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manufacture of Vaiious articles from hardwood. 



The E. K. Parsons mill, Southampton, Mass., 

 recently destroyed by lire, will be rebuilt. 



The Boston & Maine Railroad Company has 

 discontinued its lumber sheds in Boston with 

 the exception of those of the Eastern and Fitch- 

 burg divisions. 



Nelson Wallace Wyman of Southampton, 

 Mass., died at his home April y. I'or a number 

 of years he conducted a lumber business under 

 the firm name of S. & N. W. Wyman. In 1900 

 the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Wyman 

 continued the business alone. He is survived by 

 two sons. 



Patriclj Urummey of the firm of Proctor & 

 Drummey died April 5 at his home in South 

 Boston. With the late George Proctor he formed 

 a partnership several years ago. On the death 

 of Mr. Proctor his son, George Proctor, suc- 

 ceeded to the business and the firm was con- 

 tinued under the old name. Mr. Drummey Is 

 survived by one daughter, Mrs. Henry F. Naphen, 

 widow of the late Congressman Naphen of South 

 Boston. 



New York. 



On May 1 the Adirondacli Fire Insurance 

 Company, with a paid in cash capital of $300,- 

 000, will open its boolss for business in the lum- 

 ber and wood working line exclusively, its busi- 

 ness being written by the Lumber Insurers' 

 General Agency, 66 Broadway, this city. This 

 new company is owned largely by the same in- 

 terests which control the Lumber Insurance 

 Company of New York, the Lumber Under- 

 writers of New York and the Toledo Fire & 

 Marine Insurance Company of Sandusky, O., and 

 will be conducted along the same lines as these 

 companies, which have been doing such good work 

 for the trade. With this company these inter- 

 ests will practically control four trade insuring 

 institutions with combined cash assets of over 

 one million dollars, which will place their poli- 

 cies beyond all question of financial stability 

 and will likewise enable the Lumber Insurers' 

 General Agency to place lines on standard risk 

 of as high as $60,000. 



Important changes have been announced in the 

 J. C. Turner Cypress Lumber Company, 1123 

 Broadway, which company has been succeeded by 

 the J. C. Turner Lumber Company, with a paid- 

 in capital of $1,000,000. The company has been 

 heretofore a distinctly cypress specialist, but J. 

 C. Turner and his associates have purchased 

 large yellow pine holdings and during the past 

 year acquired a substantial interest in the H. L. 

 Jenkins Lumber Company of Blaine, Wash., of 

 which company Mr. Turner has been elected vice 

 president, and it was because of these diversified 

 interests that it was decided to reorganize the 

 company and drop the word cypress. The new 

 company will handle Pacific coast products ex- 

 tensively this year in addition to its other spe- 

 cialties. 



I. N. Stewart of I. N. Stewart & Bro., Buffalo, 

 was a recent visitor to this city and Philadel- 

 phia on business. This concern has Just pur- 

 chased 500,000 feet of virgin cherry at a West 

 Virginia operation, half of which is now on 

 sticks. 



The semiannual meeting of the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association was held at 18 Broad- 

 way April 11, at which time a great deal of 

 routine business was transacted. 



The local ofHce of the Lumbermen's Credit As- 

 sociation, George K. Towles, manager, has been 

 removed from 16 Beaver street to Suite 507, 18 

 Broadway, where commodious quarters have 

 been leased. 



Robert W. Higble returned last week from a 

 three weeks' trip to Bermuda only to leave imme- 

 diately for a visit to his large hardwood opera- 

 tion in the Adirondacks. 



S. L. Eastman of the S. L. Eastman Flooring 

 Company, Saginaw, Mich., accompanied by Mrs. 

 Eastman, spent several days in the city on pleas- 

 ure during the fortnight. 



Another prominent visitor was W. M. Eitter, 

 president of the W. M. RItter Lumber Company, 

 extensive hardwood manufacturers of Columbus, 

 O., who was on a brief business and pleasure 

 trip. 



Stone & Uershey of Newark, N. J., have in- 

 stalled a branch office at IS Broadway, through 

 wliich they will cater more to the trade of the 

 district than in the past. 



The new freight schedule from Adirondack 

 points to New York by the hundred weight as 

 against the previous rates per thousand feet 

 board measure, which becomes etCective May 1, 

 has been announced by the New York Central 

 lines, and is on a basis which will mean a sharp 

 increase in the cost of lumber products in the 

 local market, the percentage of the advance be- 

 ing about twenty-hve per cent. 



F. T. Nesbit & Co., Inc., has been organized to 

 succeed to the wholesale lumber, sash, door and 

 blind business in this city carried on in the past 

 by F. T. Nesbit & Co. The capital is $100,000 

 and the directors are F. T. Nesbit and G. L. 

 Jost of 115 Nassau street. New York, and G. W. 

 Johnson of Brooklyn. 



James Cant of Cant & Kemp, lumber brokers, 

 Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England, ar- 

 rived in New York a few days ago en route to 

 the Canadian markets. 



George H. Thomson, representing Singleton, 

 Dunn & Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, after a visit 

 to mill points throughout the country, sailed 

 last week. 



Philadelphia. 



Jerome II. Sbeip of Sheip & Vandegrift and 

 president of the Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber 

 Company, has just returned from a ten days' 

 trip to Knoxville, Tenn., where he was looking 

 over the plant of a ladder manufacturing concern 

 which has a veneer mill at that point. Mr. 

 Sheip is vicegerent snark of Hoo-Hoo of the east- 

 ern district of Pennsylvania and is busy plan- 

 ning the regular spring outing which usually 

 takes the form of a planked shad dinner at one 

 of the Delaware river resorts. 



F. O. Worden of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany Is making a trip to Pittsburg, Cleveland, 

 Cincinnati and other Ohio points. He finds the 

 market holding well and expects a brisk trade in 

 hardwoods. 



The regular financial meeting of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany was held on Tuesday, April 17, at the com- 

 pany's offices in the Drexel building. The usual 

 business was transacted. The progressive policy 

 of the concern has resulted in making this its 

 banner season, and Justin Peters, the capable 

 manager, announces that the volume of business 

 controlled by the company is now greater than 

 at any other time In its history. 



Warren Somers of the Somers Lumber Com- 

 pany, Atlantic City, N. J., paid the trade a short 

 visit last week. He reports business at the 

 resort brisk and a considerable building boom 

 in progress. 



J. W. Difenderfer of the J. W. Dlfenderfer 

 Company returned a few days ago from the com- 

 pany's mills at Damascus, Va., where he hurried 

 out the firm's shipments. The Laurel River 

 Lumber Company, of which Mr. Difenderfer is 

 president, Is Installing new boilers and engines 

 in its mill. 



J. H. Schofield of Schofield Bros. Is at their 

 Pennsylvania mills looking after shipments. R. 

 W. Schofield has been spending a week at the 

 Weston, W. Va., office of the firm rushing out 

 orders. 



F. A. Kirby of the Cherry River Boom & Lum- 

 ber Company is making an extensive trip through 

 the West. C. E. Lloyd, Jr., who Is now on a 

 business trip to the office of the concern 

 at Scranton, Pa., has arranged to leave Phila- 

 delphia about April 30 for the South. He will 

 stop over In Pittsburg. 



The Producer's Lumber Company has engaged 



G. W. Shank as buyer. Mr. Shank is well and 

 favorably known to the trade and has had thor- 

 ough lumber experience, having been in business 

 for himself in North Carolina for twenty-five 

 years. Franklin H. Smith, secretary of the 

 company, has almost recovered from his recent 

 illness and expects to be in harness again in 

 about ten days. 



John J. Soble of Soble Bros, returned last 

 week from an extensive trip, during which he 

 acquired a considerable quantity of good chest- 

 nut. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y.. was in town this week 

 calling on the trade. 



The nineteenth annual meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of Philadelphia was held Tues- 

 day afternoon, April 12, with nearly every mem- 

 ber present. The election of officers resulted as 

 follows : President, George F. Craig of Geo. F. 

 Craig & Co. ; vice president, William L. Rice of 

 T. B. Rice & Sons Lumber Company ; treasurer, 

 Charles P. Maule. Directors : J. Danforth Bush, 

 W. L. Shaw and Ralph Souder. Auditors : Henry 

 C. Riley, Samuel B. Vrooman and Franklin Smed- 

 ley. 



It was proposed that the exchange appoint a 

 hardwood inspector, but the committee on inspec- 

 tion recommended that, inasmuch as the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association had ap- 

 pointed a resident inspector for Philadelphia, 

 and since its rules of inspection w£re the stan- 

 dard rules, this inspector should act in a simi- 

 lar capacity for the members of the exchange. 

 The meeting declared itself opposed to the intro- 

 duction of the metric system of measurement, 

 and ordered that their protest should be for- 

 warded to the committee in charge of the bill 

 favoring such an introduction at Washington. 



At the conclusion of business a vote of 

 thanks was extended to the Haedwood Record 

 for its careful treatment of the affairs and 

 policies of the Exchange. 



A considerable number of Philadelphia lumber- 

 men are arranging to attend the ninth annual 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association to be held at Memphis, Tenn., May 

 3 and 4. Most of them will go by way of Cin- 

 cinnati, where they have planned to stop off on 

 May 2 to attend a luncheon to be given In their 

 honor at the Lumbermen's Club by the lumber- 

 men of that city. After the function they will 

 join farces with their hosts and proceed to Mem- 

 phis. 



Frank P. Rumbarger, who will attend the an- 

 nual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 -Association, has arranged to stop oS and look 

 after the interests of his company in western 

 North Carolina, where it operates three sawmills 

 and where it owns a tract of some 22,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber. He will also visit eastern 

 Tennessee, where the concern controls the out- 

 put of several large mills, and from there will 

 proceed to various points in the South to look 

 after hardwood stocks. It is uncertain when 

 he will return. 



Baltimore. 



The Iron Mountain Lumber Company, which 

 is composed of two young Baltimoreans, has com- 

 pleted negotiations for the purchase of 3,000 

 acres of timber land in Smyth county, Virginia, 

 along a branch of the Norfolk & Western. The 

 timber is poplar, oak and chestnut, and, together 

 with other holdings of the company in Grayson 

 county, will give it about 25,000,000 feet. At 

 Trout Dale. Grayson county, the company has 

 had a sawmill in operation since last November. 

 A big plant is to be erected on this tract, logging 

 having already commenced. The character of 

 the mill has not yet been decided on. The com- 

 pany is composed of David T. Carter and Thomas 

 Hughes of the firm of Carter, Hughe.s & Co. Mr, 

 Carter will superintend active operations at the 

 two mills of the company, making liis residence 

 at Trout Dale, while Mr. Hughes will look after 

 the distribution of the output here. 



