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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By SABBWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.} 



Chicago. 



W. E. Douglass, presideut of the Douglass & 

 Walkley Company, manufacturers and wholesal- 

 ers of hardwood lumber at Columbus, 0., called 

 at the Kecokp otiice Sept. 30. 



Walter Miiller of I. F. Miiller & Sohn, Ham- 

 burg, Germany, has been spending several days 

 in Chicago while making a tour of the hardwood 

 markets of the United States in the especial in- 

 terest of African mahogan.v. Mr. Miiller has 

 made several trips to this side, and is always a 

 welcome visitor. 



R. G. Page of the li. G. Page Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ashland, Ky.. was a Chicago visitor the 

 first of the month. 



Among the guests at various Chicago hotels on 

 the 28th ultimo were D. W. Briggs of the Brlggs 

 & Cooper Company, Ltd., Saginaw, Mich. ; C. S. 

 Curtis of the Fenwood Lumber Company, Wau- 

 sau. Wis. : G. E. W. Luehrmann of St. Louis, 

 Mo. ; E. G. Cook of St. Louis ; J. N. Sharp of 

 Liverpool, England ; N. A. Gladding of Indian- 

 apolis, and J. V. Stimson of Huntingburg, Ind. 



Gus Kitzenger, the lumber king of Beaver 

 Island, who lives at Manistee, Mich., when at 

 home, dropped into Chicago for a day last week. 



Earl Palmer of the Ferguson & Palmer Com- 

 pany, Paducah, Ky., called on the Chicago trade 

 last week. 



E. E. Skeele of the Estabrook-Skeele Lumber 

 Company has returned from a lengthy pleasure 

 trip in the East. Mr. Skeele was accompanied 

 by his wife. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company of Cincinnati 

 has found it necessary to open a Chicago oflSce 

 to handle its local trade. 



M. E. Thomas, sales manager for Cobbs & 

 Mitchell, Inc., and Mitchell Brothers Company, 

 was a Chicago visitor last week, on his way west 

 for an extended trip. 



R. E. MacLean. secretary and treasurer of the 

 I. Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., was in 

 the city recently while making a trip in the 

 interests of his house. 



P. A. Ryan of Ryan & McParland is back from 

 a trip to the company's mill near Memphis. He 

 reports the car situation as very dark and the 

 shortage likely to prove exceedingly troublesome 

 in the near future. 



Prank B. Stone is absent on a three months' 

 trip to the Orient. 



C. A. Flanagin and E. C. Ostrander of the Rit- 

 tenhouse ik Embree Company, and W. D. Hamil- 

 ton and E. H. Thomas of the Edward Hines 

 Lumber Company were among the braves who 

 entered the Mystic Shrine at the great initiation 

 in this city last week. 



J. H. Quinlan of Charles Darling & Co. is in 

 Mississippi in the interests of his firm. 

 ~E. J. Young of the Brittingham & Young Com- 

 pany, Madison, Wis., attended the Deep Water- 

 ways convention at Memphis, and stopped o£E In 

 Chicago en route. 



E. F. Dodge of the P. G. "Dodge Lumber Com- 

 pany went to Memphis last week on business. 



J. D. Bolton of the Hayden & Westcott Lumber 

 Company is back from a West Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky trip. 



J. W\ Wells of Menominee, Mich., called on 

 friends in this city the first of the month. 



Boston. 



George J. Barker of the Wood-Barker Com- 

 pany has recently returned from a trip to Eu- 

 rope. 



The new lumber firm of Russell & Y'oung, 

 which recently started in business in Clinton, 

 Mass., plans to begin the manufacture of build- 

 ing material in a short time, 



C. R. Palmer of the L. H. Gage Lumber Com- 

 pany, Providence, R. I., has been visiting in 

 Tennessee. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Asso- 

 ciation has appointed William E. Litchfield, the 

 well known hardwood lumber dealer of this city, 

 treasurer of the association. This appointment 

 was made necessary due to the resignation of 

 Mr. Robbins who has entered thf machinery 

 business. 



W. R. Chester of W. R. Chester & Co. has 

 returned from a vacation. 



Fred Sterritt, manager of the George W. Gale 

 Lumber Company and president of the Metro- 

 politan Lumber Exchange of Boston, has been 

 spending his week ends at his farm in Nova 

 Scotia. 



The new chair manufacturing plant of F. L. 

 Carey, Kecnc. N. H., is ready for occupancy. 



Edwin B. Pratt, salesman for Wiley, Harker 

 & Camp Company, was married late in Septem- 

 ber to Miss Marsh of Wakefield. Mass. 



The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Association 

 held a meeting September 28 in Manchester, N. 

 H., and practically decided to Itring suit against 

 the Boston & Maine railroad for overcharges. 

 The committee having this matter in charge 

 are : Samuel D. Felker, Mr. Martin and Mr. 

 Chase. The meeting was well attended. 



George D. Haywood, for over thirty-flve years 

 associated with the A. T. Stearns Lumber Com- 

 pany, Neponset, Mass., died very suddenly 

 September 30. 



Ne'w York. 



R. H. Downman, the distinguished cypress 

 manufacturer of New Orleans, La., passed 

 , through the city last week en route home after 

 a delightful summer vacation spent at Loon 

 Lake in the Adirondacks. In speaking of the 

 business situation Mr. Downman expressed the 

 belief that cypress is in good shape and looks 

 for a brisk fall trade. 



Another prominent visitor of the cypress belt 

 was D. W. Bubes of the Ruddock-Orleans Cypress 

 Company, who was in town for several days, an 

 interested attendant at the Flat Car Equipment 

 Conference at the National Wholesalers' head- 

 quarters on Sept. 24. 



Hugh McLean, the prominent Buffalo hard- 

 wood lumberman and head of the extensive Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company, spent several days 

 during the fortnight visiting the local trade. 

 He reports hardwood conditions as firm, with 

 considerable increase in activity, and while he 

 believes that buyers are ordering as lightly as 

 possible he thinks this situation will speedily 

 change when buyers begin to realize the effect 

 of the car shortage and the scarcity of the bet- 

 ter grades of hardwoods on the market. 



Albert Steinbach, manager of the hardwood 

 department of the Northern Lumber Company, 

 Flatiron Building, has just returned from an 

 extended buying trip South, on which he closed 

 some nice deals for fall and winter trade. 



J. G. Christopher of Jacksonville, Fla., and 

 Capt. Frederic Wilbert of the A. Wilbert Lumber 

 & Shingle Company, Plaqueraine, La., were re- 

 cent visitors Ih town in the interest of business. 

 Gilbert H. Shepard, cypress wholesaler of 

 1123 Broadway, Manhattan, has recently added 

 a choice line of red gum doors and trim which 

 he is pushing in the local market. This wood 

 presents an exceedingly handsome finish and 

 Mr. Shepard has great faith in it as a finish 

 product. 



The Christy-Moir Company. 149 Broadway, 

 has leased offices on the twenty-ninth floor of 

 the new Singer Building tower, without doubt 

 the highest lumber offices in the world. The 

 company has just closed a deal for_ the entire 

 output of the Iberville Lumber Company at 

 Iberville, Quebec, a new concern just starting 

 at that point. 



Charles Hill, treasurer of the Northern Lum- 



ber Company, Flatiron Building, has just re 

 turned from an extended trip abroad, accompa- 

 nied by Mrs. Hill. 



W. I). Mershon of Meishuu, Schuette, Parker 

 & Co., 1 Madison aventie, has just returned 

 from a visit to the Saginaw operations of his 

 firm, where he found everything progressing sat- 

 isfactoril.v. 



There was a meeting of the creditors of the 

 Brooklyn Cedar Ware Works held last week at 

 which time a committee was appointed to in- 

 vestigate the company's affairs with a view to 

 securing a withdrawal of the bankruptcy pro- 

 ceedings against It. 



On the same date there was a meeting of the 

 creditors of H. O'Lansky & Co., sash, door and 

 blind manufacturers of Brooklyn, who recently 

 became embarrassed, but no definite action was 

 taken. 



J. F. Henderson ot' the Henderson Lumber 

 Company of Pittsburg. Pa., spent several days 

 in town during the fortnight in the interest of 

 business. 



Other visitors were E. P. Slocomb. E. P. Slo- 

 comb & Co., Philadelphia : C. . G. Barr, Tennes- 

 see Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Potts- 

 ville. I'a. ; W. E. Terhune, W. E. Terhune Lum- 

 ber Company, Pittsburg, Pa. ; Lewis Dill. Lewis 

 Dill & Co., Baltimore, Md. ; Guy White, White, 

 Frost & White, North Tonawanda, N. Y'. : R. G. 

 Kay, Philadelphia. Pa. : R. C. Lippincott. Phila- 

 delphia, I'a. ; C. P. Coppock. Coppock-Warner 

 Lumber Company, Philadelphia. Pa. 



Eustace Conway, attorney of 66 Broadway, 

 Manhattan, has been appointed receiver of 

 Dixon & Dewey in firm dissolution proceedings 

 to succeed Harry S. Dewey, former receiver. 



Lieut. -Gov. E. J. Lake ot Connecticut and 

 active head of the Hartford Lumber Company 

 of Hartford, was in town last week renewing 

 acquaintances in the trade. 



There was a meeting of the Eastern Sash, 

 Door and Blind Manufacturers' Association at 

 the Park Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, last week, 

 at which time general market conditions were 

 reviewed. The reports showed the market to 

 be in fair shape and as a result of the discus- 

 sion prices on all grades of blinds were ad- 

 vanced 1 cent and plans devised to reinforce 

 the market on sash and door prices also. 



W. A. Ruddlck, who has been representing the 

 Edward Hines Lumber Company interests in 

 the local market for some time, has severed his 

 connection to engage in a similar capacity witti 

 the Eastern Lumber Company of Tonawanda, 

 N. Y. Mr. Ruddick will maintain the same 

 offices at 1 Madison avenue as heretofore. 



There was a meeting of the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association at headquarters, 66 Broadway^ 

 on Sept. 25. There were present : President 

 J. M. Hastings and George F. Craig of Phila- 

 delphia, C. S. Prescott, Jr., of Cleveland, Gor- 

 don C. Edwards of Ottawa, R. W. Higbie and 

 Secretary E. F. Perry of New York. The com- 

 mittee spent a busy day reviewing the general 

 work of the organization and planning an active 

 winter campaign. Everything was reported in 

 excellent shape and a successful season in the 

 work of all departments is anticipated. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association. Baltimore. Md.. was 

 a recent visitor in town concluding a lengthy 

 trip to New Orleans and other points in the 

 interest of association affairs. Mr. Terry has 

 been at work with his colleagues in an effort to 

 amalgamate all branches in the lumber export- 

 ing trade into one National association, and 

 prospects seem bright for an early realization 

 of such efforts. 



The Executive Committee of the Car Stake and 

 Equipment Complaint Commission met at the 

 headquarters of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' .\ssociation. 6G Broadway, Sept. 24, 

 for a consideration of the present status of the 

 ease preparatory to the final hearing before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission Oct. 16. A 

 full attendance w-as present, together with a 



