HARDWOOD RECORD 



49 



FuUerton-rowell Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 South Bend, Ind., recently made a sbort trip to 

 the mills of that concern. 



In accordance with a recent action of the 

 Chicago Hardwood Exchange, pledging the sup- 

 port of the Chicago trade to St. Louis at the 

 coming national convention at Louisville, a largo 

 delegation of Chicago lumbermen have left for 

 Louisville, where they will work to secure the 

 1911 convention for that city. 



The Emerson Company, well-known manufac- 

 turers of dry kilns, announce the removal of 

 their ofBces from Baltimore to New York City. 

 Commodious quarters have been secured in the 

 Flatiron building, to which address all communi- 

 cations should hereafter be directed. Baltimore 

 will continue to be th; company's shipping point, 

 as heretofore. 



The editor acknowledges receipt of an invita- 

 tion to the seventh annual banquet of the Grand 

 Rapids Lumbermen's Association, which was 

 held at the Pantlind hotel, Grand Rapids, May 

 31. Owing to press of business he was unable 

 to attend, which was much regretted, as the 

 hospitality of the lumbermen of Grand Rapids is 

 proverbial and on this occasion seems to have 

 even surpassed its r-'putation. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company .?f 

 St. Louis is sending out to its customers and 

 friends a useful little novelty which serves as au 

 excellent advertisement for the company's well- 

 known high-grade quarter-sawed oak. A strong 

 and durable key-chain bearing the concern's trade 

 mark, a log on the end of which is inscribed 

 "^ -sawed oak," is an acceptable reminder of 

 this company's product. 



C. M. Hamlin recently formed a connection 

 with the Wood-Mosaic Company, manufacturer 

 of parquetry, hardwood flooring, veneers and 

 lumber at New Albany, Ind., and has charge 

 of the company's lumber sales. This well-known 

 concern has mills at New Albany, Ind., at Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., and Louisville, Ky. The quality of 

 its product is generally appreciated by the trade. 

 Chicago lumbermen were well represented by 

 their draft horses in the first annual work-horse 

 parade which was held on May 30. Among 

 those who carried off prizes were two teams 

 entered by the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company. 

 The first prize team were matched sorrels, six 

 and seven years old. each weighing 1,.500 pounds 

 and sixteen hands two inches in height. Botn 

 are of the Percheron breed. The second prize foi 

 doubles was awarded to the Paepcke-Leicht Lum- 

 ber Company's team of black Percherons, which 

 were sixteen hands three inches high and 

 weighed each 1,500 pounds. In entering these 

 teams there was considerable competition among 

 the company's drivers, as each of the concern's 

 thirty teams is exceptional in many respects. 



Notice is given that the Charles A. Street 

 Lumber Company of Chicago has dissolved. 



The Irving Park Lumber Company took out 

 papers of incorporation at Springfield recently 

 to do a general lumber business in Chicago. The 

 incorporators are Charles E. Cremieux. Thomas 

 Burnes and .Joseph G. Sheldon : the capital is 

 $5,000. 



The Rayfleld Motor Car Company was capi- 

 talized in Springfield last week at .?150,000. 

 The firm will manufacture automobiles and is 

 composed of J. F. Miller, E. E. Staley and Burke 

 Vancil. 



The Reliance Construction Company has been 

 capitalized in Chicago for a general business In 

 building material and building construction. The 

 subscribed capital is $10,000, the members of 

 the firm being H. il. Seligman, F. L. Brooks and 

 S. Murphy. 



The Already Box Company of Danville, 111., 

 has increased its capital stock from $10,000 to 

 $25,000. 



The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, 

 with headquarters in Chicago, has decreased Its 

 capital stock by $2,000,000, the new capitaliza- 

 tion being $500,000. 



Schmidt & Schultz, Chicago, have been suc- 

 ceeded in the store fixture business by the 

 United Bank & Store Fixture Company. 



The National Woodenware & Supply Company 

 of Chicago has changed its name to the Edwin 

 C. Price Company. 



The I'ulaski Sash & Door Company was re- 

 cently petitioned into bankruptcy ; the claims 

 against the concern are the Struthers Mill Com- 

 pany, $392.56 ; the True & True Door Company, 

 $615.01 ; the Morgan Sash & Door Company, 

 $222.14. 



Crandall & Brown of South Center street, 

 Chicago, recently sent around to the trade a 

 complete telephone and street directory of the 

 Chicago lumber firms. The directory is printed 

 on both sides of a card, on which are shown in 

 red the various specialties handled by this firm. 

 It is an attractive and yet practical advertising 

 feature. 



Edward Hines of Edward Hines Lumber Com 

 pany, Chicago, was in Washington a short time 

 ago representing the National association in be- 

 half of the lumber trade in general. Mr. Hines 

 was especially interested in the six months' sus- 

 pension clause in the railroad bill, and also did 

 all he could to combat the lumber trust rumor 

 now current in official circles. 



Among the eastern lumbermen who visited 

 Cuicago Wednesday, June S, en route to the 

 Louisville convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association were Gouveneur E. Smith 

 of Gouveneur E. Smith & Co. of New York Ci;.v. 

 and Stuart D. Walker of the same concern ; also 

 E. F. Perry, secretary of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, New York City. 



A w-elcome caller at the Record oflice, June 7, 

 was ,T. H. Hill, Jr., manager of the Fearon & 

 JIartel Company of Cartegene. S. A., with ofliCi's 

 at 96 Wall strret, New York City. 



NEW YORK 



George C. Laver.r has succeeded D. B. Col- 

 lins as president of Collins, Lavery & Co., the 

 large Jersey City lumber and woodwork house, 

 with sales headquarters in the Hudson Termi- 

 nal building, city, and the board of directors 

 has been changed in accordance therewith. Mr, 

 Collins has been ill for some time and while 

 he retains an interest in the company, no an- 

 nouncement has been made as to his future 

 activities. 



Louis H. Parker, the newly appointed deputy 

 attorney manager for the Lumber Underwriters, 

 the well-known fire insuring organization of 66 

 Broadway, Manhattan, has taken up his active 

 duties at local headquarters. This organiza- 

 tion makes a specialty of reduced fire insurance 

 rates to lumbermen and wood workers and, with 

 the large experience in and knowledge of the 

 insurance business which Mr. Parker possesses, 

 the affairs of the organization should prosper 

 generously under his management as assistant 

 to General Attorney E. F. Perry. 



Charles E. Page has retired from the whole- 

 sale house of Page Brothers, Manhattan, to or- 

 ganize the Page-Westervelt Lumber Company, 

 wholesalers, with headquarters at 39 East 28th 

 street, in which partnership he has been joined 

 by Frank I. Westervelt, late of the J. H. Wes- 

 ter\elt Lumber Company, at Paterson, N. J. 

 Frank Page, also of Page Brothers, continues 

 on his own account. 



Manager W. W. Schupner, of the bureau of 

 information of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association, is celebrating the ad- 

 vent into his household of another little girl, 

 making him the proud possessor of two daugh- 

 ters and a son. 



E. M. Kenna, wholesale Pacific coast lumber 

 supplies, headquarters 111 Broadway, and dis- 

 tributing warehouse in Brooklyn, returned dur- 

 ing the fortnight from a business trip to the 

 Coast, where he rounded out matters for his en- 

 suing year's business. 



E. 'V. Babcock, of E. V. Babcock & Co., Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., has been spending several days in 

 town with Manager H. J. Gott, of the local 

 oflice, in connection with their business here. 



M. B. Nelson, general sales agent for the Long- 

 Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, Mo., passed 

 through the city during the fortnight on a 

 business trip through the eastern centers. 



W. W. Loekwood, of the Rice & Lockwood 

 Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue, returned 

 from a brief vacation at Atlantic City, N. J. 



H. D. Billmeyer, Billmeyer Lumber Company, 

 Cumberland, Md., and Floyd Day, of the Swann- 

 Day Lumber Company, Winchester, Ky,, were 

 recent prominent hardwood visitors. 



The Bacon Piano Company has been incorpo- 

 rated at Bronxville, N. Y., with a capital of 

 $65,000, to manufacture pianos. The incorpo- 

 rators are C. M. Tremaine, of Westfield, N. J. : 

 F. E. Mygatt and C. .-V. Brooks, of New York 

 City. 



The Charles Soble Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated in this city with headquarters at 

 1 Madison avenue, to conduct a general whole- 

 sale hardwood business by Charles Soble, W. .7. 

 Hein and H. I. Soble, of Brooklyn. The capi- 

 tal is $10,000. The above mentioned Messrs. 

 Soble were formerly identified with the Soble 

 Brothers Lumber Company of this city. 



.John J. Linehan. Linehan Lumber Company, 

 hardwood manufacturer of Pittsburg. Pa., spent 

 several days in town during the fortnight in 

 the interest of business, which he reports is very 

 satisfactory considering all conditions of the 

 present market. 



The Emerson Company, manufacturers of the 

 Emerson Dry Kilns, has removed its oflice head- 

 quarters from Baltimore, Md., to Room 1018 

 Flatiron building. New York City, where Man- 

 ager H. E. Wofi'ord will make his headquarters 

 in the solicitation of the trade. The clerical 

 work will be done at this oflice, but Baltimore 

 will continue to be the shipping point for its 

 dry kiln purposes as formerly. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, of Coal 

 Grove, Ohio, announces that Henri Isaacson, 

 561 First street, Brooklyn, telephone 680 South, 

 is representing it in this territory in a selling 

 capacity. 



BUFFALO 



There is a good prospect of large attendance 

 at the hardwood convention in Louisville. The 

 direction pleases everybody, for if there is need 

 of more stock in any line it will be easy to drop 

 off here or there, or go on a little further and 

 pick up what is wanted. Furthermore, it is 

 astonishing how large the Buffalo interest in 

 sawmills and timber tracts is in the South- 

 west, not to mention the taking of the cut of 

 mills, while still other interests include fine 

 yards that have been rounded out here and there 

 helow the Ohio, to be drawn on when there is 

 demand for the stock. 



It has been hard to do business in Buffalo 

 yards of late on account of the cold, wet weather, 

 which seems to have been doing its worst to 

 get even with itself for giving us .summer in 

 March. June ought to do better by us. 



The hardwood trade by lake is small this 

 year for prices are so high on account of small 

 supply and big western demand that it is not 

 safe to buy much in that direction. 



The sudden death of James T. Hurd at his 

 new home at Ontonagon, Mich., where he lo- 

 cated a short time ago, in order to manage a big 

 hardwood timber and sawmill operation, was a 

 great shock to lumbermen here, where he had 

 lived since his birth in 1846. He was president 

 of the Hurd Brothers Lumber Company since 

 its incorporation. The Buffalo business is white 

 and yellow pine, but some years ago Mr. Hurd 

 bought an interest in the Lumber ..% Cedar Com- 

 pany at Ontonagon, on the south shore of Lake 



