HARDWOOD RECORD 



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did not order?"; "Can we use short and odd 

 lengths?"; "How best can we settle disputes — 

 with the shipper or among ourselves?" J. W. 

 Paddock, Pana, 111., is president and George W. 

 Hotchkiss, Chicago, is secretary of the Illinois 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, an organization 

 made up of the retail element of the state. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati has 

 issued and has circulated widely a handsome 

 pamphlet containing its constitution and by- 

 laws, together with a list of members. 



The Record is in receipt of an announcement 

 from William W. Wilson, Jr., stating that he 

 has severed his association as sales manager of 

 Bemis & Vosburg of Pittsburg and that he is 

 now identified with A. G. Breitweiscr and will 

 engage in the wholesale lumber business as the 

 Breitweiser-Wllson Company, with temporary 

 headquarters In room 315 Lewis block until the 

 Oliver building is completed, when the company 

 will be located in that structure. 



The Recokd is in receipt of a handsome pam- 

 phlet issued by the Lumbermen's Club of St. 

 Louis, containing a list of the officers, a roster 

 of members and its constitution and by-laws. 



A new concern launched in Chicago on Jan- 

 uary 1 is the Fullerton-Krueger Lumber Com- 

 pany, of which S. H. Fullerton of the Chicago 

 Lumber & Coal Company, St. Louis, and the 

 FuUerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 South Bend, and J. H. Krueger, an old Chicago 

 lumberman, are the principals. The incorpora- 

 tors of the new concern are C. M. Smalley of 

 the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, E. A. 

 Thornton and H. D. Welch of the E. A. Thorn- 

 ton Lumber Company, all of Chicago. The com- 

 pany will handle yellow and white pine, hem- 

 lock, hardwoods and west coast products, spe- 

 cializing in the latter two departments. As yet 

 it has not been decided where the offices will be 

 located. 



The many friends in the lumber business will 

 sympathize with William M. Hopkins of the 

 Theo. Fathauer Company on account of the 

 sudden death of his wife, which occurred at the 

 Henrotin hospital, Chicago, Sunday, December 

 26. Mrs. Hopkins had been at the hospital for 

 two weeks and was thought to be improving 

 when a sudden change for the worse took place 

 on Saturday, resulting in her death the follow- 

 ing day. She is survived by her husband and 

 an infant son only a few days old. 



The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange did 

 not hold any meeting in December, but will meet 

 at the La Salle hotel on Saturday, January 15. 



Roy Smith, Chicago representative of the 

 Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company of Rhine- 

 lander, Wis., spent the holidays at Wausau, 

 Wis. George B. Mason of the same concern, 

 but whose home is in Madison, Wis., accom- 

 panied by his wife, was a recent Chicago visitor. 

 L. H. Wheeler of the Wheeler-Timlin Lumber 

 Company, this city, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Wheeler, spent the holidays at Logansport, Ind., 

 Mrs. Wheeler's former home. 



Another lumberman to leave town with his 

 wife for the holidays was F. de Anguera of the 

 Anguera Lumber Company. They visited friends 

 at Knoxville, Tenn. 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 Company returned to the city recently from a 

 trip to Memphis and other southern points. 

 , Stocks throughout the South, he says, are hard 

 to find and prices are firm, with a tendency 

 toward advancement. 



P. J. Attley of the Ross-Attley Lumber Com- 

 pany, Heth, Ark., spent the holidays with his 

 family in Chicago. Mr. Attley is in charge of 

 the mill at Heth. 



A. D. Miller, Goshen, Ind., and well known 

 to the cypress trade of the Middle West, re- 

 cently became identified with the selling force 

 of C. L. Cross, Chicago sales agent for the 

 Louisiana Red Cypress Company of New Or- 

 leans, La. 



G. H. Bulgrin, sales manager of the Britting- 

 ham & Young Company, Madison. Wis., spent 

 last week with Chicago Manager .\. C. Quixby. 



taking an inventory of the stock ot the local 

 yard and reviewing the business of the year. 



The Record is in receipt of an announcement 

 from Mr. and Mrs. Horace J. Borham of Cin- 

 cinnati, announcing the marriage of their daugh- 

 ter, Elizabeth, to Frank Rhodes Buck, deputy 

 inspector ot the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. Mr. and Mrs. Buck will be at 

 home after January 20 at 4146 Evanston avenue, 

 Chicago. The Record extends congratulations. 



David W. Walker, who for several years was 

 sales manager for Markley & Miller, who re- 

 cently closed their Chicago yard, has opened an 

 office at 1S3 La Salle street, to handle hardwood 

 and mahogany lumber and veneers as manufac- 

 turers' agent. 



Charles A. Goodman, president of the Sawyer- 

 Goodman Company of Marinette, Wis., was a 

 Chicago visitor during the week. 



W. C. Winchester of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 president of the Turtle Lake Lumber Company, 

 was a visitor to the Chicago lumber trade re- 

 cently. 



E. C. Groesbeck, secretary of the Stearns 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., was a Chicago 

 visitor on Friday last. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, with headquarters at 

 Cincinnati, was a Chicago visitor on Saturday, 

 en route home from attendance at the funeral 

 services of the late John B. Ransom at Nashville. 

 Mr. Doster says the details of the plans for the 

 big convention of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, which is to be held at Cincinnati 

 on February 1, 2 and 3, are yet under way and 

 that the meeting promises to be the largest 

 gathering of lumbermen ever held in the United 

 States. 



The Franklin Lumber Company, Real Estate 

 Trust building, Philadelphia, Pa., announces that 

 it has opened a sales office ai Syracuse, N. T., 

 with F. M. Jobson as manager ; and a buying 

 office at Buckhannon, W. Va., with Perry C. 

 Stemple In charge. The company reports it 

 closed the year with a very satisfactory business 

 and has added two salesmen to its force. The 

 company handles a full line of building woods as 

 well as hardwoods. 



F. L. Johnson, Jr., of Smith & Johnson, this 

 city, Arcanoper of the Concatenated Order of 

 Hoo-Hoo, announces that he will hold a stag 

 dinner on January 18 at 8 p. m. in room 309 

 Masonic Temple building. At this time it is 

 proposed to talk over local Hoo-Hoo matters 

 and have an evening's fun. 



NEW YORK 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 spent several days in town between Christmas 

 and New Year's at the local office of the asso- 

 ciation, on Important association business. Mr. 

 Doster is busily engaged rounding up matters for 

 the coming annual meeting of his asociation at 

 Cincinnati, O., on February 1, 2 and 3 and he 

 looks for a big attendance and a very important 

 meeting from the standpoint of discussion and 

 action on leading hardwood topics of interest. 



H. D. Billmeyer, hardwood timber specialist of 

 Cumberland, Md., and head of the Billmeyer 

 Lumber Company, was also here on a visit and 

 closed some very choice orders. This company 

 is doing a very large business in heavy hard- 

 wood timber, especially ship and dock material 

 and he looks for a big trade in 1910. 



William Newman Slater, president of the Port 

 Chester Lumber Company, Port Chester, N. Y., 

 died December 13 at his home at the age of 

 thirty-seven years. Mr. Slater was one of the 

 brightest and most capable lumbermen of the 

 younger generation in the eastern territory and 

 had a most successful future before him. His 

 life terminating at such a young age makes 

 the loss a keen one for his family, business 

 associates and the town of Port Chester, In which 

 he was held in high esteem. 



Following the recent death of Robert Hoe, 

 head of the big saw and printing press manu- 

 facturing firm of R. Hoe & Co., o£ this city, the 

 surviving interests on December 31 incorporated 

 under the laws ot New York under the same 

 name, with a capital of $5,875,000, divided Into 

 $3,250,000, six per cent accumulative preferred 

 and $2,625,000 common. The directors of the 

 firm are Arthur C. James, Otto T. Bannard, John 

 S. Hoyt, Robert Hoe, Arthur I. Hoe, Charles W. 

 Parsons and William W. Carman of New York 

 City. 



The National Casket Company, big manufac- 

 turers, of Hoboken, N. J., Oneida, N. Y., and 

 other leading cities, announces the removal of 

 its lumber purchasing department, F. E. Long- 

 well, manager, from Oneida, N. Y., to the general- 

 offices ot the company at 3-5-V West Twenty- 

 ninth street, to which point all communications 

 should be addressed. This company buys in 

 the neighborhood of 30,000,000 feet ot hardwood 

 a year through Mr. Longwell's activities, and 

 his many friends in the trade are glad to wel- 

 come him back again to little old New York. 



The recent deal, by which the C. H. O'Neill 

 Lumber Company property in Jersey City was 

 to have passed to the firm of the big Jersey 

 City house of Vanderbeek & Sons, following 

 the O'Neill fire on election day. has fallen 

 through. As a result, G. F. Farrell, formerly 

 head of the O'Neill company, has organized the 

 O'Neill Lumber Company with a capital of $100,- 

 000 to succeed to the business formerly car- 

 ried on by the C. H. O'Neill Lumber Company. 

 The premises are fast being rehabilitated and 

 the new firm starts out under favorable auspices. 

 The big cabinet and trim works of E. B. 

 Jordan & Co., 129 Degraw street, Brooklyn, was 

 recently almost totally destroyed by fire, entail- 

 ing a loss of from $75,000 to $100,000, fully 

 covered by insurance. 



The Stevens-Eaton Company, large wholesale 

 house of 1 Madison avenue, has increased Its 

 selling stafE through the appointment ot W. A. 

 Ruddick, who for several years past has been 

 identified with the Edward Hines interests of 

 Chicago, as eastern sales representative. Mr. 

 Ruddick will represent the Stevens-Eaton Com- 

 pany in the northern New Jersey and the Met- 

 ropolitan District trade, in which he is both 

 well and favorably known. 



John F. Cronin, the well-known hardwood lum- 

 berman of Utica, N. Y., spent several days in 

 town during the fortnight on his way home to 

 spend the holidays. He expressed himself opti- 

 mistically in regard to the business situation 

 and looks for a big hardwood year in 1910. 



J. W. Darling of the J. W. Darling Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, O., was another prominent 

 visitor just before the holidays. He stated that 

 he was enjoying good business with big prospects 



for 1910- 



The large furniture manufacturing establish- 

 ment of L. Zodikow, 334 Stanton street, Manhat- 

 tan was damaged by fire to the extent of 

 $75 000 last week, fully covered by insurance. 



BUFFALO 



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The scarcity of oak lumber is still the chief 

 remark of the members of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, in spite of the fact that Its 

 three mills in the Southwest are running as 

 actively as possible. How will it be nest spring? 



There is a lot of lumber coming into the yard 

 of F W Vetter, including a stock of oak and 

 ash from the South. The demand is also good 

 for the time of the year, and so the business 

 of the year is sure to be fine. 



The move of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company to get a line of barges started this way 

 from Kentucky and Tennessee will be all right, 

 so far as amount of water Is concerned. It 

 has the lumber and that completes the arrange- 

 ment. ,,.,., 



President Beyer of the Pascola Lumber Com- 



