HARDWOOD RECORD 



Lumber & Manufacturing Company and several 

 residences in its vicinity. Tlie plant was a total 

 loss and was ouly partially covered by insurance. 



The Appleton Toy & Furniture Company's 

 plant at Appleton was recently destroyed by 

 flre, loss $25,000. Philip V. Hammel and Julius 

 Kahn of that city were the owners. They 

 carried $16,000 insurance. Five years ago the 

 plant was totally destroyed by the same. element, 

 and three years ago it was partially destroyed. 



The Neason-Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Rhineiander suffered the loss of its mill by fire 

 at State Line station recently. The loss is 

 .$55,000, the company carrying a blanliet policy 

 for $150,000 insurance on all its holdings. The 

 mill was built only last year, and the company 

 had over 3,000,000 feet of logs ready for sawjng. 

 As the firm owns 23,000 acres of timber land in 

 that section it is likely that the mill will be 

 rebuilt. 



The Xamakogan dam near Cable was blown 

 out with dynamite recently by unknown parties. 

 The dam furnished power for the North Wiscon- 

 sin Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Hay- 

 ward, and its destruction means a big loss to 

 that concern. 



Manager R. A. Reik, who took charge of the 

 Khinelander Manufacturing Company's plant at 

 Rhineiander some time ago, proposes to operate 

 It twelve months each year hereafter. Instead 

 of at irregular intervals. This has become a 

 necessity in order to supply the demand for 

 manufactured products — mostly refrigerators. 

 The first few years the plant was in operation 

 the company was gaining experience in a busi- 

 ness unfamiliar to the stockholders, and the 

 balance was on the wrong side of the ledger. 

 Honest, well made goods were being put on the 

 market, which found favor with tlu> Ijuyt-r. Mr. 

 Reik took the management, saw \iii.i. i.. m n. lal 

 changes could be made, and 1 i ■ i i in- 

 smallest details. The result li:i ■• 

 company's affairs have been [■ui . i, .i .ImiIthI 

 paying basis. 



The Sheboygan Furniture JIanufacturers' 

 Association held its annual banquet recently. 

 The members went over the conditions confront- 

 ing them, and exchanged views on things which 

 It is believed will work for the betterment of 

 the association. 



George Price of Crandon has purchased a 150- 

 horsepower engine, two new boilers and most of 

 the machinery of a planing mill, which will be 

 added to the equipment of his woodworking 

 plant. He will be enabled to give employment to 

 an additional number of men. He manufactures 

 bent stock for wagons, interior finishings for 

 buildings, planed and matched material, tele- 

 graph cross-arms, pins, etc. 



Shawano and Oconto county attorneys recently 

 appeared before GlfTord Pinchott, chief of the 

 Forest Service, and made arguments urging im- 

 mediate settlement of claims growing out of log- 

 ging operations on the Menominee Indian reserva- 

 tion last winter and spring. They were accom- 

 panied b.v. Wisconsin members of Congress. About 

 forty contracts for logging were let on this res- 

 ervation, the work being under supervision of 

 the Interior Department. By recent legislation 

 the loggini; on this reservation is now under 

 the Forest Service. Special inspectors reported 

 (hat regulations had not been followed, and Mr. 

 I'inchott has held up payments amounting to 

 about .$150,000. Wholesale houses of Milwaukee 

 and Chicago are also interested in that they fur- 

 nished supplies to Shawano merchants and the 

 latter have been unable to meet their accounts 

 because of the government's failure to pay In- 

 dians and contractors. Mr. PIncliott said he 

 would defer action until he had received an offi- 

 cial report from inspectors. 



D. B. Stevens baa withdrawn from the Ste- 

 vens Lumber Company, Rhineiander, and the 

 liiislnns^! will hereafter be conducted by his sons. 



W. T. and Charles. He intends to spend the 

 summer on the Pacific coast. 



William F. McKnight of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 has sold his one-third interest in the Northern 

 Lumber Company operating near Marquette for 

 $65,000 to Pennsylvania men who previously 

 held some of the stock. 



A large force of men is at work at Neopit 

 getting things in readiness to build the big saw- 

 mill which the government will construct there 

 this summer to cut timber on the Menominee 

 Indian reservation. A concrete dam 400 feet 

 long, to furnish power for the mill, will be built. 

 Surveyors will soon lay out a town site and 

 buildings to house at least a thousand people 

 will be constructed by the government. 



Eben Olson & Co. of Port Wing expect to build 

 a sawmill in the near future, near Washburn, 

 where the company owns a large supply of hard- 

 wood, principally oak logs. A large tract of 

 standing timber Is also owned by it. 



Brown Bros. Lumber Company of Rhineiander 

 has installed the Kernln safety grabhook on 

 its cars. The device was recently invented by 

 G. Kernin of Crandon. 



The new band mill of the Flirth & Thompson 

 Lumber Company of Wausau, built at Cornu- 

 copia, has been put In operation. 



The Wolf River Chair Company of New Lon- 

 don has commenced the erection of a warehouse 

 60x150 feet and two stories high. 



The Yawkey I^umber Company of Wausau has 

 incorporated for $300,000. The firm will operate 

 near Hazelhurst. 



A. S. Trow & Co. of La Crosse are preparing 

 for their last run, and after the present supply 

 of logs is cut the mill will be dismantled. The 

 Trow mill has been in operation since 1882 and 

 Is the only mill left In that city. 



The Northwestern Manufacturing Company of 

 Fort Atkinson is operating a full force at present 

 and has turned out 200 more buggies than It did 

 last year at this time. The company expects to 

 manufacture about 20,000 before beginning work 

 on sleighs. The firm employs 250 hands. 



Friends of A. II. Stangc of the Stange Lumber 

 Company, Merrill, are pushing him as n candi- 

 date for Congress on the Democratic ticket in 

 tiie Tenth district. The district is overwhelm- 

 ingly Republican. 



The Uniform Stave & Package Company of 

 Brandon is selling part of Its stock of stave 

 bolts for cordwood, because of a lack of yard 

 space. 



A pathetic story of the pranks that the fickle 

 jade Fortune plays In her most heartless moods 



came to its climax one day this week when 

 Charles J. L. Meyer, once a millionaire, promi- 

 nent lumberman and railroad magnate of Wis- 

 consin, sought admission to the Milwaukee 

 poorhouse. Stripped of wealth, of social station, 

 of business standing, Meyer, a patriarch of sev- 

 enty-seven years, kmxked at the doors of the 

 Associated Charities, which was established years 

 ago, in part through his lavish contributions to 

 charity, and he was told that by his removal to 

 Chicago, two years since, he had forfeited all 

 right to enter the Milwaukee county poorhouse. 

 Being offeved money by Gustav Frellson, the 

 agent, the old man drew himself erect, saying 

 he had money enough to pay his board for a few- 

 days and for his return to Chicago, where for 

 two years he has resided in a room at 93 Aber- 

 deen street. "I merely was seeking my rights as 

 a citizen reduced to penury," he said, "but I am 

 not asking for alms." "I will write letters to 

 your two sons-in-law, who are men of wealth, 

 and will bring them to a sense of duty toward 

 you," said Frellson as his aged visitor, with a 

 sweeping bow, left the office. 



Years ago when the lumbering industry in Wis- 

 consin was at Its height, Meyer was the owner 

 of a large sash, door and blind factory and 

 wholesale lumber business In Fond du Lac. He 

 was associated with the late Senator Sawyer of 

 Osbkosh and was counted as one of the big men 

 of the state. He was a prominent figure In the 

 councils of the Republican party and twice was 

 a delegate-at-large to national conventions. 



Fortune took a reef in prosperity. Meyer sold 

 his sash, door and blind factory and It became 

 the property of the Winnebago Manufacturing 

 Compan.v. Its former owner, who had found his 

 El Dorado In the forests of Wisconsin, went to 

 HermansvUle, Mich., where he owned great hard- 

 wood forests. He assisted In forming the Wis- 

 consin Land & Lumber Company, now one of the 

 largest of Its kind In the state. The town of 

 Ilermansvilie was laid out by him and for years 

 depended upon his gagantlc enterprises. 



Once reverses set In, however, they come In 

 a steady stream. Meyer lost money here and 

 there. He was tied up In so many enterprises 

 that he was forced to sacrifice one to save an- 

 other, losing both In the operation. Great In- 

 roads were made upon his fortune, which dwin- 

 dled so rapidly that fifteen years ago Meyet 

 failed in business. He went to Milwaukee and 

 tried to recoup, but by this time the weight of 

 years was beginning to press upon bis shoulders, 

 and In whacking away at his adversary, Ul-for- 

 lune, he found It hard to make his blows tell. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HARS'VroOD HECORD Exclnsive Market Reporter*.) 



CHICAGO 



The iucil iwudwooJ situation shows marked 

 Improvement during the last fortnight. There 

 Is quite a little railroad buying going on, sup- 

 plemente<l with considerable trade from furni- 

 ture and other woodworking institutions. The 

 trade generally Is very optimistic over the out- 

 look, and It is thought the volume of business 

 will be back to normal even before the Novem- 

 ber election period. 



Stocks oC lumber in the hands of Chicago 

 consumers arc exceedingly low, as they have 

 bought vei-y sparingly for months and have 

 cleaned out very closely. The average Chicago 

 Jobber has only a fair stock, as he has gauged 

 his wholesale purchases by his volume of de- 

 mand. There Is evidence that there will be a 

 general stocking up all along the line within a 

 very short lime. 



However, even with the renaissance of a con- 

 slderaVle demand prices on a good many Items 

 of stock are still unsatisfactory. There are 

 enough indlvld\iai manufacturers who see some 



Uv'cessity for moving stock to cause prices to 

 remain demoralized to a considerable extent. 

 The variety of wood that is getting hit hardest, 

 not only In Chicago but in the general markets. 

 Is gum. Unfortunately operators were caught 

 with a considerable stock of logs on hand which 

 had to be put into lumber to save them from go- 

 ing to waste. After it was manufactured over- 

 anxiety to market It has caused a serious de- 

 cline. However, gnm is still In a good deal bet- 

 ter shape than hemlock and yellow pine, for 

 which slight consolation the gum producer should 

 be grateful. 



BOSTON 



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ditlon of the Boston market in hardwoods. Bii.\ 

 Ing Is limited to Immediate wants In most In 

 stances, and these are no larger than they h.i\ 

 been for two months. While trading is cm 

 pnratlvcly light dealers entertain more optimistic 

 views than they did. General business In other 

 lines is beginning to show signs of Improvement. 

 The stock markets ot the country are doing 



