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HARDWOOD RECORD 



been a defunct concern for several months. 

 General stagnation of the lumber business in the 

 South is given as the chief cause for the finan- 

 cial trouble of the company. Many of its credi- 

 tors had threatened to bring suit and it was to 

 offset individual action that the application for 

 a receiver was made at this' time. Receiver 

 Moore states that by careful management the 

 company will be able to pay every creditor in 

 full and then will be in a position to resume 

 business on a substantial basis. 



Chicago Hoo-Hoo Prepare for Annual. 



Tuesday evening, \ joneral com- 



mittee which is pi : ^ii'at annual 



to be held in thi- ^.9. 10 and 



11 held a unotin- : mm hotel, to 



expected. Ij.,i il^u.^.. v. !iu v. .. i . pn^cut when the 

 meeting was called to order al S uclocli made up 

 in strict attention to business and apparent apti- 

 tude for the affair in hand what they lacked in 

 numbers. 



It was .shown that the financial end of the 

 work is progressing in good shape, and the gen- 

 tlemen in charge of this important part of the 

 arrangements say that when the visitors arrive 

 they will be in position to show them the time 

 of their Iloo-lloo lives. 



As previously announced, the Auditorium hotel 

 will be the headquarters for the business meet- 

 ini;s and the general rendezvous. Rates at this 

 hotel have been secured as follows : 



One person in a room without bath, $2 a day 

 and up. 



Two or more in a room without bath. $1..J0 a 

 day and up. 



One person In a room with bath, $3.50 and up. 



Two or more persons in a room with bath, 

 $2.50 and up. 



Each additional person in room with bath, 

 $1.50 and up. 



At the other hotels with which arrangements 

 have been entered into, the rates range from 

 $1.30 a day up for each person. The hotel ac- 

 commodations of Chicago are excellent and no 

 one need fear not being able to get a comfortable 

 room at a moderate price should his arrival be 

 too late to permit, of his being received at the 

 Auditorium. 



The following program has been arranged. It 

 is, of course, subject to alterations, but these, if 

 any, probably will be slight : 

 Hoo-Hoo AXNUAI. PHOGRA.M, Sei'tembeb 8-11. 



September S — Registration at Auditorium 

 hotel. 



iaiion of Osirian Cloister. 

 ■ I of Osirian Cloister. 

 ' I m., registration of visitors. 

 iin'ss session. 



i!n:iti"ii of business session on 

 b.p.inl sr- KM.jsevelt. 



'.I iKi :l '! higan City, lud., on 



supplemented by several terms at Wyoming 

 Seminary. His first experience in the lumber 

 business was acquired in White Haven, which 

 offered so many facilities for embarking in this 

 line of trade ; from there, to his advantage, he 

 removed to Williamsport, Pa., and thence, with 

 .still greater inducements, to Philadelphia, in 

 18S0. where he had lived ever since, and where 

 lie had made for himself a name, not only as a 

 man eminently qualified to attain the highest 

 success in the business in which he was en- 

 gaged, but as one scrupulously honest in all 

 his dealings. He was a member and elder in 

 the Lutheran Church, a trustee of the Theolog- 

 ical Seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., and of Penn- 

 sylvania College. , to which institutions' he gave 

 substantially of his means. To him no philan- 

 thropic enterprise appealed in vain. 



double band .sawmill, railroad, etc. The West 

 Michigan Furniture Company of Holland, 

 Mich., i.s the principal stockholder. 



The Engle Land ,& Lumber Company's af- 

 fairs are in a. rather chaotic state, both le- 

 gally and financially. It seems that two big. 

 suits for the recovery of considerable sums of 

 money have been enjoined from getting judg- 

 ment until the receivership case is settled. 



I) ly Island Cafe, bath- 

 is, including exhibition 

 turn on steamer Theo- 



.Septcmber 11 — 0:0!) a. m., business session. 



Afternoon, ladies' shopping tour. 



livening, Hoo-Uoo and their ladies at amuse- 



,Tamps li. West will be chairman of the com- 

 mittee in charge of the boat trip. 



Irvine MeCauley will be chairman of the com- 

 mittee in charge of the automobile trip and the 

 other amusement features. * 



Obituary. 



.Tames Strong, a prominent lumber merchant 

 and manufacturer, and president of ,Iames 

 Strong & Company, Inc., of this city, died sud- 

 denly on July 25, at Atlantic City, N. .T., where 

 he had been for some time for his health. 



.Mr. Strong was born at White Haven, Pa., 

 where he received his early education, which was 



Some Jolly Fishermen. 

 There is a jolly party of lumbermen in Canada 

 chaperoned by Will McLean of the Wood Mosaic 

 I'looring & Lumber Company of Louisville and 

 New Albany. Edward L. Davis of the Edward 

 I.. Davis Lumber Company, and A. T. McDon- 

 ald of the Louisville Commercial Club, are at 

 the camp of the JJcI.ean hoys at Pytonga. It 

 is always a case of many fish and general good 

 rest when this jarty visits their lodge. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The plant of the -\merican District Steam 

 Fitting Company at Tonawanda, N. Y., was de- 

 stroyed by fire July 25, and 1,500,000 feet of 

 lumber burned. 



Practical work now being done by the L'ni- 

 versity of Wisconsin is bringing about remark- 

 able results in the northern part of the state, 

 where farmers are being shown how they can 

 obtain profitable return.s from land tUat has 

 heretofore been undeveloped. They are trans- 

 forming the cutover lands in the upper section 

 of the state from a wilderness into a rich 

 agricultural region.. 



The South Fork Lumber Company is a new 

 concern in Lee county, Kentucky. 



The Frost Veneer Seating Company of She- 

 boygan, Wis., whose plant in Antigo was re- 

 cently destroyed by fire, has decided not to re- 

 build. Efforts are being made to have the con- 

 cern reconsider its determination, as It was 

 one of the town's valuable industries. 



The Oklahoma Land & Lumber Company of 

 Vernon, Tex., has been incorporated at Guthrie, 

 iikla., with a capital of $1,000,000. 



The Fred A. Sass Company is a new Chicago 

 ii.ncern which will manufacture and deal in 

 mouldings. It Is capitalized at $50,000. 



At Hoquiam, Wash., recently, the drykilns of 

 the Coast Shingle Company, containing 4,000.(XH> 

 shingles, were destroyed by fire, causing a loss 

 of $10,000. 



The plant of the Michigan Manufacturing ,& 

 Lumber Company at Holly, Mich., has resumed 

 operations after the usual summer shutdown for 

 ri pairs. 



Three new industries — a butter dish factory, 

 a sawmill and a chair stock factory — have re 

 ccntly been located at Sidnaw, Mich. They will 

 consume about a million and a half feet of hard 

 wood a year. The butter dish factory to be 

 erected by William Beitner & Son of Traverse 

 City, Mich., will be in operation by the last 



W. A. .McLEAX 



BOSS FISIIEUMA? 



Wo understand Will McLean Is the boss fish- 

 erman : don't know what kind of bait he uses, 

 whether It is silver ..r ..ilierwise. but do know 

 that the bass ami li to the woods 



when he gets hi- - . kers on and 



gets busy. Taki' .i ^ ' doubt Davis 



and the rest of li,. .„..,,, ..... have just as 

 big stories when they return, but here Is prima 

 facie evidence that McLean can get hold of fish 

 no matter how he catches them. 



Eeceiver Asked for Southern Company, 



George Englo. president of the Engle I^nd 

 & Lumber Company, has started proceedings 

 to have a receiver named for his concern. The 

 value of the property owned by this company 

 Is estimated ot hrtlf a million dollars. It con- 

 sists of 1.=ifi.niO acres of hardwood timber. 



the 



llauson-Ward veneer factory at Bay City, 

 lias resumed operations after a months 



' iiiii.s Emmel & Rose Company is a new 



iM enter the wood carving business at 



capitalized at $20,000. Arthur Rose 



Millie is president and Walter Eennlston 



i I Ilea Plains, treasurer. 



The Santa Fe railroad has purchased 1,000 

 acres of land about thirty-five miles south of 

 Hutchinson, Kan., on which It will plant catalpa 

 trees for tics. 



The Cleveland Woodenware Company has l)een 

 organized to take over the business of the R. 

 L. Frome Company of Howard's Grove, Wis., 

 which was recently destroyed by fire. Veneer 

 and furniture will be manufactured, as well as 



The St. Louis Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at I'ortland, Me., with a capital of 

 $l.(H)0.0(tO. C. K. Eaton Is president and T. L. 

 Cro.eau, treasurer, both of Portland. 



Fire at Rurkclt. Ind., July 21. caused a loss 

 of $20,000 to the Gaskell lumber yards at that 

 place. 



.V new lumber company for Jackson county. 

 Arkansas, was chartered the last of the month. 

 It is styled the Schneidcr-Stegall Lumber Com- 

 pany, and is capitalized at $4,000. It will deal 

 in soft and hard woods. 



The Mason-Featherston Lumber Company of 

 AshevlUe, N. C wholesalers of hardwoods, has 

 dissolved partnership, the business being con 

 tinuod by B. C. Mason. 



