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lock and hemlock bark conditions will be sent 

 to the members who are requested to fill in and 

 return to the secretary without delay. 



which he returned to his old employer, where he 

 has remained as the New York representative 

 until the formation of the firm of Howes & 

 Lawton. 



Wickes Brothers Issue New Stock List 



The April stork sheet of Wickes Brothers, ma- 

 chinery manufacturers and dealers, Saginaw, 

 Mich., is at hand. The catalog lists equipment 

 owned by this company and in its warehouses, 

 and covers in a comprehensive way every pos- 

 sible requirement of the users of machinery and 

 boilers. It should be a valuable reference cata- 

 log for extensive users of this line of goods. 



New Philadelphia Wholesale Concern 

 The firm of Howes & Lawton was organized 

 in Philadelphia on March 1 to carry on a wliole- 

 sale lumber business, with offices at 405 Crozer 

 building. The policy of the new concern will be 

 to handle a general line of lumber, including 

 both soft and hardwood. A specialty will be 

 made of North Carolina crating for the furni- 

 ture trade. 



George A. Howes, president of the new con- 

 cern, was initiated into business in 1868 when 

 he became office boy for Norcross & Sheetz, 

 wholesale commission merchants. His advance 

 in this concern was steady until its dissolution 



A Fine Lot of Cottonwood 



A recent visit to the mill of the Memphis Saw 

 Mill Company of Memphis disclosed the fact 

 that this concern is about to put on the market 

 some of the finest Cottonwood lumber which has 

 been seen in that vicinity for some time. The 

 representative of the Record was told that one 

 of the logs recently sawed required an 82 inch 

 cut for the slab. Others, almost as large and of 

 unusual quality, are being put through tlie mill 

 daily. In fact the logs now being manufactured 

 will run twenty-five per cent twenty-seven inches 

 and up. This is certainly an unusual thing for 

 present day logging. 



Mr. Brown as a member of the Board of Di- 

 rectors of the National association, .\mong the 

 Iccal speakers were E. B. Norman and S. E. 

 Booker of E. B. Norman & Co., and Edward S. 

 Shippen, head of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company. There was an unusually large attend- 

 ance at the dinner, covers being laid for thirty. 

 The visitors were entertained at luncheon at the 

 Country Club by A. E. Norman, head of the 

 Norman Lumber Company, and in the afternoon 

 witnessed a game between the Detroit and Louis- 

 ville baseball teams. 



.Vt the last meeting of the club steps were 

 taken to arrange for accommodations for the 

 Louisville crowd at the Memphis convention. J. 

 i;. Brown was in Memphis following the meeting 

 and made reservations at the Hotel Gayoso. 

 Louisville hardwood men will go to Memphis on 

 a special ear and will make a big noise, it is 

 assured. 



Activities of Louisville Hardwood Club 



The Louisville Hardwood Club bus Ih-cu aclivc 

 during the past few weeks, having entertained 

 officers and members of the executive committee 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 and started preparations looking toward making 

 a success of the trip of the local delegation to 

 the national convention at Memphis next month. 



Reorganization of F. T. Peitch Company 



rtne of the most interesting announcements 

 of the week is the reorganization of the 1'. T. 

 Peitch Company, extensive dealer in hardwoods, 

 with offices in the Wade building. Superior ave- 

 nue. Cleveland. O. .lohn L. Sands, for six years 

 in entire charge of the hardwood department of 

 the R. H. Jenks Lumlier Company, has joined the 



GEORGE A. HOWES. HOWES & LAWTON 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



W. N. L.\Wru.\. llclWES & LAWl'ON. I'MILA- 

 DELl'lllA, I'A. 



.lOHN L. SANDS. SECRETAltY F. T. PEITCH 

 COMPANY, CLEVELAND, O. 



in 18S0. The business was then carried along 

 by John A. Sheetz. with whom Mr. Howes re- 

 mained until the death of his employer in 1888. 



It was then taken over by Mr. Howes, who 

 continued along the same lines until 1902. He 

 retired at that time, taking up his residence on 

 the Coast, where he remained for five years. In 

 1907 he returned to Philadelphia and again re- 

 sumed his work in the lumber business on a 

 commission basis, at which he has been occu- 

 pied until the formation of the present concern. 

 Mr. Howes has been a member of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of Philadelphia for twenty 

 years, and for some time has been chairman of 

 the Office and Entertainment Commitee. He is 

 one of the best known and most generally liked 

 men in lumber circles. 



Wm. N. Lawton comes from the younger gener- 

 ation and has a reputation as one of the hust- 

 lers of the trade. He began as an office boy 

 with Thos. B. Hammer, who soon promoted him 

 to Inspector on the wharf, in which capacity he 

 served until sent by his employer to take charge 

 of a portable mill in Amelia county, Virginia. 

 Subsequently he was engaged for a time as sales 

 manager by the Tomb Lumber Company, after 



The executives of the association visited Louis- 

 ville on March 28. the local club giving a dinner 

 in their honor at the Scelbach Hotel. T. M. 

 Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany, also president of the local club, presided 

 over the festivities as toastmaster. The visitors 

 present included President F. A. Diggins. ex- 

 President O. O. Agler. Secretary Frank F. Fish, 

 Charles H. Barnaby and Earl Palmer, the latter 

 two members of the executive committee. 

 Speeches were made by all the visitors. Mr. Pal- 

 mer especially making an eloquent and forceful 

 address along the line of association work. The 

 subject of universal inspection was touched upon 

 by some of the speakers, their attitude being 

 that the National association is not opposed to a 

 .single system of inspection, but that they are 

 in control of the situation and can handle it. 

 They indicated that if properly approached, the 

 association would be willing to consider the 

 adoption of one inspection system. All of the 

 visitors paid a tribute to the flue work being 

 done by the Louisville Hardwood Club, which, 

 they said, had made the local market recognized 

 as one of the leaders in the country, and also 

 touched upon the excellent work being done by 



company and been named as secretary. George H. 

 Davenport and William Bolton of the Davenport. 

 Peters Company of Boston are respectively presi- 

 dent and vice-president of the concern and F. T. 

 Peitch is treasurer. 



Mr. Sands is one of the most experienced 

 hardwood men in this part of the country. He 

 began his lumber career with the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, being at its mills 

 for a time but later transferred to its main offices. 

 Six years ago he came to Cleveland and was 

 placed in charge of the hardwood department 

 of the R. H. Jenks Lumber Company. For the 

 past few years he bas been practically the only 

 man who understood the workings of that 

 branch of the Jenks company's business. 



The F. T. Peitch Company has taken new 

 offices in the Wade building, affording more room. 

 New capital has been added and the company Is 

 preparing to do business on a larger scope than 

 ever before. Mr. Sands takes with him to his 

 new position a number of men with whom he 

 was formerly connected. George Bayard, for- 

 merly with the R. H. Jenks Lumber Company, 

 has also joined the Peitch company as a sales- 

 man. 



