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HARDWOOD RECORD 



hcttor shape for pn'scnlation. The motion was 

 acquiescpd in 1)5' the commission and September 

 7 announced as the date for beginning the hear- 

 ing. Furthermore, the commission announced 

 that the hearing in question was open to all 

 alike, including commercial interests who might 

 desire to be heard in opposition to the proposed 

 advance. The commission has set August 29 as 

 the beginning of the hearing on the same ques- 

 tion for the railroads west of the Mississippi, 

 which will be held in Chicago. 



Charles K. Partridge, the prominent hardwood 

 dealer of Jersey City, has just incorporated bis 

 business with a capital of $700,000 under the 

 stylo of the Chas. R. Partridge Lumber Com- 

 pany, of which he will retain control. Mr. Part- 

 ridge has been identified with Ihe local hard- 

 wood trade for many years and has built up a 

 lai'ge business. 



W. D. Jfershon, eastern manager of the John 

 D. Mershon Lumber Company of Saginaw, with 

 headquarters at 1 Madison avenue, city, left last 

 week in company with J. D. Mershon for the 

 Pacific coast, where they will close final ar- 

 rangements witli the Pacific Lumber Company, 

 the big redwood producers, for handling its 

 eastern business the next year. 'Hie company is 

 just rounding out some big improvements which 

 will greatly increase the capacity and equipment 

 of its plants and enable it to take care of all 

 business with excellent despatch. .L D. Mershon 

 will return directly to Saginaw, W. D. Mershon 

 continuing his trip through Pacific coast points 

 before returning. 



F. B. Van Duzen. for many years associated 

 with the local wholesale trade, has engaged in 

 business on his own account at 12 East 42d 

 street, where no will handle a full line of hard- 

 woods and softwoods. 



Among the prominent cypress manufacturers 

 visiting the market during the fortnight were : 

 A. E. Wilson. Wilson Cypress Company. Palatka, 

 Fla. : L. H. Price. Kamos Luml>er Company, 

 Ramos, La. ; E. H. Griffin. Hunter Company. 

 Jack.sonville. Fla.. and F. Price, Ijouisiana 

 Red Cypress Company. New Orleans. La. 



The Lumbermen's Club of New York is plan- 

 ning a "day of golf" for its member enthusiasts 

 at the Ilartsdale. N. Y., links on September 20, 

 to be followed on the evening of the 21st by a 

 smoker at the cIuIj's new quarters in the Hoff- 

 man House. The new quarters of the club will 

 be ready for occupancy on September 1. 



A. Shoaf. for several years past the able man- 

 ager for the local office of H. M. Bickford 

 Company. Boston, Mass.. headquarters 1 Madison 

 avenue, city, has severed his connections to join 

 forces with R. U. Sizer & Co.. the big southern 

 pine house of this city, as manager of their 

 Philadelphia office. His manj' friends regret to 

 see him go, but he carries with him a host of 

 good wishes for success in his new connection. 

 W. L. Payton. formerly of the selling staff of 

 the li. T. Jones Lumber Company. Flatiron 

 building, has joined forces in a similar capacity 

 with, the Manufacturers* Lumber Company, the 

 I>ig Canadian house at 17 William street, city. 

 Samuel K. Karr. Lilly Lumher Company. I 

 Madison avenue, is back from ten days' golfing 

 at Atlantic City. N. J. 



('. O. Shepherd. Davison Lumber Company. 1 

 Madison avenue, is on n trip to tlie company's 

 mills at Bridirewater. X. S. 



.7. N. Scatcherd of Scatcherd & Son. Buffalo. 

 N. Y. ; Thomas F. Smouse. the hardwood manu- 

 facturer and wholesab'r r»f ("umherland. Md.. and 

 A. C. Wood of Wood & Skilton. wholesalers of 

 I'hiladelphia. I'n., were in town this week on 

 business. 



PHILADELPHIA 



C. E. LInyil. Jr.. is not truiiiilin.i; about coudi- 

 tion.=. as business, lie sa.vs. is as (inod as could 

 be I'Xpeeled. lie tliinks the average so tai' has 

 exceeded the same time a year ago and the out- 

 look is luminous. 



W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports fan- 

 trading for August, and says July business was 

 reasonably satisfactory. It considers the out- 

 look promising. 11. W. Collins, eastern sales 

 manager, recently visited the home office at Co- 

 lumbus. Ohio, and attended one of the regular 

 meeting of the selling staff. 



Daniel B. Curll says, although new business 

 is comparatively slow, he has sufficient orders 

 to keep shippers active for a time. The mill 

 is running full time. Mr. Curll is boldly opti- 

 mistic as to outlook. 



Among the recent visitors to the Lumbermen's 

 Kxchange rooms were Henry I'almer. Langhorne. 

 Pa. : Joseph C. Jones. Conshobocken. Pa. : Joseph 

 <_'. Waits, of Henderson Lumber (Jompany. San- 

 ford. Ala. : liidgway S. Boyd, of Henderson-Boyd 

 Lumber (Company, Richburg, Ala., and I. D. 

 Miller, of I. D. Miller & Co.. Iliwasse. Va. 



Charles K. Parry & Co. report ti-ading spas- 

 modic, although up to the average for a relaxed 

 season. During the last half of July and through 

 .\ugust so far. there has been a gain with the 

 scent of good fall business. Mr. Parry is sum- 

 mering at Seaside Park. X. J. 



Frederick S. L'nderhill. of "Wistar. Underbill 

 & Co.. says they always accept August as their 

 duil month, but so far business has been fairly 

 responsive, and the outlook is propitious. R. W. 

 Wistar is spending his vacation at Cape May. 

 N. J. : T. X. Nixon is at Bradley Beach. X. J., 

 and Kills K. Guilford reports from Aurora. Vi'. 

 Va. 



The Tomb Lumber Comijany reports the usual 



^ summer hiatus, but on the whoie a fair amount 



of lumber is moving, II. B. Tomb is still en- 



.ioying the salubrious mountain air. W. A. Tomb 



is looking after shipments at mill. 



Charles H. Wislar. after attending the Knight 

 Templars' convention at Chicago, is enjoying a 

 trip through Yellow Stone Park and California. 

 J. C. Tennant. secretary and sales manager 

 of the Fenwick Lumber (Company, has recenti.v 

 spent some time at Pittsburg in conference with 

 Mr. Ross, the western salesman. He has also 

 visited Edgewood. N. Y., the Catskill mountain 

 operation, and the general office at Wilkes-Barrc 

 I'a. At all points the company is running full 

 capacity and shipping close to green stock. He 

 reports business somewhat quiet during July, 

 hut considerable more volume in August. Stocks 

 at the mills are badly broken, but prices are 

 fairly well sustained. Mr. Tennant looks for a 

 good, steady demand during the fall and winter, 

 with a resulting hardening of prices. 



The annual baseball game between the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange and the Master Builders' 

 Exchange will be jjlayed on Wednesday, Sep- 

 tember 7. 1910. at the grounds of the Y. M. C. 

 A. of the P. U. It.. 44th and I'arksidc avenue. 

 The proceeds of these games are always devoted 

 to the most nobly philanthropic charities. 



Tlie Baldwin Locomotive Works has more men 

 emido.ved now than at any time since the panic 

 of 1907. Before that depression the working 

 force numbered 19..'>00 men, now the.v are able to 

 keep Iti.OOO men busy on orders sufficient to 

 last to the end of the year. On the first of 

 .\ugust they received an order from the Balti- 

 more & Ohio railroad to build five Mallet en- 

 gines to weiglt 4.50.000 pounds each. 



An order has been placed with the American 

 Locomotive Company for three ten-wheel locomo- 

 tives by the Guantanamo & Western. 



In Bradford county, it is stated, there are 

 l.'?O..S02 acres of stantling limber, against 490.- 

 4Xi acres of cleared land. Barclay township, 

 the scene of the big lumbering operations with 

 Laquin as the center, is the banner timber dis- 

 trict with its 11.000 acres. 



I'ire destroyed the two-story frame saw mill 

 and woodworking establishment of the Ke.vstone 

 Slate Construction Company. .".1st and Manheim 

 streets. Falls of Schuylkill, on August 13. The 

 loss, which included the destrtiction of a quan- 

 tity of machinery, lumber, patterns and forms 

 used in the erection of the (Jueen Lane filter 

 phiul. Mniiiuuted to more than .l.'iO.i.iOO. 



The Fanwood Lumber & Supply Company, 

 Fanwood. was incorporated July 12. The capi- 

 tal is .$30,000. 



The H. L. Brown Lumber Company, Camden, 

 was recently chartered with a capital stock of 

 .$100,000. 



The Madison Auto Company. Jersey City, re- 

 ceived a charter under New Jersey laws on Aug- 

 ust 3 ; capital $25,000. 



The Collins Gear & Motor Company was re- 

 cently organized under Delaware laws with a 

 capital stock of $2."in,000. 



PITTSBURO 



O. II. Balicock of the Babcock lumber inter- 

 ests is spending part of his summer's outing at 

 the Ebensburg Inn. one of the famous resorts of 

 Pennsylvania. 



J. H. Henderson, secretary of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company, put in an enjoyable two 

 weeks at Atlantic City and Long Branch for his 

 vacation. 



W. W. Wilson of the Breitwieser & Wilson 

 Company has gone to Canada for his year's rest 

 of two weeks. 



F. W. Crane, president of the F. W. Crane 

 Lumber Company, is spending a few days at 

 Y'ale. Ky.. where the Crane company contracted 

 recenti.v for a large cut of fine hardwood. 



R. J. Rogers, president of the Allegheny Lum- 

 ber Company, spent a few days profitably in 

 New York recently. E. S. Dunn of the same 

 company is cooling off at Oil City. Pa., this 

 week. 



The Youngstown & Southern Railroad Com- 

 pan.\. with headquarters at Youngstown, O.. has 

 started to cut 2.'). 000 ties at West Point, four- 

 teen miles south of Leetxjnia, 0., where it has 

 quite a large tract of timber. 



A new Ohio concern which is of cou-;iderable 

 interest to Pittsburgers is the Buckeye Lake 

 Boat Company, capital ,$13,000, which was 

 formed last week to manufacture boats and 

 deal in lumber at Millersport, O. The officers 

 are : President. E. B. Sauers : vice-president. 

 George Ernst : secretary. Harr.v Sheppard ; treas- 

 urer. \\'il]iam Frisbie ; general manager. A. L. 

 Allen. 



The Linehan brothers are pushing their trade 

 in good oak lumber, which they find is altogether 

 the best wood to sell that they can handle. 

 Their summer business has been fair, although 

 not up to expectations. During the last six 

 weeks they have been pushing hard into the 

 eastern trade. 



The Blairsville Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 Ijan.v recenti.v passed into the hands of a re- 

 ceiver, the South Side Trust Company of Pitts- 

 burg holding that position. The capital stock of 

 the Blairsville company is $10,000. all paid. Lia- 

 bilities are placed at about $17,000 and as.sets at 

 approximately $10,000, 



The Conneautville Chair Comijany of Con- 

 neautville. Pa., which has been in the hands of 

 Receiver B. W. Middleton for some time, is 

 pulling out in good shajje. Its liabilities are 

 $27,000 and assets $21,000, and it is likely that 

 the cimcern's obligations will all be settled soon. 

 The plant of the J. A. Schwab Company, 

 manufacturer of grain cradles at Moundsville, 

 W. Va.. was b:u'ned .\ugust 1."). The assembling, 

 paint and shipping departments were not dam- 

 aged and some of the machiner.v can be repaired. 

 This was the largest concern of the kind in the 

 Ohio valley and the largest cradle concern In 

 America. Business in 1910 amounted to about 

 l.-(.OnO cradles. Its season closed two weeks ago 

 and it was to start on the fall cut soon. 



The planing mill of the May Lumber Com- 

 pany at 202 Brighton road was badly damaged 

 by fire August 14. The loss .is estimated at 

 $2"i.000 and the planing mill was practically 

 destroyed, along with a big carpet house adjoin- 

 ing. The fire is believed to have been caused 

 by spontaneous combustion. 



