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 guvernmeDt. I paid the prices set forth iu the various contracts. It was 

 purely a business transaction, and, so far as I linow, there was no wrong- 

 doing in connection with the transaction." 



Maurice M. Wall was spokesman for the Buffalo Lumber E.xchange at a 

 recent hearing on harbor development before the city council and prom- 

 ised the co-operation of lumbermen in any plans to improve the harbor. 

 Congressman S. Wallace Derapsey was present and said that as a member 

 of the rivers and harbors committee he would endeavor to obtain govern- 

 ment aid for the improvements much needed here. 



Mark Cummings, head of the Mark Cummings Lumber Co., is spending 

 some days on a trip to Chicago and one or two southern hardwood markets. 



Fire on July 16 caused ?50,000 damage to the Lambert lumber yard, 

 Welland, Ont., the loss being partly covered by insurance. Part of the 

 yard stock w-as destroyed and a sawmill and planing mill burned. The dry 

 kiln was seriously damaged. 



BALTIMORE 



Little progress has so far been made by the lumber firms which suf- 

 fered losses by the fire ou June 23 to restore the damage. The yard of 

 James J. Lannon, hardwood dealer, is still to be restocked, but Mr. Launon 

 is now making arrangements to duplicate bis stocks and otherwise get in 

 6hape. He was one of the heaviest losers by the fire. The Mann & 

 Parker Lumber Company, located about midway between the two fires, 

 sustained a slight loss, but heavy damage was prevented by the shed 

 covering piles of hardwoods, and the roof of which w^as constantly kept 

 wet. Several hundred dollars will cover the loss of this corporation, which 

 would have been hit far harder but for the protection afforded by the shed. 



Robert Kerschner of the Black Mountain Land Company of Bluff City. 

 Tenn., and the W. C. White Lumber Company of Cumberland. Md.. which 

 corporations are controlled by the same interests, has been transferred 

 from Bluff City to Cumberland and is covering the eastern territory. He 

 stopped in Baltimore last week and saw some of the hardwood men there. 



The Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Company has been operating 

 its big plant in Baltimore, which turns out cabinets for the machines put 

 on the market by the Columbia company, of late, employing from 300 to 

 400 persons. Considerable quantities of hardwoods are consequently being 

 consumed. 



Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, on the advice of his physician, has gone on a vacation of two 

 weeks to New York, where he is stopping with one of his sons. Mr. Dick- 

 son, since his return to the office of the association in the Knickerbocker 

 Building after the attack of illness which kept him confined to the house 

 about five weeks last spring, found such an accumulation of work that he 

 was obliged to tax his strength, and a rest is now regarded- as necessary. 



Roland Perry, one of the men mentioned in the proceedings of the Gov- 

 ernment at Washington against various lumber concerns and individuals, 

 charging fraud in the disposal of the lumber stocks accumulated by the 

 Federal authorities during the war, is well known in Baltimore, having 

 been for a time connected with the Mann & Parker Lumber rompany. 



CINCINNATI 



R. E. Brown, manager of the Detroit. Mich., sales office of the Atlas 

 Lumber Company, resigned that position recently. Mr. Brown, who had 

 been in charge of that office for the past year, is interested in the Brown 

 Trucking Company of Detroit. Ue contemplates expanding the company's 

 business and in view of this fact he felt that it could not be successfully 

 accomplished without him giving it his entire devotion, therefore he 

 thought it best to surrender his lumber connection. The Detroit office will 

 be abandoned, E. M. Bonner, general manager of the company said, but 

 the trade there will be worked from the Cincinnati offices. 



On July 10 the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company held its annual outing 

 for its employees at Coney Island, a summer resort located on the Ohio 

 River, about ten miles east of Cincinnati. The day was marked by nu- 

 merous events, especially a hard-fought baseball game between the hard- 

 wood yard and the mill, in which the latter were returned the victors by 

 the score of 3 to 0. H. J. Pfeister, president, and W. J. Eckman, secre- 

 tary of the company, occupied the roles of umpire and scorekeeper, respec- 

 tively. This sporting event included fifty, one hundred and one hundred 

 and fifty yard dashes for men and women, peanut, sack and thread and 

 needle races. The athletic events were supervised by F. N. Stanforth, 

 John Droste, Thomas Sterrett and C. N. Conzett. At the dinner in the 

 evening, at which more than three hundred employees, their families 

 and friends were present, prizes were awarded to the winners of the 

 various athletic events by Messrs. Pfeister and Eckman. W. A. Newell 

 was voted the most popular employee and for this honor he also was 

 awarded a prize, 



Cincinnati lumbermen sent messages of condolence to Fred Conn, presi- 

 dent, of the Bayou Land and Lumber Company, on July 14, when they 

 learned of the death of his mother in the South. 



Leland G. Banning, president of the Leland G. Banning Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cincinnati, accompanied by his wife, left July 15 for a three 

 months' tour of Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Banning contemplate visiting all 



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