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The Germania llanufucturinj; Coiiipauy has started business at Wil- 

 mington. Del., for tile purpose ol' manufacturing furniture. This company 

 has a capital stock of .$200,000. 



The National Mill Work & Supply Company has started in business at 

 Cleveland. O., with $10,000 capital. 



The Findlay Table Manufacturing Company of Toledo, O., has been put 

 in hands of E. L. Groves as receiver. 



The Unique Furniture Manufacturing Company of Zanesville. O.. 

 recently bankrupt, is now in the hands of Frank A. Hunter as receiver. 



The Morgan Kuu Land & Lumber Company has Iwen organized at 

 Clarksburg, W. Va. 



=-< CHICAGO y 



C. L. Willey, the well known manufacturer of fancy wood veneers and 

 lumber, whose mills are located at Chicago, sailed from New York on 

 July 1, accompanied by his wife, for a three months' trip to England. 

 France and Germany. Mr. Willey will motor through these three coun- 

 tries, having shipped his machine ahead. In addition to the business side 

 of the trip, which involves his regular purchases of high-grade fancy wood 

 of various kinds. Mr. and Mrs. Willey will devote considerable time to 

 sight seeing and other pleasure seeking. 



Definite plans have been made for the joint annual picnic of the 

 Lumberman's Association of Chicago and the Lumbermen's Ciub of Chicago, 

 as announced in the last issue of n.\.EDWOOD Record. The picnic will take 

 place at Northwestern Park. Des Plainos. 111., on July !.">. this park being- 

 thirty minutes ride from Chicago on the Chicago & Northwestern Kailroad. 

 A special train will leave the Northwestern depot at :4.") a. m.. slopping 

 at Clybourn Junction, and returning at :30 p. m. There will also be a 

 special car for the use of the memljers on the 1 :30 p. m. train returning. 

 ■Meals can be bought at the park. 



The tirst number of the lirst volume of the OfH<ial Bulletin of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, covering the month of June, has 

 .iust bei-u issued. The bulletin covers the recent sixteenth annual con- 

 vention of the association and various other pertinent information. 



H.iRDWoOD KECOitD had the pleasure of a call a few days ago from 

 J. M. Maris of the Claris & DeWitt Lumber Company. Philadelphia, who 

 is visting his daughter in Chicago. 



J. A. Levings, president of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company. 

 Moorhead. Miss., is spendiii.g this week with the loca! trade. 



The National A\'holesale Lumber Dealers' Association has .just issued a 

 pamphlet, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, giving a list of 

 members, oflicers and various committees, and the board of trustees of 

 the association. 



The Lawndale Sash & Door Company has been incorporated at Chicago 

 with a $15,000 capital stock. 



Wiederhold Lumber & Manufaeturiug Company is the style of a new 

 incorporation at Park Ridge, 111. The company has a $2,000 capital. 



C II. Worcester, head of C. H. Worcester & Co.. Association building. 

 Chicago, sailed for Europe on July S for a two-months' tour. Mr. Wor- 

 cester was accompanied by his wife, and together they will make an 

 aut<)mobile trip through England and Scotland. 



M. L. Pease of the Gallowa.v-I'ease Lumber Company. Poplar Bluff. Mo., 

 spent several days of last week with the Chicago trade and seemed to be 

 in rather a favorable fi-ame of mind as far as the prospects for the 

 lumber business are concerned. 



II. W. Nordyke of the Adams & Raymond '^'encer Company of Indian- 

 apolis spent July 7 with the local trade, having spent the three-days' 

 holiday in this city. 



A. H. Vaughan. secretar.v of Lew-is Thompson & Co., Philadelphia, spent 

 last week with tlie local trade. 



The annual summer dinner of the Chicago Furniture Manufacturers' 

 .Association was held on Thursday evening, June 26, at the Blackstone 

 hotel. Chicago. Various notable speakers were present and many matters 

 of interest to the trade were brought up. 



Chief Forester Henry S. Graves. Capt. J. B. Adams, in charge of 

 operations; W. D. Greeley, chief of silviculture; Earl H, Clapp. assistant 

 chief of silviculture, and O. T. Swan, head of the office of industrial 

 research, all of the Forest Service. Washington, D. C, have been in the 

 city for the past few days. Mr. Graves. Captain Adams and Mr. Clapp are 

 headed for the national forest in the west, while Mr. Greeley and Mr. Swan 

 ■ire going East. 



=-< NEW YORK y- 



'I'll*' w-ar of the non-union trim manufacturers against the Carpenters' 

 T'nion goes merrily on. and last week saw a new case filed similar to the 

 P.ussert and Newton cases. The Tisdale Lumber Company of Astoria was 

 granted a temporary injunction against the unions, restraining them in 

 their chief activities, which, it is alleged, were persuading union carpenters 

 not to work on material furnished by the Tisdale company. The Tisdale 

 shop has always been an open one. some of the men being members of the 

 union and some unafliliated. 



It was announced from the offices of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Cor- 

 IMiration in this city that the board of directors has authorized the building 

 committee to proceed with the rebuilding of the plant recently destroyed 

 by fire at Georgetown, S. C. The announcement was made following the 

 directors' meeting. 



The French Broad Lumber Company has opened an office in this city 



at 1389 Broadway under the management of Gouverneur E. Smith, who has 

 been identified with the wholesale trade of the Metropolitan district. 



Walter E. Johns of the Johns-Mowbra.v-Xelson Company, hardwood 

 wholesaler of Cincinnati, was a visitor in New York during the fortnight. 



E. C. Mershon of w. B. Mershon & Co.. resaw manufacturers of Sagi- 

 naw, sailed from New York on the French line steamer "France" for his 

 usual vacation abroad. He was accompanied by his sister. Miss Elsie 

 Mershon. 



R. H. Downman. prominent New Orleans lumberman, and the new presi- 

 dent of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, was in New 

 York recently in the interest of business. 



Raymond W. Storm, brother of George H. Storm, and Frank D. Roy- 

 lance were recently admitted to partnership in George H. Storm & Co., 

 promment hardwood flooring distributors of this cit.v. Both the new 

 partners have been identified with the business for many years, and Mr. 

 Roylance has been associated with Mr. Storm practically from the latter's 

 start in the business at Bridgeport. Ala., over twenty years ago. While 

 George H. Storm has not retired from business, the new partners will 

 relieve him of a vast amount of business detail and he will devote much 

 of the future to travel and his favorite pastimes. It is just fifteen years 

 since Mr. Storm began on his own account in this city, and he has built 

 up a business in hardwood flooring that gives his firm a high place in 

 that line of activity. Tlie success of the business has been due to his 

 energy and iudustr.i. and now with some of the responsibility on other 

 shoulders he can take his vacations without worry. 



=-< BUFFALO y- 



The receipts of lumber at this port ran over .j.000.000 feet ahead of 

 last year on July 1. the figures being respectively 32.806,028 feet and 

 27,466.289 feet. 



Jackson & Tindle are setting up their double band mill on the big pur- 

 chase made in northern Ontario last year and expect to have it running 

 early in July. The tract is operated under the corporate name of the 

 New Ontario Colonization Company and is largely timbered with spruce. 

 Quite an amount of lumber has already been sawed and shipped from there. 



11. L. Abbott, manager of the Atlantic Lumber Company, who lately 

 took a lease of part of the Seatcherd yard, now has over 1.000,000 feet of 

 various hardwoods piled up there. 



James A, White has given up his office in the White building and will 

 now manage the eastern sales department of the W. H. White Company as 

 before, retaining his Buffalo residence. 



F. M. Sullivan has returned from an eastern business trip, finding busi- 

 ness rather quiet, although the yard is getting in quite a stock of hard- 

 woods, especially oak, and shipping out an amount of brown ash. 



Anthony Miller states that the hardwood trade is rather dull and that 

 not much lumber is being received on this account. Buyers, he states, are 

 holding off just now in the hope of securing stock at lower prices. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company calls business a little quiet 

 this month : through the East and in Canada there is a holding up of 

 orders on account of a money market stringency. 



O. E. Yeager's yard has been laying in stocks of wide poplar and maple 

 at favorable prices. The receipts in these woods have been quite large 

 lately. 



-< PHILADELPHIA > 



At a recent meeting of the creditors of the Floyd-Olmstead Company a 

 committee composed of Joseph H. Sykes, representing W. A. Wilson & 

 Sons. Wheeling, W. Va., chairman ; J. S. Williams, an attorney, and 

 .Arthur W. Kent of the J. S. Kent Company, was appointed to close up 

 the affairs of the company. 



George E. Bartlett. formerly sales manager of James Strong & Co.. has 

 set up in the wholesale lumber business for himself at 522 North American 

 building. He will also act as special agent for the Buck & Snodgrass 

 Lumber Company. Johnson City. Tenn. 



Sheldon G. Magargal, son of Samuel H. Magargal, 319 Montrose street, 

 died June 27. aged twenty-five years. He was associated with his father 

 in the lumber business. 



The W. R. Taylor Lumber Company reports sales equal to usual trading 

 at this time of the year.. It confesses to a want of vim in the buying 

 market, but is optimistic as to outlook. 



Robert W, Schofleld of Schofleld Brothers, who recently returned from a 

 trip to the Saltkeatchie Lumber Company, Schofleld, S. C, which is con- 

 trolled by his firm, says the plant has been shut down for two weeks for 

 semi-annual repairs. The company has a good .stock of desirable lumber 

 on hand and is making no effort to get rid of it. Business is more quiet 

 just now. but this is tile generally accepted quiet season. 



Frank E. Schofleld is spending some time at the Honaker Lumber Com- 

 pany's plant in Honaker, Va. J. B. Lahr, the popular New England sales- 

 man of this house, was recently operated upon for appendicitis. He is 

 rapidly improving and hopes soon to be in the field again. 



The Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will hold its 

 annual summer meeting and outing at the White Marsh Valley Country 

 Club house, through the courtesy of J. W. Turnbull of the J. W. Turnbull 

 Lumber Company, on July 10. A golf game, which will be arrapged for 

 those inclined to this sport, will start at 1 :30 p. m. A dinner will be 

 served at <i :Mii, afler which the regular meeting will be held. 



W. II. \\'y.iH. of the Jackson-W.vatt Lumber Company, is more opti- 



