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carrying Iradc is tu bo launched at the yard of 

 !•'. S. Bowker, Phippsburg. Me., October 1. It 

 will be christened the William E. Litchfield, be- 

 ing named for W. E. Litchfield, a prominent 

 Boston hardwood lumberman. The new schooner 

 is a single-dock raised-deck vessel with a 3 42- 

 foot keel. This is the fourth schooner to be 

 built at the Bowker yard for the Boston lumber 

 trade within about three years. 



The sawmill at Olamon, Me., leased and op- 

 erated by the C. W. H, Moulton Company of 

 Sumerville, Mass., was recently destroyed by 

 fire. 



The clothespin factory of the Brayman Wood- 

 enware Company at Phillips, Me., has been de- 

 stroyed by fire. This company moved its busi- 

 ness from Michigan a few months ago. It is 

 reported that the factory will be rebuilt. 



The Tbomas O'Connell Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Somerville, Mass., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000 for the purpose 

 of conducting a milling, lumber and building 

 finish business. Thomas O'Connell is president 

 and Patrick H, O'Connell, treasurer. 



The J. M. Tatem Handle Company's factory 

 at Eastford, Conn., was recently totally destroyed 

 by flre. The storehouse was also destroyed. 



The Dix Lumber Company of Cambridge, 

 Mass., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The incorporators are Ervin 

 K. Dix, 'William A. Webster and William A. 

 Webster, Jr. 



BALTIMORE 



President R. K. Wood of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. 

 C. L. Wood and Miss Morgan, recently made a 

 trip to Gettysburg and back in Mr. Wood's 

 six cylinder AlcoAmerican car. The party 

 went over the battlefield and visited other 

 points lamed in bistory. After returning from 

 the trip Mr. Wood went for a week to watch 

 operations at the company's plant at Buladeen, 

 Tenn. He found everything rjinning satis- 

 factorily. 



Robert McLean, general manager of the 

 Norva Land & Lumber Company, spent a week 

 on a tour of inspection to the sawmill of the 

 company at Wallaceton, Va. The company re- 

 ports that the demand for ordinary lumber has 

 eased down somewhat, but that cooperage is 

 in good request. The large crop of apples is 

 <:ausing a heavy call for apple barrels. 



Charles E. Paxton of the Paxton Lumber 

 Company of Bristol, Tenn., was a visitor here 

 last week. He stated that business was pick- 

 ing up somewhat and that yardmen showed 

 more of a disposition to buy ahead of imme- 

 diate needs. 



Gangs of men are busy removing the piles 

 of charcoal and other debris that litters the 

 place of the Eisenhauer-MacLea Company. There 

 is almost no salvage on the lumber burned and 

 il is necessary to cart the piles of carbon away 

 before the place can be cleared and the work 

 of reconstruction Ijegun. Meanwhile the com- 

 pany is getting together a new supply of hard- 

 woods. 



CLEVELAND 



One of the most interesting pieces of news 

 received by lumbeimen here during the past two 

 weeks has been the announcement of the Cleve- 

 land census returns. It is believed that the big 

 increase in popidatiou will have a decided tend- 

 ency to stimulate building as well as improv<' 

 business with the manufacturers using hard- 

 woods. Cleveland in ten years has gained 178.- 

 668, making the city's new population high 

 water mark 560.663. This loaves Pittsburg 27.- 

 000 behind and Cincinnati nearly 200,000. Cleve- 

 land now ranks seventh and may pass Baltimore, 

 returns for which have not boon announced as 

 yet. 



William I'ields, manager of the Norris Lum- 

 ber Company, passed away during the past week 

 after a two weeks' illness due to heart trouble. 

 He has been manager of the Norris company 

 tor the past four years and since the age of 

 fourteen has been associated with Robert H. 

 lenks in the lumber business. His funeral was 

 attended by a number of prominent lumbermen 

 Uere. Resolutions of regret were passed by the 

 Lumbermen's Club and presented to the widow, 

 ivbo is the only survivor. As the result of Mr. 

 Fields' death a reorganization of the Norris Lum- 

 ber Company has taken place. J. H. Amiek 

 has been made vice-president and manager of 

 the concern and I. W. Jones, secretary. 



The Cleveland Lumber Company reports a 

 good line of hardwood cabinet work in its mill, 

 v'bicb was recently reopened. The mill has 

 Ijeen devoted to Ihe making of washboards for 

 some time, but this was recently discontinued. 

 After rebuilding and revamping the machinery 

 the mill was again put in shape for the produc- 

 tion of cabinet work. 



David Jamieson. a retired banker and a capi- 

 talist of Newcastle, Pa., and F. T. Peitch of 

 Cleveland have been added to the directorate of 

 the Advance Lumber Company of this city. Busi- 

 ness with the company, according to the acting 

 manager, A. G. Webb, is brisk at present. 



Visitors to the city during the past week were 

 J. H. Brewster, president of the Sun Lumber 

 Company of Weston, W. Va., and B. C. Acklrs 

 of the Alton Lumber Company of Buckhannon. 

 W. Va. 



COLUMBUS 



Several important changes have taken place 

 in the lumber trade in Columbus recently. B. 

 \. Leach, formerly secretary and treasurer of 

 the Sower.^-Leach Lumber Company, has with- 

 drawn from the active management of that 

 concern and has established a wholesale concern 

 on the eighth floor of the Columbus Savings 

 & Trust Bldg., for both hardwoods and yellow 

 pine. He has not withdrawn his financial in- 

 terests from the Sowers-Leach company. His 

 duties in that concern are now being looked 

 after by D. F. lienbow, formerly assistant soc- 

 retar.v. 



The McLaughlin-Hoffman Lumber Company, of 

 which C. G. McLaughlin is general manager, is 

 going out of business. The company has been 

 in the wholesale business for a number of years. 



The Gray Lumber Company of Cleveland, Ohio, 

 was incorporated recently with an authorized 

 capital of .$50,000 to manufacture and sell lum- 

 ber and to deal in timber lands. The incorpo- 

 rators were Guy Gray. Joseph Paryzek, Noal Gor- 

 don Gray. J. J. Hogan and Alice E. Franklin. 



The Franklin Woodenware Company of Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio, was incorporated with a capital 

 of $10,000 to manufacture all kinds of wooden 

 articles. The incorporators are F. W. Thomas. 

 H. H. Wilson, C. H. Hughes, M. S. Browne and 

 H. E. Thompson. 



Word comes from Konova, W. Va., that a new- 

 plant for the manufacture of bent goods, such 

 as rims and automobile wheels, will bo opened 

 at that place soon by D. E. Hewit of the D. E. 

 Hewit Lumber Company of Huntington and J. M. 

 Skinner of the .1. 51. Skinuor Bonding Company 

 of Toledo. 



The Wauseon Handle & Lumber Company of 

 Wauseon, Ohio, will open its plant at that place 

 October 1. 



John R. Goboy, president of John R. Goboy & 

 Co., reports a better trade in hardwoods, es- 

 pecially from the yard trade. Prices are rather 

 Jii'ra and the prospects for the future are bright. 

 The past tew weeks showed good increases in 

 business. 



,\. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany reports some betterment in trade condi 

 tions, although it is not as good as was ex- 

 pected some time ago. He says prices are hold- 

 ing their own and that stocks in the hands of 



dealers are not large. There is some improve- 

 ment in the factory demand. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager of the central 

 division of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 reports a quiet trade at this time. He says 

 there is a general demand for all grades both 

 high and low. Chestnut firsts and seconds and 

 No. 1 common are especially strong and some 

 other hardwoods also show strength. Prices 

 show no disposition to recede. 



The Virginia Lumber Company, a new con- 

 cern located on the fourth floor of the New 

 Hayden building, reports a quiet marlvOt for 

 hardwoods. 



CINCINNATI 



Looking in rugged health, Leland G. Banning, 

 the well-known Cincinnati lumberman, returned 

 to his home after an absence of fourteen months, 

 during which time he has been the subject of 

 much speculation as to bis whereabouts. Mr. 

 Banning's story is most interesting. In June. 

 1000, he left Cincinnati on a business trip to 

 Europe, and said he expected to be gone about 

 a month or six weeks. On arriving in France 

 he met a party of friends who were preparing 

 for a tour of the world, and they prevailed upon 

 him to accompany them. The party visited 

 Italy, Tunis, and then wont to Egypt, where 

 Mr. Banning was unfortunate in contracting ma- 

 laria. The party then left for India and visited 

 Ceylon, where Mr. Banning became too ill to 

 continue further, and as the trip was to include 

 China, Japan and Australia and the return homo 

 made by way of the Pacific, he was left at Co- 

 lombo. It was at this point that all trace of 

 Mr. Banning was lost to his business associates, 

 as he was confined to a sick bed for three 

 months, when, having recovered sufficient to be 

 moved, he returned to Italy and spent several 

 months at the Riviera and health resorts on the 

 Mediterranean, visiting Switzerland and Ger- 

 many, and feeling that his health had been re- 

 stored, he once more sailed for America and ar- 

 rived in Cincinnati last week, where he was wel- 

 comed as a lost son. That he has fully recov- 

 ered is evidenced by the fact that he is negotiat- 

 ing for a high-grade automobile. He says he 

 expects to stay bore now, as Cincinnati looks 

 good to him. The only trouble he now has is 

 in returning the greetings he is receiving on all 

 sides from friends and explaining his long ab- 

 sence. During his long stay abroad the affairs 

 of his immense lumber interests were looked 

 after by Earl Hart, his well-known and reliable 

 business manager. 



W. F. Vest of the Ferd Brenner Lumber Com- 

 pany is spending a few days in Cincinnati, tie 

 first in many months. He is the manager of the 

 company's mill plant at Alexandria, La. The 

 business at the plant is excellent so far as the 

 work of cutting is concerned, the supply of 

 hardwood logs being good. Mr. Vest will re- 

 turn lo Alexandria at the week's end, as he says 

 it does not pay to stay away from business long. 

 He has with him in the management of the 

 mill Harry Brenner, the eldest son of Ferd Bren- 

 ner. The shipping of lumber to the foreign 

 markets, he says, is light. 



C. L. Ritter of Huntington, W. Va., was in 

 the city this week and called at headquarters of 

 the hardwood manufacturers. C. M. Crawford 

 of Coal Grove, Ohio, also dropped in while in 

 the city on business. 



Cliff S. Walker is making a great success as 

 an amateur farmer on his miniature back lot 

 farm in Covington. Ky. He says he gets up at 

 5 o'clock every morning and spends two hours 

 l)efore breakfast working on his farm and chas- 

 ing potato bugs to get up an appetite. His farm 

 stories were not taken very seriously by several 

 of his friends, so he brought over specimens of 

 bis agricultural products to "show," among them 

 a string bean thirty-seven inches long, which is 

 being admired as an agricultural freak. The 

 Record correspondent vouches for the truth of 



