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wi'stei-n Xortli Cai'oliua aud eastern Tennessee, 

 looking after the various interests of his com- 

 pany in these sections. 



Max L. Pease of tile Galloway-Pease Com- 

 IPiuiy of Johnson City, Tenu., is calling upon the 

 I'liiladelphia trade. F. F. Fish of the Alton 

 Lumber Company of Buckhannon, W. Va., is here 

 also for a few days. Charles Carroll Cross, sales 

 manager of the Santee River Cypress Lumber 

 Conipany of Ferguson, S. C, is making a round 

 uf ihe trade. 



'I'lie removal of the Lumbermen's Exchange to 

 ils jjresent quarters is much appreciated by out- 

 of-town as well as local lumbermen. This is 

 evident from the many callers. During the last 

 few weeks the following out-of-town visitors paid 

 ilieir respects to the exchange: R. S. Cohn of 

 ilie Roanoke Lumber Company, Norfolk, Va.; 

 .lulius Dietz of the Builders' Planing Mills Com- 

 jiauy. Buffalo, X. Y. : W. G. Underwood of the 

 .VIbemarle Lumber *_'ompany, Hartford, N. ('. ; 

 Iloraco Smedley of Smedley & Mebl, Ardmore. 

 I'M., and Air. Kimball of Kimball, Prince & Co.. 

 Viueland, N. J. The regular monthly meeting 

 was held on Oct. 4 with a very fair attendance. 

 President George F. Craig presided. Routine 

 business only was transacted. The committee 

 previously appointed to draft a new set of by- 

 laws handed in their report. Each item was 

 thoroughly discussed, several amendments added 

 and the matter was continued for further action 

 at the next meeting. Horace Smedley of Smed- 

 ley & Mebl, Ardmore. Pa., was elected a member 

 of the exchange. The appointment of two boards, 

 one for sales and the other for wants, is an 

 iunovation in the work of the exchange, and 

 that it is a success is shown by the appearance 

 already of sales of special cargoes and the list- 

 ing of wants in certain Hues. 



Christopher J. Heppe, the widely known or- 

 ganizer and president of the Heppe Piano Com- 

 pany, died on Oct. 4 of heart disease. The 

 Heppe instruments, organ and piano, have a far 

 and wide celebrit.v for superiority of construc- 

 tion. This fact in connection with the distinc- 

 tion of Mr. Heppe as a leader of music and a 

 large benefactor of organized charity has kept 

 him for long in the public eye. 



Baltimore. 



The hurricane which swept the (Uilf and South 

 Atlantic coasts last week was particularly dam- 

 aging to the lumber interests. A number of 

 mills were completely destroyed, while others 

 sustained serious losses in lumber, logs and build- 

 ings. Structures were blown over and stocks 

 washed away, while at sea a small fleet of lum- 

 ber laden vessels was lost. Baltimore interests 

 suffered in common with others. At the plant 

 of R. F. Baer & Co., Keyser Building, this city, 

 at Mobile, Ala., considerable damage was done. 

 There was only a trifling loss on lumber, while 

 the damage to the mill amounts to about .$500. 

 The shut-down necessitated comes at an oppor- 

 tune time, as the firm intended to change the 

 cqtiipment from a circular saw to a band saw, 

 and operations would have been suspended to 

 permit of the alteration. R. P. Baer of the firm 

 left Baltimore last Tuesday on a southern trip, 

 visiting mills in various states and gradually 

 extending his journey as far as Mobile. 



A number of the other plants in the vicinity 

 of that city fared far worse, those of the 

 Queen & Crescent Company and of the Vaughn 

 Company, among others, being almost entirely 

 destroyed. Their loss includes the wrecking of 

 mills and the drifting away of many thousands 

 of feet of lumber and logs. The Eddy Lake 

 Cypress Company at Eddy Lake, on the Little 

 Pee Dee River, South Carolina, sustained some 

 damage, the smoke stack being blown down and 

 a tank wrecked. William M. Burgan and Nor- 

 man James of this city, both of whom are largely 

 interested in the company, left last Monday for 

 Eddy Lake to see tor themselves what the sit 

 nation is and how the plant fared. 



The Iron Mountain Lumber Company, owned 

 by the same interests which control the hard- 

 wood Arm of Carter, Hughes & Co., this city, and 



which has been for some time past operating a 

 mill at Troutdale, Xa., under the personal super- 

 V sion of David T. Carter, has begun flie opera 

 tlon of anotlter plant at Jotbniada, tirayson 

 county, Va., about s;x miles from the older 

 plant. The new mill has a circular saw equi]) 

 ment and has a capacity of about 20.000 feet 

 "f hardwoods a day. It connects with the Vir- 

 ginia Southern Railroad and has three miles of 

 wooden tram road. I'liilip Littig, formerly of 

 Baltimore, is superintendent of the mill. 



(;en. G. AV. Curtin of the Curtin Lumber Com- 

 pany of Curtin, W. Va., was in town last wee's 

 :.ud called on a number of local firms. He spok,> 

 in most enthusiastic terms of existing trade cou- " 

 ilitious as well as of the outlook, but added that 

 trade is much handicapped by a scarcity of ears, 

 which makes delivery subject to vexatious de- 

 lays. The new mill which the company built to 

 lake the place of the one destroyed by Are last 

 .laiiuary is about ready for active operations and 

 will start up in the next few days. 



The firm of Kimball. Tyler & Co., nianufac- 

 inrers of barrels, with a large factor.v at High- 

 landtown, a Baltimore suburb, has been suc- 

 ^ded by the Kimball-Tyler Company, a cor- 

 poration. The same interests, however, will con- 

 tinue in control and the business will be con- 

 ducted as before. 



Among visiting lumbermen in this city re- 

 icutly were George L. Fish of the Alton Lnm- 

 lier Company, Buchannon, \A'. Va., and F. S. 

 I'addock of Wise. Va. 



Henry S. Hiss, president of the Hiss Manu- 

 lacturing Company, maker of fine furniture, 

 which went into the hands of receivers on July 

 .11) last, on September 29 applied for the benefit 

 (pf the bankrni)tc.v law. His liabilities are placed 

 at $17n.3,'')4.02 and his assets at .$1.8,275. 



G. L. Wood, general manager of the R. 1-". 

 AVood Lumber Company, with headquarters at 

 .\sheville, N. C. was here last week for tlii' 

 transaction of important business matters. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange held ils moutlily meeting last 

 Monriay : only routine business was transacted. 



The J. L. Gilbert & Bro. Lumber Company has 

 purchased the propert.v at the northwest corner 

 of Eastern and Ea.st Falls avenues and will use 

 it for a lumber ,varti, the old place at Aliceanna 

 street and East Falls avenue having been pre- 

 empted by the city for a pumping station. 



Pittsburg. 



Tlie Meudelssobu Planing .Mill ('oinipauy of 

 -Mendelssohn. Pa., is going to stop operations. 

 its propijetor going into business in the West. 



The Jacol) Herbst Lumber Company has been 

 formed by Jacob and .lobn Herbst, Peter Yonker 

 and Magdaline Yonker and will be organized 

 under a Pennsylvania charter to operate in 

 I'ittsburg. 



The Pittsburg Retail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation banqueted the Pittsburg Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association at the Nixon cafe. 

 Thursday, October 4. E. M. Hill of the Re- 

 tailers presided aud A. M. Turner ofliciated for 

 the Wholesalers. The banquet was given as a 

 result of a ball game lost by the Retailers in 

 the summer. To show their further esteem the 

 Retailers gave their guests a handsome loving 

 cup decorated with baseball emblems. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is having a very 

 active fall trade in hardwoods. E. C. Brainerd, 

 formerly sales manager for the old Nicola Broth- 

 ers Company, is now hunting customers for the 

 beautiful sites of the Schenley Farms Company 

 in which F. F. and O. P. Nicola are largely in- 

 terested. 



The Linehan Lumber Comi»any finds no time 

 lor lomplaint at its Kentucky plants. Both 

 the Linehan brothers are on the road much of 

 the time and find hardwood conditions more 

 favorable to the wholesaler than a month ago. 

 The one drawback in this respect is the car 

 shortage which they in common with many of 

 the large firms are feeling seriously on the 

 Soul hern railroads. 



I. l-'. Balsley. hardwood manager for Willson 

 Brothers, lately bought 2,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood on sticks and 15,000,000 feet to cut uuder 

 contract at a mill on the Coal & Coke railroad 

 in West Virginia. Mr. Balsley reiiorts trade in 

 common oak a little slow but finds other lines 

 of hardwood esiiecialiy strong. Sound wormy 

 chestnut is coming to the front and recent 

 orders have been booked at .$1 advance over list. 

 .\sb is also in good demand and hickory is 

 badly wanted but is handled but little by Pitts- 

 burg dealers owing to the small profit there is 

 in the scattering car load lots they are able 

 lo secure at the country mills. Alex. Willson 

 of WilLson Brothers is the recipient of general 

 symiialhy this week owing to the deatli of his 

 wife Mrs. Elinore Hauiilton Willson who passed 

 away very suddenly Saturday evening, Sep- 

 tember 2!). The couple had been married less 

 than two years and resided in a beautiful 

 home on .Sipiirrel Hill, 



The Flint. Frying & Stoner Company has 

 ils mills in operation in Cambria and Clear- 

 Held counties. Pennsylvania, Pattim, Millport, 

 Ebensburg and Tunnel Siding. In addition the 

 company has Just bought a tract of timber 

 near Ligonier, Pa., which will also be cut off. 

 These mills are supplying the company's Pitts- 

 burg trade in hemlock and hardwood. 



George W. Ilavnar of the Reliance Lumber 

 Company, is back from an extended trip through 

 Wisconsin and Minnesota. The company is in 

 good shape for a busy season in hardwood and 

 lias steadied its sources of supply by making 

 some good purchases in West Virginia. Its 

 lake trade is increasing at a most satisfactory 

 rate. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company by O. H. 

 Itectanus reports a much better general demand 

 for all kinds of lumber this month. Hardwood 

 is sharing liberally in this increase and the 

 company looks for a prosperous six months 

 aliead. Its southern operations are progressing 

 finely barring the extreme inconvenience from 

 ' ar shortage on all .southern roads. 



W. E. Hammer who has charge of the Buck- 

 hannon, West Virginia, plant of James I. M. 

 Wilson & Co., reports a big cut of oak and 

 poplar in that section. Stocks are fair, he 

 says, but are not increasing at too fast a rate. 

 Both basswood and chestnut have taken quite 

 a spurt in demand lately and Ihe former is in- 

 creasing in price. 



William Whitmer >>< S.uis. Incorporated, are 

 pushing operations at their four mills and will 

 make this month a record period. The following 

 changes have been made lately : M. L. WooUtten 

 has been made manager at a new branch office at 

 .Mobile, Alabama. W. F. Wagner, who was 

 connected with the AVbitmers for some time, 

 is with them again doing the Pennsylvania 

 trade. M. C. Morgan, formerly of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber >& Manufacturing Company, has 

 been working up orders iu Ohio and West 

 \'irginia. 



The L. L. .Satler Lumber Company now has 

 eight sawmills, three iilaning mills and 100 men 

 hustling day and night on the old Blackstone 

 operation at Blackstone, Va. It is getting out 

 1.500.000 feet a month, and prai-ticaily all this 

 lumber goes to manufacturers. 



W. E. Penfield of the Pine Tree Lumber Com- 

 imuy of Little Falls, Minnesota, visited the 

 Pittsburg trade last week. He says that the 

 logs are running fairly well at the Jlinuesota 

 plants but that there is no ovcu-production of 

 lumlier. Aloving the enormous wheat crop has 

 caused a severe car shortage and firms in the 

 northwest find it extremely difficult to fill mixed 

 car orders. 



Piu-haps the most encouraging feature of thc> 

 hai'dwood situation in I'ittsburg just now is 

 Ihe steady increase and the determined spirit 

 manifested in the incpiiry from manufacturers. 

 Firms that cater largely to the furniture trade 

 say tliat the pro.spects for heavy winter sales 

 in this direction were never so good. Traveling 

 salesmen who reach the thriving towns of Ohio, 



