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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Fi-ed Wilmarth & Sons, -npll-known lumber 

 wliolesalors of Pittsburg, have filed a petition in 

 liankruptcy. giving tlioir assets as $ill(i.4(i and 

 liabilities as .$5,412.11, 



F. K. Babcock of-E. V. Babroek & Co. has 

 been spending much of the time the past six 

 weeks with his family at the Thousand Islands. 

 O. H. Babcoek is on an eastern pleasure tour. 



.Secretary Carl Van der Voort of the Pittsburg 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company 

 reports a very busy month during August. The 

 company had plenty of fire.s — in fact, more than 

 it desiiPd— but it has paid all these claims 

 promptly with no discount and has thereby 

 taken on considerable new business. In fact. 

 its average for .luly and August has been much 

 above that of any two previous summer months. 



The Furnace Run .'Sawmill & Lumber Company 

 reports a first-class trade in poplar. President 

 XeUson Bell says there is plenty of cheap lum- 

 ber on the market, but that good lumber costs 

 good money. 



F. L. Bloom & Co. are working up a ver.y good 

 (rade in the wholesale lumber business at 714 

 Curry building. They are doing considerable 

 with the manufacturing trade through the Pitts- 

 burg district. 



I. F. Balsley. sales manager of the Palmer & 

 Semans Lumber Company, is one of a party of 

 twelve who is enjoying a two weeks' outing at 

 Lilly Dale, N. Y. When I. F. returns he will 

 inaugurate a very strenuous selling campaign 

 for fall. 



The Babcock Lumber Company held a fare- 

 well gathering for its superintendent. D. G. 

 Mangus. at .\shtoli!. Pa.. August 20. Mr. Mangus 

 has been transferred to the Pellico Lumber Com- 

 pany, a subsidiary of the Babcock company at 

 Pellico Plains. Tenn. On behalf of the company 

 and its emplo.vees E. V. Babcock pre.sented Mr. 

 Mangus with a sterling silver loving cup. valued 

 at .flOO. 



T. Lee Oailey of Xew Castle. I'a.. has pur- 

 chased 800 acres of limber at .Albright. W. Va.. 

 for $H0.OO0, and proposes to put in an operation 

 there soon. Mr. Gailey is a very successful lum- 

 berman and gets a nice lot of hardwood in this 

 purchase. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company, from its new 

 office in the Second National Bank building, re- 

 ports a fair trade. Its president. .1. N. Wollett. 

 has made several long trips this summer, thus 

 putting himself in toucli with some excellent 

 hardwood business, especially in Cottonwood and 

 gum. He notes a falling off in demand for low- 

 grade hardwood, he says, but that high-class 

 lumber is firm at existing quotations. 



H. C. Bemis of Bemis & Vosburgh has pur- 

 chased 8,000 acres of fine timber in Warren 

 county, North Carolina. Most of the timber is 

 yellow pine of virgin growth and the purchase 

 includes the land also. Mr. Bemis is one of the 

 most enthusiastic advocates of conservation of 

 the forest reserve to be found in this country 

 and he will put his ideas in operation at once 

 on thi.s tract. Ironclad rules will be laid down 

 against destruction of trees not of a certain 

 standard size or in full maturity. Mr. Bemis 

 means to perpetuate the operation as long as 

 possibi,, and believes that the enhancement in 

 •value due to the growth of the smaller trees 

 will well repay him. He will build a railroad 

 twenty miles long from this property, which 

 will also open up many big cotton plantations 

 that have heretofore been far removed from 

 shipping facilities. 



BOSTON 



ganized in Vermont with a capital stock of 

 .'5120,000 for the purpose of buying, holding and 

 selling timber lands and manufacturing lumber. 

 The company will maintain an office at Wells 

 River, Vt. 



R. B. Currier, president of the Springfield 

 Lumber Compan.v, Springfield, Mass., has an- 

 nounced that all of the stock of the company 

 will be sold and that the company will probably 

 discontinue business by October 1. Mr. Currier 

 has conducted a wholesale lumber business for 

 some years and this will be removed to other 

 quarters. 



J. M, Hastings of the J, M. Hastings Lumber 

 Company. Pittsburg, Pa,, was a recent visitor 

 in the Boston market. 



Richard Baer of Baltimore, Md., recently called 

 upon the trade in Boston. 



The Carter-Giflin Company has been organized 

 under Massachusetts laws to do business In 

 Keene, N. H. The new corporation will take 

 over the business of the Carter Woodenware 

 Company of Troy, the Ashburnham Manufactur- 

 ing Company of .Asliburnham. Mass.. and a con- 

 trolling interest in the Keene Manufacturing 

 Company. 



The Coapa Lumber Company of Hartford. 

 Conn., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $300,000 to conduct a general lumber 

 business. The incorporators are William Helm- 

 son. William D. Hoerr and Charles Manz, all of 

 New York, 



BALTIMORE 



Business in Winchendon, Mass,, has been good 

 and several plants are planning to Increase their 

 capacity. The .\laska Freezer Company has 

 started up Its new plant, which is modern in 

 every respect. This plant is 120x4.S feet, three 

 stories high. 



The Marsouins Lumlier Company has beiui or- 



For the second time in seven months the lum- 

 ber yard of the Eisenhauer-MacLea Company, this 

 city, has been visited by Are, the latest visita- 

 tion occurring on the evening of August 25, 

 when the destruction was even more complete 

 than on February 1 of the present year. As in 

 Februar.v, the damage amounts to upwards of 

 .$100,000, but fortunately the company is fully 

 insured and the only loss actually sustained will 

 be on the business that could have been done 

 between the time of the blaze and the period 

 when the concern is again in shape to make 

 shipments. The origin of the Are is unknown. 

 Preparations were started to repair the damage 

 and get together new stock, so that business 

 can be resumed at the earliest possible moment. 



Lewis Dill of Lewis Dill & Co.. has .gone to 

 Vichy, France, to take the waters there in order 

 to throw oft any possible effects of an attack 

 of illness, which prostrated him for days and 

 caused some apprehension among his family and 

 numerous friends. Mr. Dill bad entirely recov- 

 ered when he sailed on the ^lauretania with his 

 wife and niece, but he felt that a rest would 

 be especially beneficial at this time. 



The firm of R. K. Hartwell & Co., Koyser 

 building, Baltimore, has just added a hardwood 

 department, to be in charge of George M. Hoban, 

 formerly of New York. Mr. Hoban has been 

 identified with the hardwood business of the 

 Metropolis for a number of years and is a 

 brother to Mr. Hoban of the Hoban. Hunter- 

 Feitner Compan.v. He arrived here the latter 

 part of last week, and has started on a trip 

 to the mills in western North Carolina, eastern 

 Tennessee. West Virginia and Virginia to 

 secure a full assortment of stocks. It. K. Hart- 

 well & Co. have heretofore confined themselves 

 to yellow pine and cypress, Mr. Hartwell, the 

 senior member, having been formerly connected 

 with the Waccamaw Lumber Company, of South 

 Carolina. He is from Chicago, where his father 

 was prominent in the trade. The firm expects 

 to be ready shortly to take care of any demands 

 in the wa.v of hardwoods that may be made, 

 carrying a full line. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Heald. has re- 

 turned from a vacation of about three weeks, 

 spent in the Georgian Bay country of Canada, 

 where he devoted much time to his favorite 

 pastime of fishing. 



It has been definitely settled that there will 

 Ije a conference between representatives of the 

 Wagon Oak Plank Exporters' Association, 

 the London Timber Trade Association and the 

 LiveriTOol Timber Trade Federation. This con- 

 ference will be held some time in October, and 

 the Exporters Association will be represented 

 by Harvey M. Dickson, president of the organi- 

 zation and also of the M. Dickson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Norfolk, Va. ; W. H. Russe of Russe & 

 Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., and John L. 

 .Vlcock of John L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore, The 

 party will sail from New York on October 8 

 or 12, and will be away for about one month. 

 The whole situation concerning wagon oak will 

 be gone over and efforts will l>e made to agree 

 upon inspection rules which shall be recognized 

 by the shippers as well as the bu.vers. The aim 

 is to abate the abuses which now work great 

 injury to the trade and give rise to serious 

 losses. The decision to go al>road is in accord 

 with the action taken some months ago at the 

 Cincinnati meeting of the board of managers, 

 in June. 



Among recent visitors here were B. Stringer 

 Boggess of Clarksburg, W. Va. ; G. G. Barr of 

 Beach & Barr, Pottsville, Pa. ; W. O. Came of 

 the Bristol Door & Lumber Company of Bristol, 

 Tenn,, and J. W. Heninger of Chiihowie, Va. All 

 stated that the hardwood trade had been rather 

 quiet, hut that a better tone had set in, with 

 promise of still further improvement. 



Felippe A. Broadbent of the Broadhent Man- 

 tel Works, one of the largest plants of its kind 

 in the East, with factory on President street, 

 this city, is reported as saying that the com- 

 pany is busier at the present time than it has 

 been for any period for three years, and that 

 there is plenty of work ahead. 



Holger A. Koppel, Carroll building, hard- 

 woods, and Danish vice consul at this port, has 

 returned from a trip to Europe, in the course 

 of which he visited his former home in Copen- 

 hagen, and also paid calls to Berlin, Stuttgart, 

 Bremen, Antwerp, London. Liverpool and Glas- 

 gow. He went primarily for recreation, having 

 just gotten over an attack of illness, but also 

 gave considerable attention to business and took 

 some orders. He states that the trade was in 

 the main quiet, but that some improvement was 

 being looked forward to. 



CLEVELAND 



Threi' thousand acres of timber land, contain- 

 ing large quantities of fine hardwoods, have been 

 acquired by the Cleveland-Oconee Lumber Com- 

 pany, which has its headquarters in Cleveland, 

 with a large mill and preserve along the Central 

 Georgia railwa.v in Wilkinson county, Georgia. 

 This doubles the company's holdings. The prop- 

 erty in that section contains about forty per 

 cent red gum, the same in oak and the remainder 

 in white ash and other hardwoods. The com- 

 pany recently filled an order for 300,000 feet of 

 fine panel stock in red gum to be used for In- 

 terior trim and doors. The company's yard ca- 

 pacity is 5.000.000 feet, with a mill capacity of 

 ."lO.OOO feet. The sales agent of the company Is 

 the Interstate Lumber Company of Cleveland. 



The Gray Lumber Company of Cleveland has 

 Ijeen incorporated by Guy Gray and other Cleve- 

 landers for $50,000 under the laws of Ohio. It 

 plans to take over the business of the co-partner- 

 ship of Guy and Ralph Gray, which has been 

 under the management of Guy Gray since the 

 death of his brother Ralph last May. Details 

 as to the plans of the new company have not 

 been given out as yet. 



An elaborate exhibition of fine Philippine 

 mahogan.v panels has been placed in the Build- 

 ers' Exchange in the Chamber of Commerce 

 building by the Nicola, Stone & Myers Company, 

 which is handling large quantities of this wood, 

 which is coming into use for Interior decorative 

 uses. A cargo of about 100,000 feet of this 



