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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Superior, and he had spent much of his time 

 of late there. The product is mostly hard- 

 wood. Heart disease, complicated with other 

 difficulties, was the cau.se of his death. On re 

 ceipt of the news of his illness his son. Burton 

 H. Hurd, started for Ontonagon, but did not 

 reach there before the father's decease. Mr. 

 Hurd was married last winter to Mrs. Mar- 

 garet Stephenson of Ontonagon. By a former 

 wife he leaves five sons and a daughter, the 

 older sons being connected with him in the busi- 

 ness here. 



Scatcherd & Son are not piling up lumber very 

 fast in the Buffalo yard, as it is used mostly as 

 an overflow point, but they are active in Mem- 

 phis and win be turning out a very large amount 

 of oak lumber as soon as the mills are refitted. 



A. E. Davenport, secretary of the Pascola 

 Lumber Company, is spending much time get- 

 ting ready to entertain the Lumber Exchange 

 at the Canoe Club up the lake, as he Is chairman 

 of the outing committee of the exchange this 

 year. 



I. N. Stewart is a meml)er of all the publicity 

 and banquet committees that come up of late, 

 and may, in a left-handed way, be reconciled 

 to the quiet condition of the hardwood trade. 

 The yard is selling oak and ash at a good rate 

 for all that. 



P. W. Vetter gets hold of hardwood stock 

 so that he is able to sell all sorts much at the 

 same rate, though he has to keep pretty busy 

 hunting after white ash to get a good assort- 

 ment of it. 



A. Miller is also in the committee line and 

 knows how to pick up cash for public purposes 

 as well as for himself. He finds plenty of hard- 

 wood stock in Canada as well as southward, and 

 keeps it moving out as well as Into the yard. 



A. W. Kreinheder gives quite an amount of 

 time to his new dry kilns, and the yard and 

 table mills of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company are getting a full share of the benefit 

 of the purchase. 



O. B. Teager is planning to make a long trip, 

 going to his sawm-lls in Kentucky on the 5tli 

 and swinging up at Louisville In time for the 

 directors' meeting before the convention of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association is due. 



-ne yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is preparing 

 for an arrival of Pacific coast fir by lake soon 

 and in the meantime is getting in a lot of elm 

 and basswood from connections that have been 

 kept up in Canada. 



A. J. Elias is chairman of the insurance com- 

 mittee of the Lumber Exchange, although that 

 Is hardly because his yard has of late been in 

 the hands of insurance people. The rebuild 

 from the fire includes considerable enlargement. 



The office of the Hugh McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany finds trade not so rushing as it was when 

 it was not safe to sell all the oak that was de- 

 manded, but the outlook is quite good enough 

 to keep the mills running on oak as hard as 

 ever. 



i. .ans for opening the big tract owned in 

 British Columbia by members of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company and others are ma- 

 turing, but there are no details ready yet. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Frank H. Hawkins of the Kirby & Hawkins 

 Company says things are moving along with a 

 pleasing regularity. The hardwood lines are not 

 being pushed just now, but in railroad ties, etc., 

 the company has been busy right along. 



The Monarch Lumber Company reports a con- 

 siderable increase in orders. Howard B. France, 

 secretary and treasurer, adds a favorable report. 

 John .T. Rurabarger, president, is on a business 

 trip through West Virginia and Ohio. He will 

 take in the convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association to be held at Louisville, Ky., 

 on June 9 and 10. 



Ralph Souder of Eli B. Hallowell & Co. states 



that they are shipping a respectable quantity 

 of goods, but trading is a trifle less responsive 

 than had been anticipated. Little concern is felt, 

 however, as a comparative slacking up is not 

 unusual as the summer approaches. J. T. Rob- 

 inhold of this house has just returned from a 

 five weeks' buying trip in Virginia, North and 

 South Carolina. 



The J. S. Kent Company testifies to a well- 

 sustained business, the total amount so far being 

 ahead of the same period of last year. Thomas 

 H. Hoffman of the hardwood department is mak- 

 ing a business trip to the mill districts of Vir- 

 .ginia and North Carolina. 



A number of the members of the Concatenated 

 Order of Hoo-Hoo, Eastern Pennsylvania, were the 

 guests of Vicegerent Snark Jerome H. Sheip at a 

 dinner given at Boothby's Hotel on May 2G. 

 Matters relative to the future of Hoo-Hoo in this 

 territory were discussed with ardor. Mes- 

 sages were sent by absent members regretting 

 their inability to bo present, because of un- 

 avoidable previous engagements. Considerable 

 enthusiasm was manifested at this meeting, the 

 result of which was the appointment of a con- 

 catenation for .Tune 24. 



,Terome H. Sheip is on a business trip through 

 the lumber camps of Alabama and Tennessee. 



The W. M. Rltter Lumber Company is appar- 

 ently satisfied with the year's business so far. 

 Last month's trading, especially, it states, was 

 good. A little lull is on just now. R. L. Gil- 

 Ham, Philadelphia representative, is making a 

 short stay at the company's mill at .Mortimer, 

 X. C. looking into stock conditions. 



Charles G. Blake, manager E. V. Babcock & 

 Co., says trading has relaxed to some extent 

 during the last few weeks, but hitherto it has 

 been of fair advance and of good character. 



Owen M. Bruner, of Owen M. Bruner Com- 

 pany, reports a satisfactory volume of busi- 

 ness all along the line and is glowingly opti- 

 mistic as to outlook. Mr. Bruner will attend 

 the convention of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association at Louisville, Ky. 



G. C. Burkholder, Philadelphia representative 

 of Beeeber & Barr, of Pottsville, Pa., has 

 abundant faith in the business situation. He 

 reports an increase of trading every month 

 since .January 1 and holds that the outlook 

 contains nothing to discourage, but much to 

 inspire confidence in the business man. 



Haddock-France Lumber Company is now 

 thoroughly established in its offices, 807 Har- 

 rison building. The company has planing mill 

 facilities and a band mill at Beechwood, N. C, 

 with a capacity of 40,000 feet per day, run- 

 ning full force on orders. Howard B. France, 

 secretary and treasurer, says that some of the 

 finest soft yellow poplar ever marketed is be- 

 ing turned out. 



Thomas B. Hammer, manufacturer and whole- 

 sab r, reports liberal orders, mills all running 

 full capacity, but stock is not allowed to over- 

 accumulate at mill ends. Mr. Hammer con- 

 trols sawmills at Little River, S. C, and Clarks, 

 N. C. : saw and planing mills at Gunberry, N. C, 

 and Willard, N. C, and shingle mills in Horry 

 county, S. C. 



Orders for locomotives have been received 

 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the rail- 

 roads. Iowa Central, 10 ; Minneapolis & St. 

 Louis, 12 ; Chicago & Alton, 10 : Lehigh Val- 

 ley, 5. The Lehigh Valley, is said to be in the 

 market for eight coaches and four combination 

 cars. The Baltimore & Ohio is asking bids on 

 80 locomotives and for from 2,500 to 5,000 box 

 cars and 2.000 coke cars. 



Thomas J. Lalley, for twenty-five years in the 

 lumber and piling business, offices Land Title 

 building, died on May 2.5 at his home, 66th ave- 

 nue and 11th street. Oak Lane. 



Fire destroyed the woodworking mill of Hall 

 Brothers & Wood on May 2, entailing a loss of 

 about ^ 1 5,000. The firm has a lumber yard ex- 

 tending from 54th to 56th street, on Lancas- 

 ter avenue, and a square back to the Pennsyl- 



vania railroad main line. Two million feet of 

 seasoned lumber stored in the sheds and worth 

 about $250,000 were saved. 



The Dean Lumber Company's plant, Eimira, 

 N. Y., suSered a loss by fire on May 2 of 

 .$100,000. 



Creditors filed a petition to have Elias Bruns- 

 wick, of this city, adjudged an involuntary 

 bankrupt. The petitioning creditors and the 

 amounts of their claims are : IjOuis Daniels, 

 $000 ; Enterprising Furniture Company, Inc., 

 $44 ; Hancock Bros., $33.85. 



The Pinellas Lumber & Development Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia, was incorporated May 20 

 under Delaware laws ; capital, $50,000. 



The Falcon Motor Car Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Camden, N. J., obtained charter on May 

 23 under New Jersey laws ; capital, $125,000. 



The Neary-Martin Lumber Company, Newark, 

 chartered on May 23 under New Jersey laws ; 

 capital, $25,000. 



The Mattison Box c^c Lumber Company, 

 Newark, was incorporated on May 23 under 

 New Jersey laws ; capital, $25,000. 



The Baldwin Motor Service Company, Hacken- 

 sack, obtained charter on May 23 under New 

 .Tersey laws. The company will manufacture 

 automobiles and has a capital stock of $2."i0,00O. 



The Haffett-McNuIty Table Company, Can- 

 ton, chartered May 26 under Pennsylvania laws ; 

 capital, $50,000. 



The Berwind Lumber Company, Camden, ob- 

 tained charter May 26 under New Jersey laws. 

 It has a capital of $250,000. 



The Tiedermann Convertible Chair Company 

 is a new concern for Wilmington, Del., with a 

 capital stock of $100,000. 



The James Lumber Company, Franklin, Pa., 

 was recently chartered under Pennsylvania laws. 

 It has a capital stock of $.30,000. 



The Hoboken Planing Mill Company, Hoboken, 

 was chartered May 27 under New Jersey laws ; 

 capital, $25,000. 



The Lorraine Motor Company, Camden, N. J., 

 was recently organized to manufacture and sell 

 motorcycles ; capital stock is placed at $60,000. 



The G. W. Foster Lumber Company, Mays 

 Landing, was incorporated June 3 under New 

 Jersey laws, with a capital of $50,000. 



The Northeastern Pennsylvania Motor Car 

 Company, Scranton. obtained a charter under 

 Delaware laws, June 3. It is capitalized at 

 .t ivO.OOO. 



PITTSBURG 



It. A. McDonald, president of tlie McDonald 

 Lumber Company, is down in West Virginia this 

 week looking over stocks. J. W. Hulse, office 

 manager of the same company. Is back from 

 quite an extensive trip through the East, where 

 In- found things moving somewhat better than a 

 few months ago. 



The I'almer & Scmans Lumber Company has been 

 obliged to enlarge its office space in the Oliver 

 building and now has three of the most desir- 

 able rooms in the building on the Smithfield 

 street front. Manager I. F. Balsley of this con- 

 cern reports more business doing in maple, but 

 says the trade is chiefly in Michigan and the 

 .Northwest. 



The Goodwin Lumber Company announces a 

 flattering trade in manufacturing and planing 

 mill lumber considering the general times. Ohio 

 has sent over a bunch of business to this concern 

 for most Ohio buyers are well known to Manager 

 E. H. Shreiner, who is no mean hustler for lum- 

 ber orders. Its trade down East is also very 

 good. 



President J. N. Woollett of the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company spent two days recently in the 

 West and brought back some very good orders 

 for early delivery. Gum and cottonwoofl. he 

 says, are picking up in general demand so that 

 the better stocks are now selling well. 



The J. L. Lytle Luml>er Company is not 



