from the meager advices that have been re- 

 ceh'ed by his friends it is understood that he 

 has spent most of his time in a hospital al 

 Liverpool. Those Liverpool nurses must bi* n 

 very attractive bunch. 



J. W. Thompson, the pnpular hardwood man of 

 Mempliis. is housed at the Annex for a lew dav- 

 Mr. Thompson has a very considerable trade in 

 the Chicago market and both ho and his Ininber 

 are prime favorites here. 



S. P. C. Hostler of 314 Giddings sti-eet, ('hi- 

 <*ago, who has represented the Advance Lumber 

 Company of Cleveland here for many years, will 

 not only handle the product of this house during 

 lOOG. but will also sell the output of several oT 

 the allied sawmills of that company as weil ;is 

 of some outside concerns. 



Henry C. Christy, president of the Advance 

 Lumber Compjmy of Clevehind, has been obliged 

 lo take a vacation from business on account of 

 ill health, and is now at Hot Springs, Ark. 



The writer has a letter from Jerome H. Sbeip. 

 \ icegerent snark for the eastern district of Penn- 

 sylvania, announcing a Hoo-Hoo concatenation at 

 the Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia, Sat- 

 urday, Jan. 13. commencing at 4 :30 p. m.. to be 

 followed by a dinner at the Bourse -restaurant. 

 After the dinner an on-the-roof session will be 

 pulled off. It goes without saying that a Phila 

 delphia concatenation under any circumstances is 

 worth while, and this one promises to be a show 

 that no lumberman who can possibly get to 

 Philadelphia should miss. 



The Johnson & Knox Lumber Company, a 

 hardwood house with general offices in the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce building, this city, was forced 

 into involuntary bankruptcy on Saturday, Jan. 

 (), incident to suits for a considerable sum being 

 filed against it by the Michigan Maple Com- 

 pany and the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company. 

 This house has been in business for several years 

 and was originally the W. S. Johnson Lumber 

 Company. Something over a year ago Reuben 

 Knox became identified with the corporation, 

 but be retired from it about sis months ago. 

 The statement of assets and liabilities has not 

 yet been issued. It has been known for some 

 time that the Johnson & Knox Lumber Com- 

 pany was in financial straits, but it was hoped 

 that the concern would be able to pull through. 

 Mr. Johnson has long been identified with the 

 hardwood trade, and has the sympathy of many 

 friends in his embarrassment. 



Boston. 



W. H. Chester of W. U. Chester Company, one 

 of the best known lumber dealers in Boston, has 

 returned from a trip to Colorado. He was ab- 

 sent about a month. 



Wendell F. Brown of Wendell I'. Brown & Co. 

 has returned from a trip to the Pacific coast. 



William E. Litchfield, the liardwood expert, 

 returned about Christmas from a business trip 

 to Ohio and Indiana. 



The firm of Weilman, Hall & Co., 53 State 

 street, has been dissolved and the Hall Lumber 

 Company has been organized. The latter com* 

 pany is composed of Morris A. Hall and J. B. 

 Hall. This company has taken a suite of otHces 

 in the Employers' Liability building, corner of 

 Broad and Water streets. J. M. W. Hall of the 

 old tirm has an ollice with the Hall Lumber 

 Company and is attending to the affairs of the 

 ^lacJiias I;umber Company. 



Edward Moffat has become associated with 

 the Curtis & Pope Lumber Company. 



Pope & Cottle of Chelsea have opened an oflice 

 in Revere, Mass. They found this step necessary 

 in order to take care of their increasing business. 



:Mr. Walker of James Walker & Co.. Bangor. 

 Me., was in Boston recently. 



Samuel Wade Spofford. treasurer of the J. F. 

 Paul Lumber Company, died recently at the Hotel 

 Canterbury. Boston, after an illness of about 

 three weeks. Mr. Spofford was well known in 

 lumber circles. He owned a large farm in Stongh- 



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ton, Mass., wbei-e he lived (lie grealer part nt' 

 I he year. ITe i.s survived b.v a widow. Tlie 

 I'uneral was held from the home of his brotlier- 

 in-law and business associate, W. M. Paul. 



The Smith mill in .\Iilford. N. H.. has In'.-n 

 destroyed by fire wilh a total loss to bnililinu 

 and stock. The factory was used for the nianii 

 I'acture of window sash. 



The .Jamaica Lumber Company has purchased 

 i;50 acres of standing spruce, hemlock and hard- 

 wood near Winhall Station, Vt. 



Work will soon begin on the addilion to the 

 wood turning plant of E. !>. Estes & Son. Han- 

 cock. 



The W. A. I-'uller I.timbei- Company of Leo- 

 minster, Mass., will open a lumber yard in Fitch- 

 burg, Mass., in the spring. This com'pany re- 

 cently completed one nt the finest lumber sheds 

 in the East. 



Ballou & McColley have purchased the lumber 

 business of the late Henry M. Raymond of Win- 

 chendon, Mass. 



F. n. Osterhaus. superintendent of the Colonial 

 Mill & Lumber Company of South Norwalk. 

 Conn., has severed his connection with this com- 

 pany. 



C. M. Williams of Norwalk, Conn., is contem- 

 plating the erection of a large general wood 

 turning plant. 



tlotchkiss liros. & Co. of Torringtou. Conn., 

 have purchased a tract of timber comprising 

 about 3.(100 acres in Kew Hampshire. 



The Veneer Box & Panel Company is erecting 

 a large mill in Greenville, Me. A concrete power 

 house will also be erected. 



New York. 



The rCew York Lumber Trade Association has 

 just secured from the New York Fire Insurance 

 ICxchange a reduction in insurance rates as fol- 

 lows : On softwoods, from $1 to SO cents : on 

 hardwoods, mahogany, logs and staves, from 60 

 cents to 4.5 cents. This action results largely 

 from the work of a special committee which 

 compiled figures showing that during the past 

 ten years the trade had received in the payment 

 of fire losses only fourteen per cent of the total 

 premiums. These rates mean a saving of about 

 twenty per cent to the local dealers. 



January 11 the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission will hear the arguments in the case of 

 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' .Asso- 

 ciation against the various trunk line railroads 

 which seek to compel the former to furnish their 

 car stakes and equipment. W. W. Ross, late 

 counsel for the Lackawanna, w^ill represent the 

 association. 



.Tnhn T. Dixon, the hardwood manufacturer of 

 Elizabethton, Tenn., and a principal in the firm 

 of Dixon & Dewey, this city, was a recent vis- 

 itor. Harlow S. Dixon, his son. was lately mar- 

 ried to Miss Sophia Hunter of Elizabethton. 



'J'he following new lumber corporations have 

 cuitered the local field : 



Holcomb & Caskey Lumber Company. Capital. 

 .S,"iO,000. Incorporators : Richard E. Holcomb. 

 riushing : Clayton R. Caskey. White Plains ; 

 iJeorge W. Henderson. Halifax. Nova Scotia. 



H. W. Ehriches, Incorporated. Capital, $250.- 

 000. Directors : C. Schrieber. Brooklyn : F. L. 

 Arnold, Orange. N. J., and B. Van Buskirk. Hack- 

 cnsack, N. J. 



John H. Boynton & Clark Company. Capital. 

 .•SIO.OOO. Directors : J. H. Boynton. Passaic. 

 N. J. ; G. B. Clark and H. W. Clark, New York. 

 Suami Lumber Company of the United States. 

 Capital. .«;i00,00O. Directors : Charles Johnson. 

 Alexander Berg and F. N. Whitney, New Y'ork. 



Charles F. Fischer Lumber Company. Capital. 

 .$80,000. Directors : W. K. Fisher, John King 

 and C. B. Reid, New York. 



Semon. Bache & Co., exporters, announce a 

 removal to West and Hubert streets, where they 

 will continue to represent J. Bach of Hamburg. 

 Germany. 



H. A. Singer, 92 St. Nicholas avenue, Manhat- 

 tan, who represents the American Hardwood 



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Lumber Company of Si. l.onis. has returned from 

 a trip to mill points in IVnnsylvania, Ohio and 

 Indiana, and reports conditions strong and prom- 

 ising. 



The big annual turnout of ihc New Y'ork 

 Lumber Trade .Association will occur at the 

 '.■\aldorf, Jan. 23. The Westchester county deal- 

 ers will feast at the Astor on the 24th. 



The Hubbell liardwood D'oor Company has 

 been organized at New Kochelle. N. Y., with a 

 capital of $20,000, by H. M. Hubbell, Derby, 

 Conn. : Frank A. Bennett. Mount Vernon, N. Y'.. 

 and Louis V. Ensinger. New lioehelle. N. Y. 



Baltimore. 



An effort will be made by the members of 

 the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo in this city 

 to bring the national meeting to Baltimore next 

 year. The movement will probably receive formal 

 sanction at the concatenation called to take place 

 at the Merchants' Club on Jan. 11. This event, 

 it is thought, will 'bring together practically the 

 full membership, and George E. Waters, the new 

 head of the local body, has plauned a very inter- 

 esting meeting. 



The lumber yard at Canton and I'alls avenue, 

 formerly occupied by Wilson & Hunting, and 

 which was owned by E. B. Hunting, has been sold 

 to W. Louis Rowe & Co., who will make their 

 headquarlers there. The purchase ^ives this 

 firm additional facilities of which they have 

 stood much in need. 



Information was received here from Bluefieids. 

 W. Va., that the large dry kilns of the W. M. 

 Hitter Lumber Company at Panther burned to 

 the ground last Friday, some 4,000,000 feet of 

 dressed hardwoods being also destro.ved. The 

 damage is placed at .$100,000, offset in part only 

 by insurance. The company, which has its prin- 

 cipal ofBces at Columbus, o.. will suffer no espe- 

 cial embarrassment on account of the fire, as it 

 owns mills in Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee 

 and Georgia. What caused the Are is not known. 

 All doubt as to the quiet in the export trade, 

 at least as far as this city is concerned, must 

 disappear before the figures given out by the col- 

 lector of the port, which show that in 1904 

 there was forwarded from here not less than 

 50,338.000 feet of lumber, while last year the 

 total of shipments did not exceed 39,240.000. A 

 large portion of this total represents hardwoods, 

 which were greatly affected by the unfavorable 

 conditions abroad. 



Pittsburg. 



Hardwood wholesalers are finding a very prof- 

 itable market this year with the manufacturers 

 of automobiles. The body for the ordinary four 

 or five passenger auto contains as much wood 

 as two or three carriage bodies. 



The new operation of the Pennsylvania Lum- 

 ber Company at Marion, Va., is progressing finely 

 under the direction of Manager F. K. Bradshaw. 

 who was until recently in charge of the com- 

 pany's Pittsburg oflice. The mill on the plant 

 has been running three years, but it is being 

 taxed to its utmost capacity to take care of the 

 big logs that are being hauled in from the com- 

 pany's new tract adjoining. 



The H. R. Walter Lumber Compauy. .Allegheny. 

 is the agent of the International Mahogany 

 Company, n^hich is shipping considerable lumber 

 into this territory from its Cuban and Mexican 

 properties. A yard storage of 2.500.000 feet 

 gives this firm an exceptional advantage in hand- 

 ling dry lumber and its trade Is increasing rap- 

 idly. 



J. C. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Company 

 is back from a two weeks' tour in the South. 

 He notes that stocks of hardwood are quite a 

 little larger and that the car situation is con- 

 siderably relieved. 



W. E. McMillan is now in full charge again of 

 the Pittsburg office of the McMillau Lumber 

 Company and is pushing things hard to make up 

 for his long absence last year due to his injuries 

 received in the Pennsylvania railroad wreck at 

 Ilarrisbnrg. 



