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the result lieing that (lie bulk of the company's 

 stock is marketed outside of ChicaKO. 



Fred A. Digsins of Cadillac, Mich., president 

 of the National Ilanhvood Lumber Association, 

 was a Chicago visitor last week. Mr. Digsins' 

 views as to association work and as to general 

 trade conditions and prospects for future busi- 

 ness were oqually optiiuistic. 



E. A. Thornton, president of tlie K. A. Thorn- 

 ton Lumber Company, Chamber of Commerce 

 building, Chicago, has returned from a two weeks' 

 visit to the Soutli. 



T. J. McDonald of the timber estimating !lrm 

 of Burton Kead & Co., East Tennessee Kank 

 building, Knoxville. Tenn., has .iust left Chicago 

 after a week spent among tlie timlier bond houses 

 and big timber holders of this city. Mr. McDon- 

 ald has been getting acijuainted and has lieen 

 making connections with several prominent con- 

 cerns of the city. 



T. F. Scanlon of the MeParland Hardwood 

 Company, Chicago, is in the city over the holi- 

 days, after an extensive buying trip through the 

 South. Mr. Scanlon reports having made a num- 

 ber of big purchasi'S and that red oak lumber in 

 any (juantity is hard to find. 



The H. M. Schmoldt Lumber Company of 

 Beardstown, III., has been succeeded l)y the An- 

 drews Brothers Lumber Company of the same 

 place. 



It is reported from Areola, HI., tiiat the I'ot- 

 ter Lumber Company has been organized at that 

 place to do a general lumber business, having 

 an authorized capital of .$l."i.(IUO. 



The Schlck-Jolinson Company of Chicago suf- 

 fered a $15,000 lire loss recently ; fully covered 

 by insurance. 



The Elgin Wagon Works of Dundee, III., has 

 l)een succeeded by the Dundee Manufacturing 

 Company. 



The D. M. Sechler Carriage Company of Moiine. 

 111., has changed its name to the D. M. Sechler 

 Carriage & Implement Company. 



J. S. Wilson of Utiea, III., has been succeeded 

 by the Utiea Lumber Company. L. M. Bayne, 

 the owner, has headquarters at Ottawa. 



Quixley & Bulgrin, two progressing lumbermen 

 ol Chicago, have incorijorated their business 

 under the style of the Quixley & Bulgrin Lumber 

 Company. The new company has $25,000 capital 

 and will do a general lumber manufacturing and 

 merchandising business. The incorporators are 

 W. II. Haight, Paul Corkell and J. A. Bell. 



The Lumber Shippers' Storage & Commission 

 Company, Chicago, is incorporated witli a capital 

 of $10,000. The new concern will carry on its 

 business as formerly, the incorporators being F. 

 W. Norwood, Q. Y. Hamilton and F. S. Bradley. 

 The Davis Adjustable Piano Bench Company, 

 which has a capital of $00,000, at Elkville, Nev., 

 has located in Chicago, being capitalized in this 

 state for $50,000. 



NEW YORK 



Lewis Dill of Lewis Dill & Co., Baltimore, 

 Md., and K. C. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 were in town during the fortnight. 



C. O. Shepherd, manager of the Davison Lum- 

 ber Company, lieadqiiartcrs 1 Madison avenue, 

 has just returned iiome after a trip to the 

 company's mill at Bridgewater, N. S. 



Knowlton Mixer of Mixer & Co., the well- 

 known wholesale house of BufTalo. N. Y., sailed 

 from here December 3 for Austria, where his 

 lamily has been sojourning for some lime. He 

 will be gone about two months. 



W. M. Stephenson, headi|uarters at St. Paul, 

 Minn., who is the supreme representative of the 

 concatenated order of Hoo-Hoo, is spending sev- 

 eral days in town. The duties of Mr. Sle|)heuson 

 consist of visiting the various jurisdictions for 

 the good and value of tlie Order and reporting 

 to the Supreme Nine regarding matters requiring 

 their allention. 



II. A. Batchelor, Jr., manager of the Ten- 

 nessoe Oak Flooring Company, Nasiiviile, Tenn., 

 arrived in port last week with Mrs. Batehelor, 

 after concluding their honeymoon trip. 



The piano manufacturing plant of K. G. 

 Harrington, 333-9 West Forty-ninth street, Man- 

 hattan, was damaged by fire entailing a loss of 

 $50,000, covered by insurance. 



The R. S. Coryell Lumber Company, whole- 

 salers of Newark, N. ■!., with a branch office in 

 this city, has just appointed E. A. Smith to Its 

 selling staff to look after the Long Island and 

 Brooklyn trade of the company. .Mr. Smitli 

 has been identified with the luml)er trade tor 

 many years. 



Everything is progressing nicely in connection 

 with the annual banquet of the New York Lum- 

 ber Trade Association, which occurs at the 

 Waldorf-Astoria on .January 2G next. Subscrip- 

 tions for tickets are coming in good and every- 

 thing points to a record attendance and a big 

 time. 



was incorporated December 14, with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. 



The Marlon Motor Company, Edgewater. was 

 incorporated on Decemlwr 14, under New ,Tersey 

 laws, with a capital slock of $100,000. 



The Great Eastern Lumber Company, Wilming- 

 ton, Del., was incorporated December 15, with 

 a capital stock of $4,400,000. 



The National Lumber Securities Company. 

 Wilmington, Del., was granted a charter Dc- 

 eember 15, under Delaware Laws. It has a 

 capital st<K'k of $1.')0,000. 



BUFFALO 



President Sykes, of tin- Emporium Lumber 

 Company, goes Soutli early in tlie year to look 

 after the sale of a heavy tract of hardwood tim- 

 Inr. which the company owns in Nortii Carolina, 

 jjart of whieli has already been sold. After 

 tliat he will probably go to Florida for a while. 

 The .lames H. Walsii Lumber Company is put- 

 ting into its yard stocks of birch, maple and 

 black ash. A switch to connect with the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad is being added to the com- 

 pany's facilities. 



The Buffalo Maple I'iooring Company has had 

 two cargoes of maple in this month from the 

 Boyne City yard and is now well stocked for 

 winter. 



F. W. Vetter has been ill and confined to his 

 home for some time, but is reported better and 

 is expected to return (0 business this week. Oak 

 and poplar are selling fairly well at his yard. 

 O. E. Yeager visited his mill in Kentucky 

 after his recent trip to Chicago, where he at- 

 tended a directors' meeting of the National as- 

 sociation. Mr. Yeager's son, Arthur, is recover- 

 ing slowly from his late illness. 



a. Ellas & Bro. are operating their door 

 mill with the usual good results and the box 

 business is a good second. .\ fair amount of 

 business is being done by the yard in spite of 

 inventor.v season. 



,J. N. Scatclierd has spint some time at his old 

 home farm in Canada lately. The office reports 

 that logs are running very short at the Mem- 

 phis mill, some of which will have to shut 

 clown soon unless the supply is better. 



A. Miller is putting in a good lot of maple, 

 cliestnut and oak lumber from tlie South and is 

 in the market for everything, as he has a good 

 assortment and has given up winter inventories, 

 finding .Tuiy much more suitable. 



The Hardwood Exchange did not meet last 

 week, but gave way to the general exchange, 

 which held a short session on routine affairs. 

 There is very little business of account before 

 •>ither exchange nowadays. 



PHILADELPHIA 



PITTSBURO 



Tlie Colonial Lumber Company, which has 

 been doing business In the House building for 

 two years, has been closed by order of the 

 court. A. .M. Fuller, with offices in the Frlek 

 building, ha.s been named as receiver. 



The J. C. Donges Lumber Company recently 

 placed some nice hardwood stock with the 

 .Michigan furniture manufacturers. This com- 

 pany reports an excellent demand for good 

 liirch, ash and hickory with prices advancing. 

 The Linelian Lumber Company announces a 

 better trade for the last two months, as well 

 as a better spirit among hardwood users. Its 

 reports from the East and the factories through- 

 out the middle states indicate a better trade 

 for next year. 



The Palmer &, Scmans Lumlier Company is 

 making a strong average this year due to the 

 energetic efforts of Sales Manager I. F. Balsley 

 in getting his force organized and his connec- 

 tions well worked up. 



The McDonald Lumber Company has been 

 getting some very nice trade in the East the 

 past few weeks. Its hardwood business is 

 growing steadily, and President Robert McDonald 

 believes that the coming year will show a con- 

 siderable improvement in general business. 



A. M. Kinney reports business enough to 

 keep his mills running all the time. Railroad 

 inquiries for ties and poles are more encour 

 aging and belter prices arc being received. 



The Shrcve Chair Company of Union City, 

 Pa., is increasing its capacity by installing 

 some expensive machinery in Its power plant, 

 one of the additions being a 450 horsepower 

 engine. 



The Pennsylvania Lumber Company has start- 

 ed an innoviitlon in Greater Pittsburg by carry- 

 ing a largo stock of selected walnut, ash and 

 hickory at its Nortli Side yards. Its sales re- 

 cently have justified the wisdom ol this course 

 and its trade with the furniture, wagon and 

 carriage manufacturers as well as with the plan- 

 ing mills in Tri-State territory is increasing 

 steadily and rapidly under the direction of 

 Manager William Hunter. 



The Pittsburg District gets another big plant 

 by the recent incorporation of the United States 

 Engineering & Manufacturing Company witli a 

 capital stock of $1,000,000. The company has 

 bought a site at Tarentum and will build a 

 plant at once to employ -'.OO men and to manu- 

 facture basin faucets, automobile wheels, rock 

 drills, nut locks, etc. 



Samuel Kovce, a lumberman, has just com- 

 pleted the job of cMitting ."cOO.OOO fc'c^t o( lum- 

 ber at Dimeling. Clearflcld county. Pa. 



A fire on December burned out the two- 

 story brick cigar box factory of F. Brecht. Ill 

 N. Orianna street, causing a loss of $10,000. 



Samuel G. Simmons, a lumber merchant, 

 uied at Wilmington, Del., on December IG, aged 

 sixty-eight years. 



The Motor Truck Company of Wilmington, 

 Del., obtained a charter under Delaware laws 

 DeccJmber 14. Its capital slock is $;{00.000. 



The Spayd Furniture Company of Philadelphia 



BOSTON 



The Providence Box is. Lumber Company of 

 Providence. R. I., is building a new plant, 

 which when completed will be modern in every 

 way. The main building will be 80x200 feel. 

 This will have one wing. 40x40 feel, and a 

 power house attached, 32x07 feet. 



Charles C. Travis, doing business as the Travis 

 Moulding Company, Boston, has assigned aiiout 

 two hundred shares In the Lord-Travis Com- 

 pany to Gardner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood 

 Company of Boston. 



Charles E. Bateheldcr, treasurer of the Bos- 

 Ion Lumber Company, recently delivered a lee- 



