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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Henry Cape. 1 Madison avenue, has been 

 appointed exclusive sales agent for this dis- 

 trict for the maple flooring product of W. D. 

 Young & Co., Bay City, Mich. 



T. S. Miller, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Stevens-Eaton Company, ac- 

 companied by George M. Stevens, spent sev- 

 eral days during the fortnight in the West 

 Virginia hardwood belt on business. 



J. C. Turner of the J. C. Turner Lumber 

 Company is off on a tour of inspection of his 

 various southern enterprises. 



W. W. Knight, of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company. Indianapolis, Ind., was a visitor last 

 week on National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion affairs. 



Nelson H. Walcott, of the L. H. Gage Lum- 

 ber Company, Providence, R. I., was also 

 here during the fortnight. 



C. H. Stanton of Buffalo spent several days 

 In the district on business. 



W. H. Martz, of the Goodland Cypress 

 Company. New Orleans, was here last week 

 renewing acquaintances in the trade and push- 

 ing their "good cypress." 



E. D. Galloway, Galloway-Pease Company, 

 Johnson City, Tenn.; C. R. Krimm, Williams- 

 port Hardwood Lumber Company. Williams- 

 port, Pa.; R. B. Currier. Springfield, Mass.. 

 and R. E. Wood, R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Baltimore, were also recent visitors. 



Allen W. Adams of the Willson & Adams 

 Company of Mount Vernon, N. T., and a 

 former partner in Willson, Adams & Co., Man- 

 hattan, died at Greenwich, Conn., May 18. He 

 was for years a prominent figure in the local 

 fraternity and the entire trade, as well as his 

 business associates, keenly feel his loss. 



The new hardwood flooring plant of the 

 Emporium Lumber Company at Galeton, Pa., 

 has begun operations, and Manager C. O. 

 Shepherd of the local ofiice is about ready to 

 entertain orders. The plant is a fine one and 

 will produce about 6,000,000 feet annually. 



At a special meeting of the creditors of 

 the International Mahogany Company, held 

 here May 23, a proposition, submitted by 

 George F. Montgomery, a former officer of the 

 company, to take over the assets for $25,000 

 cash and make further payments to the 

 creditors by notes, was accepted. This cash 

 payment will immediately give the creditors 

 a 10 per cent dividend, and they will then re- 

 ceive notes at one, two. three and four years 

 of a new company, to be known as the Cuba 

 Commercial Corporation, each for 10 per cent, 

 making a total dividend of 50 per cent to all 

 creditors. 



Philadelphia. 



A special meeting of the inspectors and 

 officers of the lumbermen's mutual insurance 

 companies was held on June 4 in the offices 

 of the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual 

 Fire Insurance Company in the Drexel build- 

 ing and was attended by representatives of 

 the Lumber Mutual of Boston, Lumbermen's 

 Mutual of Mansfield, O., Indiana Lumbermen's 

 Mutual of Indianapolis. Central Manufactur- 

 ers' Mutual of Van Wert, O., and the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual. Mr. 

 Stone of Boston was elected secretary. It 

 was agreed to have a general and systematic 

 inspection and there was also a discussion of 

 matters and methods pertaining to lumber 

 Insurance in general. 



Geo. F. Craig, president of the Lumber 

 Exchange, attended the meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania State Forestry Association held 

 at Harrlsburg June 5 and 6. 



A. J. Cadwallader of Geo. F. Craig & Co. 

 left for Savannah last week, where he wlU 

 superintend matters at the shipping points 

 and offices of the concern at that place. 



The mills of W. M. McCormick at Town- 

 send, Tenn., are again In running order. The 

 property was destroyed by fire on February 

 21. On March 1 rebuilding was started and 



the energy displayed in putting affairs in 

 running order was the subject of much fav- 

 orable comment. 



Chas. K. Parry of the Righter-Parry Lum- 

 ber Company is in the South buying lumber 

 and inspecting the interests of the concern at 

 various points. This company has lately been 

 going into hardwoods extensively. 



The Blades Lumber Company of Elizabeth 

 City and Newbern. N. C, announce that they 

 liave consolidated with the Elizabeth City 

 Lumber Company and will hereafter be known 

 under that name. 



Norman A. Perry of the Robt. C. Llppincott 

 concern is spending some time in the South 

 at various mill points looking over shipments 

 and attending to other matters for the firm. 



Wm. H. Fritz of Wm. H. Fritz & Co. is in 

 New York, where he controls considerable 

 trade. 



J. J. Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lumber 

 Company has been ill for a week or more. 

 F. T. Rumbarger, who has been spending 

 some time in New York and Pittsburg, has 

 again taken charge of his work in the home 

 office. 



A meeting of the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 of Philadelphia was held on June 7. Besides 

 the transaction of regular business new mem- 

 bers were voted upon. Action on the follow- 

 ing resolution, which has been mooted in 

 local lumber circles for a long time, was 

 taken: "Resolved, that this exchange approves 

 and adopts the rules for inspection of hard- 

 wood lumber known as the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association Rules, and recom- 

 mends to its members that all disputes aris- 

 ing under these rules be referred to the resi- 

 dent authorized inspector of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association." 



A number of local lumbermen who are in- 

 terested in golf will attend the Lumbermen's 

 Golf Tournament to be held June 12 and 13 

 at Nassau Country Club, Nassau Station, L. I. 

 Those who attend will go under the auspices 

 of the Philadelphia Lumbermen's Exchange. 



H. N. Pattison of the Philadelphia Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company is visiting various 

 mill points through Virginia and the South 

 generally. The firm is making a specialty 

 of plain red and white oak, which it finds in 

 great demand among furniture dealers. 



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

 has just returned from a trip through Vir- 

 ginia and North Carolina. 



J. W. DifEenderfer has started a new saw- 

 mill on poplar a short distance from Bristol, 

 Tenn. He has just returned from Damascus, 

 Va., where the operation is going on double 

 time. 



W. H. Howard of Emporium. Pa., has Just 

 acquired a tract of about 40.000 acres near 

 Goshen. Va.. consisting mostly of o.ik, chest- 

 nut and poplar. The tract extends through 

 four counties, although most of it lies in Bath. 

 Mr. Howard is undecided at present whether 

 to operate or sell. 



R. 'W. Schofield of Schofield Brothers has 

 just returned from their mills where he was 

 looking over shipments and other matters. 



Visitors to the trade lately included Wen- 

 dell M. Weston of W. M. Weston Company, 

 Boston; Myron J. Kimball of Kimball & 

 Prince Lumber Company. Vineland. N. J.; 

 Samuel M. Bickford, Lock Haven, Pa., and 

 C. J. Gibson of West Shore Lumber Yard, 

 Utica, N. Y. 



trip, where the groom is giving personal su- 

 pervision to the mill operated by his company. 



Three mahogany logs, said to be among the 

 most perfect specimens of this wood ever 

 brought into the United States, were received 

 here two weeks ago and taken to the plant 

 of the Williamson Veneer Company at High- 

 landtown. a suburb, where they are to be cut 

 up into veneers. The logs measured 14 feet 

 in length and 3 to 5 feet in thickness. They 

 were brought from British Honduras and are 

 valued at not less than $10,000. The work 61 

 slicing is being done for a Louisville firm, 

 which imported the logs by way of New Or- 

 leans. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here within 

 the past two weeks were Norman G. and Boyd 

 Wright, representing the Glasgow hardwood 

 importing firm of Wright. Graham & Co. The 

 Messrs. Wright had been on an extended tour 

 through the United States and were on their 

 way to New York, preparatory to sailing for 

 Europe. Their travels extended as far as Se- 

 attle and Tacoma, and they came back full 

 of admiration for the Pacific coast and its op- 

 portunities. They sailed from New York 

 June 2. 



The saw and planing mill on the farm of 

 Burton H. Bowden. near Seaford, Del., was 

 destroyed by fire May 26. together with sev- 

 eral thousand feet of lumber. The plant was 

 sold to John Collins five weeks before, and 

 during the interval had been on fire twice be- 

 fore it burned to the ground. It was valued 

 at $5,000. There was no insurance. 



Baltimore. 

 The marriage of David T. Carter of Carter, 

 Hughes & Co. of this city, and the Iron 

 Mountain Lumber Company of Virginia, to 

 Miss Mary Hopkins, daughter of a well-known 

 business man of Port Deposit, Md., took place 

 there on June 7. Mr. Carter is a very popular 

 young man and has the felicitations of a large 

 number of friends. He and his bride will go 

 to Troutdale, Va., after an extended wedding 



Pittsburg. 



O. H. Rectanus of the A. M. Turner Lumber 

 Company has been making quite an extended 

 trip through the Northwest in search of white 

 pine stocks. The company's mills in the 

 South are all very busy and a big season's 

 cut is already assured. 



The James I. M. Wilson Company, the 

 Nicola Lumber Company, the C. P. Caughey 

 Lumber Company and the M. B. Farrin Lum- 

 ber Company report business as excellent, 

 and predict a busy summer. 



The last week in May forest fires did much 

 damage in the hardwood districts of West 

 Virginia. Most of them were in the vicinity 

 of Davis and Parsons and on the Otter Creek 

 Boom & Lumber Company's tract. Over 3,009 

 cords of bark were burned and also the saw- 

 mill and a large amount of dressed lumber 

 belonging to Kenny & Rains at Harman, 



P. A. Opperman and W. W. Collin are two 

 new wholesalers who have lately located In 

 the Machesney building. The former will 

 make a specialty of mill work and the latter 

 Intends \o do a general wholesale business. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association is flourishing, and several new 

 firms have been admitted since April 1. The 

 association will hoW its regular annual picnic 

 about the middle of this month at Ross Grove. 



Manager J. G. Chrij e of the Interior Lum- 

 ber Company says thai his company's mills at 

 Oneida, Tenn., are runnmg full and that they 

 will probably keep going all summer. 



The William H. Schuette Company is re- 

 building its mill at Bellhaven, N. C, which 

 was burned recently. The new plant will be 

 run under the name of the Bellhaven Lumber 

 Company and will have a capacity of 30,000 

 feet of worked lumber In addition to a sawmill 

 which will cut 75,000 feet a day. 



The Llllo Brothers Company has the con- 

 tract for 450,000 feet of timber which the 

 Eruening Cork Company will use in the build- 

 ing of its big cork factory at Oakdale. 



The Liberty Lumber & Planing Mill Com- 

 pany has been chartered with a capital of 

 $50,000 to succeed to the business of the J. 

 W. Gallagher Lumber Company which has 

 gone out of existence. The Liberty company 

 has the Gallagher yard in the East End, one 

 of the largest in the city, and is rapidly 



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