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M. L. P»aKe of the Galloway & Pease Com- 

 paoj' of Saginaw, Mich., spent several days 

 with the local trade last weeh. 



W. M. Hopkins of the Theodore Fathauer Com- 

 pan.v has just returned from an extended trip 

 ro the Pacific coast. Paul C. Smith, superin- 

 tendent for the Fathauer plant in Arkansas, 

 was a recent Chicago visitor. 



E. E. Taenzer. formerly of the Darnell-Taen- 

 zer Lnmber Company of Memphis. Tenn., but 

 now in business for himself In that city, spent 

 several days of last week with the local trade. 



H. C. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company has just returned from a vacation of 

 several weeks' duration which he spent in Wis- 

 consin. 



P. J. Attley of the Ross-Attley Lumber Com- 

 pany of Helena. Ark., has just been blessed with 

 a new son. 



A. J. Tipler. manager for the Forest City 

 Manufacturing Company and the G. W. Jones 

 Lumber Company's plant at Forest City, Ark.. 

 spent several days last week in Chicago. 



A. H. Ruth, Chicago manager for the G. W. 

 Jones Lumber Company, whose headquarters are 

 at Appleton. Wis., has just left for a week's 

 trip in Wisconsin. Mr. Kuth will spend several 

 days at the northern mills and then will devote 

 the rest of the week to Appleton. 



K. E. Thompson of the Thompson Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, O.. was in the 

 city a few days last week. 



A. W. Lucas of the Lucas Land & Lumber 

 Company of Paducah, Ky.. spent a few days in 

 Chicago last week on a hurried business trip 

 through this territory. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association with offices in 

 Chicago, has been on a trip through Canadian 

 points for several weeks. Mr. Fish's journey 

 is in the interest of the association. 



A. C. Lindermau of the Lindermau Machine 

 Company of Muskegon, Mich., spent a short 

 time in Chicago last week, accompanied by the 

 company's Canadian manager. Frank C. Chester. 



J. R. Young of the Lumbermen's Underwrit- 

 ing Alliance of Kansas City. Mo., stopped off 

 in Chicago last week for a day on his way to 

 northern Minnesota points. 



H. F. Weiss, assistant director of the Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., stopped 

 off in the city last week on his return from 

 an extensive trip which took him through the 

 western states. 



Owen M. Bruner of the Owen M. Bruner 

 Company of Philadelphia. Pa., paid the city a 

 short visit the early part of last week en 

 route to the Pacific coast. This firm is one of 

 the big concerns of Philadelphia. 



NEW YORK 



A special meeting of the creditors of the 

 Chas. R. Partridge Lumber Company of Jersey 

 City. N. J., which was recently petitioned in 

 bankruptcy, was held before lieferee Geo. R. 

 Beach in Jersey City on Aug. 12. One of the 

 objects of the meeting was to consider a hid 

 received by the trustees from a committee of 

 creditors of .$105,187.00 for all the assets of 

 the company. At the meeting, however, two 

 additional bids of similar character were pre- 

 sented, amounting to $110,000 and $112,500, 

 respectively. R. W. Higbie, chairman of the 

 committee of lumber creditors, presented a report 

 containing a suggestion that the meeting be 

 adjourned for ten days, and that unless a bid 

 of at least .$125,000 was received, the assets 

 bi? sold at public auction. The suggestion on 

 vote was lost, but the referee decided to adjourn 

 the meeting one week, at which time he decided 

 he would accept the highest bid rendered up to 

 that time. The total assets are estimated at 



$269,421.29. against which there is a mortgage 

 of $44,000, leaving net $225,421.29. 



S. E. Slaymnker & Co., selling agents for 

 the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company's 

 lumber department of Cass. W. Va.. have just 

 closed a deal with Dickey & Campbell of Black 

 Mountain. X. C. for their entire cut of 

 spruce to he manufactured by them at their 

 new plant at that place. Messrs. Slaymaker 

 & Co. will distribute these products together 

 with the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Com- 

 pany stocks. The Dickey & Campbell operation 

 will cut 25,000,000 feet a year through a fine 

 modern sawmill at Black Mountain from the 

 large holdings of the company of the famous 

 smoky mountain range spruce. Messrs. Slay- 

 maker & Co. are also handling the output of 

 hemlock manufactured by the Honaker Dumber 

 Company. Honaker. Va., amounting to 75.000 

 feet. 



J. W. Hubbard of the Rice & Lockwood Lum- 

 ber Company, Springfield, Mass.. and 1 Madison 

 avenue, passed through here Aug. 10 on a trip 

 to the North Carolina mills with which his 

 company is connected. 



A. L. Stone of the Nicola, Stone & Myers 

 Company. Cleveland. O., arrived in port during 

 the fortnight after a pleasure trip of several 

 weeks abroad. 



P. J. Feitner of the Hoban-Hunter-Feitner 

 Company, with wholesale cypress yards at Chap- 

 man's Dock, Brooklyn, returned last week from 

 a trip to all the leading cypress manufacturing 

 points in the Gulf states. His company has its 

 usual large supply of cypress in excellent shape 

 for the fall market. 



The Provincial Lumber Company. Ltd.. is the 

 name of a new company recently organized in 

 this city to conduct a general wholesale business, 

 with oflices at 71 Beaver street. Manhattan. The 

 company will be under the management of Geo. 

 E. Deming. for many years identified with the 

 w^holesale trade of the district. Other officers 

 of the company are Geo. McKean. a large lumber 

 operator of St. Johns. N. B.. and Wm. E. Gold- 

 ing of St. Johns. N. B. 



The West Farms Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated to operate at 174th street and 

 West Farms road. Borough of Bronx, to succeed 

 to the business of the ilott Haven Lumber 

 Company previously carried on at that point. 

 The corporation is capitalized at $10,000. 



BUFFALO 



The state college of forestry at Syracuse is 

 about to buy a few acres of waste land in 

 soutUwestern New York, probably in Chau- 

 tauqua county, to show what may be accom- 

 plished in forestry. Other similar tracts will 

 be bought in different parts of the state. This 

 work is in line with the program of the State 

 Conservation Commission, which has done" much 

 to encourage reforesting waste lands. 



W. H. Sullivan is here from Bogalusa. La., the 

 guest of his brother, F. M. Sullivan. He re- 

 ports that the big Louisiana mill of the Great 

 Southern Lumber company is crowded with 

 orders. 



F. T. Sullivan has been making an eastern 

 trip for a week or two in the interest of Ham- 

 ilton H. Salmon & Co.. whose yard here he has 

 now fitted up with a good stock of hardwoods. 



George Miller of O. E. Xeager's staSf. is tak- 

 ing a vacation in Canada, expecting to do a 

 little automobiliug while away. The new office 

 at the Yeager yard looks very much improved 

 since the recent fire. 



G. Ellas & Bro. were successful competitors 

 for furnishing timber and planking for the 

 western division of the state canals. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 will be settled in its new office on Baitz avenue 

 the latter part of this month, the work of 



erection having taken much of the past few 

 weeks. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 bringing forward large shipments of dry oak, 

 and states that trade, while not brisk, is coming 

 along in a steady and satisfactory manner. 



Horace C. Mills of the firm of Taylor & 

 Crate, has been taking a brief vacation, spend- 

 ing several weeks in the neighlwrhood of Que- 

 bee. 



Anthony Miller reports a very fair trade at 

 his big Eagle street yard. He has a large 

 assortment of stock there, much of it having 

 been brought in recently from the South and 

 Canada. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The J. S. Kent Company reports a liberal 

 trading for the season of the year, with the 

 outlook encouraging. Arthur W. Kent, secre- 

 tary and treasurer, has gone to Buffalo, where 

 his family has been spending the summer, for a 

 two weeks" vacation. Thomas B. Hoffman of 

 the hardwood department is in West Virginia 

 looking for stock. 



J. Randall Williams. Jr., of J. Randall Will- 

 iams & Co.. was elected a member of the board 

 of directors of the Philadelphia Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association, to succeed Charles J. 

 Coppock, who has resigned and gone South. 



As usual Schofield Brothers make no complaint 

 of a lag in business, inquiries coming in freely. 

 The family of John H. Schofield is summering 

 at Ocean City. N. J. ; Robert W. Schofield is at 

 Chelsea. N. J., and Frank E. Schofield and bride 

 are at Kennebunk. Me. 



Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & Co.. 

 says summer trading has given satisfaction. 

 Frank T. Rnmbarger has been engaged by them 

 as salesman to cover part of Philadelphia and 

 eastern Pennsylvania. 



David J. Scott of West Chester. Pa., father- 

 in-law of Robert G. Kay, the popular lumberman 

 and president of the Kay Lumber Company, died 

 on Aug. 6. The deceased was eighty-five years 

 old. 



Ben C. Currio of Currie & Campbell makes no 

 complain of relaxed business. J. H. Campbell is 

 at the mill in West Virginia battling for stock. 



John Halfpenny is now established in the 

 large oflices of the Berwind Lumber Company, 

 whose output he also handles. 



C. B. Farr, vice-president of the Central Penn- 

 sylvania Lumber Company. Williamsport, Pa., 

 died Aug. 18. He was sixty-six years old. 



The New York Hardwood & Tie Company of 

 America. Wilmington. Del., was incorporated un- 

 der Delaware laws, -Vug. 12. with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. 



The Baldwin Locomotive Works has booked an 

 order for ten locomotives for the Chicago & 

 Western Indiana Railroad. Among the recent 

 scattered orders received are two for the Mis- 

 sissippi & North Arkansas Railroad, one for the 

 Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad, and one for 

 the Gray Lumber Company. 



PITTSBURQH 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen 

 Lumber Company, is on his annual three weeks' 

 buying trip in the South and Southwest. His 

 orders and advance prospects are good, and he 

 will need a lot of cottonwood and gum this 

 fall to supply his trade. 



The Duquesne Lumber Company is making 

 a heavy cut at its new mill at Braemer, Tenn. 

 Sales Manager G. C. Adams has just gone down 

 to the plant to look over operations. 



C. W. Cantrell. city sales manager of the 

 Germain Company, is getting some splendid 

 business this month from the railroad and car 



