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the matter was a few days later finally and 

 satisfactorily settled. 



F. E. I.ongwell, the popular purchasing agent 

 for the National Casket Company, headquarters 

 in this city, has resigned his [wsition to join 

 foi'ces with Fred S. Morse of the F. S. Worse 

 Lumber Company, Springfield, Mass. lie will 

 become secretary and assistant manager of this 

 company, thej'cby permit ting Mr. Jlorse to de- 

 ^'Ote more attention to his large interests in 

 Canada and locally. 



A most important lumlier-railroaa case has 

 just been won in the appelate division of the 

 supreme court of the state of New York here 

 by the Welch I.umher Company, large hardwood 

 operators of Welch, W. Va., against the Nor- 

 folk & Western Railroad. The case was based 

 on the clause of the Interstate Commerce Act 

 which provides that where a car routed over 

 several different roads is lost in transit the 

 owner may bring suit to recover against the 

 railroad issuing the bill of lading irrespective 

 of whether it was lost on its line or not. The 

 Welch Lumber Company suffered such a loss 

 and sued the Norfolk & Western as the originat- 

 ing road. The case has been fought through 

 three courts and it is now understood will he 

 appealed to the supreme court at Washington. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed 

 against F. Mohr & Co., large furniture manu- 

 facturers, with factory at 507-11 West Thirty- 

 second street, Manhattan. Henry Melville has 

 been appointed receiver with bond of $5,000. 

 The liabilities are estimated at $125,000, and 

 the assets $60,000. 



Two fires in Brooklyn on the morning of 

 JIarch 31 destroyed the large planing and saw- 

 mill of C. H. I'ierson, 187 Wallabout street, en- 

 tailing a loss of $40,000, and the box factory 

 of J. J. Brumley, 75 Grand avenue, entailing a 

 loss of $10,000. 



James Gilson. for many years with the Dodge 

 & Bliss Company, West End, Jersey City, has 

 severed his connection to join forces with the 

 large Jersey City firm of Vanderbeek & Sons. 



D. C. Cummings, who so ably represented 

 (he Louisiana Red Cypress Company, New Or- 

 leans, La.,_ in the New England markets for 

 several years past, has resigned to Join forces 

 with the IIoban-IIunter-Feitner Company, the 

 well-known wholesale cypress house of this city, 

 which he will represent in the New England 

 trade. The concern's new wholesale distribut- 

 ing yard in Brooklyn is fast getting into shape 

 and large quantities of cypress are arriving. 

 On May 1 the company will transfer its office 

 to the new yard at Chapman's Docks, Newtown 

 Creek, Brooklyn. M. J. E. Hoban of the com- 

 pany ju&t returned from a lengthy business trip 

 to southern mill points. 



E. L. Edwards, prominent hardwood lumber- 

 man of Dayton and Cincinnati, O., was here 

 during tlie fortnight in the interest of business. 



John Fleming, well-known sales representa- 

 tive and for many years past associated with 

 I he Wiley-Harker Lumber Company, has resigned 

 to associate himself in a selling capacity with 

 the Doscher-Garner Company, large cypress 

 house of 11 Broadway, whom he will represent 

 in the Metropolitan district, Philadelphia and 

 ■Mund points. 



C. E. Kennedy, for many years local repre- 

 sentative of the Shepard & Morse lAimber Com- 

 pany of Boston, and who for the past two years 

 lias been successfully operating on his own ac- 

 count in the wholesale trade with office at IS 

 liroadway, has won a European trip as the 

 most popular member, of the Knights of Colum- 

 bus, a large Catholic organization. Mr. Ken- 

 nedy won out over his nearest competitor by 

 r.OOO votes, receiving a total vote of 122,500. 

 His trip to Europe hegins July 19 and will in- 

 clude visits to all the leading cities as well as an 

 ludience with the I'ope at Rome. 



n. W. Ilighio of the K. W, Ilighie Company, 

 wholesale hardwoods, 45 liroadway. has just 

 leturned from a visit to his hardwood manufac- 



turing operations at Newton Falls, N. Y. Every- 

 thing is going on in fine shape and Mr. Higbie 

 expects to have a choice line of lumber for 

 distribution this year. 



U. C. Tur'rier has opened an office at 1 Madi- 

 son avenue, Manhattan, where he will conduct 

 a wholesale lumber business as sales agent for 

 the Newborn Box Company and the Mills-Camp- 

 bell Lumber Company of Newborn, N. C. 



Waldron Williams of I. T. Williams & Sons, 

 I'rominent hardwood house, returned last week 

 from a pleasure trip with Mrs. Williams to 

 Bermuda. 



Another returning jnigrim was President Rus- 

 sell J. Perrine of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association, accompanied by his family from a 

 thirty-day tour of the Windward Islands. 



A. J. Auger of Auger & Son, Quebec, Can., 

 was here for several days before sailing for 

 Europe on Marcli 25 on a business and pleasure 

 trip. 



Among other visitors noted were George A. 

 Holt, American Lumber Company, Oconto, Wis. ; 

 llarvey M. Dickson, Dickson Lumber Company. 

 Norfolk, Va. ; A. B. Cramer, Suffolk, Va. ; S. C. 

 Major, Major & Loomis Lumber Company, Hert- 

 ford, N. C, and Lewis Dill, Lewis Dill & Co.. 

 Baltimore, Md. 



R. H. Downman, large cypress manufacturer 

 of New Orleans, was a visitor in town during 

 the fortnight in the interest of husiness. 



C. L. Willey, prominent veneer and hardwood 

 lumberman of Chicago, arrived here recently 

 from a three months' European trip accompan- 

 nied by Mrs. Willey, and left immediately for 

 Chicago. 



Stuart D. Walker of Gouverneur E. Smith & 

 Co., the w-eil-known wholesalers of 17 Battery 

 Place, is the recipient of congratulations from 

 bis friends on the arrival of a daughter, horn 

 on March 19. This is Mr. Walker's first born, 

 and he is so delighted with the arrival that it 

 is very likely that the increasing of his family 

 host will Itecnnie a haliit with him. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 recently sent delegates to appear before Secre- 

 tary of State Knox at Washington, D. C, at a 

 hearing of the various business interests, pro- 

 testing against the application of the maximum 

 tariff, which was to go into effect on April 1 

 and which was regarded as unjust discrimina- 

 tion against this country. The outcome of the 

 hearing resulted in a minimum instead of a 

 maximum tariff being applied. 



W. A. Reed reports encouraging improvement 

 in trading during the last fortnight. The labor 

 agitation, naturally, has had a bad effect on 

 business, hut the outlook grows more favorable 

 daily. 



Frederick S. I'nderhill of Wistar, I'nderhill 

 & Co. Says the last two weeks have shown a 

 boliler activity in trading than for some time 

 Iiast. R. W. Wistar is on an extended trip 

 through the South; will stop at Pinehurst, N. 

 C, on his way. S. N. Nixon, also of this firm, 

 has just returned from a six weeks' tour of 

 New York state and reports a gratifying buoy- 

 ancy as to business prospects all along the 

 line. 



H. B. Tomb of the Tomb Lumber Company 

 states that orders are more liberal and the 

 outlook gives confidence. W. A. Tomb spends 

 most of his time at the company's mill at 

 Watoga, W. Va. W. N. Lawton, sales managi'r. 

 has just returned from a buj'ing trip in North 

 Carolina. 



J. C Tennant, secretary and sales manager. 

 Fenwick Lumber Company, reports more orders 

 coming in than the company can fill with the 

 dispatch it would like, owing to depleted stocks 

 at mills, of the desired hardwoods. Mr. Ten- 

 nant has returned from a recent trip Id the 

 company's New Y'ork mills. 



A. S. McGaughan, who makes a specialty of 



maple flooring, says trading is about fair, with 

 perhaps some improvement during last fort- 

 night. He is hopeful of a livelier pace as the 

 spring advances. 



Fear that the town of Cross Fork, Pa., would 

 be wiped from the map because the big saw- 

 mill of the Lackawanna Lumber Company, the 

 main industry of the town, had cut its last log. 

 has been dispelled by the news that the town 

 is to have a new lease of life, good for at least 

 ten years. The Central Lumber Company of 

 Pennsylvania has purchased the hardwood left 

 on the vast tracts, from which the hemlock was 

 cut by the Goodyear Lumber Company in this 

 section, and the old Lackawanna mill in this 

 place is to be repaired for cutting this wood. 

 Still more good news is to the effect that if 

 the Central company rehabilitates the old mill, 

 the Penn Tanning Company will also begin 

 cutting on 100,000,000 feet of hemlock it owns 

 at the headwaters of Kettle creek and the logs 

 will be brought to Cross Fork for sawing. 

 The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company's 

 purchase of the hardwood on the Goodyear 

 land is considered a unique "cleanup" job in 

 the history of Pennsylvania lumbering. The 

 timber consists mostly of cherry, beech and 

 maple, and much of it has come to fruition since 

 twenty years ago, when the Goodyear Interests 

 began to cut in this section. Of late some of 

 the wood has been used for staves, but the 

 demand for fine furniture woods is becoming so 

 great that this timber is not to go for staves any 

 longer, at least the choicest parts of it. 



In contrast to the talk of business depres- 

 sion, a Philadelphia manufacturer makes the 

 following statement ; "We have a full year's 

 work on hand and are employing 1,500 more 

 men than at this time a year ago. The Jan- 

 uary and February output exceeded three times 

 the same period in 1909. 



Orders for 120 locomotives have been received 

 recently by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 90 

 from the Southern Railway and 30 from other 

 corporations. These contracts foot up about 

 $2,000,000. The works employ 11,000 men, and 

 an increase, which will reach 16,000, is expected 

 before the summer is over. 



John Balbinnie and William R. Waters were 

 appointed receivers of the bankrupt estate of 

 Knowlton & Co., chair manufacturers of this 

 city. Security was fixed in the sum of $10,000. 



On April 1 fire which began in the lumber 

 yard of A. S. Heck, Galen, Pa., destroying 200,- 

 000 feet of lumber, spread to the lumber yard 

 of George Miller and burnt up 100,000 feet of 

 lumber, then continued into the second-growth 

 timber in and beyond the Nelson Run district, 

 where it is still burning and consuming some 

 of the most promising second-growth timber in 

 Pennsylvania. A loss estimated at $200,000 

 has already been suffered, it is reported. 



Martin Sunk, a wagon builder of Wissahlckon, 

 died on Marcli 20. Ho was in the wagon build- 

 ing business for many years. He was a veteran 

 of the civil war, serving in the Twenty-third 

 regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. 



Kittanning Automobile Company. Kittanning. 

 obtained a charter on March 24 ; capital, $5,000. 



Recent visitors to the local trade are J. F. 

 Henderson of Henderson Lumber Company, 

 Pittsburg, I'a. ; Oscar H. Babeock of E. V. Bab- 

 cock & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. ; A. B. Cramer, Vir- 

 ginia, and C. S. Wetherill, Doylestown, Pa. 



Samuel Roberts of Morristown, Pa., has just 

 returned from a business trip to Evergreen, N. C. 



PJTTSBURQ 



II. Clark & Son of L'nion City, Pa., have bought 

 a nice tract of hardwood at Waterford, Pa., and 

 are putting in machinery preparatory to starting 

 operations on May 1. 



The Flint, E'rving & Stoner Company is getting 

 the affairs of the newly organized Progress Lum- 

 ber Company at Stoner, Miss., well managed. 



