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lurbances nil! befffime at all general or affect 

 business. The lockout In Hudson county. New 

 Jersey. Is also well in hand : in fact, the vic- 

 tory is practically won by the dealers, who have 

 rearranged their labor on an entirely non-union 

 basis and are running on full time. 



\V. W. Knight of tile I.ong-Knight Lumber 

 Company, Indianapolis. Ind.. and trustee in the 

 National Wholesale Lumlier Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, was here in connection with association 

 affairs this week. 



U. AV. Higbie, 45 Broadway, has gone with 

 his family to spend several weeks in camp at 

 the scene of his new liardwooil operations near 

 Newton Falls, in the Adirondacks. His fine new 

 mill is fast nearing completion and will be in 

 active operation in the early fall. 



David Goodman of Doernberg & Goodman has 

 returned from a two months' European tour. 



Secretary E. 1". I'orry of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association spent several 

 days in Pittsburg beginning August 16 in con- 

 nection with the car stake conference and asso- 

 ciation affairs. 



Sam E. Barr. I'latiron building, after an ac- 

 tive campaign in hardwoods, is spending a few 

 days with his family at Atlantic City, N. J. 



The Northern & Southern Lumber Company 

 of this city, recently incorporated with a capital 

 of half a million dollars, has acquired an ex- 

 tensive tract of hardwood aud pine timber land 

 in Marion county. South Carolina, which they 

 will immediately take steps to develop. Head- 

 i|uarters will be maintained In this city. 



The receivership of the Vossnack Lumber 

 Company, manufacturer and dealer in thin hard- 

 woods. Long Island City, has been terminated 

 with a final payment of 12^/. cents on the dol- 

 lar, making in all a total of 82% cents which 

 liie creditors have received. The total credits 

 paid amounted to .$27,000. 



.lohn H. Ireland of the Cross. Austin & Ire- 

 Iimd Lumber Company, Brooklyn, accompanied 

 by his bride, sailed for Europe Aug. 2 for a 

 lengthy stay. 



.lohn R. Glover of W. R. Adams & Co.. Brook- 

 lyn, has just returned from an extended pleas- 

 ure tour of the Pacific coast, Arizona and New 

 Mexico. 



Di.xon & Dewey. Flatiron building, wholesalers 

 in hardwoods and Pacific coast lumber, just 

 <'losed a big deal for four million feet of Pa- 

 cific coast stock for the Philippine islands. They 

 rejiort both branches of iheir business very ac- 

 tive. 



Ralph E. Sumner of H. H. Salmon & Co. is 

 taking a brief rest at Belmar. N. J. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, Jlemphis, is spend- 

 ing several weeks in this vicinity, making his 

 licadquarters at the office of Price & Hart, 18 

 Broadway. He reports matters in connection 

 with his association as very satisfactory. 



Henry Cape. 1 Madison avenue, accompanied 

 by J. .M. Hastings of Pittsburg, left this \Peek 

 for a visit to the extensive operations of the 

 latter in Nova Scotia. 



C. W. Manning of 66 Broad street has been 

 taking a brief rest at Tim Pond. Me. 



Surveyor General George L. Smith of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber As.sociatlon has been 

 spending several days in town in connection 

 with the inspection bureau of that organiza- 

 tion. 



M. B. Wilkinson of Asheville, N. C, has been 

 renewing acquaintances locally during the fort- 

 night. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Mem- 

 phis, accompanied by Mrs. Burgess and their 

 son, sailed for Europe during the fortnight on 

 a business and. pleasure trip. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company has been in- 



■ corporated in .Jersey City with a capital of 



:S1,.:>00,000, to manufacture lumber, iron, steel, 



etc. No official announcement as yet has been 



made as to the backers of the enterprise. 



The Yocum Company has been incorporated at 



Newark. N. .1.. to manufacture lumljer. leather, 

 etc. Capital, .foO.OOO. Incorporators, J. H. and 

 V. K. Yocum and C. S. Coe of Newark. 



I'". Mohr & Co., one of the largest furniture 

 manufacturing concerns of the district, is in 

 bankrupt<'.v through several suits filed by credi- 

 tors against the firm. Wilbur Larremore has 

 been appointed receiver of the assets, which are 

 placed at between $300,000 and $400,000. Lia- 

 bilities estimated at .$125,000. The firm h.as 

 stock on hand of .<50,000. as well as a large 

 number of orders for manufactured goods, and it 

 is believed will pay its creditors substantially 

 in due coitrse. 



llankruptcy schedules of G. L. Schuyler & Co.. 

 Inc.. of .Manhattan, who failed a year ago, show 

 liabilities of .$53,06.3. Owing to the fact that 

 the books and assets are in the hands of E. 

 lUumensteel, the court receiver, the assets are 

 not given, but at the time of his appointment he 

 estimated them at .$65,885. 



Philadelphia. 



Vicegerent Snark Jerome II. Sheip lias just 

 returned from a somewliat extended trij) to the 

 .Adirondacks where he went in search of health, 

 accompanied by Mrs. Sheip and his son Stanley. 



.\. W. Vaudegrlft of Sheip & Vandegrift is 

 spending a two weeks' vacation at Eaglesmere. 



John W. Coles has 'engaged the services of W. 

 A. Lawton as salesman for Philadelphia and 

 vicinity. Mr. Lawton was formerly with C. B. 

 Goad of Amelia, Va.. and also with Thos. B. 

 Hammer & Co. of Philadelphia. He is well 

 known in the local trade. 



John B. Emery of Wllliamsport was a recent 

 visitor to the Philadelphia trade. He is lately 

 recovered from an attack of appendicitis. 



N. W. Haws of Collerton. S. C, and Walter 

 W. .Mills of Kingston, N. C, visited the trade 

 last week. 



It. W. Wistar of Wistar, Underliill & Co. has 

 been spending some time at Cape May where 

 lie participated in tlie golf tournament with 

 great credit. 



The Evergreen Lumber Company of Ever- 

 green. N. C. for which Wistar, Underbill & Co. 

 are selling agents, has decided to erect a modern 

 planing mill, work on which will be begun 

 shortly. 



Fred Pyfer of the B. B. Martin Company of 

 Lancaster. Pa., spent a portion of last week in 

 I'hiladelphia. 



J. W. Diffenderter returned some time ago 

 from an extensive trip to West Baden, Ind.. 

 where he went for his health. Later he spent 

 a few days at Beach Haven, N. J., enjoying the 

 line fisiiing at that resort. 



The J. G. Brill Companj', manufacturer .of 

 cars, etc., has bought from the Schuylkill Im- 

 provement Company a tract of ten acres on the 

 south side of Woodland avenue, between Fifty- 

 eighth and Sixtieth streets. The land adjoins 

 the pi'esent plant of the concern, which extends 

 from Sixtieth to Sixty-third streets, running 

 back to the Pennsylvania railroad. It is under- 

 stood that a group of buildings will be erected 

 on the land purchased. 



II. II. Mans of H. 11. Maus & Co. is on a 

 trip south and while there will give his atten- 

 tion t<) matters connected with the Virginia 

 mills of the concern. 



Joseph P. Dunwoody returned recently from a 

 southern trip. The firm finds business decidedly 

 better than it has been for some time. S. Y. 

 Warner is making a trip of a few days' dura- 

 tion in Maryland. 



II. \. Paftison of the Philadelphia Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is touring New York state. 

 Reports from him state that business is gener- 

 ally good. 



Owen M. Bruner has issued his annual adver- 

 tising novelties which are always received with 

 great interest liy the trade. In the telephone 

 lists for this year Mr. Bruner gives prominence 

 to the National Hardwood Lumber .Association 

 inspector of the district. 



Win. II. Fritz and E. B. Hayman of Wra. II. 



Fritz & Co. are taking an extended trip for 

 business and pleasure through the south and 

 will visit the mill points in which they are 

 interested. 



R. H. Schofield ot' Scliofield Bros, and Geo. 

 F. Lance, Jr., of the sales department of the 

 firm are spending some time at Atlantic City. 



Visitors to the trade during the last fortnight 

 included: A. E. Pope of the Fairwood Lumber 

 Company, Marion, Va. ; F. J. Chapin of the 

 West Branch Novelty Company, Milton, Pa. ; 

 E. S. Ziegler of the Hoover Wagon Company, 

 York, Pa. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia 

 is now comfortably housed in the new quarters 

 in the Crozer building, having moved August 18. 

 Owen M. Bruner, who was the first of the trade 

 to call at the new quarters, presented the 

 exchange with a large and beautiful United 

 States flag which now waves over Chestnut 

 street from the window of the rooms. 



The baseball game which was postponed on 

 account of bad grounds will be played on August 

 30, and is expected to be in every way a suc- 

 cess. John J. Rumbarger, the manager of the 

 lumbermen's team, has already taken in a con- 

 siderable sum and expects the receipts to mount 

 still higher before the day of the contest. 



Baltimore, 



J. L. Gilbert of the J. L. Gilbert & Bro. Lum- 

 ber Company, Canton and Bast Falls avenues, 

 died on August 7 of stomach trouble, 

 fiom which he had suffered for several years. 

 The deceased was within three days of 54 years 

 old and a native of Baltimore. After going 

 through the public schools he entered the em- 

 ploy of a lumber firm and in the course of a few 

 years he was able to establish himself in busi- 

 ness, becoming a member of the firm of Kuegler 

 & Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert later formed a partner- 

 ship under the name of Adams & Gilbert, and 

 in .January, 1885, he founded the firm of J. L. 

 Gilbert & Bro., having purchased the interest of 

 Mr. Adams, who retired. ' The firm was very 

 successful and in order to insure its continu- 

 ance in the event of death was transformed into 

 a close stock company under the name of the J. 

 L. Gilbert & Bro. Lumber Company, last year. 

 The deceased leaves a wife and six children. He 

 was a member of the Lumber Exchange, a Mason 

 and affiliated with other organizations. His 

 demise will not make any changes in the con- 

 duct of the business. 



L, E. Lawler of Norfolk, Va., has been chosen 

 manager of the Memphis ofllce of Price & Heald 

 of this city to succeed Gustave A. Father, who 

 recently embarked in business on his own ac- ■ 

 count. Mr. Lawler has for about ten years rep- 

 resented various firms in Arkansas and other 

 southwestern states, and is said to be well quali- 

 fied for the post. Frank Price of the same firm 

 returned two weeks ago from a trip to West 

 Virginia, southwestern Virginia and parts of 

 Kentucky and Ohio, where he visited the various 

 agents of the firm. He found that a great ma- 

 jority of the manufacturers have orders which 

 will keep them busy for months to come, and 

 that not a few are oversold. Thus, one millman 

 had taken contracts for not less than 9,000,000 

 feet, while others had assumed obligations to 

 furnish from 1.000,000 to 3,000,000 feet. Mr. 

 Price consequently reached the conclusion that 

 values will continue to rule high. He estab- 

 lished a yard at .\bingdon. Va. Richard W. 

 Price, the senior member of the firm, spent a 

 vacation of several weeks in Atlantic City. 



A call has been sent out for a meeting of the 

 special committee of the local Hoo-Hoo appointed 

 to make a systematic effort to secure for Balti- 

 more the national concatenation next year. As 

 far as is known now, this city will be repre- 

 sented by Vicegerent Snark George R. Waters, 

 John L. Alcock and W. O. Price. 



E. M. Terry, secretary of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, was In Baltimore last 

 week and called on v.'irious members of the or- 



