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entered suit against the Sapero Box Company, claiming $40,000 damages 

 One suit Is against the box company direct for $30,000, and the other, 

 for $10,000, against the National Surety Company, which weut on the 

 bond of the Sapero Company when that corporation obtained an Injunc 

 tion against the propeller company to restrain the latter from using the 

 property at 220-242 GrlndaH street, In South Baltimore. It Is alleged tha 

 the acts of the Sapero Company in endeavoring to keep the propeller com- 

 pany out of the occupancy of the property named were malicious and 

 fraudulent, and that the propeller company suffered considerable damage 

 as a consequence. The injunction proceedings, which were brought several 

 months ago, were subseeiuently dismissed. The American company uses 

 large quantities of oalc and other hardwoods. 



By degrees the work of erecting a large number of cottages to take 

 care of the additions made to the working forces in the ship yard of the 

 Bethlehem Steel Company is taking shape. Some weeks ago the contract 

 for 304 bouses to be erected at St. Helena, a suburb of Baltimore, was 

 awarded to the Consolidated Engineering Company, and now bids are 

 asked for the erection of 532 cottages- at Dundalk, nearby. Nine con- 

 tractors, a majority of them from New York, have been invited to submit 

 estimates, and after these have been gone over, the contract will be 

 awarded. This work, it Is thought, will be done under an arrangement 

 with the government, whereby the latter advances the larger portion of 

 the cost of the cottages, taking a first mortgage on the cottages and the 

 land. The work will call for gnat quantities of yellow pine, but consider- 

 able hardwood lumber is also likely to be used. 



Under the direction of Major Arnold of the Quartermaster Department, 

 stationed at Camp Ilolablrd, Colgate creek, where a large plant for the 

 repair of army trucks and other war material is located, a survey has 

 been made here of the stocks on the wharves of the wholesale dealers 

 In yellow pine. The aim was to ascertain what lumber which might be 

 required for the use of the military authorities could be obtainable. This 

 survey, of course, may also be expected to cover the needs In the way of 

 hardwoods. 



Gen. Francis E. Waters, president of the Surry Lumber Company, Is 

 receiving heartfelt condolences on the tragic death of his son, Richard T. 

 Waters, who Jumped from a tenth story window of the Fort Pitt hotel, 

 In Pittsburgh, May 12. The young man had been in poor health for some 

 time, and it is thought that his rejection for military service preyed on 

 his mind. He was returning from a trip to California, undertaken for his 

 health, and from which he was supposed to have derived great benefit. 



Announcement is made here that applications will be received by the 

 Civil Service Commission at Washington for the position of wood technolo- 

 gist, which is open to men only and pays from $1,800 to $3,000 a year. 



No written examination 

 education and experience. 



necessary, but applicants will be rated on 



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Discussing war conditions in lumber, James E. McNally of the J. J. 

 Snider Lumber Company and former president of the Columbus Builders' 

 Exchange said : "While the territory occupied by the enemy represents 

 only a small fraction of the whole of France, It Includes a proportionately 

 large part of the French forest area, which It will take many years to 

 repair. Not only outside the war zone In France, but In Great Britain, 

 the woodsman's ax has been busy cutting available supplies for war pur- 

 poses. Many a forest managed under a natural regeneration system has 

 been cut without regard to the needs of reproduction, and French for- 

 esters for many years will find diflacultics in returning to a sustained 

 yield management, which has been deranged by premature harvests. The 

 magnificent fir forests of the Vosges and Jura Mountains, the show pieces 

 of French foresters, managed as selection forest, are being dismantled 

 without regard to reproduction and with the maximum of damage to 

 young growth. This means that American mills will be called upon for 

 millions of feet of lumber for reconstruction purposes." 



W. H. Settle & Co., Cincinnati lumber dealers, won an important decision, 

 of Interest to shippers generally. In the United States circuit court of 

 appeals when the upper court reversed the judgment of the United States 

 district court at Cincinnati, in which the district court had awarded the 

 Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company the difference between 

 the Interstate fare from a southern point to Oakley, a suburb of Cincin- 

 nati within the Cincinnati switching limits, and from the same southern 

 point to Madisonvllle, another suburb of Cincinnati but outside the switch- 

 ing limits, on lumber consigned to W. H. Settle & Co. The case concerns 

 the right of the lumber company to bill lumber to a certain destination 

 and then to reblll it to its final destination, where the sum of the inter- 

 state rate to the first destination plus the further local rate is less than 

 the Interstate rate to the final destination of the lumber. 



The Toledo Lumber & Mill Work Company, Toledo, O., has Increased Its 

 capital from $100,000 to $125,000. 



The authorized capital of the Berea Lumber Company, Berea, 0., has 

 been increased from $25,000 to $50,000. 



A change has been made In the name of the Edgewater Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cleveland, and It Is now the Edgewater Lumber & Supply Company. 



A reduction in capital from $50,000 to $10,050 has been made by the 

 Dodson Saw Mill & Lumber Company, Columbus. 



At Cuyahoga Falls the L. B. Fields Lumber Company has been formed 

 with a capital of $25,000 by L. B. Fields and others. 



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