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HARDWOOD RECORD 



incorporated with a capital of $5,875,000, for the 

 purpose of continuing the business along the same 

 lines as heretofore. 



F. T. Sullivan, who for some years past has 

 been connected with the sales department of T. 

 Sullivan & Co., Buffalo, has severed his connec- 

 tion with that firm to join forces with H. H. 

 Salmon & Co., wholesale house, at 88 Wall street, 

 New York, for whom he will maintain Buffalo 

 headquarters. 



The C. O. Shepherd Lumber Company of 1 

 Madison avenue is about to go out of business. 

 C. O. Shepherd is interested in and managing di- 

 rector of the Davison Lumber Company, Bridge- 

 water, Nova Scotia, with office in room 10027 

 same building. 



The Marsball-Polhemus Company, successor to 

 Uptegrove & Polhemus, 1 Madison avenue, re- 

 ports things in shape for sharp trading. The 

 company occupies the office of its predecessor and 

 has been in business a little over a month. The 

 officers are J. A. Polhemus, president ; John 

 Knox Marshall, treasurer. Mr. Knox pronounces 

 the outlook for 1910 very promising. 



when asked of the prospect of a good lumber 

 season. Business is increasing in all hard- 

 woods. H. A. Stewart is in Pennsylvania, ship- 

 ping in a lot of red oak that the firm has down 

 there. 



BUFFALO 



J. M. Briggs has been appointed Hoo-Hoo 

 Vicegerent for this district and is preparing to 

 hold a big concatenation at Rochester on Janu- 

 ary 25. Charles Allen and Charles Crouch of 

 the order there are assisting in the work and 

 promise about twenty new members. It is ex- 

 pected that about twenty Hoo-Hoos will go 

 down from here to attend the concatenation. 



Frank T. Sullivan, for several years con- 

 nected with T. Sullivan & Co. as salesman and 

 special manager, has engaged with the New 

 York lumber house of H. Salmon & Co. J. Leo 

 Throm has taken his place. 



Miss Eugenia Vetter, daughter of F. W. Vet- 

 ter, was married to Leo A Weter in Holy 

 Angels' Church at 11 o'clock on January 15. 

 Lumbermen and others were profuse with wed- 

 ding presents. 



O. E. Yeager was away last week on a west- 

 ern trip that included attendance at a meeting 

 of the trustees of the National Hardwood Asso- 

 ciation in Chicago. The yard reports active 

 business. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are prepared to look with 

 calmness on the big snow falls of the winter. 

 Cor they got everything in pile and inventory 

 taken a day or two before the big snow came. 

 A large stock is reported and demand for it 

 good. 



The business of the Buffalo Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company is improving and there is every 

 indication of a big season ahead. J. B. Wall 

 made a short business trip to Mount Clemens, 

 Mich., recently. 



The Buffalo members of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, who, with their salesmen, paid 

 a visit to the southwestern mills of the McLean 

 interests, have returned quite well pleased with 

 the operations under way, as they insure a good 

 oak supply. 



Scatcherd & Son are having a good many 

 demands for stock from the Scatcherd hard- 

 wood door mill at Batavia. which is very active 

 now. They are cutting out as much oak as 

 possible at Memphis, but do not claim that they 

 have enough. 



A. W. Kreinheder of the Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company finished about the most active 

 campaign of his life — Manufacturers' Club expo- 

 sition, politics, sickness in his family, with two 

 weeks of the grip — but is out again and doing 

 business. 



G. Ellas & Bro. would fairly be excused in 

 thinking that the big snows were for their 

 "benefit," for it caught them with a big lot 

 of lake lumber not piled up, but they have 

 hustled and are getting it into shape. Mill 

 business has been good. 



"Not a doubt of it." reports I. N. Stewart, 



PHILADELPHIA 



Henry Whelpton. secretary and treasurer of 

 the Owen M. Bruner Company, says that, not- 

 withstanding the usual holiday lull and the as- 

 perity of the season, there has been a fair activity 

 and the outlook is promising. Owen M. Bruner. 

 president, has just returned from a trip through 

 Virginia, the object of which was to size up 

 conditions in the mill centers. 



Charles G. Blake, manager E. V. Babcock & 

 Co., reports a lapse of activity at this time due 

 to the heavy weather. He is confident, however, 

 the trade of 1910 will round up well and when 

 the weather begins to settle orders undoubtedly 

 will begin to come in. Horace A. Reeves. Jr., of 

 R. B. Wheeler & Co., says that in spite of the 

 blizzard, which has interfered more or less with 

 the desired prompt shipment, business has kept 

 up well and the outlook is encouraging. He 

 warns the hardwood users that the scarcity of 

 these woods is becoming more and more pro- 

 nounced and that it behooves the buyers to pro- 

 tect themselves while they have the opportunity. 



The Brown-Bates Compan.v, wholesale lumber, 

 Stephen Girard building, is the latest to enter 

 the field. The personnel is composed of hustlers 

 long known to the trade throughout the East. It 

 was incorporated under New Y'ork laws with a 

 capital stock of .$30,000. It will do a general 

 lumber business, making a specialty of white. 

 North Carolina and .yellow pine, spruce, hemlock, 

 cypress shingles, maple flooring, hardwoods and 

 mouldings. The interests joining in the forma- 

 tion of the company are those representing 

 White, Gratwick & Mitchell, Inc., North Tona- 

 wanda, and the Stevens-Eaton Company of New 

 York City. G. A. Mitchell is president of the 

 new concern, G. W. Brown vice-president, H. E. 

 Bates secretary and G. M. Stevens, Jr., treasurer. 

 Mr. Brown represented the Stevens-Eaton Com- 

 pany in Philadelphia for some time. G. M. 

 Stevens. Jr.. is of the New York house. A. 

 Mitchell of Gratwick & Mitchell. Inc., and H. E. 

 Bates was for many years with Wistar, Under- 

 bill & Co., of Philadelphia. Mr. Bates is making 

 a tour of the southern lumber camps, visiting the 

 mills with which the company is connected and 

 getting a line on general conditions. 



The Tomb Lumber Company states that it has 

 had the best year's trading in its history and 

 anticipates a shining record for 1910. Harry B. 

 Tomb, president, says the company has purchased 

 another Climax locomotive from the Climax 

 Manufacturing Company. Corry, Pa., and has 

 also added some new cars. There has been a 

 general rearrangement of machinery at the com- 

 pany's mill at Watoga, W. Va., which will in- 

 crease the output by about 3,000,000 feet of 

 lumber per annum. The company is receiving 

 very desirable orders from the Middle West, 

 which territory is covered by W. A. Murray, for- 

 merly of W. M. Ritter Lumber Company. Mr. 

 Murray is visiting the company's mill and will 

 incidentally close some important contracts while 

 traveling through the South. 



Daniel B. C'urll is much pleased over the wind- 

 up of last .year's business. He has just returned 

 from a trip to the mill in Glenray, W. Va., in 

 which he is interested and reports a decided im- 

 provement in the car shortage difflcult.v, which 

 will enable him to promise prompt shipments. 

 H. M. Curll. general manager of the Common- 

 wealth Lumber Company, a brother of Daniel 

 B., recently stopped in Philadelphia on his way 

 to Pittsburg. He had come directly from the 

 West Virginia mill and testified to a general 

 betterment all along the line. 



A fleet of thirty-six barges, all from points in 

 North and South Carolina and Virginia, laden 



with lumber, railroad ties and mine props are 

 icebcsnd at Canton Hollow .\nchorage, Balti- 

 more. All are bound tor Philadelphia and when 

 they move towards the Chesapeake and Delaware 

 canal it will take over a week to lock them 

 through. 



The Hickory Lumber & Handle Company of 

 Benton has bought a 700-acre hickory forest 

 near Danville, Pa., for $25,000. 



The Sharp-Arrow Automobile Company has 

 awarded the contract for the building of its 

 works in East Stroudsburg. Pa. W. B. Easton, 

 president, and William H. Sharp, inventor and 

 manager, say that work will be pushed on the 

 new building. This concern was incorporated 

 on January 11 w-ith a capital stock of $75,000. 



A unique table composed of 10,060 pieces of 

 wood of 115 different kinds, fitted together, is 

 the work of Levi M. Lomemaker, a man seventy- 

 three years old. He did most of the work with 

 a pocket knife, a iiand saw and a hammer, com- 

 pleting the job in 911 hours. The wood was ob- 

 tained in a number of different countries, some 

 of it being taken from historic spots. Several 

 pieces of oak and pine are from the old wooden 

 oridge which formerly spanned the Susquehanna 

 at Columbia and which was blown down in a 

 cyclone in 1S9G. 



The Franklin Lumber Company, Real Estate 

 Trust building, Philadelphia, knowing the pro- 

 pensity of the lumbermen for a good smoke, has 

 presented an appropriate souvenir of the New 

 Y'ear in the shape of a neat and artistic match 

 box, on which appears the significant inscription, 

 "Let's Get Acquainted." 



The planing mill of the Rightmire-Shriver Com- 

 pany, Morgantown. W. Va., was burned on Janu- 

 ary 11 ; loss $50,000. 



The Times Square Automobile Company, Phila- 

 delphia, was incorporated January 8 under 

 Pennsylvania laws ; capital $5,000. ,, 



The Anthracite Motor Car Company, Rcranton, 

 was incorporated under Pennsylvania laws on 

 January i:'. : capital $10,000. 



The Summit Lumber Manufacturing Company, 

 to own, buy, sell, lease and deal in standing tim- 

 ber and timber lands, obtained a charter Janu- 

 ary 10 under Delaware laws. The incorporators 

 are : Thomas Mc.\lister. M. G_. Ryan and John 

 Barrett, all of Philadelphia. The company is 

 capitalized at $25,000. 



The American Engine & Motor Company was 

 incorporated January 10, with a capital stock of 

 $1,000,000. It will buy, sell, manufacture and 

 set up rotary engines, automobiles, motor ve- 

 hicles and power boats. 



The Union Stair-Building Company, Newark, 

 N. J., was incorporated January IS under New 

 Jersey laws with a capital of $50,000. 



PITTSBURG 



The Breitwieser & Wilson Company is get- 

 ting well established in its temporary oflice in 

 the Lewis block preparatory to moving to the 

 fourth floor of the new Oliver skyscraper when 

 it is completed. A. G. Breitwieser and William 

 W. Wilson, Jr., the members of this firm, are 

 so well known in Pittsburg and have such an 

 intimate knowledge of the lumber trade in the 

 middle and southern states that they are start- 

 ing right off with good prospects and steady 

 sales. 



C. Stitzinger & Bro. of New Castle, Pa., have 

 bought 9,000 acres of hardwood timber in Pres- 

 ton county. West Virginia, for about $200,000. 

 They will build a standard gauge railroad up 

 the Cheat river from Rowlesburg to develop 

 the tract. 



President John M. Hastings of the J. M. 

 Hastings Lumber Company looks a little askance 

 at the threatened legislation regarding corpo- 

 rations, as he fears that this, together with 

 labor troubles, which are rather imminent, may 

 unsettle the industrial and business situation 

 this spring. He has spent much of his time 



