HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Record had the pleasure of a call on 

 November 22 from George H. Jones, principal of 

 Ihe mahogany and American timber house of 

 Jones Son & Miller, West India docks, London, 

 Eng. Mr. Jones is making an extended trip in 

 the United States, marketing African mahogan.v 

 logs. He expects to be back in Chicago again 

 in about three weeks. This is not Mr. Jones' 

 first visit to this countr.v. and his house has an 

 established trade among the principal buyers of 

 mahogany. Ills concern specializes in fine fig- 

 ured African mahogany, satinwood. Circassian 

 v>-alnnt and other high-class woods. 



William Wilms of the I'aepcke-Leicht Lumber 

 Company has been spending some time at the 

 Greenville, Miss., operations of the company, 

 overseeing the construction of large additions 

 to the plant there. More than $100,000 will be 

 expended on this plant, making the company's 

 operations at Greenville one of the largest 

 veneering factories in the South. The number 

 of men employed at Greenville will be almost 

 doubled. 



NEW YORK 



The Emporium Lumber Company, large Penn- 

 sylvania hardwood manufacturers, with head- 

 cjuarters at Keating Summit, Pa., and general 

 sales office at Buffalo, N. Y., and local sales office 

 at 1 Madison avenue, have just purchased an- 

 other big tract of Adirondack hardwood timber, 

 embracing 05,000 acres in the Cranberry Lake 

 section. This latter purchase, together with the 

 extensive timber holdings already owned by the 

 company in Pennsylvania, the Adirondacks and 

 Vermont, still more strongly entrenches them as 

 one of the biggest holders of eastern timber. 



Following the fire which totally destroyed the 

 lumber yards and buildings of the C. H. O'Neill 

 Lumber Company at Eighteenth and Nineteenth 

 streets and Jersey avenue, Jersey City, N. J., it 

 was announced that the business of the company 

 bad been merged with the big Jersey City retail 

 house of ^'anderbeek & Sons, under which plan 

 the latter will restock the former yard and oper- 

 ate the same as a branch, with G. F. Farrell, 

 former head of the C. H. O'Neill Lumber Com- 

 pany, as manager. 



J. B. Mitchell, local representative of the 

 John L. Roper Lumber Company of Norfolk, Va., 

 headquarters IS Broadway, left last week with 

 a party of customers on a hunting trip to the 

 Virginias. The party included W. S. VanClief, 

 the large retailer of I'ort Richmond, L. L : his 

 son, Cortlandt VanClief, and J. B. Quest of the 

 New Rochelle Coal & Lumber Company, New 

 Rochelle, N. Y. 



The John R. Capenter Company, large retail 

 house of Jamaica, L. I., has just acquired addi- 

 tional property at Lynn Brook, L. I., which it 

 is developing for its trade further on down the 

 island, thereby saving the extra charges of sup- 

 plying the wants of its customers from the 

 Jamaica yard. 



Sam E. Barr. sales manager for the Lilly 

 Lumber Company, Ilinton, W. Va.. has just re- 

 turned from a business trip to the West Virginia 

 ind Tennessee mills. 



Secretary E. F. Perry, of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association, has been spend- 

 ing several days in the Pittsburg district in the 

 Interest of association affairs. 



The well-known furniture and cabinet firm of 

 E. Schloss & Co., Manhattan, has been incorpo- 

 rated under the same style with a capital of 

 •f7.'5,000. 



Thomas Rae. president of Crane & Clark, Inc., 

 large retailers of West Thirtieth street. New 

 York, died suddenly at New Canaan, Conn., aged 

 sixty-four years. He was not actively associated 

 with the management and conduct of Crane & 

 Clark, but was widely known in the building 

 trades of New York tbrough other lines of busi- 

 ness. 



George M. Stevens, Jr., of Stevens-Eaton Com- 

 pany, 1 Madison avenue. New York, is enjoying 

 ten days' shooting in the Adirondack regions. 

 During his absence G. A. Mitchell, president of 

 the company, is looking after his work. 



C. O. Shepherd, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Madi- 

 son avenue, and who, in fact, is one of the best 

 posted hardwood men of the district, sums up the 

 hardwood situation with the statement : "Good 

 lumber is very scarce ; low grades are plentiful, 

 and if the mills cut the same amount of low- 

 grade next year there will be very little material 

 change in the price situation." He further 

 slated that the salient feature of the bardwood 

 situation is in the scarcity of supplies in I's 

 and 2's lumber. He is of the opinion that there 

 will never again be what may be termed surplus 

 of good-grade hardwood lumber and that if. on 

 the other baud, there was any speciall.v ^rood 

 or excessive demand for good lumber today there 

 would practically be a panic, so to speak, among 

 buyers east of Buffalo and Pittsburg. 



C. E. Lloyd, Jr., wholesale hardwood. Land 

 Title building, Philadelphia, spent several days 

 in town during the fortnight in the interest of 

 business. He rep^its the general market as 

 showing a steady improvement and is confident 

 that there will be a strong demand for all kinds 

 of hardwoods through the winter, with very 

 large and promising prospects for the spring. 



S. Segar, head of the George D. Emery Com- 

 pany, returned recently from a visit to Liverpool 

 and other English ports. In addition to the 

 business of George D. Emery Company, Mr. 

 Segar also has large lumber interests on the 

 continent, with main office in London, under the 

 style of S. Segar, Limited. 



Pieces of lumber about 2i»; by 4 inches and 

 2 Mi by 3ii inches, planed on three sides and 

 planed and grooved on the fourth, were decided 

 by General Appraiser McClelland to be dutiable 

 as lumljer planed and finished, at the rate of $4 

 per thousand feet board measure. By so decid- 

 ing the general appraiser overruled the assess- 

 ment of collector of customs at the rate of 

 thirty-five per cent ad valorem as "manufactures 

 of wood." The evidence of the owner of the 

 merchandise, F. W. Myers of Plattsburgh, N. Y., 

 showed that this lumber was rough-planed on 

 three sides and planed and grooved on the 

 fourth ; that all of the processes to which it had 

 been subjected were known as rough planing and 

 grooving by machinery, and that in the condi- 

 tion as imported the lumber was used in the 

 constntetion of buildings. 



BUFFALO 



President F. A. Beyer of the I'ascola Lumber 

 Company has gone to the mills at Pascola. Mo., 

 with the intention of starting them up before 

 he comes back. Such a press of other business 

 has been upon him of late that lumber has been 

 neglected. 



Scatcherd & Son complain of the high price 

 of logs in the Southwest, though they are pay- 

 ing it, for their mills in Memphis are running 

 strong, as they will need to if the demand for 

 oak is met in any way when it returns in full 

 again. 



The fall trade of O. E. Yeager has been of 

 the best, September running ahead of all other 

 months except one and October being only a 

 little behind it, so that he has been obliged to lay 

 in a lot of new stock to meet the outgo. 



A good October trade is reported by I. N. 

 Stewart & Bro., with chestnut selling at better 

 prices, though it is the time of .year for cherry 

 to be quiet. II. A. Stewart has returned from 

 Lis West Virginia shipping and taken a trip east. 



F. W. Vetter is selling a good lot of maple 

 and finds it a good wood to handle on account of 

 the demand for the low grades in the flooring 

 trade. It comes in from various directions and 

 is no longer the cheap lumber that it used to be. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company re- 

 ports a fair trade and predicts that it will be 

 good after the first of the year. Between the 

 Buffalo and the Memphis yards the company 

 has an excellent stocK of lumber on hand. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are very busy getting in the 

 last of their lake receipts and reported the other 

 day that they had 3,000.000 feet on the dock, 

 ready to be put into the yard for winter, thus 

 insuring a large stock and big assortment. 



The winter stock of A. Miller will be good, as 

 he always knows where to get what he wants, 

 bringing in stock from Michigan, Canada and the 

 South, so that he is sure of the variety that he 

 will need J'or the winter. 



Hugh McLean did not take his usual fall 

 vacation, so he managed to find himself in the 

 vicinity of the late Yale-Princeton football game. 

 Business is always active with him and the 

 office reports fine sales of oak, poplar and 

 ehestnut. 



T. .Sullivan & Co. are looking after their last 

 tall shipments Iiy lake, finding it hard to get 

 vessels for that trade of late. A good stock 

 of Pacific coast lumber is one of the easy-selling 

 parts of the yard stock. 



New purchases of timber south add to the 

 operations of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, which is doing well in yard sales and 

 will look for a fine revival of trade early in the 

 new year. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Horace G. Hazard ot H. G. Hazard & Co. 

 leports as much business as his company can 

 handle. Fortunately it is not inconvenienced to 

 any extent by the growing car shortage, as most 

 of the goods are shipped by water. 



Justin Peters, manager of the Pennsylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 

 says he has no reason to complain of business, 

 as the average amount of insurance is being 

 nritten up right along. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr., of J. Gibson Mcllvain 

 & Co. has just returned from a searching tour 

 through the southern and some of the western 

 lumber camps h< connection with a visit to 

 firms' mill. He reports trade in good shape and 

 says that so far the company's shipments have 

 not suffered from car shortage. 



George A. Howes, chairman of the Office and 

 Entertainment Committee of the Lumbermen's 

 rjxchange of Philadelphia, has Just brought his 

 family home from their seductive summer cot- 

 tage in Belmar, N. J. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company is bus.Y, 

 li'.t already hampered by the car shortage. H. 

 W. Collins, eastern sales manager, has returned 

 from the usual monthly meeting of the sales 

 managers at the Columbus, O., office with a 

 hearty testimony as to improved trade. 



The Floyd-Olmstead Company is a recent cor- 

 poration, under New Jersey laws, capitalized at 

 .'i;50,000. The officers are A. S. Olmstead, for- 

 merly with the .Vtlantic Coast Lumber Company, 

 president, and J. W. Floyd, formerly with W. U. 

 Fritz c& Co., vice-president, and C. E. Lloyd, Jr., 

 treasurer, a dtio of well-known hustlers in the 

 Irade. The company will handle hardwoods, 

 white pine, spruce and long and short leaf pine. 

 It is established in large airy offices at 307 Bul- 

 letin building. 



From the offices of Fenwick Lumber Company 

 come reports of a steady activity. J. C. Ten- 

 uant, secretary and sales manager, is on a tour . 

 through the New Y'ork state consuming district. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works on November 

 1^ received orders for sixty-eight locomotives to 

 be built, fifty passenger engines for the Chicago, 

 Burlington & Quincy railroad, thirteen for the 

 I.ehigh Valley and five for the Charlotte Harbor 

 cS: Northern railroad, aggregating more than 

 .?1.000,000. 



The Chadwick Engineering Works, Pottstown, 

 Pa., makers of automobiles, have found it neces- 



