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on hand of only $952. The company owns 30,000 

 acres of timber land in Florida, with a fine plant 

 at Tyler, which cost more than $150,000, and 

 also a turpentine plant which cost $25,000: also 

 ten miles of standard gauge railroad with locomo- 

 tive and logging equipment. A few months back 

 Van W. Tyler, who has been closely identilied 

 with the company, organized the Lumber Mills 

 Company in this city to conduct a wholesale 

 business, which corporation is not inyolyed in 

 the difficulties. 



Philadelphia. 



Lumbermen's 



elected 



the 



The first monthly i 

 Exchange under its 

 called for April 7. For the coming y 

 office and entertainment committee will be com- 

 posed of George A. Howes, chairman ; Edwin B. 

 Malone, Howard Ketcham. George Rodgman and 

 Fisher Dalrymple. The recent visitors to the 

 exchange were W. W. Heuritze. vice president 

 and general manager of the Welch Lumber Com- 

 pany. Welch, W. Va., and George I'. Morgan of 

 R. M. Smith & Co., Parltersburg. W. Va. 



The J. S. Kent Company reports that though 

 business continues "spotty" they have little 

 fault to find with total sales. It regards the 

 outloolt as very fair. The newly elected officers 

 of this company for the coming year are : 

 President, A. W. Kent ; vice president, L. C. 

 Kent : secretary and treasurer. J. E. Troth. 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company is prospering. lis fire losses 

 so far this year have been bt-l.^v iii. .i\.i:i-e 

 and the largest volume of busi III i , . i- 



been recorded in a corresponding ! i !►• 



company's history has been wriii.n m i ..!, n^t 

 four months. The company has appli.'rl fur ad- 

 mission to Michigan, and is now about to take 

 admission to Mas.sachusetts. This company is 

 paying a 35 per cent dividend, and giving to its 

 policy holders the very highest class of indem- 

 nity. 



Wistar, Underbill & Co. send their men to 

 scour the consuming districts, and where goods 

 are likely to be desired a representative of this 

 firm is unfailingly on the spot. T. N. Xixon is 

 making an extended business trip through north- 

 ern Michigan and Canada : H. E. Bates is gath- 

 ering in some good orders in western Xew I'ork. 

 James W. Anderson, another representative, has 

 been ill. but his friends will be glad to know 

 he is convalescing. This firm is placing on the 

 market at this time a lot of 4x4 and 8x4 well 

 seasoned red and white oak, reputed to be of ex- 

 cellent quality. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son, placidly meeting 

 conditions as they arise, testify to a fair share 

 of trading. William P. Shearer recently re- 

 turned from a selling trip through eastern Penn- 

 sylvania and makes no complaint over results. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. admit a lack of 

 snap in trading, but go diligently after busi- 

 ness and, considering conditions, are not ashamed 

 of tbeir present showing. 



Emil Guenther has just returned from the 

 South, where be claims to have gone to lead 

 the "simple life." He did considerable sharp 

 looking about in the lumber fields, acquainting 

 himself with stock conditions and tapping the 

 stump man as to outlook for business. He is 

 much pleased with information obtained, and 

 reports that though the majority of manufac- 

 turers are reducing their output, they are op- 

 timistically inclined, and only waiting, evidently, 

 for the political quietus to pass when they ex- 

 pect normal trading. 



Robert C. Lippincott, complacent over condi- 

 tions, reports trading keeping up fairly well 

 with promising outlook. 



The Righter-Parry Lumber Company has no 

 cause to complain of trading, as April bas proved 

 the third best month it bas ever bad in point of 

 orders. 



R. B. Wheeler & Co. state that though trad- 

 ing is a little slow and lacks usual vim there 

 is always something doing. As buyers are in- 

 clined to conservatism, the advice Is to pursue 



diligently if you want business. They think, on 

 the whole, there is no reason to complain, as 

 undoubtedly after the troublous period preceding 

 an election shall have passed matters will ad- 

 just themselves satisfactorily. 



L. Power & Co. report a better showing of 

 late and sr. antiriiiate a fair summer trading. 

 Th.> ihe plant of the Lingo Box 



Com; X. C., West Lumber Com- 



pany \. c., and are installing 



their I il„. Ashburn, Child & King 



plant at l'o.-..in.i];. city, Md. 



Soble Bros, have recently given up their Phil- 

 adelphia office aud opened offices at 1 Madison 

 avenue. New York City. 



Frank P. Rambo, who has been conducting a 

 retail luml)er business for a number of years, 

 called a meeting of bis creditors for April 27, 

 when he tendorfd a s.'ttlHmcnt. inn ,,.nis .hi the 

 dollar, secure.] l.v liN ii..f> f.,r ^ix, tw.lv. 

 eighteen and tw.'im (. in- iii.,iiilis. ili.^ ^lai.'ui.'nt 

 of his atTaii-^ ■■, .l.anlv pn.ve.l satisia.n.iry. f..r 

 it is i;i : ihe creditors are perfectly 



wiliii!- ' ement for extension, with 



the II : ii new purchases are to be 



pai.l 1,1 . . I terms. 



Amoij- till. r..eut visitors to the Philadelphia 

 trade were George M. Stevens of the Stevens- 

 Eaton Company. New York City : W. W. Mill^- 

 of Northern Lumber Company, Birch, Mich. : W. 

 S. Parker of Parker Brothers, Findlay, O. ; Harry 

 Armstrong of Cherry River Boom & Lumber 

 Company, Scranton, Pa. ; A. C. Schuyler of 

 Henderson Lumber Company, Pittsburg, Pa. ; 

 Waldron W. Williams of L. T. Williams & Son. 

 Waldron W. Williams of I. T. Williams & Sons, 

 York. 



The , .'.-- 111.. I .1,11 .1- ,ir.-: 



WalliM I- :._ i'. V -.1 Diu tj.jiuir.iuy. i-'i.ll Mi : 

 Lawreucc .McFaddeu Company, $00.04, and J. 

 Gibson Mcllvain & Co., $4,917. 



The Bangor Woodworking Company, Bangor, 

 Pa., was chartered under Pennsylvania laws on 

 April 24 ; capitalization, $20,000. 



The Grandin Lumber Company expects to fin- 

 ish its lumbering at President, Venango county, 

 Pennsylvania, in July. The company will have 

 been occupied in this locality for five years in 

 September. It has employed many men and has 

 been the main concern of the place. 



Lieut. H. C. Seymour of this city and D. N. 

 Carrington of New York have gone to San Do- 

 mingo in the interests of manufacturing con- 

 cerns of both cities to inspect a tract of 100,000 

 acres of land which is covered by a virgin 

 growth of mahogany, walnut, cedar and satin- 

 wood forests. 



The Philadelphia Furniture Manufacturers' 

 and Bedding Association is pushing its project 

 for as exposition to be held here in July. A 

 committee has been appointed to interview firms 

 in this city on the matter, and the result will 

 be made known at a special meeting to be called 

 soon. 



The J. G. Brill Company, extensive car build- 

 ers of this city and elsewhere, has just acquired 

 the plant of the Danville Car Company at Dan- 

 ville, 111. Negotiations were completed some 

 time ago and the formal transfer of the prop- 

 erty was accomplished recently. The Brill com- 

 pany also owns the American Car Company of 

 St. Louis. G. C. Kuhlman Car Company of Cleve- 

 land, John Stephenson Company of Elizabeth, 

 N. J., and the Wason Manufacturing Company 

 at Springfield, Mass. 



Considerable pine and oak timber was de- 

 stroyed recently by forest fires about five miles 

 below JIays Landing, N. J. 



Harold K. Beecher. engaged in the lumber 

 business at Pottsville, Pa., was married on May 

 2 to Miss Ethel Bullock, daughter of E. L. Bul- 

 lock, the Beaver Creek coal operator. 



Baltimore. 



Though former United States Senator Johnson 

 N. Camden, who died at the Belvidere Hotel here 



last month, was not usually classed as a lum- 

 berman, he had done perhaps as much as any 

 other one person for the development of the 

 timber industry in West Virginia. His inter- 

 ests were of a far-reaching character, and while 

 he did not apply himself actively to the actual 

 operation of sawmills, he gave encouragement 

 to the erection of many such plants and through 

 the medium of the railroads constructed by him 

 made acce^^^ible to the markets of the country 

 vast tiicf.^ ot Itnd Senator Camden had 

 stopped in Biltiniott on the way to his home 



at Pt 

 he bi 

 kins ] 

 had 

 lere i 

 sett 1 



lei bui„ 

 spent tl 



from Miami, Fla., where 

 ?r, to consult Johns Hop- 

 o as to bis health, which 

 . time past, when be suf- 



kidney trouble. He was 



days. 



Vni tl 1 I iili win h hts caused many expres- 

 sions ot ic'iet IS thit of John Edward Libbey 

 01 the Wishinston lumber firm of J. E. Libbey 

 »V: ^on -nh) died \pril _7 of heart failure, super- 

 induced by the giippe from which he suffered 

 last wmtei Mr Libbey was held in the high- 

 est esteem and hio almost as many friends 

 in Paltimore as in the National capital. 



Ihe well knonn rum of Carter, Hughes & Co., 

 whi h toi some time hid an office on Union 

 Dock and about the fiist of the year removed 

 to Tioutdale, ^ a., wheie the Iron Mountain Lum- 

 ber Company, the manufacturing end of the 

 firm, is located, has been dissolved, David T. 

 Carter, the senior member, retiring and Thomas 

 Hughes assuming all liabilities as well as assets. 

 Mr. Hughes, it is stated, will give his personal 

 attention to the operation of the three saw- 

 mills at Troutdale. Hitherto Mr. Carter had 

 looked after this work, having spent the better 

 part of a year there. At the close of the year 

 the firm decided to discontinue the yard busi- 

 ness, limiting itself to a car trade, and this, it 

 was decided, cuuld be attended to just as well 

 from Troutdale as from Baltimore; hence the 

 removal. ^Ir. Carter has returned to this city. 

 Richard W. Price of Price & Heald spent the 

 last tn'o weeks in Bristol, Tenn., and vicinity 

 calling on mill men and otherwise informing 

 himself as to trade conditions. He found busi- 

 ness far from active in the localities visited. 



Among the visiting hardwood men in Balti- 

 more within the past ten days was Mr. Snod- 

 grass of Johnson City, Tenn., who came here 

 to place stocks. He called on various firms 

 and reported that he bad found business de- 

 cidedly quiet wherever he went. 



George F. Craig, a well-known lumberman of 

 Philadelphia, and vice-president of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, was a 

 recent visitor here. 



The managing committee of the Lumber Ex- 

 change held its monthly meeting May 4, Presi- 

 dent E. P. Gill occupying the chair, but trans- 

 acted only routine business. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, is in communication 

 with the London Timber Trade Federation rela- 

 tive to complaints about shortages in measure- 

 ment. These complaints have become so fre- 

 quent during the past year that the association 

 felt impelled to take action, and the secretary 

 was directed to make suitable representations. 

 Mr. Terry in his letter suggests that the fed- 

 eration take joint action with the merchants and 

 dock companies to determine who is responsible 

 for the shortages. Mr. Terry is also in receipt 

 of letters commending the action taken to stop 

 shipping on consignment. The writers of the 

 letters say they realize the evils of the practice 

 and that they are prepared to aid in suppressing 

 methods which are highly injurious to the trade 

 and which especially at the present time, when 

 the Liverpool market is demoralized, do serious 

 harm. One of the letters comes from Antwerp. 

 B. E. Taenzer of E. E. Taenzer & Co. of Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., was here last week looking after 

 some business matters. 



R. P. Baer of R. I'. Baer & Co., Keyser build- 



