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visits to tlie trade. Mr. McSweyu reports a 

 good volume of business, and very satisfactory 

 trade conditions in siglit. 



Henry Ballou, managm- of Cobbs & Mitcliell. 

 Inc., Cadiilac, Mich., accompanied by liis wife, 

 spent a day in Cliicago last week en route for 

 an extended trip to the Pacific coast. Mr. 

 Ballou has been in bad health for some weeks,, 

 and his principals insisted that he take a two 

 months' leave of absence in a warmer climate 

 to thoroughly recuperate from his arduous work 

 of the past years. 



W. W. Dings, secretary and sales manager 

 of the G^retson-Greason Lumber Company. St. 

 Louis, Mo., spent some days among the Chicago 

 ' trade last week, and reports having the best 

 business in this market that he has had for 

 several years. 



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A'fiVV YORK 



The only development of the fortnight of 

 special moment in the great legal battles now- 

 waging in the courts here between the American 

 Anti-Boycott Association and the Carpenters' 

 union, as previously reviewed in this correspond- 

 ence, was the decision of the New York State 

 Supreme Court, which denied the application 

 of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners 

 an injunction to restrain the American Anti- 

 Boycott Association from furnishing legal ad- 

 vice and other services to its members. 



The Ideal Wood Manufacturing Company, 31.j 

 Fourth avenue, Manhattan, and factory at 317 

 East Ninety-fourth street, has filed a petition* in 

 bankruptcy with liabilities of $9,901 and assets 

 of $4,000. 



Fire on the night of Jan. 12 did $23,000 dam- 

 age to the big lumber yards of Hardy, Voorhies 

 & Co., Grand street and Newtown Creek, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. 



H. P. Lambert has been admitted to partner- 

 ship in the well-known wholesale firm of Sim- 

 mons Brothers, 68 Broad street, by C. W. Sim- 

 mons, the surviving partner of the house. Mr. 

 Lambert has been identified with the house for 

 many years. 



Hamilton H. Salmon & Co., SS Wall street, 

 announce that they have just opened a large 

 wholesale distributing hardwood yard in the lake 

 front section of Buffalo, where they will carry 

 1,000,000 feet of all classes of stock for quick 

 shipment to the eastern trade. 



Walter Sharp of Churchill & Sims, prominent 

 lumber merchants of Liverpool and London, Eng- 

 land, recently arrived in this city for the pur- 

 pose of making a tour of tho American lumber 

 manufacturing centers. 



H. D. Bowen, for many years prominent in 

 the wholesale flooring trade, has engaged on his 

 own account under the style of H. D. Bowen & 

 Co., with offices at 1 Madison avenue, this city. 



BUFFALO 



Henry Feist, carpenter builder, son and suc- 

 cessor of the late John Feist, has been elected 

 president of the Builders' Exchange. 



Fire caused a damage of several thousand dol- 

 lars to the Peterson Handle Factory and the 

 Warren Chair Works at Warren, Pa., on Jan. 

 IS. The lumber stock is said to have been 

 destroyed, while the dry-kiln was also seriously 

 damaged. The loss is covered by insurance. 



F. M. Sullivan has been making an Eastern 

 business trip, spending several days in New 

 York. The local trade of T. Sullivan & Co. 

 has been keeping up to a good standard this 

 month. 



A. .T. Elias appeared before the Railroad Ter- 

 minal Commission on .Ian. 16, making sugges- 

 tions at the hearing given on toVminal prob- 

 lems. He said the whole subject should be taken 

 up as a unit. He has been a shipper here for 

 thirty-one years. 



M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lum- 



ber Company makes the prediction that the 

 first half of 1912 should show some very satis- 

 factory results in the hardwood line, with the 

 last half perhaps not so good. 



Hugh McLean leaves the last of this month 

 for Memphis, where he will spend some days 

 on business in connection with the company's 

 mill. 



President A. W. Kreinheder of the Hardwood 

 Exchange, presided over the first meeting of 

 the year on Jan. 13. A number of matters were 

 considered, including the subject of through 

 rates on lumber. 



I. N. Stewart's term as director of the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce expired this months but he 

 retains his interest in its proceedings and will 

 no doubt take an active part in its affairs under 

 President Yeager. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager has lately com- 

 pleted its inventory for the year, finding a very 

 romplete assortment of poplar among other 

 stocks. 



President James A. White, whose Buffalo 

 Maple Flooring Company's plant is moving to 

 Boyne City, Mich., expects to remain a Buffalo 

 lumberman and will soon open an office uptown 

 to look after the flooring trade. 



Anthony Miller continues optimistic concern- 

 ing the year 1912, and expects to move a good 

 Quantity of hardwoods, in which he has about 

 as well assorted stocks as any of the yards. 

 Basswood and elm are in good supply. 



PHILADELPHIA 



A now incorporation, which went into effect 

 on Jau. 2. is the Woodcliff Lumber Company, 

 owned and officered by the four members of the 

 firm of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. J. Gibson 

 Mcllvaiu is president ; Walter B. Mcllvain, vice- 

 president ; Hugh Mcllvain, treasurer ; J. Gibson 

 Mcllvain, Jr., secretary ; and C. T. Dews, man- 

 ager. The secretary states that the company 

 has about 1,000 acres of timber at Monterey. 

 Putnam county. Tenn.. which will yield nearly 

 10,000.000 feet, mostly hardwood, in which is 

 a very large proportion of excellent quartered 

 oak and poplar, and some of the finest chestnut 

 ever placed on the market. A band mill is being 

 erected and the plant will commence opera- 

 tions in about sixty days. 



Howard B. France, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Monarch Lumber Company, continues lenient 

 as to trade conditions. W. T. Latham, vice- 

 president of the company, who has charge of 

 the manufacturing end of the business, which 

 is conducted as the Haddock-France Lumber 

 Company at Mount Sterling, N. C. reports the 

 demand for lumber in excess of the supply. Mr. 

 France speaks confidently of a virile trading for 

 the new year. 



The Henry C. Patterson Company. Glenwood 

 avenue and Dauphin street, has passed into new- 

 hands, the charter and property having been 

 purchased by the Whiting Lumber Company. 

 The business will be carried on hereafter as the 

 Henry C. Patterson Company. Frank R. Whit- 

 ing, president, Chapin L. Barr, vice-president, 

 Albert W. Wasey, secretary and treasurer, and 

 W. S. Whiting will compose the board of direct- 

 ors. The yard will be provided with a shedding 

 for the protection of about 1,000.000 feet of hard- 

 wood flooring and will be conducted as a storage 

 and retail yard. 



Fisher Dalrymple, secretary and treasurer of 

 the S. B. Vrooman Company, Ltd.. reports a 

 diminished activity at the present time, but 

 regards the outlook favorable for expanded 

 trading. 



R. W. Wistar of Wistar, Underbill & Nixon 

 says his firm has acquired the property in which 

 their yard is located In Nashville, Tenn., secur- 

 ing to them a storage capacity for about 10.000.- 

 000 feet of lumber. 



The old and well-known firm of Eli B. Hallo- 

 well & Co., carried on for years by Eli B. Hallo- 

 well and Ralph Souder. assumed on Jan. 1.5 the 



new firm style of Hallowell & Souder. The new 

 name involves no change in personnel, being in- 

 tended only to give greater publicity to R. 

 Souder. The firm testifies to a fairly responsive 

 business. 



The J. S. Kent Company has appointed R. E. 

 Boyd to take charge of its interests in New 

 York state. Mr. Boyd is a well-known figure in 

 the New York field. 



On Jan. 6 the firm of Howes, Lawton & Rus- 

 sell became Howes & Russell, William N. Lawton 

 liaving retired. Mr. Howes reports a reduced 

 trading during the last fortnight. 



The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company, 

 controlled for many years by Jerome H, Sheip 

 and Asa W. Vandegrift, will soon be no more. 

 Its affairs are awaiting settlement by litigation. 



The Rupp Chair Factory was visited by fire 

 on Jan. 15, causing a damage estimated at $3,000. 



The Penn Swing & Ladder Company, Lancas- 

 ter, Pa., was chartered under Delaware laws Jan. 

 12, with a capital stock of $50,000. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad has announced that 

 it is planning to spend about $40,000,000 in the 

 next few years upon local improvements in ter- 

 minal and interurban stations, trackage, im- 

 proved coaches for commutation and various 

 other lines. 



PITTSBUROH 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company reports 

 I hat it has been able to get better prices on 

 several grades of lumber than it did three 

 months ago and Mr. Hastings believes that the 

 situation will improve gradually right along. 



F. W. Havenar. formerly of the W. P. Craig 

 Lumber Company's force, will hereafter handle 

 the delivery trade for the Duquesne Lumber 

 Company. F. W. Havenar. Jr., will also work 

 western Pennsylvania for this company. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company has been 

 strengthening its hardwood connections and Is 

 going into the new year with the best equipment 

 it has ever had. It has added to its force 

 W. A. Schmidt, who for twelve years had been 

 office manager of the Flint, Irving & Stoner 

 Lumber Company. It has also put on as sales- 

 man R. A. Stimely, formerly with the Traxler 

 Lumber Company of New Y'ork. who will travel 

 Ohio, and George Whitehead, formerly with the 

 Crossett Lumber Company of Arkansas and 

 Louisiana, who will travel western Pennsyl- 

 v.-".nia, and George Fawcett. formerly with the 

 W. P. Craig Lumber Company, who will work 

 the city trade. 



E. H. Shreiner of the E. H. Shreiner Lum- 

 ber Company was down in North Carolina and 

 West Virginia last week buying stocks. He Is 

 well satisfied with the outlook for the coming 

 year's business. 



H. M. Jackson of the Aberdeen Lumber Com- 

 pany made a very successful trip through West 

 Virginia and Kentucky last week and bought con- 

 siderable stocks of hardwood. He reports prices 

 on the rise and stocks at the mills very low. 



H. E. Ast, hardwood manager of the Amer- 

 ican Lumber & Manufacturing Company, had 

 a cold time down in West Virginia recently buy- 

 ing stocks. He found conditions at the mills 

 badly shaken up and a complete line of hard- 

 wood in any line very hard to get. 



The Freehold Lumber Company is now well 

 established at 610-611 Keystone building. Rob- 

 ert Garrison is president: C. S. McCleary. sec- 

 retary and treasurer. 



BOSTON 



The White River Valley Lumber Company. 

 Boston and Stockbridge. Vt.. has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital stock of $50,000 by J. E. 

 Safford. M. Belland and Geo. M. Faulkner. 



The George A. Paul Lumber Company, Inc.. 

 Boston, has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000 for the purpose of manufac- 



