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England territory exclusively. Tills announce- 

 ment is in line with the recent arrangements 

 closed hy Beecher & liarr in the matter of the 

 exclusive distribution of the production of the 

 firms mentioned and the extensive facilities rep- 

 resented therein in the matter of hardwoods, 

 while pine, hemlock and yellow pine supplies 

 and will be of much interest to the general east- 

 ern trade. 



Isidor L. Cohen, who did business as the Mott 

 Haven Lumber Company, 13Tth street and Fifth 

 avenue, has made a settlement with his cred- 

 itors at 40 cents on the dollar, and the court has 

 dismissed the bankruptcy petition filed against 

 him on April 3. He will continue the business 

 under his own name. 



The C. Von Struve Cigar Box Company, manu- 

 facturers of cigar boxes, 504 East Seventy-third 

 street, assigned July 3 to L. Gloeckner. The 

 business was started in August, 1904, and was 

 incorporated on May 1, 1908, with a capital of 

 ?15,000. 



Uptegrove & Beckwith report a slight im- 

 provement in husiness, inquiries coming in more 

 lively of late. They regard the outlook very 

 fair. Mr. Beckwith is looking after the firm's 

 interest at their branch in Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The Mann-Caveu Lumber Company, Inc., 1 

 Madison avenue, is a recent incorporation under 

 New York laws ; capitalization, $50,000. The ' 

 incorporators are O. J. Mann, K. A. Caven and 

 C. H. Turner. They will handle hardwoods, 

 spruce, hemlock, North Carolina and white pine. 



Gouveneur E. Smith reports business, though 

 only aggregating a fair volume of trading, com- 

 ing only in spurts. However, he is hopeful of 

 an early revival of good times. 



The Indiana Quartered Oak Company is meet- 

 ing conditions as they arise. It reports the 

 number of inquiries increasing, but that orders 

 are moving slowly. Willard Winslow of this 

 concern is stiil confined to his home from the 

 effect of an automobile accident last May, but is 

 recovering slowly. 



Hamilton H. Salmon & Co. admit that im- 

 provement in trading is slow, but they are opti- 

 mistically inclined and believe that the day of 

 revival is not far off. 



The Lumber Insurance Company of New York 

 and its allied companies, Adirondack Fire Insur- 

 ance Company, New York and Toledo Fire and 

 Marine Insurance Company, report business a 

 little quiet of late as regards the retail lumber 

 yard end, but among the wholesale yards there 

 has been a decided increase in the amount of 

 business written up. They regard the outlook 

 as very encouraging. 



W. S. Dunn & Co., mouldings, report business 

 keeping up fairly well and that they are encour- 

 aged over the outlook. This hrm is building up 

 an extensive export business and reports im- 

 proved foreign trading of late. 



The old firm of Soble Brothers, which recently 

 formed an incorporation, with a capital of $750,- 

 000, has not yet elected permanent oflicers. John 

 J. Soble has been confined to his home for some 

 time with rheumatism, but his friends will be 

 glad to learn that he is improving rapidly. 

 Harry I. Soble Is spending most of his time at 

 the mills in Uonaker, Va., looking after the 

 company's Interests. 



Uptegrove & I'olhemus are not without orders 

 any of the time and realize that to the hustler 

 comes the business. They regard the outlook as 

 promising. 



C. W. Manning looks upon the present state 

 of affairs as only natural after the recent finan- 

 cial panic, and having passed through many simi- 

 lar trade disturbances in the past, meets philo- 

 sophically conditions as they arise. He reports 

 trading spasmodic, but looks for a gradual im- 

 provement as the summer passes. 



PHILADELPHIA 



far from deserted. One of 



the coolest quarters in the city, groups of lum- 

 bermen naturally gather here at the noon hour. 

 Plans are rapidly being formulated for the fall 

 outing, which excursions have proved so enjoy- 

 able. Recent visitors to the exchange rooms 

 were Martin Hoben of Hoben & Curtis, New 

 York ; S. J. Gums, superintendent Otter Creek 

 Lumber Company, Otter Creek, Fla., and F. S. 

 Pyfer of B. B. Martin & Co., Lancaster, Pa. 



The Hindle Lumber Company is better cm- 

 ployed than discussing the lumber situation at 

 this time. It reports business holding its own 

 in spite cf general conditions. 



W. H. Lear reports a decided improvement in 

 trading during the last fortnight and feels there 

 has been a step forward in the ranks. 



Watson Malone & Sons report a normal sum- 

 mer business, and says that trading is all that 

 could be expected under present state of affairs. 

 They are sanguine as to outlook and feel that a 

 gradual general improvement in trading may 

 now be expected. Edwin B. Malone will spend 

 the summer on his farm in Bucks county. 



The S. B. Vrooman Company, Ltd., is getting 

 a fair business right along and is optimistic re- 

 garding the outlook. Samuel B. Vrooman left 

 New York on July 2 for an extended tour of 

 England and the continent, combining business 

 with pleasure. 



Lewis A. Thompson, uncle of Charles H. 

 Thompson, the well known president and treas- 

 urer of Lewis Thompson & Co., Inc., was found 

 dead in bis bed on June 30. 



The Monarch Lumber Company has its affairs 

 now in good working order and is much pleased 

 over results so far. It reports orders coming in 

 satisfactorily. 



The I'hliadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company, 

 Inc., reports that its hardwood department has 

 been fairly active, but the veneer line has slacked 

 up somewhat. This concern now has as a repre- 

 sentative in Jamestown, N. Y., F. R. Johnson, 

 a salesman well known throughout that territory 

 and who is already sending in some good orders. 

 Francis Goodhue, Jr., secretary of the company, 

 is on a four weeks' vacation at his home in 

 Brattleboro, Vt. 



Wlstar, Underhill & Co. are always ready to 

 back up the sign so conspicuously placed In 

 their oflice, which reads, "No calamity howlers 

 here." They are thorough optimists, and can 

 well afford to be. Frederick S. Underhill wears 

 the honors conferred on him during the last 

 few months, as usual, unobtrusively. It is the 

 united opinion, that the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 of Philadelphia, in making him their presi- 

 dent, and the .National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, in their choice of him for second vice- 

 president's chair, have shown a wise discrimina- 

 tion and a full appreciation of Mr. Underhill as 

 a man of the highest integrity, and an indefati- 

 gable worker in their behalf. This firm keeps 

 its men on the jump, and in consequence gets 

 a good share of business right along. T. N. 

 Nixon, of this firm, is touring the Lehigh Val- 

 ley section ; H. E. Bates has just returned from 

 a western trip, and James W. Anderson is on 

 a trade hunt through New York City and north- 

 ern New Jersey. Frederick S. Underhill will 

 pa>s his vacation up the Perklomen, camping 



The Tomb Lumber Company states that it 

 has no complaint to make over trading, inquiries 

 are coming in and it is picking up some fair 

 orders. W. N. Lawton of this house is on a 

 selling trip through eastern Pennsylvania. 



Daniel B. Curll has opened an office at 630 

 Real Estate Trust building, where he will con- 

 duct a wholesale hardwood business ; he will 

 also represent the Commonwealth Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Glen Ray, near Alderson, W. Va. Mr. 

 Curll was formerly of Curll & Evans Lumber 

 Company, and Curll & Lytle Lumber Company, 

 both of Pittsburg. Pa. He is a thoroughly ex- 

 perienced lumberman, and well known to the 

 trade. 



Sheip & Vandegrift Company, Incorporated, 

 manage to keep its plant fairly active. It re- 

 ports business in cigar boxes and lumber pick- 

 ing up gradually, but the veneer line slightly 

 off ; however, it regards the outlook encouraging. 

 Jerome H. Sheip recently returned from an ex- 

 tended trip to the company's various plants in 

 the South, and reports them all moving along 

 satisfactorily. 



J. 'Wistar Evans, formerly vice-president of 

 Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company, is now 

 in business for himself. His office for the time 

 being will be at his residence, 734 Church lane, 

 Germantown, where he will conduct a whole- 

 sale hardwood business. 



Among the recent visitors to the local trade 

 were : Jacob Eisenberger, Evergreen, N. C. ; 

 Hon. Samuel Horter, Norrlstown, Pa. ; James J. 

 Wilson of Wilson & Stokes Lumber Company, 

 Trenton, N. J. ; G. E. Boyd, Lebanon, Va. ; Joseph 

 C. Jones, Conshohocken, Pa. ; J. B. Purcell, as- 

 sistant manager, Welch Lumber Company, Welch, 

 W. Va. ; Samuel E. Barr, New York ; W. H. 

 Aemes, manager flooring department, M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O. ; Edgar 

 Burgess, manager New York branch, Maley, 

 Thompson ,& Moffett Company, Cincinnati, O. ; 

 and E. A. Harrington of W. L. Clement Lumber 

 Company, Greensboro, N. C. 



It is announced that widespread forest fires 

 have raged in Elk county, New York, recently, 

 causing considerable loss in timber. 



The entire plant, including real estate, of the 

 Neafie & Levy Ship &, Engine Building Com- 

 pany, will be sold on July I'S, by Auctioneers 

 Samuel T. Freeman & Co., by order of the 

 receiver, Howard E. Cornell. The entire prop- 

 erty will be sold subject to irredeemable ground 

 rents of $101.0G per annum and a mortgage 

 of $277,000. A deposit of $10,000 will be re- 

 quired on the day of the sale, and the balance 

 in thirty days after confirmation by the United 

 States court. 



Juniata township, Huntingdon county, Penn- 

 sylvania, recently reported the cutting of a 

 monster rock oak tree. Its dimensions, after it 

 was cut down and peeled, were : Circumference 

 of the butt, 12 feet and 7 inches, or a diameter 

 of about 4 feet ; diameter at the end of the 

 last log, or 62 feet from the butt, 22 inches ; no 

 limbs grew on this tree within GO feet of the 

 ground. The logs were measured aud the amount 

 of lumber obtained was 2,1UU feet, board meas- 

 ure. From the limbs can be made 12 cross ties, 

 and the bark will amount to from 1% to 1% 

 cords. 



The will of the late Samuel Williams of Thos. 

 Williams, Jr., & Co., was offered for probate at 

 Norrlstown, I'a. The estate is estimated at 

 $50,000 and upwards. Mr. Williams requested 

 that his stock in the lumber firm in Philadelphia 

 be not sold, but divided among his widow and 

 children. 



John F. Holloway, Individually and trading 

 as the Holloway Lumber Company, was dis- 

 charged as a voluntary bankrupt on July 1. 



The Woodwork Supply Company, Reynolds- 

 ville, I'a., obtained a charter under Pennsyl- 

 vania laws, on June 25, authorized capital, 

 $6,000. 



The Economy Furniture Company, Scranton, 

 Pa., was incorporated under I'ennsylvania laws 

 on July 1 ; capitalization, $45,000. 



The Virginia Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 York, Pa., was chartered under Pennsylvania 

 laws on July 2 ; capitalization, $5,000. 



On July 2 creditors filed a petition to have 

 Frank F. Rambo of this city adjudged an in- 

 voluntary bankrupt. The names of the cred- 

 itors and their claims are : Condon-Lane Boom 

 & Lumber Company, $504.39 ; S. B. Vrooman 

 Company, Limited, $497.43 ; J. S. Kent Com- 

 pany, $325.09. 



'The furniture manufacturers of Philadelphia 

 are making extensive preparations for a fur- 



