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to the sale of Pennsylvania hardwoods, but expects Inter on to enter the 

 New Hampshire hardwood trade again. 



The Yeager Lumber Company reports .January business as fair, but there 

 is not much activity to hardwood trade just af present. The yard is 

 receiving a fair amount of cypress tliis month. 



The Hugh Mclx>au Lumber Company states that its Birmingham and 

 Memphis mills are running again and tliat there is a pretty good demand 

 for the better grades of quartered oak. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have purchased ,il>out 2,000,000 foet of brown ash for 

 delivery this season. This wood is moving fairly well at preseut. F. M. 

 Sullivan has returned from a trip to the mills in Michigan. 



Anthony Miller finds the hardwood trade running along at about the 

 same rate as two or three weeks ago. 



:< PITTSBURGH >.= 



The Western Lumber Company l.as added to its force of salesmen George 

 W. Haines, who was until lately one of the partners in the Ellwood Lumber 

 Company of this city. He will work the eastern and Ohio manufacturing 

 trade for this concern. 



The Mutual Lumber Company, a leading hardwood concern, reports good 

 business with the manufacturing firms and is getting some very nice orders 

 from the automobile concerns. Prices are just about on the level with 

 those of January 1. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company finds business, and especially inquiries, 

 a little better. There is no big gain but a steady improvement, which 

 seems to indicate more business later on. 



The United Furniture Manufacturing Company has been organized with 

 capital of ^25,000 at Port Allegany, Pa., to manufacture pedestals and 

 tabourets. 



The Johnston-Davles Lumber Company reports business a little slow. 

 It is selling some piling and mixed hardwoods, but prices are cut pretty 

 bard. 



The C. E. Breitweiser Lumber Company, which has been in business 

 three years in the Bessemer building, has moved its offices to the First 

 National Bank building, where it has very fine quarters. 



President W. D. .lohnston of the American Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company reports business a little hard to get and good prices especially 

 hard to secure. He believes there will be considerable improvement be- 

 tween now and April 1, but doesn't look for any boom. 



The Dailey & Allen Lumber Company is finding southern mills pretty 

 bullish on prices. Tliis company has made excellent connections for 

 southwestern hardwood stocks and will push them hard this year. 



The Adelman Lumber Company has made a fine connection for red 

 cypress with a big Louisiana firm and is arranging to go right after this 

 business in tri-state territory this year. It reports business just fair, 

 with yard trade dragging. 



The J. W. Cottrell Lumber Company recently bought 9,000 acres of 

 hard^vood timber on the Norfolk & Western railroad and will ship it from 

 Lipscomb, Va. Included in the deal is a splendid sawmill, a lumber rail- 

 road with locomotives, and a fine commissary. The company expects to 

 cut more than 10,000,000 feet of first class lumber, at least 125,000 ties 

 and a large quantit)' of poles, acid wood and bark and will have at least 

 a three years' operation. 



The annual convention of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Pennsylvania will be held Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the 

 Monongahela House in this city. On Tuesday evening, the Pittsburgh 

 Lumbermen's Club will entertain the crowd at the Fort Pitt Hotel. On 

 Wednesday evening the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 will entertain the association with a vaudeville entertainment and smoker 

 at the same hotel. 



-< BOSTON y 



The annual meeting ot the Lumber Trade Club of Boston was held Febru- 

 ary 5 at Riverbauk Court, Cambridge. Oflicers elected were: I»resident, 

 W. J. Barry of the Buttrick Lumber Company, Waltham ; first vice-presi- 

 dent. D. A. Lucey of Curtis & Pope Lumlier Company, Boston ; second vice- 

 president, M. E. Philbriek of John M. Woods & Co., East Cambridge : secre- 

 tary-treasurer, J. L. Barney ot Pope Lumber Company, Dorchester. The 

 main topic of the meeting was the necessity and methods of securing 

 equitalile modifications of the drastic fire prevention laws now before the 

 state legislature. 



The Decrlng Lumber Company has been incorporated at Melrose, Mass., 

 to operate the business conducted by the late J. P. Deering. The incor- 

 porators are Fred A. Perkins, S. S. Patten, F. A. Smith and the capital Is 

 $25,000. 



C. C. Batchelder, president of the Boston Lumber Company, has with- 

 drawn from that firm, having been succeeded in office by Edward N. Eames. 

 The business will be conducted as heretofore. 



-■< BALTIMORE >- 



While the late Gen. William D. Gill of Wm. I). Gill & Son, this city, was 

 essentially and primarily a yellow pine man, yet he occupied so prominent 

 a position in the lumber trade of this city as to make his death, which 

 occurred I'fliruary 0, appear as a loss to all divisions of the business. His 

 firm traded on a large scale and handled big timber, and its transactions 

 frequently went beyond the limits of southern pine. In a sense Jt was a 

 general trade and brought General Gill in close contact with lumbermen 



over a large section. General Gill succumlied to heart trouble, with which 

 he had been alDicted for more than a year. In 1!)14 his condition was at 

 one time very grave, being complicated with pneumonia. An unusually 

 robust constitution carried him through and he appeared to regain much 

 of his old elasticity. His death, therefore, although by no means a sur- 

 prise, was all the more lamented. General Gill was a son of the late 

 William D. Gill, and only forty-eight years old. He attended public and 

 private schools in this city and Virginia, and on reaching bis majority 

 was taken into the office of his father, founder of the firm, to be grounded 

 in the details of the business. He quickly proved his aptitude, and on 

 January 1, 1804, he became a partner, his brother, Edward P. Gill, being 

 admitted in due course of time. Under the direction of the brothers the 

 firm extended its activities, and became prominent In taking government 

 contracts. General Gill's jovial disposition early led him Into connection 

 with a number of clubs and other organizations. lie was on the manag- 

 ing committee ot the Baltimore Lumber Exchange at different times, and 

 also endeavored to promote the interests ot llic retailers by heading their 

 organization, which disbanded before the government trust prosecutions. 

 He joine<i the Hoo-IIoo when that organization had a revival here several 

 years ago, and in other ways gained prominence. One ot his last acts 

 was to provide in his will for the creation of a chair of forestry at the 

 Johns Hopkins Universlt.v. It is stipulated that the residue of the estate 

 after the death of Mrs. Gill shall be used for this purpose. The brother 

 has the right to acquire the interest of the decedent in the Arm on the 

 basis of a valuation fixed by appraisal. General Gill is survived by his 

 wife. 



A number of lumber and coal companies are made defendants in eject- 

 ment proceedings instituted at Lynchburg, Va., on February 15, when 

 declarations were filed in five suits involving title to about 146,109 acres 

 of timber and mineral land in Buchanan county, Virginia. Among the 

 defendants named are the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Russell Fork 

 Coal and Lumber Company, I^evise Land and Timber Company, Whitewood 

 Land and Coal Company, Honaker Lumber Company, and Excelsior Coal 

 and Lumber Company. Governor Stuart of Virginia is named as one of the 

 defendants. The suits attack the constitutionality of an act passed by 

 the general assembly of Virginia repealing a statute relative to the proof 

 of land titles in Buchanan county, and it is understood that title to the 

 land in question is claimed under a tax sale. If the cases arc successful, 

 other proceedings of a similar nature will be brought. The Virginia-West 

 Virginia Coal Company is the plaintiff. 



To complete railroad facilities with its new warehouse on North avenue, 

 near Maryland avenue, the Morgan Millwork Company, the parent house 

 of which is at Oshkosh, Wis., has purchased a number of houses on Falls 

 road, adjoining the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. The houses are to be 

 torn down and connection made with the railroad, which will also afford 

 direct communication with the Baltimore & Ohio, the Western Maryland, 

 and the Maryland & Delaware. 



That there is a fair prospect of a pood building year, with encouraging 

 local demand for lumber, is indicated by the report of the building In- 

 spector for January. This report shows that the value of the new build- 

 ings, permits for which were issued during the month, with the alterations 

 and additions, totaled ?470,227, which compares very favorably with the 

 beginning of last year, when the yards enjoyed an exceptionally busy 

 period, though because of the prevailing competition prices ruled low. 

 The returns for the month do not include the new elevator to be erected in 

 South Baltimore for the Western Maryland railroad at a cost of half a 

 million or more, and the contract for which has been awarded, nor some 

 other big undertakings. There is every indication that February will 

 show up big. 



Herman Noss, senior member of Herman Noss & Sons, York, Pa., died 

 there February 4. He was eighty-four years old and had been engaged 

 in the business for thirty-seven years. He leaves a widow, three sons 

 and two daughters. The sons were engaged with him In the business. 



H. L. Grube, a wholesale lunjherman, with offices in the American 

 building, nas been receiving condolences on the death ot his son, Louis 

 H. Grube, who was killed almost instantly Fcbruarj- 11 In a collision be- 

 tween his automobile and another at Charles street and Mount Royal 

 avenue, this city. Young Grube was coming In from a place where he 

 was looking after work for his father, with two other young men also 

 employed by Mr. Grube, and at the corner mentioned the two vehicles 

 crashed, the Grube car being overturned and falling on the young man. 

 His skull was fractured, and he died on the way to a hospital. 



=-< COLUMBUS >.= 



Representative Herbert Briggs ot the Oliio legislature is authority for 

 the statement that Ohio should have a building code consisting of generali- 

 ties only and not one containing a ramification of specifications. He 

 claims that It is fundamentally wrong to write Into the law conditions 

 which might change over night. He Is thus opposed to the new Ohio 

 building code which has been completed by the code commission and 

 which will soon be presented to the general assembly. 



William N. Bean, a well-known lumberman of Hlllsboro, brought bis 

 wife to Cincinnati recently for an operation and was himself stricken 

 and was taken to the same hospital where his wife was recuperating. 

 He died soon afterwards, an operation falling to save bis life. 



The Seneca Lumber Company of Tiffin, O., has been taken over by the 

 Dickelmnn Manufacturing and Lumber Company of Forest, O. 



A. H. Smith has purchased the Leet Lumber Company at Oak Hill, O. 



