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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ton, is president, and J. M. Bond, local man- 

 ager of that company, treasurer. A general 

 wholesale hardwood and yellow pine business 

 will be conducted along the same lines as 

 followed by the Wood-Barker Company. The 

 latter company will fulfill all contracts to 

 date, and from now on the new corporation 

 will assume the new business. 



The Stalz Piano Case Company has been 

 incorporated in this city to manufacture 

 piano cases by H. Harris. H. F. Hartjen and 

 J. Mandelbaum, all of New York. The capi- 

 tal is $10,000. 



George J. Barker of the Wood-Barker Com- 

 pany of Boston, arrived last week from a 

 two months" pleasure trip abroad. 



The Frantz Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Yonkers. N. Y., to conduct a 

 general lumber business with a capital of 

 $20,000. by W. H. Frantz and W. W. Heidel- 

 baugh of Lancaster, Pa., and Robert C. 

 Lowerre of Y"onkers. 



W. M. Ritter, the distinguished Columbus. 

 O., lumberman, has been spending several 

 days in town during the fortnight in the 

 interest of business. 



E. W. Bobbins of the Maley. Thompson & 

 Moffett Company, Cincinnati, O., is liere vis- 

 iting the local operation of the company at 

 the foot of East 31st street, going over mat- 

 ters at this end of the line. He expresses 

 himself as very well satisfied with the New 

 Y'ork end of the business. 



W. M. Dwight, the prominent maple floor- 

 ing manufacturer of Detroit and head of the 

 Dwight Lumber Company, has been here re- 

 newing acquaintances in the trade. 



Harry S. Dewey. Dixon & Dewey. Flatiron 

 building, expresses himself as very well sat- 

 isfied with current conditions. They are en- 

 joying a good trade in liardwoods and are 

 very active in their Pacific Coast trade. The 

 John A. Briggs has Just arrived from the 

 Coast with 1,500,000 feet of big fir timbers 

 and is now discharging at the various points 

 in the harbor. Mr. Dewey anticipates a trip 

 to the Coast in a short time. 



L. P. Hollowell. the veneer manufacturer 

 of 31st street and First avenue, has just re- 

 turned from a trip to Indianapolis in the in- 

 terest of business, where he spent several 

 days with the Indiana Veneer & S.aw Com- 

 pany, whose stock he handles in this vicinity, 



Charles F. Fischer. Chas. F. Fischer Lum- 

 ber Company, 1820 Park avenue, is spending 

 the summer with his family at Good Ground, 

 L. I. 



Philadelphia. 



Kirby & Hawkins, who are making more and 

 more of their own stock, are arranging to put 

 in two more mills on the 1,.150-acre tract which 

 they lately acquired in Virginia. 



H. n. Maus & Co. have added a considerable 

 tract of land to their already extensive holdings 

 in the western part of Virginia. They are erect- 

 ing mills on the ground, and expect to keep 

 them busy on their new acquisition for the next 

 five years. 



Horace G. Hazard returned last week from an 

 extensive trip to Florida and extreme southern 

 points. On his way back he spent some days 

 in Savannah, where his firm has heavy inter- 

 ests. 



William S. Harvey, president, and George W. 

 Lex, secretary of the National Timber Company, 

 which owns extensive tracts of land in Florida, 

 are making a trip through the South. 



Horace O. Williams, receiver for the Beaver 

 Creek Lumber Company, w"hich has been in the 

 hands of a receiver for four years, expects to 

 clear things up this week. Every dollar owed 

 by the company will be paid. 



John W. Coles, formerly of the Righter-Parry 

 Lumber Company, has made a splendid record 

 for himself during the year and a half he has 

 been in business. He recently returned from a 

 trip to southern and other points where he con- 



tracted for the output of several mills and se- 

 cured a nice lot of timber which he is offering 

 to the trade. 



J. Wistar Evans, vice president of the Phila- 

 delphia Veneer & Lumber Compan.v. who was 

 married on June 2.S to Miss Susan Elizabeth 

 Barlow of New York, is visiting his mother at 

 Church Lane. Germantown. He will leave for 

 Knoxville, Tenn., shortly. 



Fire was discovered on tlie morning of July 

 1 at the planing mills of Frank Sneda<'ker. Ninth 

 and Tioga streets, but was checked in time to 

 save the valuable stock and its buildings. Tiie' 

 fire is thought to have been caused by combus- 

 tion in the shaving pit. The loss is trifling. 



Articles of incorporation were filed at Tren- 

 ton. N. J., on June 27 for the formation of J. 

 Gahagan's Sons, a corporation chartered to carry 

 on the business of woodworking. J. Alfred 

 Gahagan is the agent in charge of the New 

 Jersey office and the incorporators are James 

 Gah.igan, William A. Gahagan and J. Alfred 

 Gahagan. The company is capitalized at $*J(1.- 

 000. 



Arrangements have been completed with the 

 Crozer building which will probably result in 

 tliat place being the future location of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of Philadelphia. The suite 

 selected is situated on the llilrd floor, and the 

 contract will be signed in a few days. F. S. 

 Underbill, Charles P. Maule and Frank M. Gll- 

 lingham. the committee in ctiarge of securing 

 new (juarters, reported the result of their work 

 to the board of directors at the regular meeting 

 on Thursday. July .">. It is expected that the 

 Exchange will be installed in the new location 

 by September 1. if the arrangements under way 

 now go through. 



It. E. Iiiffenderfer, vice president and general 

 manager of the Virginia & Southwestern Coal 

 & Timber Company, has just returned from a 

 visit to the company's holdings, whei-e he made 

 an estimate on a new lot of timber land for the 

 concern. The company expects to take up sev- 

 eral extensive tracts in West Virginia and Ten- 

 nessee and to be in working shape by Septem- 

 ber 1. 



Henry Whelpton. secretary and treasurer of 

 the Owen M. Bruner Company, has I'cturned 

 from a trip to northern New York and the 

 South. While away he bought and sold consid- 

 erable high-grade lumber. 



F. A. Kirby and C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. alternate 

 in charge of the Philadelphia office of the Cheri-y 

 Kiver Boom & Lumber Company. While one 

 spends a week at the main office of the concern 

 at Scranton, Pa., the other has charge of the 

 Phil.idelphia office, and vice versa. In this way 

 the high efliciencv of the sales office is main- 

 tained. 



At the annual meeting of the Producers' Lum- 

 ber Compan.v, on Friday, June 29, a dividend of 

 10 jjer cent was declared. Franklin A. Smith, 

 president, and Franklin A. Smith, Jr., secretary, 

 were rei^lected to office. The firm reports that 

 the hardwood department has been a gratifying 

 success. 



The Messrs. Schofleld spent a few days last 

 week at Anglesea. N. J., where they enjoyed 

 some fine fishing. Owen M. Bruner is spending 

 a short vacation at Atlantic City, N. J. 



I. S. Steele, buyer for the Ruraharger Lumber 

 Company, at Elkins, W. Va.. is in town visiting 

 his firm. F. T. Rumbarger and J. J. Rumbarger 

 spent some days of last week at Cumberland, 

 Md. During the hot weather of the past few 

 weeks Frank Rumbarger has been staying at 

 Atlantic City, coming up to Philadelphia each 

 day on business. 



Among the visitors to the trade last week 

 were Mr. Henderson of the Henderson Lumber 

 Company, Stony Bottom. W. Va. ; ,T. M. Bern- 

 hardt of Lenoir, N. C. ; Mr. Farrington of the 

 Farrington Runyon Company. Perth Amboy. N. 

 J., and Ednumd A. Gaskell of the Little Creek 

 Lumber Company, Sue, W. Va. 



S. B. Vrooman sailed for Europe on the 

 Lucania on July 7 to be gone several weeks. 

 While abroad he will look up foreign timber. 



William K. (iardy is taking a much needed 

 vacation in \'irginia. He expects to be gone 

 several days. 



John J. Soble of Soble Bros, recently returned 

 from a three weeks' trip in New York state. 

 The firm finds trade going well and have no 

 complaint to make. 



William B. Allen of the Colonial Lumber 

 Company has returned from a six n-eeks' trip to 

 the company's mills in Virginia. While there 

 operations were so strenuously carried on that 

 the company got out over a million feet of lum- 

 ber. Mr. Allen, while as robust as ever, has 

 some interesting experiences to relate of the 

 doings and grub of a logging camp. 



Baltimore. 



The concatenation of the Baltimore mem- 

 bers of the Order of Hoo-Hoo held on June IS 

 at the Maryland Country Club brought to- 

 gether a large number of members and proved 

 exceptionally- enjoyable. The special occa- 

 sion for the gathering was the initiation of 

 eleven kittens. After the ceremonies an en- 

 joyable dinner was served, at which Vice- 

 gerent Snark George E. Waters and others 

 made addresses. The table decorations were 

 a feature, cut flowers being arranged in beds, 

 and smilax trailing from one cover to an- 

 other, a most artistic effect. The dinner was 

 served in excellent style. Those present in- 

 cluded a number of out-of-town guests. 



The N. W. James Lumber Company gives 

 notice by advertisement that it has succeeded 

 to the business of the firm of N. A^'. James 

 & Co., Aliceanna street, and will hereafter 

 take care of all orders in the hands of the 

 firm. The company was incorporated June 

 13 with a capital stock of $200,000. divided 

 into $100 shares, the incorporators being 

 Nathaniel W. James, Norman James. George 

 B. Hunting. Frederick A. Ascherfeld. and Al- 

 exander Campbell. The Messrs. James were 

 also prominent in the affairs of the old firm, be- 

 ing the sons of the late Henry James, the 

 founder of the firm of Henry James & Co., 

 which the firm of N, W. James & Co. suc- 

 ceeded. An incorporation was effected in or- 

 der to insure continuance of the business and 

 to leave the Messrs. James more time for 

 looking after other investments. Norman 

 James and Charles I. James, another brother, 

 are extensively interested in the Pigeon River 

 Lumber Company, which is undertaking an 

 extensive development in western North Car- 

 olina and eastern Tennessee. The officers of the 

 X. W. James Lumber Company are Nathaniel W. 

 James, i)resident ; Norman James, vice presi- 

 dent; George B. Hunting, secretary-treas- 

 urer, and Frederick A. Asclierfeid, general 

 manager. Messrs. Hunting and Asclierfeid 

 have been for years in the employ of the old firm 

 and are familiar with all the details of the 

 business. 



M. S. Baer of the liardwood firm of R. P. 

 Baer & Co. returned two weeks ago from an 

 extended trip of three montlis in the South. 

 He went to Mobile. Ala., to look after the 

 operation of the firm's mill there. He also 

 visited other lumber concerns and among 

 the contracts closed was one for the entire 

 cut of a mill. He returned by way of St. 

 Louis. Memphis. Cincinnati and other cities, 

 also stopping at Chicago. He reports that 

 business in the Central West is better than 

 in the East and that all the mills are busy. 

 R. P. Baer of the same firm recently spent 

 several weeks in southwestern Virginia and in 

 Nortli Carolina. 



Robert H. Smith. Charles S. Rich and Ed- 

 ward Duffy have been appointed receivers for 

 the assets of Henry C. Chipman. a chair man- 

 ufacturer conducting business under the firm 

 name of George Chipman & Son. on Boston 

 street, this city. Mr. Chipman had previously 

 been declared a bankrupt on the petition of 



