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come necessary for the active handling of its 

 affairs to be placed in the hands of a paid secre- 

 tary whose particular work it will be to pro- 

 mote its interests, and who will be able to give 

 time to carrying out the details. 



There is a man who is perhaps more suitable 

 to fill this posltinn than any other individual in 

 the United States, and the association is to be 

 congratulated on having been able to secure him. 

 He is H. D. Hartley of the Pioneer Pole & Shaft 

 Company of Piqua, O. 



Mr. Hartley's practical experience in the 

 hickory trade in the shaft and pole line, coupled 

 with bis former experience in connection with 

 the Forest Service at Washington, and added 

 thereto his liberal education and demonstrated 

 ability, insures further success for the associa- 

 tion under an enlarged and advanced policy. 



The retiring secretary, F. A. Curtis of Chicago, 

 and his associates deserve credit for bringing 

 the work to its present condition, and with little 

 cost to the association, making possible the larger 

 work now before this organization. 



Mr. Hartley will be located in Detroit, Mich., 

 where all correspondence should be addressed, 

 care box lOS. 



Buildlug Operations for May. 



Official reports of building operations in forty- 

 five leading cities throughout the country re- 

 ceived by the American Contractor, Chicago, show 

 somewhat of an improvement as the season ad- 

 vances. The aggregate loss, as compared with 

 May, 1907, is twenty-five per cent, whereas the 

 previous month suffered a decrease of thirty- 

 three per cent, as compared with 1907. Only 

 ten cities reported au increase, ranging from one 

 to 163 per cent, while thirty-flve show losses 

 ranging from two to seventy-three per cent. The 

 details are as follows : 



May 



In the Toils. 



Hardwood Record readers will he interested 

 to know that the notorious Charles G. Horton 

 of New York City will be placed on trial at the 

 instance of the postal authorities on or about 

 June 17. Under various aliases and sundry 

 fake company names he has been engaged in 

 swindling lumber operators for the past twenty 

 years, and in spite of the efforts of the Record 



has succeeded in defrauding a good many of its 

 readers. During the last year the editor of this 

 publication has sent out at least fifty warnings 

 to individuals to avoid all business transactions 

 with Horton's Consumers Lumber Company and 

 has advertised his crooked dealings for three 

 years past in the columns of the paper. 



There is so much evidence of swindling opera- 

 tions accumulating against Horton that it is 

 doubtful if he escapes without a penitentiary 

 sentence. The specific charge on which he is 

 now under arrest is the use of the mails for 

 carrying on fraudulent enterprises. The United 

 States district attorney of Kings county has 

 been assisted in securing evidence by the Lum- 

 bermen's Credit Association of this city and by 

 several lumber associations. Horton has been 

 arrested heretofore, but up to this time has 

 succeeded in escaping a penitentiary sentence. 

 It is to be hoped that now he will he put in 

 such seclusion that he will not be able to mulct 

 lumbermen for some time to come. 



Death of Henry Hays Coe. 



It is with profound sorrow and regret that 

 the Record announces the death of Hon. Henry 

 Hays Coe, president of the Coe Manufacturing 

 Company of Painesville, O., which occurred May 

 18 at his home. 



Mr. Coe was born in Charleston, O., June 6, 

 1830. When, twenty years old he removed to 

 Painesville, where he began his business career. 

 In 1852 the firm of Anderson & Coe was estab- 

 lished for building machinery. Eventually the 

 firm name was changed to Coe & Wilkes, and 

 the business gradually grew into the manufac- 



ture of veneer machinery, based on the patents 

 taken out by Mr. Coe. Later Mr. Wilkes retired 

 and in 1900 the house was incorporated and be- 

 came the Coe Manufacturing Company, the larg- 

 est builders of veneer machinery in the world. 

 Mr. Coe was its president up to the time of his 

 death. 



Mr. Coe was a veteran in the Civil War, serv- 

 ing long and honorably, and in the community 

 where he resided was often honored with re- 

 sponsible offices, among them that of county 

 treasurer and mayor. In business and private 

 life his character was unassuming, kindly and 

 above reproach. In all his dealings with fellow 

 manufacturers or citizens he was frank and 

 houorable. Mr. Coe leaves one son, Harry Proc- 

 tor Coe, upon whom the active management of 

 his large affairs will devolve, and a daughter, 

 Mrs. Henry B. Kummel of Trenton, N. J. 



A Great Concatenation. 



As a precurser of what's going to happen at 

 the annual concatenation of Hoo-Hoo at Chicago 

 in September Vicegerent Fuller and a corps of 

 able assistants pulled off a great cancatenation 

 at the Great Northern Hotel -on the evening of 

 June 5. There were about 150 Hoo-Hoo in at- 

 tendance, including many distinguished members 

 from out of the city. Forty-five candidates were 

 permitted to have their eyes opened and stroke 

 the fur of the Great Black Cat. It was the 

 largest and most successful concatenation ever 

 held in Chicago. Details of arrangements were 

 elaborate and very pleasing. All the restaurant 

 and parlor space on the second floor of the Great 

 Northern Hotel were given over to the function. 

 The Hoo-Hoo ceremonies lasted until after mid- 

 night, and these were followed by a very elab- 

 orate luncheon and no end of speech making, 

 good cheer and good fellowship. 



The order is to be congratulated on the renais- 

 sance of interest in its affairs in Chicago. 



Opens Toledo Yard. 



D. G. Courtney, the well known hardwood 

 manufacturer of Charlestown, W. Va., who 

 operates several large mills in that vicinity, ha,s 

 opened a distributing yard at Toledo, O., under 

 the supervision of W. T. Hubbard, who is well 

 known in the Toledo trade. This yard has been 

 established with a view to making shipments 

 more promptly in the territory centering at 

 Toledo than could possibly be done from the 

 mills. It will also enable Mr. Courtney to fill 

 mixed orders to better advantage. The yard will 

 be stocked with a full line of poplar, oak, bass- 

 wood, ash, chestnut and gums ; the specialty will 

 be panel poplar, which can be furnished in any 

 width or thickness. 



University Crews Bemoan Scarcity of Red 

 Cedar. 



The material most used for making racing 

 shells is red cedar. A new set of boats is pur- 

 chased each year by most colleges, causing an 

 ever increasing demand for this wood, and prices 

 are apt to advance unless a growth of good cedar 

 for the use of builders is found shortly. 



It would be difficult to give a conservative 

 estimate of the outlay each year for racing boats, 

 when one considers that Cornell, Columbia, 

 Georgetown. _ the Naval Academy, Syracuse. 

 Pennsylvania', Wisconsin, Harvard, Yale, Prince- 

 ton, New York University, California, Stanford, 

 and Washington all maiutain rowing crews, be- 

 sides the many private rowing clubs throughout 

 the country. The cost of an eight-oared shell is 

 about $800, and a four-oared about half that. 



Tropical cedar has proved too soft, though 

 there is a report that there is a quantity of 

 excellent cedar in Cuba, and with the growth of 

 colonies along the line of the railway there is a 

 chance that this will be worked. As some parts 

 of Cuba are hardly tropical, it may be that some 

 cedar of the right sort will be imported from 

 there eventually. 



There has been much experimenting in boat- 

 building for college crews. When aluminum 

 came first into popular use the builders made 

 experiments with it. They found soon, bow- 

 ever, that it would not do. Neither did the 

 paper shells prove a success, being unable to 

 stand great strains, and even more fragile than 

 cedar boats. 



Wisconsin News Notes. 



The summer sawmill season at Bayfield 

 started June 1, when the mills of the Bayfield 

 Mill Company and the Wachsmuth Lumber Com- 

 pany began operations. The mill of the Red 

 Cliff Lumber Company will also begin opera- 

 tions soon, and then the milling season here will 

 be under full swing. 



The Flambeau Lumber Company of Lac du 



