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years, his associates being his two sons, E. E., 

 jr., ana Allen Meigs. 



K. J. Camp of tlie Camp Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Franlilin. Va., was liere during the fort- 

 night visiting Manager G. W. Jones at the local 

 sales office, 1 Madison avenue. The business of 

 the local office is very good. 



J. B. Murphree, formerly of this city and more 

 latterly of Jacksonville, Fla., has returned here 

 to open a wholesale office at 1 Madison avenue 

 for the conduct of a general wholesale business. 



J. D. Lacey, the prominent timberland oper- 

 ator of New Orleans, accompanied by Mrs. Lacey, 

 W S. Hofstra, president of the Seacoast Lumber 

 Company, 1 Madison avenue, city ; Mrs. Hofstra 

 and Mrs Victor Thrane, Mr. Lacey's daughter, 

 left here this week on Mr. Lacey's sumptuous 

 new motor yacht the Tonopah for a trip up the 

 Hudson, through state waters to the St. Law- 

 rence and thence to Quebec, where they will take 

 in the great Quebec Ter-Centenary celebrations, 

 after which Mr. Lacey and family will go on 

 through the lake route to Chicago on his yacht. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The commiUce in chargo ot anangcmenib 

 for the usual outing of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 cliange report that the affair will come off 

 the latter part of September, but that all the 

 details have not been completed as yet. E. 

 B. Leighley. of the Summit Lumber and MUl- 

 ing Company. Buckstown, Pa.; G. G. Bam 

 of Beecher & Barr, Pottsville, Pa., and S. D. 

 Peverly w'ere recent visitors to the exchange 

 rooms. 



J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. report cheerfully 

 of conditions, and although they admit a lack 

 of enthusiasm in trading, they state that 

 their aggregate sales of late have been very 

 encouraging, and that tlie outlook Is for ad- 

 vance. 



W. M. McCormick wisely refrains from 

 worrying over unpleasant conditions; in- 

 stead, he meets them bravely as they arise. 

 He has his stock situation well in hand and 

 does not feel inclined to force the market. 



The Forest Lumber Company, Joseph P. 

 Dunwoody, representative, reports business 

 moving along fairly well, considering time and 

 conditions, and that a better feeling as to a 

 gradual restoration of prosperity exists all 

 along the line. 



Eli B. Hallowell & Co. are far from de- 

 pressed at present, as they succeed in book- 

 ing a reasonable number of orders right 

 along. J. T. Robinhold, of this house, re- 

 cently made a tour of the North Carolina 

 mill districts, acquainting himself with the 

 stock situation there. 



The Codling-McEwen Lumber Company re- 

 ports a favorable turn of the wheel, during 

 the last fortnight, and indications are towards 

 a gradual nstitutlon in trading. Mr. Cod- 

 ling is making a trip to their mill in Ashe- 

 ville, N. C. to look after some orders, and 

 to get a line on the stock situation. He will 

 make a short stay at Norfolk, Va., on the 

 way. 



The J. S. Kent Company is getting a modi- 

 cum of business right along, and although it 

 reports no decided improvement as yet, busi- 

 ness is not running behind, and the outlook 

 seemingly is brighter. 



Charles F. Felin & Co. are busy, especially 

 in their millwork department. They look 

 with reason for good fall trading, and they 

 have no fault to find personally with present 

 conditions. 



William A. Reed reports that though there 

 has been no special turn for the better in 

 trading during the fortnight, business is hold- 

 ing steady, and the prospects for future are 

 favorable. 



John W. Coles states that considering all 

 il.ings he has no inclination to quarrel with 



iHllUons, and Is hopeful for good fall trad- 



ing. G. W. "Wright of this house is makmg 

 a selling trip through New York and northern 

 New Jersey, and Mr. Coles at this writing 

 is making an extended tour of the Florida 

 lumber district, where he will size up the 

 situation and have an eye to some good con- 

 tracts. 



Samuel H. Shearer & Son are complacent 

 over business affairs. They pay no attention 

 to pessimistic prophesies, but go diligently 

 after business, and get it, too. Wm. P. 

 Shearer is scouring the eastern Pennsylvania 

 district at this time. 



Among the recent visitors to the local trade 

 were S. P. Southgate, Chicago, inspector gen- 

 eral of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation; D. S. Cunningham, of Hendricks 

 Lumber Company, Hendricks, W. Va.; Her- 

 man J. Haas, of Albert Haas Lumber Com- 

 pany, Atlanta, Ga.; Frank Gilmore. of Breon 

 Lumber Company, Incorporated. Williams- 

 port, Pa.; John T. Vixon. of John T. Vixon 

 Lumber Company, Elizabethton, Tenn., and 

 R. H. Erving, vice president of Flint. Erving 

 & Stoner Company, Pittsburg. Pa. 



The furniture Manufacturers' Exposition, 

 which is being held in the Second Regiment 

 Armory, opened on July 13, and will continue 

 until August 1. The committee in charge re- 

 port the affair successful beyond all expecta- 

 tion so far. The original object of this three 

 weeks exposition was principally to enlighten 

 the irade as to the large extent this industry 

 is being carried on In this city, but as buyers 

 have been coming in and making deals, it has 

 occurred to the manufacturer that it might 

 prove an advantage to keep up what was 

 only a business experiment indefinitely. 



Report comes from Leona, Bradford county, 

 that a barn ninety-eight years has Just been 

 torn down on the Doane homestead, of which 

 most of the timber in in a perfect state of 

 preservation, and will be used In the con- 

 struction of a barn on the A. A. Doane farm. 



Extensive forest fires have recently been 

 raging at South River and Estellville, N. J., 

 but have finally been checked by the fire 

 wardens, reinforced by large gangs of men. 

 women and children from the surrounding 

 territory, after doing considerable damage. 



The sawmill belonging to Lea Wheatley, 

 of Woodland, Del., was destroyed by flre on 

 July 13; loss is given at $10,000. 



Congressman N. P. Wheeler and his lumber 

 firm, of Endeavor, Forest county, lost their 

 big saw mill on East Hickory creek, and a 

 million feet of lumber, by a cloudburst and 

 flood, which occurred on July 3. Mr. Wheeler 

 and his family were absent on a trip to the 

 P&clflc coast at the time of the disaster. 



Provident Lumber Company, Water and 

 Dickinson streets, was visited by a most dis- 

 astrous fire, which lasted four hours, on July 

 17. and in which two adjacent lumber yards, 

 belonging to Charles Benton and James J. 

 Hussey, were endangered. S. D. Casanave, 

 the president of the Provident Lumber Com- 

 pany, and members of the concern, estimate 

 their loss at about $100,000, partly Insured. 

 The planing mill, a two-story brick building, 

 was destroyed, the stable damaged and much 

 stock consumed. 



On July 17 negotiations were completed 

 with the Barber Car Company, Watertown, 

 N. Y., for the location of a street car manu- 

 factory at York, Pa. The company, which 

 will be affiliated with the York Bridge Com- 

 pany, will manufacture a car forty feet In 

 length, with a single truck. The plant of the 

 company will adjoin that of the York Bridge 

 Company. 



On July 17, the partnership heretofore ex- 

 IsUng and carried on by William E. PatUson, 

 H. Newton Pattlson and John T. Dixon, un- 

 der the name of the Philadelphia Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, was dissolved by mutual 

 consent. All claims due the said copartner- 

 ship are payable to and all debts owing by it 



will be paid by H. Newton Pattlson, who will 

 continue the business under the firm name 



at 1523 and 24 Real Estate Trust building. 



BALTIMORE 



The hardwood inspection rules contmue to 

 be a subject of discussion. They came up for 

 consideration at the last monthly meeting of 

 the managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange, when John L. Alcock made 

 a report on the results of the action taken at 

 the annual meeting of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, in Milwaukee, to which 

 he was a delegate. Mr. Alcock himself fa- 

 vored acceptance of the new rules as embody- 

 ing concessions on all material points asked 

 for by the Eastern dealers, but in view of 

 the fact that the Exchange lias been repre- 

 sented at the conference of Eastern organiza- 

 tions in New York last January and at Phila- 

 delphia later, it was decided to postpone ac- 

 tion on the new rules until after another con- 

 ference, which has been called for next Sep- 

 tember in New York by the New York Lum- 

 ber Trade Association, when the subject will 

 be again extensively discussed. The Ex- 

 change here is to be represented at this meet- 

 ing and there is a probability that the Balti- 

 more delegates will throw in their weight in 

 favor of accepting the Milwaukee rules. 



The reconstruction of the new wharves, and 

 especially the rebuilding of the docks to make 

 what will be pier No. 6, is causing much in- 

 convenience to a number of the lumber firms 

 along v.hat is known as the Back Basin. In 

 furtherance of the work the drawbridge and 

 the Canton avenue bridge have been re- 

 moved, so that there is no communication 

 now across the falls for about four blocks, and 

 wagons going to certain sections of the city 

 must make a rather wide detour with loss of 

 enough time to increase sensibly the cost of 

 delivery. The dredging of a part of the inner 

 harbor, so as to afford the requisite depth of 

 water for the new pier, has also taken away 

 a considerable portion of the space for un- 

 loading cargoes of lumber and curtailed the 

 storage room. Lumbermen look forward to 

 the completion of the new dock, when they 

 will enjoy dock facilities better than ever be- 

 fore. 



U. P. Baer of the hardwood firm of R. P. 

 Eaer & Co., Keyscr building, returned last 

 week from an extended trip to Europe. He 

 was away about two months, and visited Lon- 

 don, Liverpool, Bristol, Belfast, Antwerp. 

 Hamburg and other export lumber centers, 

 combining business with pleasure. He came 

 in close touch with a number of the largest 

 foreign timber trades firms, and was In a 

 good position to study the situation abroad. 

 He found that quiet generally prevailed, but 

 that there were indications of a rerival of 

 acUvity. A number of foreign orders were 

 sent In by him during his travels. Certainly 

 not the least Interesting part of the trip lay 

 in the fact that it was his wedding journey, 

 he having been married just prior to his de- 

 parture for the other side of 'he .Atlantic. 



The Norva Land and Lumber Company report 

 things running along without a hitch, and 

 though there is no decided show of new busi- 

 ness their stave department has orders ahead 

 for all they can make. The export market, they 

 state, is a little quiet. 



Robert McLean reports that inquiries are com- 

 ing In and that there is always some little busi- 

 ness doing : he tcstlfles to a better tone In busi- 

 ness than for some time, and considers the out- 

 look encouraging. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company express 

 themselves as much pleased over the present 

 improved situation. They arc thorough opti- 

 mists and look forward with conHdencc to good 

 fall trading. They possess the get upand hurtle 



