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

 and up. Two or more in a room without bath. 

 SI. 50 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 ad- 

 ditional person in room with bath, $1.50 and up. 



At the other hotels with which arrangemeuts 

 have been entered into, the rates range from 

 $1.50 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 com- 

 fortable room at a moderate price should his 

 arrival be too late to permit of his being re- 

 ceived at the Auditorium. 



A program for events has been made out by 

 the general committee, which will be followed 

 as closely as circumstances will permit. It 

 includes an all-day trip to Michigan City, In- 

 diana's famous lake resort, September 9. 



The exclusive use of the beautiful excursion 

 steamer "Theodore Roosevelt" has been secured, 

 and will leave Chicago for Michigan City about 



"Theodore Roosevelt" is regarded 

 as the finest passenger boat on the Great Lakes. 

 It is so large and powerful a boat that it mat- 

 ters little what sort of weather is encountered, 

 as it easily rides the strongest gales, so that 

 none need be afraid of seasickness. The vessel 

 is 289 feet long, 40 feet broad, carries 3,500 

 people and has a speed of 24 miles an hour. Its 

 cost was over ?325,000. It has five decks and 

 carries a crew of 112 persons. It is the only 

 boat on the lakes that has wireless telegraph 

 connection with Chicago, communication being 

 available between the boat and shore at all 

 times. Its appointment and furnishings are 

 unsurpassed. 



The "Theodore Roosevelt" has promenades 12 

 feet wide, a large social hall for dancing, two 

 large cabins, several smoking rooms and carries 

 a band and orchestra of its own. 



The following is the outline of business and 

 entertainment as submitted by the general com- 



STEAMER THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OX WHICH IIOO-HOO WILL MAKE ITS EXCIU SION. 



n :45 a. m. This excursion should prove of 

 great interest, not only to the visiting Hoo-Hoo 

 and their families, but to the Chicago IIoo-Hoo 

 and their ladles as well. On account of this 

 trip it will he necessary to hold the annual 

 concatenation on the evening of September 10, 

 when the largest, best and most unique con- 

 catenation ever witnessed in Chicago will be 

 held in the magnificent banquet room on the 

 ninth floor of the Auditorium hotel. 



A thousand of the most prominent lumbermen 

 on the American continent will attend this con- 

 catenation and there will also be present all 

 the members of the Supreme Nine, as well as 

 several members of the House of Ancients, and 

 ex-members of the Supreme Nine. All Hoo-Hoo 

 are urged to attend and meet old friends or 

 get better acquainted with Hoo-Hoo brethren, 

 and to bring one or more kittens. 



Although the entertainment of ladies will in- 

 clude automobile rides, a shopping expedition 

 and theater party, probably the excursion to 

 Michigan City will be the great entertainment 

 feature of the gathering. The opening session 

 of Hoo-Hoo will be called, according to the con- 

 stitution of the order, at 9 :0!) a. m., September 

 9, at the Auditorium hotel. This session will 

 be necessarily short and adjournment will be 

 tali^n to the steamer "Theodore Roosevelt." 

 where the session will be continued morning 

 and afternoon. It is expected to reach Michi- 

 gan City at 12 :45 p. m. There lunch will be 

 served in Washington Park, after which mem- 

 bers of the order and their ladles will be enter- 

 tained in divers and sundry ways. The steamer 

 will probably leave Michigan City about 4:30 

 or 5 o'clock, and the party will be landed In 

 Chicago early in the evening. 



Tuesday. September 8. 

 :00 a. m. — Registration of visitors. Audi- 

 torium hotel. 

 :00 p. m.— Osirlan Clolstor initiation. 



> ;00 p. m, — Iteiiirn by steamer "Theodore 



Roosevelt," via Gary, Ind. 

 Thursday. September 10. 



> :0n a. m. — Business session. 



; :00 p. m. — Ladies' automobile trip around 



park and boulevard system, 

 s :00 p. m. — Muslcale for ladies. Auditorium 



hotel. 

 ) :09 p. m. — ,\nn>ial initiation and session-on- 



tiip r.i.ii', ninth fl.vir. Auditorium hotel. 

 I ; hl,r\, >-M.'inber 11. 

 ) :09 a. in I. in. - -iMin. Election of offl- 



irr- - ; I :■ - n.ur for ladies, 

 vening — II"" M n.i idips to spend evening 



Memphis-Nashville Lumbermen's Ball Game. 



At the ball game between the lumbermen of 

 Memphis and Nashville, played at Red Elm Park 

 on .\ugust 22 — the final of a series of three — • 

 Memphis came away with the big end of the 

 tally, and by virtue of its victory becomes the 

 nnner of the handsome cup offered by the 



American Lumberman to the club which won two 

 out of the three contests, and it also falls heir 

 to the title "the biggest hardwood lumber mar- 

 ket in the world." Nashville has been laying 

 claim to this distinction for a long while, and 

 it was decided that the supremacy of the one 

 city over the other would be determined by which 

 was able to play the best ball with teams se- 

 lected entirely from lumbermen or persons iden- 

 tified directly with lumber firms or corpora- 



The crowd was an exceptionally large one con- 

 sidering the bad day. It began raining about 

 noon and poured for a long while. The ground 

 was in most unsatisfactory condition, but this 

 did not prevent the two teams from putting up 

 about as good a game of ball as was ever wit- 

 nessed on the historic turtle-back diamond at 

 Red Elm Park. Both teams played fast, snappy 

 ball. The players threw a great deal of zest 

 into their work. The fielding was good and the 

 work with the willow not bad. 



The contest developed increasing interest after 

 the sixth inning. Memphis had made three runs 

 up to that time. Nashville none. In the seventh 

 Memphis did not score, while Nashville put two 

 men over the plate. Memphis was again shut 

 out in the eighth and in that inning Nashville 

 sent one man home, thus tying the score. The 

 crowd fairly went wild with enthusiasm, waving 

 liats and handkerchiefs in the air and calling 

 on the band engaged for the day to produce some 

 of its liveliest music. 



Memphis was equal to the occasion, however, 

 and in the ninth made three runs. NashvUlf 

 could do nothing when the last opportunity pre- 

 sented itself and Memphis came away winner by 

 three runs. 



The Memphis team fairly outplayed the boys 

 from Nashville. They bad a better pitcher In 

 I he person of B. Tully, who handled the ball as 

 though he had been playing a professional game 

 lor years. He kept his hits widely scattered and 

 Nashville would not have made as many runs 

 ;is it did had it not been for one wild throw 

 which paved the way for two runs. The Mem- 

 phis players had done consistent practice work, 

 and this showed strongly in the game they put 

 up. 



There was no quibbling over decisions. Um- 

 pire Fitzslmmons, one of the Southern League 

 umpires, officiated, and handled the indicator 

 most satisfactorily. The Nashvillites said after 

 that they had no kick to make, Memphis win- 

 ning because of superior playing. 



The day was full of pleasant events. The 

 Nashville delegation arrived on time and was 

 tendered a most rousing reception at the sta- 

 tion. The visitors were carried over the city 

 in a special car and luncheon was served at the 

 Country Club. The game was called promptly 

 at the time appointed. In the evening a banquet 

 was tendered visiting lumbermen at the Hotel 

 Gayoso. The loving cup was presented to the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis during the prog- 

 ress of the banquet by J. E. Defebaugh, editor 

 of the American Lumberman. J. W. Thompson 

 accepted the cup on behalf of the club and fit- 

 ting remarks wore made by members of the 

 Nashville delegation. The visitors were guyed 

 unmercifully during the evening, but took every- 

 thing good naturedly. and the occasion was a 

 most pleasant one for all concerned. 



Opens Chicago Yard. 



The Brittingham & Young Company, a well- 

 known lumber house of Madison, Wis., has been 

 carrying considerable hardwood stock In Chi- 

 cago for some time, but has now arranged for a 

 yard of its own, where It will carry from 10,- 

 000,000 to 15,000,000 feet of northern hard- 

 woods. The yard will be located south of 

 Twenty-second street, on Throop, and includes 

 the dock space formerly occupied by the ioh'n 

 O'Brien Lumber Company, and lately forinlng 

 a part of the yard of Francis Beldler A Co. 

 The lease extended to Brittingham & Young by 



