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Knglaml. !"oi- Ihe present Mf. I'innej- will be 

 loialeil Hi Hotel I'ei-i-iu, ri-ovUience, U. I. This 

 apijointmeiit fills a long felt want in this section. 



F. .M, Waid o£ Ward Bios.. Big Kapids, Mich., 

 manufactnieis of maple flooring, is making an 

 eastern Irip and was in Boston recently. Mr. 

 Ward slates that prices of hardwoods are ver.v. 

 linn and that he can see nothing that would in- 

 ilicale a decline. -While many are short of dry 

 stock, his tirm is having no trouble in that 

 direction, as it is cutting from its extensive tim- 

 ber tracts. This tirm is furnishing the SriO.OOU 

 leet of maple flooring to be used in the new 

 II. B. Claflin building in New York. Before re 

 turning home .Mr. Ward will visit New York and 

 \ icinily. 



The 11. B. Stebbius Lumber Company has 

 moved into new .piartcrs. Room OS Mason Build- 

 ing. 



Another concern which moved into the Mason 

 Building is Charles S. Wenlwovtli & Co., which 

 is located in Boom 3S. 



lerley B. LittlefieUl. eldest son of T. B. Lit- 

 tiefleld. well-kuowii lumber dealer of Somerville, 

 Mass.. was recently married lo Miss Clara Fre- 

 vort. 



Fred I>. Clapp has purchased the business of 

 the Stoughton Lumber Company. Stoughton, 

 Mass. Jlr. Clapp is thoi-oughly familiar with 

 the lumber trade, having lieen associated with 

 his father. ]■;. 1'. Clapp. for some time. 



William K. Lilcbtic-ld. president ol the Vir- 

 ginia Timber ComiKiuy. and W. C. Bates, treas- 

 urer of this company, returned about two weeks 

 ago from Virginia. 



C. S. Kobinson of the Chicago Lumber & Coal 

 Company, Chicago, recently visited the trade in 

 this vicinity. 



The carriage woodworking business in East 

 Hampden, Conn., has been sold to .1. IL Stocking. 



.lohn A. Daun, president of Dann Bros. & Co., 

 manufacturers of carriage woodwork at New 

 Haven, Conn., died .Tuly S of apoplexy. He was 

 Ti! years of age. Mr. Dann invented the first 

 folding camp chair, for which there was an im 

 mediate demand. He leaves a widow and seven 

 childreu. 



New York. 



Horace V. Taylor of Taylor & Crate. I'.uffalo. 

 spent several days here last week in the in- 

 terest of insurance affairs. He is one of the 

 lumber underwriters of C.ti Broadway and vice 

 president of the Lumber Insurance Company and 

 tlie Adirondack Fire Insurance Company of this 

 city. The underwriters were in session on ,Iuly 

 i;; considering important matters. 



W'. I.. Sykes of Hie I'huporium Lumber Com- 

 pany. Keating Summit. I'a., spent several days 

 here last week with C. <l. Shepherd, local rep- 

 resentative. 



Other visitors noted were F. M. Sullivan, T. 

 Sullivan & Co., Buftalo ; -M. B. Wilkenson. M. B. 

 WilkenKun Luiuber Company, Asheville, N. C, 

 and M. W. Hard. Boston. Mr. Hard was en 

 route home after a leugthy trip to the hardwood 

 mills in West Virginia and Tennessee and ex- 

 pressed himself as sanguine of a stiff hardwood 

 market for some time to come. He found prices 

 at mill points very bullish and stocks scarce. 



II. .McKenzie of Sydney. Australia, a promi- 

 nent woodwork manufacturer, was a recent ar- 

 rival from abroad. 



C, II. Ruddock and T. II. McCarthy of the 

 Huddock-drleaUs Cypress Company, New Orleans, 

 La., were recent visitors preparatory to sailing 

 lor ICurope. Both gentlemen embarked on the 

 Amerika for a summer tour abroad- W'. L. 

 Burton of the Burton-Schwartz Cypress Company 

 was also here. 



K. C. Mershon of W. P.. Mershon & Co., the 

 well known rpsaw manufacturers of Saginaw. 

 Mich., sailed for Hurope last week for a brief 

 stay abroad. 



3. Uahagaa"s Sons, large trim manufacturers 

 of lloboken, N. .1.. have incorporated under the 

 same style with a capital of .$r.O,OI)(l. J. C. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. A. and .1. A. tiahagan are the incorporators. 



Willson. .\(iams & (."o., retailers of 140th street 

 and Harlem Itiver, have sold their entire river 

 front holdings to the Erie Railroad for a freight 

 terminal. They will continue business on the 

 balance of their property. 



The Cypress Selling CDinpany, Ltd., of New 

 Orleans, La., has opened a local sales otfice at 

 IS Broadway under the management of L. F. 

 Wood. 



Charles I). Chase, a well known credit man of 

 Chicago, has succeeded C. F. Towles as manager 

 of the lo<al oflice of the Red Book, 18 Broadway. 

 Mr. Towles resumes the road for the association. 



S. Herrnstadt. the hardwood wholesaler of 6(J 

 Broadway, has given up a large part of his 

 busines.s to assume charge of the retail opera- 

 tion of Charles li. I'artridge at the foot of East 

 .Vinety-nintli street. .Manhattan. He continues 

 Irs own business in a small way, hut in the 

 luain will devote his attention to Mr. Partridge's 

 affairs. 



IL E. Wofford. sales agent of tlie Emerson 

 Company, manufacturers of the Emerson dry 

 kiln at Baltimore. -Md.. was a recent visitor and 

 reported Inisiness as excellent. Mr. Wofford is 

 installing two big kilns 100 feet long for the 

 line new plant whidi .Jacob Doll, piano manu- 

 facturer, is installing on the Southern boulevard. 

 Bronx, to lake the ]ilace c.f his factory recently 

 burned. Mr. Wofford is particularly pleased at 

 this sale, and construes it as a high testimonial 

 lo the Emerson kiln in view of the very particu- 

 lar work ni'iessary I" dry stock for piano manu- 

 facture. 



The Fairwood Lumber Company of Fairwood, 

 Va.. spruce and hardwood manufacturers, have 

 oiiencd ii selling olHce at Is P.roadway in charge 

 of E. A. Pope. 



(i. A. .Mitchell of Buffalo, the newly elected 

 piesident of the Lumber In-^urance Comiiany and 

 the Adirondack Fire Insurance Company of this 

 city, spent last week at head,|uarters. M'l Broad- 

 way, giving attention to insurance affairs. 



i:. A. Wilson, Wilson Cypress Company of 

 Palatka, Fla.. passed through the city last week 

 en rente home after a visit to Michigan points 

 and a brief stay at Saranac Lake in the Adiron- 

 ilacks. His mills have been producing about two 

 million feet per month so far this year and he 

 U well satisfied with the present and prospective 

 lyiiress market. . 



Philadelphia. 



The fifteenth semiannual meeting of the Lum- 

 IpcMinen's Association. Inc., was held at Mount 

 .\lto. Pa., on .Inly IL 12 and 13. Delegates 

 were in attendance from all parts of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Besides the executive work dime at the 

 various meetings, excursions were made to points 

 of interest in the vicinity in company with the 

 ladies who made part of the gathering. 



The president and board of directors of the 

 .\merican Forestry Association have informed 

 the Lumliermen's Exchange of Philadelphia that 

 it has been elected to membership in that body. 



Since the announcement that the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of Philadelphia would move to a more 

 central location seven new applications for mem- 

 bership have been received and more are prom- 

 ised. Among those whose names will shortly be 

 ballolted upon for admission are the following : 

 .\tlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, by F. A. 

 Dudley. Crozer Building : Coppock. Warner 

 Lumber Company. 182G Land Title Build- 

 ing: Horace B. Hazard. Drexel Building: 

 Frank C. Kolb, 3840 Spring Garden street: 

 Righter-Parry Lumber Company, 520 Land Title 

 Build'ng: Tomb Lumber Company, Real Estate 

 Trust Building, and .1. Randall Williams & Co.. 

 ."vlij Arcade Building. 



.Jerome IL Sheip of Sheip & Vandegrift, who 

 has been ill for some time, is now coinpletely 

 recovered and took occasion during the last week 

 to vis'.t New York and attend to some matters 

 there connected willi his firm which needed 

 his attention. 



I-'raucis Coodhue, Jr., secretary and treasurer 

 if the Iliiladelphia Veneer & Lumber Company, 

 has taken summer quarters at Medford, N. J., 

 with a iiarly of congenial friends. 



A. Wilt & Sons find their business in laill 

 work and fixtures rapidly improving. Since the 

 cliising of the strike some weeks ago they are 

 greatly increasing their output. 



Fesseiideu Hall, one of the heaviest mahogany 

 and veneer men in I'hiladelphia. reports that 

 .lune was the greatest in volume of business that 

 his company has had for a long time, and he 

 locks for a continuation of the good liusiness. 



Thomas W. Skinner of Tunis & Skinner is 

 lueparing tor a trip to Arizona in August. Mr. 

 Skinner's visit will consume an indefinite time 

 anil while he is in the West he will look up 

 limber tracts. 



The mills of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany at Townsend, Tenn., are now running at 

 tlieir full capacity. The company has also sev- 

 eral of the dry kilns that they lately constructed 

 in operation. 



Mr. Mingus of William McCormick. who has 

 been touring Europe for some time, sailed for 

 home ,Inly 14 and expects to be back to work 

 about the end of .Tuly. 



Max Pease of (Jallow-ay-Pease Company. .John- 

 son city. Tenn., has been visiting the trade dur- 

 ing tile past week. 



Frank Holloway of the Ilolloway Lumber Com- 

 pau.v is touring West Virginia in the interests 

 of his firm. 



I. W. Warner of the Coppock-Waruer Lumber 

 Company is making an extensive visit through 

 the South and reports from him indicate that 

 the mills of the concern are turning out lumber 

 in good shape. 



<;. B. .lobson of the Prodticers' Luiuber Com- 

 iiany left for the South last Wednesday and will 

 l)e gone for some time Ills trip is to be an 

 extensive one : he will secure stocks of hardwood 

 timber. 



Baltimore. 



The logs of a walnut tree that is said to be 

 the largest ever brought to Baltimore have been 

 received here, consigned ttr John L. Alcock & 

 Co. It is of the black variety and was cut on 

 tl'.e farm of E. Pettibone, Anne Arundel county, 

 by E. M. McClintock. This tree yielded not less 

 tlian thirty-nine logs, thirty-eight of them aver- 

 ag'ng eiglit feet in length and running in diame- 

 ter from 10 to 40 inches, while the butt end is 

 twelve feet long and measures at the top feet 

 2 inches in diameter and at the ground end s 

 leet 8 inches. As the butt shows considerable 

 ligure. the piece of wood, it is tlionght. will be 

 esjiecially valuable to veneer manufacturers. 



A cei'tificate of amendment to the charter of 

 the R. E. Wood Lumber Company of this city, to 

 increase the capital stock from S-">00,00n to 

 .Sl..->OO.n0O. has been filed for record in the 

 omits at Dover, Del., and at Baltimore. The 

 lompany. together with its connected interests, 

 the .Montvale Lumber Company, which is the 

 real estate holding company, and still another 

 corporation, has undertaken various extensive 

 improvements and has attained a very prominenr 

 place in the hardwood trade. It maintains a 

 suite of offices in the Continental Building here 

 and has branches in a number of places. R. E. 

 Wood. |)re-iidi>nt of the comp.any, has Just re- 

 turned from Pr'.stol, Va.. where he attended the 

 wedding of Elwell Lee Warren, the c^)nipany's 

 repiesentative at Buladeen. Carter county. Tenn.. 

 rti Miss Trula Leigh Keenan. 



The Tinley Brothers Comiiauy has been incor- 

 I orated here to succeed the firm of Tinley Bros., 

 manufacturers of sash, doors and frames on 

 West Pratt street, near Fremont avenue. The 

 lapitiil stock is $100,000. Fi-ederick G. Tinley, 

 Sidney II. Tinley, Alfred J. Tinley, B. C. 

 I' ney and William Bobbins are the incorpo- 

 rators. The firm some time ago outgrew its 

 present quarters and early in the year purchased 

 a large lot in Southwest Baltimore, where a 

 modern plant of large capacity is being erected. 



