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docks and two spur tracks into the yards, which 

 are located on Three Mile creek four miles out 

 of Mobile. About fifteen acres of property, 

 where the spur tracks and docks are being con- 

 structed, are owned by the company, which will 

 be utilized as a yard. At one of the mills on the 

 Mobile and Ohio railroad at Mount Vernon, Ala., 



the company has about 5,000,000 feet of cypress, 

 Cottonwood and oak lumber. The officers of the 

 concern are Armand May, president ; H. W. Fry, 

 vice-president and general manager ; W. S. Adler, 

 treasurer, and Ben E. May. secretary. B. E. 

 May has charge of the office at IG First National 

 Bank building. Mobile, Ala. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents J 



CHICAGO 



F. L. Brown of Crandall & Brown has returned 

 from a two weeks' business trip to the South. 

 He reports a scarcity in a number of stocks, 

 especially in the upper grades, and in red oak 

 most noticeably. Mr. Brown states that mill 

 men there are showing a desire to sell the lower 

 grades, on which they are long, by means of the 

 better stock, and some concerns will only quote 

 on No. 2 common and better. Mr. Brown had 

 as his guest on April 20 Thos. R. Cummings of 

 New York, confidential representative of the big 

 accounting house of Marwick. Mitchell & Co. 

 The Record enjoyed a friendly call from these 

 gentlemen. 



A. B. Smith of the A. B. Smith Lumber 

 Company, Paducah, Ky., has been in Chicago for 

 some time trying to dispose of some of his long 

 stock. 



The J. B. Johnson Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati has been represented in the Chicago 

 trade for the last week by W. L. Johnson. 



R. H. Ely was one of the outside lumbermen 

 who have stock to offer in the Chicago market. 

 Mr. Ely represents W. A. Cool & Son, Cleveland. 

 Ohio. 



D. K. Jeffris, president of the Chicago Car 

 Lumber Company, just returned from a short 

 busines strip in the Southland. 



The seflior partner of Mowbray & Robinson of 

 Cincinnati was in town on business for the last 

 tew days. 



W. E. Trainer of Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 Company has been threatened with pneumonia 

 and confined to his bed for a week or so. 



The Todd & Hunuer Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated under the laws of Illinois to 

 do a general mining. lumber and merchandise 

 business at Aurora, 111. The concern is capital- 

 ized at 55,000 and the incorporators are C. C. 

 Hunner, E. S. Todd and G. M. Weiland. 



The Frecport Casket Company has been organ- 

 ized at Freeport, III., with a capital of $1,000, 

 to do a general casket manufacturing business. 



.lohu S. Weidman, Jr., of Mt. Pleasant. Mich., 

 was a caller at the Record offices April 20. Mr. 

 Weidman is figuring on entering the lumber 

 business again very soon, he and his father hav- 

 ing exhausted their st'umpage at Weidman, Mich., 

 and sold their entire stock of lumber at that 

 point. 



A. C. Fuller, representing the Hanchett Swdge 

 Works of Big Rapids, Mich., has recently been 

 taking a "swing around the circle" of southern 

 sawmills. He reports an excellent volume of 

 business for his house in filing-room machinery. 



The Record had the pleasure of a call from 

 S. Fulton Minter, vice-president of the Baker- 

 Minter Lumber Company of Delaware, Va., 

 recently. Mr. Minter's house is engaged in the 

 production of thin tupelo lumber, which is 

 largely sold to the box trade. 



The Record takes pleasure in announcing the 

 marriage of John A. Bruce, secretary-treasurer 

 and general manager of the Owl Bayou Cypress 

 Company at Strader, La., president of the .Vmer- 

 Ican Lumber Trades Congress and prominent in 

 affairs, on April 12 at Amite City, La., to Mrs. 

 Muncy Porter Gallagher, a charming matron of 

 that city. The ceremony was performed in the 

 First Baptist Church. Congratulations are 

 hereby extended to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce. 



The Monarch Piano Company has been incor- 

 porated in Chicago, with a capital of ?5,000. 

 The new concern will manufacture pianos, 

 organs and other musical instruments, and is 

 composed of James N. LaFevere, S. Gustatson 

 and S. E. Thomas. 



The K. & P. Lumber Company, which operates 

 at Cincinnati, Ohio, with $75,000 capital, has 

 opened offices in Chicago and is incorporated in 

 this state, with $",750 capital. 



The Henry Vissering Company has organized 

 in this city with a capital of $5,000, to do a 

 manufacturing and selling business in railway 

 supplies and equipment. The incorporators are 

 Harry Vissering. H. H. Ward and Paul Car- 

 penter. 



H. H. Gibson, editor of the Record, gave a 

 talk at the First Presbyterian Church of Oak 

 l^ark. 111., on April 4. Mr. Gibson talked on the 

 general topic of forestry and endeavored to 

 clearly illustrate, both orally and with pictures, 

 what reforestation is not. JIany pictures of the 

 timber lands of the Carolinas, Tennessee and 

 Kentucky were shown In connection with the 

 lecture. 



Hardwood Record is indebted to C. M. Crim 

 & Son, manufacturers of Indiana hardwood 

 lumber at Salem. Ind.. for a very attractive 

 calendar showing a picture of a pretty young 

 woman smelling a nosegay of violets. The 

 Indiana concern sends with the calendar a 

 clever letter stating that it is departing from 

 the time-honored custom of sending a calendar 

 at the beginning of the year, preferring to wait 

 until its friends are in a springtime mood when 

 they will enjoy the bunch of violets well enough 

 to let the donors know about it and incidentally 

 while writing about the calendar to slip in an 

 order for a car or two of lumber. 



The Stevens & Jarvis Lumber Company, capi- 

 talized in Eau Claire, Wis., at $30,000, has 

 taken out papers of incorporation in Illinois and 

 will be located at Chicago, with a capital stock 

 of $6,000. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, with 

 main offices in Milwaukee, Wis., recently made 

 arrangements for Chicago connections. The 

 capitalization in Illinois is but $500. while in 

 Wisconsin it is $200,000. 



NEW YORK 



Judge Hand in the United States Court here 

 on the 12th denied a discharge from bankruptcy 

 to Soble Bros., wholesale hardwood Uimlier deal- 

 ers and manufacturers of 1 Madison avenue, this 

 city, against whom a petition iu bankruptcy was 

 filed July 27, 190S. The liabilities are $147,481. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against 

 the New York Cornice and Skylight Works by 

 creditors with claims aggregating over $5,000, 

 alleging that the concern is insolvent, and has 

 made preferential payments. 



The J. C. Turner Lumber Company, large cy- 

 press wholesale and manufacturing house of 1123 

 Broadway, and largo distributing .yards at Irv- 

 ington-on-Hudson, will handle the entire output 

 of the Central Cypress Company now being or- 

 ganized for the development of a large tract of 

 timber in Fernando county, Fla. The concern 

 will be capitalized at $100,000. J. C. Turner is 

 one of the incorporators and E. A. Roberts of 



Colman, Fla., is head of the manufacturing end. 



George H. Storm, prominent hardwood flooring 

 retailer and lumber dealer of East 72d street, has 

 just purchased a handsome new 70-horsepower 

 Pierce Arrow auto, in which he will take fre- 

 quent trips between this city and his fine farm 

 back of Peekskill Landing on the Hudson. 



The West 30th Street Planing Mill has just 

 completed the erection of a fine new up-to-date 

 mill at 624 West 30th street for public and pri- 

 vate service. It is an electric power plant and 

 contains all the modern features. 



James Fagan & Sons, the large packing box 

 manufacturers of 202 West Houston street, are 

 constructing a large new mill and lumber yard 

 on a valuable tract of land at the foot of the 

 hill, Hoboken, N. J., which will be ready tor 

 occupancy in the near future. 



F. J. Cronin, genial hardwood wholesaler of 

 Utica, N. Y., passed tlirough the city last week 

 en route home after a trip to the southern mills, 

 during which he picked up some choice stocks for 

 his customers. 



T. S. Miller, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Stevens-Eaton Company, 1 Madison 

 avenue, returned last week from a visit to the 

 wholesale yard at Gilman, W. Va., where he 

 went to look over stocks and general business. 

 The company has a very choice lot of oak, ash, 

 poplar and general hardwoods on this yard for 

 quick shipment to the eastern trade. 



The Lumbermen's Club of New York will hold 

 an important meeting at the club headquarters, 

 6 West 21th street, on April 24, for the purpose 

 of amending the constitution and by-laws and 

 the consideration of numerous other matters in 

 connection with the further development and ex- 

 tension of the club. A large and enthusiastic 

 meeting is anticipated. 



A. B. Ayers, prominent Newark, N. J., dealer, 

 returned last week with Mrs. Ayers from a 

 lengthy pleasure trip to Egypt and continent 

 points. 



E. M. Kenna, the prominent wholesaler of Pa- 

 cific Coast products. 111 Broadway, and ware- 

 house in Brooklyn, left last week for a several 

 weeks' business trip to the coast, where he will 

 go over matters among the mills which he repre- 

 sents. Mr. Kenna reports the demand for Cali- 

 fornia redwood and Oregon fir as much stronger 

 than a year ago, and looks for a good summer 

 t rade. 



M. B. Morris has resigned as New York repre- 

 sentative for the Webster Lumber Company, 

 hardwood manufacturers of Swanton, Vt., with 

 headquarters at 1 Madison avenue. New York, 

 and in future all business and correspondence in 

 this territory will he conducted via the Swanton, 

 Vt., office. 



Fire on April 16 did $25,000 damage to the big 

 lumber yards of Church E. Gates & Co., 152d 

 street and East river, Bronx. The loss is fully 

 covered by insurance. 



BUFFALO 



A. W. Krcinhedcr is already using the kilns 

 of the Buffalo Drying Company, which he bought 

 not long ago, both for yard work and in connec- 

 tion with the furniture factory that is operated 

 by members of the company. 



The Memphis mills of Scatcherd & Son. which 

 have been running strong for some time, are now 

 shut down for extensive repairs. The scarcity 

 of oak makes the need of them great, so they 

 will soon be going again. 



There Is always cherry, oak and chestnut for 

 T. N. Stewart & Bro. in Pennsylvania and 

 southward. They are keeping the Buffalo .sard 

 well stocked, while at the same time they ship 

 as much as they can to customers direct from 

 the mills. 



Frank A. Beyer is still working in double 

 harness, as he has not got the Missouri mills 

 of the Pascola Lumber Company running yet 

 and he is needed at city hall at the same time. 

 Everything will be In operation before long. 



