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Charles W. Leatherbee of the C. W. Leather- 

 bee Lumber Company, Boston, has returned 

 from a southern trip. 



The firm of H. A. Grimwood & Co. ot 

 Providence, met with a fire recently, wliich 

 destroyed their stocli of sash, doors and 

 blinds. Messrs. Grimwood, senior and junior, 

 liave been in the West buying to replace this 

 stock. 



The plant of the Greenwich Sash & Blind 

 Company, Greenwich, Conn., which was re- 

 cently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt. 



F. W. Henry has been appointed manager 

 of the Pittsfield branch of the Blakeslee 

 Lumber Company of Albany. This company 

 has recently decided to open a brancli in 

 Pittsfield. 



New York. 



The Wayne Lumber Company, wholesaler in 

 hardwoods at Manhattan, has removed to more 

 commodious quarters in the Importers and 

 Traders' Building, 24-2G Stone street, city, where 

 it has much better facilities for taking care of 

 its increasing business. 



J. W. Hussey, well known hardwood lumber 

 and log exporter, who for years has been located 

 at 1 Broadway, Manhattan, has removed to 59 

 Pearl street. 



The forthcoming second annual golf tourna- 

 ment to be held by the Lumbermen's Golf Asso- 

 ciation at the Baltimore Country Club, June 12 

 and 13, is going to be a fine affair, and Secretary 

 Henry Cape of 1 Madison avenue. New York, 

 urgently requests all lumbermen throughout the 

 country who are enthusiasts of this sport to 

 enter the contest this year by sending in their 

 applications to him. W. D. Gill, the prominent 

 Baltimore lumberman, is president of the asso- 

 ciation and has been made a committee of one 

 for the entire arrangements for the approaching 

 contest. A large number of handsome prizes will 

 he played for and handicaps arranged on such a 

 basis as will give every one an excellent oppor- 

 uuuty of winning. 



Prancis E. Southard, well known lumljerman 

 of this city, on April committed suicide at bis 

 residence in the Ehinelander Apartment. Ho 

 has been in ill health for several years. 



Brooklyn is the banner borough of Greater 

 New York in the matter of building activities for 

 this year. For the first three months ot 1007 

 .the gain over 1906 was about $4,500,000. 



Hamilton V. Meeks, head of the Gardner & 

 Meeks Company, Weehawkeu, N. .L, accompanied 

 by his wife and daughter, arrived on April 10 

 after an extended European trip. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, X. Y.. has been spending sev- 

 eral days in town during the fortnight in the 

 interest of business and visiting with his local 

 representative, C. B. Cox. 



F. J. Cronin, eastern representative ot the 

 Y'ellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal Grove, 

 O., has been in town on one of his regular sell- 

 ing trips. He reports the jjoplar market as very 

 active, with prices stiff. 



Gilbert H. Shepard, cypress wholesaler of 29 

 Broadway, announces his removal to the Bruns- 

 wick Building, Twenty-sixth street and Fifth 

 avenue, 



John Bossert, Louis Bossert & Son, big Brook- 

 lyn house, has just returned from a pleasure trip 

 to the popular Florida winter resorts, 



J, C. Turner of the J. C. Turner Cypress Lum- 

 ber Company, 1123 Broadway, has just returned 

 from an extended tour of the south in the inter- 

 est of business. 



Thomas A. Murphey of the Murphey-Hardy 

 Lumber Company, Newark. N. J., arrived in port 

 last week after a two months' Mediterranean 

 tour, accompanied by Mrs. Murphey. 



S. F. Alinter. hardwoods, 1 Broadway, is main- 

 taining a branch wholesale hardwood distributing 

 yard at Asheville, N. C, which is a convenience 

 greatly appreciated by his customers. 



The New Jersey State Senate passed a new 



railroad demurrage bill on April 11, providing 

 that when owners or consignees of freight re- 

 fuse to accept the same and pay charges the 

 railroads may after three days impose a charge 

 of not more than §1 per day for detention of 

 each car or for the use of the track occupied. 

 Sunday is not included in the demurrage limita- 

 lions and the companies are allowed one hour a 

 day for the moving ot cars for train operation 

 purposes. The railroads are also to have the 

 right of lien of property where demurrage 

 charges are not paid, although in disputes the 

 property may be removed by the filing of a bond. 



The regular annual meeting of the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association was held at the asso- 

 ciation rooms. IS Broadway, on April 10 and was 

 largely attended. The Hoban & Curtis Lumber 

 Company, 1 Madison avenue, was elected to mem- 

 bership, and the membership of the Hull Lum- 

 ber Company was transferred to G. H. Perley & 

 Co. New committees were appointed by the 

 president and were confirmed by the board of 

 trustees. A fitting resolution of condolence was 

 I>assed concerning the death of the late Russell 

 Johnson of Johnson Bros.. Brooklyn, who was for 

 many years a respected member of the organiza- 

 tion and of the board of trustees. A committee 

 was also appointed to nominate officers for elec- 

 tion at the annual meeting in October next. 



John Woyka of John Woyka & Co., Limited, 

 extensive mahogany timber and veneer mer- 

 chants, Glasgow, Scotland, arrived in New York 

 last week to visit the principal manufacturing 

 points in the United States and Canada, buying 

 poplar, walnut and oak. 



Philadelphia. 



The auutuil meeting of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change was held on April 11. The attendance 

 was large and the usual zest was manifested 

 in all the i)roceedings. Edwin B. Malone of 

 Watson Malone & Sons was elected chairman of 

 the meeting and John H. Lank secretary. Busi- 

 ness reports were read by the different commit- 

 tees, after which the secretary, John H. Lank, 

 read an exhaustive history of the association 

 during the two decades of its existence. A 

 most interesting report of the year's doings then 

 followed by George F. Craig, the retiring presi- 

 dent. The officers elected for the coming year 

 are William L. Rice of T. B. Rice & Sons Com- 

 pany, president ; Frederick S. Underbill ot Wis- 

 tar. Underbill & Co., vice president ; Charles P. 

 Maule, treasurer, and John H. Lank, secretary. 



The annual banquet of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change, an exceptionally brilliant affair, was 

 held at the Union League on April 11, with 139 

 guests present. The banquet was followed by 

 an address by the ex-president, George F. Craig, 

 who then introduced William L, Rice, the new 

 president, who responded with an interesting 

 talk, interspersed with humorous anecdotes. Mar- 

 tin G. Brumbaugh, superintendent of public 

 schools, was orator of the evening. His address 

 was particularly Interesting, as he had spent 

 his youth in a lumber camp and was thus able 

 to discourse eloquently on the secrets of the lum- 

 ber trade. Justin Peters, manager of the Penn- 

 sylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Company, followed with an interesting and in- 

 structive speech. E. F. Perry, secretary of the 

 Xatioual Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, spoke next, after whom Frederick S. Under- 

 hill, the newiy elected vice president, wound up 

 with a humorous address. 



A synopsis of the history of the I^umbermen's 

 Exchange taken from the interesting report of 

 the secretary, John H. Lank, shows the first 

 meeting to have been held on Feb. 13, 1886, 

 and a charter was granted under the present 

 style on April IT, 1886. Laws were adopted 

 May 20, 1880. These were revised in 1888, 

 1898 and 1906. 



The first election of oflicers was on May 27, 

 1886, and resulted as follows: For president, 

 William M. Lloyd ; first vice president, Charles 



W. Henry ; second vice president, Charles M. 

 Betts ; treasurer, Edwin H. Coane. The total 

 number of members at this time was 49 ; since 

 then 193 have been added, but 106 have with- 

 drawn, leaving the present membership 136, the 

 largest in its history. Of the original members, 

 27 are still associated with the exchange, 25 

 as active and 2 as honorary members. 



John W. Coles has recently been on a stock 

 bunt in the South, where he made some con- / 

 nections for North Carolina pine, also contracted 

 for some good hardwoods in Bristol, Tenn. He 

 is receiving considerable of his goods by water 

 and is expecting some barges of lumber from 

 North Carolina in a few days. 



Wistar, Underbill & Co., always in the front 

 row of hustlers, have no fault to find with 

 trade conditions. R. W. Nixon of this firm is on 

 a selling trip in New York City and H. E. Bates 

 has just returned from New York state, bringing 

 in a good bunch of orders. This firm recently 

 made a deal to handle the entire output of the 

 Pigeon River Lumber Company near Newport, 

 Cocke county, Tenn., which will run about 25,- 

 000,000 feet of poplar, oak, chestnut, spruce 

 and hemlock per annum. 



Among the recent visitors to the city are 

 George A. Mitchell of White, Gratwick & Mitch- 

 ell, Incorporated, of North Tonawanda, N. Y., 

 and George B. Breon and John Coleman ot 

 Williamsport, Pa. 



The many friends of George Nass of George 

 Nass & Son will be sorry to learn that he is 

 confined to his home with typhoid fever. A 

 speedy recovery is hoped for. 



E. B. Hayman of W. H. Fritz & Co. has been 

 confined to his home for some time, it is re- 

 ported, threatened with typhoid fever. As he is 

 possessed of a strong constitution it is hoped 

 that he will throw off the trouble. 



li. M. Smith & Co. do not seem inclined to 

 push for orders. They are confining themselves 

 mainly to clearing up back orders as fast as 

 railroad facilities will allow. Their mills are 

 actively preparing stock. B. C. Currie, Jr., 

 Philadelphia manager ot this concern, reports 

 things moving along a little quietly at this 

 time ; he is watching developments as the spring 

 opens. 



A large quantity of timber was recently de- 

 stroyed by forest fires near Pottsville, Pa., and 

 through the lower section of Schuylkill county. 

 The loss will be heavy. 



Fire in the plant of the Keystone Cabinet 

 Works' at Chester, Pa., on April 13, caused a 

 loss estimated at $15,000. 



A report comes from Reading, Pa., that the 

 480 acres of timber land owned by A. Thal- 

 heimer. which is being cut at the rate of 30,000 

 feet daily, will be converted into cigar boxes. 



Two hundred acres of timber land were re- 

 cently destroyed by fire on the Nescopec Moun- 

 tain near Bloomsburg, Pa. 



The Sbamokin Wagon Works, an adjoining 

 planing mill and some dwellings at Sbamokin, 

 Pa., were recently destroyed by fire, causing a 

 loss estimated at $75,000. 



Fire destroyed the woodwork manufactory of 

 William Russell of this city on April 17, com- 

 pletely gutting the plant ; the loss is placed at 

 $20,000, 



The Bruce-Bock Lumber Company was incor- 

 porated under Pennsylvania laws on April 11 

 with authorized capital $10,000. Principal office 

 Conway, Pa. Incorporators are C. R. Bruce, 

 II. J. Bock of Conway, Pa., J. A. Davis, W. A. 

 Reader of Baden, Pa., and J. A. McNutt of 

 Freedom, Pa. 



Owen M. Bruner of Owen M. Bruner Com- 

 pany, a very busy concern, has no complaint to 

 make in the way of business complications. The 

 company has engaged J. A. Finley as salesman to 

 look after the Metropolitan and Baltimore terri- 

 tory. Mr. Finley was formerly with Henson & 

 Pearson. He will handle specially maple floor- 

 ing and yellow pine timber. Mr. Bruner and' 



