HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The American I'anel Club will meet at tlie 

 Genesee hotel. Buffalo. X. V.. on oet. 8. 



lu addition to the i-apidl.v growing business of 

 flic Arthur Hardwood I'Mooring Company of Mem- 

 phis. Tenn.. D. .S. Hutchinson, who was rccentl.v 

 in the city for se^'erai days, says they are worl;- 

 ing up quite an export trade, and have recently 

 made some important shipments to I'^ngland. 



The editor acknowledges receipr of an invita- 

 (icjn to attend a concatenation in I^ondon, Kng- 

 land, Sept. 2S, which will be held i>y Max Sond- 

 heimer, R. L. Withnell. II. \V. Flatau and I-:. 

 Ilayncs. It is promised that "there w-ill be some- 

 thing doing every minute.." and these gentlemen 

 are fully capable of making good. 



A new concern in the ('hicigo trade is the Over- 

 holser Lumber (_'ompau-y. fiii'J I'lymoutb building, 

 dealers in hardwoods, c.vpress and yellow pine : 

 also oak and maple tlooring. AN'. ('. llverbolser 

 is manager. 



Prof. E. E. Bo.gue. head of the forestry de- 

 partment of the Micliigau Agricultural College, 

 is dead as a result of an operation for appendi- 

 citis. Mr. Bogue was a graffuate of the Ohio 

 State University and was forty-two years of age. 

 A widow and daugliter survive him. B.v this sad 

 (jccurrence the school has lost a valued and loved 

 instructor and the cau.se of forestry in the United 

 States one of its warmest champions. 



The North Branch Flooring Company suffered 

 a lire loss of between ,$00.(1011 and .fTli.iMMi a 

 couple of weeks ago at its plant on Belmont and 

 Western avenues. Several firemen were injured 

 in lighting the flames. 



Boston. 



The question of traffic is again becoming seri- 

 ous and the lumber dealers anticipate slow ship- 

 ments as winter approaches. A report received 

 from the South states that the movement of 

 cotton will be heavy and thai the railroads will 

 pay more attention to this commodity than to 

 the moving of lumber. Several have added new- 

 equipment during the past year, but their roll- 

 ing stock is still insuUicient to take care of 

 the business offered. 



Luther N. Chick of the firm of Chick & 

 Holmes. Chelsea. Mass.. was married early in 

 till' month to Miss M. F. Xoble of Blaine. Me. 



A. C. Place of Place Brothers. Boston, has 

 returned from a trip to Xew Hampshire. 



The B. G. Luther Company. Worcester, Mass.. 

 has bci'u incorporated with a capital stock of 

 S'J'i.ooo. This corporation succeeds to the busi- 

 ness of B. G. Luther & Co.. manufacturers of 

 •^■oodworkiug machiner.v. Benjamin G. Luther 

 has been elected Ireasurer. 



George E. (Jreenwood. connected w-ith George 

 !■'. Sloan & Bros.. Baltimore. Md.. was a recent 

 visitor in Boston. 



The chair manufacturing plant of Nichols & 

 Stone, Gardiner, Mass.. has been destroyed by 

 tire, causing a loss of -.i*! 00,000 ; insurance about 

 .i;33.000. 



A buildin.g on Beverly stri'et. Boston, occu- 

 pied by several woodworking firms, has been 

 visited by Are. causing a loss of about $10,000. 

 The Are started in the works of George H. 

 Carter. 



E. D. Sawyer of the E. D. Sawyer Lumber 

 Compan.v. Cambridge. Mass.. died in Hull. Sept. 

 Hi, at his summer home. Mr. Saw.ver was sixty- 

 nine years of age. He started in the lumber 

 business in Cambridge in l.H'i"!. He is survired 

 by a widow, three sons and one daughter. 



.Tames A. Nichols is ri'building his planing 

 mill and woodworking shop e.t Danielson. Conn., 

 which was destroyed b.v fire last spring. 



The vacation season is about over. Among 

 the Boston lumber people who have returned 

 are .Tohn E. Bugbee of the Holt & Bugbee Com- 

 pany, wholesale and retail dealers in hardwoods, 

 and Frederick S. Ramsey. 



Miss Mabel A. Evans, manager of the Boston 

 ofHce of Wiley, Harker & Camp Company, spent 

 the early jiart itf September in North Wood- 

 stock. N. 11. 



William O. Curtis of the William O. Curtis 

 Sons Compauy. who has been spending the past 

 two months on the Pacific coast, is expected 

 home about Oct. 1. 



Horace M. Bickford of the H. M. Bickford 

 Company is expected home from Europe the 

 first of the month. 



her Company, Philadelphia, Pa., and the Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company, Abingdon. Va., was a 

 re-'cnt visitor in the interest of business. 



New York. 



P>ecause of increasing trade the Kalt l.iiiiilicr 

 ('ompany. prominent in the retail hardwood 

 ttade. Sixty-fourth street and Second avenue. 

 Manhattan, has lea.si'd a new yard on Second 

 avenue running from Sixty-third to Sixty-fourth 

 streets, where they are carrying a choice stock 

 of hardwoods and general lumber. Henry W. 

 Kalt. senicu' member of the company, reports 

 business ver.v satisfactory and is much gratified 

 witli the success of his company. 



Captain A. 1". Bigelow, head of A. P. Bigelow 

 & Co., West Fifty-fourth street, and John F. 

 Steeves of Church E. Gates & Co., One Hundred 

 and Thirty-eighth street and Railroad avenue, 

 have just returned from a camping trip to Can- 

 ada. While there, in company with several 

 ])rominent Buffalo lumbermen. Messrs. Steeves 

 and Bieelow acquired a choice camp site, em- 

 jjracing a number of lakes in the famous Gate- 

 neau sporting district of Canada, which they 

 will develop for future use. 



^Mershon. Schuette, Parker & Co., prominent 

 whnlesale house, has removed from IS Broadway 

 to 1 Madison avenue, where the firm lias leased 

 handsome offices suitable to their increasing 

 business. Manager W. D. Mershon will continue 

 at the head of tlie local office, assisted by a 

 competent corps of salesmen. The general whole- 

 sale trade of this company is developing rapidly 

 and they are particularly gratified iu the in- 

 crease in their California redwood trade. 



The Metropolitan Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in this city to manufacture timber 

 products with a capital of .$25,000. The incor- 

 jinrators are Charles B. Flinn. C. D. Bull and 

 .v. W. Jones. 



F. H. IJoyle of Doyle. Thomson & Co., hard- 

 wood dealers. IG Beaver street, is on a busi- 

 ness trip up the state. C. B. Thomson of .the 

 same firm returned recently from a yachting 

 trip with Mrs. Thomson lu Canada and was lii:e- 

 wlse an attendant at the HooHoo annual at 

 Atlantic Cit.v last week. The business of this 

 progressive house is increasing very satisfac- 

 torily and with the excellent mill connections 

 which they maintain they are enjoying a large 

 and profitable trade in the local district. 



Frank IL Sprague. retailer, of 01 Plymouth 

 street, Brooklyn, is spending t\ie week ends with 

 his family at Stamford. Ulster county. N. Y. 



John R. Glover, a well known Brooklyn lum- 

 berman and principal in the firm of W. R. 

 Adams & Co., is on a southern pleasure trip, 

 wlficli will include the Jamestown E.xposition, 

 Washington and Atlantic City. 



Willard Winslow of the Indiana tjuartered Oak 

 (.'ompany. East Forty-second street, iJauhattan, 

 is rusticating at Cape Cod. 



T. S. culler, mana.ger of the hardw'ood de- 

 partment of Stevens-Eaton & Co.. 1 .Madison 

 avenue, is back from a lengthy busiifess tour 

 of the liardwood mills of the South aud Middle 

 West. He is much gratified at the success of 

 his trip. While he found hardwood conditions 

 very firm and good stock not plentiful, he se- 

 cured a number of choice lots of hardwood for 

 fall and winter offerings. 



George D. Burgess, Russe & Burgess, Memphis, 

 Tenn.. arrived from Europe last week, where he 

 has been automobiling during the past month 

 or two. 



Gilbert H. Shepard. the well know'u whole- 

 saler, 1123 Broadway, is pushing a choice line 

 of veneered red gum doors and house trim with 

 his local cypress trade. It is a yery handsome 

 product and siiould be well received by the 

 trade. 



l'\ank II. Whiting of the Janney-Whiting I.uin- 



Philadelphia. 



The Lumbermen's ICxchange held its first reg- 

 ular monthly meeting since their adjournment 

 a few months ago on Sept. 12 with President 

 William L. Rice in the chair. The meeting was 

 well attended and much interest was manifested 

 lu all of the proceedings. A special committee 

 composed of Natlian B. Gaskill, Charles Este 

 and C. E. Lloyd, Jr., was appointed to take 

 under consideration certain specifications for 

 lumber submitted by the chief constructor of 

 the United States Navy Department. The 

 Pennsylvania Door and Sash Company was elect- 

 ed member of the exchangt^ 



John Farrior of tlie Farrior Lumber Com- 

 pany. Asheville, N. C, was a recent visitor to 

 the exchange rooms. 



Joseph 11. O'Neill, one of the members of the 

 exchange and a wholesale lumber dealer, with 

 oflice in the Crozer building, on leaving a street 

 car recently struck his leg against a seat, In- 

 flicting a painful though not serious wound. 

 He has sufficiently recovered, however, to make 

 a business trip to Baltimore, Washington, Pitts- 

 burg and Buffalo. 



Soblo Brothers report business in fairly good 

 shape and the volume of sales showing up well. 

 Their mills are all working full time and turn- 

 ing out some of the best material ever placed 

 on the market. Frank B. Folsom, who was 

 formerly with this house, has left them, pre- 

 sumabl.v to start business iu the South on his 

 own account. 



The Tomb Lumber Company reports good busi- 

 ness right along. They have recently put in a 

 larger boiler in the mill near Williamsport. Pa. 

 Tlu.nr hardwood department is improving and 

 they claim their white oak. which is mostly 

 sold for export, is of the very best grade, a 

 good seller and holds steady values. 



J. Randall Williams & Co. are prepared to 

 meet all conditions, therefore do not trouble ^ 

 over the trade situation. The senior partner 

 of this firm has returned to the city from his 

 summer home, aud J. Randall Williams. Jr.. 

 has come back from his trip abroad, looking fit 

 to tackle any trade proposition that may arise. 

 Kirby & Hawkins Company is a busy con- 

 cern, although only a beginner in the hardwood 

 line. It has succeeded in this department be- 

 yond all expectations. They report railroad ties 

 selling actively. Recently they engaged A. M. 

 Nevin. formerly with Joseph P. Dunwoody & 

 Co. as salesman, to look after Philadelphia and 

 surrounding territory. 



R. il. Smith & Co. are jjreparing for increased 

 business as the fall advances. Their mills are 

 all working full capacity. 



Benjamin C. Currie. Jr.. sales manager, is 

 making an extended selling trip through New- 

 York and Eastern Pennsylvania. 



Ow-en M. Bruner Company has no cause to 

 quarrel with trade conditions, as they have 

 been exceeding past record month after montli 

 this .year. Henry Whelpton of this concern has 

 Just returned from a si.x weeks' trip among the 

 mill sections of the South aud West, w-here he 

 has been looking up the stock situation. 



Holloway Lumber Company reports business 

 holding on satisfactoril.v, with every indication 

 of a PTOod fall trade. 



Creditors filed a petition Sept. 16 in the 

 United States district court asking that William 

 E. Paul and Andrew I,uffbarry. Jr.. individually 

 and as co-fjartners. trading as William E. Paul 

 & Co.. be adjudged involuntar.v ijankrupts. The 

 petitioning creditors and their claims are Wil- 

 son H. Lear, .$2.000.01! : Producers' Lumber 

 Company. .$4,552.35, and Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son. $5,300.25. 



Edwin S. Cramp, formerly of the William 

 Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Com- 

 pany, and George W. Norris, both of this city, 

 are behind a proposed company to construct a 



