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HARDWOOD RECORD 



SAMUEL E. SLAYMAKER. PRESIDENT S. E 

 SLAYMAKEK & CO. 



conduct one of the most extensive retail 

 j'ards in the country. 



Coleman W. Brownson, secretary and gen- 

 eral manager, has had twenty-five years' ex- 

 perience in the lumber field, twenty of 

 which were spent in the retail business. 



A. C. Wylly, Jr., manager of the hard- 

 wood department, is an out-and-out hard- 

 wood man. He was formerly a manufacturer 

 of hardwoods in the South. 



Moore Brothers 



This firm, composed of Peter and Patrick 

 Moore, conducts a wholesale and retail busi- 

 ness in hardwoods at Twenty-fourth street 

 and Eleventh avenue. It is an old estab- 

 lished and reliable concern and carries at 

 all times a stock of the best grades of hard- 

 woods, averaging 2,000,000 feet. 



The J. S. Eichards Lumber Company 



In May of this year the J. S. Eichards 

 Lumber Company was started as an allied 



GEORGE P. 



HEDPKN. HEDDEN-CLARK 

 LUMBER CO. 



concern of Wm. "Whitmer & Sons, Inc., of 

 Philadelphia. The company has offices at 

 1 Madison avenue and does a general lum- 

 ber business, making specialties of West 

 Virginia spruce. North Carolina pine, hard- 

 woods, Virginia sap pine and cedar shingles. 

 The concern buys all its lumber outright 

 and sells only to the best yards and a few 

 large consumers recognized as legitimate 

 trade. 



The members of the concern belong to 

 the New York Lumber Trade Association 

 and the Connecticut Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation. Four salesmen and a buyer are 

 kept busy on the road. 



J. S. Eichards, president of the company, 

 has been connected with Wm. Whitmer & 

 .Sons for many years. He is a practical 

 man in hardwoods as well as in the other 

 lines handled by his concern, and is gen- 

 erally poiwlar among the trade. 

 Charles Milne 



One of the conspicuously successful 

 wholesalers in New York City is Charles 

 Milne, located at rooms 516, 518 and 519, 

 18 Broadway. Mr. Milne commenced his 

 business career eleven years ago with 

 Gouveneur E. Smith, then located at 18 

 Broadway. In December, 1908, he struck 

 out for himself, starting a business of 

 handling at wholesale principally plain oak, 

 chestnut, maple and birch, and specializing 

 in kiln-dried hardwoods. He has no yard, 

 but at the present time is handling over 

 12,000,000 feet of lumber annually. Mr. 

 Milne is a hustler and it is quite apparent 

 that the mantle of success has fallen upon 

 liim. 



W. D. Magovem 



Since 1898 W. D. Magovern of 11 Broad- 

 way, wholesale flooring dealer, has repre- 

 sented the Thomas Forman Company of 

 Detroit, Mich. This company has the sec- 

 ond largest flooring plant in the United 

 States. The mills are located at Detroit, 

 where they turn out about 40,000 feet of 

 maple and oak flooring (of which there are 

 thirty-four varieties) per day, of which the 

 New York oflice handles 5,000,000 feet an- 

 nually. The store house in New York has 

 a capacity of 1,000,000 feet, and is always 

 stocked ready for quick shipment. Mr. 

 Magovern has been in the flooring business 

 since 1887, but he is acquainted with the 

 lumber business, from the mill end up. He 

 carries a large stock of flooring besides the 

 Forman goods, and has been for a number 

 of years special representative of the Jack- 

 son Lumber Company of Lockhart and 

 Eiderville, Ala., manufacturers of the cele- 

 brated rift yellow pine flooring. 

 W. "W. Dempsey 



A distributor of note in the New York 

 market is the manufacturing house of W. 

 W. Dempsey, whose eastern office is located 

 at 18 Broadway. The general office is at 

 Johnstown, Pa. The house has band mills 

 at Seebert, W. Va., Moores Siding, W. Va., 

 Clover Lick, W. Va., and Pee Dee, S. C, 



n. U. SHAFFER. VICE-PRESIDENT S. E. 

 SLAYMAKER & CO. 



cutting oak, beech, maple, ash, chestnut, 

 gum, cypress, hemlock and spruce. The 

 concern makes a specialty of oak bill tim- 

 ber for ship, bridge and dock building. The 

 distribution through the eastern office 

 averages 15,000,000 feet per annum. 



Harry Diener, manager of the New York 

 office, is a thoroughly practical man, hav- 

 ing gained his valuable experience from 

 connection with the lumber industries of the 

 great lumber town of Williamsport, Pa., 

 prior to his association with W. W. 

 Dempsey. 



Manufacturers' Lumber Company 



One of the most important distributing 

 organizations of the Metropolitan district 

 is the Manufacturers' Lumber Company of 

 27 AVilliam street. It handles white pine, 

 spruce, hardwoods, lath and shingles. The 

 officers are Hon. W. C. Edwards, president; 

 Hugh McLean, first vice-president; Gordon 



J. B. CLARK, HEDDE.M-CLARK LUMBER CO. 



