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[T.outh, \'a. Tbo compaoy employed sixty meu, 

 who will be thrown out of employment, perhaps 

 jnly temporarily, however, as Mr. Emich, one 

 3f the proprietors, states that the company has 

 contemplated the removal of its big plant in 

 ['ittsbiirg to the Belt Line site of the plant de- 

 stroyed. The plant may be rebuilt on a larger 

 scale. The loss totaled ,?S0,000, with $40,000 

 nsurauce. 



The building occupied by the Palmer and Pio- 

 leer Manufacturing Companies at Detroit. Mich., 

 vas recently damaged by fire to the extent of 

 F100,000. The origin of the Are is unknown. 

 Che machinery of the Palmer Manufacturing 

 Company is badly damaged, but a large stock 

 )f hardwood used for the manufacture of tables 

 vas saved, although soaked with water. The 

 iamaged portions of the plant will be rebuilt. 



The large stave manufacturing plant of the 

 iloore Lumber Company, Washington, N. C, was 

 ilmost totally destroyed by fire on Oct. 5. The 

 irigin of the fire is unknown and whether the 

 lompany will rebuild the plant has not yet been 

 iecided. 



In India there is a patent medicine firm which 

 lonverts into penholders the wooden packing 

 ase in which it gets drugs from America. These 

 )enholders are made by hand and are so good 

 hat the government buys them. 



C. L. Marshall of Bristol, Tenn., has been 

 ippointed receiver for the Allen Panel Corpora- 

 ion of .Tohnson City, Tenn. The Allen corpora- 

 ion was organized only a short time ago, taking 

 iver the property of the defunct Allen Panel 

 Company. Mr. Allen interested Ferd Powell and 

 ithers in the new company and it resumed opera- 

 ions of the large plant at Johnson City. A 

 lisagreement followed, resulting in the appoint- 

 Dcnt of a receiver. Mr. Allen was also presi- 

 lent of the Standard Oak Veneer Company. In- 

 erior Hardwood Company and allied corpora- 

 ions, all of which failed during the panic. 



The Miles Brothers Hickory Manufacturing 

 Company of Des Arc, Ark., is making arrange- 

 aents to establish a rim and spoke factory at 

 jonoke. 



J. L. Logan, president of the Central Lumber 

 Company of Mansfield, La., has purchased 5,755 

 .crcs of timber land between Mansfield and 

 3enson, La., from E. W. Hamlin of Cincinnati, 

 )., for $144,37S. The lands are timbered with 

 hort-leaf pine and mixed hardwoods. The Cen- 

 ral company operates a handle factory in con- 

 lection with a planer and some of the hardwoods 

 vill be utilized in this bu.siness. Mr. Logan is 

 ^resident of the De Soto Parish Industrial Com- 

 lan.v, chartered to settle white immigrants upon 

 and as fast as the timber is removed. 



It is reported at Baltimore, Md.. that the 

 ombination of interests effected recenti.y by the 

 Empire Lumber Company under the name of the 

 American Forest Company will erect a large 

 awmill plant near Murphy, about sixty miles 

 elow Asheville, N. C. The plant, it is esti- 

 aated, will cost about $100,000. 



The General Electric Company reports very 

 ratifying sales of Tantalus lamps. The sales of 

 his lamp are more than double what they were 



year ago and the lamp appears to be sharing 

 i"ith the demand for high efliciency lamps cre- 

 ted by the introduction of Tungsten lamps, 

 -'he Tantalus lamp, as at present supplied, is 

 :iving most excellent life service. Contrary to 

 eneral belief, these lamps will give good eom- 

 aercial life on alternating current of sixty cy- 

 les or less. Their life on this frequency will 

 vcrage well about 600 hours. An interesting 

 "antalus lamp order recently received called for 

 .1)00 lamps for the United States war vessels 

 ttending the lludson-Fulton celebration in New 

 'ork. 



Brazil has 4,346,400 saw and planing mills 

 ■ith an annual output valued at $9,413,700. 



The .Tump River Lumber Company of Sheldon, 

 *'is., was recently incorporated to manufacture 

 ardwood and pine lumber. 



The sawmill of the .T. W. Wells Lumber Com- 



pany was recently destroyed by Are, causing a 

 loss of about $50,000. Two hundred men were 

 employed in the mill. 



The American Bent Wood Chair Company is 

 the name of a new concern chartered at Otego, 

 X. Y. 



The Southland Veneering Company has 

 started operations at its big plant at Tusca- 

 loosa, Ala., and has been running a couple of 

 weeks. The first shipment of veneers has al- 

 ready been sent out and orders are coming in 

 with gratifying steadiness. Two orders just 

 booked show the wide scope the company's busi- 

 ness will assume, as one goes to Pittsburg, Pa., 

 and the other to Palatka, Fla. 



Frank Seibel, for years superintendent of the 

 Eggers Veneer Seating Company's plant at Two 

 Rivers, Wis., has severed his connection with 

 that firm. He has not yet decided just what he 

 will do, although he has had offers from some 

 of the largest veneer concerns in the country. 



-Mr. Seibel is an expert veneer man, having made 

 a careful and intelligent study of veneer prob- 

 lems for years. 



The United States is to receive a gift of 

 2,000 cherry trees from the Emperor of Japan. 

 These will be sent to Mrs. Taft and by her 

 presented to the government. They are to be 

 planted along the Potomac river at Washington 

 on what is known as the Potomac drive. In 

 Japan there are many interesting legends about 

 the tree and flowers of the cherry. The blossom 

 of the Japanese cherry is of a peculiarly delicate 

 beauty, and there is a tradition that if the same 

 tone appears in the blossom of the Japanese 

 cherry when planted in another country that 

 country can be subjugated by Japan. It is said, 

 however, that while many Japanese cherry trees 

 have been brought to the United States the 

 color of the blossoms, although quite as beautiful 

 as in their native land, is unlike the blossom 

 which appears in Japan. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD Special Corrsspondeuts.) 



CHICAGO 



W. D. Mershon, with offices at No. 1 Madison 

 avenue. New I'ork City, who for the past twenty 

 .years has been New York sales manager for tbi^ 

 Jlershon-Eddy-Parker Company of Saginaw, 

 iMich., severed his connection with that institu- 

 tion on Oct. 20 and has engaged in the whole- 

 sale lumber jobbing business at the same ad- 

 dress. He will handle interior finish in both soft 

 and hard woods and will pay particular atten- 

 tion to marketing west coast poducts. Mr. 

 Mershon is one of the best known lumber sales 

 agents in the East and will undoubtedly have 

 marked success in his new undertaking. 



The KECoitD has been advised by the Cooper & 

 Maxson Lumber Company, well-known lumber 

 manufacturer and jobber of Milwaukee, that one 

 Thomas Flynn has been operating in St. Louis 

 of late pretending to be representing this ster- 

 liu.? company. The Cooper & Maxson Company 

 wish to state that Flynn is not in its employ 

 and has no authority to represent the concern. 



The Record is in receipt of a notice from the 

 Quinn Lumber Company, formerly located at 

 No. 1 Madison avenue, Metropolitan building. 

 New York City, that it has removed its general 

 offices to No. 164 First street, Jersey City, N. J., 

 where all mail should be addressed In the future. 



The Record is advised by Markley & Miller, 

 mahogany lumber and veneer manufacturer at 

 West Lake and Elizabeth streets, this city, that 

 it is closing out its Chicago yard and offices. 



It is with sincere regret that the Recced 

 learns that John P. Brown, the veteran arbori- 

 culturist, who has published a journal under the 

 title of "Arboriculture" at Connersville, Ind., for 

 the past eight years, will discontinue it. owing 

 to lack of financial support. 



The Recoud acknowledges receipt from Harris 

 & Cole Brothers of Cedar Falls, Iowa, manufac- 

 turers of oak flooring and interior finish, newel 

 posts and cut-up material generally, of its hand- 

 somely illustrated catalogue No. 10 covering its 

 various lines of production. It is a catalogue 

 that should interest many, and undoubtedly a 

 copy can he secured by addressing Harris & Cole 

 Brothers. 



Special attention is called to the notice under 

 the masthead of this issue of Hardwood Record. 

 giving the date of the fall meeting of the Mich- 

 igan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 which will be held at the Ponchartrain Hotel, 

 Detroit, Mich., on Thursday, Oct. 2S, at 10 a. m. 

 The principal subjects to be considered in this 

 meeting are hemlock statistics and the handling 

 of hemlock along with hardwoods ; report of 



market conditions committee, including both 

 hardwoods and hemlock ; discussion of stock re- 

 IJorts covering hardwoods and hemlock and their 

 relations to the present market, and the reports 

 of various committees appointed at the last meet- 

 iug. It is expected that the importance of the 

 subject will bring out practically the totality 

 of the Michigan hardwood and hemlock con- 

 tingent. 



As before noted in these columns, the Forbes- 

 Everts Lumber Company, whose principal offices 

 have been located at Minneapolis, has removed 

 its headquarters to Van Buren, Mo., where its 

 mills are located. Mr. Everts of this company 

 reports that the railroad business is greatly im- 

 proved and prices are considerably stronger, with 

 an apparent shortage in car stock, timbers and 

 ties. He looks for higher prices to prevail very 

 shortly and a manifest scarcity of certain va- 

 rieties of railroad requirements. 



James D. Lacey of the well-known house of 

 James D. Lacey & Co., is again at headquarters 

 in the Old Colony building after an extended 

 visit to the New Orleans office. Wood Beal of 

 the same concern is in Quebec at present in 

 connection with a large timber deal. 



The Record was favored with a call from W. 

 E. Barns, editor of the St. Louis Lumberman, 

 on Oct. 20. 



John W. Adriance, for twelve years advertis- 

 ing manager for the True & True Company, well- 

 known manufacturers of doors in this city, re- 

 signed this position Oct. 4 to engage in business 

 on his own account. He has opened an office at 

 S05 Taeoma building, from which point he will 

 supply a line of specialties, including china clos- 

 ets, hardwood flooring, colonnades, grilles, man- 

 tels and weather strips. He will do business 

 with retail dealers only and will be a whole- 

 saler in the strict sense of the term. Mr. 

 Adriance is a hustler as well 'as a man of no 

 little ahilily and with a good knowledge of the 

 business he proposes to go after. He wnll un- 

 doubtedly meet with success. 



J. D. Bolton, office manager for the Hayden 

 & Weslcott Lumber Company, Railway Exchange, 

 returned a few days ago from a purchasing trip 

 along Ohio river points. 



.1. W. Thompson, well-known Memphis lumber- 

 man, made one of his regular Chicago trips a 

 few days ago, and gladdened the hearts of his 

 many friends here. 



C. L. Cross, the cypress magnate of the Monad- 

 nock block, recently returned from a Canadian 

 sales trip. 



Howell C. Humphrey of the G. W. Jones Lum- 

 ber Company, Appleton, Wis., was a recent Chi- 

 cago visitor. 



J. H, P. Smith, president of the Hardwood 



