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HARDWOOD RECORD 



o£ lumber, is spending ttie current week in Ctil- 

 cago. where he is housed at the Great Northern 

 Hotel. Mr. Henke is getting acquainted with 

 the lumbermen of Chicago who are supporting 

 his preparation. 



Howard A. Seagrave, Hibernia Bank Building, 

 New Orleans, La., announces that he has suc- 

 ceeded to the business formerly conducted by 

 Herbert Gartner, and has been appointed Ameri- 

 can representative of Oscar Gartner & Co. of 

 Hamburg, Germany, who do a large export busi- 

 ness in this country. 



The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange held 

 its first meeting of the season at the La Salle 

 Hotel on Friday, September 30. The meeting 

 was well attended and was marked by lively 

 discussion of various questions of importance 

 affecting the local trade. The chief topic con- 

 sidered was railroad rates and switching charges, 

 which resulted in heated argument on both sides 

 of the question. Four new applications for 

 membership were accepted by the exchange as 

 follows : John Hanson Lumber Company, Starr 

 Lumber Company, George D. Grifflth and E. H. 

 Klann, who took the place of the F. S. Hendrick- 

 son Lumber Company. 



J. F. Mingea, formerly assistant " purchasing 

 agent for the Hicks Locomotive & Car Works, is 

 now allied with the Hall & Sisson Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago. This company is formulating 

 plans for extended operations at its Tennessee 

 mill, and will give much attention to oak and 

 hardwood. 



H. F. Arnemann, of the Hardwood Mills 

 Lumber Company, Chicago, has returned from a 

 buying trip to southern veneer mills in lower 

 Illinois and upper Missouri. Mr. Arnemann 

 reports the veneer department of his concern 

 doing a fair volume of business, considering gen- 

 eral conditions. 



K. J. Wiggs, secretary and treasurer of R. J. 

 Darnell, Inc., Memphis, passed through Chicago 

 returning from a two weeks' trip to eastern 

 points. Mr. Wiggs reports conditions somewhat 

 Ijetter in the East and says that he placed some 

 fair orders in New York. 



F. L. Zang of the Wisconsin Lumber & Veneer 

 Company, Port Washington, Wis., presented the 

 Chicago trade with an attractive card on a re- 

 cent visit, which was printed on a three-ply 

 panel of quartered red gum, demonstrating 

 effectively the possibilities of this wood. 



H. C. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company, Chicago, is still traveling through 

 northern mill points taking up stock of dry lum- 

 ber. 



H. J. Dudley, president of the Dudley Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., was in Chicago 

 this week transferring a trainload of hardwood to 

 boat to be shipped to northern points. 



E. L. Munger of Angola, Ind., recently visited 

 the Chicago trade on a selling trip. 



Edward E. Skeele of the Estabrooke-Skeele 

 Lumber Company is planning an extended south- 

 ern trip. T. S. Estabrook has returned from a 

 trip of several days to northern mills. 



Max Sondheimer of the E. Sondheimer Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn., stopped at Chicago re- 

 cently on his way from the East. 



J. M. Attley of J. M. Attley & Co. last week 

 completed a trip through the South. He has 

 now taken up his work at the company's ofHces 

 in the Railway Exchange building. 



J. P. Konzen. president of the Konzen, Stumpf 

 & Schafer Company, which firm recently started 

 husiness at Blue Island avenue and Robey street, 

 has returned from a buying trip in the South. 



Vice-president H. L. Stern of the Dooley-Stern 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., spent a few 

 days in this city last week on business. 



E. F. Marshall of the Marshall Lumber Com- 

 pany, Old Colony building, Chicago, was in 

 Kockford, 111., recently on a business trip. 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company of Indianapolis was a recent Chicago 

 visitor. 



W. E. Trainer of Trainer Brothers Lumber 



Company has been enjoying the last couple of 

 weeks on a fishing trip at the northern Michigan 

 lakes. 



B. F. Richardson of the Leavitt Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a southern trip on which 

 he visited the mills of the Leavitt Land & Lum- 

 ber Company at Dermott, Ark. 



F. R. Slimmer, formerly in the hardwood husi- 

 ness in Chicago, has filed a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy. 



The Davidson Lumber Company has recently 

 started a sawmill business at Hillview, 111. 



A new concern to be incorporated under Illi- 

 nois laws is the Barows & Donnelland Company, 

 which will operate in Chicago with a capital of 

 $75,000. 



The Chase Brothers Piano Company has been 

 incorporated in this state to operate in Chicago. 

 The new concern has a capital of $100,000, and 

 is incorporated by three men to manufacture and 

 deal in musical instruments and other merchan- 

 dise. 



The Momberg Patent Flooring Company has 

 been incorporated in Chicago for $50,000. The 

 now concern will manufacture patent matched 

 flooring and interior woodwork, and is desirous 

 of getting in touch with flooring manufacturers 

 who will manufacture the Momberg flooring on 

 a royalty basis. 



The Eeimers-Mair Biplane Company has been 

 incorporated in Chicago to manufacture aerial 

 machines. 



NEW YORK 



William P. Youngs, head of William P. 

 Youngs & Bros., large retail house. First avenue 

 and Thirty-fifth street, and vice-president of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of New York, was married at 

 Eoselawn, Lincoln, Neb., September 12, to Miss 

 Harriet Mossman Cooke. After an extended honey- 

 moon Mr. and Mrs. Youngs will reside at West- 

 meadown. Stony Brook, L. I., where Mr. Youngs 

 liad mamtained a handsome residence for many 

 years. 



On October S Harvey M. Dickson of the Dick- 

 son Lumber Company, Norfolk, Va. ; John L. 

 Alcock of J. L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore, Md., 

 and W. H. Eusse of Eusse & Burgess, Memphis, 

 Tenn., sailed for a month's trip abroad as a spe- 

 cial committee from the National Lumber Ex- 

 porters' Association to confer with the Timber 

 Trades Federation of Liverpool and similar 

 bodies in other leading English centers in an 

 effort to secure a closer working arrangement 

 between exporters and importers as well as im- 

 proving the general export lumber conditions 

 and regulations. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 Memphis, Tenn., has been spending two or three 

 weeks in town on a combined vacation and busi- 

 ness trip. Mr. Burgess expressed himself as well 

 satisfied with business, his house having en- 

 joyed a very fair volume and character of trade 

 during the entire year. 



Among the recent arrivals from European 

 trips were W. M. Crombie of W. M. Crombie & 

 Co., SI New street, Manhattan, and C. E. Ken- 

 nedy, the popular wholesaler of 1 Madison ave- 

 nue, the latter completing a two months' tour 

 of England and the continent. 



On October 1, at Dedham, Mass., Miss Eliza- 

 beth A. Clem was united in marriage to E. S. 

 Loomis, popular manager of the New York oflBce 

 of the Blanchard Lumber Company, Boston, head- 

 quarters 11 Broadway. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis 

 will enjoy a six weeks' honeymoon and then take 

 up their residence in 145th street, Manhattan. 



The annual meeting of the New York Lumber 

 Trade Association will occur October 19 at the 

 headquarters, 18 Broadway, preceded by a lunch- 

 con. General routine business In the way of 

 reports of standing and special committees as 

 well as necessary new business will be trans- 

 acted, and a large attendance is anticipated. 



The Mershon, E'ddy, Parker Company, large 

 wholesale house, 1 Madison avenue, has just 



moved into new and larger quarters on the 

 eighth floor at the same address. 



William Schuette & Co., general wholesale 

 house of 1 Madison avenue, announce the ap- 

 pointment of H. E. Moore, headquarters Dan- 

 ville, Pa., for the eastern district of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and J. W. Palmer, headquarters Roches- 

 ter. N. Y., to look after the northern New York 

 state trade. Both of these gentlemen are widely 

 known in the trade, and the complete and high- 

 grade stocks of lumber which William Schuette & 

 Co. handle will enable them to extend good 

 service to their customers. 



Among the prominent visitors in town during 

 I he fortnight were John N. Scatcherd, Scatcherd 

 «. Son. Buffalo, N. Y. ; H. M. McDonough, Cypress 

 Lumber Company, Boston, Mass. : R. C. Whit- 

 beck, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, Cincin- 

 nati, O. ; J. F. Weissinger, Aripeka Saw Mills, 

 Tampa, Fla. ; J. Lee Ensign, Ensign Lumber 

 Company, D. C. Couit. Cummer Lumber Com- 

 pany and M. V. Gress, Gress Manufacturing 

 Company, all of Jacksonville, Fla. 



E. L. Edwards, prominent hardwood lumber- 

 man of Dayton and Cincinnati, O., just returned 

 home after a three weeks' visit to the Metropolis, 

 during which time, notwithstanding his hay fever 

 troubles, he is reported to have cleaned up the 

 bunch playing golf and to incidentally have got- 

 ten away with considerable business, as is pretty 

 much always the case when he comes down 

 this way 



W. H. Martz, hea-d of the Goodlauder Cypress 

 Company, New Orleans, La., is in town for a 

 stay, during which he will visit his old home at 

 Berwick, Pa. 



The lumber yard and sawmill of C. E. Rog- 

 ers & Co., Twentieth street and Third avenue, 

 Brooklyn, were badly damaged by fire on Septem- 

 ber 17. Fire started in the lumber mill and 

 spread rapidly, totally destroying the mill and a 

 large quantity of logs. 



George M. Stevens, Jr., Stevens-Eaton Com- 

 pany, 1 Madison avenue, left last week for a 

 ten days' hunting trip in the wilds of Canada. 



John Davenport, senior member of Daven- 

 port & 'Tracy, piano manufacturers of this city, 

 died September 20 at Stamford, Conn. 



The New York Dimension Supply Company of 

 Evansville, Ind., local sales ofBce 1 Madison 

 avenue, is reported to have filed a petition in 

 bankruptcy, with liabilities exceeding 5>80,00O 

 and assets of about $46,000. It is stated that 

 the failure of the company to meet its obliga- 

 tions was due to the illness of Lewis Kramer of 

 Evansville, president and general manager of 

 the company, and to the recent death of Dil- 

 lon B. Burnett of New York, secretary and 

 treasurer. The company only just completed this 

 year a new $35,000 factory. 



BUFFALO 



President Sullivan did not call the meeting of 

 the Hardwood Exchange at the beginning of the 

 month, as there were still so many other things 

 to occupy the members on Saturday afternoon. 

 I'l-ade with him is good. 



F. W. Vetter is hardly inclined to think that 

 trade is improving very fast, but he is filling 

 up his yard with a fine assortment of hardwood 

 lumber, all of it bought at very favorable 

 figures. 



"Just about the same degree of activity," is 

 the report made by the senior member of G. 

 Ellas & Bro., which always means very good 

 business with them. The door mill and box fac- 

 tory are running strong. 



O. E. Yeager has been enlarging his yard of 

 late, taking in considerable space at the rear, 

 which he needed in order to provide room for his 

 increased stock of hardwood. 



Franlc A. Beyer has taken up his usual line 

 of business as county treasurer, after returning 

 from his lumber mill and yards at Pascola, Mo. 

 The stock, which is mostly gum, will be sold out 

 as soon as possible. 



