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for some time at Fifty-seventh street and Blev- 

 cuth Avenue, New York City, gives him high fa- 

 cilities to take good care of the wants of the 

 trade in flooring direct. 



A big flre on the evening of the 12th in the 

 viliage of Van Nest totaliy destroyed the entire 

 plants of the Van Nest Wood Working Com- 

 Iiany and the Bronx Sash & Door Company, en- 

 tailing a loss of over $75,000. Partial insur- 

 ance. 



John W. Love, a prominent Nashville lumber- 

 man, principal in Love, Boyd & Co., passed 

 through the city this week on his way home 

 from his usual suhimer stay at Nova Scotia. 



J. L. Cochran, who lias so ably represented 

 the big hardwood house of Vansant. Kitchen & 

 Co. of Ashland, Ky., in the Metropolitan district 

 for a number of years, is receiving a host of 

 congratulations from his friends in the trade 

 upon the advent of twins in his household. 



H. L. White of the White Lumber Company, 

 Butler, Tenn., has been spending several days 

 in town in the interest of business. The com- 

 pany is about ready to start up its new mills 

 in North Carolina, which will cut 60,000 feet 

 a day, making a total output of about 35,000,- 

 000 feet of white pine, hemlock and hardwoods 

 for next year. 



Kalph E. and Herbert E. Sumner of Hamilton 

 H. Salmon & Co., 88 Wall Street, recently left 

 for Crawford Notch. N. H.. where they will 

 rusticate until October 1. Both these gentlemen 

 regard the fall outlook as very good. The con- 

 cern is enjoying a good trade in its red gum 

 supplies. 



E. T. Saxe, head of the local office of Bartram 

 Brothers, Ltd., Ottawa, Can., headquarters Bible 

 House, city, is on a ten days' trip to the com- 

 pany's mills in Canada in the interest of busi- 

 ness. 



Robert W. Higbie of the K. W. Higbie Lumber 

 Conapany, hardwood manufacturer and whole- 

 saler, 45 Broadway, has just returned from a 

 slay in the Adirondacks on business and pleas- 

 ure, during which he spent considerable time 

 at his extensive operations there, which are 

 running full time on a good volume of business. 



BUFFALO 



After some weeks in St. Louis and vicinity 

 Frank A. Beyer is back to his county treasurer's 

 desk, which he has kept pretty closely this year 

 until lately. Pascola lumber is moving again. 



G. Elias & Brother are looking for a good 

 fall trade. They are getting all their hardwood 

 lumber this year by rail, depending on the 

 lakes for white pine and hemlock. 



K. D. McLean is in England for two months, 

 chiefly for recreation, and Hugh McLean is 

 looking into the Canadian spruce and cedar 

 trade. 



F. W. Vetter is rebuilding hLs yard shipping 

 dock this fall and reports a fine trade for the 

 arst half of the month. He has been moving 

 some good 4-inch hickory with other hard- 

 woods. 



Logging at the mills in lientucky and Tennes- 

 see is part of the business of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company. Some good quar- 

 tered oak is coming from that direction. 



The yard of A. Miller is getting some good 

 quartered oak and chestnut from the South, 

 giving him a fine assortment. He still speaks 

 of low-grade stock as the problem in hardwood 

 lumber. 



Oak shipments lead from the yard of O. E. 

 Yeager, though there is a demand for all hard- 

 woods in a general way. The automobile con- 

 test he managed came out very satisfactorily. 



J. N. Scatcherd is still engaged in being his 

 own manager of the business of Scatcherd &. 

 Son and may not appoint a successor to Man- 

 ager Hopkins. The Memphis mills are running 

 again. 



I. N. Stewart & Brother speak of yard prices 



here as too low, but are moving quite a bit of 

 oak, poplar and chestnut. The fall trade in 

 cherry lias not started yet. 



F. M. Sullivan was one of the contestants 

 at the automobile races given at tin' new club 

 house on September 17, winning a prize every 

 time. The yard is receiving a lot of fir lumber 

 by lake. 



More lumber from Michigan is the word at 

 the office of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, which expects several cargoes by lake yet 

 this fall. John W. Welsh is looking after the 

 shipments. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual I'ire 

 Insurance Company reports business up to the 

 average. No fault is found with the showing 

 so far for this year. Justin Peters, manager, is 

 making an extensive business trip through the 

 South and West. 



J. C. Teunant, secretary and sales manager 

 of the Fenwick Lumljer Company, states that, 

 considering general trade conditions, business is 

 fairly well sustained. He thinks that active 

 buying will soon be compulsory. 



John W. Coles is spending a few weeks in 

 Canada, combining business with ijleasure. While 

 among the "Canucks" he will visit some of 

 the large lumber camps. Keports emanating 

 from this office show an increase of inquiries 

 and a growing list of good orders. 



The Tomb Lumber Company does uot antici- 

 pate a much relaxed business grip for the com- 

 ing fall. II. B. Tomb, who has been summering 

 at Jersey Shore, Pa., has returned, prepared for 

 action. W. A. Murray of this house, who looks 

 after the Middle West, is at the mill in Watoga, 

 W. Va.. sizing up the stock situation. He says 

 the mill is active, getting ready for increased 

 demands. 



It is stated that American manufacturers have 

 been awarded coutracts for constructing all of 

 the railway cars needed by the Argentine gov- 

 ernment. A cablegram was received to that 

 effect at the state department on September 14 

 from the American minister, Sherrill, at Buenos 

 Ayrcs. The American Car & Foundry Company 

 of New York has been awarded a contract fur 

 the construction of $1,000,000 worth of ears 

 and the Harlau & Hollingsworth Company of 

 Wilmington, Del., another for $400,000 worth. 



1-^dgar C. Fosburg. a well-known lumber mer- 

 chant of Norfolk, Va., died at his summer resi- 

 dence. Woodside Lodge, Lake Placid. New i'ork. 

 on September 11. 



Richard H. Birch, manager of the carriage 

 building plant of his father, James H. Birch. 

 Burlington, N. J., died on September 14, aged 

 forty-four years. 



The sawmill and camp of Henry Brothers, 

 Lewislown, Pa., were destroyed by fire on Sep- 

 tember 12. 



The box factory and planing mill of G. A. 

 Thompson & Son, Hurlock, Md., with a large 

 supply of lumber, were destroyed by flre on Sep- 

 tember 15 : loss, $15,000. 



The United Motor Charlotte Company, Jersey 

 City, to manufacture automobiles, was incor- 

 porated September 6 with a capital of $2,000. 



The Bangor Auto Company, Bangor, was in- 

 corporated under Pennsylvania laws on Septem- 

 ber 9 with a capital stock of $10,000. 



The Stony Brook Lumber Company. Lopez, re- 

 cently obtained charter under Pennsylvania laws. 

 It is capitalized at $200,000. 



The Garland Furniture Company is a new 

 concern for Garland, Pa. It has a capital stock 

 of $20,000. 



dore Roosevelt at the Fort Pitt Hotel Saturday 

 evening, September 10, during his four-hour visit 

 to Pittsburg. 



The prospect of a $10,000 bond issue for gen- 

 eral improvements in Pittsburg to vote on soon 

 is again lorjming up. Mayor William A. Magee 

 is- strong for the measure and with the objec- 

 tionable hump removal proposition taken out 

 it is likely to carry If it gels to the voters. 



President F. W. Crane of the F. W. Crane 

 Lumber Company reports Inisiness just fair. The 

 Michigan man, K. E'. McQuay, returned this 

 week from a long trip through that state and 

 says that furniture men are not buying lumber 

 ahead, preferring to take the chances of being 

 "stung" later on or to stocking up and having 

 no demand for their product. 



The firm of the Morlan-Keicks-Hughes Com- 

 pany has been formed in Pittsburg by Lindley T. 

 Morlan, William It. Reicks and Clarence L. 

 Hughes to do a general business in lumber and 

 timber. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany reports business fair. .\ll its plants In the 

 South are running full. 



Tlie Palmer & Semans Lumber Company is 

 putting in a new band mill of 20.000 feet per 

 day capacity on a tract of hardwood and hem- 

 lock timber in Rowley county. West Virginia, 

 which it recently bought. Sales Manager I. F. 

 Balsley recently returned from his vacation in 

 the East and reports a pretty good business go- 

 ing with prices firm on all the better grades of 

 hardwood. 



The Carnegie Steel Conipan.\ has lei the con 

 tract to R. A. Mackey of Youngstown, Ohio, for 

 removing the timber from 3S0 acres across the 

 .Mahoning river from ilcKinley Heights, where 

 its new finishing mills are to be rebuilt. A 

 bridge at this point will also be built shortly. 



The McDonald Lumber Company is keeping 

 busy marketing the product of the Elkins. W. 

 Va., plant, and finds trade a little better since 

 September 1. President R. A. McDonald has 

 been spending considerable of his time in north- 

 western Pennsylvania lately, where he is inter- 

 ested in gas operations. 



The Mead & Speer Lumber Company is not 

 crowded with business, but reports prices pretty 

 hard in all the better grades. Hickory is in 

 good demand and brings good money, as is its 

 policy. In general they regard the situation 

 as much improved over one month ago. Vice- 

 President R. D. McCrady of this company put in 

 a busy two weeks in Ohio territory lately. 



E. H. Shreiner, manager of the Goodwin Lum- 

 ber Company, is back froiu a West Virginia trip 

 and reports a good accumulation of stock at the 

 mills in that state. Hemlock is weak, he says, 

 but most hardwood is bringing about list prices. 

 The company's plant at BUiejay, W. Va., is cut- 

 ting about 80,000 feet a day. 



The W. P. Craig Lumber Company has been 

 "right busy" all the month and its orders and 

 inquiries bid fair to keep it so employed right 

 along this fall and winter. It is carrying a full 

 force at its Pittsburg oflice and its salesmen are 

 getting much better returns than a few weeks 

 ago. 



The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation resumed its weekly meetings at the 

 Union restaurant. 



BOSTON 



PITTSBURO 



Fred E. Babcock, president of the Pittsburg 

 Chamber of Commerce, was one of the honored 

 committee which sat at a dinner with Col. Theo- 



Lauros H. Allen of the Byers-AUen Lumber 

 Company. Allenhurst. Ga., was a recent visitor 

 in the Boston market. 



Edgar J. Mills Price, who for several years 

 has been in the employ of George C. Goodfellow, 

 a hardwood lumber dealer. .Montreal, Canada, is 

 a visitor in the Boston market. It is reported 

 that Mr. Price is planning to enter Ihe lumber 

 business in this city. 



A new three-masted schooner for the lumber 



