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New York state, and T. I.. Ashbridgi', formerly 

 employed in the southern mill districts, to 'oolv 

 after the anthracite coal regions, succeeding 

 Alan K. Eaton, who has gone with the J. S. 

 Kent Company. Frederick S. I.'nderhill :^ays 

 the men are all hustlers with consequent sub- 

 stantial results. 



.Tohu W. Coles, the wide-awake young wliole- 

 saler, does not look for a prodigious volume of 

 business, but says a modicum of trade is com- 

 ing in right along. He showed his usiuil dis- 

 crimination when he engaged Klwood Tate to 

 look after the New York field. Mr. Tate is 

 one of the best known salesmen in the Kast 

 and very popular with the trade. Mr. Coles ex- 

 pects to open a selling branch in New York City 

 soon. 



Samuel B. Vrooman of Samuel 1). Vrooman 

 & Co. is absent on an extended tour of Europe. 

 Mr. Vrooman makes these trips periodically, 

 (ombining business with pleasure. 



(hven M. Bruner of the Owen M. Bruner 

 <'ompauy, who attended tlie convention of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association at 

 Louisville. Ky., and extended his trip through 

 the South and Southwest, has recently been 

 heard from in Florida. He is pleased with 

 his peregrinations so far, as a source of profit 

 as well as of pleasure. 



.1. C. Tennant of Fenwiek Lumber Company, 

 usually conservative in his statements, reports 

 a fail' volume of business considering the time 

 of year, but does not deny that there is a 

 luck of snap in buying. lie thinks there will 



be a quickening in the fall. 



Emil Gucnther is back from an extended 

 southern trip. After the convention at Louis- 

 ville. Ky.. he visited some of the lumber camps, 

 among which was his old camping ground at 

 Hartford, Va., where he took his first les- 

 son in the lumber business. He has made great 

 strides since then, but he still cherishes the 

 spot where he gained a well-earned knowledge 

 in the business, in which he has reaped a con- 

 tinued success. 



Howard B. France of the Monarch Lumber 

 Company says trading is spasmodic, but on the 

 v.'hoie the volume of business is satisfactory. 



Daniel B. Curll discusses with complacence 

 the present business conditions. He reports 

 that last spring his mill was sold up to the 

 saw right along, and so far he has not been 

 able to accumulate any surplus stock. Orders 

 are coming in satisfactorily for a dull period. 

 Mr. Curll says some excellent oak is being 

 gotten out just now. 



The Tomb Lumber Company's mill at Watoga. 

 \V. Va., is busy getting out stock. It is under 

 the special superintendence of H. A. Tomb, 

 treasurer, who spends most of his time at the 

 mill. W. A. Tomb, president, is taking a lit- 

 tle needed rest in the hills near .Jersey Shore, 

 I'a. 



The De Witt Lumber Company, 1 Madison 

 avenue. New York, has removed its otfice to 

 the Drexel building, rhiladclphia. 



Among the recent visitors to the local trade 

 are L (lalen Lefever. Lancaster, Pa. : .1. P. otat- 

 ler. Windber, Pa.; M. N. Wilson, Elkton, W. Va. ; 

 Roland Perry of Mann & Parker. Baltimore, 

 Md., and R. L. Gilliam of the Williams & Mc- 

 Keithan Lumber Company. Lynchburg. Va. 



Creditors filed a petition on July 8 to have 

 the Franklin Lumber Company of this city ad- 

 judged an involuntary bankrupt. The petition- 

 ers and their claims are : Merchantville Lum- 

 ber romp,iny. $2,406.18 : W. H. Spicer, $834. OG ; 

 .Tames W. Truitt, $212.75. On .Tuiy 13 the 

 Franklin Lumber Compan.v. this city, was ad- 

 judged involuntary bankrupt. Referee, David 

 W. Amram. 



It is announced that the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroad has placed an order with the Baldwin 

 Locomotive Works of this city for additimal 

 new equipment, consisting of fifty Mikado Lype 



freight locomotives, which will require the em- 

 ployment of thousands of men. 



Robert Johnson, in the toy and baby carriage 

 manufacturing business for over fifty years, 

 died on July 4 at the residence of his son. 

 Rev. George H. Johnson, of this city. 



Josiah N. Rufe, a wealthy lumber merchant 

 and mill owner, Kintnersville, Pa., died on July 

 5, aged seventy-nine years. 



Samuel E. Ried. a member of the Delaware 

 senate and a lumber merchant, died in Ellen- 

 dale, aged fifty-three years. 



The Monroe-Hall Furniture Company, Blooms- 

 burg, was incorporated July ti with a capital 

 of .fSO.OOO. 



The Victor Motor Car Company, Camden. 

 N. J., obtained charter under New Jersey laws, 

 July 12; cjipital ,'j;i,')O,0OO. 



Huntingdon Millwork & Lumber Company, 

 Huntingdon, was chartered July 13 with a capi- 

 tal stock of $13,000. 



The Wallace-De Wilde Company, Newark, N. 

 J., to manufacture automobiles, obtained a char- 

 ter under New Jersey laws July IS. Its capi- 

 tal stock is $10,000. 



PITTSBURG 



G. M. Chambers, assistant secretary of the 

 Kendall Lumber Company, reports a pretty busy 

 month. His company has closed one of its Mary- 

 land operations, but has its other plants work- 

 ing full tiiue. 



The Indiana Bent Rung Ladder Company of 

 Indiana. I'a., has secured an order for build- 

 ing 000 drumhead cots for the use of the Four- 

 teenth Regiment, N. G. P. This concern is one 

 of the most thrifty hardwood manufacturing 

 factories in western Pennsylvania. 



The Palmer-Semans Lumber Company, accord- 

 ing to its Pittsburg manager, I. F. Balsley, is 

 doing a good business for this time. Announce- 

 ment will shortly be made of at least one big 

 deal which the company is closing that will 

 give it a big boost as a producer and distributer 

 of high grade lumber. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers" As- 

 sociation put away its books last Wednesday and 

 will adjourn school until September 1. Its 

 weekly meetings have been held at the Union 

 restaurant and have been well attended this 

 year. 



Joseph Stauffer. millionaire timber operator of 

 Fayette County, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-four 

 years, died of acute indigestion on July 14 at his 

 summer home at Zypher Glen, near Scottdale, 

 Pa. He was one of the foremost men in devel- 

 oping the big timber properties of the Indian 

 Creek Valley of Fayette and Somerset counties. 

 Peunsylvania. and was largely interested in a 

 half-dozen banks, besides coal mines and manu- 

 facturing interests in Pennsylvania. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company has been 

 getting a pretty steady run of orders the past 

 few weeks, most of the business being yard 

 trade. This came largely from Indiana and 

 Ohio, although the Eastern market contributes 

 some good sales. 



The ^^■est Virginia Lumber Company put on 

 another salesman last week. Its business in 

 good hardwoods and white pine has been getting 

 along fairly well, but its officials state that low- 

 grade hardwood is moving very slowly. 



H. T. Newell of the Newell Brothers Lumber 

 Company spent several da.vs in the East the first 

 part of the month. He brought back some 

 good business, although he found conditions thee 

 less favorable to active hardwood buying than 

 a few weeks ago. 



Alex Willsou of the Willson Brothers Lum- 

 ber Compan.v looks for good business after 

 August 1. Prices just now are being hammered 

 pretty hard, he admits, but, on the whole, the 

 lumber market is in stronger hands than one 

 year ago, and. aside from sentimental reasons, 

 there is no cause in evidence why the lumber 



l)usincss should not go ahead steadily from this 

 ilate. 



E. V. Babiock of !•:: V. Babcock & Co., with 

 his wife and family, has gone to Maine to cool 

 off during July. They will return to their 

 summer lodge in the nmuuiains at Ashtola. Pa.. 

 early in August. 



Office manager J. W. Ilulse of the McDonald 

 Lumber Company, reports July business some- 

 what improved. The prospects are good for a 

 late summer trade and .Mr. Ilulse looks tor a 

 readjustment of prhcs to higher levels in the 

 fall. 



President I.. L. Satler of the L. L. Satler 

 Lumber Company says that the market in general 

 is quiet. Some excei)tions are to be seen to 

 this rule, notably in high-grade hardwood. The 

 company is cutting some lumber at its plant 

 at Blackstone. V.i., but is not rushing matters at 

 all this summer. 



John M. Hastings, president of the .7. M. 

 Hastings Lumber Company of I'lltsburg and the 

 Davison Lumber Company of Nova Scotia, Can- 

 ada, has been in the north laud several weeks 

 among the operations of the latter company. He 

 announces that the company has sold its entire 

 output for this year and that the export business 

 is good. 



E. H. Sureiner, manager of the Goodwin Lum 

 her Company, is back from a several days' 

 visit to the West Virginia jilants. He says 

 that common and low-grade oak can be bought 

 at the West Virginia mills for at least |2.50 

 per thousand less than six weeks ago and that 

 many mills are shutting down to curtail their 

 stocks. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company is 

 running its hardwood plant at Strange Creek, 

 W. Va., steadily, and has been getting a very 

 good trade all sunmier. Mr. Mead says thai 

 prices seem to be off a little in hardwood, except 

 on the best grades of poplar and oak and that 

 efforts are being made by the West Virginia 

 mills to keep down their output. 



J. J. Linehan of the LInehan Lumber Company 

 reports hardwood business spotty and irregular. 

 Factories have not large stocks, but they are 

 slow to buy except where they actually need the 

 lumber for immediate use. Some manufacturers 

 are also holding off hoping to get better prices 

 before fall, but this wholesalers do not believ,' 

 will happen. 



The Indiana Carriage Works at Indiana, Pa., 

 has suspended operations for a few weeks be- 

 cause of the scarcity of timber in that county. 

 It has been running steadily all summer, but has 

 had to ship its timber from (juitc remote points, 

 making it expensive and difficult to operate. 



President W. D. Johnston of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, says that 

 business is fair, hut that prices are notably 

 weak along several lines. Railroad business is 

 not what it was expected to be and Mr. Johnston 

 thinks there will be no particular gain in lumber 

 selling before September 1. 



J. N. WooUett, president of the Aberdeen 

 Lumber Company, made a whirlwind trip to Chi- 

 cago, Cincinnati, South Bend, Milwaukee and 

 other cities of the Middle West early in July. 

 He did not find the factory situation as good 

 as he anticipated, although he came back with 

 orders amounting to nearly $20,000. 



One of the big tie contracts awarded this 

 year in western Pennsylvania was secured re- 

 cently by W. J. Eury. of Butler. Pa., who will 

 furnish 24,000 ties for the Slippery Rock & 

 Grove City Railway Company, to be delivered 

 at Grove City, Pa. Most of them will be white 

 oak. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has been getting 

 some good orders for oak and other hardwoods 

 from Buffalo and other important lumber ports. 

 It also made quite a hit recently in the West 

 Virginia market by purchasing fifteen or twenty 

 cars of lumber from the West Virginia mills 

 and selling the same stock to a West Virginia 

 manufacturer the same week. 



