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HARDWOOD RECORD 



out with an announcement of a new issue of 

 ?4O0,UO0 first mortgage. 6 percent serial gold 

 bonds of the Ozan Lumber Company, Prescott, 

 Ariz. It is understood that a large portion has 

 Arlc. It is understood that a large portion has 



The Hardwood Record was favored a few 

 days ago with a call from Benjamin F. Cobb, 

 editor of the Lumber Review, formerly of this 

 city but now located at Kansas City. Mo. Mr. 

 Cobb has fully recovered from his recent illness 

 which incapacitated him for work for more than 

 a month. 



Sam E. Barr, the well-known hardwood whole- 

 saler of the Flatiron building. New York, accom- 

 panied by his genial smile, was a welcome caller 

 at the Record office on Tuesday. Mr. Barr was 

 en route home from the Memphis meeting, where 

 he distinguished himself by devoting his ener- 

 gies to convincing the western members of the 

 National Association that Atlantic City was the 

 proper place for the next convention, in which 

 laudable effort he succeeded. 



Charles Darling, formerly doing business from 

 offices in the Merchants' Loan & Trust building, 

 has taken over the office and yard at Centre 

 avenue and Twenty-second street lately used by 

 Miller Brothers. As previously stated. Miller 

 Brothers have removed to the Willoughby build- 

 ing. 



The R'ittenhouse & Embree Company, the big 

 hardwood flooring manufacturer of this city, is 

 about to erect a handsome office building at its 

 factory and yard at the corner of Thirty-flfth 

 street and Centre avenue. The building will be 

 40x64 feet, two stories high with a basement, 

 and will be built of brick and handsomely fin- 

 ished. 



The Heath-Witbeck Company has removed its 

 general offices from Loomls street to the Wil- 

 loughby building. No. 6 Madison street. The 

 company will still continue the yard on Loomis 

 street, immediately opposite its old location. 



J. D. Lacey & Co.. the foremost timber land 

 operators in the country, have returned from 

 New Orleans to their summer headquarters in the 

 Old Colony building, this city. 



The Hardwood Record is indebted to the 

 Himmelberger-Harrlson Lumber Company, the 

 big red gum operator of Morehouse, Mo., for a 

 handsome desk paper weight embellished with 

 the card of the company. 



The Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company has 

 removed its general offices from the Tribune 

 building to its new office building erected spe- 

 cially for that purpose at the corner of Chicago 

 avenue and Sangamon street. The new offices 

 are models of convenience and are most beauti- 

 fully fitted up. 



LTpham & Agler are now nicely located in their 

 new offices in the American Trust building. This 

 company has recently added to its Cairo yard 

 facilities by the purchase of the plant of George 

 T. Houston & Co. of that city. 



W. E. Kelley & Co.. as previously announced 

 In the Record, have removed their offices from 

 the Chamber of Commerce to 201 Railway Ex- 

 change. 



The Southern Oak Lumber Company is now 

 nicely located in its new and enlarged quarters. 

 Suite 910 Chamber of Commerce building, hav- 

 ing removed thereto from the seventh floor of 

 the same building. 



The John O'Brien Land & Lumber Company 

 has taken flight from the Chamber of Commerce 

 to offices at its yards on Laflin street, south of 

 Twenty-second. 



The National Lumber Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of this city has been forced into involun- 

 tary bankruptcy. The misfortune of this com- 

 pany is said to have been caused by the trail of 

 disasters that has overtaken many other con- 

 cerns in whose affairs F. E. Creelman was 

 mixed. 



At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the 

 ■Ward Lumber Company, held at its offices in 

 the Chamber of Commerce building on May S, P. 

 Ford was elected president and L. N. DeGolyer 



treasurer, to succeed Charles A. Ward, president 

 and treasurer, deceased. As previously an- 

 nounced, the business of the Ward Lumber Com- 

 pany will be conducted on the same lines as in 

 the past. 



Boston, 



The business of Proctor & Drummey of this 

 city was discontinued on May 1. This firm had 

 been in business for thirty-five years. Follow- 

 iog the death of George Proctor several years 

 ago his son entered the firm and continued with 

 Jlr. Drummey. Mi'. Drummey died early in 

 April. 



Albert Hammett, Newport, R. I., died at his 

 home April 24. Mr. Hammett conducted a large 

 and successful lumber business for many years, 

 for the past few years his son. Harry G. Ham- 

 mett, being associated with him under the firm 

 name of A. & H. G. Hammett. Mr. Hammett 

 is survived by a widow, three sons and two 

 daughters. 



Thomas Angell Millett of Providence, R. L, 

 died April 24. Mr. Millett had been a lumber- 

 men all his life, first in the employ of Bailey 

 Bros, and later in partnership with Henry K. 

 Potter, under the name of Millett & Potter. 

 Still later he was a member of the firm of Ezra 

 D. Fogg & Co., and also of Talbot & Co. For a 

 few years past he has been engaged in a com- 

 mission lumber business. 



A license has been issued to the National 

 Lumber Insurance Company of Buffalo, N. Y., to 

 do business in Connecticut. 



Parker & Page Company of Boston has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $60,000. The 

 incorporators are Galen A. Parker, Francis E. 

 Page and Frank W. Page. 



TTie C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company was 

 visited by fire Friday evening, May 4, causing 

 a loss estimated at about $30,000. This com- 

 pany had a bad fire only a few months ago on 

 their old wharf. The recent fire was on the new 

 wharf and destroyed a large shed used for the 

 storage of finished lumber. Fortunately the 

 large lumber piles outside the shed were nearly 

 all saved. The loss was covered by insurance. 



William E. Litchfield has been in Memphis, 

 Tenn., attending the convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. Before return- 

 ing he will visit his mill in Indiana. 



The Chappell-EIy Company of New London, 

 Conn., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $50,000. The incorporators are A. C, 

 Ely, E. C. Ely, Grosvenor Ely and Arthur H. 

 Brewer. 



Kew ■york. 



The New York lumber trade were very gen- 

 erous contributors to the San Francisco sufferers, 

 and the fund of the New Y'ork Lumber Trade 

 Association totals at this date .ilmost $7,000. 



F. L. Gilbert of the Red Cliff Lumber Com- 

 pany, Duluth, Minn., arrived at this port last 

 week after a three months' Mediterranean trip. 



C. W. Manning. 06 Broadway, this city, has 

 just returned from an extended trip to wastern 

 and southern hardwood mill points. He reports 

 conditions at manufacturing points very favor- 

 able, with manufacturers securing such prices at 

 shipping points as to make purchases for eastern 

 shipments impossible of profit after paying the 

 freight. 



W. K. Knox of the local office of Lucas E. 

 Moore & Co., 11 Broadway, has just returned 

 from a trip to the New Orleans headquarters of 

 the company, where he has been spending sev- 

 eral weeks in the interest of business. 



Frank R. Whiting of the Whiting Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Abingdon, Va., was here last week 

 on business and stated that the two mills of the 

 company at Abingdon and Judson are running 

 in good shape and the company will shortly have 

 a choice line of hardwood to market. 



J. N. Woollett, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company, Pittsburg, Pa., was another 



New York visitor. He is optimistic over current 

 and prospective hardwood conditions. 



F. H. Loud, sales manager of the Buffalo 

 Maple Flooring Company, Buffalo, N. Y'., was 

 here last week subsequent to the announcement 

 issued by the company that it has been reorgan- 

 ized on a strong financial basis by the well- 

 known White and Loud interests of Michigan 

 and will make a stronger bid than ever for east- 

 ern business. The mill Is conveniently located 

 and well equipped and the company is well 

 backed financially and expects to be an impor- 

 tant factor in the eastern maple flooring business. 



The Iroquois Door Company, manufacturer of 

 veneer doors and general woodwork material, is 

 about to open a sales and exhibition room in 

 the local market under the management of K. P, 

 Salmonn. A. J. Phinney, manager of the com- 

 pany, has been here arranging for this new de- 

 partment. 



M. B. Eutsler of the Clinch Valley Lumber 

 Company, Blueflelds, W, Va., was in town last 

 week conferring with Doyle, Thomson & Co., 16 

 Beaver street, the company's local sales repre- 

 sentatives. The Clinch Valley Company is erect- 

 ing a fine new mill on a choice body of timber 

 in Kentucky to be in operation within a short 

 time, the product of which will also be dis- 

 tributed in this section by Uoyle, Thomson & Co. 



The Stevens-Eaton Company, 1 Madison ave- 

 nue, has recently completed office changes which 

 improve its equipment very materially. Each of 

 the principals is located in a private office and 

 an attractive reception room provides them with 

 one of the best equipped headquarters in the 

 district. 



W. M. Rltter, the distinguished Ohio lumber- 

 man, head of the W^. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany, Columbus, O., was in town for several 

 days during the fortnight. In this connection 

 it is of interest to note that Mr. Hitter's bard- 

 wood interests have recently been capitalized in 

 the state of West Virginia under the same style 

 with a capital of $8,000,000, which gives an 

 appreciation of his extensive holdings. 



L. G. Banning of Cincinnati, O., has been here 

 in connection with some export orders. 



Nelson H. Walcott of the L. H. Gage Lumber 

 Company, Providence, R. I., called upon his 

 several customers in the local trade during the 

 fortnight. 



As an appreciation of the excellent prospects 

 for business in the lumber trade for the ensuing 

 year, we note that the plans for building filed 

 tor the first quarter this year in the borough of 

 Manhattan alone represent a total cost of $34,- 

 358,000. The corresponding quarter of last year 

 represented only a cost of a little over 

 $25,000,000. 



Philadelphia, 



The Thos. Forman Company of Detroit. Mich., 

 through Wistar, Underbill & Co., its Philadel- 

 phia representatives, has secured several desira- 

 ble contracts for oak flooring in this market. 

 The choicest flooring contract of the year, that 

 of the Capitol at Harrisburg, was recently 

 awarded to this company. Quartered oak is to 

 be used and about 160,000 feet required. 



R. W. Wistar of Wistar, Underbill & Co. Is 

 making an extensive trip through North Carolina 

 and Tennessee in search of stock. 



I. D. Miller of I. D. Miller & Co. left for 

 the South May 3 to help along the shipments 

 which the firm has under contract at the mills, 

 and to look over the lumber field in that sec- 

 tion generally. He will not return for some 

 weeks. 



Wm. L. Patterson of the Philadelphia Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company reports a busy season 

 for that concern. H. N. Patterson, another 

 member of the company, is visiting the mills 

 In Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, and 

 the South, buying lumber. 



William B. Allen of the Colonial Lumber Com- 

 pany is at the company's mills at Amelia, Va. 

 After leaving there, he will travel through Vir- 

 ginia and the South to secure stock. 



