HARDWOOD RECORD 



NBW YORK 



W. ri. Morshon. 1 Madison avomio. who i-i- 

 cpntly mi-iged his liusiness with the John D. Jlei-- 

 shon I>umlici- Company, will head the eastern 

 sales office of tliat company. He announces that 

 bis concern has secured exclusive eastern sellin.e 

 agency for the bifr California redwood output of 

 the Paciftc Lunilier Compan.y. Los Anseles. Cal.. 

 with a total output of l.jO.000.000 feet. 



Among the prominent visitors during the fort- 

 night were E. E. (ioodlander. Goodlander-Roliin- 

 son Lumber Company, llemphis. Tenn.. and 

 Chester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber Coni- 

 pan.v. Cincinnati. O.. both of whom were here 

 visiting their customers in the trade, and ex- 

 pressed themselves optimistically in regard to 

 the general business situation : (;. F. Ilauley. 

 Eastern Lumber Company. Tonawanda. X. Y. : 

 I.. M. Young. L. Jr. Young Lumber Company. 

 Iloston. Mass. : C. IL Bond, E. \V. Rathbun & 

 Co., O-swego. X. Y. : Lewis Dill. L. Dill & Co.. 

 r.altimore. Md. : O. H. Babcock. E. V. Babcock & 

 Co.,, Pittsburg, ra. : C. H. Prescott. Saginaw Bay 

 Compan.v. Cleveland. O. ; C. W. Belts. C. M. Belts 

 & Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. ; Guy White. North Tona- 

 wanda. X. Y.. and G. IL Ellington. Ellington & 

 Guy. Richmond. Va. 



.lames Murdoek I'idgeon. for many years prom- 

 inent in the lumber commission and shipping 

 business in South street, this cit.v. died .Tanuary 

 27 at his home in Grantwood. X. J., in the 76th 

 year of his age. 



Russell .T. Perriue. head of .Johnson Bros.. Inc.. 

 Brooklyn, and president of the Xew York Lumber 

 Trade Association, sails on February 10 for a 

 month's pleasure trip to Bermuda, accompanied 

 by his famil.\-. 



The regular annual banquet of the Westchester 

 County Lumber Dealers was held at the Hotel 

 Manhattan. Xew Y"ork, on .January 21, when 

 1,000 members and their guests enjoyed a de- 

 lightful evening. Festivities were presided over 

 by President E. M. Terk.s. of Y'onkers. and many 

 prominent guests from sister associations and 

 public life spoke at the after-dinner session. 



The annual banquet of the Xew York I^umber 

 Trade Association occurred at the Waldorf- ,\s- 

 tcria, Manhattan, on the night of February ". 

 and was participated in by about -"25 members 

 and their guests. The menu was in the usual 

 excellent Waldorf style and the menu cards a 

 very handsome creation. The festivities were 

 presided over by I'resident Russell J. Perrine of 

 Brooklyn, but there were no set speeches, the 

 after dinner session being taken up by the presen- 

 tation of an excellent vaudeville show. It was 

 one of the most successful affairs in the history 

 of the association. 



Secretary E. F. Perry of the Xational Whole- 

 Gale Lumber Dealers* Association spent several 

 days in Washington, D. C, during the past week 

 attending the car stake congressional hearing 

 and numerous other Washington happenings, in 

 which his association is interested. The local 

 office is very busy getting ready for the annual 

 convention at Cincinnati on March 2 and 3 and 

 ever.vthing points to a record attendance and a 

 most interesting program. 



C. O. Shepherd, managing director of the r>a- 

 vison Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue, left 

 last week for a two weeks' visit to the Nova 

 Scotia operations of the company and to go over 

 matters at that end of the line. 



The Barker-Bond Lumber Company has been 

 organized by the well known interests proviousl.v 

 identified with Barker & Co. of Boston and Xew 

 York, to take over the selling business of Barker 

 & Co. in Xew Y'ork and I'hiladelphia. The old 

 firm will continue its Xew England business as 

 formerly. .Vssociated with the Barker-Bond Lum- 

 ber Company, as principals, are George .1. Barker. 

 president : .1. M. Bond, formerly head of the 

 Xew York office, as treasurer, and .J. P. and 

 Robert G. Comegys of Philadelphia, who previ- 



ously represented Barker & Co. in that city, and 

 K. A. Xiles and P. U. Fuller, previously identified 

 with the Xew York office. Business will be car- 

 ried on along the same lines as heretofore. 



Gouverneur E. Smith & Co.. wholesale hard- 

 wood house, of 17 Battery place, announce that 

 they have just closed nogoliations for the exclu- 

 sive sale in the Metropolitan district and vicinity 

 • if all the cedar boat boards and 20-inch machine 

 dressed shingles manufactured by the Waccamaw 

 Lumber Company of Bolton, X. C. known as the 

 Waccauuiw Brand. This, together witli their 

 <<innections. greatly increases the firm's facilities 

 to local bu.vers. 



The DeWitt Lumber Company is the name of 

 a new wholesale house just organized at 1 Madi- 

 son avenue, composed of George P. DeWitt. presi- 

 ilent and general manager, and .J. II. Ilillman. 

 srcretary and treasurer. Both of these gentlemen 

 have been identified with the Philadelphia and 

 eastei-n trade for many years, more latterly with 

 II. <T. Hazard & Co., of Philadelphia, and bring 

 t«* the new compan.v a large experience W'hich 

 should result in success to its activities. They 

 will handle a general line of wholesale lumber 

 and hardwoods will be the specialty. 



The lumber trade of the Metropolitan district 

 was signally honored during the fortnight in the 

 appointment by President Taft of E. W. Voor- 

 liies. head of E. W. Voorhies & Bro.. planing mill 

 and lumber dealers of south Brooklyn, to be post- 

 master of the city of Brookl.vn. Mr. Voorhies Is 

 widely and favorably known both in local lumber 

 and political circles and his appointment has 

 been received with general satit;faction. 



The Stevens-Eaton Company. 1 Madison ave- 

 nue, reports busy. T. S. ililler. manager ot the 

 hardwood department, is preparing for a banner 

 >-ear iu hardwood trading. He has established a 

 <Ustributing and storing yard at Gilman, W. Va.. 

 with a c.ipacity of 4,000,0011 to ."5,000,000 feet 

 of lumber. This .yard, which' is located about 

 three miles from Elkins. has about one million 

 feet ttf railroad track and facilities for several 

 railroad connections, consequentlj- the compan.*- 

 will be in a position to guarantee promj)! ship- 

 ments. 



The Sea Coast Lumber Company. 1 Madison 

 avenue, anticipating a brisk lumber business for 

 1010, is making arrangements for an extensivi' 

 handling of hardwoods. This department will 

 be in charge of C. W. Brownson. assistant treas- 

 urer, who is emphatically optimistic as to out- 

 look. 



BUFFALO 



There is still next to no news in connection 

 with the lumber exchanges, but the merger of 

 the ilanufacturers' Club with the Chamber of 

 Commerce, with the lumbermen so generally in- 

 terested in both bodies, promises to afford them 

 a meeting place soon such as they never had. 



A new hardwood yard is being opened by the 

 .Tames H. Walsh Company on outer Seneca 

 street. It is a pretty hard matter to do founda- 

 tion %vork. but the office is already partly built 

 and lumber for the yard is coming up from 

 the Ohio river. Mr. Walsh has long been con- 

 nected with Buffalo lumber interests and ever.v- 

 body hopes that he has m.ade a winning move. 

 He has operated for some time without a yard. 



A steady increase is noted in the handling 

 of Pacific coast lumber. Both white pine and 

 hardwood dealers are getting into that trade, for 

 they need the stock. 



G. Ellas & Bro. report business fair, with all 

 promises of a heavy setting in of the demand 

 as soon as the snow is out of the way. There 

 is still quite a large amount of fall-received 

 stock on the dock waiting for weather. 



A. Miller is a pretty bus.v man these days. 

 Tliere is a saying that the local hardwood users 

 no longer buy their stock of the cit.v dealers, 

 but Mr. Miller's books would tell a different 

 story if they were consulted on the matter. 



Hugh McLean recently spent some time in 

 Burlington. Vt.. where he has a family estate 

 to look after and where he is still director of a 

 city bank. However, most of his time is still 

 given to selling lumber on the road. 



Frank A. Vetter is slill giving his time to 

 the office of the county treasur.v, but he is not 

 forgetting that he is a lumberman and he will 

 some day come back to his own with interest 

 and make the Pascola mills hum again. 



There is no lack of lumber moving in the yard 

 of I. X. Stewart & Bro.. especially oak, poplar 

 and chestnut. There is also demand for birch, 

 but the rule is that few yards have a good 

 slock of tliat. as they sell something else in 

 place of it. 



The kinds of lunil)er handled by T. Sullivan 

 & Co. seems to be the lumber that is wanted, 

 whether it is Xlichigan hardwood or I'acific- 

 coast fir and spruce. The yard has been very 

 busy all winter and expects to continue, for it 

 lias the stock. 



F. W. Vetter is getting a lot of trade just 

 now and though he is against selling for long 

 time, he is loaded up with orders for quick 

 delivery. lie reports that the snow has handi- 

 capped the yard business to a great extent. 



(). E. Y'eager is not only selling lumber of all 

 sorts at a good rate, but has just received a 

 large stock of hardwood, which will make it 

 Iiusy in that yard for some time. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Wistar. Underbill & c'o. are complacent over 

 business conditions. R. W. Wistar says that 

 .January was a very good month, considering the 

 adverse weather and the usual holiday inertia. 

 The salesmen are all laboring in their respective * 

 territories and report a decided improvement all 

 along the line, with fine prospects for 1010 

 trading. 



On .January 24 a fleet of twenty-one barges 

 passed through the Chesapeake into the Dela- 

 ware, carrying .S,4.31.0O0 feet of lumber, five 

 barges with 2,075 cords of pulp wood and seven 

 barges with 4.226 tons of mine props. This 

 was the fleet of barges that was ice bound at 

 Canton Hollow, Baltimore, and its timel.v ar- 

 rival saved many of the lumber yards and pulp 

 mills from a shut-down. 



The plant of the Middletown Car Compan.v. 

 Middleton, Pa., will be enlarged at a cost of 

 $300,000. Additional real estate will be pur- 

 chased for extension.s. 



George Brill, a member of the J. G. Brill 

 Car Compan.v, died on .January 1, aged sixty-one 

 .years. He was the son of .T. G. Brill, who with 

 Martin Brill were the founders of the extensive 

 car works at Sixty-second street and Woodland 

 avenue. 



The United States Motor Compan.v. with main 

 offices in Jersey City, has increased its capital 

 stock to ?16,000,000. The stock is divided into 

 .fS.OOO.OOO preferred and .SS.000,000 common. 

 The incorporators are Henry E. Torrey. Xew 

 Y'ork : James A. Dail.v. Ossining. X. Y., and 

 Kenneth K. McLaren. Jersey City. The com- 

 I)any is authorized to manufacture and deal in 

 motors, flying machines and automobiles. 



The Lewis J. Bergdoll Motor Company. Cam- 

 den. X. J., was chartered on Jainiary 2 with a 

 capital stock of .$."10,000. 



The Chalmers-Hippie Vehicle Company. I'hila- 

 delphia. was recentl.v incorporated under Penn- 

 sylvania, laws, with a capital of J.'JO.OOO. 



The Carlson Jlotor Vehicle Company, capital- 

 ized at .$10,000. was recently incorporated at 

 Philadelphia. Pa. 



The Bergdoll-llall .Motor Compan.v. Phila- 

 delphia, olitained a charter under Pennsylvania 

 laws on January 20. Its capital stock is .$2.'«,000. 



The Lumund Motor Car Company. Ruther- 

 ford, obtained a charter January 2.S under Xew 

 Jersey laws; capital .^l.lo.OOO. 



