HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Jacob Fink of tbe Fink-IIeidler Company, died 

 November 28 after a two days" illness of pneu- 

 monia. Ue was buried in Adieberd cemetery, 

 Chicago, ilr. Fink's many friends regret such 

 an untimely death. 



I". S. liendrickson of the F. S. Hendrickson 

 I^umber Comijany is visiting his mills at Hey- 

 worth. Okla. 



v. .7. Heidler of the I'Mnk-IIeidler Company. 

 Chicago, met with a serious accident on No- 

 vember ID, when he fell out of the door of a 

 freight car which was being loaded in the com- 

 pany's yards, fracturing the ankle of his right 

 loot and a small bone in his neck, besides re- 

 ceiving a number of painful bruises about the 

 body. He was leaning against the door, w-hich 

 he thought securely fastened, but it suddenly 

 opened, throwing Mr. Heidler against some 

 rougli boards. lie was taken immediately to 

 his home and the injured ankle placed in a 

 cast. Mr. Heidler is still confined to his home, 

 and the doctor states that he will be unable to 

 return to his oQice before tbe tirst of .Tanu- 

 a ry. 



NEW YORK 



William Threlkeld, secretary of the Indiana 

 Quartered Oak Company, New York, and Ivath- 

 ryn Van der Mindon were married November 

 2o in New York. Mr. Threlkeld is a popular 

 and well known hardwood man of New York 

 City and Miss Van der Minden a charming 

 woman. Friends and acquaintances alike ex- 

 tend congratulations, 



George P. Gray of D. I'. Fairchild & Co., 1 

 Madison avenue, has Just returned from a busi- 

 ness trip in West Virginia, 



The engagement of Miss Louise W. Taft, 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Taft, who 

 is a niece of President Taft, to Mr. George H. 

 Snowden. the prominent lumberman of Seattle, 

 Wash., has just been announced. The wedding 

 will take place in this city during the coming 

 holidays. 



Edward F. Henson, well-known Philadelphia 

 house of E. F. Henson & Co., was in the city 

 tor a day or two during the fortnight on his 

 way to Norfolk, Va., to attend the Deep Water- 

 ways Convention as delegate-at-large from the 

 slate of Pennsylvania. 



The Rockville Center Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Rockville, L. I., to con- 

 duct a retail lumber business with a capital 

 of $:JO,000 by M. Horner, D. G. Lee and E. 

 Wagner, all of Hicksville, L. L 



Doyle, Thomson & Co., well-known hardwood 

 operators at the foot of East Thirtieth street, 

 Manhattan, have in addition to their regular 

 premises utilized additional space for storing 

 their own wants in the matter of stock and 

 have arranged to conduct a public storage busi- 

 ness and have ample space to take care of 

 twenty or more cars of lumber. 



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

 pany, large wholesale house at 1 Madison ave- 

 nue, has just returned from a ten days' shoot- 

 ing trip in the Adirondacks in company with 

 Frederick Cleveland, Jr., of Albany and J. K. 

 McDowell, the retailer of Syracuse. Mr. Cleve- 

 land was the host of the occasion and gave 

 the party some good sport on the famous Dex- 

 ter reserve, where they bagged a good bunch 

 of game. During Mr. Stevens' absence, George 

 A. Mitchell, president of the company and head 

 of White, Gratwick & Mitchell, North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y., occupied his desk. 



A. E. Lane, popular sales manager of the 

 Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company 

 of Seattle, Wash., headquarters 1 Madison ave- 

 i.ue, has just returned from a business trip 

 lo the coast points, where he went over mat- 

 ters at that end of the line. He came back 

 full of good things for his customers and ample 

 assurances of the best possible service for the 

 coming year. 



Reports emanating in certain quarters during 

 I lie past fortnight that H. I. Soble, a hardwood 

 lumberman of 1 Madison avenue, was wanted 

 oy the Tennessee authorities on a charge of se- 

 curing lumber under false pretenses were found 

 by subsequent development to be entirely er- 

 loueous. The matter was placed before the 

 governor of Virginia. When it was so clearly 

 shown that the charges were without founda- 

 tion and that Mr. Soble was not even in Vir- 

 ginia at the time the acts were alleged to have 

 been committed, he withdrew his request for 

 extradilion and the case was dismissed on No- 

 vemoer -o. 



The second informal dinner of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of New York was held at the club 

 headquarters, (i West Twenty-fourth street, Man- 

 hattan, on -November 17, with about forty mem- 

 bers and guests present. The company enjoyed 

 an excellent dinner, followed by a light vaude- 

 viile, which rounded out a very pleasant eve- 

 ning. Among the prominent guests from out 

 nf town were R. C. Lippincott and Hugh Mc- 

 llvain of Philadelphia; W. A. Bennet of Cincin- 

 nati ; James Crowell of Newark ; W. H. Judd, 

 Stamford, Conn., and I. N. Eudgers of Montdair, 

 N, J. 



William Schuette, William Schuette & Co., 1 

 Madison avenue, is sijending several days at 

 the Kentwood, La., pine mill, the output of 

 which is controlled by his company, in the 

 interest of business. 



J. C. Turner, J. C. Turner l^umber Corapiiny, 

 1123 Broadway, New York, has just returned 

 from a visit to his southern cypress mills. 



At the residence of the bride's parents at 

 Haverstraw, N. Y., on November 17, Miss llladys 

 L. Peck, daughter of T. G. Peck, a large brick 

 manufacturer of that place, was united in mar- 

 liage to Otis N, Shepard of the New York sales 

 office of the Shepard & Morse Lumber Company 

 of Boston, Mass. It was a distinct society 

 event and many guests were present, and after 

 a supper and dance the bride and groom left 

 on a lengthy honeymoon. 



II. W. Collins, head of the Philadelphia east- 

 ern sales office of the W. M. Hitter Lumber 

 Company, Columbus, O., was in town during 

 the fortnight for several days in the interest 

 of business. He reports hardwood conditions as 

 steadily improving, with the month of November 

 very satisfactory. 



F. A, Ivirby, sales manager of the Cherry 

 River Boom & Lumber Company, Scranton, Pa., 

 was another prominent visitor, going over mat- 

 ters at this end of the line with Manager 

 W. W. Welch at the local sales office of the 

 company, 1 Madison avenue. Mr. Kirby ex- 

 pressed himself as well satisfied with general 

 business, the volume being fair and the out- 

 look promising. 



The wholesale hardwood firm of Uptegrove & 

 I'olhemus, 1 Madison avenue, has been dissolved 

 by mutual consent, and G.. M. Uptegrove will be 

 the liquidating partner. Concurrent therewith 

 the ilarshall-Polhemus Lumber Company has 

 been organized at the same address to succeed 

 to the business. The new company is composed 

 of John Knox Marshall, formerly of Boston, as 

 treasurer and J. A. Polhemus as president. The 

 business will be conducted along the same lines 

 as the old house. 



The Creditors' Committee having in charge 

 the affairs of Charles E. Page & Co., wholesalers 

 of JIanhattan, issued a report as to the actual 

 condition of the affairs of the company. They 

 recommended the acceptance of a proposition 

 to pay 50 cents on the dollar in cash on the 

 base amount of the total creditors' claim. They 

 recommended strongly that this be accepted, be- 

 cause such amount would be considerably in ex- 

 cess of what would be possible under a bank- 

 ruptcy settlement. A large number of the 

 creditors have signified their willingness to ac- 

 cept the proposition. The creditors' committee 

 is composed of II. T. Holmes, Fisher Sloan and 

 J. A. McKenney. 



BUFFALO 



The organization of the Y'ale Timber & Lumber 

 Company with capital of $130,000 is announced. 

 The incorporators are J. B. Wail, M. M. Wall 

 and W. J. Connors. The company owns a large 

 tract of timber in the Yale district in British 

 Columbia and has lately added considerable ter- 

 ritory to it. 



I. N. Stewart, .-is chairman of the nominating 

 committee of the Manufacturers' Club, has se- 

 lected the candidates for the election to come off 

 on December 7. O. E. Y'eager is one candidate 

 for first vice-president and A. W. Kreinheder is 

 nominated for re-election as one of the trustees. 



A. Miller sells a good lot of hardwood lumber 

 to his neighbor lumbermen and his men were so 

 busy in that line the other day that they were 

 not able to inspect a lot that had been sold in 

 that way. and it was taken without any inspec- 

 tion. 



F. W. Vetter has just returned from a trip 

 through the seaboard states down as far as 

 North Carolina. He found good lumber scarce, 

 but saw a rather large amount of low- grades 

 in various woods. Some good purchases were 

 made. 



The yeitr has been a fine one with O. E. 

 Yeager, but in spite of large shipments out he 

 has been able to put in a large winter stock 

 and estimates that he has at lea.st 3,-300,000 

 feet on the Buffalo yard, not to mention hold- 

 ings in the South, 



The yards of T. Sullivan & Co. have been 

 receiving large amounts of both lake hard- 

 woods and Pacific coast lumber, so that it was 

 not easy to attend to matters connected with the 

 Hardwood Exchange. Lake barges have been 

 hard to get lately. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 taking an inventory at the beginning of Decem- 

 ber, according to custom, and though the ship- 

 ments have been pretty heavy right along, the 

 stock will show up well for winter. Southern 

 operations are active. 



Almost any kind of lumber can be had in the 

 yard of G. Elias & Bro. and the stock now is 

 heavy. 



II. A. Stewart is looking southward again 

 and may be off that way in a week or two. I. 

 N. Stewart cSc Bro. get considerable oak, cherry, 

 chestnut, poplar and ash from the South. 



The trip of Frank A. Beyer to the mills of the 

 Pascola Lumber Company in Missouri will about 

 close up his outside movements till he takes his 

 position as county treasurer at the opening of 

 1910. He will still be a lumberman after that. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company re- 

 ports a large amount of satisfactory business of 

 late, the demand being good enough to carry off 

 a lot of stock that had not been called for until 

 lately, which -indicates plenty of trade ahead. 



Hugh McLean also mentions a sharp demand 

 for stock that was not wanted till lately and 

 which he has sometimes sold on the road. If 

 the customers had come into the market earlier 

 they would have fared much better. • 



There is also complaint from Scatcherd & 

 Son of broken stocks, in spite of the good 

 amount on baud as a whole, all of which is a 

 warning to. buyers that if they see any lumber 

 that they want ilicy will do well to take it 

 on sight. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Chapin L. Ban-, secretary of the Whiting 

 I umber Company, says that with the exception 

 of a slight interference with shipments due to 

 the ear shortage the company's mills arc active- 

 Good orders are being booked right along and 

 the outlook is encouraging. 



John W. Coles does not hesitate to confirm 

 the general report of a decided improvement 

 in trading. He recently made an extended torn- 



