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trninp or the Inolllolciit son of n wonlthy 

 8lr»>. Is liiokt'<l on wltli ooatcmiit. 



Wo ni«:in tlmt such Is tlio conillllon In 

 tills ttunitry. There lire still countries on 

 the Blobe where the old oriler prevails. 

 Hnt let us he glad that we live In a liuul of 

 progress. 



NINE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD 

 JOIN THE HOUSE OF HOO-HOO. 



1. It Is to be liuilt liy lnnil>ernien. for 

 lumbermen, and Is to advertise the lunibi-r 

 business. 



2. It will he the only private olub on the 

 grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 

 tion, therelty giving the lumliormen a dis- 

 tinct advantage over nil otlior visitors in 

 comfortnlily taking in the great fair. 



3. It will be operated merely to pay run- 

 ning expenses— not for profit— and it will 

 thus enable members to make a consider- 

 able saving. 



4. It will have comfortable dining rooms 

 where the comforts and saving in eating 

 will be in strong contrast to any other 

 restaurant on the gi-ouiids. If you have 

 attended previous expositions of this char- 

 acter you will know what this means. 



5. The postoffice and writing room (with 

 stenographers in attendance) make it pos- 

 sible for a member to give such attention 

 to his business affairs as they may require. 



6. A man's wife is included in his mem- 

 bership, whether or not he is with her, and 

 the arrangement of the building pays par- 

 ticular attention to the comfort of the 

 ladies. This includes a strictly private 

 lounging room in charge of maids. 



7. The information bureau of the club 

 will be equipped to not only give informa- 

 tion on personal application, but to also ar- 

 range for boarding house accommodations 

 for those who so desire. 



S. Being a club only for its memBers and 

 only for lumbermen and those in allied 

 trades, it will be possible for a member to 

 meet more friends and make more business 

 acquaintances at the club than anywhere 

 else, thus giving a member a distinct social 

 advantage. 



9. You should join for patriotic reasons, 

 if for no other. This is distinctively a lum- 

 ber proposition and all lumbermen should 

 take a pride in it. The cost of member- 

 ship is only .?9.09. and there are no dues. 



There are at least nine other reasons 

 which are left to your imagination. If you 

 arc interested and have received no litera- 

 ture on the subject, inquiries should be ad- 

 dressed to the House of Hoo-Hoo, Fuller- 

 ton Building, St. Louis. 



HE H.\RD\VOOD RECORD. 



From Nea^r OLiid Fa.r. 



The Handy Guide is the name of a very 

 finely gotten up book, which treats on 

 hammering and the general care of saws, 

 issued by the Covel Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. Chicago. It contains 140 pages, 

 leather bound, pocket size, fully illustrated, 

 and contains everything in the way of use- 

 ful instruction for any one interested in 

 handling saws of all kinds. Price $2.50, 

 postage prepaid. 



CHICAGO COMMENT. 

 «;. Von riaton of Hovin- City, Mi.li., 

 made the rounds In Chicago, ln<luding the 

 Keeoiil olUce, a few days ago. Mr. Von 

 riaten has Juat completed the purchase of 

 a hardwood timber tract In Florence 

 County, Wisconsin, the main bo<ly com- 

 prising TJ.iKNI acres, lie states that ho 

 will commence develo|)ment at once and 

 will probably locate hiniseif In Chicago to 

 handle the product of the new mill, as 

 well as the Boyne City plant. 



• ♦ • 

 The Continental Lumber Company, of 



this city, is filling a big order of piling to 

 be uso<l in Kansas and Missouri on wldch 

 to build new bridges in place of those de- 

 stroyed by the recent disastrous floods in 

 that section. Mr. Neeley, the secretary 

 of the company, says their yards at Thir- 

 ty-fifth street and the south branch of the 

 river have been completely cleaned out, 

 and the requirement, which, of course, was 

 immediate, has not yet l)een satisfied. 

 They have also been drawing on their 

 "ready to ship" stock at the mills. 



• * * 



Tlie National Traffic Association is the 

 corporate name of what was formerly the 

 Traflic Bureau of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association. The papers were 

 taken out under the laws of the State of 

 Illinois and capitalized at .flO.OOO. Mr. 

 Ilurlbut will continue as the active head 

 of the business, and in addition to the as- 

 sistance of Mr. Crutchfleld, he has secured 

 the services of Mr. J. N. Day. Mr. Day will 

 be remembered by the lumber trade as the 

 very efficient solicitor for the old Foster 

 Lumber .Vgency, and is well qualified to 

 demonstrate the value of the Traffic Asso- 

 ciation to business men. 

 * * * 

 Tiie Theo. Fathauer Company, who have 

 had offices ne.xt door to the Record in the 

 Fort Dearborn Building, have moved same 

 to their yards on Goose Island and are 

 now nicely ensconced in their new quar- 

 ters. Their office building is the one 

 formerly occupied by Itogers & Martin, 

 23.5 Cherry avenue, and the ground lies 

 back of it and skirting the river. They 

 liave S.'O feet of dock frontage and in 

 all about 150,000 square feet, including 

 ample switching facility. Their new tele- 

 phono number is North 907. 



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Frank F. Fish, manager of the subscrip- 

 tion department of the International >rer- 

 cantile .\gency, is in attendance at the Na- 

 tional Credit Men's Association convention 

 in St. Louis this week. 



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AV. S. Sterritt, of the Farrln-Korn Lum- 

 ber Company, Cincinnati, spent a day or 

 so in Chicago last week and favored the 

 Record office with a call. Mr. Sterritt car- 



ries with him a inse containing gum 

 samph-s. showing tin' many kinds of finish 



thai exc-llenl w 1 will take. He reports 



a heavy deimiiiil In both gum and eotloii- 

 wood, \vhl<-h are the pilmlpal products 

 haiiilhii by the Farrlnlvoni l.uiuber Com- 

 pany. 



• » • 



Married.— Arthur Brock Cass to Mailiia 



Leila lladley at Gleiiw 1 Springs, Colo.. 



on .luiie 2. This <i<-<iiirred in spite of the 

 fact that Mr. F. H. Cass, father of the 

 groom, failed to reach the scene of the 

 event. He tried hard enough to get there, 

 but the Kaiisas-.Missouri flood intervened. 

 Tiiiii- and title are no respecters of p<'rsoiis. 



Mr. Arthur B. Cass, the gi-oom. Is the son 

 of F. H. Cass, lumber agent of the C. & 

 E. I. and 'Frisco systems at Chicago. lie 

 has been In the West growing up with the 

 <iiuntry for several years and is now man- 

 ager of llie Boston iV: Colorado Coal Com- 

 pany's store at South Canon. Colo. Tlieir 

 H'gnrd for Mr. Cass was evidenced by a 

 wedding gift of a house and lot. Mrs. 

 Cass halls from Eagle. Colo., of whose 

 charms we cannot speak, but are prepared 

 to say her judgment of men is good. 



After a trip over the mountains, includ- 

 ing Denver and Colorado Springs, the 

 young couple will be at home at Soutli 

 Canon. Colo. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 

 No real change is to be reported in the 

 situation at New York. The lumber yards 

 of the metropolitan district are ail tightly 

 shut, as far as the ability to have lumber 

 delivered at a building operation is con- 

 cerned, and although there have been 

 many rumors, and the end of the troubles 

 appear in sight, still up to the time of 

 writing the expected settlement had not 

 lieeu reached. Columbus could be written 

 about all the negotiations that have taken 

 place, how the wholesalers met, and in 

 elTect and oy resolution said "bravo" to 

 the retailers for llieir stand in resisting the 

 eneroacliments of labor, but lack of space 

 forbids. It is sutficient to say that the 

 United Board of Building Trades begins 

 to recognize tliat it was not a sensible 

 plan touniojiize unskilled labor, when it 

 is in the power of the employers to re- 

 taliate by throwing skilled labor out of 

 employment indefinitely — not out of re- 

 venge, but to show That there is a limit 

 to what they will stand. 

 • * * 

 Recent visitors to the city included 

 Michael S. Bacr, of Richard P. Baer & Co. 

 Baltimore; John R. Cochran, Woodlawn, 

 N, C; Owen M. Brunei-, of Owen M. Bru- 

 ner & Co., Philadelphia; Allen N. .Tack- 

 son, of Pope & Talbot, San Francisco; 

 George G. Barr, of the Tennessee Lumber 

 Manufacturing Company, Pottsville, Pa.; 

 John N. Scatcherd, Buffalo; J. M. Hast- 



