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hlbition rooms at 18 Broadway, this city, and 

 now occupies the entire front of the building on 

 the ninth floor. The local office has also opened 

 a special work department under the manage- 

 ment of F. W. Edwards. This company now 

 operates four separate warehou.ses in Greater 

 New York. 



The Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, large 

 St. Louis (Mo.) house, has closed out its local 

 offices at 1 Broadway and requests all future 

 correspondence to he directed to the St. Louis 

 headquarters. 



Fire on Oct. 7 totally destroyed the planing 

 mill and lumber yards of the Westchester Wood 

 Working Company at Starling and Sand streets, 

 Bronx, entailing a loss of $60,000. 



There was a special meeting of the Executive 

 Committee of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association, headquarters 66 Broadway, 

 on October 11, at which all the members were 

 present, namely : President F. R. Babcock, 

 Pittsburg, Pa. ; F. E. Parker, Saginaw, Mich. : 

 Nelson H. Walcott, Providence, R. I. : Gordon 

 C. Edwards, Ottawa. Can. : Lewis Dill, Balti- 

 more, Md. The committee had under considera- 

 tion departmental work and numerous matters 

 of importance to the association. Everything 

 was reported to be progressing satisfactorily. 

 The committee decided to hold the nest annual 

 meeting of the convention on W^ednesday and 

 Thursday, ^lar. 6 and 7, the city to be decided 

 later. 



G. E. Smith, prominent wholesale hardwood 

 lumberman of this city, bead of G. E. Smith & 

 Co., 17 Battery place, has been elected a di- 

 rector of the First National bank of Port Jeffer- 

 son, L. I. Mr. Smith has for years been a di- 

 rector of the First National bank of Mineola and 

 for some time a stockholder in the First National 

 bank of Port Jefferson. 



At the meeting of the creditors of George J. 

 Kennedy, wholesale lumber, 1 Madison avenue, a 

 committee was appointed to go oyer a proposi- 

 tion offer by Mr. Kennedy of a twenty per cent 

 settlement. The liabilities are estimated at 

 .$22,000 and the assets at $10,850. 



F. A. Kirby, sales manager of the Cherry River 

 Boom & Lumber Company, headquarters at Scran- 

 ton, Pa., large manufacturer of West Virginia 

 spruce and hardwoods, was in this city a day 

 within the fortnight visiting J. W. Oakford, 

 president of the company at the local office, 1 

 Madison avenue. 



F. B. Gardner of Jacksonville, Fla., represent- 

 ing the cypress department of the East Coast 

 Lumber Company, Watertown, Fla., was a busi- 

 ness visitor a few days ago. Mr. Gardner and 

 R. H. Paul of the East Coast Lumber Company, 

 are principals with B. J. Marsh in the newly or- 

 ganized Flint River Cypress Company, at Albany, 

 Ga.. which has just bought a choice boundary 

 of cypress timber in that vicinity and has begun 

 the construction of a modern sawmill plant at 

 that place. The product of the new company will 

 be handled by Mr. Gardner from headquarters 

 in Jacksonville. 



BUFFALO 



Mention of O. E. Yeager's name for president 

 of the Chamber of Commerce finds favor among 

 the lumbermen. It is likely that Mr. Y'eager will 

 be promoted to that office from the vice-presi- 

 dency, as no one has worked harder than he to 

 promote the city's interests through this or- 

 ganization. His connection with the national 

 organization has made him many friends among 

 the trade through the country, who will be glad 

 to learn that he is in line for the chief office 

 in Buffalo's largest commercial body. 



H. A. Stewart returned about the middle of 

 last month from a month's stay in West Vir- 

 ginia, where he looked after shipments of hard- 

 woods at the assembling yard of I. N. Stewart 

 & Bro. 



G. Ellas states that water shipments for this 

 season by G. Elias & Bro. are practically over and 



iiave been about up to the usual amount. A 

 good deal of stock is coming in by rail. 



F. W. Vetter reports a fair month's business 

 in hardwoods, as the result of a display of more 

 effort than is sometimes I'oquired to move lumber. 

 Oak and ash have been the chief movers. 



A large quantity of oak, chestnut and poplar 

 were received at the yard of the Standard Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company toward the end of last 

 month and stocks now are well assorted. 



Hugh McLean left near the end of last month 

 for New Brunswick, Canada, on a hunting trip, 

 expecting to go into the woods far enough to 

 bring down some large game. 



M. M. Wall spent part of last month in the 

 West, going as far as Denver, and attending the 

 meeting of the prison commission at Omaha, 

 Neb. John W. Welsh has been representing the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company in Chicago. 



Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling state that trade 

 has shown improvement in the last two or three 

 weeks, and while not as busy as desired the yard 

 is constantly moving out some hardwoods. 



Pheasant shooting has lately been occupying 

 the spare time of F. M. Sullivan of T. Sullivan 

 & Co. and he spent a few days last month, when 

 ihe season opened, looking after this sort of 

 game in Canada. 



The National Lumber Company notes improve- 

 ment in demand for hardwoods within the last 

 few weeks, especially for maple, birch and oak, 

 and a fair sale for chestnut. 



The yard of A. Miller is carrying a good as- 

 sortment of lumber, but is still adding stocks 

 from the West and Southwest and better trade 

 is looked for soon. 



PHILADELPHIA 



On November 1 the office of the Hadentine 

 Lumber Company, now located at 810 Arcade 

 building, Philadelphia, will be removed to the 

 northeast corner of Sixth and Penn streets, Cam- 

 den, N. J. This involves no change in the busi- 

 ness of the concern in any way, but the removal 

 is made so as to permit being in closer touch 

 with H. R. Humphreys, who is allied with the 

 Hadentine Lumber Company, and is also the 

 treasurer of a corporation that controls a chain 

 of grocery stores in Camden and surrounding 

 territory. For expediency the offices of the two 

 interests have been combined. The Hadentine 

 Lumber Company w'ill continue to act as sales 

 agents for the Norva Land & Lumber Company, 

 manufacturer of gum, poplar. North Carolina 

 pine, cypress and hardwoods. 



W. A. Murray, vice-president and sales mana- 

 ger. Tomb Lumber Company, says a fair amount 

 of business is coming in constantly. The com- 

 pany's live mills are running full capacity and 

 are turning out some excellent oak. Harry B. 

 Tomb, president, has been somewhat indisposed 

 at his summer home in the Mountain district 

 near Jersey Shore, Pa., but will return to his 

 office in a few days much improved in health. 



Wistar, iTJnderhill & Co. say that business is 

 reasonably satisfactory, considering generally un- 

 settled conditions. Mr. Underbill, who has just 

 returned from a two weeks' stay at their mill in 

 Evergreen, N. C, says the plant is working to 

 full capacity, but it is difficult to secure satis- 

 factory labor as there is a general call for men 

 in the cotton fields. He says they are cutting 

 as fine a bunch of long leaf yellow pine timber 

 as he ever has seen, many of the trees running 

 eighty feet before striking the limbs. 



John J. Rumbarger of the John J. Rumbar- 

 ger Lumber Company, reports the booking of 

 some good orders during the last three weeks, 

 but says there is still room for business im- 

 provement. Mr. and Mrs. Rumbarger spent a 

 few days in New York recently celebrating the 

 anniversary of their wedding. 



Jame=; Strong & Co., Inc., report business more 

 brisk of late, but volume still below expectation. 



Daniel B. Curll says business Is fair, consider- 

 ing complex conditions. 



William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., are fairly busy. 

 E. M. Bechtel, sales manager, says unrelaxed 

 hustling is sure to bring orders. 



Among the recent visitors to the trade were: 

 10. E. Wheeler, Wheeler Lumber Company, Erie, 

 Pa. ; W. Lee Jack, treasurer Weston Lumber 

 Company, Weston, W. Va. ; Robert C. Webster, 

 Huntsville Lumber Company, Decatur, Ala. ; John 



E. Dorasta, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, Cin- 

 cinnati, O. ; E. E. Dale, Wilson Lumber & Milling 

 Company, Lenoir, N. C. 



Schofield Brothers report steady business, with 

 no complaint at the selling end. Robert W. 

 Schofleld is spending some time at the Salt- 

 keatchie Lumber Company's mill, at Schofield, 

 S. C, in which locality it is found difficult to 

 procure good labor. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & 

 Son. says although a fair amount of business 

 is coming in, the volume is below normal for 

 this time of year. Mr. Shearer does not expect 

 much increase in trade during the winter months. 



Jliss Frances Yardly Craig, daughter of George 



F. Craig of George F. Craig & Co., extensive 

 lumber firm of this city, married at the Bryn 

 Mawr Presbyterian Church, on Oct. 7, Alexan- 

 der M. Warner. Mr. Warner will take his bride 

 to Oklahoma, where he is in business. 



The Eureka Motor Car Company, Scranton, 

 Pa., was incorporated Oct. 6, with a capital of 

 .$25,000. • 



The Variety Turning & Furniture Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Tnion City, Pa., obtained a char- 

 ter Oct. 14. capital .$15,000. 



The Illlnsworth Resinate Timber Corporation, 

 Wilmington, Del., obtained a charter Oct. 16, 

 capital $500,000. 



A charter was granted the Linden I/umber 

 Company, Linden, N. J., Oct. 17, capital .$20,000. 



PITTSBURG 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company, is moving off some good orders of 

 gum and cottonwood. He bought this stock in 

 large quantities late in the summer and is making 

 attractive prices to big consumers. 



The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has 

 announced that it will soon be in the market for 

 4,500 freight cars. This is another indication 

 that the steel mills will be busy this winter. 

 Both the Standard Steel Car Company and the 

 Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburg, Pa., 

 have lately received some large orders for cars. 



Lumbermen of this city were very enthusiastic 

 in their support of E. V. Babcock who was re- 

 cently nominated at the primaries for city coun- 

 cilman. They also contributed liberally to his 

 campaign fund. He is making a splendid record 

 as a city councilman as he has always done in 

 any public position. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation at a recent meeting went on record 

 almost as a unit in favor of supporting with lib- 

 eral contributions the work of the newly organ- 

 ized Pittsburg Industrial Development Commis- 

 sion which has established offices on the top floor 

 of the Farmers Bank building. Wholesale firms 

 all over the city are sending in their checks this 

 week as the first assessment toward this object. 

 No movement that has been started in Pittsburg 

 for years has received so cordial commendation 

 as this and wholesalers believe that with F. F. 

 Nicola, a former Pittsburg lumberman, D. L. 

 Gillespie, J. M. Hastings and Oscar Babcock 

 actively engaged in this movement the lumber in- 

 terests are bound to profit by it before many 

 months. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company has 

 completed its big mill at Frenchton, W. Va., and 

 is cutting about 35,000 feet a day, a large part 

 of the output being hardwood. It is doing an 

 exceptionally good business in the East this year. 



H. E. Ast, hardwood manager of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, has gone out 

 through the central West this week to get in 



