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to President Kermse of the company, who rein- 

 stated him and discharged the foreman. This 

 was followed by a walk-out of the men in the 

 shop. The woodworkers were ordered back to 

 work, but the carpenters will remain out. 



'C.~SI.""Crim of C. M. Crim & Son, manufac- 

 turer of Indiana hardwood lumber at Salem, 

 Ind., was a caller at the Record office on June 7. 



"Business is very good for this season of the 

 year." said A. II. liuth of the G. W. Jones Lum- 

 ber Company. "Our mills both in the South and 

 the North are running and keeping up to the 

 limit." 



Frank Ingram, manager of the American Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, has been out of the city 

 for the past few weeks. 



L. D. Benedict of the L. D. Benedict Lumber 

 Company was having troubles of his own when 

 the Record man called. Three cars shipped from 

 his mill were lost in the shuffle. Speaking of 

 trade he said that there is less dry stock on 

 hand this season than at the same time last 

 year. He said trade was keeping up splendidly 

 and he had a good supply of orders on hand. 



"It pays to keep up the condition of the lum- 

 ber yard." said a Chicago millman the other 

 day. "When lumber comes from the mill we 

 have it neatly and regularly piled. It is not 

 only much easier to go at and handle in this way 

 but it keeps the stock in good condition. When 

 a customer visits our yard he is much more im- 

 pressed by the way we handle our stock than 

 any other thing. We have tried it and found 

 that it brings good results with little effort." 



It seems to be the general opinion among the 

 trade that there is less dry stock on hand this 

 year than ever before. Stock is coming into the 

 markets which has been cut only about sixty 

 days and consequently is very green. A large 

 local lumber shipper says that green stock is 

 running up the price of freight. He showed the 

 bill of lading on a shipment just received which 

 figured that the stock weighed on an average of 

 five pounds to the foot. Of course on a 10 or 11 

 cent rate this does not amount to much but 

 where it is more it adds considerably to the 

 freight. 



Charles A. Goodyear of Tomah, Wis., was in 

 Chicago last week. Mr. Goodyear is a well- 

 known lumberman and his trip here was a busi- 

 ness one. 



J. W. Kitchen was in Chicago on a brief busi- 

 ness visit June 6. He is treasurer of Van Sant, 

 Kitchen & Co., well-known manufacturers and 

 wholesalers of high-grade poplar and oak lum- 

 ber at Ashland, Ky. 



P. W. Gilchrist of Alpena. Mich., and his son, 

 W. A. Gilchrist of Memphis, Tenn., were in 

 Chicago recently on a trip which combined busi- 

 ness and pleasure. F. W. Gilchrist is one of 

 the best known lumbermen of the white pine re- 

 gion of Michigan. 



Harry S. Hayden of the Hayden & Westcott 

 Lumber Company attended the fifth annual meet- 

 ing of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion at Norfolk, Va., and while in the east went 

 on to Princeton, N. J., to visit his old home. 

 The Hayden & Westcott Company is a whole- 

 saler of hardwood lumber with offices in the 

 Railway Exchange building. 



Frank Ilendrickson of the F. S. Hendrickson 

 Lumber Company has" been away on a trip for 

 the past week. 



F. B. McMullen, manager of the Fullerton- 

 I'owell Hardwood Lumber Company, states that 

 business with his company has been keeping up, 

 though he thinks that most of the buyers have 

 fairly good stocks on hand. 



Friends of Edward L. Davis, the well-known 

 Louisville lumberman, will regret to know that 

 he has been having serious trouble with his eyes 

 of late, which has necessitated his giving up 

 close attention to business. 



C. D. Boyntou of St. Louis, the well-known 

 lumberman-wit of Missouri, was a caller at the 

 Record office on June 3. Mr. Boynton was in 



Ihe city to meet his wife and his mother, who 

 have just returned from a winter's trip to Japan. 

 The liUmbermen's Golf Association of Chicago 

 has been organized to further acquaintance 

 among lumbermen golfers and for the purpose 

 of having a lumbermen's annual tournament. 

 The membership is open to all the fraternity, 

 regardless of residence, and this year's tourna- 

 ment will be held at the Glenview Golf Club on 

 June 25. It is hoped that the attendance will 

 be large. Lumbermen are invited to send in 

 applications for membership accompanied by 

 check for $5 to cover initiation fee and dues 

 for the present year. C. F. T'horapson is presi- 

 dent : Frank B. Stone, secretary, and C. F. True, 

 treasurer. Headquarters of the association are 

 at 701 Railway Exchange, Chicago. 



The Record is in receipt of the revised grading 

 rules of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association, as adopted at the annual meeting 

 May 15 and 16. Secretary G. E. Watson, Hi- 

 bernia Bank building. New Orleans, announces 

 that he has a supply of these rules and can fur- 

 nish a reasonable number to any member desir- 

 ing them, free of charge. 



The Hurley Machine Company, 153-9 South 

 Jefferson street. Chicago, has started suit in the 

 United States Circuit Court over infringement 

 on their "Little Giant" floor scraper patent. 



I. F. Balsley, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of Willson Brothers' Lumber Company 

 of Pittsburg, presented to his friends at the re- 

 cent Atlantic City convention a pocket blank 

 book conveniently and suitably ruled to show at 

 a glance stock lists and price lists of lumber of 

 all kinds located at various shipping points. In 

 short, if it is properly filled out, a salesman will 

 find it a compendium of all the information he 

 requires for making sales. The book is spaced 

 not only for lumber of all varieties, but for floor- 

 ing, siding, etc., as well. It is an admirable 

 short-cut system for every lumber salesman, and 

 for the ingenuity of the plan and its execution 

 Mr. Balsley deserves the thanks of his friends 

 in the trade. 



George E. Youle, vice president and Pacific 

 coast representative of the S. A. Woods Machine 

 Company of Boston, was called east recently by 

 the serious illness of his mother, reaching her 

 bedside shortly before she died. Mr. Youle went 

 to Boston for a conference with the principals 

 of his house before returning to Seattle. 



John D. Spaulding made a recent trip to the 

 upper Mississippi valley on behalf of Upbam & 

 Agler, with whom he has lately resumed connec- 

 tion. 



The summer residence of H. Paepcke, president 

 of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company, at Glen- 

 coe, was burned June 1 ; the loss amounted to 

 about $20,000. 



A. Jarvis of the Steven & Jarvis Lumber Com- 

 pany of Eau Claire, Wis., was a visitor to this 

 market a few days ago, en route to Michigan 

 points. 



E. J. Ostrander, secretary, and J. W. Embree, 

 vice president, of the Rittenhouse & Embree 

 Company, have returned from a trip to the op- 

 erations of the Arkansas Lumber Company, lo- 

 cated at Warren, Ark. 



E. S. Hartwell, of the well-known lumber 

 house of that name, has gone to Wilmington, N. 

 C, to look after his interests in the Waccamaw 

 Lumber Company, in which he is interested. 

 This company owns 200,000 acres of timber in 

 that state, consisting of cedar, gum, cypress and 

 pine, and has one of the finest plants in the 

 district. 



The Shavings & Sawdust Company has given 

 to John A. Chapman, as trustee, for use of Cyrus 

 H. McCormick, a trust deed to the property at 

 the northwest corner of Western avenue and 

 Twenty-third street, to secure a loan of $33,750 

 for seven years at 6 per cent. 



George Kern of the well-known wholesale hard- 

 wood house, the Kern Lumber Company of Free- 



port, 111., >vas in town June 4, calling on the 

 trade. 



F. B. Sprague, formerly associated with the 

 D. W. Higbie Lumber Company, has formed the 

 F. B. Sprague Lumber Company, with offices at 

 74S First National Bank building. Chicago. Mr. 

 Sprague will specialize in liardwood lumber of 

 all varieties, and is in a position to assure ex- 

 cellent service. 



Boston, 



The Boston hardwood lumbermen who at- 

 tended the recent convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association at .\tlautic City 

 have all returned to Boston. They report a 

 splendid meeting both from a business and so- 

 cial standpoint. 



Benjamin Pope of the Curtis ic Pope Lumber 

 Company has gone to his stock farm in Con- 

 cord, Mass., where he will spend the summer. 



R. L. Abbott, who has served two terms as 

 surveyor general of lumber of Massachusetts, 

 has been re-appointed for a third term by the 

 governor of this state. Mr. Abbott is a capable 

 and popular man. 



The Blanchard Lumber Company has engaged 

 W. A. Webster as salesman to cover western 

 Massachusetts and Maine. He has beeu asso- 

 ciated with the Shepard & Morse Lumber Com- 

 jiany and more recently with I lie Palmer-Hunter 

 Lumber Compauy- 



The planing mill business in Northampton. 

 Mass., formerly conducted by Laucour & Gagne, 

 has been purchased by Delos T. Pepin. Mr. 

 Pepin will make extensive improvements. 



Robert C. Lippincott of I'liiladelphia visited 

 the eastern trade recently. 



W. W. Reilley of Buffalo, N. Y.. was in Bos- 

 ton last week. Mr. Reilley reported the hard- 

 wood market as very firm. 



Charles S. Wentworth of C. S. Wentworth & 

 Co. has returned from a trip to New Brunswick. 



The W. O. McDuffee Company has been in- 

 corporated in Boston to carry on a general wood- 

 working business, with a capital stock of $4,000. 

 The promoters are J. Sherman Richardson, 

 William O. McDuffee and Frank II. ilcHuffee. 



The Hoosatonic Lumber Company has been 

 organized with a capital stock of $20,ouo, and 

 will be located in Derby, Vt. TTie stock and 

 plant of the Carter & llubbell Company, which 

 business has been conducted by Linn E. Lock- 

 wood, has been taken over by this new corpora- 

 tion. R. W. Cliatfield, who has been vice-presi- 

 dent of the Ansonia Lumber Company, for many 

 years is also interested in the new company. 

 The sash, door and blind business will be under 

 the personal supervision of Mr. Lockwood. 



A shipment of 50,500 feet of oak was made 

 from Boston last week to South America. 



Philadelphia. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its second 

 meeting under the newly elected officers on June 

 0. It was well attended, but nothing of especial 

 interest came up. Haney-H.-usou & Co. were 

 elected members of the exchange. Recent vis- 

 itors to the exchange rooms were Edwin (jaskill 

 of Sue, W. Va. ; E. II. SiUimau of the Wacco- 

 maw Lumber Company, Waccomaw. S. C. ; John 

 J. DutCy, Sr., of the La Fayette Mill & Lumber 

 Company, Baltimore, Md. : George E. Major of 

 Major & Loomis Company. Hertford. N. C. ; 

 James C. Cowen of Schultz Bros. & Cowen, Chi- 

 cago, 111., and L. L. Earth of Edward Hlnes 

 Lumber Company, Chicago. 



Schoflelil Brothers, though a comparatively 

 young firm, has always beeu among the hustlers. 

 Their success was conclusive from the beginning, 

 and their latest venture certainly accentuates the 

 fact. The Saltkeatchie Lumber Company of 

 Ulmers, S. C, in which they are largely inter- 

 ested, is fast shaping Itself for business. They 

 are now installing band saws, automatic trimmer 

 steam-set works from the Allis-Chalmers Com- 



