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establishment of wood-working plants tliere, 

 and these institutions have flourished and 

 prospered until today Grand Eapids is known 

 as ' ' the furniture cit}'. ' ' 



Incident to the immense demand for hard- 

 ■wood lumber growing out of the furniture 

 manufacturing trade of Grand Eapids and 

 following the early white pine lumber opera- 

 tors, there has grown up in Grand Eapids a 

 large number of hardwood manufacturing and 

 jobbing houses. Many of these institutions 

 own timber lands either in the North or 

 South, and manufacture lumber with special 

 reference to the wants of the furniture manu- 

 facturer, wlule others are buyers of mill 

 stocks in various parts of the country, wliieh 

 they ship direct from points of production 

 to the various factories. Btill other institu- 

 tions maintain well-stocked yards from which 

 they market every variety of hardwood. The 

 Grand Eapids furniture trade is a large con- 

 sumer of mahogany, white oak, red oak. bass- 

 wood, birch, maple, elm, ash and beech, and 

 to a greater or less extent utilizes in the 



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various lines of production nearly every 

 variety of American and foreign hardwoods. 

 The city is also a large producer of veneers 

 and panel stock, barrels, boxes, crating mate- 

 rial, hardwood flooring, etc. 



The lumber dealers of Grand Eapids are 

 thorough believci's in the value of association 

 work, ami maintain a local organization 

 known as the Grand Rapids Lumbermen 's 

 Association, of which Carroll F. Sweet, presi- 

 dent of the Fuller & Eice Lvimber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, is president, and L. L. 

 Skillman of the Skillman Lumber Company is 

 secretary. The majority of the Grand Eapids 

 lumbermen are members of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, and B. E. 

 Thompson of the Thompson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ltd., of that city, is one of its direc- 

 tors. A second Michigan director is Edward 

 Buckley of the Buckley & Douglas Lumber 

 Companj' of Manistee. 



Eecently the Grand Eapids Lumbermen's 

 Association invited the Executive Committee 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 



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tion, as well as its Board of Directors, to 

 hold a business meeting at Grand Eapids on 

 Friday, Feb. 16, and to become the guests 

 of the local association at a dinner on the 

 evening of that date. The invitation was 

 accepted and a meeting of the officers and 

 Executive Committee was held for the trans- 

 action of routine business, which was devoted 

 largely to inspection affairs. Present at this 

 meeting were President Earl Palmer, Second 

 Vice President H. C. Humplirey, Third Vice 

 President C. E. Lloyd, Jr., D. F. Clark, W. H. 

 Eusse, W. W. Knight, J. W. Thompson, B. 

 E. Thompson, Edward Buckley, Gardner I. 

 .Jones, A. E. Vinnedgc, J. V. Stimson and 

 Secretaiy F. F. Fish. 



During the afternoon the visitors were 

 taken for a tour of inspection over the great 

 liigh-elass furniture manufacturing plant of 

 the Berkey & Gay Furniture Company and 

 afteiTvard, under the guidance of Purcliasing 

 Agent E. K. Prichett, were shown through 

 the model office furniture manufacturing in- 

 stitution, the Macej'-Wernicke Company. The 



A. R. VINXEDGE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



OTIS A. FELGER, GRAND EAPIDS, MICH, 



CHARLES A. PHELPS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



