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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



A HAN OF FBOGBXSS. 



Till' K<-<<ir<l lakfs pU'iKiurc hi iirom-iil- 

 liiK litTi-wlth It \>r\vt Kkficli of ilif ciiriMT 

 of oiu- of till- iiioMt diUTCjuiful of tin- 

 yoinijior j.'i'ii«Tiitl<>ii of Imnlwoml IiiihIkt- 

 uuMi. Mr. C. I-. AiIUt, foruit-rly ■ of 'I'l 

 cnt;o. l»t«"r "f Lyons. Ky., niiil now of 

 I..>\ilsvill«-. Ky. 



" Mr. AiUcr coiiio.s iirotly ni-arly ln-lim ii 

 striitly iMilniKo prothut. lu- liiivliic Ixt'U 

 l.orn lit Ntw Koilu'llc 111., n .sliort .llsliiiur 

 out of ih.' t;rtiit city. In \St\:,. niid Imvln:; 

 beon I'lhuatod ontirt'ly in tlio CliliiiKo iuil>- 

 llc 81'liools. He pnulniitfU from tlie flii 

 capo liliili school with honor anil ln'iran his 

 Imslni-ss laroiT by cnterliiK the picture 

 frame husluoss wltli his father, wlio was 

 oi>eratins: in a small way. A few years 

 hiter he entered the employ of the Mes- 

 seiiKer Uanlwooil Lumber Tompany oF this 

 city as a b(«>kl;eeper. He rose rapiilly and 

 steadily, until, when he resigned four years 

 later, he was lioldinp the position of man 

 aKcr at abotit as high a salary as a hard- 

 wood lumberman ever drew in Chicago. 



Hut Mr. .\dler had decided that he would 

 rather padiUc his own canoe, even tliougli 

 it was a small one. so he embarked lu the 

 hardwoo<l lumber business in Oiicago un- 

 der the style of C. L. Adler. 



For a time he devoted his attention en- 

 tirely to buying and selling, but as he 

 prospered he entered the manufacturing 

 'field. In a .quiet but surprisingly rapid 

 way his prosperity increased until lie was 

 operating as Adler & Koote at Orleans, 

 lud., and Adler Lumber Company at Lyons. 

 Ky., at botli of which places he owned and 

 openited mills, in addition to his wholesale 

 business in Chicago. 



Later he enlarged his Lyons (Ky.i plant 

 • by putting in a large plint for the manu- 

 facture of oak and paniuetry flooring. Tliis 

 business grew to such dimensions that he 

 closed out his interests at Chicago and 

 Orleans and removed his headquarters to 

 Lyons. Here his prosperity continued, and 

 now he has made another step fonvard. 

 He has purcliased a building in Louisville, 

 which he has gone to work with his ac- 

 customed energy to enlarge and equip witn 

 the most modern machinery for making 

 small organs. Speaking of this deal, the 

 Louisville Courier .Tournal sa}"s: 



The factory at present occuiiied by the 

 Oimnidi F'lu-niturc Manufacturing Com- 

 pany was sold yesterday to C. L. Adler of 

 Cliicago. who will establish in the Imild- 

 ing a large factory for the manufacture 

 of small organs. Two hundred and Hfty 

 men will be employed and about 12.5 fami- 

 lies will be brought to Louisville Iiy tn.- 

 new factor.v. 



The Gimnlch factory Is located at 

 Twenty-ninth and Chestnut streets, and is 

 Sloxri-'iVi feet. It was owned by tlie Third 

 National Bank of Louisville, which made 

 the sale, and was formerly occupied by 

 Bennett Bros, as a furniture factory. 



Mr. Adler. the new purchaser, has been 

 in the city for several days trying to close 

 the deal for the plant. He left last night 

 for Chicago, but before going told some- 

 thing of the new factory. He said: 

 "I have been trying to get a location for 



. ji:i' weekK and liiuilly decldiil to eoiiie to 

 Louisville, hearing of tills factory which 

 could be bought, .\fter some delay the 

 blink yesterday made nie an olTer and I 

 ai'cepled It at once. I asked the lieail of 

 llie liiiiinich coiiipiiny, who is going lo 

 biilld a new factory at Tlilrtylirsi niid 

 .\|iiga/.ine streets, and they wanted sixty 

 fays III wlilc-h to build the new house. 

 I told hliii we iiinsi liave his plact- In 

 thirty days, and he said It was Iniposslbli.' 

 for the liiillillng to be erected III that time. 

 1 told him we would see to it that tlii' 

 building was up In that time, and he at 

 last signed a conlract agreeing to give pos- 

 session in thirty days. We will have the 

 iiuliding up. too, ill that time. 



••Tile factory will manufacture only 

 small organs, and the output will be llfty 

 each day. The entire output is alreaily 

 sold for the first live years lo Sears. Hoe- 

 liui-k & Co., so 1 am not worrying anj- 

 about the selling of what we make.^' 

 Mr. .\dler says the new factory will be 



go Hying iirounil "poping off" Kteniii oeca- 

 Nloiiiilly, and for that reason Mr. .Viller, 

 quiet and self-coiitiillied, would fool you 

 Kur resullH are what count aiid< he Iiiih 

 most substantial results to show. 



Mr. .\dler Is still a young man, being but 

 :i7 years of age, and his future Is full of 

 promise, rersoiially he Is a most likable 

 man and has as many friends as any man 

 In the hardwood trade. •"Cy" Adler Is a 

 universal favorite. 



There Is only one ^>osslble objection lo 

 Cy. and it Is a inatter, too. over which he 

 has control. lie Is not married. On the 

 contrary, he Is single, and uiiIcsk something 

 is done soon we fear he will become an old 

 bachelor. We have reasoned with him on 

 this matter and he has admltteil that he 

 is In tlie wrong, and has promised to take 

 some ste|is In the inatter, but be never has 



CVKIS I.. ADLICU. LuUlSVll.l.i;, Ki. 



a large one and that the present building 

 will be largely improved and changed. He 

 said they would begin work williin thirty 

 days, and that shortly after that they 

 would be manufacturing org.ins at a rapid 

 rate. 



.Mr. Adler is a difiicult man to account 

 for. To meet him as a stranger and spend 

 an lionr or tw.o in his company you would 

 get tlie impression that lie was a philcso- 

 pher ratlier than a Imsincss man. You 

 would liiid that he has thought deeply and 

 to good effect on almost all subjects, that 

 he has rend extensivel.v and with good 

 judgment, and that he has original ideas 

 and strong convictions based on sound 

 logic, you wmild find him pleasant, humor- 

 ous and well informed, with apparently 

 an aliundance of leisure, and on leaving 

 liim would express tlie belief that he was 

 a gentleman and a scholar — but you would 

 not guess that he was a remarkably suc- 

 cessful business man. One usually ex- 

 pects a successful young business man to 



NEW NAME TO AN OLD HOUSE. 



S. r.ui'kholder Lumber Company is the 

 new name of an old linn in the liardwoiMl 

 trade. Most any and everybody that has 

 to do with the liuying or selling of hard- 

 woods will have no ilifliculty in naming 

 its predecessor. Mr. Burkiiolder was for 

 so long a time the chief ami active liead 

 of tlie ,1. r. Walter Lumber Coiiipany of 

 Cr.idfordsville, Ind., that the two iiiimes 

 became sort of intercliangeable. .-ind It 

 seems now only a step from the old name 

 to the new. .Mr. Walter's death a little 

 more than a year ago made It necessary 

 to wind uj) the business, whidi lias linally 

 been accomplislied. In the meantime .Mr. 

 Burkiiolder succeeded In arranging satis- 

 factorily to all couecrne<l for the continua- 

 tion of the business, and while closing up 

 the alTaii"s of the old concern directed his 

 efforts along the same lines for the bene- 

 lit of the new institution. There will con- 

 se(iuentl.v be no diasm in the business 

 ihroiigh tlie change of name. 



MB. LEWIS IN A BIG DEAL. 



II. 1!. Lewis, who was succeeded by E. 

 G. Bust in the management of the KIk 

 Ua|)iils Iron Company, Klk Bapids. .Mich.. 

 as announced in Ir.st issue of the Ueconl. 

 resigned that position after a service of 

 twenty-one years, to take charge of the 

 Cuba Products Compan.v, which has re- 

 centl.v been organized with a capital stock 

 of ¥:!00,0<»fl, to Inniher and improve .StMKMi 

 acres of timber and gi'azing land in San- 

 tiago province. The land is eight.v miles 

 from .Santiago, which is traversed liy the 

 Van Horn Bailway System. A station will 

 be located at some central jioiiit on tiic 

 land, which will be named Lewiston. in 

 honor of the manager of the business. The 

 products of the compaay. as is announced, 

 will include nearl.v everything, but tlie 

 ]iioneer work will be the lumbering and 

 clearing of the lands. It is an expansive 

 proposition and more to lie said aliout it 

 will be left for a future i.ssue. Mr. Lewis 

 resides at Ypsilanti. Mich., for the pres- 

 ent 



