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HARDWOOD RECORD 



II. C. Miiler, secretary of the Hardwood Mills 

 Lumber Company, with offices in the Monadnock 

 Mock, and one of Chicago's most popular hard- 

 wood men. is still confined (or marooned) around 

 Merrill. Wis., but will get those deer and him- 

 self back to Chicago by Christmas day. There 

 is a report current around the offices of the 

 company that Mr. Miller contemplates getting 

 home after eventide. 



J. D. Bolton of the Hayden & Westcott Lumber 

 Company returned Wednesday from an extended 

 trip among the mills along the Ohio, extending 

 from Cincinnati to Louisville. He said that 

 business for 1910 would knock " 'em all silly :" 

 freely translated this means that he got what 

 he went after. 



The Heath-Witbeck Company states that for 

 the month of Xovember it did the largest busi- 

 ness for any similar month for the past five 

 years. The company has just completed nego- 

 tiations (or the purchase of additional stock near 

 .N'ashville. Tenn.. amounting to ."jOO.OOO feet of 

 red oak and chestnut. This compelled the com- 

 pany to increase by one-third the capacity of 

 the Chicago yards. The stock will begin coming 

 in about March 1. Ed Heath is now in New 

 York for a stay over the holidays and will sail 

 about January 3 for a ninety days' tour of 

 Europe. On his return he will go South and 

 lomplete some work he began there in the early 

 fall. 



The T. Wilce Company states that the present 

 year has been the largest for the past five years, 

 so far as actual business is concerned. This 

 means that the company's business has been 

 above normal for some time. In addition to 

 this gratifying showing officials say that there 

 are no dissensions with employes- nor complaints 

 of any kind to mar an auspicious 1910 opening. 



NEW YORK 



The trustee in bankruptcy for ,T. L. EnglLsh, 

 who did business as English & Co., wholesale 

 hardwoods. 1 Madison avenue, has filed his final 

 report with the referee and a final meeting of 

 the creditors will be held at (17 Wall street 

 this week, at which time, if the report is found 

 O. K.. it will be allowed aud the trustee dis- 

 charged. 



George il. Coale, northern sales manager of 

 the Kirby Lumber Company. Houston, Texas. 

 was a prominent visitor during the week. 



W. E. Van Wert, manager of the local sales 

 office of the Emporium Lumber Company, has 

 just returned from a trip up the state. He 

 reports business conditions among the country 

 yards aud general manufacturing trade greatl.y 

 improved. More freedom is manifested in pur- 

 chasing stocks. 



JI. W. Teufel. who for the past several years 

 has been managing director for the extensive 

 lumber operations of the Davison Lumber Com- 

 pany, Nova Scotia, with headquarters at 1 

 Madison avenue, recently severed bis official 

 connection with that company to become assist- 

 ant to Edward Ilines, the distinguished and 

 wealthy Chicago lumberman. He also becomes 

 a stockholder and director in the Hines com- 

 pany. Mr. Teufel is not only a highly efficient 

 and capable lumberman but a man whose per- 

 sonality has endeared him to the hearts of all 

 who came in contact with him, and he leaves 

 a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. 



While no definite announcement has been made 

 as yet of the successor to Mr. Teufel in the 

 management of the Davison Lumber Company, it 

 is pretty generally understood that C. O. Shep- 

 herd of the C. O. Shepherd Lumber Company is 

 at least tentatively slated for the position. Bear- 

 ing out this idea, Mr. Shepherd and J. M. 

 Hastings, head of the Davison Lumber Company, 

 left last week for an extended inspection tour 

 of the Davison Lumber Company's properties in 

 Nova Scotia. 



The Webster Lumber Company, manufacturers 



and wholesalers of northern and southern hard- 

 woods, headquarters Swanton, Vt., has just 

 opened a local sales office at 1 Madison avenue 

 in charge of M. B. Morris. Through this office 

 it will aim to extend increased facilities to 

 buyers in this district and vicinity of the classes 

 of lumber which it handles. 



Among the prominent visitors in town during 

 the fortnight were Thomas F. Smouse, Cumber- 

 land, Md. ; J. Lee Ensign and John W. Hyde of 

 Jacksonville, Fla. ; E. D. Hardy, manager of the 

 Canadian branch of the Lumber Insurers' Gen- 

 eral Agency; Justin Peters, manager of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insur- 

 ance Company, Philadelphia, Pa., and Wilfrid 

 Talbot, well-known manufacturer of Montreal. 



E. H. Barton of the Barton-Thompson Com- 

 pany, well-known lumber house of London, Eng., 

 spent several days in town during the fortnight, 

 preparatory to his departure for home after an 

 extended tour of American manufacturing points. 

 He reported a royal good time all along the 

 line, and seemed very well satisfied with the 

 results of his visit. 



The Bronx Piano Club is the name of a new 

 organization just formed by leading representa- 

 tives of well-known piano manufacturing firms 

 of Winters & Co., Krackauer Brothers, Este Com- 

 pany, Laf'argue Brothers and Jacob Doll & Sons, 

 whose plants in recent years have been cen- 

 tered in the big Bronx region. The new club 

 will be operated along social as well as trade 

 betterment lines and will have well equipped 

 headquarters along the same lines as similar 

 organizations in the city. 



Prank B. Lee. formerly Long Island repre- 

 sentative of the Stevens-Eaton Company, has 

 just been designated by the company as man- 

 ager of a branch sales office, with headquarters 

 at Albany. N. Y. From this point he will cater 

 to the large and increasing business of the com- 

 pany's northern New York trade. 



Schooner Joseph H. Thomas arrived at this 

 jiort from Seattle. Wash., with a cargo of 

 1,400,000 feet of big coast timbers and spars, 

 manufactured and loaded by the Pacific Na- 

 tional Lumber Company at Tacoma, Wash., 

 who is not only specializing in big sizes of 

 Pacific coast supplies, but is making a special 

 drive for the big eastern business. In this con- 

 nection E. W. Demarest, president of the com- 

 pany, has just arrived in New York to make 

 his headquarters at the Hotel Richmond for the 

 winter season for the purpose of devoting his 

 attention to the eastern markets. Following the 

 Thomas comes the Henry Failing with another 

 cargo of l,400.00u feet for the local market, 

 mostly lumber and big timbers. Both of these 

 cargoes are all sold before shipments and indi- 

 cate the growing interest of the trade in the 

 use of Pacific coast lumb.n- and largely large 

 sized timbers. Some of the sticks ott of the 

 Thomas ran as long as lO.'i feet and weighed ten 

 to eleven tons, which made their handling quite 

 a problem. 



H. T. Walcott. timb?r merchant of Liverpool. 

 Eng., sailed from here during the fortnight 

 after an extended tour of lumber shipping cen- 

 ters in the United States and Canada. 



K. McLeod, president of the American Hard- 

 wood Company of Columbus, 0., sailed from here 

 during the fortnight for a month's trip abroad, 

 during which he will visit the English markets 

 in the interest of business. 



Nelson H. Walcott of the L. H. Gage Lumber 

 Company was in town during the fortnight at- 

 tending the meeting of the board of trustees of 

 the national wholesalers, along with J. V. Stim- 

 son of Hunlingburg, Ind., and W. W. Knight 

 of Indianapolis. Ind.. who are trustees of the 

 same organization. All of these gentlemen ex- 

 pressed themselves very optimistically as to the 

 general hardwood situation. 



The Windsor Lumber Company, wholesalers, 

 1 Madi.son avenue. New York, has increased its 

 capital stock to $40..'j00, in addition to which R, 



S. Voorhis and his associates in the company 

 have been joined by F. C. Close, formerly as- 

 sistant purchasing agent of the Michigan Cen- 

 tral railroad. He becomes a stockholder as well 

 as active in the selling department of the com- 

 pany. These changes will he of benefit to the 

 company in still further increasing its business 

 and prestige. 



BUFFALO 



The syndicate of the Wall brothers, incor- 

 porated as tile Yale Timber & Lumber Company, 

 is still adding to its holding in British Co 

 lumbia. The American Forest Company, under 

 Manager H. S. James, is building a big hard- 

 wood mill at Gainesville, Ga., and E. V. Dun- 

 levie is still in the same state beyond Savannah, 

 getting his big yellow pine mill started up. 



Athelbert Cropsey, who represented the South- 

 ern Exchange Company in the sale of ties and 

 similar lumber and has been located here in a 

 quiet w-ay several years, died on the ITtb. aged 

 sixty-three. He was an excellent man. but not 

 well known to the trade. 



Frank A. Beyer is still in politics, as he has 

 still to solve the problem of a deputy for his 

 county treasurer office, but hopes to soon get 

 back in full sight of the lumber trade. His 

 many friends regretted to learn of the death 

 of his I'ather, Christian Beyer, on December ^2. 

 aged seventy-six years. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are busy. They report mill 

 work especially active. 



J. N. Scatclierd is prosecuting his suit against 

 the Street Railway Company for .$50,000 dam- 

 .ages sustained in a collision with a car while 

 riding in his automobile in 1908. He has never 

 recovered from the injury and was very nearly 

 killed. 



The B\iffalo Hardwood Lumlier Company says 

 it is buying all the green lumber it can get 

 in the Southwest and is making a better show- 

 ing of stock in the Memphis yard than ever. 



There is always business in the yard of I. N. 

 Stewart & Bro., for oak. poplar and chestnut 

 move well and the day of cherry and walnut is 

 not far off now. West Virginia furnishes the 

 stock and H. A. Stewart knows where it is. 



The yard of A. Miller is full of an all-round 

 stock of hardwoods and he is moving it out as 

 fast as the season warrants, with ever.v pros- 

 pect of a much better movement of everything 

 early next year. 



Ilugh McLean still spends most of his time 

 on the road in eastern lumber-buying centers 

 and finds the demand almost too encouraging, 

 for there are now so many people trying to buy 

 for future delivery. It is easy to sell too much 

 now. 



The winter yard stock of T. Sullivan & Co. 

 is at its best. Some late cargoes of lake hard- 

 woods came in recently, filling up the yard. 

 There is also plenty of I'aciflc coast flr and 

 spruce on hand. 



P. W. Vetter found a good stock of hardwood 

 lumber on his trip South and is prepared to meet 

 the coming spring demand with everything filled 

 in. He recently did some good business in maple. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager is taking in a big 

 stock of oak and other Kentucky hardwoods. 

 Mr. Y'eager is now vice-president of the Manu- 

 facturers' Club. 



Plans are matured by the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company for shipping a lot of its 

 hardwood on tlie Cumberland this way by river 

 barge as soon as navigation is favorable. It is 

 coming in by rail now. 



PHILADELPHIA 



J. C. Tennant, secretary of the Fenwick Lum- 

 ber Company, recently spent several days at the 

 F.dgewood, N. Y., plant of his company. At 

 this plant the company is cutting spruce and a 



