HARDWOOD RECORD 



Tlie Boston & Maine Railroad Company has 

 liled witli the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 note of a tarifE of $1 per net ton on southern 

 lumber from Boston to Rockland, Me. The same 

 rate is made also on lumber from Boston to in- 

 termediate points where there is water competi- 

 tion. 



Frank Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin, Lind- 

 say H. Shepard and Willis C. Bates, Boston 

 lumber dealers and members of the Ancient and 

 Honorable Artillery Company, Boston, attended 

 the regular fall outing of the latter company, 

 which was held in Atlantic City last week. Mr. 

 Lawrence on his way home stopped off in New 

 Vork for a few days. 



J. L. Barney, formerly connected with the 

 Northern Lumber Company of Boston, has en- 

 tered the employ of the Rice & Lockwood Lumber 

 Company of Springfield, Mass. Mr. Barney will 

 represent this company in eastern Massachusetts. 

 Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. 



Howard L. Piatt, secretary of the New Britain 

 Lumber Company, New Britain, Conn., and sec- 

 retary and treasurer of the Naugatuck Lumber 

 Company, has been elected director of the Con- 

 necticut Lumber Dealers' Association. 



The yard of the E. P. Reed Lumber Company. 

 North Abington, Mass.. was damaged by Are. 

 causing a loss of about .$10,000. Two of the 

 buildings filled with lumber were destroyed. The 

 loss is covered by insurance. 



William Bacon of Davenport, Peters & Co.. 

 Boston, who has been spending three weeks' 

 vacation in Nova Scotia, has returned. 



Horace Bearse of Owen Bearse & Son, who 

 has been absent in Europe for about five months, 

 returned this week. 



Corn- 



New York. 



lOarl Palmer of the Ferguson & Palmer 

 piiny of Paducah, Ky., and ex-president of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, was a 

 visitor in town last week accompanied by Mrs. 

 Palmer. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against 

 I ho Keables & Bayer Piano Company, manufac- 

 turers at 1901-1905 Park avenue, Manhattan. 

 The company was organized in March. 1904, with 

 a capital of $10,000, succeeding the Milton Piano 

 Company. The liabilities are said to be $20,000 

 and the assets $4,000. J. C. Coleman has been 

 appointed receiver of the assets. 



H. A. Savage, who for several years past has 

 been associated with the Cypress Lumber Com- 

 pany of Boston, has engaged with Gouveneur E. 

 Smith, hardwood wholesaler at 17 Battery place. 

 Ibis city, to represent him in the New England 

 territory and to that end has opened an office 

 at .SIO Broad Exchange Building, Boston. 



All efforts to find heirs to the estate of John 

 W. Russell, for many years a prominent whole- 

 saler of this city, who died recently, leaving no 

 will and an estate of $100,000, have proved 

 without avail and as a result the estate will go 

 ti> the state of New Jersey and the Dominion 

 of Canada unless some relatives come forward 

 to claim the same. 



.Tohn B. Ransom, the prominent Nashville 

 hardwood lumberman, and head of the extensive 

 interests of John B. Ransom & Co., was in town 

 for several days last week in the interest of 

 business. 



Charles F. Hotferberth of the hardwood firm 

 .if Charles Hofferberth, 50'2 West Twenty-second 

 street, is one of the incorporators of the Hof- 

 fcrberth-Troy Company, incorporated last week 

 with a capital of $300,000, to conduct a general 

 limber business. The directors are Charles F. 

 Hotferberth, F. W. Troy and F. R. Wood of New- 

 York. The headquarters will be at Troy, N. Y. 

 R. H. Downmao, the prominent New Orleans 

 cypress manufacturer, was a recent New York 

 visitor in the interest of business. He reports 

 Imsiness in cypress very satisfactory. 



Horace F. Taylor of Taylor & Crate, Buffalo. 

 N. Y.. spent several days here during the fort- 

 niaht in the interest of busine.ss and insurance 



affairs. Mr. Taylor is vice president of the 

 Lumber Insurance Company and the Adirondack 

 Fire Insurance Company. 66 Broadway, city. 



The Rubin Grau Company has been incorpo- 

 rated at Brooklyn with a capital of $40,000 to 

 succeed to the large trim business previously 

 conducted by Rubin Grau in that city. Mr. 

 Grau recently tiled a petition in bankruptcy 

 personall.v and it was arranged b.v the creditors 

 to make a settlement on the basis of notes in 

 a new corporation for their debts and the new 

 corporation has now been organized with that 

 end in view. 



Charles H. Finch, head of Charles H. Finch & 

 Co., Brooklyn, died at his residence, 326 Strat- 

 ford road, on September 26, in the .31st year of 

 his age. He had been associated with the Brook- ' 

 l.vn lumber trade since 18ST with various firms, 

 and organized Charles H. Finch & Co. three 

 years ago. Much regret is expressed in whole- 

 sale circles at his untimely death. The firm is 

 a member of the New Y'ork Lumber Trade Asso- 

 ciation and in accordance with the usual custom 

 a prominent committee attended the funeral rep- 

 resenting that body. 



The twentieth annual meeting of the New 

 York Lumber Trade Association will be held at 

 the association rooms, this city, on Oct. 10, pre- 

 ceded by a Delmonico luncheon. Indications 

 point to the largest attendance in the history 

 of the organization. 



Franklin Greenwood of the Cypress Selling 

 Company, Ltd., New Orleans, was a recent vis- 

 itor in the interest of business aud while here 

 met the various representatives of the company 

 in this territory. He reports conditions in the 

 Louisiana cypress belt very satisfactory, with 

 the demand constantly increasing. 



E. ('. Mershon of W. B. Mershon & Co., band 

 resaw manufacturers of Saginaw. Mich., arrived 

 in port Sept. 25 after an extended European trip. 

 While abroad he enjoyed the sights of France 

 and Switzerland and had a generally fine time, 

 and returns much benefited. 



William E. Marsh of Marsh & McClennen 

 arrived last weeli after a lengthy stiiy at the 

 California operations of his firm. 



Benjamin G. Hitchings, the Brooklyn manu- 

 facturer, has just installed a fine new twelve- 

 iuch S. A. Woods moulding machine, which is an 

 important addition to his mill. 



S. F. Minter. the hardwood wholesaler of 1 

 Madi-son avenue, was married Sept. 20 to Mrs. 

 Jennie M. Morten in this city. They have just 

 returned from a wedding journey in Maine and 

 will take up their residence in this city. 



Moses Hatch of Kornthal & Co.. extensive 

 casket manufacturers of this city, died suddenly 

 Oct. 3. while attending a theater in Buffalo. 

 He was a prominent figure in that branch of the 

 local hardwood trade and well known there. 



The Charles F. Fischer Lumber Company ex- 

 panded their hardwood yards in Manhattan by 

 the opening up of a new storage yard at the 

 north side of 134th street, between Madison and 

 Park avenues, whereon they are accumulating 

 additional choice stock of hardwoods. 



Philadelphia. 



With a few exceptions the local lumbermen 

 are all back from their vacations and regard the 

 outlook for fall and winter business favorably. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. are busy. Hard- 

 woods are active and prices stiff. The mills of 

 this firm, on account of a general demand from 

 all quarters for good hardwoods, have been 

 unable to accumulate stock but are looking for- 

 ward to more rapid shipments as the season 

 opens up. 



Miller & Miller, who are now thoroughly set- 

 tled in their new quarters, regard the outlook 

 bright. Orders are coming in in good shape. 

 J. Clark Miller of this firm has just returned 

 from South Carolina, where he has been making 

 new connections, which will place his company 

 in a position to meet the increase in business. 



C. E. Lloyd. -Jr.. Philadelphia manager of the 

 1 'lit-rrv River Boom .Sc Lumber Company, has been 



spending a few days at the main oflBce in Scran- 

 ton. Pa., and is now ou a business trip through 

 the western territory. 



B. C. Currie, Jr., Philadelphia manager of 

 R. M. Smith & Co., is touring Pennsylvania in 

 the interest of the firm, whose headquarters is 

 in Parkersburg. W. ^'a. Reports emanating from 

 this office show a prosperous season. 



T. N. Nixon of W'istar, Underbill & Co. is 

 traveling through West "Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina buying for his firm. H. E. Bates of this 

 company spent two weeks in New York state vis- 

 iting the trade and has now gone to Canada 

 looking up stock. Orders are coming in and in- 

 dications arc very favorable for the fall and 

 winter business. 



William H. Fritz & Co. report a steady in- 

 crease in business, their hardwood department 

 progressing favorably and general conditions en- 

 couraging. B. B. Ilayman of this firm is taking 

 his u.sual trip through the state. 



R. W. Schofield of Schofield Bros., is indulg- 

 ing in a short rest at Atlantic City, N. J. His 

 lirm is anticipating a steady demand for good 

 hardwoods during the coming season. 



The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company 

 is coming to the front. It reports a considerable 

 number of now orders and that the volume of 

 business will far exceed the previous year. 



Francis Goodhue, Jr., of the Philadelphia 

 Veneer & Lumber Company is enjoying a pleas- 

 ure, trip through the state of Massachusetts. 

 The company is rushed in cigar box lumber, 

 which wood, however, is scarce and prices stiff. 



Franklin A. Smith, president of the Producers 

 Lumber Company. Is taking a trip through th>- 

 state of Maine. He will be gone two or three 

 weeks. 



J. H. Garing of the Weston-Garing Company. 

 Jacksonville, Fla., has been visiting the local 

 irade during the last week. 



Frank Buck of the Daniel Buck Estate has 

 recentl.v returned from a three months' tour of 

 ICurope. 



The Keystone Casket Company called a meet- 

 ing of creditors for Oct. 3 in the office of Wil- 

 liam H. Peace, attorney. The company showed 

 the following statement of its affairs : Liabili- 

 ties. $25,266.78. and assets, $17,350.96. An 

 offer was made of forty per cent in cash, to be 

 paid in thirty days, to the merchandise cred- 

 itors, and twenty-five per cent in cash, to be 

 paid in thirty days, to the borrowed-money cred- 

 itors. This offer comes from an outsider, whose 

 name was not given. He proposes to take over 

 the business and the old company will be dis- 

 solved. A committee was appointed to examine 

 the books and report at a meeting adjourned to 

 Oct. 5. The company is only a few years old. 

 was chartered under Pennsylvania laws ; author- 

 ized capital. $30,000. of which $19..500 was paid 

 in. 



The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company 

 suffered a disastrous fire on Sept. 24. when one 

 of the smaller buildings was destroyed. The 

 conflagration occurred at an unfortunate time, 

 lor the building was stocked with finished work 

 to be sent to the varnishing department and 

 made ready for shipment. This will cause K 

 ilelay of a week or more, and as all departments 

 are working full force the company will un- 

 doubtedly receive a setback when they come to 

 get out their orders. It is difficult to obtain 

 any definite figures as to the fire loss, but a 

 careful estimate gives over $100,000 as approxi- 

 mating the mark. The company makes it a 

 rule to carry full insurance, therefore it is 

 thoroughly protected. 



Jerome H. Sheip of Sheip & Vandegrift has 

 just returned from a business trip to Knoxville. 

 Tenn., where his firm has extensive interests in 

 band and veneer mills. 



The Rumbarger I..umber Company has recently 

 added some S.OOO acres of timber lands in west 

 ern North Carolina to their already extensivr 

 holdings in this state, making a total in thi-s 

 immediate locality of 30.000 acres. Frank T. 

 Rumbarger of this company is traveling through 



