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HARDWOOD RECORD 



River Lumber Company, the Rockcastle Lumber 

 Comiiauy. Inc., and the C. L. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, Inc., have all been located in the Fred- 

 erick building, Huntington. W. Va.. instead of 

 Bristol, Tenn., as heretofore. 



The Record is advised that Homer A. Ocorr 

 has returned to the presidency of the C. H. Rugg 

 Company, manufacturer of sash, doors and blinds 

 and interior millwork, at Rochester, N. Y., since 

 the death of Clarence H. Rugg. which occurred 

 last December. 



The Monarch Lumber Company, Philadelphia, 

 advises that it has secured the timber holdings 

 of the Laurel Fork Lumber Company in Haywood 

 county. North Carolina, consisting of ash, birch, 

 basswood, cherry, butternut, oak, poplar, etc., 

 and an up-to-date band mill and logging rail- 

 road. This will increase the source of supply of 

 this company to a marked extent and put it in 

 good position in the eastern market. 



White Brothers, the well-known hardwood 

 lumbermen of San Francisco, advise that they 

 have just received a large importation of clear 

 Siam teak planks and have a cargo of teak logs 

 due to arrive within a few days. Teak is one 

 of the highest priced woods produced, and is 

 principally used in ship building, but is also used 

 to some extent for interior trim. 



The Record is Indebted to II. M. Spain, timber 

 estimator of, Memphis, for a blue print map of 

 the Yazoo valley log producing country. The 

 territory covered is the source of supply for 

 about ninety per cent of the hardwood logs 

 manufactured in Memphis, and the map shows 

 the freight rate from all the principal shipping 

 points to Memphis. The rates shown indicate 

 the reshlpment rate obtained by shipping the 

 logs In and out of Memphis over the same line, 

 and should be of material value to Memphis 

 lumber manufacturers. 



R. M. Carrier, president of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, was a Chicago vis- 

 itor on March 23, and left on that evening for 

 his Sardis, Miss., mill. 



MiW YORK 



A petition in bankruptcy has l>een tiled against 

 Max G. Rieser ot 427 East Fifty-seventh street, 

 sole owner of the large cabinet and trim busi- 

 ness of William Clearman & Co. of this city, 

 alleging that he is insolvent and made preferen- 

 tial payment. 



A petition In bankruptcy has also l>een tiled 

 against Goldman & I'arkin. mill work manufac- 

 turers of otil-.'j Watklns street, Brooklyn. Taut 

 Gorman has been appointed receiver. 



The Charles F, Fischer Lumber Company, 

 large specialists of kiln dried hardwood flooring, 

 with othce and yard at l;>i;0 I'ark avenue. Man- 

 hattan, has recently completed another up-to-date 

 hreproof dry kiln with a capacity of 20,000 feet 

 per week. The kiln is built upon most modern 

 and efllcient lines, the stock first being steamed 

 and then dried with a hot air blower system. 



Frederick J. Johnson, for many years the popu- 

 lar and able local representative of Bliss & Van 

 Auken, large manufacturers of yellow pine and 

 lak and maple flooring, headquarters .Saginaw, 

 Mich., died suddenly from scarlet fever at his 

 residence in this city on March 4, after an illness 

 of only two or three days. Mr. Johnson was 

 identified with the lumber industry for a great 

 many years, starting originally with the South 

 End Storage Company of Boston. From there 

 he went to Philadelphia in the late eighties and 

 became associated with W. II. Fritz & Co. A few 

 years later he joined Bliss & ^'an Auken as man- 

 ager of their IMilIadelphIa sales office, and In 

 June, 11103, came to take up similar duties at tin- 

 New York office of the same company, in wliich 

 connection he had been continuously employed 

 up to the time of his death. Mr. Johnson is sur- 

 vived by a widow and one daughter, to whom 

 the sympathy of a large circle of friends goes 

 out in their bereavement. The funeral services 



and interment were held at Boston, Mass., on 

 the Gth. 



E. W. McClave, head of the large yellow pine 

 house of E. W. McClave & Son. Harrison, N. J., 

 and IS Broadway, New York, recently died at his 

 home in this city after a lingering illness. He 

 was seventy-three years .old. For sixty years Mr. 

 McClave had been almost continuously identified 

 with the lumber trade of the Metropolitan dis- 

 trict, both at Newark and New Y'ork. During 

 his many years of association* with the trade 

 Mr. McClave had many setbacks, but through 

 dogged perseverance apd high business ability he 

 bad amassed a comfortable fortune at the time 

 of his death. The business will be continued 

 by his surviving sons and partners, Messrs. Row- 

 land. William Parke, Wilkes, Donald and Ken- 

 neth McClave. 



W. D. Magovern. who so ably looks after the 

 local interests of the Thomas Forman Company, 

 big flooring manufacturers of Detroit, Mich., has 

 in addition to these activities just leased person- 

 ally an area of ground west of the flooring 

 warehouse, on which he is arranging an up-to- 

 date storage yard for public use. The yard is 

 exceptionally well located for that purpose. 



A. R. Sax. A. R. Sax Lumber Company. IS 

 Broadway. Manhattan, and branches at Savannah 

 and Jacksonville, has just returned from a stay 

 of several weeks at southern mill points. 



Harry S. Lafond has bought out the interest 

 of his partner, W. A. Thomas of the wholesale 

 house of Lafond & Thomas, 12 Broadway, and 

 has merged that business with the Sea Coast 

 Lumber Company, large cypress operators of 1 

 Madison avenue, and will in future manage the 

 yeli(-tw pine department of that company. Con- 

 currently the Sea Coast Lumber Company has in- 

 creased its capital from .$100,000 to $150,000 and 

 has elected C. W. Brounson, manager of the 

 company, as secretary. The addition of yellow 

 pine to the large cypress mills and outputs con- 

 trolled by the company will undoubtedly be ap- 

 preciated by its customers in the trade. 



Vptegrove & Beckwith, well-known veneer and 

 lumber house at the foot of East Tenth street. 

 New Y'ork City, have incorporated the business 

 under the laws of the state of New York under 

 the same style with a capital of .$100,000. No 

 other change is comprehended. 



George P. DeWitt, head of the DeWitt Lumber 

 Company, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Jladisou ave- 

 nue, has just returned from a trip to the In- 

 diana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia mills, 

 \\ here he closed deals for some choice stocks 

 In plain and quartered oak and other hardwoods. 

 The company finds trade conditions very good 

 with the demand especially good for high-grade 

 stock, with low-grade stock imijroving steadily. 



BUFFALO 



.\t the annual meeting of the Buffalo Lumber 

 Exchange, held on March 12, the following 

 board of directors were elected ; M. M. Wall, 

 Knowlton Mixer, I. N. .Stewart, A. E. Davenport, 

 I'eter McNeil. W. A. Perrin. G. Elias. II. S. 

 Janes, B. H. Ilurd, II. F. Taylor, J. S. Tyler, 

 l-'rom this list were chosen : Maurice M. Wall, 

 president ; Knowlton Mixer, vice-president, and 

 .lohn S. Tyler, secretary and treasurer. 



The annual report of Secretary Tyler to the 

 Lumber Exchange showed receipts last year of 

 UO, 190, 000 feet of ail lumber by lake, an increase 

 jf 14.739,000 feet, and a receipt of 118,472.000 

 feet of all lumber by rail, of which 70,402,000 

 feet was hardwood. The entire receipts, with 

 shingles, lath and ties reckoned as lumber, were 

 272.304.000 feet, an increase of 21,304,000 feet. 

 .Ml slnpruents were 212,29*5,000 feet, an increase 

 (if 17,(1111,000 feet. There was In yard at the 

 cud of last year l."i0,418,500 feet, an increase 

 of 129,000 feet. Of this .'54.108,000 feet were 

 hardwood, an increase of 1,0.34.000 feet. 



The organization of the Manufacturers' Lum- 

 ber Company, which includes all the interests of 



the Hugh McLean companies and those of Sena- 

 tor Edwards of Ottawa, is explained to be merely 

 the establishment of a sales headquarters in 

 New York and has nothing further to do with 

 these companies, being in no sense a merger. 

 Senator Edwards is president and Hugh McLean 

 i." first vice-president. 



The yard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is filling up fast with oak and other 

 slock from the South, a long string of cars 

 being on the spot waiting to be discharged. 

 There is business enough in sight to take care 

 of it all. 



F. W. Vetter is still finding the trade good 

 enough to take care of the new lumber which 

 was lately gathered in down the eastern slope 

 of Virginia and southward. He looks for all of 

 the former good trade to keep up throughout 

 this year. 



J. B. Wall recently returned from a short so- 

 journ at Mount Clemens and is prepared to take 

 up his special work again at the Blasdell mill, 

 where new veneer machinery has lately been 

 added to the company's table mill. 



Special time spent on the affairs of his Pas- 

 cola Lumber Company in Missouri has occupied 

 F. A. Beyer for .some time, but he has that ar- 

 ranged now and is back to the county treas- 

 urer's ofBce for a while. 



I. N. Stewart & Co. find low-grade cherry 

 one of their best sellers, having already shipped 

 out more this year than they did in a 

 great part of last year. It is pretty hard to 

 keep an assortment of chestnut now, but they 

 have it. 



There is no talk of slow trade from O. E. 

 Yeager, who has had so much to do all the 

 year, shipping as well as receiving, that he is 

 liarely caught up now. Sales have been es- 

 pecially good all the year and promise to con- 

 tinue. 



The yard of G. Elias & Brother is making the 

 most of heavy timber and door mill work at 

 this time of the year, for the building industry 

 is reviving and promises to do well all summer. 



Scatcberd & Son have gone on selling close up 

 to the saw right along, especially oak, and only 

 complain because their Memphis mills are not 

 able to turn out enough to meet the demand. 



The stock of T. Sullivan & Co. has gone off 

 fast all winter and all there seems to be to 

 complain of is that the Michigan hardwood mills 

 are so steep in their prices that a new territory 

 may have to be taken up. 



.\. Miller is getting hold of a lot of new 

 oak and other hardwood stock in the South and 

 keeping his stock up. but he does not go to 

 Canada just now for lumber, as tariff relations 

 with that country are not very promising. 



The Hugh McLean lumber interests are not 

 disturlted over anything now but the supply of 

 stock, especially oak. They are obliged to caution 

 their salesmen in only one direction and that is 

 the selling of more stock than can be delivered. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Mr. and Mrs. Samuel II. Shearer will close 

 their town house, 4930 Cedar avenue, and open 

 their summer home in North Wales on April 3. 



The Jersey Shore Herald says a new car re- 

 l.alr shop, almost doubling the size of the pres- 

 ent repair shops, will be erected at Avis this 

 summer. The building will be 200 by 350 feet 

 in size and will cost $350,000. The number of 

 employes will be greatly increased. 



The J. G. Brill Car Works have $3,000,000 

 worth pf contracts on hand. 



It is learned from the Harrisburg Telegraph 

 that a number of rafts will descend the Susque- 

 hanna this spring. Lumber has b?en cut on 

 many of the upper reaches of the stream and the 

 river men are talking about some big ones put- 

 ting in an appearance before long. The rafts 

 will come down before the water falls much 

 lower, as they can go over the Clark's Ferry and 



