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prnminent in the ordei-. The Osli-ian Cloister 

 will hold a special session to receive initiates, 

 at :0'.) a. m.. regriilai- at 1 :30 p. m.. and at 

 '.i ;00 p. m. a banquet will be served. 



The R"KCORD is in receipt of the new special 

 catalog of the Browning Engineering Company 

 of Cleveland. O., which is a very well planned 

 and finely executed piece of work. This con- 

 cern presented an interesting exhibit at the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association meet- 

 ing, held May S and 0. at the Jefferson Hotel, 

 St. Louis. Mo. 



The mail fif the H.\Ki>wnui> i;i:ruRD is flooded 

 with communicatiuns from .1. (). McMahou of 

 Syracuse. X. Y.. reaching us through the courtesy 

 of lumbei-men tlirougboiit tlie oulire East. Mr. 

 McMahon announces that he has opened an office 

 in New York city and tells very attractive 

 stories of a prospective lumber yard which he 

 would ....e to install in the metropolis. He also 

 says he W'ants hardwood tlooring. If any hard- 

 wood flooring manufacturer wants Mr. McMa- 

 hon's trade, it probably will be very easy to 

 secure it. His new address is 111; West One 

 llundi-ed and Twenty-eighth street. 



The offices of the I*aepcke-Leicht Lumber 

 < orapany, the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company 

 and the Marked Tree Lumber Company have 

 been removed to a handsome new office building 

 at 140 West Chicago avenue, corner of Sanga- 

 mon street, this city. 



C. M. Carrier, well-known lumberman of Buf- 

 falo, N. Y,, was in Chicago on Thursday on his 

 way home from a visit to his son Uobert M. 

 Carrier of the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company at Sardis, Miss. 



Boston. 



Warren C. Norton of .Albany. N. V.. has pur- 

 chased the woodworking plant of T. R. Glentz 

 at rittsfleld, Mass. 



George D. Emery of George D. Emery & Co., 

 Chelsea, Mass., large importers of mahogany, 

 has returned from a trip to the West. 



K. B. Estes & Son of Hancock, Mass., are 

 planning to enlarge their plant by the erection of 

 lliriH' new buildings. 



William E. Litchfield lias been visiting his 

 mill in Mount Vernon, Ind. Mr. Litchfield left 

 Boston some weeks ago, fully intending to be 

 present at the convention in Memphis, but was 

 unable to do so owing to a railroad wreck. 



W. M. Weston of the W. M. Weston Lumber 

 Company, hardwood dealers, is making a trip 

 through the M'est. 



Erank Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin, the 

 well known tabasco mahogany dealers, has re- 

 turned from a western trip. 



J. M. Woods of John M. Woods & Co., dealers 

 In mahogany and manufacturers of veneers in 

 East Cambridge, Mass., has returned from a 

 trip through the Southwest. 



New York. 



The Iroquois Door Company of Buffalo, manu- 

 facturer of sash, doors, blinds and general mill 

 work, which makes a specialty of hardwood 

 veneer doors, has opened a local exhibition and 

 salesroom at 18 Broadway, this city, under the 

 management of B. P. Salmon. A full line of 

 samples will be shown here, and w'lth the ex- 

 cellent facilities of the company at Buffalo orders 

 can he filled immediately. 



Sam E. Barr, Flatiron building, has Just re- 

 turned from the convention of the National 

 Hardwoiui Lumber Association at Memphis. 



!•;. J. Marsh of the Sea Coast Lumber Com- 

 pany has just returned from a seven weeks' 

 trip to the cypress belt. He states that he found 

 stocks much depleted with little dry lumber on 

 hand. The new cypress association, he says, 

 is in absolute control of the gulf situation and 

 there is practically no stock available outside of 

 .the selling agency. The Sea Coast Lumber Com- 

 pany is doing a large business, and Mr. Marsh 

 Is very enthusiastic over the situation. 



Tlie new Adirondack Eire Insurance Company, 

 GG Broadway, is rapidly writing a large line of 

 business, and has been so successful since it 



started the first of the month as to leave no 

 doubt that it has an important place to fill in 

 the insurance field. 



The hardwood yard of Willson, .Adams & Co., 

 whidi has for many years been loi'ated at 13Sth 

 street and Gerard avenue, has been removed to 

 a new site recently acquired at l.'iOth street and 

 Gerard avenue, comprising forty lots. The com- 

 pany is building an up to date shed and will 

 be in better shape than ever in tliat <k'|iartmi'nl 

 with their new facilities. 



W. W. Dempsey, hardwood operator of Johns- 

 town, ra., has opened a local selling office at IS 

 Broadwa.v and will make his head(ptarters here in 

 future and cater more closely to the New York 

 trade. 



Marry S. 1 lewpy of Dixon & licucy. l''latiron 

 building, rcport.s the hardwood trade very fair 

 and says that his firm is in pcssession of a very 

 choice assortment of stock for the summer 

 trade. Their I'aciflc coast business is also ac- 

 tive. The schooner J. W. Briggs is about due 

 here with a big cargo of fir timber, and another 

 vessel will sail from tile coast consigned to them 

 early in June. 



O. Quitmann of E. & i). (iuitniann. .\merican 

 lumber brokers of London. Enghind, arrived here 

 last week in the interest of business. He will 

 visit the leading hardwood suppl.\' sources before 

 returning. 



l'"ire recently desti-oyed stock in the yards of 

 the S. E. Kellar Lumber Company, Fifty-seventh 

 street and Eleventh avenue, valued at $."1,000. 

 and another fire on May 1.3 entailed an addi- 

 tional lo.ss of $4,200. 



J. 11. Dickinson, head of the logging depart- 

 ment of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. 00 Liberty street, recently left for an ex- 

 tended southern trip, which will include the 

 cypi'ess belt. 



On May 15 the extensive piano case manufac- 

 turing plant of Jacob Doll, First avenue and 

 Thirtieth street, was completely gutted by fire, 

 which consumed a large amount of hardwood 

 lumber. The total property loss was .^S.'iO.OOO, 

 of which amount Doll's loss of $.50,000 is cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



E. L. Thomas of E. L. Thomas & Son. Yonkers, 

 sailed for Europe May 2?.. accompanied b.v his 

 daughter. 



The IT. M. Bickford Company, hardwood whole- 

 saler of Boston, Mass.. has opened branch selling 

 offices at 1 Madison avenue, this city, under the 

 management of A. Shoaf, who has been repre- 

 senting the company in this territory. 



Philadelphia. 



I-'iaiikliii II. Smith. Jr., secretary of the I'ro- 

 ducers" Lumber Company, is now completely 

 recovered from his late illness and is back in 

 harness again. The hardwood department of the 

 firm, which w'as established the first of the year 

 under a. J. Jobson, is now of considerable im- 

 portance. In the last thirty days the firm has 

 contracted for the output of three mills, taking 

 all theii- oak and poplar. 



Samuel II. Shearer & Son have .just completed 

 arrangements to take the entire output of poplar 

 and oak of several mills near Franklin, Va. The 

 purchasing agent of the firm, William Shearer, 

 has .iust returned from the South, where he in- 

 spected several large tracts of timber with a 

 view to purchase. 



The Boynton-Chalmers Company announce 

 that they have recently added a [ilaniug mill to 

 their works at Sewaren. N. J., besides doubling 

 their yard room and stocks and increasing their 

 working force. 



The Xeal-Morse Lumber ('ompany of Waltha, 

 N. v., passed into the hands of a receiver May 

 10, owing to the failure of Johnson & Radcllffe. 

 Mr. Itadcliffe being quite heavily interested in 

 this company. 



W. II. Lear is arranging for the reception of 

 over l.ooo.tioo feet of cypress, now in transit 

 from Florida by the schooner Collins W. Walton 

 and by steamer. He has lately contracted for 

 the output of cypress of a Florida mill averaging 



about 4.000.000 feet a year, and for the oiitput 

 of chestnut of a West Virginia mill. 



F. G. R'umbarger of the Humbarger Lumber 

 Company left last week for I'ittsburg. where he 

 will conclude deals which his company has had 

 pending for some time. 



(Jeorge F. Craig is down at the mills of his 

 company at Winterburn, W. Va., overseeing ship- 

 ments. Isaac H. Uliodes, who has just returned 

 Irom a sojourn of eight months at Winterburn, 

 is in charge of the firm's I'hiladelpbia office. 



fieorgc Warner has left for the South to visit 

 the mills in which he is interested and to inspect 

 stocks in general. He will not retui-u fru- two 

 weeks. 



Horace G. Hazard & Co. are preparing to 

 handle considerable ash, the product of mills 

 which the firm nas lately acquired. .Mr. Hazard 

 is now making a brief visit to the southern 

 properties and expects to be back in a fort- 

 night. 



Joseph Dunwiiody has left for a ten-days' trip 

 to Bristol, \a.. East Tennessee and western 

 .Vorth Carolina to look over some stocks recently 

 bi ught at tiiose points by his company. 



Tliomas W. Haiue was a recent visitor to 

 the trade from iOdenwood. W. Va., where he has 

 lately bought IS. 000 acres of hardwood timber, 

 the stock being principally white oak. with some 

 iiuplar and chestnut. 



E. E. Brilhart aud V. Tonkin, vice president 

 of the First National Bank of Cherrytree. I'a., 

 have lately acquired a tract cf oak timber in 

 West Virginia containing approximately six mil- 

 lion feet. Mills are in course of erection and 

 the stock will be marketed as soon as possible. 



Chas. R. Smith & Co. have leased the yard at 

 tlie nortuw'est corner of Beech and Brown streets, 

 formerly occupied by W. H. Lear, and will trans- 

 act a general business in North Carolina pine 

 and hardwoods. The company was recently 

 formed by Charles 1!. Smith, who was for five 

 years a salesman for Geo. W. Kugler & Son and 

 formerly manager for the C. B. Coles & Son 

 Company of Camden,, N. J, clarence L. Spencer 

 has been engaged as salesman for the new con- 

 cern. 



Richard P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co., Balti- 

 more. Md., paid the trade a visit last week. 



F. F. Gumaer has lately been engaged by 

 I.ukens Bros, as salesman. He will cover east- 

 ern Pennsylvania. Philadelphia and vicinit.v. 



The Pbiladelpbia Veneer & Lumber Compan.v 

 has lately received at its mills at Knoxville, 

 Tenn., the raft of logs contracted for last win- 

 ter. Enough timber Is contained in it to last 

 a year's cut. 



Shein & Vandcgrift are making an addition 

 to their plant of four more dry kilns, making' in 

 all ten. The concern has lately put on a new 

 salesman. Emll Kolb, who will sell in New York 

 city, the firm liaving discontinued its agenc.v with 

 the Vosnack Lumber Company of that city. 

 Some months ago, Sheip & Vandegrift acquired 

 adjoining property which gave them an outlet on 

 Into a yard, 130 feet deep and 51 feet wide, well 

 stocked with plain and quartered oak, poplar 

 and hasswood. 



C. II. Holden, in charge of the West Vir- 

 ginia territory for the Cherry River Boom & 

 Lumber Company, is making a visit to the Phila- 

 delphia offices of the firm. F. A. Kirby left 

 last week for an extended trip through Virginia 

 and Ohio. C. E. Lloyd, Jr., who has been ab- 

 sent for some time in the South and at the 

 main office of the concern in Scranton, is again 

 in active charge of the Philadelphia office. 



Frank B. Codling, who recently severed his 

 connection W'ith Charles Este, has opened an 

 office at 2121) Bellevue street, and will do a 

 general wholesale business in hardwoods, lie 

 has lately returned from a southern trip. While 

 away he contracted for the output of several 

 mills in western North Carolina and eastern 

 Tennessee. 



A forest fire in Seaford, Sussex county, Del., 

 last week destroyed timber valued at $lo.oiin, 

 besides lumber valued at .'(.■i,000. The fire 



