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J. C. Cremer. president of the Cremer Lum- 

 ber Company. St. Louis, spent a few days with 

 friends in Chicago last week. 



Gearhart Knapp. Hamburg. Germany, one of 

 the foreign representatives of the Paepcl^e-f 

 Leicht Lumber Company of Chicago, spent 

 several days in consultation with the principals 

 of this institution last -Keek. 



B. F. Dulweber of The John Dulweber Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, was a welcome Chicago visitor 

 a few days ago. 



Walter H. Crim of C. M. Crim & Sons, hard- 

 wood manufacturers at Salem, Ind.. spent a few 

 days in Chicago last week. 



R. van Metre of the Joyce-Watkins Company. 

 Chicago, is home from a recent sales trip. 



D. E. Kline, head of the Louisville Veneer 

 Mills, Louisville, Ky., spent a day in Chicago 

 last week en route home from a sales trip to 

 Grand Rapids. 



W. E. Heyser of the W. E. Heyser Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, was in Chicago a part of 

 last week visiting his trade here, and as usual 

 captured a satisfactory number of orders. 



John C. Spry, the timberland magnate, whose 

 offices for several years have been located in 

 the Corn Exchange Bank building, will move to 

 larger and more attractive quarters on Nov. 

 25. in suite 1003 Harris Trust building,- on 

 Monroe street, between Clark and La Salle 

 streets. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Chicago announces 

 that it will pull off a pool and billiard tourna- 

 ment, commencing Xov. 4. The prize to the 

 winner, it is announced, will be a gold medal, 

 and other prizes will be offered for high runs. 

 Pool and billiards are getting to be quite a 

 specialty with many members at the Lumber- 

 men's Club, and are developing some very good 

 players. A. C. Quixley, Ben Collins. Jr., and 

 F. M. Baker constitute the committee having 

 the tournament in charge. 



The Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company has 

 removed its offices from the fifth floor of the 

 Railway Exchange, Michigan avenue and Jack- 

 son boulevard, this city, to suite 822-825, on the 

 eighth floor of the same building. Every room 

 of this suite commands a view of Grant Park 

 and Lake Michigan, and comprises a reception 

 room, private offices for H. S. Hayden, Charles 

 Westcott and the traffic manager of the house, 

 as well as a general clerical and stenographic 

 office. The new quarters is one of the best 

 arranged and best located lumber offices In 

 Chicago. 



The Lumbermen's Club announces a German 

 song night, a function which will be held in 

 the club quarters on the evening of Saturday, 

 Xov. 9. Members are invited to bring their 

 steins along. Undeniably there will be "some- 

 thing doing" on the evening in question. 



The Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company, with 

 general and sales offices at Kansas City, Mo., 

 favors the trade with a handsome circular cov- 

 ering its various enterprises, involving its Kan- 

 sas City plant, where American and Circassian 

 walnut lumber and veneers are produced : its 

 Helena (Ark.) plant, where it manufactures 

 rotary-cut southern hardwoods : and its Brasfield. 

 Ark., mill, in which is produced red gum and 

 oak lumber. Of these allied institutions J. X. 

 Penrod is president, Alexander Lendrum. vice- 

 president and general manager Helena plant, 

 R. L. Jurden. secretary and general manager 

 Kansas City plant, and S. F. Prouty. treasurer. 

 Eugene F. Perry, secretary of the Xational 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, New 

 i'ork. was welcomed by a host of his Chicago 

 friends during his visit here a few davs ago in 

 the interest of his organization. 



NEW YORK 



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There was a hot meeting of the creditors 

 of the Charles R. Partridge Lumber Company 

 during the fortnight at the office of the trustee 

 in Jersey City, at which meeting the creditors. 



through the valuable assistance rendered by the 

 bureau of information of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, succeeded in pre- 

 venting the passage of some excessive claims 

 for legal services. One attorney put in a claim 

 of $3,200 on which he was allowed $2,000, 

 while another attorney ^claimed the sum of $15.- 

 000 for services and was finally allowed $750. 

 or about one-fifteenth of what he asked. The 

 trustee's report showed cash in hand of $129.- 

 500, same being sum total of bid for entire 

 assets accepted previously by the creditors : also 

 liabilities of $60,000. and claims filed of $450,- 

 000, of which $150,000 is held up for further 

 consideration. A dividend of fifteen per cent, 

 was declared and it is expected that creditors 

 will ultimately receive about twenty-five per 

 cent. 



The schedules in bankruptcy o£ Gouverneur 

 E. Smith & Co., show liabilities of $695,915, of 

 which $306,318 is secured, and assets of $81 - 

 368. 



Frank B. Afllick. for many years engaged 

 in the wholesale hardwood and storage business 

 in this city, died recently at his rooms In the 

 Empire hotel, this city. The funeral was held 

 from the residence of his brother in Yonkers. 



The annual meeting of the Xew York Lumber 

 Trade Association will be held November 13, at 

 the headquarters, 18 Broadway. The meeting 

 will be preceded by a Delmonico luncheon. A 

 large attendance is anticipated. 



The Hausbeck Brothers Company has been 

 incorporated at Elizabeth, X. J., with offices at 

 215 Broad street, and a capital of $15,000, to 

 conduct a general lumber business. The incor- 

 porators are Lillian. Joseph J., and Franklin 

 Hausbeck. 



C. W. Manning, wholesale hardwoods, white 

 pine and veneers. 66 Broad street, has just re- 

 turned from a lengthy tour of the southern 

 mills where he reports business conditions as 

 very satisfactory. Mr. Manning picked up some 

 desirable stocks for his trade. 



The new wholesale house of Meigs & Mackay 

 has just been formed in this city with head- 

 quarters at 131 Xassau street. It is composed 

 of E. K. Meigs, Jr.. of the E. K. Meigs Com- 

 pany, wholesale lumber, this city, and M. S. 

 Mackay, head of th^ banking house of Mackay 

 & Co.. city. Mr. Meigs retains his interest in 

 the E. K. -Meigs Company, but will devote his 

 entire attention to the new firm. 



The Doscher-Gardner Company interests of 11 

 Broadway and Jacksonville. Fla.. have organized 

 the Jasper Cypress Company at Jacksonville, 

 with a capital of $25,000. The output of this 

 new company will be controlled by the Doscher- 

 Gardner Company which enjoys a large trade in 

 the X'ew England and middle states in dressed 

 cypress lumber and finish. 



C. Ty. Witte, wholesale and retail hardwood 

 lumber, 110 Nassau street. Manhattan, has re- 

 moved his storage yard from Fremand street, 

 Brooklyn, to Chapman's Docks, Brooklyn, and 

 will carry a full line of materials suitable for 

 the local trade. 



Monroe & Co., hardwoods, headquarters Balti- 

 more, Md., have opened a New York office at 

 2255 Broadway, Manhattan. 



The sympathy of the trade is extended to 

 John W. Hussey in the loss of his wife who 

 died recently at her home in this city. Mr. 

 Hussey was for many years prominent in the 

 domestic and export hardwood trade, but retired 

 from active business several years ago. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Hussey celebrated their fiftieth anniversary 

 on the day previous to Mrs. Hussey's death. 



Bush & Fassett, 1123 Broadway, have added 

 a hardwood department under the management 

 of Warren O. Cawley, who has been identified 

 with the local hardwood trade for many years. 



The N'orfolk Lumber Compan.v, specialist in 

 hardwood flooring, has opened a warehouse at 

 245-9 East One Hundred and Thirty-seventh 

 street, Bronx, to which location it has trans- 

 ferred its office. It will carry a complete line 



of stock, including maple, birch and beech stock, 

 parquet squares, herring bone and strips 5-16 and 

 13-16 inch thick, etc. The warehouse is equipped 

 with steamheating apparatus which keeps the 

 .stock in fine condition. 



BUFFALO 



H. A. Stewart of 1. X. Stewart & Bro. has 

 gone on a month's trip to West Virginia to lool£ 

 after shipments of hardwoods. The office re- 

 ports a general scarcity of low-grade poplar. 



Hugh and E. D. McLean, who have been 

 spending some time recently at their southern 

 mills, where inventory has been taken, returned 

 in time to cast their votes here. 



The Standard Lumber Company is filling its 

 new yard on Baitz avenue with a good stock of 

 oak, chestnut and other lumber. The improve- 

 ments to the new office are now completed. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager is selling quite an 

 amount of quartered oak. on which prices have 

 taken an upward turn lately. Business is re- 

 ported good in this lumber. 



G. Elias & Bro. state that the hardwood trade 

 is in normal condition at present and has not 

 shown any particular boom. Hardwood receipts 

 have lately been coming in all-rail. 



M. M. Wall states that the Buffalo Hardwood 

 Lumber Company finds a pretty fair amount of 

 trade at present and that orders are placed to 

 a larger extent without solicitation than for- 

 merly. 



The Xational Lumber Company has closed up 

 its lake receipts of hardwoods for the season, 

 having brought in a good assortment of maple 

 and birch. Flooring is holding very strong. 



Anthony Miller is getting in stocks of several 

 hardwoods and states that trade at his yard is 

 holding up satisfactorily and the volume is not 

 far from that of a month ago. 



T. Sullivan & Co. report that tonnage for 

 bringing in lumber is scarce and high-priced this 

 month. 



W. Clyde Sykes, son of W. L. Sykes of the 

 Emporium Lumber Company, was at the family 

 home here a few days last month, before remov- 

 ing to his new home at Conifer, in the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



Lumbermen gathered at the Chamber of Com- 

 merce rooms on election night to join in the 

 crowd assembled to receive the returas. A spe- 

 cial wire service had been arranged for, and it 

 was expected to hold out until midnight, which- 

 ever ticket won. With the lumbermen divided 

 between three parties, instead of two, there was 

 quite a diversity of political opinion expressed 

 during the ^present campaign, and some members 

 of the trade took an unusual interest in the 

 subject of politics. 



PITTSBURGH 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has 150 cars 

 of gum and Cottonwood on sticks at a Missis- 

 sippi river port in Louisiana and is waiting pa- 

 tiently until It can get a barge down to bring 

 this stock up to Joppo and other towns in the 

 Middle West for distribution. This company 

 was elected a member of the Pittsburgh Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association last week. 



The Western Lumber Company had the largest 

 shipment in October of any month in its his- 

 tory. Hardwoods are showing up well in its 

 orders and its eastern trade is looking good. 

 President W. W. Wilson, Jr., recently made a 

 long trip through the Northwest. 



The Kendall Lumber Company shipped an 

 average of twenty-five cars of lumber per day 

 in October. Of this amount seventeen cars are 

 hardwood. Its secretary, G. M. Chambers, re- 

 ports a strong demand for good hardwood and 

 believes that prices are going to be higher. 



