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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Matliis Yacht Building Company, Cam- 

 den, obtaiupd a charter on January 2S under 

 New .lersey laws ; capital $20,000. 



PITTSBURG 



The Shubuta Lumber Company, eapital ^'lOO.- 

 000, has been formed at Youngstown, Ohio, by 

 D. C. .Stewart, F. C. Robinson, W. K. Uaird, 

 I.. Heller aud T. B. Van Alstine. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company made a splen- 

 'iid showing on its books in January and is pre- 

 paring to enlarge its operations considerably 

 this spring. A. M. Turner of this company has 

 been active in lining up good southern stocks and 

 Ihe concern has splendid connections in Penn- 

 sylvania and West ^'irginia. 



J. J. Linehan of the Linehau Lumber Com- 

 pany, has been down East a good share of his 

 time since January 1. J. C. Linehan spent a 

 few days in Kentucky at the mills last week. 

 Iloth are well pleased with the outlook for good 

 hardwood trade this spring. 



The Kdinboro Timber Company of Edinboro, 

 I'a., which owns 200,000,000 feet of standing tim- 

 ber in British Columbia, recently elected J. N. 

 Tarbell, president, and Dr. F. G. Greenfield, 

 George Taylor, F. T. Proudflt, Eugene Tarbell 

 and D. G. Curtiss, directors. 



The Tarendim Coal & Stone Company has 

 been formed by 11. and John Griffith, I". 11. 

 Gougli. W. .'I. Xorris and J. II. Gough of Taren- 

 liim. Pa., and will proceed at once to cut off a 

 small but line tract of oak timber on the Alle- 

 gheny river. 



The Trio Lumber Company of Vaudergrift, Pa., 

 has been dissolved and Charles L. Reed and 

 Harrison L. Yerte of Pittsburg have been 

 named to wind up the affairs of the company. 



The Breitweiser & Wilson Company did a re- 

 markably good business in January, consider- 

 ing that it was its first month. It reports a 

 good demand for oak bill stuff, especially heavy 

 pieces. Prices are steadily going up. 



The Altoona Lumber Company, most of whoso 

 stockholders reside at Windber, Pa., has dis- 

 posed of its entire holdings of 8,000 acres of 

 Virginia timber, and also a sawmill and several 

 mills on the railroad, and will go out of busi- 

 ness in that state. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company is mak- 

 ing a yood winter's cut at its mill at Strange 

 Creek, W. Va. Its stocks of hardwoods which 

 are being turned out there are among the finest 

 that come from the Little Mountain State. 



The Acme Manufacturing Company has taken 

 up temporary headquarters at 1221 Penns.vlvania 

 avenue. .North Side, and meanwhile is having 

 plans preptired for a large curtain stretcher fac- 

 tory to replace the one recently burned. 



The Motz Lumber Company has been formed 

 at Monessen. Pa., by W. R. and J. C. F. Motz, 

 Dr. W. D. Hunter, S. I!. Frazier and C. A. 

 Derby, and will do a general lumber business. 



J. X. Wollett has taken a new partner in the 

 Aberdeen Ltimber Company. He is several days 

 old now. and is known among J. N.'s friends 

 as a 'kicking William". 



Secretary J. G. Criste of the Interior Lumber 

 Company reports encouraging trade in the east- 

 ern states, chiefly Baltimore and Phibtdelphia. 

 The company's plants in northern Pennsylvania 

 are shut down until the weather breaks. 



The Ohio I'ail Company of Middlefleld, Ohio, 

 a few miles over the Pennsylvania line, is buying 

 every tract of standiug hardwood which it can 

 tind. It has purchased more than l.OuO acres 

 of timber during the past year and is adding 

 ccmstantly to its holdings in eastern Ohio. 



The Tri-State Lumber Company of Uniontown, 

 I'a., whose output will be handled by the Palmer 

 *; Semans Lumber Company, recently organized, 

 elected two weeks ago B. A. Smith, president ; 

 J. II. Rush, vice-president : L. W. Fog, treasur- 

 er, and D. V. Johnston and I. G. Robey as di- 

 rectors. 



William I!. Cornelius is arranging to make a 



big stride in southern hardwood business and 

 especially in plain oak. These have been his 

 specialties since he started in business about 

 eighteen mouths ago, and he has established 

 a splendid reputation for delivering the kind 

 of goods that good lumbermen want. 



President W. D. Johnston of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company has returned 

 from a two weeks' jaunt in the South. He is 

 very confident in speaking of the spring activi- 

 ties in lumber, aud sees no reason why hard- 

 woods will not make a sharp advance between 

 now and midsummer. 



The Hickory Lumber & Handle Company of 

 Benton. Pa., has bought a 700 acre tract of hick- 

 ory near D.inville, Pa., for about $2j.0o0 and 

 will cut it off at once. 



Secretary Carl C. Van der Voort of the IMtls- 

 burg Lnraliermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany announces that in 1000 the company gained 

 OS per cent over 1908. That year, in turn, show- 

 ing a gain of GO per cent over 1007. 



The Stewart Lumber Company of Sharon, Pa., 

 has IX'cn dissolved, D. C. Stewart retaining the 

 btisiness. Me will carry this on hereafter with 

 headqtiarters at Warren, Ohio. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company is do- 

 ing a good business. Oak, chestnut and maple 

 flooring seems to be in much better demand, it 

 announces. This concern is rapidly cutting off 

 its tr.iet in West Virginia aud will have an- 

 other hardwood operation probably before the 

 .vear is out. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company announces 

 large sales of spruce and also of chestnut. Its 

 mills have been doing pretty well in West Vir- 

 ginia, and the prices which it is getting for good 

 lumber are encouraging. 



Robert A. McDonald, president of the Mc- 

 Donald Lumber Company, Is doing tall stunts 

 in ti.e mountains of northern Pennsylvania. 

 His office manager, .1. W. Hulse, has taken to the 

 South this week to look up some hardwood 

 stocks. 



J.anuary building in Pittsburg showed a de- 

 crease of about 40 per cent compared with one 

 year ago. Nearly $3,000,000 worth of building 

 was started here in January, 1008, but last 

 month the total was only about $3,000,000. 



W. W. Dickey, president of the West Vir- 

 ginia Lumber Company, has gone to California 

 for a two months' stay. The company's most en- 

 couraging announcement is the big demand for 

 oak bill stuff. 



I. F, Balsley, sales manager of the I'almer 

 >>': .Semans Lumber Company, is down South this 

 week contracting for some good supplies of hard- 

 wood. This concern is getting its business lined 

 up in splendid shape for .spring. 



G. (i., A. K. and R. A. Stitzinger and W. H. 

 Gillespie of New Castle, Pa., and E. E. and J. 

 E. Stitzinger of Woodbine, W. Va.. have pnr- 

 chased about 0,000 acres of hardwood timber, 

 nearly all of which is virgin forest. The tract 

 includes poplar, oak. basswood and other hard- 

 woods, and most of it lies in Tucker county, W. 

 \'a. 'I'he purchasers have formed a new com- 

 pany called the Glade Lumber Company, w-hich 

 is being incorporated with a capital of .i;200,000. 

 It will build seven miles abitve Itowlesburg, W. 

 \'a.. a big band sawmill. 40 houses and rail- 

 roads, etc.. to cost $.300,000. Its product will 

 be sold from the New Castle office of G. G. Stit- 

 zinger. 



The third annual convention of the Retail 

 Lumber Dealers of I'ennsylvania on January 27 

 and 28, proved to be all that was anticipated. .\ 

 total of ItiO wholesalers and 210 retailers were 

 registered and nearly 400 sat down at the ban- 

 quet the la.st night of the convention. The fea- 

 tures of the discussions were demurrage and the 

 mail order house problem. The smoker provided 

 by the Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation the first evening of the convention at 

 the Fort I'itt .\thletic Club was well worth 

 while, and reflected much credit on the commit- 

 tee. The officers elected for the ensuing year 

 were ; President. W. T. Geddes, Windber, Pa. ; 



first vice-president, Frank E. Miller, Ingram ; 

 second vice-president, R. S. Cornelius. Butler ; 

 secretary, A. C. Rightor, I'itlsburg: treasurer, 

 .\. J. Stewart, Washington. 



BOSTON 



William E. Litchfield, the well-known hard- 

 wood lumber dealer, Boston, attended the con- 

 vention of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, after which he visited the mill of Litch- 

 field Brothers at North Vernon, Ind. He re- 

 turned from the West this week. 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association held a meeting at Young's hotel. 

 Boston, Wednesday evening, February 9. A re- 

 ception was held from 5 to 5 :30 p. m. and the 

 banquet at 6 p. m. Several matters of interest 

 were discussed. 



Mr. Adair of the lluntsville Lumber Com- 

 pany, Jamestown, N. Y., and Dacatur, Ala., was 

 a recent visitor in the Boston market. 



Frank O. Orcutt of Randall & Orcutt. hard- 

 wood dealers, Boston, recently returned from a 

 short western trip. 



Fred S. Morse of Springfield, Mass.. has 

 returned from a trip south. 



Harry C. Philbrick, a wholesale lumber dealer, 

 Boston, is expected home in a few days from 

 an extended southern trip. 



Joseph Gramer, vice-president of tile Emer- 

 son Piano Company and a member of that 

 concern since 1879, died late last month at his 

 home in Roxbury, Mass., after an illness of 

 about two weeks. Mr. Gramer was born in 

 Germany, and came to this country as a young 

 man. He worked at the trade of cabinet maker 

 and entered the employ of the Emerson Piano 

 Company in 1874 as foreman of the upright 

 department. In 1879 he was taken into the 

 firm and to his last illness was active in busi- 

 ness. He also served as chief draftsman. He 

 is survived by a widow, two sons and three 

 daughters. Mr. Gramer was seventy-six years 

 of age. 



.\s the result of a merger which was con- 

 summated about two weeks ago, James Cunning- 

 ham Son & Co., of Rochester, N. Y., become 

 the owners of the George Brownell carriage 

 liusiness of New Bedford, Mass., one of the 

 oldest New England firms making hearses, ambu- 

 lances and coaches. This business was estab- 

 lished in New Bedford by the late George L. 

 P.rownell in 1.84.'!. The new owners will oper- 

 ate the business under the supervision and 

 management of William C. Barker, who has been 

 manager and superintendent of the factory since 

 Mr. Brownell's death in January, 1903. No 

 permanent plans are announced by the new 

 owners, but for the present the factory will be 

 ccmtinued, as the books are filled with orders 

 for delivery during the spring. In addition to 

 the hearse and ambulance work, the business in- 

 cludes automobile features. 



John -W. Potter, senior member of the firm 

 of I'otter & Gardiner, Providence, R. I., died 

 recently of typhoid fever in St, Petersburg, Fla.. 

 where he and Mrs. I'otter were spending the 

 winter. 



The large lumber aud flooring mill of Fol- 

 leusby & Peck at St. Johnsbury, Vt., was re- 

 cently destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about 

 ••f 17,000. 



The Lawrence & Klein Lumber Company was 

 recently organized in Fitchburg, Mass., to con- 

 duct a wholesale lumber business. Ivers P. 

 Lawrence of the firm has been in the wholesale 

 lumber business in that city for the past seven 

 yiars. Morton A. Klein at one time was with 

 P. R. Eaton of Fitchburg but recently of the 

 Butler & Klein Company at Meriden, Conn. 



W. II. Lewis, who for many years has been 

 manager of the Brockton branch of the Taunton 

 Lumber Company, died of heart failure at his 

 home in Taunton on Januarv 24. He has been 



