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HARDWOOD RECORD 



was in town November 2 on a business trip. 



On October 26 tbe office of the Cardwell Mill 

 & Lumber Company at Cardwell, Mo., was de- 

 stroyed by fire. This concern's head offloe is at 

 Decatur, Ind., where tbe president, K. K. Alli- 

 son, resides. 



Among other Chicago visitors on November 2 

 were W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac, Mich. : H. C. 

 Crawford of the Lldgerwood Company of New 

 York City, and Frank H. Whiting of the Whit- 

 ing Lumber Company of Philadelphia, Fa., and 

 Abingdon, Va. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three State Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., was a welcome vis- 

 itor to the city November 2. 



NEW YORK 



(.iorduu C. Edwards of W. C. Edwards & Co., 

 Ltd., and vice-president of the Canadian Lum- 

 bermen's Association, Ottawa, Can., accompanied 

 by Frank Hawkins, secretary of the association, 

 spent several days in town last week in the 

 interest of association affairs. 



Among the visitors in town last week were 

 W. E. Terhune of W. E. Terhune Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburg, Pa. ; G. G. Barr, Beecher & 

 Barr, Pottsville, Pa., and Lewis Dill of Lewis 

 Dill & Co., Baltimore, Md. 



S. E. Slaymaker of S. E. Slaymaker & Co. 

 is on a business trip to the big spruce mills of 

 his firm at Cass, W. Va., where business is re- 

 ported excellent. 



The Hueston Manufacturing Company has 

 been incorporated in New York City to manu- 

 facture hardwood floors, trim, etc. The capital 

 stock is $10,000, and the incorporators are Wm. 

 S. Hueston, Benjamin F. Bates and Winfred A. 

 Kelly, all of Brooklyn. 



Norris H. Norden, for many years one of the 

 best-known selling representatives in the Met- 

 ropolitan district, died October 31 at St. Luke's 

 hospital, aged titty-three years. 



The first informal dinner of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of New York occurred at headquarters, 6 

 West Twenty-fourth street, on the evening of 

 October 20, and was well attended. The objects 

 of this dinner was to give the members an oppor- 

 tunity for social intercourse after business hours, 

 which is not possible in all cases during either 

 lunch or business hours. The house committee, 

 composed of C. O. Shepherd, M. W. Teutel and 

 Nelson C. Holland, was right on the job with a 

 fine little menu, good music and a hearty recep- 

 tion to everybody, which rounded out an excep- 

 tionally pleasant evening. It is planned to hold 

 these informal dinners once a month, the next 

 taking place November 17. The membership 

 i>f the club is increasing steadily and now in- 

 cludes a representative number of wholesale and 

 retail dealers of the district, together with a 

 large associate membership from other cities. 

 The club is filling a distinct social niche in trade 

 circles, which will unquestionably be further in- 

 creased as time goes on. 



There was a meeting of the creditors of Soble 

 brothers, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Madison ave- 

 luie, held October 10, in this city, against whom 

 a petition in bankruptcy was filed some time ago, 

 and judgment of bankruptcy entered. At this 

 meeting the application of Soble Brothers for a 

 discharge from bankruptcy was considered, and 

 none of the creditors objecting, they were dis- 

 charged therefrom. 



The Mershon. Eddy, Parker Company has ap- 

 pointed H. W. Alexander to succeed W. D. Mer- 

 shon, resigned, in the local management. Mr. 

 Alexander has been representing the firm in 

 southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania for some 

 time and is an able and popular lumberman. 

 Under his management the company will con- 

 tinue to render the excellent line of supplies 

 and general service that has earned for it the 

 present large eastern constituency. 



11. F. Itaybuck, who was formerly associated 

 with the selling staff of C. E. Page & Co., Man- 



hattan, has engaged in business on his own ac- 

 count at 169 South Eleventh street, Newark, 

 N. J., where he will conduct a wholesale business 

 in North Carolina pine, spruce and hemlock. 



E. H. Barton of Barton, Thompson & Co., the 

 large timber brokers of London, E. C, Eng., ar- 

 rived last week for his annual visit to the 

 States. Mr. Barton left almost immediately for 

 western and southern mill points, where he will 

 negotiate his year's supplies. Mr. Barton is a 

 genial gentleman as well as an able lumber- 

 man, and we know that it is always a pleasure 

 for the manufacturing and wholesale trade who 

 are interested in tbe export trade to have a 

 call from him. 



George J. Barker of Barker & Co., Inc., Bos- 

 ton, and 18 Broadway, New Y'ork, was in town 

 last week after just concluding an extensive 

 trip to the Pacific Coast, on which he went as 

 far north as Alaska. 



John L. Kaul.of the Kaul & Hall Lumber 

 Company. Birmingham, Ala., accompanied by 

 Mrs. Kaul, passed through the city last week 

 en route home after an automobile trip through 

 northern points. 



O. M. Shepard of the local office of the 

 Shepard & Morse Lumber Company, 17 West 

 Forty-second street, has just returned from a 

 brief vacation. H. B. Shepard of the company 

 recently returned from Europe via Quebec. 



Other visitors during the fortnight were J. 

 M. Hastings, J. M. Hastings Lumber Company, 

 Pittsburg, and the Davison Lumber Company of 

 New York, en route home from a trip through 

 the Ottawa district ; E. V. Babcock, E. V. Bab- 

 cock & Co., Pittsburg ; John N. Scatcherd, 

 Scatcherd & Son, Buffalo, and L. E. Eeighard, 

 secretary and treasurer of the Mt. Mitchell 

 Lumber Company, Swannanoa, N. C. 



S. E. Barr, local sales manager for the Lilly 

 Lumber Company, hardwoods, 1 Madison avenue, 

 has just returned from a business trip to south- 

 ern and middle west mill points in the interest 

 of business, which he reports as active. He says 

 hardwood Hoofing seems to be in especially good 

 shape a*^ present. 



On tuc night of November 2 fire totally de- 

 stroyed the large lumber yards of the C. H. 

 O'Neill Lumber Company, Jersey City, N, J., en- 

 tailing a loss of $40,000, fully covered by in- 

 surance. The company will rebuild at once. 



BUFFALO 



The news iu hardwood lumber is, of course, 

 that Frauk A. Beyer was elected county treas- 

 urer by a majority of 4,351 where all majorities 

 v.ere small and with some of his own party pa- 

 pers against him. He will try to be a lumber- 

 man a while, at least, before going into office. 



•■Y'es, we shut down and went to work for 

 Beyer," said one of tbe hardwood dealers last 

 week, and they worked without regard to party 

 or tbe work that they might have done in lum- 

 ber if they had stayed at home. There is time 

 enough for lumber now, when the election is 

 over, for the trade is a little slack and prom- 

 ises to remain so till after the first of the 

 lear. It is quite commonly so and it does not 

 iippiar to mean anything more than that buying 

 had been pretty brisk and the consumers found 

 that they could get along without taking in 

 much more to inventory and they did not go 

 after it. Stock that they especially want they 

 take just the same. 



The hardwood dealers have not got into line 

 for regular meetings yet, for they have had too 

 many outside things to do on the last day of 

 the week and they have all done them with 

 a will. There seems to be a large amount of 

 such work in the city for the lumbermen to 

 look after, and now that the exposition and the 

 election are over some of them will go at the 

 problem of better railroad terminals, hoping 

 that the new legislature will help them, as the 

 old one did not. 



There is always business enough for T. Sulli- 

 van & Co., with Frank T. Sullivan in the East 

 selling stock and the yards full of lake hard- 

 woods and Pacific coast fir and spruce. 



J. N. Scatcherd speaks of conditions as pe- 

 culiar, for if the demand was really big there 

 would he no stock in a short time, so It is not 

 called so very bad if the demand is a trifle 

 light, especially as it is sure to be larger soon. 



H. A. Stewart has been back to his old stamp- 

 ing ground in West Virginia, getting out a lot 

 of oak and other hardwoods for direct shipment 

 to customers, and buying some cherry for the 

 home yard. Good sales of poplar are reported. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager has lately received 

 liberal additions to its stock of hardwood, mostly 

 from south of the Ohio, where the best stock in 

 his line seems to be found. Plain oak is looking 

 up. 



The southwestern mills of the Hugh McLean 

 companies are active this fall, cutting out mostly 

 oak and trying hard to make the quartered stock 

 show up enough to meet the demand for it. 

 Hugh McLean is almost always selling stock on 

 the road. 



The yard of G. Elias & Bro. has Just received 

 two lake cargoes of mostly white pine and 

 hemlock, which closes the lake season for the 

 firm and insures a big stock of all of the many 

 sorts of lumber that they always carry here. 



F. W. Vetter has a nice wagon trade in hard- 

 woods, and reports a big lot of that sort of 

 orders on hand now, including factory stock and 

 car orders, as all shops and woodworking mills 

 are filled up with business this fall. 



T. H. Wall went off on a hunting trip Into 

 Canada last week and forgot about tbe elec- 

 tion, as it was about the only time he could get 

 off. The office reports that the Memphis yard 

 of tbe Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 over 1,000,000 feet of quartered oak in it. 



The sales of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company are made up chiefly of oak, chestnut 

 and poplar, with white ash a good second. 

 Birch is waking up and elm goes if you have 

 any. The table mill is running strong and 

 doing well. 



A. Miller always breaks the record when he 

 sets out for it, in yard or automobile. When the 

 hardwood man went out into the country the 

 other day to work for the election of Frank A. 

 lieyer bis auto made uiuety-six miles. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Kighter Lumber Company has recently 

 engaged A. A. Bell, formerly of the Marbury 

 Lumber Company, Marbury, Ala., as salesman to 

 cover eastern and central Pennsylvania. A. J. 

 de la Cova of this house recently made a trip 

 to the South to look after some special interests 

 of the company. 



Owen M. Bruuer of the Owen M. Bruner Com- 

 pany' reports an acceleration in trading, a satis- 

 factory influx of orders and a promising outlook. 

 H. A. Prock of this house is on a buying trip 

 in South Carolina. Mr. Bruner, with a party 

 of eleven, recently participated in "a jolly trip 

 to the Egypt Mills club house. Pike county, 

 whore they remained several days enjoyiog a 

 round of pleasurable entertainments. All prck- 

 nounced it an exceptionally agreeable outing. 



William A. Keed reports a gradually returning 

 vitality in trading. He is convinced that by 

 spring business will have reached a sharp ac- 

 tivity. 



Norman A. Perry of Robert C. Lippincott ad- 

 mits a comparative laxity in trading during the 

 last fortnight, prices in some lines a little wab- 

 bly : but on the whole he says business is about 

 as fair as could be expected for this time of the 

 year. He is hopeful of a brisk turn by spring. 



John W. Coles says while he cannot report a 

 rush in trading, some fair orders are coming 

 in right along and the outlook gives decided 



