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HARDWOOD RECORD 



company reports that while things in general 

 are not as bright as might be expected, still, con- 

 sidering the season of the year, there is nothing 

 to kick about. Some difficulty is reported in 

 securing such stock as wagon poles and poplar 

 box boards. 



D. B. Doughlas & Co., Chicago wholesalers 

 with offices in the Monadnoek building, have 

 entered a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The 

 assets are $33,196. with declared liabilities ol" 

 $34,794. E. D. Bnell has been appointed receiver 



W. E. Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 Company has returned from a Ashing trip in 

 Wisconsin and states that the fishing proposition 

 is about on a par with the Chicago lumber trade 

 at present. Just to find out whether this is so 

 throughout the country bis brother Jim has de- 

 cided to take a couple of weeks cruising about 

 Xew York state, in hopes of digging up some- 

 thing in the way of amusement. 



The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange wil! 

 hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 28. 

 The question of a summer outing will be brought 

 up at that time in connection with other subjects 

 of interest to the trade. 



At the meeting of the Chicago Wholesalers last 

 Friday the question of a joint picnic or some 

 .sort of an outdoor celebration was proposed. It 

 was suggested that the three Chicago associations 

 get together on the proposition and in this way 

 forward the social interests of all members and 

 act as a sort of entering wedge for the proposed 

 amalgamation. It is to be hoped that the other 

 associations will give the matter the same sup- 

 port accorded it by the wholesalers. 



At a recent meeting of E^;change officers it 

 v,-as decided that the regular meetings would be 

 discontinued for the summer, probably up to 

 September. The same action was taken by the 

 Wholesalers. 



R. S. Bacon of the R. S. Bacon Veneer Com- 

 pany recently made a trip to Wisconsin lumber 

 points. 



Anybody who is down in the mouth about the 

 lumber proposition \youId do well to take a 

 trip to the office and yards of Maisey & Dion on 

 Loomis street. That the lumber trade is founded 

 on strictly business principles and honest meth- 

 ods is evidenced by the operations of this con- 

 cern. It is always their policy to cater abso- 

 lutely to the requirements of their customers 

 and to make sure, by close personal supervision of 

 shipments, of absolute satisfaction. That their 

 policy is successful is true without a shadow of 

 a doubt. 



NEW YORK 



Following the important conference held in 

 this city on May 31 and June 1, between dis- 

 tinguished representatives of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association and the Eastern re- 

 tail buying interests, at which time both inter- 

 ests got together on a five-year agreement con- 

 cerning hardwood inspection, the rules as 

 adopted at the conference were unanimously ac- 

 cepted by the New York Lumber Trade Associa- 

 tion at a special meeting held June 6. and by 

 the Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, comprising the retail associations of 

 Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut. New 

 York City, Xew Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore 

 and the Washington Lumber Exchange of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, held on the same date. It is also 

 understood that a committee of the Philadelphia 

 trade has been appointed to report to the mem- 

 bership of the Philadelphia Exchange on the 

 same subject at an early date, and it is expected 

 that the other associations in interest will take 

 action on this matter shortly. 



The lumber trade of the Metropolitan district 

 and vicinity will l>e ably represented at the ap- 

 pi-oacbing annual tournament of the Lumber- 

 men's Golf Association, composed of leading 

 trade enthusiasts in the eastern markets, which 

 will be held at Springfield, Mass., June 21 and 



22. President Laurens P. Rider, Henry Cape 

 and Secretary Patrick Moore have been busily 

 engaged rounding out the program which will 

 include events so diversified that everybody will 

 have a chance for a prize, and the list this year 

 is complete and handsome. 



The large hardwood warehouse of Jacobs & 

 Sons, at Elizabeth, N. J., was damaged to the 

 extent of $25,000 by Are on June 12. It is fully 

 covered by insurance. 



Edward Tate, 403 West 123d street, local rep- 

 resentative for John W. Coles, well-known 

 wholesaler of Philadelphia, Pa., reports good 

 business. These interests are making som-.' 

 heavy shipments in southern and western hard- 

 woods in the local district. 



W. A. Bennett, the prominent Cincinnati hard- 

 w'ood lumberman and principal in the firm of 

 Bennett & Witte, has been spending several days 

 in the Metropolitan district on business and 

 pleasure, and will remain here for some time 

 longer. 



Jos. J. Linehan, Lineban Lumber Company, 

 Pittsburg, Pa., has been spending several da.vs 

 in town during the fortnight in the interest of 

 business. ' 



The Marshall Hardwood Company has been 

 organized at 1 Madison avenue, by John Knox 

 Marshall, formerly secretary and treasurer of 

 t,he Marsbnll-Polhemus Lumber Company, re- 

 cently dissolved. The new company will do a 

 strictly wholesale hardwood business, and in ad- 

 dition to its local distributing office will main- 

 tain a wholesale storage yard at Marshall. N. C. 

 The concern will specialize in oak, poplar, ash 

 and basswood. 



Robert W. Higbie of the R. W. Higbie Com- 

 pany, hardwood manufacturers and wholesalers 

 of 4'> Broadway, returned during the fortnight 

 from a visit to his Adirondack operations. The 

 company is running full time on a choice cut of 

 hardwoods and reports business as excellent. All 

 of its product is being readily disposed of at 

 top prices. 



Among the recent visitors to the metropolis 

 are noted Bmil Guenther, Philadelphia, Pa. ; F. 

 R. Gilchrist. Three States Lumljer Company, 

 Memphis. Tenn. : W. H. Martz, Hoyt & Woodin 

 Manufacturing Co., New Orleans, La. 



BUFFALO 



F. W. Vetter was made a member of the out- 

 ing committee at the last meeting of the Lumber 

 E.xchange. He is a practiced hand at taking 

 care of the members of the trade when on their 

 trips and will be welcomed to the list. 



The yard of I. N. Stewart & Bro. is doing a 

 good trade in oak and chestnut, but this time 

 of the year seems not to be the best for dis- 

 posing of the firm's specialty, cherry, but that 

 will come in later on. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 getting good results from its latest venture, the 

 California redwood trade, but of course it will 

 be some time before the buyers are in line for 

 taking hold of it very heavily. 



The Memphis sawmill of Scatcherd & Son, 

 which has been dismantled some months for a 

 rebuild, is ready to run again, and with a good 

 supply of logs will soon be increasing the stock 

 of oak lumber which is none too plenty now. 



The Pascola Lumber Company has quite a 

 Kock of oak and gum at its Missouri mills, and 

 Secretary Davenport is busy disposing of it, 

 some of which comes eastward to Atlantic coast 

 towns, though none has yet been sold here. 



G. Elias & Bro., who are getting so much 

 lake pine, hemlock and hardwoods in this sea- 

 son, are much interested in seeing the work of 

 deepening the inner harbor up to their yard, 

 which will take place in time, as the work is in 

 progress. 



The syndicate of the Buffalo Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company has sent M. M. Wall to British 

 Columbia to size up the situation there and get 



ready for setting up sawmills on the Y'ale tract. 



The yard of A. Miller is getting in some good 

 basswood from the West and most of the time 

 at this season is given to that side of the trade, 

 though the spring out-bound movement was 

 pretty good. 



Hugh McLean is pretty well recovered from 

 a fall from his horse and will soon be back 

 on the road to his favorite selling grounds. The 

 oak mills are kept going, for it will not again be 

 possible to get too much oak lumber. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The firm of Fleck & Danwoody is rapidly 

 forging to the front and the recent addition of 

 C. W. Decker makes a trio of lively hustlers. 

 Mr. Decker is well known to the buyers through- 

 out the country, as for the last twenty-six years 

 he has been associated with the well-known 

 house of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. 



Charles L. Meckley of the Meckley Lance Lum- 

 ber Company reports a fair trade with a slight 

 increase of orders during the last week. Mi. 

 Meckley recently returned from a trip through 

 Virginia and West Virginia, where he secured ? 

 fine collection of ash, oak and poplar. 



J. F. Holloway states that in certain lines 

 business is fairly satisfactory, but taking the 

 situation as a whole there is a marked inertia 

 in trading as the warm weather approaches. 



William B. Allen of the Colonial Lumber Com- 

 pany says no difficulty is found in placing its 

 goods for the last fortnight, hence the concern 

 l^as no complaint to make over conditions. Mr. 

 Allen has just returned from Virginia and North 

 Carolina, where he purchased some select oak 

 and poplar. 



The American Coal & Lumber Company. 336 

 Land Title building, is a new arrival in the field. 

 It absorbs the Hughesville Lumber & Box Com- 

 pany. The officers are : President, C. W. Thomp- 

 son, Roanoke, Va. ; vice-president, D. J. Ward, 

 Salisbury, Md. : secretary and treasurer, J. L. 

 Dailey, Philadelphia. The treasurer of the com- 

 pany states that the company is capitalized at 

 $200,000, of which $100,000 is paid in. 



R. A. & J. J. Williams Company is compla- 

 cent over conditions. Maurice J. Dukes, vice- 

 president, says business has been steady right 

 along. The concern handles only the better 

 grades of hardwoods and has been able to place 

 its goods and supply the demand. 



John H. Schofield of Schofield Brothers and 

 William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & Son 

 have taken jointly a large cottage at Ocean City, 

 N. J., where they have removed their families 

 for the summer. These two popular lumbermen 

 are enthusiastic golfers, usually playing together. 

 They will be contestants at a golf tournament to 

 take place in Springfield, Mass., in July. 



The Baldwin Locomitive Works received an 

 order on June 10 for eighty-five large engines 

 for the Harriman lines. This order amounts 

 approximately to $1,230,000 and is one of the 

 largest that has been forwarded by any railroad 

 system since the financial depression of 1907. 

 Later came an order from the Hawley lines for 

 sixty-five new locomotives, half of which will go 

 to the Baldwin works, the other half to the 

 American Locomotive Works. Added to the 

 eighty-five locomotives for the Harriman lines, 

 the Baldwin Locomotive Works has received or- 

 ders for considerably over one hundred locomo- 

 tives within a week. The Baldwin plant is now 

 employing 14.500 men, and it is stated that there 

 is work enough ahead to keep this force busy 

 during the rest of the year. 



Among recent visitors to the local trade was 

 A. T. Bliss of Bliss & VanAuken, New Y'ork. 



George M. Spiegle of George M. Spiegle & Co. 

 sailed on the steamship Campania on June 15 

 for a European tour. 



The Southern Lumber Securities Company, Wil- 

 mington, Del., incorporated under Delaware laws 

 June l.'i, with a capital stock of $100,000. 



