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week to market some fine oak. Among the otber 

 (ii-ms which he called upon was the Goodwin 

 I, umber Compan.T, which under the direction of 

 I-:. H. Shreiner has been driving in a very nice 

 lot of business the past few months. 



A very choice tract of white oak timber, esti- 

 mated to cut 1,200.000 feet, has been secured by 

 W. T. Hamilton of Elkins, W. Va., and is located 

 near Rico, Pa. The timber will be cut off at 

 once. 



I". W. Crane, president of the F. W. Crane 

 Lumber Company, is down at Yale, Ky., this week 

 ivith an inspector looking over the stocks of the 

 Vale Lumber Company, which he recently se- 

 cured. A large part of this stock will be mar- 

 keted in the East. It is said to be one of the 

 linest lots of hardwood in Kentucky. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company is cutting 

 wide poplar and getting an excellent price for it. 

 It has about 4,000,000 feet of poplar, chestnut 

 and oak on its stocks at Strange Creek, W. Va., 

 from which it is able to select very desirable 

 stocks in nearly every line. 



The Indiana Bent Rung Ladder Factory at 

 Indiana, Pa., one of the most thrifty hardwood 

 enterprises in western Pennsylvania, was burned 

 May 11, with a loss of $50,000, The company 

 carried ,?27,000 insurance and expects to rebuild 

 the plant at once. It employed thirty-five men. 

 C. R. Smith is president and W. F. Wettling is 

 general manager of the concern. 



The II. V. Curll Lumber Company is booking 

 some splendid oak business and has no fault to 

 (ind with the hardwood situation. Its trade in 

 poplar has also been exceptionally good lately, so 

 that its cut of 50,000 feet a day at the Glen Ray, 

 W. Va., plant is rapidly worked off as soon as the 

 lumber is drj'. 



BOSTON 



PHILADELPHIA 



An order for ten locomotives has been placed 

 with the Baldwin Locomotive Works by the Nor- 

 folk & Western Railroad Company. 



Alfred M. D. Halloway, trading as the Quaker 

 City Windmill & Pump Company of this city, 

 was adjudged a voluntary bankrupt in the 

 lUnited States district court on May 4. His lia- 

 bilities amount to $3,658.05 ; assets, $3,374.23. 

 Theodore M. Etting was appointed referee. 



Forest fires near Wellsboro, Pa., recently de- 

 stroyed two lumber camps and burned 2,000,000 

 feet of timber on skids. 



Forest fires have been raging at Ridgway, Pa., 

 for a week, and a lumber settlement in the north- 

 ern part of the county is fighting lively the 

 approach of the brush and timber fires. 



The Philadelphia Motordrome Company, with 

 the object of carrying on the business of auto- 

 mobile, racetrack, aviation field and hotel proper- 

 ties, was incorporated on May 4 under New 

 Jersey laws, with a capital of $2,000,000. The 

 incorporators are F. R. Hansell, John A. Mac- 

 Peak and William F. Eldell. 



The Plainfleld Lumber Company, Plainfield, 

 obtained a charter on May 6 under New Jersey 

 laws. Its capital stock is $5,000. 



The O. L. Peterson Furniture Company of 

 Burlington, N. J., was chartered on May 6, with 

 a capital stock of $25,000. 



The A. J. Anderson Patent Extension Table 

 Company, Camden, was incorporated May 6 under 

 New Jersey laws ; capital, $100,000. 



The Wissahickon Automobile Company, Rich- 

 ardson Park, obtained a charter May 6 under 

 Delaware laws ; capital, $25,000. 



The United Automobile Company, Newark, ob- 

 tained a charter on May 10 under New Jersey 

 laws; capital, $100,000. 



The Hamilton Automobile Company, Allen- 

 town, was incorporated May 13 under Pennsyl- 

 •vania laws ; capital, $10,000. 



The Electric City Automobile Company, Scran- 

 ton, obtained a charter May IS under Pennsyl- 

 vania laws ; capital, $20,000. 



Harry L. Fuller, representing the Whceler- 

 Osgood Company, large lumber operators, with 

 headquarters at Tacoma, Wash,, has removed his 

 office in Boston from the Broad Exchange build- 

 ing to the Kimball building, where he will occupy 

 room 221. 



George E. Baxter, a well-known Boston lumber- 

 man, is now selling hardwoods for William E. 

 Litchfield. 



Mr. Lahr, representing Schofield Brothers, 

 Philadelphia, Pa., has been calling upon the 

 trade in this vicinity. 



The Franklin County Lumber Company, Green- 

 field, Mass., has recently added William W. 

 Brown to its selling force. 



Chester Sprague, who for many years has con- 

 ducted the Watertown Lumber Company at 

 Watertown, Mass., died at his home in that town 

 May 6 at the age of fifty-nine years. 



The Furnace Sawmill & Lumber Company of 

 New Jersey has filed a complaint against the 

 Boston & Maine Railroad Company with the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, 

 asserting that the rate on spruce is unreason- 

 able and discriminatory as compared with the 

 rate on mahogany, because of the general prin- 

 ciple that the more expensive shipment takes the 

 higher rate of freight. It is declared that a 

 joint through rate of 14 cents per hundred pounds 

 on mahogany is made from Boston to Toledo, O., 

 while the same carriers maintain a rate of 19 

 cents on spruce, lath and lumber imported from 

 Canada and shipped from Boston to Toledo. 



A new wood-turning plant equipped with 

 modern machinery is being installed in the 

 Charlestown navy yard, Boston. This has been 

 greatly needed for a long time. 



Charles Connor of Clinton, Mass., has been ap- 

 pointed manager of the Howe Lumber Company 

 of Marlboro, Mass. He succeeds L. H. Tourtcl- 

 lotte, who has been running the business since 

 the death of Mr. Ilowe, 



BALTIMORE 



A pleasant little reunion took place in one of 

 the private dining rooms of the Hotel Rennert 

 May 0, when officers of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company of this city met over a delicate and 

 linely appointed dinner to observe the fifteenth 

 anniversary of the organization of the company. 

 There were present R. E. Wood, president of 

 the company ; G. L. Wood, vice-president and 

 general manager ; H. L. Bowman, general sales 

 manager; C. E. Wood, assistant general sales 

 manager ; J. H. Yost, secretary and trehsurer. 

 and W. L. Taylor, general counsel. Reminiscences 

 of the early days of the corporation were ex- 

 changed, and President Wood showed with great 

 pride some little books, yellow with age, wherein 

 lie had recorded his first sales, made when he 

 began business on his own account. Among the 

 books was also the first bank book he ever used, 

 showing the deposits from time to time. Mr. 

 Wood pointed with pride to the fact that he 

 made a profit of $12 on the first car load of 

 lumber he ever sold after ceasing to work for 

 somebody else. Other members of the company 

 contributed their share to the stock of stories 

 about their exprienees in the early days, and 

 it is hardly necessary to add that the continued 

 prosperity and long life of the corporation, which 

 is now one of the biggest operations in the East, 

 was toasted. 



Preparations are being made here to partici- 

 pate in any movement in regard to the increase 

 iu freight rates by the railroads of the country. 

 Intimations have been given at different times 

 that such an increase was to be expected, and of 

 late these rumors have assumed a more definite 

 form. It is now stated that the increase will 

 average about 12 per cent. As the increase in 



th" pay of trainmen and other railroad employes 

 )> only about per cent it would seem that tlie 

 linos intend not mcrly to recoup themselves for 

 t he increase but to take advantage of the oppor- 

 tunity to make extra profits. It has been as- 

 serted that on s-uch commodities as coal, lumber 

 ,ind steel there would bo no increase at all, but 

 as this traffic amounts to perhaps 75 or 80 per 

 rent of the total, lumbermen do not see how 

 the desired increase of 12 per cent can be at- 

 lairicd on the balance of the freight traffic with- 

 out making the rate prohibiti%'c. They therefore 

 take no stock in the promise that lumber and 

 coal will not be affected, and are arranging to 

 support any movement which promises to head 

 off the proposed advance in rates. 



Robert MacLea McLean, general manager of 

 the Norva Land & Lumber Company, with offices 

 in the Stewart building, this city, had as his 

 guest two weks ago James Webster, senior mem- 

 ber of the Liverpool firm of James Webster & 

 i;ro., Ltd., and Mr. Webster's son, Malcolm Web- 

 ster. The elder Jlr. Webster was traveling in 

 this country chiefly for pleasure, and intended to 

 go from here to Niagara Falls and Canada, sail- 

 ing from New York the latter part of the month 

 with his son for home. Malcolm Webster, mean- 

 while, intended to visit some of the southern 

 lumbering districts. The two visitors were taken 

 down to the Norra company's operation at Wal- 

 laceton, W. Va. 



Other recent foreign visitors here were T. H. 

 Griffin of Price & Pierce, Ltd., of London, and 

 Mr. Ue Jonge of De Jonge & De Beukalaer of 

 Antwerp. 



The National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 took occasion to forward a message of con- 

 dolence on the death of King Edward to the 

 Timber Trade Federation of London, the message 

 being signed by President Harvey M. Dickson of 

 Norfolk and Secretary J. McD. Price, of Balti- 

 more, -.le message was sent in view of the 

 extensive business relations existing between the 

 Federation and members of the Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation. 



CLEVELAND 



Maple flooring and interior hardwood finish are 

 in big demand in Cleveland at present because 

 of the boom in house building. During one week 

 seventy-five permits for residences ranging from 

 $1,000 to $25,000 in price were taken out in the 

 building inspector's department. Real estate men 

 and builders say that cheap car fare and good 

 service are driving people to the suburban dis- 

 tricts, where they are building homes and moving 

 from the flats in the congested districts. It is 

 distinctly noticed by the hardwood dealers that 

 modern finished floors and hardwood finish are 

 entering more and more into the construction of 

 modern dwellings. 



The Martln-Barriss Company reports a strong 

 call for hardwoods for interior finishing pur- 

 poses and for cabinet work. Considerable stock 

 is being used for car panels. Some fine crotch 

 mahogany has recently been turned out to be 

 used for panel work in display w'indow deco- 

 ration. 



A fire discovered in the plant of the Theodore 

 Kundtz sewing machine cabinet works threatened 

 to destroy the plant a few days ago. A. hurry-up 

 call was sent to the fire department, which speed- 

 ily checked the flames. The Kundtz company is 

 one of the largest users of hardwoods in the 

 Middle West. It has a large hardwood yard here 

 which is said to be one of the largest in the 

 country. 



The American Box Company is preparing to 

 erect an addition to its factory. A permit for a 

 $10,000 building has been taken out and work 

 has started on the new structure. 



The East Cleveland Lumber Company has been 

 Installed in its new yard in East Cleveland and 

 reports business quite brisk. The concern Is han- 



