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Special trips were made to tlie woods operations of the Emporium 

 Lumber Company and of the Central I'ennsylvania Lumber Company, 

 where the students were allowed to make a complete study of the hard- 

 wood and hemlock timber and the logging and milling operations in the 

 central Pennsylvania region. During the stay at Galeton. the st\idonts were 

 privileged to listen to lectures by iL'. B. Kussell on the ."History of Lum- 

 bering in Northern Pennsylvania ;" by F. P. Sykes, woods superintendent 

 of the Emporium Lumber Company, who talked on "Portable Slides and 

 Their Economic Features :" and by W. W. Lowell, mill superintendent of 

 the Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company. 



On the return trip, the class visited various plants including a paper 

 mill and various sawmills. 



A Combination Interesting to Iiumbermeu 



On Feb. 10 it was announced that Elmer H. Adams. Asa G. Adams, 

 Ralph Crews, D. S. Bobb and James B. Wescott had formed a copart- 

 nership for the general practice of law. The co-partnership will do 

 business under the firm name of Adams. Crews. Bobb & Wescott. and 

 will be located on the eleventh floor of the American Ti'ust building. 



The members of this firm have for some time been known for their 

 practical knowledge of the lumber business and their ability to suc- 

 cessfully represent lumbermen in legal matters. Elmer H. Adams par- 

 ticularly has been actively connected with the lumber business and in 

 fact is now associated with other lumbermen in a hardwood operation 

 in .Arkansas. 



Annual Meeting Grand Bapids Concern 



The board of directors of the A. L. Deanis Salt & Lumber Company, 

 with headquarters at Grand Rapids. Mich., held its annual meeting ol 

 Feb. 8, at which the following officers were elected : A. L. Dennis, presi- 

 dent ; Edward Fitzgerald, vice-president ; Earl L. Crossman, secretary : 

 Henry Irema, treasurer. 



Inquiry on Freight Bills 



L'nder date of Feb. 13 the Interstate Commerce Commission issued from 

 Washington an inquiry the purpose of which is as follows : 



For the purpose of determining whether the rules, regulations and 

 practices in connection with the issuance of form and substance of 

 receipts and freight bills are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discrim- 

 inatory, unduly preferential or otherwise unlawful, and taking such 

 action" in connection with said receipts or freight bills as ma.v be 

 authorized by law to prevent further violations of the provisions of 

 the aforementioned statute [act to regulate commerce], should any 

 violation be disclosed by said investigation, and particularly for the 

 purpose of determining whether the freight bills or receipts shall in- 

 clude, with respect to the shipments covered thereby, the following : 



1. The point of origin, 



2. The date of shipment. 



3. The correct weight of shipment. 



4. The route, including the name and initials of each carrier partici- 

 pating in the haul, and the junction points through which the shipments 

 moved. 



o. The initials and number of the car. 



fi. Adequate description of the property transported. 



7. The rate or rates applied to the transportation. 



8. A statement of the nature, amount, and point of accrual of each 

 item of charge for stop-ln-transit. reconsignment. switching, car 

 service, storage, or any other charge incident to the transportation. 



9. Where such bills are presented to the consignee the.v should 

 also show the name of consignor, and date of arrival of shipment at 

 destination. 



The result of the inquiry will be the issuance of necessary orders bear- 

 ing on the question of freight bills. 



Forms New Company in Philadelphia 



The Hoban Lumber Company has been incorporated at Philadelphia 

 to do business in southern hardwoods, maple flooring, hemlock, yellow 

 pine, timbers, size, flooring and roofers, George M. Hoban and R. C. 

 DaCosta are the principals in the new company. Mr. Hoban was secre- 

 tary and director of the Carolina Lumber Company of Philadelphia up to 

 Feb. 15, at which time his resignation was accepted by that concern. 

 Mr. Hoban is a brother of J. E. Hoban of the Hoban-Hunter-Feitner 

 Company of Brooklyn, N. Y. He has had an extensive experience in 

 handling long and short leaf pine as well as hardwoods in the East. 



English All the Go 



The demand for English furniture and furnishings in the styles made 

 classic by the early cabinet-makers, still continues strong. The Georgian 

 period, including the work of Chippendale. Heppelwhite and Sheraton, 

 seems most in favor, probably because it lends itself more easil.v to the 

 uses of the day, probably because it gives the decorator a wider scope 

 in which to exercise his inventive and adaptive genius. The earlier E'ng- 

 lish styles, the Tudor, the Elizabethan .the Jacobean and. in some in- 

 stances, William and Mary, are reserved for special treatments where the 

 size and character of the room permits them to be used as they should. 

 The small, in the sense of compact, rooms of the modern city apart- 

 ment are not well calculated to hold the massive four-post beds, mantels 

 and fireplaces, chairs and tables of the Elizabethan and Jacobean type. 

 Such furniture requires unlimited space to be used advantageously. It is 

 interesting to note that the heretofore exceedingly popular Louis XVI. 

 style is giving away to bed-rooms, boudoirs and ball rooms done in 

 Adam, a style of decoration that is once satisfying and worthy when 

 used aright. 



Bill of Lading Rules Protested 



The Interstate Commerce Ci)uimissi.)n was reieully In receipt of a 

 petition from the Lumbermen's Association of New Orleans, protesting 

 against recently completed arrangement between steamship lines sailing 

 from New Orleans and the local rail lines. The arrangements had to do 

 with the issuance and treatment of shipments of forest products ou 

 through bills of lading from points west of the Mississippi river. It was 

 pointed out further in the petition that shipments on local bills are un- 

 justly discriminated against in favor of shipments on through bills of 

 lading. Under the new arrangement, the shipments on the through bills 

 enjoy certain advantages in the matter of free time allowances, addi- 

 tional lime for delivery in rail shipment and similar advantages which 

 the shipper on local bills does not have. It further says : "In legal 

 effect, there can be no distinction between shipments on through and 

 local bills of lading for export and no warrant of law for any difTerenf 

 treatment in the matter of demurrage, etc." In the petition, the com- 

 mission is asked to compel publication by the defendant lines of rules 

 which will effect just and equal treatment to shipments on through bills 

 of lading and on local bills of lading. Special Examiner Marshall of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission will preside at a hearing oi the case. 

 which will take place at New Orleans on Feb. L'T. 



Will Saw Deadheads 

 A mill has been i-rected on one of the dams at Merrill, Wis., in which 

 deadheads gotten from the river will be sawed under contract. The 

 arrangement of the mill is unusual. An upright engine is used for oper- 

 ating the rotary, to which the rotary shaft is attached direct. The eai-- 

 rie:- is operated by a pinion feed. The mill is also equipped with an 

 edger which, however, has only two saws. A slasher is further provided. 

 The boiler is located a short way from the mill and is supported ovei 

 the flre bj cross-arms. The mill crew consists of only three men. 



A Lumber Company the Goat 



A well-thought out swindliug scheme was recently frustrated when 

 the Chicago police apprehended Claude Knapp and F. L. Tarbell. Knapp 

 had been paroled from the Joliet penitentiary, and two days after the 

 beginning of his parole he opened offices in the Marquette building, Chi- 

 cago, Knapp's aptitude at figures gave him work in the bookkeeping 

 department at Joliet, and while there he learned that the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., had been selling exten- 

 sively to the prison. Upon gaining his freedom he immediately had bill- 

 heads printed purporting to be those of the Chicago ^branch of the 

 American Hardwood Lumber Company. 



Knapp then forwarded to one of his cronies at the prison, a magazine, 

 in the leaves of which was confined a billhead made out for a car of 

 expensive hardwoods amounting to considerable money. The scheme 

 had been worked out beforehand, and the man at the prison end forged 

 the name of the foreman of the department, marked the bill O. K., and 

 placed it with some others so that it went to the bookkeeping depart- 

 ment. The warden promptly wrote out and mailed a check for the 

 amount specified. 



The hitch came when the .American Hardwood Lumber Company actu- 

 ally forwarded the car to the penitentiary from St. Louis and sent a 

 bill When the first bill arrived the accomplice in the prison managed 

 to destroy it, but the second bill was received by the warden. 



January Cut and Shipments Northern Association. 



The cut and shipments for January, 11)12, and January. 1913, are 

 compared in a statement issued by the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association. The report contains returns from the same 

 fifty-six firms in both instances. It shows an increase in hardwood cut 

 of 59 per cent, and an increase in hardwood shipments of 20 per cent. 

 The increase in hemlock cut is three per cent, and the increase In hem- 

 lock shipments 17 per cent. The total increase in cut during the year 

 as noted was 30 per cent, and the increase in shipment during the .year 

 IS per cent. 



The total cut of all hardwoods in January. 1913. was 26,253,000 feet 

 and in January, 1912, 16,540,000 feet. Shipments of all hardwoods for 

 the same respective periods were 17,020,000 feet and 14,924,000 feet. 



The total cut of hemlock for January, 1913, and 1912, respectively, 

 was 19,049.000 feet and 18.435,000 feet. Shipments for the same re- 

 spective periods were 26.678.000 feet and 22.822.000 feet. 



Bulletin on Sanitation in Industrial Plants 

 The Industrial Commission of Wisconsin has been attracting consider- 

 able attention because of the able way in which it has been getting at 

 the solution of the many problems placed before it in the matter of the 

 relations between industrial employers and employes. It has covered 

 the ground comprehensively in many lines, and its latest effort has In- 

 volved the publication of a series of bulletins, one of which contains gen- 

 eral orders on sanitation. 



The bulletin enumerates the provisions for the laws on this subject on 

 the statutes of the state of Wisconsin. It further explains the provisions 

 of the law. and in short, places the matter concretely and clearly before 

 the industrial employers of the state, thus giviug them every aid in the 

 matter of carrying out the provision* as ordered in the sanitation act 



