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pany, however, hare been suspended owing to 

 overflow, not from the Mississippi, but from the 

 rise in local streams caused by heavy rains. 

 The illustration with which the poem "In His 

 Might," in this issue of Record is embellished, 

 depicts flood conditions in the Lamb-Fish Lum- 

 ber Company's timber. This photograph is 

 used through the courtesy of Jlr. Burke. 



A. J. Gillette of Gillette Brothers. Memphis, 

 Tenn., was a Record caller a few days ago. This 

 company has suflTered somewhat from high water, 

 a portion of its yard and plant being submerged 

 to a depth of four or five feet. 



E. W. Benjamin. Cadillac Veneer Company, 

 Cadillac. Mich., was among the Chicago visitors 

 during the last few days. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 Louisville, Ky., always a welcome Chicago visi- 

 tor, paid bis respects to H.irdwood Record last 

 week. 



A. E. Gorham of the Gorham Brothers Company, 

 big veneer and panel producer. Mount Pleasant, 

 Mich., spent several days in Chicago last week. 



B. W. Lord of the Chicago Veneer Company, 

 Burnside. Ky.. was among the veneer men visit- 

 ing in this city during the last few days. 



E. r. Arpiu of the Arpin Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, Grand Rapids. Wis., was 

 in Chicago last week on one of his regular visits 

 to this city. 



G. von IMaten. well-known hardwood man of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., spent a few days in Chi- 

 cago last week. Mr. von Platen was very 

 optimistic over the northern hardwood outlook. 



M. J. Fox of the Von Platen Lumber Com- 

 pany. Iron Mountain, Mich., made a call on a 

 few of his Chicago customers a few days ago. 



The Lumbermen's Credit Association, "Red 

 Book" publisher, is now located in its spacious 

 offices on the seventeentli floor of the Heisen 

 building, this city, having recoutly moved there 

 from the Great Northern building. 



E. II. Klann. hardwood wholesaler, for years 

 located in the Masonic Temple, Chicago, who is 

 also secretary of the Lumber Sales Managers' 

 -Association and of the Chicago Lumbermen's 

 Club, will move to the Fisher building. May 1. 



W. W. Diugs, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo., has re- 

 cently returned from a lumber cruising trip in 

 Texas, and favors the Record with a photo- 

 graph of the biggest tree growing in that state, 

 a black gum thirty-three feet in circumference 

 at the base. The tree is ou the lands of the 

 Waterman Lumber Company. The Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company will soon start up its 

 new mill at Blocker, Tex. 



W. li. Jlorgan of the Anderson-Tully Com- 

 pany, Memphis, was a Chicago visitor several 

 days last week. High water shut down some of 

 this company's plants, but others have been in 

 commission during the high water conditions. 

 Mr. ^lorgan anticipates a higher range in hard- 

 wood values. 



The semi-annual. April issue of the "Blue 

 Book." containing a classified list with capital 

 and pay ratings of all manufacturers, wholesale 

 and retail dealers in lumber, as well as factories 

 which buy lumber in carload lots, has just been 

 placed in the hands of subscribers. This is the 

 seventeenth volume which has been published by 

 The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Cor- 

 poration, with executive offices in the Lumber- 

 men's building. St. Louis. Mo. 



T. S. Estabrook of Estabrook-Skeele Lumber 

 Company, Fisher building. Chicago, spent a day 

 or two this week in Cleveland on business. 



C. L. Willey, the well known Chicago veneer 

 and mahogany magnate, has engaged passage for 

 Liverpool early in June, for the purpose of mak- 

 ing one of his regular business and pleasure trips 

 to England and the Continent. 



lumber operations in Nova Scotia. Following 

 the resignation of Jlr. Shepherd. J. M. Hast- 

 ings, the big Pittsburgh lumberman and head 

 of the Davison Lumber Company, took up 

 his quarters at 1 Madison avenue and will con- 

 tinue to look after the affairs of the compan.v 

 here pending final decision in regard to future 

 operation. 



L. R. Crosb.v. formerly of the Christy-Moir 

 Company, has joined the selling slatf of the A. 

 Sherman Lumber Company, DO Church street, 

 city, and will represent it in fhe Long Island 

 and Jletropolitan District trade. 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, director of the Biltmore 

 Forest School, Biltmore, N. C, accompanied by his 

 wife and thirty students of the school, arrived 

 liere recently from Darmstadt, Germany, where 

 Ihey spent the winter for practical forest work 

 in the German forests. 



N. Irving Lyon, for thirty years associated 

 with the Cross, -\ustin & Ireland Lumber Com- 

 pany of Brooklyn, and for several years its 

 treasurer, died on Apr. 7 at Pasadena, Cal.. 

 where he went about three years ago in search 

 of health. John H. Ireland of the company, 

 was with Mr. Lyon at the time of his death. 



The Wright Piano Company, manufacturer 

 of pianos. 485 Greenwich street, this city, 

 has been placed in the hands of a receiver in 

 bankruptcy. This is a New Jersey corporation 

 and James D. Carpenter of Jersey City has 

 been appointed receiver in New York and New 

 Jersey. 



The Cummer Lumber Company, headquarters 

 1 Madison avenue, has just announced that it 

 is now ready to accept cypress business from 

 the trade to be supplied from the up-to-date 

 product of the new Cummer Cypress Compan.v 

 plant at Sumner. Fla. Manager Walter Adams, 

 of the local office, announces that Martin C. 

 Hughes, formerly of the Sea Coast Lumber 

 Company. New York will be associated with him 

 here, and have charge of the cypress depart- 

 ment. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Forest Lum'oer Company of Pittsburgh, 

 has moved its Philadelphia office to 160,'5 and 

 1006 Real Estate Trust building, where it will 

 have more room for its enlarged business. A. 

 J. Levy, manager, will devote most of his time 

 to the sales end. F. X. Diebold, president, has 

 moved to Philadelphia, and will hereafter make 

 this office his headquarters. 



The Tomb Lumber Company has removed to 

 934 Real Estate Trust building, where the busi- 

 ness is carried on by J. R. Droney. receiver. 



The Lance Lumber Company. Reading. Pa., 

 was incorporated recently with a capital stock 

 of $10,000. 



The Davis Furniture Company, L'niontown. 

 Pa., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $20,000. 



The Gettysburg Furniture Company. Gettys- 

 burg, Pa., was incorporated under Pennsylvania 

 laws, Apr. 11, with a capital stock of $50,000. 



The Chase Lumber Company. Wcnonah. N. 

 J., was incorporated under New Jersey laws. 

 Apr. 11. with a capital stock of $50,000. 



The Monroe Lumber Company, Stroudesburg. 

 Pa., was chartered under Pennsylvania laws. 

 Apr. 17. with a capital stock of .?20.000. 



The Enterprise Lumber Company, Wilming- 

 ton, Del., received a charter under Delaware 

 laws, Apr. 19. It is capitalized at $.50,000. 



BUFFALO 



NEW YORK 



C. O. Shepherd has resigned as director and 

 managing director of the Davison Lumber Com- 

 pany, 1 Madison avenue, this city, with large 



II. S. Janes of this city is president of thp 

 newly incorporated New England Hardwood 

 Company of Wilmington, Vt., and A. C. Meyer, 

 who has been Mr. Janes' associate here, is as- 

 sistant treasurer. In connection with its hard- 

 wood purchase, the company has also bought 



the capital stock of the Deerfleld River Rail- 

 road Company. The company will cut 10.000,000 

 feet of spruce logs in addition to its hardwood. 



Frank T. Sullivan, representative of Hamilton 

 II. Salmon & Co.. finds that the new office at 

 the yard on the Buffalo river front is not get- 

 ting along as fast as he had hoped, and he is 

 anxious to get the yard filled up with lumber. 

 The steamer Kongo, which the company recently 

 bought for that purpose, is now ready for busi- 

 ness. 



F. W. Vetter reports that a number of meet- 

 ings have lately been held between the lumber 

 interests and the local freight committee in 

 order to discuss the reconsignment privileges on 

 lumber. 



F. M. Sullivan's yard will soon be in receipt 

 of elm, maple and brown ash, these stocks having 

 recentl.v been manufactured to order. Some 

 maple is now coming in from Pennsylvania. 



Anthony ililler reports a fair amount of 

 activity in hardwoods, although the weather is 

 stated to have been a drawback. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager has been getting in 

 some stocks of poplar and other woods from 

 the South. 



Davenport & Ridley, whose yard lately oc- 

 cupied has been sold, have begun to vacate and 

 will occupy a yard in the same neighborhood, 

 where about 1,000,000 feet of hardwoods will 

 be carried. 



PITTSBURQH 



The Duquesne Lumber Company, under the 

 direction of President Rex Flinn, and Sales Man- 

 ager G. C. Adams, is establishing its wholesale 

 business in fine shape. Its plant at Braemer, 

 Tenn.. will soon be running on a heavy daily 

 capacity. 



President J. J. Linehan of the Liueban Lum- 

 ber Company is confident that this will be a 

 fairly good year in the hardwood trade. Build- 

 ing in other big centers, he reports, is far in 

 advance of the development so far in sight in 

 the Pittsburgh district. 



The Breitweiser & Wilson Company has taken 

 a larger space in the Oliver building, and is 

 enlarging its force. It is branching out and go- 

 ing after the hardwood trade in a decidedly en- 

 ergetic fashion. 



The Camp Manufacturing Company is now 

 located in fine quarters in the Oliver building. 

 The W. E. Terhune Lumber Company is also 

 moving from the House building to the Oliver 

 building and the C. P. Caughey Lumber Company 

 has taken larger quarters in the same sky- 

 scraper. 



Fred R. Babcock has bought a very handsome 

 country place of 100 acres near Valencia. Pa., 

 where the fine country estate of his brother, E. 

 V. Babcock. is located. 



BOSTON 



James F. Madden, for many years associated 

 with the Trimount Lumber Company, Boston, 

 and previously wtih the R. E. Cleaves Lumber 

 Company, is now sales manager for the J. F. 

 Gerrity Company of Bangor and Boston. 



An important transfer of hardwood lumber 

 lands has been made in Vermont. The Deer- 

 field Lumber Company has transferred to the 

 New England Hardwood Company of Wilming- 

 ton, Vt., about 26,000 acres. The purchasing 

 company is given twenty-five years from Oct. 

 1, 1912, in which to cut it. Gardner I. Jones 

 of the Jones Hardwood Company. Boston, is 

 treasurer of the New England Hardwood Com- 

 pany. 



E. W. Parkhill, who for many years was con- 

 nected with the Burlington, Vt.. office of the 

 Shepard & Morse Lumber Company, resigned re- 

 cently and will open an office in that city from 

 which he will conduct a wholesale lumber busi- 

 ness. Mr. Parkhill has been succeeded by Shirley 



