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come my natural modesty and try to have some- 

 thins to say at each meeting of the exchange. — 

 Enill Guenther. 



liesolved. TImt I heartily endorse the above 

 resolution, anti trust that we may hear from our 

 beloved friend and fellow lumberman regularly. 

 — Harry Itliey. 



Resolved. That we are all thankful that there 

 Is a prospect of the railroads furnishinK a full 

 supply of car stakes and hope freight rates will 

 be so adjusted that all may secure a good grub 

 stake. — All-of fs. 



Resolved. That during the coming year I will 

 spend more time In promoting the musical fea- 

 tures of the exchange. — Frank Smith. 



Resolvwl. That Immediately after .Tanuary 1. 

 lOOS. I will welcome all salesmen representing 

 members of the exchange with open arms and 

 give them large and profitable orders, and take 

 their Inspection without question. — W. II. Lear. 



Resolved. That I will turn down all orders 

 'luring the coming year that show more than 

 ufty cents per thousand profit, as I feel that I 

 have robbed the trade sufficiently in the past. — 

 B. (". Currie, Jr. 



Resolved. That I will only attend Hermann's 

 gymnasium on ladies' day and increase my 

 efforts to land a wife. — Owen M. Bruner. 



Among those who made appropriate and happy 

 remarks on the outgoing of the old and Incoming 

 of the new year were K. G. Kay. Ned Hanson, 

 Ned Malone, Gus Cadwallader and Emil Guen- 

 ther. 



The friends of Frederick S. T'nderhill of 

 Wistar. I'nderhili & Co.. who suffered a sad 

 bereavement in the loss of a cherished mother, 

 who died the day before Christmas, would extend 

 to hitn their deepest sympathy : also they are 

 heartily glad to welcome him back to business 

 circles, after bis confinement at home with a 

 protracted illness. 



Owen M. Bruner Company are far from wor- 

 rying over trade conditions : they are doing some 

 business right along and have their men out 

 continually on the hustle. This concern, always 

 original in its New Year souvenirs, has sur- 

 passed itself this time in the selection of a 

 unifjue and serviceable desk blotter, made of a 

 stone preparation and mounted on a handsome 

 aluminum back. This blotter is practically 

 Indestructible. 



The friends of It. W. Schofleld of Schoflcld 

 Brothers will be glad to learn that he is able to 

 be out again ; he thinks he is gradually getting 

 rid of the blood poison, which always develops 

 whenever he goes near the forest. 



.1. (Jibson Mclivain & Co, have increased the 

 personnel of their firm by the admission of 

 Waiter Biddle Mclivain. The business will be 

 carried on under the old firm style. They report 

 things brightening up and feel confident that 

 business will soon show improvement. 



The Bolce Lumber Company, Inc.. are com- 

 placent over conditions. C. E. Lloyd, Jr., vice- 

 president, reports selling some goods every day 

 and expects brisk business siiortly. Mr. Lloyd 

 has just returned from Norfolk, Va., where he 

 has been looking over the stock situation. 



11. .M. Smith &. Co. are meeting conditions as 

 they arise. Benjamin C. Currie, Jr., of this con- 

 cern is satisfied that business will be fairly gt»od 

 this year, though conducted upon a more con- 

 servative basis than during the last few years. 



Righter-l'arry Lumber (Company admit that 

 business has been quiet for several weeks, but 

 they feel satisfied over their last .year's showing, 

 and from present indications believe 1008 will 

 show up well. 



t.'harles I". Felin & Co. report that they are 

 not only fairly busy in their plant but are ship- 

 ping goods right along. They look forward to 

 steady trading as soon as the spring season 

 opens. 



\V. II. Taylor of the Colleton Cypress Com- 

 pany, Colleton, S. C, manufai'lurers of cypress. 

 North Carolina pine and hardwoods, has opened 

 an office at 1M)2 Land Title building. Mr. 



Taylor has Just returned from an eastern trip 

 and reports that though things are quiet at 

 present the outliwik is encouraging. 



Henry H. Shelp Manufacturing Company was 

 again visited by fire, the third time during 1907. 

 Fortunately, it was checked In time and the loss, 

 therefore, was light. 



The iiuiuy friends of John B. Kaufman, city 

 salesman for W. II. Lear, who has been suffer- 

 ing recently with the grippe, will be sorry to 

 learn tliat he Is now laid up with typhoid fever. 

 It is not generally known that Mr. Kaufman 

 was the Intrepid courier who carried messages 

 during the Civil War for the famous generals, 

 Robert K. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. 



Frank T. Kuinharger has started in business 

 for himself and will temporarily occupy the office 

 on the southeast corner of the eighth floor in the 

 Harrison building, where be will handle hard- 

 woods, cypress and other woods and where he 

 will be glad to welcome bis friends. 



John J. Humbarger has removed his office to 

 G19 Harrison building. 



Fire recently destroyed the plant of the 

 Parkersburg Mill Company, Parkersburg, W. Va., 

 manufacturers of interior woodwork, entailing a 

 loss of about iflOO.dOli. 



Brunswick-Baike-Collander Company, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio, manufacturers and dealers in pool 

 and billiard tables, bowling alleys, etc., obtained 

 a charter under Pennsylvania laws on January 

 1, 1!I(IS ; capitalization. .$1..-)00.000. 



Thayer Lumber Company, Ridgway, Pa., was 

 incorporated under Delaware laws on December 

 23. with capital .$.-.0,000. 



IjC Karon Keifsneider, lumber agent of the 

 Pennsylvania Railroad Company for lines east 

 of I'ittsburg, came home from a business trip 

 December 2S. became ill early the next morning 

 and died. He was fifty-nine years old. He 

 entered the service of the Pennsylvania railroad 

 more than thirty years ago, gradually working 

 his way to his present position, which he held 

 for eight years. 



William A. Levering, at one time a wealthy 

 lumberman, died at his home in this city a few- 

 days ago. He was seventy years old. 



Baltimore, 



Much encouragement has come to the export- 

 ers in their fight for lower transatlantic freight 

 rates. As stated in the Habdwood Riscoud at 

 the time, various lines had served notice on the 

 exporters of an advance to go into effect at the 

 beginning of the new year and ranging from 2 

 to o cents per 100 pounds, the lowest rate being 

 from Baltimore and the highest from Norfolk. 

 The exporters promptly took up the matter, 

 filing a' protest and asking that the rates for 

 11107 be retained. This demand elicited a re- 

 fusal, the steamship men asserting that the In- 

 crease in the cost of operating steamers made 

 llie raise unavoidable. The exporters on their 

 part submitted statistics to show that there was 

 no need fur the increase on such grounds and 

 that the new rates would work great injury to 

 the Atlantic ports as against the Gulf, no ad- 

 vance liaving been made for New Orleans or 

 Mobile. A threat to Insist upon the old rates 

 anil, in tlie event of refusal, to make contracts 

 with ciunpanles willing to offer concessions, even 

 thougli It became necessary to divert shipments 

 from the Atlantic ports, had the effect of bring- 

 ing the railroads wliich wo\ild be affecteil by sui'll 

 a diversion of freight into the controversy, and 

 they asked for and obtained permission to sub- 

 n)lt the demands of the exporters to the steam- 

 ship people, perhaps offering some allowance of 

 their own and thus enabling the representatives 

 of the steamship companies to offer a reduction 

 without a complete backdown. The demands of 

 the exporters provided for an advance of about 

 1 I'ent per 100 pounds over the rates of 1007, 

 and the submission of the offer has been followed 

 by .several conferences with the railroad men 

 since then. The Southern, .Norfolk & Western, 

 Chesapeake & Ohio and other lines In particular 

 have bi'Cii drawn Into the discussion, and there 



Is every prospect of a favorable outcome. Last 

 week a conference was held at Washington In 

 the office of L. Green of the Southern railroad, 

 and It now looks as If the matter will be ad- 

 justed to the satisfaction of the exporters, who, 

 however, are aided by a drop In the freight 

 offerings, so that the steamship companies are 

 cutting rates as It Is. 



Governor E. E. Jackson of Maryland, who died 

 recently In Baltimore, was long Identified with 

 the yellow pine interests. Governor Jackson was 

 the son of a poor fatlier and when a youth 

 worked on a farm in Maryland, but soon took to 

 storekeeping and eventually became interested 

 In the lumber trade, to which he devoted the 

 balance of his life. He amassed a fortune 

 estimated at .?3,000,000, ail made In the lumber 

 business. The greater part of the estate was 

 distributed before Ills death between the three 

 sons and the two daughters and the widow. Only 

 $.10,000 remained to he apportioned by will. 



Pittsburg. 



Pittsburg lumbermen are taking a great in- 

 terest in the car stake hearing, which is set 

 for this month. They harfe been especially 

 active in forcing the attention of legislators to 

 this subject the past two years, among the 

 chief pushers in the fight being Fred R. Bab- 

 cock of the Babcock lumber interests .ind J. 

 L. Kendall of the Kendall Lumber Company. 



The Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Com- 

 pany has made some extensive repairs to its 

 plant at Dunlevie, W. Va., during the past 

 two weeks. The company has lately organ- 

 ized a subsidiary corporation to assist it in 

 handling its big southern operations. 



The W. E. McMillan Lumber Company has 

 got set fully into its harness and is prepared 

 to do a large share of hard pulling in the way 

 of getting good business this year. To get 

 things headed right at the start "Mac" has 

 started a branch office in Willlamsport, Pa., 

 with an experienced man in charge, and con- 

 templates establishing another office in Cin- 

 cinnati. 



Bemis & Vosburgh have added to their sell- 

 ing force C. F. Keener, who for years repre- 

 sented the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company 

 of Cleveland in this city. He is an experienced 

 hardwood salesman and will handle the trade 

 in eastern Ohio and the Pittsburg district. 

 This concern is having an excellent call for 

 spruce boxing lumber and finds the supply 

 very short. 



The Vigii.ant Lumber Company is selling its 

 share of hemlock, but. like other concerns in 

 this field, complains of the cuts which have 

 to be made ta get the trade. It is lining up 

 some excellent business for spring and is pre- 

 pared to deliver building lumber on very short 

 notice. 



President W. M. Pownall of the Colonial 

 Lumber Company finds business decidedly 

 slow In most lines, but looks for a steady 

 improvement from this time forward. He is 

 getting a few nice orders for hemlock and 

 is keeping In very close touch with the situa- 

 tion at the mills to be ready to get in the 

 front ranks when the call to "march" is heard. 



The Crescent Lumber Company, through Its 

 president, \V. A. Kessler. reports collections 

 very satisfactory this month. This firm has 

 been very fortunate in having a good line of 

 accounts and has been bothered comparatively 

 little with discounting paper. It is going after 

 the pole business with a determination that 

 Is bound to bring it some satisfactory busi- 

 ness before many weeks. 



The Newell Bros. Lumber Comptiny Is run- 

 ning its mill at Braucher. Vt'. Va.. and reports 

 some good imiulries for oak and hemlock. 

 It finds conditions In the east even worse than 

 in Pittsburg so far as collections are concerned 

 and does not look for any relief from the 

 banks there before February 1. 



The mills of the Babcock Lumber Company 

 at Ashtola. I'a., have resumed after the usual 

 ten days' holiday for Christmas. Over 100 men 



