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satisfactorily, and tliat operations will be in 

 sliape to start up when expected, if not at an 

 earlier date. Tlie compan.v lias received numer- 

 ous bids for logging contracts, most of them 

 from responsible Arms, and expects to be able 

 to make most satisfactory arrangements. 



The Original Cabinet Company of Evanston, 

 111., will erect a new three-story building of re- 

 inforced concrete to take care of its business. 

 The plant will have a space of about 30,000 

 square feet, and will bo equipped with modern 

 woodworking machinery of various types, all elec- 

 trically driven. This concern turns out a line 

 <3f high-grade cabinet and interior work. 



At a recent fire at Colfax, III., John Ward, a 

 furniture man of that place, lost approximately 

 $30,000. 



Announcement is made of the death of Henry 

 C. Colby of Chicago, 111., president of John A. 

 Colby & Sons Furniture Company. 



The Weber Furniture Company is a new con- 

 cern incorporated in Chicago with $50,000 capi- 

 tal to manufacture and deal in furniture. Henry 

 F. Weber will head the new company. 



The Paysou-Smith Lumber Company of Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., has taken a new office in Chicago 

 and incorporated in the state of Illinois with 

 $5,000 capital. The capital stock in Minnesota 

 is .flOO.OOO. 



E. F. Scanlan of May Brothers, Memphis, 

 Tenn., was a recent visitor among the Chicago 

 trade. 



Chairman Dion of the Membership Committee 

 O' the Chicago Exchange announces the applica- 

 tion of George W. Griffith for membership in 

 that body. President F. L. Brown of the ex- 

 change has gone to White Lake, Mich., for a 

 short holiday. 



C. B. Guperier, formerly tne Chicago repre- 

 sentative of tne Louisiana Ked Cypress Company, 

 has been released, and that company announces 

 that henceforth orders should be sent to them 

 direct, or to C. L. Cross in the Monadnock build- 

 ing. 



T. A. Moore of the baseball committee of the 

 Chicago Exchange has sent out letters to the 

 prospective candidates for the Chicago lumber- 

 men's baseball team, requesting them to meet at 

 Washington Park on Saturday afternoon. Pros- 

 pects for an excellent team are good. 



John D. Laskey, sales manager of the big 

 ilemphis sawmill and veneer plant of C. L° 

 AVilley of Chicago, spent several days last week 

 at local headquarters in consultation with the 

 head of the house. 



J. D. Lacey of the big timber firm of J. D 

 Lacey & Co., Old Colony building, is absent on a 

 southern trip, during which he will visit the 

 operation of the Pigeon River Lumber Company 

 at Newport, Tenn., in which he is largely inter- 

 ested. 



Popular Gus Landeek, the well-known hard- 

 wood man of Milwaukee, was in Chicago week 

 before last, accompanied by his wife, in attend- 

 ance at the ultra-fashionable horse show at the 

 South Shore Country Club. Gus and his charm- 

 ing wife are always welcome Chicago visitors. 



John M. Woods & Co., of East Cambridge, 

 Mass., announced under date of July 1 that 

 Merchant E. Philbrick has been admitted into 

 the partnership. Mr. Philbrick has long been 

 associated with John M. Woods & Co., and it is 

 a fitting recognition of his lalents that he is ad- 

 milted to this sterling house. 



NEW YORK 



Fire on June 22 did between $200,000 and 

 $300,000 damage to the big lumber and mill 

 work premises of the Cross, Austin & Ireland 

 Lumber Company, Brooklyn. The mill and dry 

 kiln were totally destroyed, two sheds were dam- 

 aged and considerable stock was consumed. The 

 loss is covered by insurance, and the mill and 

 kilns will be immediately rebuilt. In the mean- 



time business will go on uninterrupted through 

 the other large facilities of the company and the 

 leasing of temporary mill property. 



W. H. Ames, sales manager of the M. B. Far- 

 rin Lumber Company, Cincinnati, 0.. and W. A. 

 Bennett, of Bennett & Witte. also of Cincinnati, 

 have been spending the fortnight in town in the 

 interest of business. 



The Iroquois Door Company, of Buffalo, is 

 making extensive changes in the local quarters, 

 which will afford greater facilities in the work- 

 ing departments as well as a much larger and 

 better arranged exhibition room which will be 

 stocked with samples of door and mill work, 

 both rough and finished, comprehending one of 

 the most complete lines of its kind in the coun- 

 try. The company has also arranged storage 

 facilities in the Bronx, and will carry a large 

 number of solid and veneer doors, for immediate 

 distribution. 



The Executive Committee of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association held an 

 important session at headquarters. 66 Broadway, 

 on June 22. There were present President R. W. 

 nigbie, of New York ; E. V. Babcock. of Pitts- 

 burg; A. L. Stone of Cleveland: N. H. Walcott 

 of Providence : L. II. Parker of Saginaw, and 

 Secretary E. F. Perry. Reports from the %'arious 

 departments of the organization wore gone over, 

 and received with much satisfaction by the 

 board. Transportation and other important sub- 

 .1ects to which the association is giving special 

 attention, were also considered during the ses- 

 sion. 



Loss of $10,000 on the lumber warehouse of 

 B. Jacobson, at Elizabeth, X. J., was caused by 

 tire last week. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has just 

 decided against M. Mosson & Co.. hardwood deal- 

 ers of Brooklyn, in a suit against the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad on an interesting point regarding 

 shipment of lumber. The facts in the case were : 

 The Mosson Company is a lumber concern and 

 lias its shipments delivered in the Wallabout 

 Haslu, within the New York lighterage limits. 

 The substance of the complaint is that lumber 

 shipments consigned "New Y'ork, lighterage free." 

 are unduly delayed after arrival in Jersey City : 

 that the railroad enforces an unreasonable and 

 pre,1udicial rule in its requirements that upon 

 notification of arrival the consignee shall specify 

 a particular lighterage destination, and upon the 

 arrival of the lighter at such destination provide 

 a dock berth for it ; that, after the consignee has 

 indicated a pier destination, in case that pier is 

 fully occupied when the lighter arrives, the serv- 

 ants of the carrier will not make delivery at ad- 

 .jacent unoccupied piers, and the result of these 

 rc'gulations has caused considerable demurrage 

 charges to be paid. The commission, in an opin- 

 ion by Commissioner Clark, holds the rules of 

 the railroad are not unreasonable or discrimina- 

 tory, and the complaint has been ordered dis- 

 missed. 



Patrick Moore, head of Moore Brothers, large 

 31th avenue hardwood house, accompanied by 

 Mrs. Moore and their five daughters, sailed on 

 the 20th for a lengthy tour of Europe, and will 

 return home about September 1.5. Peter H. 

 Moore, the other principal in the firm, will hold 

 rlown the lid in the meantime. 



The H. Herrmann Trim Company, a subsidiary 

 to the H. Hermann Lumber Company, large hard- 

 wood operators of this city, has just been or- 

 ganized with a capital of $50,000, by R. Herr- 

 mann, G. Von Stamwitz and O. Greenburger, all 

 of whom are principals in the H. Herrman Lum- 

 ber Company. DeBnite announcement as to the 

 line of operation will be made in due course. 



The Maley, Thompson & MotCett Company, the 

 big hardwood lumber and veneer house of Cin- 

 cinnati, which for several years past has Iwen 

 maintaining a local wholesale distributing yard 

 at the foot of East 30th street, Manhattan, is 

 preparing to relinquish the latter premises be- 

 tween September and December, this year, to 



open up a new wholesale yard in the large South 

 Brooklyn shipping center. The property is now 

 being acquired there. The new location is much 

 better adapted for both domestic and export 

 business, located, as it is, right close to the 

 steamship ports. The company, through Mana- 

 ger Burgess, is arranging to develop the prem- 

 ises on an up-to-date basis. 



BUFFALO 



The Lumber Exchange held its annual outing 

 on June 28. About fifty people turned out for ' 

 the day, nearly all of them genuine lumbermen, 

 with but now and then a special invitation, such 

 as that extended to President Robertson of the 

 Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers' Club. 

 With C. W. Betts as special toastmaster. Major 

 Noyes, the single honorary member of the Lum- 

 ber Exchange, to sing "Forty Years Ago," with 

 J. B. Wall, with two full-fledged ball games and 

 a boat race during the day, the outing could 

 not have been much more rounded out than it 

 was. The ball games made plain, as Mr. Betts 

 said at the supper, that there was a younger 

 element in the lumber business in Buffalo that 

 must now be recognized. The young men played 

 the first ball game, but they were badly divided 

 and for a time one side made all the scores. Of 

 course the game included such youths as O. E. 

 Yeager, I. N. Stewart and M. S. Burns, who 

 were playing good ball away down into the last ■ 

 century and promise to be playing still in the 

 next. They took a hand in the second game, 

 that was made up of the older members, but 

 once more the game was won in the first inning, 

 so the score would be uninteresting. Much credit 

 is due to A. E. Davenport and his outing com- 

 mittee, which was seconded just at the right 

 spot, the table, by Hugh McLean, whose valiant 

 service at the former meeting at the Canoe Club 

 had not been forgotten. 



The exchange is to have a second outing this 

 summer, but it will be hard to beat the first 

 one in any way. 



Dropping back into lumber as a business in- 

 stead of a recreation, there is very little to say. 

 Business is quiet, but a large amount of lumber » 

 has been sold this year at fair prices, and If the 

 activity does not return till fall nobody will 

 suffer. Nobody is in haste to pile up new lum- 

 ber, for that will come in somehow when it is 

 needed. Building is taking stock fast and prices 

 will hold. 



The activity of the business of O. E. Yeager 

 has much to do with getting in new stock, 

 though he has a good assortment and has had 

 an active season, with oak and other leading 

 hardwoods moving as fast as the supply would 

 warrant. 



The yard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is always at the boiling point, either 

 receiving or shipping stock and sometimes both, 

 and the mill resources of the business is good 

 enough to keep everything going. 



A. Miller always keeps a close watch on the 

 Canadian woods for elm and that class of hard- 

 woods to be found over there, and now that 

 the tariff scare has entirely disappeared the 

 search for stock is on strong again. 

 - The Memphis sawmill of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company has been idle of late, as logs 

 grew scarce and It is found that it is not safe 

 to allow logs to accumulate in hot weather, for 

 the worms will destroy them fast at such times. 

 Scateherd & Son are also in no hurry to set 

 their Memphis sawmills going. The repair work 

 is done, but it may be a little time .vet before 

 much sawing is done. 



T. Sullivan & Co. have been very active of 

 late, in spite of the dropping off of lake cargoes, 

 which were considered too high priced to do 

 much with at present. There is some report 

 of prices slacking off in that direction. 



The June business of I. N. Stewart & Bro. 



