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Harry B. Ellis is now representing the James 

 & Abbott Company as a salesman. He was 

 formerly with the United Lumber Company. 



A new department is to be added to the chair 

 manufacturing business of the Heywood Brothers 

 & Walsefleld Company, Gardner, Mass. The com- 

 pany will manufacture school desks. In the 

 past they have only supplied the iron fittings 

 and have purchased the wooden parts from 

 regular desk manufacturers. 



BALTIMORE 



The inspection rules of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association continue to stir up 

 agitation and unrest. It was thought that the 

 question would be definitely disposed of at the 

 conference in Philadelphia, September 24. but 

 the discussion there at times developed a 

 decidedly acrimonious tone, and a split was 

 averted only by the diplomacy of various lum- 

 bermen, who, realizing that matters had gone 

 too far. poured oil on the troubled waters. 

 The only delegate to attend from Baltimore 

 was Richard W. Price of Price & Heald, who 

 is a member of the special committee ap- 

 pointed by the Baltimore Lumber Exchange 

 to deal with the matter. John J. Kldd of the 

 Kidd & Buckingham Company, another mem- 

 ber, was to have gone, but found it impossible 

 lo leave, and John L. Alcock, a third member, 

 is out of town. President E. P. Gill of the 

 exchange was asked to appoint a substitute 

 but declined to do so. saying that was un- 

 necessary, in the first place, and that no good 

 could be accomplished, in the second place, 

 for the reason that the new member would 

 be unfamiliar with the subject and of no use 

 in a debate. As stated at the time, the hard- 

 wood men here are disposed to support the 

 new inspection rules of the National associa- 

 tion, but the managing committee refrained 

 from instructing the committee, out of cour- 

 tesy to the eastern organizations, which had 

 conducted an energetic fight and had been 

 instrumental in obtaining various important 

 concessions. 



In view of this fact it was thought best to 

 leave the committee a free hand, though it 

 was felt that the national association had 

 gone about as far as it could be expected to, 

 and that the new revised rules embodied every 

 vital point contended for. The delegates from 

 New York and other cities, however, were not 

 in a very conciliatory mood, but rather dis- 

 posed to hold out flatly for the restoration of 

 the rules of 1905. The first clash came over 

 ;he question of voting proxies, and Mr. Price, 

 with others, threatened to bolt. He pointed 

 out that it was a most extraordinary and un- 

 parliamentary proceedings to admit proxies 

 \oting on a deliberative question, proxies 

 being designed solely for specific purposes. 

 'I'he threatened bolt was averted by the with- 

 drawal of the motion to admit proxies, and 

 by way of a compromise the conference voted 

 to adjourn until a future date, the national 

 association being meanwhile invited to name 

 a committee to meet the opponents of the 

 rules. Mr. Price is not at all sanguine as to 

 the outcome of this move. He points out 

 that such a committee would have no power 

 to modify the national association rules, 

 which can be done only at the annual meet- 

 ings or at special meetings of the body itself. 

 and tliat therefore the committee is not in a 

 position to make overtures, but must stand 

 by the rules as approved at Milwaukee. He 

 will make a report to the managing committee 

 of the Lumber Exchange at the next meeting. 

 Baltimore has a new hardwood firm, this 

 being Frank Price & Co., with offices in the 

 Phoenix building, German street, near Charles. 

 The members of the firm are Frank Price and 

 Charles F. Stewart. Mr. Price has been with 

 the firm of Price •>:• Hcald nlmut ten years. 



starting with that firm a long time ago and 

 afterward becoming a member of the firm of 

 Price & Welch, which dissolved. He has 

 traveled extensively over West Virginia and 

 the South, and is familial- with the hard- 

 wood business in all its divisions. He is a 

 brother of Richard W. Price, the senior mem- 

 ber of Price & Heald. Mr. Stewart is a young 

 Baltimorean who has just begun to establish 

 himself. The new firm opened offices last 

 Monday. 



Holger A. Koppel, a hardwood exporter and 

 Danish vice-consul in this city, has returned 

 from a trip to Europe, of about two months, 

 in the course of which he visited his old home 

 at Copenhagen and took in the English mar- 

 kets, among them London and Liverpool. He 

 found business everywhere very quiet, with 

 stocks big and the trade greatly congested. 

 The general business conditions were any- 

 thing but promising, and there was nothing 

 10 encourage the exporter. 



George W. Green, ninety-two years old, a 

 former lumberman, died September 28 at the 

 liome of his daughter, Mr^. Ogden A. Kirk- 

 land. Mr. Green was born in Concord and 

 engaged in the lumber business in Delaware 

 until about thirty years ago, when he came 

 to Baltimore. He was a descendant of George 

 Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. 



John L. Alcock of the hardwood exporting 

 firm of John L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore and 

 Gay streets, has gone on a fiying trip to Eng- 

 land to look after some business matters there 

 which seem to require his personal attention. 

 His stay will be limited to the disposal of the 

 problems that have come up. 



The car stake question, which is to come 

 up in Chicago this month, is being looked 

 after for the Baltimore I-umber Exchange by 

 Lewis Dill, who has been following the dis- 

 cussions ever since the controversy arose, 

 and E. P. Gill, president of the Lumber Ex- 

 change. Mr. Dill will go individually, and also 

 as a member of the exchange. 



The Eastern Land and Timber Corporation 

 has been incorporated at Alexandria, Va., with 

 a capital stock of $5,000. Officers are: J. L. 

 White, president. Washington, D. C; D. C. 

 Barley, vice-president, Alexandria, and Charles 

 Marthinson, secretary and treasurer, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



S. V. Petersen, representing Laurence O. 

 Petersen, a timber broker of Copenhagen, 

 Denmark, and Hamburg, Germany, came over 

 with Mr. Koppel, and after staying here sev- 

 eral days, started on an extended tour of the 

 States, going as far west as Chicago and then 

 turning south to continue his travels, visiting 

 New Orleans and various other sections in 

 the South. Mr. Petersen is not a stranger 

 in America. He spent several months here 

 some time ago, and is familiar with condi- 

 tions, besides speaking English fluently. 



L. Palmer, who was formerly with the Mexi- 

 can Steamship Company at New Orleans, has 

 been chosen assistant secretary of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Exporters' Association, with 

 lieadquarters at New Orleans, to succeed J. O. 

 Elmer. The selection was made by a special 

 local committee and has been confirmed by 

 the directors of the association. 



Among visiting lumbermen here two weeks 

 ago was H. G. Bradley of H. G. Bradley & 

 Co.. Abingdon, Va. 



CHARLOTTE 



A report from Wilmington, N. C just re- 

 ceived, states that Federal Judge Waddell has 

 refused to set aside the sale by the receivers of 

 the Tunis Lumber Company of the extensive 

 James River timber lands and property of the 

 company disposed of at private sale to the Cum- 

 berland Lumber Company of Baltimore, Md., for 

 $03,500. 



A ten per cent bid has just been made by 

 J. W. Harrison on the property of the 

 Greensboro Table Company, bankrupt, of Greens- 

 boro, N. C, and accordingly the property will be 

 resold October 19. Referee R. C. Hood recently 

 sold the property to E. P. Wharton for $11,300. 



A very interesting suit has just been filed in 

 Cumberland county superior court, at Fayette- 

 ville, N. C, against J. Elwood Cox, republican 

 nominee for governor of North Carolina, the 

 well-known hai-dwood manufacturer, by L. M. An 

 drews, who lives in Western Cumberland, for 

 non-fulfilment of contract. The complaint alleges 

 that Andrews contracted with Mr. Cox to manu- 

 facture for the latter a quantity of shuttle blocks 

 according to specifications, and that although he 

 has fulfilled his part of the contract in every 

 particular, the_ defendant has failed to do the 

 same. Andrews claims that after finishing the 

 shuttle blocks according to specifications he has 

 been unable to secure an inspection of them and 

 is forced into court to protect his rights. 



The Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, whose 

 mills are located in the Georgetown, S. C, sec- 

 tion, is now running full force. Three of this 

 large concerns mills at Georgetown has just re- 

 sumed operations, and a fourth will start up 

 soon. Managers of this corporation report a 

 good demand for upper grades. The corporation 

 owns three large steamers and a barge, all of 

 which are now busily engaged transporting their 

 lumber to the northern markets. Other lumbd 

 mills in that section of South Carolina that wert 

 compelled to close down during the recent de- 

 pression in the lumber business have resumed 

 operations and report a steadily increasing de- 

 mand for goods, with parallel increase In prices. 



In the Florence section of South Ca-olina, 

 where the prosperity of the people depends largely 

 upon the lumber industry, and where the At- 

 lantic Coast Line Railway does its principal 

 business in hauling lumber, there is a decided 

 improvement. Mills that had closed down are 

 now running again full time. 



The Williams-McKelthan Lumber Company of 

 Darlington, S. C, is now doing a normal busi- 

 ness. 



The Lumber Securities Association of New 

 York is said to be making inquiries of the Cham- 

 bers of Commerce of Washington, D. C, and 

 other towns in this state relative to the advisa- 

 bility of locating a number of large lumber vul- 

 canizing plants in North Carolina towns. The 

 various town boards of trade, etc., are taking 

 the matter up and it is likely a number of these 

 large plants will be landed In the state. 



Mr. Browder, manager of the new furniture 

 factory recently established at Wadesboro, N. C., 

 reports the concern is finding a ready market for 

 its product. The company makes a fine grade of 

 chairs. 



Isaac Andrews and Y. J. Boozer of Spartan- 

 burg, S. C, having leased the property of J. C. 

 Rigby at Spartanburg, opened up a lumber busi- 

 ness In that city October 1, under the name of 

 the Carolina Manufacturing Company. Machin- 

 ery is to be installed for the manufacture of 

 builders' supplies. The managers have already 

 contracted to supply a large amount of lumber 

 to the contractors of the Carolina, CllnchBeld 

 and Ohio railroad, to be built soon. 



.\ new lumber and woodworking concern for 

 Spring Hope, N. C, is the Nash County Manu- 

 facturing Company, recently chartered at a capi- 

 tal of $50,000. The principal incorporators are 

 J. J. Sanders, M. H. Privctt and others of Spring 

 Hope. 



R. E. Lee, who owned an Interest and had been 

 manager of the Walker-Mulligan Furniture Com- 

 pany of Durham, N. C, for several years, has 

 sold his interest in and retired from the concern. 

 W. G. Thomas of Washington, D. C, bought his 

 interest and J. A. Hoffer of Washington is the 

 new manager. Mr. Lee has gone into the insur- 

 ance business, having connected himself with the 

 Jefferson Standard Life of Raleigh, N. C. 



