HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Sands, William Heydon and McGeorge Bundy 

 are interested in the concern. 



The Webster-Whipple Lumber Company, Minne- 



apolis, Minn., tias been capitalized at $150,000 

 by II. Webster, V. A. Whipple and G. B. Webster 

 of Minneapolis. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABSWOOD BUCOBD Special Correspondents J 



CHIC AGO 



A. E. Vansiclile of A. K. Vausickle & Son, deal- 

 ers in lumber and building material, at Tamms, 

 111., was in the city yesterday calling on his 

 many friends among the trade and paid the 

 Kecohd a welcome call. 



A. B. Klise, the well-known hardwood lumber- 

 man of Sturgeon Bay, Mich., was in town visit- 

 ing bis friends in the trade last Saturday. 



John E. Williams, for some years editor of the 

 New Orleans Lumber Trade Journal, has moved 

 to Chicago and joined the forces of the Amer- 

 ican Lumberman, and will hereafter be one of 

 the editors of that publication. Mr. Williams is 

 one of the best posted lumber newspaper writers 

 of the country and his connection with this con- 

 temporary will insure continued conservatism in 

 editorial policy and discussion. 



W. W. Dings, secretary and sales manager of 

 the Garetson-Ureason Lumber Company, is at St. 

 Louis, having just returned from an extended 

 Pacific coast trip, where he has been visiting 

 bis wife and family, who are wintering at 

 Santa Barbara, Cal. He will be back at his 

 desk in the Fisher building within a few days. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber 

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

 itor on January 20. 



I. F. Balsley, manager of the new Palmer- 

 Semans Lumber Company of Pittsburg, made the 

 Record a call January 19. The Palmer-Semans 

 Lumber Company has engaged attractive offices 

 in the Oliver building in Pittsburg, which it 

 will occupy very shortly. Mr. Balsley was 

 accompanied by Mr. Aldricb, one of his corps of 

 salesmen. 



A welcome Uecord caller on January IS was 

 R. K. Allison, president of the Cardwell Mill 

 & Lumber Company of Cardwell, Mo. Mr. Alli- 

 son says that business is active and that 

 orders are taxing the present capacity of the 

 company's mill. 



About 150 of the employes of the Seaman, 

 Kent Company, Limited, of Meaford, Ontario, 

 lately enjoyed an elegant spread at the Hotel 

 Meaford, the occasion being the first annual 

 banquet tendered the factory hands by the com- 

 pany. Splendid toasts, songs and music made 

 the evening pass only too quickly. Mr. Kent 

 announced that a co-operative plan was being 

 devised whereby those who had been in the 

 company's employ for a certain number of year.« 

 — probably five — would get something more than 

 a banquet out of it a year from now. The 

 Seaman. Kent Company and its employes are to 

 be congratulated on their harmonious relations. 



Burdis Anderson, liead of the big veneer 

 . plant, the Great Lakes Veneer Company, of 

 Munising, Mich., was a welcome Chicago visitor 

 on January 22. 



R. G. Page of the Licking River Lumber Com- 

 pany, Huntington, W. Va., was a Chicago visitor 

 January 21. Mr. Page reports having enough 

 business on hand to keep his mills and oak 

 flooring plant working at full capacity. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 



.Manufacturers' Association, spent Friday and 



^ Saturday, of last week in Chicago on business 



In connection with the forthcoming Cincinnati 



meeting. 



M. B. Recder, representing the W. H. White 

 Company of Boyne City, Micb., was a Chicago 

 visitor January 15. Mr. Reeder reports that his 

 concern is sold up close for this time of year, 

 , and will have comparatively little stock to 

 offer until opening of navigation. 



F. L. May of the May Bending Works, Steu- 

 benville, O., was a Chicago visitor January 15. 

 Mr. May's institution produces vehicle and fur- 

 niture Woodstock. 



K. D. Galloway, president of the Galloway- 

 I'easo Company, Cincinnati, spent several days 

 in Chicago last week. Mr. Galloway is build- 

 ing up a handsome oak trade in this market. 



J. F. Shaw, well-known lumber salesman, for- 

 merly associated with the Robert H. Jenks Lum- 

 ber Company, Cleveland, O., is now engaged in 

 the wholcs?.le lumber business on his own account 

 at 170 South East street. Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Record had the pleasure, a few days ago, 

 of a call from A. A. Fredericks, purchasing 

 agent of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works of 

 South Bend, Ind. Mr. Fredericks' concern is 

 one of the largest consumers of oak in the South 

 Bend district. 



J. D. Lacey of the big timber firm of J. D. 

 Lacey & Co.. this city, is making his headquarters 

 at New Orleans for the winter and keeping 

 track of the affairs at the office the concern 

 maintains in that city. Wood Beal of the 

 same concern is just back from a trip to some 

 of the northeastern British provinces, where 

 he has been on a timber cruise. 



The Chicago Wholesale Lumber Dealer's Asso- 

 ciation is holding its annual election of officers 

 in the Grill Room of the University Club today. 



C. Crane, the big hardwood magnate of Cin- 

 ciunati, was in town for a day last week. 



The business of the F. S. Hendrickson Lum- 

 ber Company, Masonic Temple, Chicago, will be 

 conducted by the late Mr. Hendrickson's associ- 

 ates and on the same lines as it has been 

 carried on in the past. The ofllces will be con- 

 tinued in the Masonic Temple. 



C. L. Willey, the big Chicago veneer man, has 

 just received a part of a shipment of 400 

 mahogany logs which he purchased at the Liver- 

 pool sales. Mr. Willey regards this last ship- 

 ment as one of the best he has ever made, as 

 quite a portion of the logs are turning out re- 

 markably fine. 



The Continental Planing and Lumber Com- 

 pany, which handles heavy red and white oak 

 for construction and similar purposes, declares 

 that there is absolutely no market at present 

 for that class of stock. This concern is looking 

 forward to a general opening up in spring. 



G. C. Pratt of the G. C. Pratt Lumber & 

 Tie Company of Chicago attended the Wisconsin 

 Manufacturers' convention at Milwaukee last 

 Friday. He reports doing enough business to at 

 least pay the expenses of the trip. He reports 

 it rather difficult to find birch. 



The Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company re- 

 ports upper grades of birch and maple, especially 

 maple, very active. 



The Chicago Car Lumber Company, which 

 does a large railroad business in ties, car stock, 

 etc., reports that its business in that line is 

 practically tied up. 



This condition of affairs is attributed entirely 

 to the uncertainty as to the policy of the ad- 

 ministration at Washington. The railroads do 

 not want to go ahead on improvements until 

 they know whether or not they are going to be 

 left alone, and declare that if they are going 

 to be hit, they would rather be hit now and 

 get it over with than to be kept in uncertainty. 



The McParland & Konzen Lumber Company 

 reports having placed several large orders at 

 the recent annual meeting of the Indiana Hard- 

 wood Lumbermen's Association at Indianapolis. 



The Record has received the annual report for 



190S of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution at Washington, D. C. This report 

 is well printed and profusely illustrated with 

 half-tone engravings and shows the operations, 

 expenditures and conditions of the institution for 

 the year ending June 30, lOOS. It is bound In 

 green cloth and is, indeed, a handsome and 

 worthy representation of the work which ts 

 being carried on by this institution. 



NEW YORK 



Doscher, Gardner & Co., well known whole- 

 sale cypress house of 11 Broadway, with branch 

 at Jacksonville, Fla., has been incorporated un- 

 der the style of the Doscher-Gardner Company, 

 with a capital of $200,000. No change other 

 than that in name and enlarging of the business 

 is comprehended in this change. 



The Winchester County Lumber Dealers held 

 their annual banquet at the Hotel Manhat- 

 tan, this city, on the evening of January 21, 

 at which time a large attendance enjoyed an 

 interesting and entertaining evening. 



I. F. Balsley, well-known Pittsburg lumber- 

 man, who recently changed his activity to the 

 management of the new Palmer & Seamans Lum- 

 ber Company, of that city, was in town during 

 the fortnight on business. 



O. H. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., Pitts- 

 burg, visited Manager H. J. Gott at the local 

 office of the firm, 43 Wall street. 



E. L. Hunter of the Hoban-Hunter-Feitner 

 Company, wholesale cypress, 1 Sladison avenue, 

 has just returned from a trip to the South, 

 where he visited a number of the cypress mill 

 connections. On his return M. J. E. Hoban of 

 the company departed for the South. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber Under- 

 writers, well-known trade fire insurance or- 

 ganization conducted by leading wholesale lum- 

 bermen identified with the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Organization, was held at the 

 local headquarters, 66 Broadway, on January 

 13, with all the underwriters present. Reports 

 of the year showed large increase in business 

 and premium account and a successful year all 

 around in the work of the organization in the 

 matter of reduced fire insurance rates to lum- 

 bermen and woodworkers exclusively. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed here 

 against the Hammond Lumber Company of 

 Deming, N. Y., lumber manufacturers, by the 

 Binghamton Trust Company, a creditor for 

 ?2.646 loans, alleging insolvency, etc. 



The Lumberman's Club of New York, which 

 has now been in successful operation for sev- 

 eral months, has decided through action taken 

 at a recent meeting to move at an early date 

 from present headquarters, 6 West 24th street, 

 Manhattan, to much larger and more commodious 

 quarters in the Hoffman House, corner of Broad- 

 way and 23th street. The Board of Governors 

 has secured a fine layout here, which will prac- 

 tically give them exclusive quarters of a much 

 more attractive character and at the same time 

 the equipment and services of the popular Hoff- 

 man House. Constitution and by-laws were also 

 adopted to perfect the incorporation of the club, 

 and its future activities will, it is believed, re- 

 sult in a great development in the social life of 

 the local trade. 



George C. Lavery of Collins, Lavery & Co., of 

 Jersey City and New York, sails on January 27 

 for his annual vacation, which he will spend at 

 Jamaica. 



Morris H. Gatchel, formerly with W. M. Crom- 

 bic & Co.. 81 New street, has severed his connec- 

 tion to join forces with the Campbell-MacLaurin 

 Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue. New York, 

 and' Montreal, Can. Mr. Gatchel will assist Ar- 

 thur H. Campbell of the company in soliciting the 

 local trade. 



The largo saw and printing press manufac- 

 turing company of R. Hoe & Co., this city, has, 

 following the recent death of Robdrt Hoe, been 



