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HARDWOOD RECORD 



member has been secured, and If the plans work 

 out according to expectations, returns will be 

 many and immediate. 



NEW YORK 



son, W. B. Mershon. Jr.. on his arrival from 

 Europe where he has been spending the past 

 several months studying forestry. Young Mr. 

 Mershon will take a further course at the Bilt- 

 more Forest School, after which he will make 

 that study his litework. • 



J. M. Donovan, until rocontly employed by 

 Uusse & Burgess, Inc., of Jlemphis. and who 

 formerly resided in New York, has engaged with 

 E. H. Daly, the well-known wholesale lumber- 

 man of the Flatiron building, and will act as 

 buyer and salesman for Mr. Daly in the hard- 

 wood department which he will add to his other 

 Hues. Mr. Donovan has bad considerable ex- 

 perience in the South in hardwoods, and should 

 make a valuable ally for Mr. Daly. 



Schedules in the assignment of the New Y'ork 

 Moulding Company, 643 Eighth avenue. New 

 York, show liabilities of ¥18.843, nominal assets 

 $3,388 and actual assets $2,550. 



Fire in the big lumber premises of Church E. 

 Gates & Co., 152nd street and Long Island 

 Sound, Bronx, during the fortnight did $23,000 

 damage to the lumber sheds, stable and contents, 

 etc., which was fully covered by insurance. 



I. T. Williams & Sons, the big 11th avenue 

 hardwood house, this city, purchased from the 

 French Steamship Line, the outer portion of 

 their pier shed buildings, which were being dis- 

 mantled in line with dock improvements, and 

 which part of pier shed has been transported 

 by water to the big Staten Island yards of I. T. 

 Williams & Sons, where it will be utilized as a 

 lumber shed. It is 140 feet long and 170 feet 

 wide and is adapted for that purpose. Quite a 

 great deal of interest was created in harbor cir- 

 cles during this transportation from this city to 

 Staten Island. 



A. F. Stetson, Jr., who has been located at the 

 Saginaw plant of the Mershon, Eddy, Parker 

 Company for some time past, has come East to 

 assist Manager H. W. Alexander of the selling 

 department of the eastern office, 1 Madison ave- 

 nue. Mr. Stetson will solicit trade in the Met- 

 ropolitan district and vicinity. 



J. A. Polhemus, late of Uptegrove & Polhe- 

 mus. wholesale hardwoods, 1 Madison avenue. 

 and more latterly a partner in the Marshall-Pol- 

 hemus Lumber Company, has withdrawn there- 

 from to join forces in a selling capacity with 

 the DeWitt Lumber Company, wholesale hard- 

 woods at the same address. The DeWitt Lum- 

 ber Company since starting in business a few 

 months ago has made rapid strides and the as- 

 sistance of Mr. Polhemus in a selling capacity 

 will be of material benefit to the company. 



Albert Hirsch of the Hirsch Lumber Com- 

 pany, 42 Broadway, sailed foi- Europe on the 

 30th ult., for a three months' pleasure trip 

 abroad. 



H. D. Bowen & Co., wholesale hardwood floor- 

 ing house, will move from the Flatiron building 

 on May 1, to 1 Madison avenue. 



Robert W. Iligbie, head of the R. W. Higbie 

 Company, 43 Broadway, has just returned from 

 a trip to his big hardwood operations at New- 

 ton Fails, in the Adirondack regions of New 

 York state, where he found matters running 

 along very smoothly. 



Secretary W. G. Hollis of the Northwestern 

 Lumbermen's Association of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 spent several days during the fortnight in the 

 city in the interest of association affairs. 



J. V. Stimson, prominent hardwood manufac- 

 turer of Huntingburg. Ind., spent several days in 

 town during the fortnight looking over trade in 

 this vicinity as well as in connection with Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Association affairs, of 

 which organization he is a trustee. 



Fire on April 22 did considerable damage to 

 the furniture manufacturing plant of L. Zodi- 

 kow, 507 East 113th street. New York. The 

 loss is fully covered by insurance. 



W. B. Mershon, the prominent Saginaw, Mich., 

 lumberman and machinery man, spent several 

 days in town during the fortnight to meet his 



BUFFALO 



The yard of G. Elias & Bro. is recovering from 

 the serious fire which on April 24 came near 

 destroying it and other valuable property near- 

 by, including the yard of Taylor & Crate. To- 

 gether with the dry-lumber shed and contents 

 and the stock in the yard, the loss was more 

 than .$50,000, and it is estimated that well 

 towards 2,000,000 feet of lumber was burned. 

 It was supposed that the hardwood lumber 

 would not burn in yard, but lumbermen say that 

 it no doubt took from the dry stock in the shed. 



If present plans mature, the Buffalo Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company syndicate will before 

 long be cutting lumber on the Pacific coast. 

 Lumber prices there are advancing considerably, 

 so that the market is fairly independent of the 

 ];:ast, and it is thought to be about time to begin 

 operations. The present holding of about a 

 billion feet of timber in British Columbia by the 

 company will probably be added to considerably 

 before the mills are built. 



A Tonowanda lumberman, Levant R. Vander- 

 voort, came near being killed in his automobile 

 in Buffalo on May 2. by running into a street 

 car. The chauffeur could not stop on the wet 

 pavement. As it turned out the machine was 

 badly smashed, but the three men in it were 

 only bruised. 



The Buffalo & Susquehanna, the railroad of 

 the Goodyears in New Y'ork and Pennsylvania, 

 has gone into receiver's hands, on account of 

 bad business and other failures. The receiver is 

 Harry I. Jliller. 



J. N. Scatcherd is in Memphis, having gone 

 down there from French Lick Springs, Ind., to 

 look after the oak production and see about the 

 sawmills he is repairing there. The work is 

 well on now and sawing will be resumed soon. 



The work of Frank A. Beyer is still pretty 

 hard, as he undertook rather more than he 

 should when he was persuaded to run for the 

 county treasurership, so the activity at the 

 mills of the Pascola Lumber Company in Mis- 

 souri is delayed somewhat. 



The sales of O. E. Yeager are largely oak. 

 though he carries a good assortment of hard- 

 wood as usual. If a dealer can get all the oak 

 he wants to handle he does not need to worry 

 much about other sorts of lumber. 



A. W. Kreinhedor is off on a trip to the Ten- 

 nessee mills of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, where he will start a lot of lumber, es- 

 pecially thick oak, for the Buffalo yard, unless 

 be happens to sell it before it has time to come 

 here. 



The yard of Anthony Miller is well filled with 

 hardwood stock taken in from Canada while the 

 tariff war was in prospect. He also went tu the 

 South recently to add more stock from that di- 

 rection when anything runs short. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are not handling any new 

 lake hardwoods this season, as the prices are 

 called too high, but they have a deal on Pacific 

 coast lumber that makes them independent of 

 the late advances in price there. 



The sales of F. W. Vetter, which have been 

 quite general of late, have been pretty good. He 

 finds maple scarce, just as others do, but has a 

 good lot of it coming in right away, to keep up 

 the assortment. 



The lake trade of G. Elias & Bro. is opening 

 up now, beginning with cargoes of white pine 

 and hemlock and keeping up with Michigan 

 hardwoods, so that it is expected that there will 

 be a new lot in about every week all summer. 



.\ngus McLean is starting up the mills of the 

 McLean interests in the St. Lawrence valley and 



has a big winter cut to look after. He will 

 take care of the mill at Bathurst so that other 

 Buffalo members of that company need not go 

 there. 



I. N. Stewart was a member of the banquet 

 committee of the Chamber of Commerce and 

 Manufacturers' Club and has been a good many 

 things lately besides a lumberman. The banquet, 

 which took place on April 30, was attended by 

 President Taft. 



PHILADELPHIA 



It is announced that a deal has been closed 

 whereby the John H. Kirschner tract of timber 

 near Mineral Point, Cambria County, Pa., has 

 been sold to John Coleman, a lumberman of 

 Williamsport. The tract contains 2,000,000 feet 

 of lumber, which it will take a year to cut. 

 Mr. Coleman has extensive lumbering operations 

 around Ebensburg. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works is building 

 the largest locomotive it has ever constructed. 

 It is to be turned out at the plant in Eddystone 

 and will be 64 feet in length without the tender 

 and 110 feet in length with the- tender. The 

 boiler will carry 50,000 gallons of water. It is 

 being built for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany. 



Currie & Campbell, the energetic firm of whole- 

 salers in this city, have just made some new 

 mill connections which will give them excellent 

 facilities for supplying desirable stock to their 

 trade. Besides their former connections they 

 will hereafter act as sole agents for the Elk- 

 hurst Lumber Company of Elkhurst, W. Va. The 

 mill of this concern is a three hundred horse- 

 power plant fitted with dry kilns and machinery 

 of modern type and has a daily capacity of 1.50.- 

 000 feet. It will produce 13.000 feet of floor- 

 ing a day in oak, beech, birch and maple ; also 

 15,000 feet of stock, such as poplar siding, ceil- 

 ing and cornice lumber, chestnut and basswood 

 moldings. It also has facilities for manufactur- 

 ing dimension stock. Currie & Campbell also 

 have splendid means for obtaining spruce, hem- 

 lock and North Carolina pine, and with this 

 new hardwood connection it will be in a posi- 

 tion to furnish mixed carloads of hardwoods 

 and worked stock of all kinds. Headquarters 

 of the Arm are in the Continental Building, and 

 it also has a branch office at 20 Vesey street. 

 New Y'ork City. 



A new concern for Philadelphia is the Had- 

 dock-France Lumber Company, with offices in 

 the Harrison Building. The officers are W. D. 

 Haddock, president ; W. T. Lathan, vice-presi- 

 dent, and Howard B. France, secretary and 

 treasurer. Mr. France and Mr. Lathan are 

 also connected with the Monarch Lumber Com- 

 pany, which concern will act as agents for the 

 new company. The Haddock-France concern 

 has recently purchased the timber lands and 

 band mill of the Laurel Forks Lumber Com- 

 pany of Beechwood, N. C, consisting of over 

 5,000 acres of soft yellow poplar, white and red 

 oak. chestnut, white ash, basswood, buckeye, cu- 

 cumber, hickory, butternut, birch, maple, white 

 pine and hemlock timber. The concern has a 

 capital of .$500,000, and starts with excellent 

 prospects. Its principals are men of ripe busi- 

 ness experience and their success is assured. 



The J. G. Brill Company has received orders 

 for fifty pay-as-you-enter cars from the Wash- 

 ington (D. C.) Railway & Electric Company, and 

 six cars from the Chicago & Joliet Electric 

 Railway, Joliet, 111. 



The Pullman Motor Car Company is consid- 

 ering plans for the erection of a mammoth plant 

 in York, Pa. It is proposed to purchase fifty 

 acres of land on the outskirts of York and issue 

 bonds to the amount of $230,000 to pay for a 

 portion of the improvements. A testing course 

 is to be one of the features of the new plant. 

 The bonds will be taken by local capitalists. 

 The Martine Motor Car Company, Westfield, 



