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western trip. While away he attended the 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. Among other Boston lumber deal- 

 ers present at this meeting were W. M. Wes- 

 ton and Gardner I. Jones. 



Lumber dealers will be interested to learn 

 that the Boston & Maine railroad has become 

 more active in the question of car staking 

 and has already staked ten cars. Other roads 

 are beginning to take the same action. 



William G. Wood, who haw boon active in 

 the lumber business in New Bedford, Mass.. 

 for over fifty years, died at his home in that 

 city late in October at the age of 73 years. In 

 1861, after several years' service as clerk in 

 the employ of Greene & Wood, he was taken 

 into the business as a partner. This business 

 was established in 1S45. In 1S71 Mr. Greene 

 retired and Mr. Wood became senior partner 

 of the firm, with George R. and Edmund Wood 

 the other members. 



New York. 



The J. Marcus Wood Working Company. 

 Williamsbridge. N. Y.. has been incorporated 

 under the same style with a capital of $50,000 

 by J. Marcus, E. Woodholt and S. Anderson, 

 all of Williamsbridge. 



Dixon & Dewey. Flatiron building, this city, 

 who, in addition to their extensive hardwood 

 business, have been doing considerable in Pa- 

 rifie Coast products during the past yeaF. have 

 just closed a deal for Jarrah wood with a 

 foreign house and are laying plans for an 

 active campaign in it in the local market and 

 particularly in the wood-paving line. It is 

 generally understood that their arrangements 

 are particularly desirable and will be very 

 successful from a financial standpoint. 



The H. Herrmann Lumber Company, hard- 

 wood manufacturers of Kentucky and Indiana 

 and large retail manufacturing operators at 

 the foot of East One Hundred and Twenty- 

 fifth street, have recently made considerable 

 expansion in their general interests through 

 the acquisition of some additional choice hard- 

 wood tracts in Kentucky running closely to 

 oak and poplar. At their local operation they 

 are constructing a river bulkhead along their 

 new premises at the foot of East One Hun- 

 dred and Twenty-fourth and One Hundred 

 and Twenty-fifth streets, which will greatly 

 improve their receiving facilities. Their fine 

 new factory at this latter location has been 

 completed and includes dry kilns and every 

 other feature to make an up-to-date trim, 

 woodworking and moulding plant. 



George Dwyer, formerly of Geo. M. Grant 

 & Co., has joined the selling staff of Charles 

 E. Page & Co., at 1170 Broadway. 



George H. Storm & Co., foot of East Sev- 

 enty-second street, Manhattan, have just pur- 

 chased eight additional lots, which join their 

 property with the East river, giving them 130 

 feet of water front and sixteen city lots in 

 all. They will erect a planing mill and dry 

 kilns and a new building, the motive power 

 for which will be derived from a rotary steam 

 engine recently invented and built by George 

 H. Storm, head of the firm, which is pro- 

 nounced a strong and economical machine, 

 generating an unusually large amount of 

 power from little fuel, and occupying less than 

 quarter the space required by the ordinary 

 engine. 



The J. C. Turner Lumber Company recently 

 suffered the loss of its steamer George Far- 

 will, which went ashore in a gale off Cape 

 Henry, with a cargo of 575,000 feet of cypress. 

 The cargo was fully insured and the steamer 

 partially so. 



- Colonel J. S. H. Clark of J. S. H. Clark & 

 Co., Newark, N. J., sailed from here last 

 week on a pleasure trip abroad. 



The Executive Committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association held 

 a meeting here at headquarters on October 18, 

 at which time there was a full attendance. 



General and routine matters were discussed, 

 but no important action taken. The work of 

 the organization was reported as progressing 

 very satisfactorily. 



The Badger-Pomeroy Company of Chicago 

 has opened a local selling office at 74 Broad- 

 way, this city, where Mr. Pomeroy will make 

 his headquarters for the purpose of extending 

 their trade in this vicinity. 



Charles Milne, the popular sales representa- 

 tive of G. E. Smith, 17 Battery Place, has 

 the sympathy of the trade in the loss of his 

 wife on October 22, They had been married 

 only a few months. 



M. F. O'Neill, sash, door and trim manufac- 

 turer of 137 State and Rider avenue, is erect- 

 ing a fine new up-to-date plant at Walton 

 avenue and Cheever Place, Bronx, which will 

 be ready for occupancy Jan. 1. Mr. O'Neill 

 has purchased the property and will remove 

 his entire business there. 



R. B. Derne, general superintendent of the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus. O., 

 was a recent New York visitor in the interest 

 of business. 



Curtis E. Bowman, well known lumber mer- 

 chant of Camaguey, Cuba, was a recent vis- 

 itor in the city on a trip through the eastern 

 markets. 



Tin' annual banquet of the New York Lum- 

 ber Trade Association has been scheduled for 

 Jan. 22 in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf- 

 Astoria. This being the twentieth anniver- 

 sary of the association, the plans have already 

 assumed such shape as to indicate the biggest 

 and most successful banquet in the history 

 of the organization. 



Fire damaged the planing and moulding mill 

 of Meisel, Muschel & Co., 486-492 Leonard 

 street, Greenpoint. Brooklyn, on Oct. 24. The 

 loss is covered by insurance. 



Philadelphia. 



H. H. Ma us of the H. H. Maus Company, 

 Inc., is on a selling trip through the state. 

 Reports say he is receiving his share of 

 orders, and that the outlook through the state 

 for winter trade is good. The mills of the 

 company in Oak Ridge, Va., are running full 

 force on orders. 



Miller & Miller report all branches of busi- 

 ness prosperous. Their hardw T ood department 

 is doing as well as could be expected consider- 

 ing the stiffening prices and the scarcity of 

 the better woods. Frank B. Miller of this 

 firm, who has been traveling through New 

 Y'ork state for the last two weeks, reports 

 that the orders he has received exceed his 

 expectations. 



The marriage of T. Wilson Potts of Park- 

 ersburg, Chester county, Pa., to Miss Mabel 

 Woodward of this city is announced. Mr. 

 Potts, though only twenty-six years old. has 

 built up a thriving lumber business in north- 

 ern Chester county, and is the owner of large 

 timber tracts near his home. 



R. W. and F. E. Sch'ofield of Schofield Bros, 

 are making a tour through West Virginia and 

 Tennessee looking up stock. They will at the 

 same time make new connections, and visit 

 their offices in Elkton and Weston, W. Va. 



The Colonial Lumber Company reports the 

 market a little off recently, but in view of 

 prices stiffening and a predicted steady winter 

 trade, it has contracted for 5,000,000 feet of 

 lumber in West Virginia. 



H. L. Aydelotte, Philadelphia and Washing- 

 ton manager of the Paine Lumber Company, 

 Limited, of Oshkosh, Wis., states, in regard 

 to the reported dropping off of building work 

 for September, that this is nothing unusual 

 at this period. Mr. Aydelotte is an authority 

 on 'conditions in this special line. 



Soble Bros, have begun operations at the 

 Okeeta Planing Mill Company of Honaker. Va. 

 A considerable number of men are employed 

 and enough orders are in hand to keep the 

 concern busy for a long time to come. The 



flooring turned out at the mill is high quality 

 and a ready seller. 



The steamship George Farwell from Jack- 

 sonville, Fla., for New Haven. Conn., with its 

 cargo of cypress timber, has been wrecked 

 off Cape Henry, and will probably be a total 

 loss. 



Swenk, Benson & Co. are about to erect an 

 addition to their present quarters. They are 

 extensive handlers of mill work, and report 

 business so much increased as to render in- 

 adequate their storage capacity. 



J. P. Finley, pioneer lumberman of Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa., died Oct. 15. He was for many 

 years a member of the old Finley-Young 

 Lumber Company, and one of the prominent 

 men in the industry when Williamsport was 

 a conspicuous lumbering center. He was 

 eighty-six years old. 



Kirby & Hawkins Company gives a glowing 

 account of the business conditions in its spe- 

 cial line. The company is an extensive han- 

 dler of railroad ties and contractors' lumber, 

 and has orders enough to consume the whol" 

 output of some of its mills. Woods of all 

 kinds are used in this line, but oak predomi- 

 nates. 



Brawley & Smith, hardwood manufacturers 

 with mills at Huntdale, N. C, report chestnut. 

 ash and poplar in constant demand, with 

 prices stiffening. • They find difficulty in accu- 

 mulating stock at the mills. 



The J\ W. Diffenderfer Lumber Company is 

 busy in all its departments. The personnel 

 reports affairs in good state, considering the 

 mill conditions in the south. 



Wistar, Underhill & Co. are very busy. New 

 contracts have been made in Tennessee to 

 which Mr. Wistar is about to give his per- 

 sonal attention. T. N. Nixon has just re- 

 turned from this section, and also has been 

 looking up stock in West Virginia and North 

 Carolina. II. E. Bates, another member of 

 the concern, has been touring the northwest 

 for a like purpose. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its 

 monthly meeting Nov. 1, with President Geo. 

 F. Craig of Geo. F. Craig & Co., who has just 

 returned from a southern trip, in the chair. 

 A preliminary luncheon was served, after 

 which the necessary business was taken up, 

 the most important item of which was the 

 much discussed set of by laws. These laws, 

 which have been handed over from meeting 

 to meeting, have at last been adopted. Among 

 the recent visitors to the exchange were J. 

 Watson Craft, Ambler. Pa.; Wm. Godfrey, 

 Cheraw, S. C. : George Huginer of W. M. Rit- 

 ter Lumber Company. Columbus. O.; A. M. 

 Nevins, representing the Cypress Selling Com- 

 pany. Limited. New Orleans, La., and Ber- 

 tram P. Whedon of W. D. Young & Co., Bay 

 City. Mich. 



Baltimore. 



Worth Jennings, a prominent lumberman of 

 Maryland and West Virginia, who was found 

 unconscious in his office at Jenningstown. 

 W. Va., early in October, with a bullet wound 

 in his head, died at the Devis Memorial Hos- 

 pital at Elkins, W. Va., October 21. At the 

 hospital he first continued to improve, but an 

 abscess developed, causing inflammation of 

 the brain, which resulted in his death. All 

 indications showed the wound to have been 

 self-inflicted, though why Mr. Jennings should 

 have desired to kill himself is not known. He 

 was married and had several children. In 

 business he was highly successful. Together 

 with his brother. C. H. Jennings, he owned 

 large tracts of timber land, sawmills in sev- 

 eral states, and other property, the holdings 

 of the brothers being valued at more than 

 $1,000,000. 



The Hagerstown Spoke & Bending Com- 

 pany of Hagerstown, Md.. has absorbed the 

 J. C. Hollingsw'orth Wheel Company of Wheel, 

 Md., and will remove the plant of this corpo- 



