HARDWOOD RECORD 



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LurabPr Compouy o£ Cincinnati, O., spent sev- 

 eral days in Chicago last week. Mr. Smith, en- 

 joys a profltal>le trade in this marlset. 



W. D. Reeves, the hardwood man of Helena, 

 .Arli.. spent a few days in Chicago the first of 

 (hi month. 



i:d J. Young of the Brittingham & Young 

 • '(impany, headquarters at Madison and branch 

 yards af Chicago, spent several days in town 

 last week. 



Gus Landeck of the Landeck Lumber Com- 

 pany of Milwaukee, Wis., was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



II. B. Leavitt of the Leavitt Lumber Company 

 is home from a trip to his southern sawmills. 



G. E. W. Luehrmann of the Charles F. Luehr- 

 mann Hardwood Lumlier Company, St. Louis, 

 Mo., speut a fow days in Chicago last week on 

 an important lumber deal. 



W. H. Martz of the Good Land Cypress Com- 

 pany, New Orleans, La., was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. Mr. Martz was en route to New Or- 

 leans via Kansas City and since leaving home 

 has visited the New York offices of his company. 



The manufacturers of dining-tables of the 

 fnited States will hold a convention at the 

 Auditorium in this city on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 

 to discuss matters of interest in their line of 

 production. 



The Chicago Furniture Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its annual meeting in this city 

 on Nov. 9. 



L. D. Gotshall of the Gotshall-Goodyear Com- 

 pany, hardwood manufacturer at Toledo, Ohio, 

 was a caller at the Record office Oct. 12. 



,\mong recent ILMiDwooD Record callers was 

 U. A. Langton of Peoria, III., exporter of hard- 

 wood lumber and walnut gun stocks. Mr. Lang- 

 ton was in town on Oct. 12. 



The daily press announces that the Brunswick- 

 Balke-Collender Company is about to remove its 

 big Chicago factory to Elkhart, where it will 

 employ more than 200 men, commencing in De- 

 cember, and eventually it is expected to have 

 over 700 men on the payroll. In addition to 

 this company's former line of bank, hotel, bar 

 ber shop and bar fixtures, it will undertake the 

 manufucture of refrigerators on a large scale. 

 The reason the concern gives for removal is to 

 provide an opportunity to expand, which present 

 quarters would not allow. As a matter of fact, 

 it is well known locally that this company has 

 had a series of expensive labor troubles, cover- 

 ing a period of several years, and probably this 

 is the chief reason for its removal to the In- 

 diana city. It is unfortunate to lose such an 

 important industry from Chicago. 



Lewis Doster. secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association witli headquarters in the 

 First National Bank building. Cincinnati, has 

 issued a statement of market conditions under 

 date of Oct. 11, which is the most comprehensive 

 document of the sort that has ever been put out 

 by this organization. Copies can l)e obtained 

 from the secretary by enclosing ten cents in 

 postage stamps. 



Mr. Doster is scheduled to be in Chicago Oct. 

 20, when he will address the association of din- 

 ing table manufacturers on the subject of hard- 

 wood purchases. 



The Record has received an announcement 

 card from Alfred Dobell & Co., Liverpool, Eng- 

 land, stating that the partnership has been aug- 

 mented by admitting Alfred Temple Dobell, son 

 of the senior member of the concern. 



Miss Gertrude Hostler, daughter of S. P. C. 

 Hostler, popular Chicago lumberman, was mar- 

 ried Oct. 14 to Leonard Lewis Miksch. The 

 Record's heartiest congratulations are extended 

 to the young couple. 



Miss Grace M. Corwin, head of the local offices 

 of the Corwin Lumber Company, 539 Stock Ex- 

 change building, made one of her frequent busi- 

 ness trips to Milwaukee a few days ago, and 

 reports business fine. E. T. Corwin, her brother, 

 recently visited Buffalo and sold all the com- 

 pany's lumber at Ontonagon, Mich., to concerns 



at Tonawanda. The lumber has already been 

 shipped. During the next week Miss Corwin will 

 also make a trip to Ontonagon. 



F. S. Hcndrickson and H. R. Foster of the F. 

 S. Hcndrickson Lumber Company, Masonic Tem- 

 ple, are spending a few weeks at the company's 

 mills at Haworth, Okla. 



The Lumber Shippers' Storage & Commission 

 Company, of which Q. Y. Hamilton is manager, 

 has moved to its new offices and yards at the 

 south end of the Bardley property on Throop 

 street. The company now has ample shed and 

 yard facilities to take care of its large and ever- 

 increasing storage business. 



The Flanner-Steger Land & Lumber Company, 

 with offices in the Fisher building, is already in- 

 stalling dry-kilns in the new oak flooring plant 

 it is building at Blackwell, Wis. This plant will 

 have a daily capacity of 25,000 feet and will he 

 operated in connection with the company's saw- 

 mill at that point. 



R. E. Thompson, a member of the sales force 

 of C. Crane & Co., large hardwood concern of 

 Cincinnati, O., called on the Chicago trade last 

 week. 



George Mason and Carl Donaldson of the 

 Mason c& Donaldson Lumber Company, Rhine- 

 lander, Wis., spent a few days in Chicago re- 

 cently. 



Another well-known hardwood man who vis- 

 ited the local market last week was W. T. Cul- 

 ler of the Stearns Lumber Company, Grand 

 Rapids, Mich. Mr. Culver makes his home at 

 Ludington. 



O. O. Agler. the energetic president of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association and the 

 active force of Upham & Agler of this city, is 

 on an extended northern trip. 



.T. M. Attley of .7. M. Attley & Co.. Railway 

 Exchange, has gone to the mill of the Ross- 

 Attley Lumber Company at Heth, Ark., where 

 he will remain about a week looking over con- 

 ditions at that point. He is accompanied by his 

 wife. 



Walter DeWitt, secretary of the E.stabrook- 

 Skeele Lumber Company, is in Cadillac, Mich., 

 this week in connection with business. While 

 away he will combine business with pleasure and 

 will indulge in his favorite sport of hunting. 



William. G. Commetz. traveling representative 

 in Illinois for the G. W. Jones Lumber Company 

 of .ippleton, Wis., became a benedict Oct. 12. 

 the fortunate young woman being Miss Lynn 

 Bernardiue McCulley of Menasha, Wis. Mr. 

 Commetz, who has headquarters at the Chicago 

 office of the Jones concern, is very popular in 

 hardwood circles and his many friends in the 

 trade will wish him happiness. 



F. H. Pardoe of the Ingram Lumber Company, 

 Wausau, Wis., spent a couple of days in Chicago 

 recently looking into freight rates. 



G. C. Scott, who represents Lee Wilson & Co. 

 pf Memphis at St. Louis, was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



Henry C. Koll, the tall and genial secretary 

 of the Hartman-Sanders Company, manufac- 

 turers of Koll's patent columns, was married 

 Oct. 20 at Detroit, Mich., to Miss Rose Hess of 

 that city. 



NEW YORK 



The Bickford Lumber Company was recently 

 organized, with headquarters at 305 Union 

 building, Newark, to conduct a general whole- 

 sale business. The principals are A. B. Bick- 

 ford, formerly of the H. M. Bickford Company 

 of Boston and W. R. Creed & Co. of New York^ 

 and E. C. Speer, until lately head of the Beau- 

 ford Coal, Grain & Lumber Company, of Esses 

 Falls, N. J. Both of these gentlemen are well 

 known in the Jersey section of the Metropolitan 

 district and have ample experience to assure the 

 company of complete success. They have already 

 closed mill connections on North Carolina and 

 yellow pine and Pacific coast products. 



Another new company is the Iledden-Clark 

 Lumber Company, with a capital of $50,000 and 

 headquarters in the Hudson Terminal building, 

 New York. It is composed of George P. Hed- 

 den and J. B. Clark, who for some time have 

 been actively identified with the selling staff of 

 H. H. Salmon & Co., wholesalers of New York 

 City. This company will do a general wholesale 

 business in hardwood, spruce, hemlock. North 

 Carolina pine and maple flooring. Both young 

 men are hustlers and have a large acquaintance 

 in the trade. 



W. D. Mershon, sales manager for the past 

 several years for the Mershon, Eddy, Parker 

 Company of Saginaw. Mich., and its predecessor, 

 with headquarters at 1 Madison avenue, Man- 

 hattan, resigned on October 20 to engage in the 

 wholesale business on his own account, with 

 headquarters at 1 Madison avenue. Mr. Mershon 

 has been identified with the lumber trade of 

 the Metropolitan district and vicinity for so 

 many years that he needs no introduction. He 

 is a very able and popular lumberman, and, with 

 the large acquaintance which he enjoys, his 

 efforts should prove successful. He advises that 

 he has already closed for very high class connec- 

 tion in both southern lumber and Pacific coast 

 products, including all kinds of sash, doors, 

 millwork, moulding, etc. 



F. E. Longwell, the well-known lumber pur- 

 chasing agent of the big National Casket Com- 

 pany, headquarters Oneida, N. Y., and large 

 plants and lumber yards at principal points 

 throughout the country, was in town during the 

 past week, accompanied by his bride, prepara- 

 tory to sailing on a honeymoon trip to the Isle 

 of Pines, Cuba. Mr. Longwell was married 

 October G at Kenwood, N. Y., to Miss Edith 

 Snell, a charming young lady of that town. 

 Upon their return Mr. and Mrs. Longwell will 

 reside at Oneida. 



The court has dismissed the petition in bank- 

 ruptcy filed September 4 against Schwartz & Co., 

 cabinet makers, 177 Price street, on a settlement 

 of thirty-five cents on the dollar. 



The corporate interests of the big West Vir- 

 ginia spruce interests at Cass, W. Va., selling 

 agents for which are S. E. Slaymaker & Co. of 

 this city, and in which S. E. Slaymaker is 

 largely interested, will be absorbed on Novem- 

 ber 1 by its allied interest, the West Virginia 

 Pulp & Paper Company, a $20,000,000 corpora- 

 tion, and thereafter both operations will be con- 

 ducted under the style of the West Virginia Pulp 

 & Paper Company. This consolidation of cor- 

 porate interests in no wise affects the operations 

 of either company, as the lumbering and lumber 

 sales department heretofore operated by the West 

 Virginia Spruce Lumber Company will be con- 

 tinued as a lumber department of the West Vir- 

 ginia Pulp & Paper Company and will be under 

 the personal management of Mr. Slaymaker. 



Page Brothers, wholesale and commission lum- 

 ber, 1170 Broadway, have been organized by 

 Charles E. and Frank J. Page, principals in the 

 late firm of C. E. Page & Co. 



Stewart S. Mitchell, Jr., brother of S. A. 

 Mitchell of White', Gratwick & Mitchell, Buffalo 

 and Tonawanda, N. 1'., has joined the office 

 force of the Stevens-Eaton Company. 1 Madison 

 avenue. New York. E. B. N. Gelke, formerly 

 of the selling staff of the Stevens-Eaton Com- 

 pany, has joined forces with William Schuette 

 & Co., at the same address, and will represent 

 them in the New York and New Jersey trade. 



The executive committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association held an 

 important meeting at the headquarters, 66 

 Broadway, on October 8, at which were present 

 President George F. Craig of Philadelphia, Rob- 

 ert W, Higbie of New York, F. R. Babcock of 

 Pittsburg, F. E. Parker of Saginaw and A. L. 

 Stone of Cleveland. The committee held an all- 

 day session, going over the operations of the 

 various departments, and everything is reported 

 as in a most satisfactory state of affairs. 



