick. It will be three 

 slories high, with a basement, and will be equip- 

 ped with a 30,000 gallon sprinkler tank. The 

 cost will be $75,000. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody & Co. are not troubled 

 ever the lumber situation at this time. They re- 

 port good inquiries coming in, and consider the 

 outlook promising. Mr. Dunwoody states that 

 the plant of Norva Land and Lumber Company of 

 Wallaceton, Va., Is rapidly getting into working 

 order and they have turned out considerable stuff 

 already. The steamship Chester, which for years 

 plied between Philadelphia and Chester, having 

 undergone extensive repairs recently, will now be 

 operated in the coastwise trade by the Norva 

 Land and Lumber Company. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son report trade condi- 

 tions such as might be expected for the time of 

 year ; they look for brisker trading as the fall 

 opens. William P. Shearer is making a business 

 trip through New York. After which he will 

 take a short vacation. Samuel H. Shearer leaves 

 for the South on September 4, in which trip he 

 will combine business and pleasure. 



William M. McCormick of the Little Kiver 

 Lumber Company, Clearfield Lumber Company, 

 Inc.. and the Morehead and North Fork Rail- 

 road Company, is making an extended tour of the 

 far Northwest. At the office they report business 

 moving along smoothly and conditions satisfac- 

 tory. 



(ieorge Ilartzell, aged 84 years, a retired manu- 

 fc.cturer of furniture, died Aug. 12. 



J. (iibson Mcllvain & Co. report with the ma- 

 jority, good business for the season : they are 



sanguine as to good fall trading. Hugh Mcllvain 

 is .spending a month in the northern part of 

 Maine. 



lienjamin H. Brown, for many years of Brown 

 & Woelper, lumber dealers, died recently in his 

 (JGth year. He was city treasurer of Philadelphia 

 in l.S.'u, and at one time was the owner of the 

 Cniled States hotel at Atlantic City. N. J. 



William L. Torbort died at his home at 

 Girard Manor, I'a., on Aug. 10, in his 70th year. 

 Mr. Torbort for many years was extensively en- 

 gaged in lumber operations at Girard Manor. 



The Scranton Lumber Company, Scranton, 

 Pa., object to acquire timber lands, erect, main- 

 tain and operate sawmills, etc., was incorporated 

 under Delaware State Laws on August 13. Cap- 

 italization .$1,000,000. The incorporators are: 

 John T. Porter. C. Summer Woolworth, Arthur 

 D. Deane, Cliarles P. Davidson and Fenwick L. 

 Peek all of Scranton. 



The Vermont Lumber Company was incor- 

 porated under Delaware state law on Aug. 14, 

 capitalization .fl.000,000. The incorporators 

 are G. Norris Heckschear of Huntington. N. Y'. ; 

 Fred A. Berthold of New Y'ork city and William 

 L. Missimer of Wilmington, Del. 



On Aug. 8 the Ilechinger Bros. & Co's. large 

 cliair factory in Baltimore, JId., was visited by 

 fire causing a loss estimated at .$70,000. 



The Dempsey Shipbuilding Company is build- 

 ing wharves and installing a large plant at the 

 foot of Twenty-ninth street. East Camden, N. J. 

 It is said to have several large contracts on 

 hand. 



Considerable American lumber of all .kinds is 

 more used in Spain, according to Consul L. J. 

 Rosenberg of Seville, it being preferred to other 

 foreign lumber marketed there. The market 

 could probably be further extended he says, hy 

 using catalogues printed in Spanish, with prices 

 in Spanish currency and measure in the metric 

 system. 



On Aug. IG. W. W. Nuss was appointed re- 

 ceiver for the Hawes-Laanna Company, toy and 

 \\-ooden novelty manufacturers, operating in To- 

 wanda and Laanna, I*a., with branch office in the 

 machinery department of the Bourse building, 

 this city, recently by Judge Staake. Mr. Nuss is 

 president and treasurer of the concern. The ap- 

 plication was made by a majority of the stock- 

 holders and merchant creditors to obtain an ami- 

 cable adjustment of the corporation's affairs and 

 to prevent the factories from being attached on 

 three executions now in the hands of the sheriff. 

 The business will he continued by the receiver. 

 The liabilities were given as $73,000. the assets, 

 .$1.">0,000. This concern is the successor to the 

 James Hawes Manufacturing Company. Towanda, 

 I'a., the Laanna Manufacturing Company, Laana, 

 I'a., and the Charles Northrop Company, ilonnol- 

 ton. Pa. Thej' have a sales office at 107 Liberty 

 street. New York City. 



The Burlington Chair Company of Burlington. 

 N. J., capitalized at .$25,000. was incorporated 

 under New Jersey laws on Aug. 19. The in- 

 corporators are Olop L. Peterson and Ray A. 

 Peterson of Burlington and Pusey W. Jackson 

 of Philadelphia. 



The Cranmer Sawmill and Land Improvement 

 Company of Bordentown, N. J., was chartered 

 under New Jersey laws Aug. 10. Authorized cap- 

 ital $1,500. Incorporators are: Jacob Holzbaur 

 of Bordentown. Walter A. Cranmer and Howard 

 J. Cranmer of Whitings. 



q"he Pe Dee River Lumber Company of South 

 Carolina obtained a charter under Delaware laws 

 on Aug. 10 : capitalization. $50,000, 



Baltimore. 



The hardwood firm of Price & Ileald, which 

 has maintained a branch office at Memphis, 

 Tinn., is about to abandon that field and expects 

 to close its connection there at the end of the 

 present moutli. The firm sent Gustave A. Farber. 

 at that time a member of the house, to Memphis 

 several years ago and he opened an office. An 

 interest was also acquired in the I. W. Dixon 

 Lumber Company, which conducted sawmill oper- 



ations there. Mr. Farber withdrew some time 

 ago to engage in business on his own account 

 and in the absence of a suitable representative. 

 Hie firm resolved to close the branch. Mr. Dixon 

 will retain the sawmill as his share and will 

 continue to run it. 



Edward M. Teriy, secretary of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association is on a southern 

 trip. He left Baltimore last week for a tour. of 

 southern cities, including Norfolk, Va., Bristol, 

 Knoxville, f'hattanooga and Memphis, Tenn., call- 

 ing on members of tlie association and conferring 

 with them on the car service problem, Liverpool 

 measurement and similar matters. From Mem- 

 phis Jlr. Terry will go to New Orleans to consult 

 represenlatives of the local association of export- 

 ers relative to matters on which co-operation is 

 desired. He will be away about three weeks. 



George M. Spiegle of I'hiladelphia, who is 

 chairman of the special Liverpool measurement 

 committee of the National Lumber Exporters' As- 

 sociation,, has returned from a trip abroad. It 

 was his intention to call a meeting of the com- 

 mittee in the near future, but in the absence of 

 the secretary a postponement is likely. 



Sentiment in Liverpool seems to be favorable 

 toward meeting at least, in part, the demands of 

 the American shippers, and it Is thought that a 

 satisfactory settlement of the difficulty can be 

 reached without much trouble, though the some- 

 what aggressive attitude of a few of the export- 

 ers here has rather sharpened the temper of the 

 brokers on the other side of the Atlantic. 



E. Stringer Boggess of Clarksburg, W. Va., one 

 of the supreme nine of the Concatenated Order 

 of Hoo-Hoo, was in Baltimore a few days ago on 

 the way home from a southern tour and while 

 here he conferred with local members about the 

 coming annual at Atlantic City. Mr. Boggess is 

 prominently mentioned as a candidate for the 

 oflice of snark of the universe, and he had se- 

 lected John L. Alcock of Baltimore as his cam- 

 jiaign mana.ger. The many friends of Mr. Alcock 

 think he should be the next snark and are boom- 

 ing liim energetically for the place. This boom, 

 while not authorized by Mr. Alcock and for a 

 time discountenanced, put him in a peculiar posi- 

 tion, and though not seeking the honor, he feels 

 that he must discontinue to act as Mr. Boggess' 

 campaign manager. The Baltimore delegation to 

 Atlantic City is prepared to work hard for the 

 election of Mr. Alcock and will go to the con- 

 catenation with that purpose in view. The dele- 

 gation will include forty to fifty men. 



The Croft Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at Cumberland, Md., with a capital stock of 

 $100,000. It will develop a tract of timber neai; 

 Pickens, W. Va., estimated to contain ahout 

 00,000,000 feet, largely hardwoods, and mills are 

 to be erected on the tract. The oflJcers of the 

 company are : President, J. H. Henderson, Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. : vice president, George D. Browning, 

 Friendsville. Md. ; secretary, P. Clarence Barnes, 

 Cumberland, Md. ; treasurer, U. N. Bond. Bond, 

 JId. : attorney, Albert A. Doub, Cumberland. In 

 addition to these the board of directors includes 

 Dr. Robert A. Ravenscrott, surveyor of the port 

 of Baltimore; S. A. Kendall and J. L. Kendall 

 of Pittsburg. 



D. Price of the Price Hardwood Company and 

 interested in the newly organized Chattanooga 

 Lumber Company, which has acquired a tract of 

 timber near Madison, S. C, on the main line of 

 the Southern railway and is erecting a mill 

 there, has .gone down to the place to look after 

 the work of construction and attend to other de- 

 tails. The plant is to be in working order ahout 

 the middle of September, and will have a ca- 

 pacity of about 35.000 feet per day. 



William M. Burgan, president of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange and a large operator in cy- 

 press, has returned from a vacation of several 

 weeks spent at Ocean Grove, N. J. He first went 

 to Y'ellowstoue Park and other points of interest 

 in the West and concluded his holidays at the 

 seashore. He was much benefited by his outing. 



E. E. Price, an exporter of hardwoods, with 

 offices in the Continental Trust building, is 



