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that the attcudaine from Buffalo will be large this year. Just at present 

 the hardwood dealers' attention is being taken up by Red Cross, Y. M. 

 C. A., Thrift Stamps and other war matters, and they are actively engaged 

 in speaking and soliciting funds in these interests, which are crowding 

 out most everything else, but they expect to get a little leeway later and 

 will take a vacation by attending the lumber convention. 



Fred M. Sullivan was captain of one of the teams which this month 

 succeeded in raising more than $73,000 in a four-day campaign in behalf 

 ot the Y. M. C. A. He recently visited New York, where he saw his son, 

 Lieut. F. Fleming Sullivan, who was sailing for the war front, after train- 

 ing at Camp Hancock, Ga. 



A five-ton Fierce-Arrow truck is about to repeat a performance of 1911, 

 when it covered the distance between New York and Boston. Since then 

 the truck has been in daily service and has covered more than 100,000 

 miles. The start will be made on May 2S and various large cities will be 

 included on the journey. The object is both to demonstrate the efficiency 

 of the truck itself and the serviceability of such trucks in wartime, when 

 railroads are badly congested. 



Hugh McLean is taking a short rest after a strenuous time In connection 

 with raising funds for the Thii-d Liberty Loan, which met with great 

 success among the lumbermen. He has gone to Lake Pytonga, with a 

 number of other Buffalo business men, and will enjoy a two weeks' vacation. 



Homer T. Kerr has returned from a motor trip to Gettysburg, his son, 

 Horace Kerr, accompanying him, after attending the Pennsylvania state 

 college. 



The building trade in Buffalo has not started up actively with the 

 warmer weather, as some predicted would be the case. The cost of per- 

 mits to date has run 10 per cent or more behind last year, and there is 

 quite an absence of large buildings of interest to the hardwood trade. Not 

 so much call for flooring is heard as usual. The number of vacant houses 

 in this city is small and it is predicted that many more will have to be 

 built this year to accommo(3,ate the increasing number of workers in the 

 local industrial plants. 



John S. Tyler, for many years secretary of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange, 

 was recently bereaved by the loss of his wife, whose death occurred after 

 a brief illness. She is survived also by two children, a daughter, Mrs. 

 Tracy Porter, and a son, William P. Tyler, who is now in Colorado, but 

 was formerly a resident of this city and an employe of Taylor & Crate. 



The lake lumber trade is not as active as In former years, but some 

 cargoes of hardwoods are in the list of arrivals and more stock Is expected 



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The consolidation of the Wm. H. Wood Lumber Company of Cambridge. 

 Mass., and the Webster Lumber Company of Watertown, Mass., under the 

 style of the Wm. H. Wood & Webster Lumber Company has been effected. 

 Wm. A. Webster, Jr., who was the active bead of both concerns, becomes 

 the president of the new concern. The move is looked upon in the trade 

 as highly beneficial to both firms, who were previously of the very best 

 standing in the trade. 



H. W. McDonough, president of the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber 

 Association, Inc., attended the organization of the new Wholesale Lumber 

 Bureau In Washington and was elected director for one year. The whole- 

 salers of New England are taking this project very seriously, and it Is 

 hoped that the personnel of the bureau will guarantee it success and thus 

 remove the great artificial burden of oflScial and unofficial prejudice. The 

 handicaps being met by the wholesalers are numerous enough by reason of 

 traffic and market conditions to show what a calamity it would be to 

 Inaugurate any plan whereby they would all be reproduced with the 

 immense number of firms they are contracting with both buying and 

 selling. The New England wholesalers stand ready to serve the govern- 

 ment, the mills and the public during the war and after it and only want 

 to have this readiness recognized and utilized. 



D. L. Gillespie, of D. L. Gillespie & Co., has returned from a three weeks' 

 visit to San Francisco and other western coast pomts. 



J. N. WooUette, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, will go to 

 the Southwest next week to look over things first hand. 



Every bit of black walnut. Including small tracts and even Individual 

 trees In western Pennsylvania and eastern Pennsylvania, Is being sought 

 out eagerly owing to the record-breaking prices now being paid. Boy scouts 

 are being used in some cases to hunt out these trees. 



Hardwood men are much Interested In the announcement that the Pitts- 

 burgh Truck Wheel Corporation, capital $4,000,000, which is being organ- 

 ized under a Delaware charter, has selected a site of twenty acres In the 

 Pittsburgh district and will build an Immense plant to manufacture steel 

 motor wheels. Robert W. Barbour, formerly of the Chamber of Commerce, 

 is one of the active members of the company. 



The Wolfe Brush Company has bought a large warehouse on the nortb 

 side, covering 15,000 square feet, and will remodel it for a brush and 

 broom manufacturing plant. 



The West Penn Lumber Company is urging its customers to anticipate 

 their hardwood requirements as fast as possible and get in their orders 

 now to satisfy delivery whenever they can be handled by the railroads. 



Louis Germain of the Germain Company was recently made president of 

 the National Bureau of Wholesale Lumber Distributors at a meeting of 

 wholesalers at Washington to discuss methods of getting the wholesale lum- 

 ber business recognized by the government. J. N. Montgomery of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company was elected a member of the 

 executive committee, and President E. H. Stoner of the Pittsburgh Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association and Edward Eiler of this city were made 

 directors. 



Frank E. Smith of the Miners' & Manufacturers' Lumber Company re- 

 ports a very good demand for lumber but shipments exceedingly bad. For 

 this reason he is going very slow In taking on new orders. 



All Pittsburgh lumber Interests have been discussing day and night this 

 week the government's project to build an ordnance plant on Neville Islandi 

 to employ 25,000 men. It Is agreed that not only will this plant be an 

 Immense buyer of lumber for its own use but the house-buUdlng operations 

 which will have to be started by the government or by private parties to 

 take care of the army of workmen are going to make the lumber business 

 boom in the very near future in the Pittsburgh district. The project is the 

 largest one which has come to Pittsburgh in the last forty years. 



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Arrangements are about complete for the erection of a large sawmill 

 at Bogalusa, La., on the property of the Great Southern Lumber Com- 

 pany, to take care of the hardwoods on the timber tract of the Great 

 Southern Lumber Company. The mill is to be erected by Richard P. Baer 

 & Co., and Is to be equipped with the most up-to-date facilities. It Is 

 thought that the contract for the erection of the plant will be awarded 

 within the next few days. The mill will give employment to 150 to 200 

 men. and It is estimated that the stumpage available will last at least 

 ten years and probably more. The operation is one of the largest that 

 has taken shape In the southern field for some time, and means a big 

 addition to the facilities of Richard P. Baer & Co. 



James Edward Tyler, president of the Kimball-Tyler Company, Inc., 

 operating a large cooperage factory at HIghhuultown, a suburb of 

 Baltimore, died at his home in Baltimore suddenly on the morning of 

 May 7 of a heart attack. He had appeared to be in good health, and 

 was preparing to go to his company's factory when stricken. Mr. Tyler 

 was seventy-three years old and had been engaged in the cooperage busi- 

 ness for many years. A widow, two sons and two daughters survive. 



The -American Propeller & Manufacturing Company, which makes pro- 

 pellers for airplanes, operating a large factory in South Baltimore, has. 



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