HARDWOOD RECORD 



53 



Lumbei' Company, Bristol, Tenn. ; Hugh McLean, 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y., 

 and F. E. Parker, Merslion-Eddy-Parker Com- 

 pany. Saginaw, Mich. 



Manager Sam E. Barr of the Lilly Lumber 

 Company, hardwood manufacturers of Ilintou, 

 \V. Va., headquarters 1 Madison avenue. New 

 Vork, reports that Mr. Lilly was recently stricken 

 with appendicitis and operated upon. Late re- 

 ports state that he is doing nicely. 



judge Holt has granted a motion in favor o£ 

 Silas F. Minter, wholesale lumber dealer of 

 No. 1 Broadway, against whom a petition in 

 bankruptcy was filed on April 15. lOO.S, con- 

 firming the report of .John .J. Townsend, referee 

 in bankruptcy, overruling specilications of ob- 

 jections to a discharge. His liabilities were 

 .fGS.SOT and nominal assets $23,065. 



doubt, as that has always been the rule. The 

 vice-president is Knowlton Mixer, who is in line 

 lor the presidency. Business before the exchange 

 has been light for some time. 



PHILADELPHIA 



BUFFALO 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 hard at work shipping stock down the Cumber- 

 land from its Tennessee mills and will soon 

 be putting some of it in here, for which the 

 late good sales have made room. A big year 

 is apparently under way. 



A. Miller is keeping his hardwood stock well 

 lilled in, so that there is always something in 

 that customers want, and he is keeping the mem- 

 bers of the Hardwood Exchange at work on cer- 

 tain puzzling transportation matters, while gen- 

 eral matters are quiet. 



F. W. Vetter comes back soon from bis south- 

 ern trip, which was at first taken down the 

 coast as far as North Carolina and finished 

 in the Ohio valley. He has made the year so 

 far quite the best he has had since going into 

 business. 



Scatcherd & Son lately sent Manager Hopkins 

 down to Memphis to urge the sawmills on, for 

 the sales are always going far ahead of the 

 stock. Oak is the specialty of the firm and 

 the mills are turniug out a good lot of it. 



The firm of U. Elias & Bro. is stickiug to the 

 racifie coast for long-length timbers, but is of 

 the opinion that the sawmill prices of western 

 white pine are too high, so the usual purchases 

 of that wood have not been made yet. 



F. M, Sullivan lately made a long trip to the 

 eastern market, finding everything promising in 

 every way. The yard sales for the winter have 

 been of the best and a season is opening that is 

 expected to be even better. 



Frank A. Beyer has his county treasurer's 

 office in such running order that he can give 

 some attention to his sawmills in Missouri, hav- 

 ing made two trips out there lately. The out- 

 look is good. 



H looks as if the missionary w'ork so long 

 done in gum lumber by the Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Company was beginning to bear fruit, 

 for the office now' reports that gum is one of 

 its best selling woods, with all others doing 

 well. The removal of its veneer mill to the 

 table mill premises at Blasdell is about complete 

 and the new machinery will soon be started 

 up. 



H. A. Stewart is preparing to take another trip 

 South soon In order to keep up the flow of oak, 

 chestnut and poplar this way, as the sales of 

 these woods is very good, while the cherry 

 and wa.nut season is not here yet. 



It is now the aim of the Hugh McLean Lum- 

 ber Company to sell its oak and other special 

 stock so that it can be shipped to the customer 

 direct from the mills or yards in the Southwest, 

 not carrying a very heavy stock here. 



The public business of C. E. Yeager is just now 

 taking much of his time, as he is chairman of 

 two important committees of the Lumber Ex- 

 thange and Chamber of Commerce. The lumber 

 business is good for all that and is not neg- 

 lected. 



The annual meeting of the Lumber Exchange 

 takes place on the 12th. G. Elias, who has 

 been president two years, will now^ retire, no 



lialph Souder of Eli B. Hallowell & Co. reports 

 his concern very busy. The continued bad 

 weather lias been at times a handicap, but 

 he is sanguine the spring will see a restored 

 activity. 



.1. Itandall Williams of J. Randall Williams 

 & Co. says things are moving along fairly 

 well. He anticipates a stiff advance in trading 

 when more favorable weather sets in. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody of Fleck & Dunwoody 

 states that the heavy snows have prevented the 

 prompt filling of orders. Otherwise, matters 

 are not bad- Paul W. Fleck, suffering from an 

 attack oc grippe, has been recuperating at the 

 sea shore. 



Edgar M. Bechtel of William Whitmer & Sons, 

 Inc., says business would be satisfactory if 

 they could manage to ship the goods, but the 

 recurring snow storms throughout the East have 

 made transportation so expensive, orders are 

 held until the return of better conditions. He 

 looks for an unimpeded trading when spring 

 opens. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Sons reports a fair influx of business this 

 winter. He looks for activity again as soon as 

 weather conditions are more favorable. 



William A. Jackson of Jackson-Wyatt Lumber 

 Company sees good business ahead. The com- 

 pany is going strongly into hardwoods and is 

 prepr.ring accordingly to meet all comers. 



Harry S. Field of Justice P. Taylor & Co. is 

 not inclined to find fault with the trend of con- 

 ditions. Harry Field, as he is known among his 

 friends, is a thorough optimist and an inde- 

 fatigable hustler. He believes good will come to 

 him who will go after it hard enough, and 

 he substantiates his creed by generally getting 

 what he seeks, in the way of a generous 

 business. 



U. Billetter, manager of the Lumber Insurance 

 (general Agency and the Co-operative Insurance 

 Agency, is thoroughly established in his new 

 office, 91',i Crozer building, where he will be 

 pleased to meet his many friends. He reports 

 business fairly well sustained. 



Samuel B. Vrooman of Samuel B. "N'rooman 

 & Co. says they have been very busy and that 

 everything is running smoothly. Mr. Vrooman 

 at present is luxuriating at Old Point Com- 

 fort, Va. 



J. C. Tennant. secretary of the Fenwick Lum- 

 ber Company, reports business good, considering 

 weather conditions. His company has been han- 

 dicapped in manufacturing by the heavy storms 

 in the North. Demand continues good and prices 

 are well sustained. Oak is espe'cially in good 

 demand, but orders are being entered only for 

 such stock in oak and other woods as is actu- 

 ally on hand and in shipping condition. Mr. 

 Tennant anticipates a brisk demaud and lively 

 market for the balance of the year. He con- 

 siders the outlook for a good hardwood market 

 excellent. 



John W. Coles says inquiries and orders have 

 increased, but the heavy weather in the country 

 districts has defied prompt delivery. 



Ben C. Currie of Currie & Campbell reports 

 a comparative slacking up in business during 

 the first part of February, due to adverse weather 

 conditions. However, orders are coming in more 

 freely at present and things are looking pro- 

 portionately brighter. The firm has moved to 

 1008 Commonwealth building, where it will have 

 improved facilities for handling increasing busi- 

 ness. 



The Pennsylvania railroad has placed a large 

 order with the AUis-Chalmers Company for equip- 

 ment of the new shops at Conway, Pa. 



Pennsylvania lumbermen, it is reported, are 



migrating to the states in which there are some 

 primeval forests left. B. T. Lynch of Wells- 

 boro. who has taken a big lumber job in North 

 Carolina, shipped his horses and outfit and left 

 the Tioga county seat recently. He was ac- 

 companied by twenty-five of the most expert 

 woodsmen in that section. 



The Philadelphia & Reading Railway has is- 

 sued an order reducing the hours of labor in all 

 locomotive and car shops to eight hours a day. 

 This is due to a falling off in the volume of 

 traffic. The order will effect a reduction in 

 shop expenses of about fifteen per cent. 



T. DeLong Furniture Company of Topton was 

 recently adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. 

 Samuel E. Bertolet was appointed referee. 



P. Erwin Swartley has conveyed to the West 

 Philadelphia Carriage & Wagon Works the four- 

 story factory at the southeast corner of Thirty- 

 seventh and Filbert streets, 44 feet by 40 feet, 

 with an adjoining building on Filbert, 36 feet 

 by 90 feet, for a nominal consideration. The 

 assessed valuation is $7,000. 



Peter C. Arnold, carriage manufacturer of 

 Manheim, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, died 

 on February 4, aged sixty years. 



The Fanning Motor Company, Philadelphia, 

 was incorporated February 18 under Pennsyl- 

 vania laws, with a capital of $10,000. 



The Wolfe Casket Company, Bangor, Pa., 

 obtained charter under Pennsylvania laws, Feb- 

 ruary IS ; capital, $30,000. 



The Georgia Lumber Company, I'erth Amboy, 

 was incorporated under New Jersey laws Feb- 

 ruary IS, with a capitalization of $125,000. 



The Newark Motor Car Company is a uew con- 

 cern of Newark, N. J. Its capital stock is 

 $50,000. 



The George Anderson Bamboo & Furniture 

 Novelty Works, Sewell, obtained charter under 

 New Jersey laws February 22. The company is 

 capitalized at $25,000 and will manufacture 

 furniture novelties. 



The Mayo & Volkert Furniture Company, 

 New Brunswick, was incorporated under New 

 Jersey laws February 23 ; capital stock, $50,000. 

 The Southern States Lumber Company, Pitts- 

 burg, obtained a charter under Pennsylvania 

 laws February 23. Its capital stock is $120,000. 

 At a meeting of the Philadelphia Whob-saU- 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, held Thursday 

 evening, February IT, the following resolution 

 was unanimously adopted : "Whereas, The fair 

 divelopmeut of the foreign commerce from this 

 port, so important as an industrial center, 

 urgently requires the opening of the Delaware 

 river, with a channel of not less than thirty-five 

 feet, as quickly as possible, therefore, be it re- 

 solved, that we earnestly petition the United 

 States engineer corps to give earnest considera- 

 tion to the pressing needs of this port and aj)- 

 prove the appeal for a thirty-five-foot channel." 

 The city of Philadelphia sent to the recent 

 annual of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association at Cincinnati the strongest dele- 

 gation of lumbermen sent by any city. They 

 were a jolly hunch and they all report having 

 had a fine time. Those comprising the party 

 were as follows : 



George F. Craig of George F. Craig & Co. 

 A. J. Cadwallader of George F. Craig & Co. 

 Edward F. Henson of Edward F. Henson & Co. 

 Charles J. Coppock of Coppock-Warner I.uni- 

 her Company. 



Harry S. Field of Justice V. Taylor & Co. 

 .lustin I'eters. manager IVunsylvania Lnmlier- 

 iiicn's .Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 



P.. Franklin P.etts of Charles M. Belts & Co. 

 Horace G. Hazard of H. G. Hazard & Co. 

 Frederick S. L'nderhill of Wistar, Underbill 

 & Co. 



William .\. Jackson of Jackson-Wyatt Lumber 

 Company. 



Jacob Iloltzman of H.vrdwood Record. 

 John T. Riley of Charles S. Riley & Co. 

 J. Randall Williams, Sr.. of J. Randall Will' 

 iams & Co. 



