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Company, which has located in cozy quarters on 

 tlie third floor of the House building. Mr. Do 

 Voss was formerly a member of the Curll & Lytle 

 Lumber Company, having been connected with that 

 firm for many years and later becoming a partner 

 in the J. L. Lytle Lumber Company. He is a 

 thoroughly experienced office man and has also 

 had an all-around lumber experience. The firm 

 has the best wishes of a host of lumbermen in 

 the Pittsburg district. 



.T. N. Woollett reports a very fair business in 

 cypress and Cottonwood for the Aberdeen Lum- 

 ber Company, of which he is president. He made 

 a very successful trip to the West lately. 

 'Trices are not advancing any at present," he 

 said. 



Herbert R. Mosher, who has been for several 

 years traffic manager of the Furnace Bun Saw- 

 mill & Lumber Company, has resigned that po- 

 sition to become traffic and sales manager of the 

 Crown Wall Plaster Company of Braddock, Pa. 

 He will have his headquarters in Pittsburg. 



The Avella Lumber & Supply Company is a 

 new concern at Washington, Pa., organized by 

 L. M. Irwin, S. S. Campbell, W. J. and J. R. 

 Brown of that place to do a general lumber 

 business. 



Some of the Pittsburg wholesalers who at- 

 tended the Hardwood Manufacturers' convention 

 at Cincinnati last week were W. D. Johnston, 

 president of the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company ; J. L. Linehan of the Linehan 

 Lumber Company : ,T. N. Woollett, president of 

 the Aberdeen Lumber Company ; Robert Allen of 

 the Willson Brothers Lumber Company and Hard- 

 wood Manager Aust of the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company. 



The Mead & Speer Company announces better 

 sales in nearly all stocks, especially No. 1 com- 

 mon poplar, which is a little slow at present. 

 Its plant at Strange Creek, W, Va., is doing well, 

 considering the high water and deep snows. 



The F. W. Crane Lumber Company is pound- 

 ing away at its big operation in Kentucky and 

 has recently been making excellent shipments of 

 hardwoods. Its eastern trade is especially good 

 and Mr. Crane believes that the situation is 

 gradually Improving, 



The McDonald Lumber Company Is finding a 

 better business, although things are not at all 

 brisk as yet. President R. A. McDonald is 

 spending this week in northern Pennsylvania. 



H. T. Lincoln of the firm of Bemis & Vos- 

 burgh has returned from a three weeks' vacation 

 in Cuba and the Isle of Pines. He reports bet- 

 ter sales and a fair amount of business at fair 

 prices. 



The H. v. Curll Lumber Company shipped 

 about eighty cars of oak and poplar last month 

 from its big plant at Glenray, W. Va. Its total 

 cut for the month was over 1.000,000 feet. Mr. 

 Curll is satisfied that poplar prices are going to 

 advance. 



BOSTON 



William E. Litchfield, one of the best known 

 dealers in hardwoods in Boston, has recently 

 been elected a trustee tor three years of the 

 Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association 

 of Boston. Mr. Litchfield has been a member 

 of this association for many years and deeply 

 appreciates the honor that has been conferred 

 upon him. The first president of this associa- 

 tion was Paul Revere, who was the prime mover 

 In organizing the association. 



The Palmer-Hunter Lumber Company, Boston, 

 Is beginning to import birch in cargo lots from 

 Cape Briton. The first cargo consigned to it 

 was wrecked. 



Mr. Stark of the American Column & Lumber 

 Company, St. Albans, W. Va., has been a recent 

 visitor in this market. 



Edward Downes of the Downes Lumber Com- 



pany, Boston, is out of the city and will not 

 return until about the first of March, 



The Lumber Trade Club of Boston held its 

 annual meeting Thursday evening, February 9. 



The Greenrtale Lumber & Supply Company of 

 Worcester. Mass., has been incorporal'^d with a 

 capital stock of $25,000. M. L. Foster, the well- 

 known lumber merchant of Worcester, is inter- 

 ested in the new company. 



Charles Warren Richardson of the firm of 

 Richardson, Dana & Co., lumber dealers, Port- 

 land, Me., died suddenly late in January at the 

 age of sixty-eight years. He had been in the 

 lumber business all of his life, his first connec- 

 tion being with the Berlin Mills Company. 

 ,4fter a few years he began under his own name 

 and in 1872 went to Portland, Me., where he 

 organized the firm of Richardson, Cross & Co. 

 In 1805 the name was changed to Richardson, 

 Dana & Co. 



The Waite Chair Company has been organ- 

 ized in Augusta, Me., with a capital stock of 

 yi.f'iO.OOO. One of the incorporators is Gilmau 

 WaitP of Terapleton, Me. 



Byron B. Moulton, Inc., of Boston, has been 

 incorporated with a capital, of $5,000 to conduct 

 a general woodworking business. 



BALTIMORE 



Joseph D. Virdin of the Canton Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city has been appointed receiver 

 for William B. Gardiner and the Gardiner Lum- 

 ber & Supply Company of Annapolis. Md. The 

 receiver was appointed after the company had 

 been adjudicated a bankrupt on a creditors' pe- 

 tition, filed by the Canton company, the Mor- 

 gan Mlllwork Company and Walker & Myers, 

 all Baltimore concerns. The Gardiner Lum- 

 ber & Supply Company has l>een engaged in 

 construction work at Annapolis and surround- 

 ing territory, and its diflaculties grew out of 

 building operations. 



Robert McLean of the Norva Land & Lumber 

 Company is among the exporters who take a 

 rather conservative view of the foreign outlook. 

 He recently stated, in discussing the situa- 

 tion, that political conditions in the Fnited 

 Kingdom did not favor any material expan- 

 sion, and that in fact, as far as he could 

 observe, none had occurred. There were more 

 inquiries for some grades and kinds of lumber, 

 but the market as a whole still lacked ab- 

 sorptive power to a considerable degree. 



H. J. Munro. senior member of the well- 

 known Liverpool firm of H. J. Munro & Co.. 

 hardwood importers, recently visited the local 

 trade. He later proceeded to Memphis in time 

 to see some of the delegates to the annual meet- 

 iuT of the National Hardwood Exporters' Asso- 

 ciaticn, and it was his intention after that to 

 continue on to New Orleans. 



Much satisfaction is expressed among hard- 

 wood exporters here regarding the decision taken 

 at the annual meeting of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association at Memphis to have a 

 foreign representative stationed at some con- 

 v.r-nient point in Europe to look after the in- 

 t' rests of the members abroad. It is thought 

 that by such a means much can be accom- 

 plished toward putting the export business 

 upon a satisfactory basis. The opinion among 

 members of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association here is that the representative se- 

 lected should l>e an American thoroughly familiar 

 with lra;'e conditions in this country, and also 

 acquainted with foreign customs and usages. 

 It is considered highly important that he should 

 possess firmness and tact in dealing with deli- 

 cate situations, and that he should have the 

 ability to gain the confidence of the foreign 

 buyers as well as the shippers. 



It is noted with much gratification among 

 the memlwrs of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Associafion here that the quantity of lum- 

 ber inspected last year by the inspectors of the 

 organization exceeded that of 1009, It had 



been predicted that the quantity inspected In 

 December would fall off materially on account 

 of the closing of lake navigation and other 

 (•anses, lint the last month in the year showed 

 a decided gain. The increase in the volume of 

 hiinl'ir offlcially inspected is regarded as a 

 great tribute to the excellence of the inspec- 

 tion, to the increasing confidence which the 

 bureau commands among buyers and sellers, 

 and the augmented eflieiency of the corps of 

 inspectors. 



Richard P. Baer of Richard P. Baer & Co. 

 of this city is on a trip South which will take 

 him as far as the mill operated by his firm 

 at Mobile, Ala. 



CLEVELAND 



Arch. C. Klumph, manager of the Cu.vahoga 

 Lumber Company, was elected president of the 

 Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers at its 

 meeting held a few days ago. Mr. Klumph 

 is one of the most active among the younger 

 lumbermen of the city and a leader as well in 

 work at the Builders' Exchange, where he Is 

 chairman of the Entertainment Committee. 

 E. M. Carleton of the MUls-Carleton Company 

 was elected vice-president and J. V. O'Brien of 

 the Southern Lumber Company, secretary and 

 treasurer of the organization. It is planned 

 to broaden the scope of the organization con- 

 siderably during the next year. 



The Willson Avenue Lumber Company, having 

 received damages in full from the city in con- 

 nection with the grade crossing elimination 

 work done near its property, is now preparing 

 to extend its yards and to erect several new 

 liuildings, which have been needed for some 

 time. 



The Highland Lumber Company is now the 

 name of the concern which for several years 

 has been known as the Norris Lumber Com- 

 pany. A number of improvements have been 

 made to the company's plant in the extreme 

 West End and considerable new stock installed. 

 Irving W. Jones is the new manager of the.. 

 concern. 



The Miller-Wells Lumber Company has re- 

 moved its olBces to 1252 Rockefeller building, 



G. A. Prescott of Tawas, Mich., associated 

 with his brothers in the Saginaw Bay Company, 

 with headquarters here, was a visitor in Cleve- 

 land during the past week. 



The I'utnam Lumlwr Company, with offices 

 in the Williamson building, reports a steady 

 d.'mand for hardwoods, but hopes for an increas- 

 ing business as the spring building industry 

 iipeiis up. 



Tlie building record for Cleveland for Janu- 

 ary eclipsed all former years and the building 

 fraternity look for a banner year in that line. 



E. L. French, formerly with W. A. Cool & 

 Son Lumber Company of Cleveland, but now 

 sales manager for the Adier-May Company of 

 .\tlanta, was in Cleveland a few days ago. He 

 reports business as being quite brisk in the 

 Soiitli and looks for n bii; year in hardwoods. 



COLUMBUS 



The stave and handle plant operated by 

 Jesse Cook at .\da, O., was totally destroyed 

 by fire ri'Cently. The loss is about $5,000. The 

 plant, which has been in operation for a 

 year and a half, will Ix? rebuilt. 



W. I,. Whitacre of the W. L. Whitacre Lum- 

 ber Comjiany left early in February for a two 

 weeks' trip through the South. 



.Vt the annual meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Central Manufacturing & Lumber Company 

 of Marietta, the following offlceis were elected: 

 A. W. Humphrey, president : C. C. Mld- 

 dbswarth, vice-president : G. E. Hayward, sec- 

 ri't.iry and genera! manager, and W. J. Cram, 

 treasurer. The report for the year showed up 

 very well and a dividend of ten per cent was 



