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brought up, among them a definite place to hold 

 the weekly me^tinps. 



EVANSVILLB 



Nathan Thayer, the well-known member of the 

 fum of Thompson, Thayer & McCowen, sailed 

 June 20 from New York for Ireland, from which 

 place he will go to England and thence on a 

 tour of the continent, returning late in October. 

 Mr. Thayer's trip will be primarily for pleasure ; 

 however, he will call on all his friends in the 

 trade across the water. 



Bedna Young and Frank Cutsinger of Young 

 & Cutsinger were at their Jasper plant this week 

 looking after affairs there. The plant at that 

 place has been closed down for some time while 

 repairs were being made. The mill started up 

 Monday of this week with a nice stock of logs 

 on hand. H. J. Schaefer. the promising young 

 manager for Maley, Young & Cutsinger at that 

 place, says business has been fairly good with 

 them the past month and he expects this month 

 to be still better. 



Thompson, Thayer & McCowen are erecting a 

 building at their plant at Columbia street and 

 the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad, in which 

 they are goiug to install a planing mill with 

 rip saws, cutoff saws and everything that goes 

 with a well-equipped plant. The machinery will 

 be run by a large electric dynamo which will be 

 installed in the building. The firm will thus be 

 in position to handle all kinds of mixed orders 

 where a part or all of the lumber is required 

 to be dressed. They will also be able to handle 

 the retail trade to better advantage. 



C. W. Talge of the Evansville Veneer Works 

 is on a trip in the northeast. The trip will be 

 quite an extensive one ; he has now been gone 

 about two weeks. 



The Hohenstein-Hartmetz Furniture Company, 

 whose factory burned recently, has leased the 

 factory building at Second and Division streets, 

 formerly occupied by the Crescent Shoe Com- 

 pany. The firm expects to get the factory in 

 operation in about a month with the same ca- 

 pacity as before, turning out the same style of 

 goods, mostly music cabinets. It was thought 

 for a time after the fire that the firm wbuld 

 locate in another city, as inducements were of- 

 fered to do so, but they decided differently. 



Joseph Bertrand and Miss Stella Meeks were 

 united in marriage here June 17 by Dr. Wig- 

 gcnton of the Chestnut Presbyterian Church. 

 Mr. Bertrand is a promising young man and is 

 connected with the Henry Maley Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city. Miss Meeks is a beautiful 

 and talented young woman. The young couple 

 were the recipients of many congratulations from 

 a wide circle of friends. 



ST. LOUIS 



A recent pleasant event was the outing of the 

 Lumber Dealers' Association on June 10. Twen- 

 ty-five retail lumber dealers left the lumber yard 

 of Stephen J. Gavin at 9 o'clock in the morning 

 in automobiles furnished by William L. Boeckeler 

 of the Boeckeler Lumber Company, Harry Swartz 

 of the Eau Claire-St. Louis Lumber Company, 

 Stephen J. Gavin, G. A. Gruner of Philip Gruner 

 & Bro. Lumber Company, James Prendergast of 

 the Prendergast Lumber Company and John A. 

 lieheis of the Wilson-Reheis-Rolfes Lumber Com- 

 pany, went out to the St. James Hunting and 

 Fishing Club, about eighteen miles out, and 

 spent the day there. The usual merrymaking 

 was indulged in. 



The F. C. Moore Lumber Company reports con- 

 siderable business early this month, although Mr. 

 Moore says it is not as much as there was last 

 year. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, says they are doing well but 

 the cypress business is not what it should be. 

 Five of their mills are operating. 



Theodore Plummer, president of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company, is not at all satisfied with the 

 way business is going. Prices, however, are bet- 

 ter, and that is one of the redeeming features. 

 As they have a nice stock of dry hardwood ou 

 hand and can afford to wait for better prices, 

 they are not disposing of any of their stock un- 

 less they get the prices they ask. 



George E. Hibbard, vice-president of the Steele 

 & Hibbard Lumber Company, says he notices a 

 betterment in trade, although it is only slight. 



A nice run of business is reported by E. II. 

 Luehrmann, vice-president of the Charles F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company. Thus 

 far their sales this month are much better than 

 they were last year, and they are getting better 

 all the time. 



The St. Louis Furniture Board of Trade is 

 going to have a special week August 3 to 8 for 

 the retail furniture dealers who come to this 

 market for their goods. There will be a day on 

 the river, with dinner and two nights at the 

 summer gardens. The week promises to be both 

 pleasant and profitable. 



According to the reports made by the St. Louis 

 hardwood dealers who went to Milwaukee to at- 

 tend the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 they had a great time, even if they did not get 

 the convention for next year. 



C. E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber 

 Company says business is quite satisfactory, al- 

 though they did not do as much as they wanted 

 to do. 



The Mangold Stave & Cooperage Company has 

 increased its capital stock from ?50,000 to 

 ?100,000. 



Leland P. Arthur of the Arthur Hardwood 

 Flooring Company of Memphis, Term., was a vis- 

 itor to St. Louis recently. 



According to statistics compiled by the Mis- 

 souri Bureau of Labor and Statistics, Carter 

 county stands at the head of the counties of Mis- 

 souri in lumber shipments. In hardwood lumber 

 it exported 3,883,000 feet. It also shipped out 

 4,500 feet of walnut logs, 146,000 railroad ties, 

 5,300 fence and mine posts and 400 carloads of 

 cooperage. 



W. A. Bonsack, president of the Bonsaek Lum- 

 ber Company, reports business more gratifying 

 in spite of the comparative dullness in the hard- 

 wood lumber trade. 



The plant of the Jacob Loesch Cooperage Com- 

 pany suffered ?10,000 damage by fire recently. 



C. M. Jennings, the chairman of the Entertain- 

 ment Committee of the Lumbermen's Club of St. 

 Louis, had the club out at Delmar Garden Tues- 

 day night for a summer outing. The ladies par- 

 ticipated. There was a beefsteak dinner at C :30 

 at the cafe and after that the whole party went 

 to hear "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" 

 in the auditorium. About 200 were present. It 

 was the last meeting of the club until Septem- 

 ber, so something a little out of the ordinary was 

 given. 



NASHVILLE 



The continued and oppressive hot weather is 

 driving Nashville's lumbermen out of the city, 

 and if this spell keeps up there will be little 

 doing in the way of local business or local lum- 

 ber news. John B. Ransom has gone to Ridge- 

 top, Tenn., with his family for the rest of the 

 summer. He has a summer cottage there, and 

 as it is only about twenty miles from Nashville, 

 he can go back and forth to business each day. 

 Walter Keith, vice-president of the Nashville Tie 

 & Cedar Company, has also taken his family to 

 Ridgetop for the summer. Millard Fillmore 

 Green of the Davidson-Benedict Company has 

 gone to Chautauqua for the hot months with 

 his family. W. J. Cude of the W. J. Cude Land 

 & Lumber Company recently moved out to his 

 elegant summer home on the Harding road. He 

 bought the old Cheatham homestead not long 

 since for $25,000. and has refitted the entire 

 place elegantly. John W. Love of Love, Boyd & 



Co. has been unable to get away as yet to 

 Markland, Nova Scotia, owing to the illness of 

 Hamilton Love, Jr., the five-months' old child 

 of Hamilton Love, a member of this firm. The 

 little fellow has typhoid fever and is in quite a 

 serious condition. Unusual concern is felt over 

 his condition just now on account of the extreme 

 heat. 



John Baumgartner of Nashville has secured 

 patent rights on an invention which he claims 

 will make a hit with the many dwellers in 

 apartments these days. It is a combination piece 

 of furniture, which may be a davenport, a chest 

 or a table. It can be used for a piece of furni- 

 ture for a hall, dining or sewing room or office. 

 It is said the design is light, complete and dura- 

 ble and easily changeable from one form to an- 



A special from Lebanon, Tenn., announces a 

 good sized deal in cedar timber, in which the 

 Eagle Pencil Company paid $10,000 at public 

 auction for the cedar on fifty-four acres of land 

 belonging to Jim and Dick Hooker. This is said 

 to be the largest deal ever made for this -valu- 

 able wood at one time in this the original heart 

 of the great cedar belt, and, in fact, this was 

 the largest and best piece of cedar timber left 

 in Wilson county. Several firms bid and the 

 sale was a spirited one. 



A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., announces 

 the destruction of the big sawmill plant at Hol- 

 lins, Ala., belonging to the Kaul Lumber Com- 

 pany. Over 6,000,000 feet of lumber were de- 

 stroyed, in addition to the sawmill, planing mill, 

 engine house and all the tramways. The depot 

 and commissary were saved, however. The loss 

 is estimated at $500,000. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 been filed in the federal court at Nashville 

 against the well-known firm of W. B. Earthman 

 & Co. of Murfreesboro, Tenn. 



Lebanon, Tenn., secures another industry in 

 the removal to that town from Mobile of the 

 Mobile branch of the Gulf Red Cedar Company. 

 This concern manufactures for export purposes 

 cedar slats, out of which cedar pencils are made. 

 The Gulf Red Cedar Company is a branch of 

 the Richmond Cedar Company of Richmond, Va., 

 capitalized at $300,000. It has branch plants at 

 Mobile, Greenville, Miss., and Paint Rock, Ark. 

 The Lebanon plant will work about 100 men. 



Lumber shippers of this city are jubilant over 

 the victory they won over the railroads in the 

 two cases which have just been decided by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington. 

 The first is styled the J. W. Thompson Lumber 

 Company et al. vs. the Illinois Central and Yazoo 

 & Mississippi Valley roads and involves the rate 

 on hardwood lumber shipments from Memphis 

 to New Orleans. The second is styled George 

 D. Burgess et al. vs. the Transcontinental 

 Freight Association and involves the rates on 

 hardwood lumber from points south of the Ohio 

 and east of the Mississippi to Pacific coast terri- 

 tory. In the first named the commission has 

 ordered the defendant railroad companies to re- 

 store the old rate of 10 cents per hundred 

 pounds, which was changed to 12 cents February 

 2, 1903, on the ground that the advance in rates 

 was not only unreasonable but also unjustifiable. 

 The lower rate becomes effective in a very short 

 time. In the last named case the defendant as- 

 sociation is ordered to restore the old rate of 

 75 cents per hundred pounds and to recall the 

 present one of 85 cents per hundred pounds be- 

 tween the territory named and Pacific coast 

 points. The commission has also ordered the 

 defendant to return to shippers the amount of 

 excess freight paid, but the period to be covered 

 by such return is only that intervening between 

 the present time and the date of the filing of the 

 complaint with the commission, something like 



