HARDWOOD RECORD 



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East Twenty-sixth street. Schedules have not 

 as yet been flled. 



H. H. Salmon & Co., wholesale hardwoods, 88 

 Wall street, city, have just issued an attractive 

 announcement In connection with their red and 

 sap gum supplies, on which they have arranged 

 excellent facilities as regards manufacture, grad- 

 ing, treatment and distribution, which compre- 

 hend as good service in this growing popular 

 commodity as is possible to secure. 



The HeddcD-Clark Lumber Company, 50 

 Church street, city, has just increased its capi- 

 tal from $10,000 to $25,000 in order to take 

 care of its growing business. 



H. L. Crandall. vice-president of the Bank of 

 Long Island, has been elected a director and 

 treasurer of the R. W. Higbie Company, miinu- 

 facturer and wholesaler of hardwoods, 45 I'road- 

 way. with mills in the Adirondacks. Concur- 

 rently Hamilton Higbie. sou of the head of the 

 company, has also been elected a director in 

 honor of his twenty-first birthday. Young Mr. 

 Higbie is at Yale College. 



BUFFALO 



Buffalo lumbermen were shocked at the sud- 

 den death of R. H. M. Hopkins, for many years 

 manager for Scatcherd & Son, which occurred 

 at Seaview, Mass., August 1. Mr. Hopkins had 

 been in poor health for some time and recently 

 look a long European trip, returning in much 

 improved condition. He was taking a little vaca- 

 tion at Seaview and while preparing to go on a 

 little motor-boat trip with his son, Leo H. Hop- 

 kins, death overtook him. The son was turn- 

 ing up the engine, with which he was having 

 some difficulty, and after the father asked a 

 (|uestion about it he dropped dead, the trouble 

 being heart failure. Mr. Hopkins leaves a wife 

 end another son, Fred R. Hopkins. He was 

 fifty-seven years old. The Hardwood Exchange 

 met at the Chamber of Commerce and attended 

 the funeral on August 4 in a body. Mr. Hop- 

 kins was a lumberman of long experience and 

 one who knew the details of the business thor- 

 oughly. Previous to his connection with the 

 Buffalo office of Scatcherd & Son he was in 

 partnership with Manager Wright of the Mem- 

 phis office of the samec oncern. He had many 

 friends in the trade not only in Buffalo, but 

 in other imporlant lumber centers throughout 

 the country, all of whom will mourn his sudden 

 taking off. 



There is not much in the way of real news in 

 this market at this season. Lumbermen are 

 busy at present principally in the effort to have 

 a good time. The matter of advancing rail rates 

 has receive^ considerable attention from hard- 

 wood lumbermen and has been turned over to 

 the Chamber of Commerce. 



Vicegerent Briggs will hold a Hoo-Hoo con- 

 catenation at .Tamestown on August 6. 



O. E. Y'eager reports his yard receipts heavy 

 and says he has an unusually fine assortment of 

 stock coming in. This popular lumberman 

 played a baseball game recently with the junior 

 lumbermen against the Chamber of Commerce 

 nine. Although he performed his task of hold- 

 ing down second base well, his side was defeated. 



When the office of the Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is moved to make room for 

 the tannery to be built on the old site, it will 

 be surrounded by lumber piles. Trade of this 

 concern is quiet, as usual at this season, but it 

 Is expected to improve shortl.v. 



V. W. Vetter says that business with him is 

 dull and that he is turning his energies toward 

 getting in shape for a brisk fall trade. He finds 

 maple a good seller, but is not letting up on 

 other hardwoods, usually making a specialty of 

 white ash. 



The mill and yard of G. Elias & Bro. are 

 undergoing a series of improvements. The new 

 sheds to replace those destroyed by fire some 

 time ago are finished and two heavy planers are 



ready to go into the mill. This firm is receiv- 

 ing white pine and hemlock by lake, but its 

 hardwoods come in by rail. 



Maple and basswood are the two best items 

 in the trade of A. Miller, who says that orders 

 at the present time are not coming in with any 

 activity. Trade can hardly be called good at 

 present, he says, but he is optimistic for more 

 active times in the fall. 



It is rare that the yard of T. Sullivan & Co. 

 is better stocked with hardwoods than at pres- 

 ent. Here is to be found some fine thick maple, 

 which is not an easy item to get hold of just 

 now. F. M. Sullivan took a long trip through 

 the East in an automobile recently, reporting a 

 very enjoyable time. 



The McLeans as usual are on the alert to get 

 their share of business offering. R. D. lately 

 took a trip to Canada, which was a great suc- 

 cess, and Hugh is dividing his time this summer 

 between the road, the office and his summer cot- 

 tage on the lake shore. 



H. H. Stewart made a flying trip to New 

 Y'ork a few days ago and then swung around by 

 West Virginia on his way home to see If the 

 Stewart hardwood supply was coming along in 

 good condition. The local yard is shipping some 

 good chestnut at present, as well as numerous 

 other woods. 



Efforts are being made by President Beyer of 

 the Pascola Lumber Company to get his saw- 

 mills running by fall. He says that it is diffi- 

 cult to do anything in this direction during the 

 hot weather, as it is almost impossible to get 

 men for southern mills. 



The yard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is getting a nice lot of southwestern 

 hardwoods at present, and though the yard trade 

 is quiet just now, the orders for tables are 

 active and this absorbs enough of the stock to 

 I;eep the yard busy. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Whiting Lumber Company reports a fair 

 volume of business during the fortnight, but a 

 diminished snap in buying. However, las stocks 

 in the consumers' hands are being depleted, a 

 replenishing will soon be necessary. 



Samuel II. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son speaks encouragingly of trading. He reports 

 July sales ahead of the same month of 1000, 

 and thinks the outlook promising. 



W. J. Mingus of Mingus & Rutter says things 

 are holding as well as could be expected for 

 th".s time of the year. Indications point to a 

 fresh impetus to trade in the fall. 



J. Randall Williams & Co. admits that trad- 

 in,'; is more or less dormant just now, but that 

 the outlook is favorable. J. Randall Williams 

 is spending the summer at Buzzards Bay, Mass., 

 where he has a cottage. 



Jerome H. Sheip is rusticating in the Pocono 

 mountains. He recently returned from Mobile, 

 Ala., where he has established a plant for the 

 manufacture of cigar-box lumljer and mahogany 

 and spruce veneers. The office reports fair trad- 

 ing right along. H. S. Best of this house is 

 on a trip to the lumber camps of Virginia and 

 North and South Carolina, making contracts and 

 sizing up conditions. 



Wilmer H. Righter of the Righter Lumber 

 Company is at peace with trade conditions. He 

 reports a continued fair volume of busiuess and 

 .anticipates an increase In the fall. Frederick 

 C. Righter has a cottage at Cape May, where 

 he spends the week ends with his family. 



William B. Allen of the Colonial Lumber Com- 

 pany is bent on the company's expansion. He is 

 in Belhaven, N. C, where he is interested in 

 the Woodside Lumber Company, of which he has 

 been elected president. The output of this com- 

 pany will bo handled by the Philadelphia com- 

 pany. It will manufacture North Carolina pine. 



The Floyd-Olmstead Company is fairly busy, 

 but deplores delay in shipping. J. W. Floyd and 



A. G. Olmstead are on a trip through the lum- 

 ber camps "of Canada. 



The annual autumnal excursion of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of Philadelphia will take 

 place September 20, 21 and 22. These outings, 

 which are always admirably arranged and car- 

 ried out by the office and entertainment commit- 

 tee, embrace many attractive features and are 

 looked forward to with delight. ' The chosen 

 gala ground this year is Glen Summit Springs, 

 Pa., including a stop at Mauch Chunk, Pa., and 

 a trip on the famous Switch-back. 



The Central Pennsylvania Log Rolling Asso- 

 ciation, Modern Woodmen of America, will hold 

 its convention in this city August 25-27. More 

 than 2,000 persons will attend, and it is ex- 

 pected to be one of the most important meet- 

 ings ever held by the organization. On August 

 25th a moonlight excursion up the Delaware 

 will be an enjoyable feature, and on the 26th 

 the entire aggregation will board a train for 

 Willow Grove, where Edward F. Burns, who 

 holds the office of national lecturer, will deliver 

 an address. It is announced that the member- 

 ship of this association up to May 1 amounted 

 (o 1,131,733. It was started in Lyons, Iowa, 

 in 1883. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works has received 

 a contract to build twenty locomotives for the 

 National Railways of Mexico, also an order for 

 thirty-flve freight engines from the Illinois Cen- 

 tral railroad, the contract price of which is 

 estimated at $500,000. Another order has come 

 ill for six Simplex consolidation locomotives 

 from the Atlantic Coast Line. 



More than a million young trees have been 

 planted by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 

 during the last three months to provide for some 

 of the future requirements for timber and cross- 

 ties. In the next thirty years they will be ready 

 for use. 



Henry O. Atwood, one of the pioneer furniture 

 men in this city, died on .Tuly 22 at Atlantic 

 City, where he had gone for the summer. He 

 was seventy-six years old. 



On July 22 Wardell Barker's steam sawmill 

 and all lumber and machinery at New Egj-pt, 

 N. J., were destroyed by fire. The loss is 

 estimated at $3,000. 



On July 25 at Elizabethport, N. J., fire de- 

 stroyed Jacobson & Co.'s lumber yard, occupy- 

 ing three blocks. 



The mills of the Buchanan & Smock Lum- 

 ber Company and large piles of lumber, covering 

 more than half a square, were destroyed at 

 Asbury Park, N. J., July 29. The loss Is 

 estimated at $150,000. 



Charters were issued on July 21 to the Nor- 

 ristown Transit Company to construct and oper- 

 ate a four-mile line in Norristown. The capital 

 stock is $24,000. 



The Philadelphia Regal Automobile Company 

 was incorporated July 22 under Pennsylvania 

 laws with $10,000 capital stock. 



PITTSBURG 



E. V. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., who 

 was operated on a few weeks ago at the Columbia 

 Hospital in Wilkinsburg, Pa., for appendicitis 

 and has since been recuperating in the Maine 

 resorts, is back at his summer lodge at Ashtola, 

 I a., with his family. 



J. L. Kendall, head of the big Kendall lumber 

 interests in Pittsburg, has been elected president 

 of the Meyersdale Coal Company vice Joseph R. 

 Stauffer, the millionaire operator, who died re- 

 ceutly. Mr. Kendall is having plans drawn for 

 a very fine residence on his woodland road front- 

 age in the Squirrel Hill district of the East End. 



The Mill Run Lumber Company of Meadville, 

 Pa., has built a large storage plant and made 

 other extensive improvements on its property 

 there. It is one of the flourishing concerns of 

 northwestern Pennsylvania. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has already 



