HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Judge Dension presiding, in tlie case ot Wm. B. 

 Mershon & Co. versus Bay City Box & Lumber 

 Co., nominal defendants, and Berlin Machine 

 Works, actual defendants, in a patent case which 

 has been pending for six years. The suit was 

 brought to establish the validity of three pat- 

 ents which it is claimed the Berlin Machine 

 Works are infringing. The first is known as 

 the Gilbert patent affecting certain self-center- 

 ing and tilting devices ; the second affecting 

 what is termed as discriminating functions of 

 a band rcsaw, these functions being embodied and 



advertised in both the Berlin and Mershon ma- 

 chines as sold today, this device enabling the 

 resaw to automatically self-center stock above 

 given standard thickness and to automatically 

 secure one piece of standard thickness from 

 scant stock ; the third patent affecting the "quick 

 and accurate adjustment" of the feed rolls — a 

 device in which users of resaws in sawmills are 

 much interested. The case was argued by Ed- 

 ward Rector for the plaintiff and C. C. Linthi- 

 cum and James Whittemore for the defendant. 

 A decision is expected in the near future. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By XABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspo&dentaJ 



CHIC AGO 



Thos. Finnic of Marshall, Knott & Barker, Ltd., 

 timber importers. Marsh Lane, Bootle, Liverpool, 

 advises the Recokd that he expects to visit the 

 Chicago trade about May 21. 



W. B. Burke, general manager of Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., with a 

 sawmill at that point and at Charleston, Miss., 

 spent several days last week in Chicago. Inci- 

 dentally, on June 1 the general office and sales 

 headquarters of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 

 will be removed from Memphis to Charleston. 



Wood Beal of the big timber house of J. D. 

 Lacey & Co. of Chicago. New Orleans and Seat- 

 tle, spent Saturday in Memphis in conference 

 with some of bis timber cruisers. 



John W. Blodgett. the millionaire timber owner 

 of Grand Rapids. Mich., contemplates soon mak- 

 ing a European trip of several months' duration. 

 Quite a number of the eastern members of the 

 Natioinal Hardwood Lumber Association will 

 make the trip to the Louisville convention by 

 way of Chicago, spending a day or two in this 

 city in advance of the meeting, and joining the 

 party on the special Monon train leaving at 9 :00 

 on the evening of June S. 



The Record has just issued and put in the 

 mails for the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion a very handsome book of the olficial report 

 of the last annual meeting of the association 

 held at Cincinnati. 



The Kephart Manufacturing Company, manu- 

 facturers of lumber, bandies and wood specialties, 

 announces that it has closed its Lima office and 

 has removed its business headquarters to its 

 factory plant at Harrod, Allen County, Ohio. 



An important meeti-ng ot the Hickory Handle 

 ilanufacturers' Association will be held at the 

 Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, on Thursday, May 26. 

 -\ll handle manufacturers are invited to be 

 IJ resent. 



W. H. Greble, sales manager of the Three 

 States Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn.. spent 

 last week with the Chicago trade and booked 

 several desirable orders for cottonwood, gum and 

 oak. 



The Record acknowledges receipt of the pro- 

 ceedings of the recent eighteenth annual of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 which was held at Cincinnati. The report is 

 gotten up in pamphlet form and contains a com- 

 plete record ot all transactions, together with 

 portraits of the president and executive commit- 

 tee, and the badge of the association. 



A new concern to be incorporated in Chicago 

 is the Forest Products Company, which will do 

 a business along the lines indicated by the name. 

 The capitalization is .$20,000. 



The Merrill Manufacturing Company of Chi- 

 cago recently applied in the local courts for a 

 receiver. This announcement comes as somewhat 

 of a surprise. 



'L'he Tremont Lumber Company has removed 

 its general offices from Chicago to the mill point 

 at Winnfield. La. 



-V'new member of the Springfield, 111., lumber 

 trade, is the Torter Lumber Company, which has 



organized to do a wliolesale business at that 

 point. 



H. C. Crawford, assistant manager of the 

 Logging Machinery Department of the Lidger- 

 wood Manufacturing Company of New York, was 

 visiting in Chicago last week. Mr. Crawford is 

 making quite a number of contracts at the pres- 

 ent time with prominent lumber institutions for 

 the installation of the Lidgerwood skidding ma- 

 chinery. 



J. C. Turner, the cypress magnato of New 

 York, who is interested in a half dozen cypress 

 and yellow pine sawmills in the South, was a 

 Ukcord caller on May 2. 



rarker, Aleshire & Gardiner, the lumber in- 

 surance firm of Chicago, representing the Na- 

 tional Union Fire Insurance Company of Pitts- 

 burg, the German-American Insurance Company 

 of Pennsylvania and the Union Insurance Com- 

 pany of Pittsburg, announce their removal to 

 Room 601, National Life Building, 150 La Salle 

 street. 



W. C. Winchester of the Vilas Lumber Com- 

 pany, Grand Rapids, Mich., was a Chicago vis- 

 itor on April 29. 



Charles McQuewan. the well-known Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., mahogany man, has made an 

 alliance with the Otis Manufacturing Company 

 of New Orleans to handle its mahogany in Grand 

 Rapids, and also with Louis Jones of East 10th 

 street, New- York City, to handle his output of 

 mahogany, lumber and veeners. 



The National Wrecking Company has been in- 

 corporated under the laws of Illinois, to do a 

 general wrecking business in Chicago. The in- 

 corporators are Benjamin Ilochstadter. Florence 

 Ilochstadter and Myrtle Falkenstein. The capi- 

 talization is $2,400. 



Lee Blakemore, the well-known lumber insurer, 

 has incorporated under Illinois state laws with 

 a capital of $50,000. and will do a general in- 

 surance agency business in Chicago, having as 

 associates John A. Cochran and Burt N. Cav- 

 anagh. 



The Reliance Millwork Company of Chicago is 

 the style of a new concern recently incorporated, 

 with $10,000 capital. This company will make 

 and deal in lumber, millwork and building mate- 

 rials, and will be composed of Charles F. Rust, 

 Mary E. Rust and Walter -Vnwander. 



A new concern to be incorporated to do a 

 remanufacturing trade in Chicago is the Raubold 

 & Lambin Company, which has a capital of $30,- 

 000, and will manufacture and deal in picture 

 frames, moldings, fancy furniture and similar 

 products. The incorporators are George J. B. 

 Machtshein, Fred H. J. Lambin and Albert S. 

 Sauer. 



The Whipple Car Company ot Portland, Me., 

 will open up a business in Chicago, and will be 

 incorporated under Illinois state laws with a 

 capital of $2,000,000. This concern has large In- 

 terests in Portland and has there a capital of 

 .■yi. 416,000. 



Announcement is made of the removal of the 

 FlannerSteger Land & Lumber Company from 

 the old offices, 111.3 Fisber building, Chicago, to 

 the ITtb floor of the new Steger building, Wa- 



bash avenue and Jackson boulevard. The com- 

 pany will occupy a five-room suite, which will 

 provide comfortable and commodious offices for 

 the various members. This change was made 

 necessary by the constantly growing business 

 o£ the concern. While George C. Flanner is di- 

 rectly in charge of the active lumber opera- 

 tions of the FlannerSteger company, J. V. Ste- 

 ger, owner of the building, and also head of the 

 Steger Piano Company, is closely allied with him 

 in the general administration. 



Upham & Agler, the popular Chicago firm of 

 hardwood dealers, removed, on the first of May, 

 from the American Trust building to more com- 

 modious offices in the new McCormick building, 

 Michigan boulevard and Van Buren street. Fred 

 W. Upham is president of the City Fuel Com- 

 pany, which will occupy extensive offices in the 

 same building. 



Another concern taking offices in this same 

 structure is the Collins Lumber Company, of 

 which Ben Collins is president. This concern 

 has moved from the Old Colony building and 

 occupies rooms 1601-3-5. 



The Ayer & Lord Tie Company of this city 

 has recently purchased a tract of 9,172 acres 

 of timberland a few miles below Nashville, Tenn.. 

 the sale bringing $32,102. This concern does 

 a big cross-tie business on the Cumberland river, 

 on which the tract is located, and will imme- 

 diately erect one or two mills to get out the 

 timber. 



Joseph Delmel, treasurer of the National Par- 

 lor Furniture Company. 1301 Carroll avenue, 

 Chicago, recently passed away at his home in 

 this city. 



Secretary Charles Westcott of the Chicago 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association an- 

 nounces that the next meeting will take place 

 Tuesday, May 10, at 12 :30 o'clock. The college 

 room at the La Salle Hotel will be utilized. 



D. W. Walker, who does a mahogany business 

 in the Tacoma building, announces a change in 

 headquarters to room 014 in that building. Mr. 

 Walker has been on the road for about a week, 

 doing the country trade in Michigan, and re- 

 ports that conditions there are much more sat- 

 isfactory than in the local market. 



S. M. Bloss of the Lyons Cypress Lumber 

 Company of Garyville, La., has been in Chicago 

 for several days on business of the concern. 



H. C. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company recently returned from a trip through 

 northern and southern lumber districts. He re- 

 ports that the southern manufacturers are ex- 

 periencing the same depression that prevails in 

 the Chicago market, and are frank enough to 

 admit that trade is dull. 



The Galena Cigar Box Company, capitalized in 

 Illinois at $30,000, will do a fancy wood box 

 business at Galena, that state. The incorpora- 

 tors are Herman J. Topel, Wm. V. Topel and 

 Paul Kerz. 



A concern recently reincorporated to do a 

 business in Chicago is the Chicago Oyster Pail 

 Company. The capital of this concern has been 

 increased from $30,000 to $75,000. 



It is announced from the office of the secre- 

 tary of the Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange 

 that the next monthly meeting will take place 

 in the usual quarters on Friday, May 27. 



At the recent meeting of the board of directors 

 of the Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange, 

 which took place Friday, May 6, one of the 

 most important matters up for consideration 

 was the question of inviting the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber -Association to hold its next an- 

 nual convention in Chicago in 1911. The presi- 

 dent was authorized to appoint a committee to 

 look into the feasibility of the matter, and to 

 visit the Louisville convention of that associa- 

 tion, which takes place in June. 



Chairman Dion of the membership commit- 

 tee ot the Chicago Exchange announces that his 

 committee has already gotten under way and 

 has outlined a plan of action. Already one new 



