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C harles Goklingaj',' Thomas (loldingay and Frank 

 V. Lord, all of Newark, are tbe incorporators. 



Fire in the handle factory operated by John 

 M. Cherry at Adrian, ^lich., a few days ago 

 caused an estimated loss of .$5,000. The prop- 

 erty was insured at only .'51,400. Two carloads 

 of finished handles, as well as a quantity of 

 material, were destroj'ed. Mr. Cherry has not 

 deiided as yet whether he will rebuild or not. 



'/,. T. Kobinson, of Owensboro, Ky., inventor 

 of the tilting stay-log for making quarter-sawed 

 \eneer. who operates two saws equipped with 

 tills device at Owensboro- under the firm name of 

 I he Robinson Veneer Works, is interested in the 

 pronioti()n of a company which will establish a 

 veneer mill at Owensboro equipped with ten 

 saws. lie did not originally intend to put the 

 machines on the market, but has made a few 

 sales witli such great success that he may put 

 I hem on the market regularly. 



A local paper is responsible for the assertion 

 that New York state will refuse to consider the 

 oflfer of the Brooklyn Cooperage Company to 

 ■•ibandcin its claim to lumber certain portions of 

 the state lands under a contract entered into 

 with the Cornell School of Forestry, provided a 

 <'laim f'ti- sn-called aitnai damages, amounting 



to about ,$400,000, is recognized and paid l)y the 

 slate. It is maintained that the (Cornell School 

 of Forestry had no right to enter into such u 

 contract, and therefore it is null and void. 



The Badger Stave & Lumber Company, recently 

 incorpoi-ated at Milwaukee, Wis., with a capital 

 stock of S.S.T.OOii. has chosen the following olli- 

 cei-s : .Joseph Kosenlieimer. [jresident : Victor 

 Husting, vice president ; John A, Christnacht, 

 treasurer, and M. G. Fleckenstein, secretary. 

 The company owns 2, .323 acres of land in Issa- 

 quena county, Mississippi, SOO of which have 

 been cleared and planted to cotton. It also 

 owns 1,647 acres in Madison Parish, Louisiana, 

 most of which is virgin timber land, which will 

 l>e cleared at once. 



The National Handle Company, Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., has started operations after a week's shut- 

 donn to allow for taking the annual inventory 

 and for repairing the plant. Records of the 

 work done by this company during the fiscal 

 year ended June 30, 1906, show a very healthy 

 condition of business. During the year the com- 

 pany handled 1,200 carloads of handles of every 

 description. The Fort Wayne factory is the 

 northern division of the National Handle Com- 

 pan.v, the main plant of which is at Cleveland, O. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



CBy EABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



Chicago. 



N. A. Gladding, sales manager of E, C. Atkins 

 A: Co., Inc.. of Indianapolis, came to town last 

 week to attend the meeiing of the yellow piners, 

 l)ut found time to drop in at the Record office 

 for a friendly call. 



.\mong tlie welcome callers at the Record 

 office July 17 were Cash Carrier and A. P. Steele 

 of the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 

 Sardis, Miss. Mr. Carrier had just reached Chi- 

 cago from an extended Pacific Coast trip and 

 was joined here by Mr. Steele, manager of the 

 plant, for a coufereufe. 



J. B. Montgomery, secretary of the American 

 T. umber & Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, 

 ■ ailed at the Record office on July 17, on his 

 way to the Northwest, on a buying trip. Mr. 

 Montgomery reports the business of his company 

 very act ive. 



E. P. Arpin of the Arpin Ilardwmjd Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Wis., was a Chicago 

 \isilnr last week, and paid his i;espects to the 

 IlKcoHD. Mr. Arpin is very much interested in 

 gelling togeiliei- a mass of evidence to show that 

 the rate on hardwood lumber from the middle 

 West to the Pacific coast is unjust and unrea- 

 s(rnable for presentation to the Transcontinental 

 i'reight Committee. He is very sanguine that 

 I he evidence he will present will be sufficient to 

 gain a marked reduction in this rate. 



Among the new Chicago wholesale lumber 

 houses is The Gillespie-Reynolds Company, cor- 

 ner Lumber and Seward streets. This company 

 is made up of Robert II. Gillespie, well known 

 in the local trade, and II. R. Reynolds of Manis- 

 tee, who lias long been identified witli the lum- 

 Iier business on the west shore of Michigan, It 

 is Mr. Reynolds' intention to move to Chicago 

 this fall and take an active part in the affairs 

 of the company. 



C, S. Bacon, president of the Bacon Lumber 

 Company. Grand Rapids. Mich., called at the 

 Record office a few days ago on- his way to 

 visit the company's mills at Tremotit. La. 



G. K. W. Luelirmann of the Chas. F. Luehr- 

 niann Hardwood Lumber Company of St. Louis, 

 was a Chicago visitor on Monday last. 



Gus J. Landeck of the Page & Landeck Lum- 

 ber Company. Milwaukee. Wis., was in the city 

 on Monday. 



F. M. Kinderman of tlie General Lumber Com- 

 pany, Columbus, 0., was in town on July 20. 



tScrivenoter J. II. Baird announces that mem- 



bers of the order of Hoo-Hoo have been ac- 

 corded a rate of one fare plus $2 to the annual 

 meeting at Oklahoma City by the Southwestern 

 Excursion Bureau, and that the same rate will 

 doubtless be extended by other passenger associ- 

 ations. Dates of sale, return limits and other 

 details are being rapidly arranged and will be 

 announced later. 



A law suit has been started in Arkansas which 

 from every appearance is indicative of spite 

 work. The complainant is one William B. Beck- 

 man and the suit is instituted against Herman 

 Paepcke of Chicago and others. The bill recites 

 that the complainant is the owner of five shares 

 of stock in the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company 

 of Chicago and Cairo, III., and that the defend- 

 ants have prevented him from deriving any ben- 

 efit from his interest. He further represents 

 that Mr. Paepcke and his associates have been 

 fathering "a giant pool, trust, combination, 

 agreement or understanding since 1900 to un- 

 lawfully regulate and fix the price of boxes in 

 the T'nited States." The bill contains a vast 

 quantity of rot of similar character with little 

 analogy to existing and well-known facts. It is 

 pretty well known that the complainant is a 

 discharged employe of the Paepcke-Leicht Lum- 

 ber Company, and that he has taken this means 

 to annoy the concern with an idea of "getting 

 even." It is doubtful if any reputable court will 

 ever permit the case to come to trial. 



The North Branch Lumber Company has been 

 reorganized. W. C. Hull of the Oval Wood Dish 

 Company of Traverse City, Mich., has purchased 

 a controlling interest therein, and a new cor- 

 poration, the North Branch Flooring Company, 

 with a capitalization of $100,000, to engage in 

 the manufacture of hardwood flooring, has been 

 organized. Extensive improvements have been 

 made in the plant at the Western avenue bridge, 

 this city, and new machinery, dry kilns and 

 boilers added. The management of the plant 

 will remain in the hands of II. F. Brand, who 

 has filled that position very creditably for a 

 number of years. 



Fire in the factory of the Foster & Munger 

 Company, manufacturers of sash, doors and 

 blinds at Twentieth and Sangamon streets, re- 

 cently damaged .$,^00 wortli of property. 



The IlAitDWfioD Record office was graced a 

 few days ago by the presence of H. A. Perkins, 

 general superintendent, and Joel B. Ettinger, 

 western manager of the S. A. Woods Machine 

 Company, Boston, Mass. They report that busi- 



ness is very active with this great eastern wood- 

 working machinery house. Mr. Ettinger, whose 

 office is in the Railway Exchange, this city, has 

 been particularly fortunate in securing a large 

 volume of business during tlie season. Mr. Per- 

 kins is making one of his periodical trips to visit 

 the company's general agencies. 



The H.\KDWooD Record had the pleasure of 

 a call on July 19 from John E. Williams, the 

 able editor of the New Orleans Lumber Trade 

 Journal. Mr. Williams and his family are domi- 

 ciled at Chicago for the summer months. 



W. S. Hollister, of The Pine Plume Lumber 

 Company, Montgomery, Ala., who was formerly 

 associated with the Empire Lumber Company o£ 

 BufTalo. made a call at the Record office on 

 July 19. 



John II. Jenks, vice-president of the Robt, H. 

 Jenks Lumber Company of Cleveland, and asso- 

 ciated with the big yellow pine interests at Tre- 

 mont. La., attended the meeting of the "yellow 

 piners" in Chicago last week. 



The report of the creditors' attorneys in the 

 case of the National Lumber Manufacturing 

 Company of this city, bankrupt, has just been 

 filed. Analysis is made of the properties of this 

 company in West Virginia and Alabama, and 

 the attorneys believe that a considerable sum 

 in net assets can be achieved by the creditors 

 by their carefully being handled. Investigation 

 shows about 12,000.000 feet of stumpage, and 

 a mill and railroad in West Virginia which cost 

 about $40,000, against which there Is a bonded 

 indebtedness of $47,000. Alabama property con- 

 sists of 15,000 acres of timber leases, saw mill, 

 steamboat and a barge line. The provable lia- 

 bilities of the company are estimated at about 

 $150,000. 



The Vehicle Woodstock Company, of which 

 Fred A. Curtis of Chicago is secretary, held a 

 business meeting at the Great Northern Hotel 

 on Wednesday, July l.S. Only routine business 

 was transacted. 



W. P. I'owell. sales manager of W. B. Alershon 

 & Co., the well-known band sawing machinery 

 people of Saginaw, was a Chicago visitor July 

 IS. Mr. Powell advises that E. C. Mershon, the 

 mechanical expert and head of Mershon & Co., 

 has arrived safely on the other side of the At- 

 lantic for a business and pleasure trip. Mr. 

 Powell .says that the call for Mershon band saw- 

 ing machinery is still up to the capacity of the 

 recently enlarged plant, and that orders for 

 eleven machines have been booked in the last 

 ten days. 



Ed Heath of the Heath-Witbeck Company, who 

 has been abroad since early in May, is now in 

 London. Mr. Heath anticipates returning home 

 about Aug. 15. but will leave his family abroad 

 some months longer. 



Chicago had the yellow piners in its midst last 

 week, the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion having held its semiannual meeting at the 

 Chicago Beach Hotel, Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 July 17 and IS. While they did not call it a 

 cut in price, they "amended" their list. The 

 yellow pine contingent will eventually discover 

 that the way to maintain a markel is to cut 

 output and not prices. 



Boston. 



J. W. Willis of J. W. Willis Lumber Company, 

 Washington Court House. Ohio, was a recent 

 Boston visitor. Mr. Willis is also president of 

 the Washington Manufacturing Company, manu- 

 facturers of chairs, at that place. He was ac- 

 louiiianied on his eastern trip by his two eldest 

 daughters. 



W. B. Pope & Co. of Boston, whose yard has 

 been located in Albany street for about twenty 

 .years, have withdrawn from business. Mr. Pope 

 started in business with a partner under the 

 firm name of Pope & Paul. Some time ago Mr. 

 Paul retired from the firm and Mr. Pope con- 

 tinued the business. 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 lias appointed D. R. Pinney Inspector for New 



