HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Perley Lowe and Jacob Mortenson. two well 

 known and wealthy Chicago lumbermen, have 

 purchased the L. Van Winkle sawmill and 

 standing timber at Van's Harbor. Delta coun- 

 ty, Michigan. There are upwards of 20,000,000 

 feet of timber on the property, which will be 

 under the management of Reuben Knox, a 

 well known Chicago lumberman, who was 

 formerly manager of the Ford River Lumber 

 Company of Ford River, Mich. With other 

 timber available to the plant, it is expected 

 that a long-time lumber operation will be 

 continued at Van's Harbor. 



The Record acknowledges a call on June 4 

 from H. E. Bacon, of the Bacon-Nolan Hard- 

 wood Company of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Bacon 

 was en route north, arranging for a summer 

 outing for his family. 



Fred Bruening of the hardwood house of 

 Henry Bruening. Bremen, Germany, was a 

 waller at the Rkcoud office several days ago. 

 He is visiting the United States on a buying 

 trip. 



John B. Ransom of Nashville, Tenn., was 

 in the city the early part of last week. 



O. O. Agler of Upham & Agler, spent sev- 

 eral days in the Wisconsin hardwood timber 

 country last week. 



There will be a meeting of the executive 

 committee of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association held at the organization's offices 

 in the Rector building on Thursday, June 14. 

 This will be the first meeting of the executives 

 of this association since the May 4 election. 



It is announced that the Edward Hines Lum- 

 ber Company of this city is having plans 

 drawn with a view to erecting a hardwood 

 flooring plant here. 



E. P. Arpin. president of the Wisconsin 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, was a 

 Chicago visitor a few days ago. 



W. D. Young. Bay City, Mich., of maple 

 flooring fame, was in town last week. 



Those interested in the development of the 

 veneer and panel industry should not fail to 

 remember that the next meeting of the Na- 

 tional Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held at the Grand Hotel. Cin- 

 cinnati, Wednesday, June 'JO. This meeting 

 should call out every manufacturer of veneers 

 and panels in the country, as many matters 

 of particular interest and profit to the trade 

 will be handled. 



Excellent opportunities for woodworking 

 establishments are found at a number of 

 points on the North-Western Line in the tim- 

 ber country of Wisconsin and Micliigan. Par- 

 ties dealing in cooperage will be furnished 

 with reference to sections where this business 

 may be conducted favorably. Address the In- 

 dustrial Department, Chicago & North-West- 

 crn Railroad, Chicago. 



A welcome caller at the Recokd offices last 

 week was L. T. Davidson, the well known 

 manufacturer and wholesaler of hardwoods at 

 Glasgow, Ky,, who was in Chicago on a hasty 

 business trip. 



The Hardwood Record has received, with 

 the compliments of Nelson A. Gladding of E. 

 C. Atkins & Co., Inc, Indianapolis, Ind,, a 

 very handsome volume entitled "Indiana at 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition." The 

 book comprises a brief outline of the work 

 and personnel of the commission which so 

 ably conducted the Indiana state exhibition at 

 St. Louis. It is profusely illustrated, giving 

 beautiful halftone reproductions of the fifteen 

 members of the commission, a bird's-eye view 

 of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, various 

 views of the exterior and interior of the 

 Indiana state building, and of the many fine 

 exhibits shown by Indiana interests. It is 

 withal a very creditable publication, its pages 

 giving a very graphic picture of an exhibition 

 of which the Hoosier State may be justly 

 proud. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the H. M. A. of 

 U. S. is back in his office after an extended 

 southern trip. 



J. L. Strickland of the Planters' Lumber 

 Company, Greenville, Miss., was a caller at 

 the Record office on Wednesday of this week. 



The local trade thought it had quite a joke 

 on Lewis Doster. secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States, when either by accident or design he 

 located his offices adjoining those of the Anti- 

 Saloon League of America in the First Na- 

 tional Bank building. When Frank F. Fish, 

 secretary of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, recently located the executive 

 offices of his organization on the tenth floor 

 of the Rector building, he took particular 

 pains to see who his neighbors were on that 

 floor. Unfortunately the owners of the build- 

 ing were unable to refit Mr. Fish's suite 

 immediately and temporarily located him on 

 the ninth floor. Much to his chagrin he finds 

 that these quarters adjoin the Chicago offices 

 of the Dwight Keeley Cure. It is really quite 

 a sight to see Secretary Fish side-step when 

 he passes this door. He has a force working 

 nights to get his permanent quarters in shape 

 for occupancy, and expects to move in next 

 week. 



The firm of Reginald J. Davis & Co., hard- 

 wood dealers, filed a petition in involuntary 

 bankruptcy May 25, showing that the firm was 

 interested in building construction in San 

 Francisco and that the great disaster was 

 responsible for its financial trouble. The 

 liabilities are $60,000 and assets $30,000. 



The Southern Oak Lumber Company of Chi- 

 cago has filed a certificate in the state of 

 Arkansas showing that $10,000 of its capital 

 stock is to be used there, and naming James 

 R. Bush of Helena as agent. An anti-trust 

 affidavit was filed simultaneously. 



The Hardwood Record is in receipt of a 

 catalogue of the Biltmore Forest School, Bilt- 

 more, N. C, of which C. A. Schenck, Ph. D., 

 is director. The school is now in its eighth 

 year, and is perhaps the most practical and 

 best equipped institution of its kind in the 

 country. It not only has for its director the 

 best practical forester in the United States, 

 but its field work is conducted in the great 

 Pisgah mountain forest belonging to the Bilt- 

 more estate of Geo. K, Vanderbilt, than which 

 no other woodlands offer such diversified op- 

 portunities for study along this line. 



Boston. 



Several of the local manufacturers of fur- 

 niture have been having labor trouble at 

 their plants for the past few weeks. Irving 

 & Casson, the A. B. & E. S. Shaw Com- 

 pany and Eastman & Co. have brought a bill 

 in the superior court against the Amalga- 

 mated Woodworkers of America, Local 24, 

 and other unions, seeking an injunction to 

 prevent members of the union from interfer- 

 ing in any way with their business. 



The Hotchkiss Brothers Company of Tor- 

 rington. Conn., will erect a building in Hart- 

 ford, Conn., to be used for the storage of 

 lumber. 



Henry S. Locke, a member of the lumber 

 firm of H. S. Locke & Co., Needham and 

 Dedham, Mass., on May 22 was run over by 

 a train at Dedham and Instantly killed. He 

 was 63 years of age. Mr. Locke is survived 

 by a widow, three sons and three daughters. 



The Boston Lumber Company has removed 

 from 27 Kilby street to 79 Milk street, where 

 it has spacious offices on the sixth floor. 



Horace Shepard of the Shepard & Morse 

 Lumber Company has returned from a three 

 months' European trip. 



The firm of W. L. Lockhart & Co. of Boston 

 has been dissolved. George H. Howard of 

 the old firm is settling up the affairs of the 

 company. 



Charles S. Wentworth & Co. of Boston have 



leased a new and much larger office in the 

 Mason building and will remove from their 

 present location at 147 Milk street before 

 August 1. 



The Davenport, Peters Company has been 

 Incorporated to succeed the firm of Daven- 

 port, Peters & Co. The incorporators are 

 George H. Davenport, William Bacon and 

 Lewis M. Pratt. 



The H. M. Biokford Company, 147 Milk 

 street, Boston, moved June 1 to larger quarters 

 in the Mason building. 



Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went- 

 worth & Co., Boston, has just returned from 

 a trip to New Brunswick. 



William E. Litchfield of Boston has returned 

 from a trip to New York. Mr. Litchfield re- 

 ports that the extensive improvements at his 

 mill in North Vernon, Ind., are about com- 

 pleted. 



Ne'w York. 



There will be a big time at the golf course 

 of the Nassau Country Club, Nassau, Long 

 Island, on June 12 and 13, when a large num- 

 ber of lumbermen from all over the East and 

 Canada will contest for valuable cups and 

 prizes, given by representative New York lum- 

 bermen. 



The H. M. Biokford Company of Boston has 

 opened a local selling office at 1 Madison 

 avenue, under the management of Mr. A. 

 Shoaf. 



La Bau & Baker of Jersey City, N. J., 

 well-known cypress specialists, have secured 

 the sales agency north of Norfolk and east of 

 Pittsburg for the Louisiana Cypress Lumber 

 Company of Harvey, La., which have with- 

 drawn from the Cypress Selling Company com- 

 bine. 



Numerous attempts have been made during 

 the past two months to burn out the yards of 

 the S. E. Kellar Lumber Company, some of 

 which have been sufficiently successful to have 

 entailed total losses to date of about $15,000. 

 The company is hard at work endeavoring to 

 apprehend the culprit. 



The many friends of Pendennis White of 

 Buffalo in the local district were shocked to 

 learn of his sudden death in an automobile 

 accident at Buffalo on May 31. Mr. White 

 was president of the Lumber Insurance Com- 

 pany and the Adirondack Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany of this city and a heavy stockholder in 

 the Stevens-Eaton Company of this city, and, in 

 fact, really began his lumber career here with 

 L. P. Rider years ago. which partnership later 

 became White, Rider & Frost. A few years 

 ago Mr. White withdrew and organized White, 

 Gratwick & Mitchell at North Tonawanda, 

 and .soon after became associated with the 

 Stevens-Eaton Company. For years he has 

 been a prominent figure in the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association and 

 was its president for one term. One of the 

 strongest supporters of the trade flre insur- 

 ing movement from its inception, he was at 

 the time of his death the heaviest individual 

 investor in that line in the lumber trade. He 

 was a man of much business ability and en- 

 ergy and a host of friends will miss his wise 

 counsel and warm friendship. 



The trustees of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association held a regular 

 meeting at headquarters, 66 Broadway, May 

 25, at which time a large amount of routine 

 businejBs was transacted. 



W. E. Uptegrove, Jr., son of W. B. Upte- 

 grove, head of the firm of W. E. Uptegrrove 

 & Bro., Brooklyn, who has been associated 

 with his father in business for some years, 

 died at the family residence, in Brooklyn on 

 May 25 in his twenty-fifth year. The sym- 

 pathy of the trade is Mr. Uptegrove's in his 

 bereavement. 



English & Co. of 1 Broadway Is the latest 

 wholesale house to join the uptown colony 

 at 1 Madison avenue. 



