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Cadillac, Mich., spent a few days in town last 

 week. 



Lucius Fuller, editor of the Lumber World, 

 has been confined to his bed for some days 

 suffering with a broken ankle. 



O. C. Pratt of the G. C. Pratt Tie & Timber 

 I'orapany, Chicago, recently made an extensive 

 I rip through southern mill points, and reports 

 lilai'ing several large orders. 



David W. Walker, who conducts a mahogany 

 business at 133 La Salle street, Chicago, reports 

 that business is at last back to normal and 

 shows good promises for the future. Mr. Walker 

 states that the mahogany trade was heavily hit 

 ill the recent depression and that producers were 

 under contract for large orders and had, in 

 some cases. 6,000,000 to 7,000,000 feet of this 

 lumber on sticks. A consequent eruption in 

 prices was inevitable. 



Philip J. Attley, manager of the Ross-Attley 

 Lumber Company, Heth. Ark., paid a visit to 

 Chicago last week accompanied by Mrs. Attley. 

 They expected to return to the mill within a 

 lew days. 



The Landeck Lumber Company of Milwaukee. 

 Wi.s., has consolidated with the firm of L. J. 

 romeroy & Co.. Chicago, and hereafter the 

 (,'bicago branch of the Wisconsin firm, located 

 in the Marquette building, will be conducted 

 under the title of the Lahdeck Lumuer Company. 



C. H. Donaldson and George Mason of the 

 Mason & Donaldson Lumber Company. Rhine- 

 lander. Wis., were in Chicago recently on brief 

 • usiness visits. They report considerable difli- 

 culty in getting cars, but say that business is 

 good. 



P. A. Diggins of Murphy & Diggins, and B. C. 

 Kelly of the St. Johns Table Company. Cadillac. 

 Mich., were in Chicago this week on their way 

 .South, intending to spend a week or two in 

 hunting game along the Texas gulf coast. 



Carroll F. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lumber 

 Ac Manufacturing Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 passed through Chicago late last week on his 

 way to Denver. CoL, where he was called by 

 ihe death of a brother-in-law. 



W. J. Vertrees of Bushnell, 111., who is presi- 

 dent of the Bushnell Tank Works, was a recent 

 (Jhicago visitor. 



E. V. Allen, president of the Victor Manufac- 

 turing Company of Columbus, O.. and Leaven- 

 worth, Kan., was in Chicago last week. 



Charles H. Barnaby, of Greencastle, Ind., the 

 long-time president of the Indiana Hardwood 

 Lumbermen's Association, was in Chicago last 

 week. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, was in Louis- 

 ville. Ky., this week looking after the arrange- 

 ments for the coming meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, to be held June 

 and 10. 1910. 



H. B. L'tley. general purchasing agent of the 

 International Harvester Company, this city, ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Utley and their daughter, 

 left two weeks ago for southern California, 

 where they will remain until the middle of 

 March. Mr. Utley is well known in the lumber 

 trade here and his many friends wish him an 

 i'n.ioyable vacation. 



Clarence S. Corse, a well-known member of 

 the local traveling lumber salesmen's fraternity, 

 lias associated himself in a selling capacity with 

 the .\. S. Badger Company, this city. He will 

 represent the concern in northern Illinois and 

 southern Wisconsin territory. 



^ew YORK 



producers at Welch, W. Va., against the Norfolk 

 & Western railroad. So far the company has 

 won in two of the lower courts, from which de- 

 cisions the Norfolk & Western appealed and' are 

 putting up a very bitter fight. Decision in the 

 case is expected to be rendered in about two 

 weeks. 



The entire business staff of the Stevens-Eaton 

 Company, large wholesale house of 1 Madison 

 avenue, were tendered their usual annual dinner 

 by the principals of the firm at the Hotel Man- 

 hattan on the evening of February 10. Covers 

 were laid for twenty, and in addition to an 

 excellent dinner appropriate souvenirs were 

 tendered and a general good time enjoyed. The 

 Suvens-Eaton Company has just closed a con- 

 tract with the Norwood Manufacturing Company, 

 at Norwood, N. Y., to handle its well-known cut 

 of spruce in the local market for the next year. 



Petition in bankruptcy has been tiled against 

 i-"ickling & Co., large manufacturers of auto- 

 mobile bodies and tops, 304-306 West Forty- 

 uinth street, Manhattan. The liabilities are es- 

 timated at $18,000 and assets $29,000. 



President Russel J. Perrine of the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association and head of the large 

 house of Johnson Brothers, Brooklyn, sailed on 

 February 10 with his family for a month's pleas- 

 ure trip to Bermuda. 



The Hoban, Hunter, Feitner Company, large 

 wholesale cypress house of 1 Madison avenue, 

 has. in line with improving its service to the 

 local yard trade, just leased a large amount of 

 water front property on Newtown creek, Brook- 

 lyn. Here it will immediately arrange a large 

 wholesale cypress distributing yard, from which 

 it will be able to serve the trade with quick 

 shipments direct from stock. 



After two years' attempt on the part of New 

 York lumber merchants to obtain an adjustment 

 of their differences with railroad companies en- 

 tering the city, the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission has taken up the first for settlement. 



Richard J. Donovan, 170 Broadway, appeared 

 for the lumber interests. He alleged that delays 

 in the delivery of lumber extended from four 

 days to thirty-three days, causing much damage 

 to the dealers. He also charged that the rail- 

 roads required shippers to designate a particular 

 berth in the Wallabout basin at which cars would 

 be delivered, instead of unloading at the nearest 

 empty berth. 



Mr. Donovan insisted that where berths and 

 piers were not reserved demurrage of from $25 

 to $10 a day was charged to shippers. In addi- 

 tion it was alleged that by bunching several cars 

 in transit to the consignee the railroads forced 

 the payment of demurrage while the process of 

 unloading one car at a time was in progress. 



The hearing developed that nearly all of the 

 freight docks in and near New Y'ork are leased 

 by Ihe railroads. Mr. Donovan asked for an 

 order requiring the Pennsylvania to accept 

 freight at one or more piers, instead of a spe- 

 cially designated one. The commission ordered 

 briefs submitted in Washington ^larcli 1. 



BUFFALO 



Based on a clause of the Interstate Commerce 

 laws, which provides that where a car routed 

 ever several different lines is lost in transit the 

 owner of the property may sue any one of the 

 lines over which it comes for the loss accrued, 

 there was heard last week before the Appellate 

 Division in this city a case in point brought by 

 the Welch Lumber Company, large hardwood 



n. E. Yeager is about swamped with lumber, so 

 iiuich coming in from the South that he cannot 

 keep up with the unloading. The snow makes it 

 very bad to do anything in yard and he lias 

 a large amount sold, waiting to be loaded. 



The business of T. Sullivan & Co. is steady 

 and strong, this being one of the most active win- 

 ters in the record of the firm. The yards were 

 lull when the snow came and the handling is 

 easier than in some cases. 



Business is strong in the yard of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, and as soon as there 

 is any weather suitable there will be an increase 

 of the oak and other stock coming up from the 

 South, but there is enough of that for this 

 weather. 



ITrank A. Beyer has returned from his visit to 

 the mills at Pascola, Mo. He will now be a 



county ofllcial until the taxes are collected. He 

 found the situation in the western lumber trade 

 very good. 



-V. Miller is looking after the interests of the 

 Hardwood Exchange and is now calling it 

 together every week, but the business is still 

 largely of a social" nature. His yard activity is 

 good for the time of year. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company still 

 has an office representative in the Southwest 

 looking over the various sawmills that the firm 

 takes the cut of. Together these mills will turn 

 out a big lot of oak and other hardwoods. 



I". W. Vetter has gone to West Virginia to look 

 after some hardwoods he has on his list, includ- 

 ing a lot of very fine white ash, some of which 

 is already in yard here. There will be more 

 needed, as the sales are large. 



This is a very active winter for I. N. Stewart 

 & Pro., who have taken a slice out of a good 

 Many other yards to help them fill their orders, 

 which have been much larger for some time 

 than is common at this time of the year. 



Manager Hopkins of Scatcherd & Son has made 

 a trip to the Memphis mills of the firm and will 

 now plan his regular winter visit to his orange 

 trees in the Isle of Pines. Business is very brisk, 

 but stock not at all plenty. 



Both Hugh and Angus McLean have been in 

 Nev>' York of late looking after the sales end of 

 the business. All the southwestern mills of the 

 McLean interests are doing full time, but the 

 market is likely to take all the stock. 



President G. Ellas of the Lumber Exchange 

 sviU try to attend the annual convention of the 

 Wholesale Association in Cincinnati and has 

 named J. N. Scatcherd and Kuowlton Mixer to 

 accompany him as delegates. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Charles K. Parry recently returned from an 

 extended tour of the southern lumber camps and 

 itports conditions the best ever known there. 

 One of the mills in which he is interested has 

 been changed from a timber to a Georgia floor- 

 ing mill with a capacity of about 50,000 feet per 

 day. He pronounced favorably upon outlook. 



Charles G. Blake, manager. E. V. Babcock & 

 Co., states that business is fairly well sustained, 

 considering the limitations of a severe winter. 

 He believes the first of spring will see a brisk 

 advance in trading. 



W. S. W. Kirby of the Kirby & Hawkins Com- 

 pany says orders are coming in liberally, but the 

 severe storms have interfered more or less with 

 the delivery of goods. He anticipates sound trad- 

 ing for 1910. 



William H. Shippen of Shippen Brothers' Lum- 

 ber Company, Ellijay, Ga., was a recent visitor 

 among the local trade. 



C. H. Wheeler, manager. Summit Lumber & 

 Milling Company, Shanksville, Pa., recently spent 

 a few days visiting his business friends in Phila- 

 delphia. 



On account of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association's convention being held at 

 Cincinnati, O., on March 2 and 3, the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of Philadelphia will postpone 

 Its regular monthly meeting to March 10. 



The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company 

 held a special meeting at the office of J. H. 

 Sheip. 2026 Land Title building, on February 11, 

 at which the following officers and directors were 

 elected : Jerome H. Sheip, president ; Charles H. 

 Kunkel, vice-president ; W. Howard Ramsay, 

 treasurer; Stanley S. Sheip, secretary. S. S. 

 Koller and the above named officers compose the 

 directorate. 



S. B. Southgate, chief inspector of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, was a visitor to 

 Philadelphia on February 11. He is making 

 a tour of the eastern cities and was on his way 

 to Baltimore. 



D. G. Courtney, the eminent hardwood manu- 

 facturer of Charleston, W. Va., was a recent 

 visitor to the local trade. 



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