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HARDWOOD RECORD 



300,000 FEET OF FINE MEXICAN MAHOGANY LOGS, PROPERTV OP LEWIS THOMPSON & CO.. PILED ON YARD OF ASTORIA VENEER 



MILLS AT LONG ISLAND CITY 



averages from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet 

 annually. The company also handles a 

 large amount of long leaf yellow pine, both 

 manufactured stock and timber require- 

 ments. For the convenience of its trade, 

 it carries at its warehouse at Hoboken, 

 N. J., a full lino of white oak and maple 

 flooring, red cedar shingles and siding read}' 

 for prompt delivery. The company is pro- 

 gressive and sharply prompt in the handliug 

 of all orders, and business relations v.ith 

 it are sure to result in a continuation of 

 trade. 



A. T. Peale, head of this concern, has 

 been for years associated with William 

 "Whitmer & Sons, Inc., and is favorably 

 known wherever lumber is handled. 

 The H. Herrmann Lumber Company 



The II. Herrmann Lumber Compauy, man- 

 ufacturer, exporter and dealer in lumber 

 and milled stock, was established in 1867. 

 The main office of the concern is at 258 

 Canal street. The distributing yards, at 

 One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street and 

 Harlem Kiver, have a capacity of .5,000,000 

 feet, and the export and storage yards at 



Johnston av(Muie and L. V. R. R., Jersey 

 City, have a capacity of .5,000,000 feet. The 

 company's sawmills and planing mills at 

 Ashland, Ky., have an <\unual output of 18,- 

 000,000 feet. 



The concern has branches at Loudon, 

 England; Hamburg, Germany; and Johan- 

 nesburg, South Africa. It handles all kinds 

 of hard and soft woods, the specialties be- 

 ing plain and quartered oak, poplar, ash, 

 birch, maple, gum and walnut. The annual 

 shipments are about 40,000,000 feet. The 

 company employs 1,500 men. S. Schloss, 

 manager, has been responsibly connected 

 with the Herrmann house for twenty-one 

 years. 



Uptegrove & Beckwith 



The well-known house of Uptegrove & 

 Beckwith coinmenced business in 1875 as 

 William- E. Uptegrove & Bro. In 1905 the 

 present firm of Uptegrove & Beckwith, com- 

 posed of Jerome P. Uptegrove and John B. 

 Beckwith, was formed. Mr. Beckwith had 

 been connected with the old concern for 

 twenty-five years. This firm is an extensive 

 handler of mahogany and all foreign cab- 



inet woods in lumber and veneers. The 

 head oifice and warerooms are at 457-463 

 East Tenth street. The concern also main- 

 tains a branch office and warerooms at 22 

 Pearl street. Grand Rapids, Mich., and lum- 

 ber yards at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Long 

 Island City and Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 The Lilly Lumber Company 



The Lilly Lumber Company, extensive 

 manufacturer of hardwood lumber at Hin- 

 ton, W. Va., is represented in New York 

 City by Sam E. Barr, whose offices are 

 located at 1 Madison avenue. Mr. Barr, 

 as local sales representative of this large 

 producing concern, attends to the distribut- 

 ing of its output of hardwoods, hemlock 

 and white pine in the Metropolitan district 

 and vicinity. Mr. Barr is a thoroughly ef- 

 ficient and practical man. He acquired his 

 first training in the lumber business with 

 his father at Louisville, Ky. 



The Lilly Lumber Company operates a 

 largo band mill at Beard, W. Va., and four 

 circular mills on the C. & O., N. & W., and 

 Tide AVjiter railroads, with a combined out- 

 put of approximately- 80,000,000 feet per 



