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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Logan & Maphet 

 Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 



PINE AND 

 HARDWOOD 



Watch This Space for Stock. 



White Pine. 



.% cars 1 inch log run. 

 2 cars H inch No. 1, 2 anJ H com- 

 mon.' 



6 cars 1 inch No. 4 common. 



Yellow Pine. 



.5 cars H inch No. 1 and 2 clear. 

 2 cars li inch No. .3 clear. 



7 cars 1^ in'-h No. 1 common. 

 10 cars 1 inch log run. 



Poplar. 



2 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds width 18 

 inches up. 



1 car H inch 1st and 2nds width 'S 



inches up. 



2 cars IJ inch 1st and 2nds, width 



IS inches up. 

 10 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 8 



to 17 inches. 

 10 cars li inch 1st and 2nds, width 



8 to 17 inches. 

 5 cars IJ inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 1 car each 1^ inch and 2 inch No. 1 

 common, including select, 

 l.'i cars 1 inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 4 cars 1 inch clear bright s'p. 

 20 cars 1 inch shijiping cujls. 

 10 cars 1 inch mill cull. 

 1 car each H inch and 2 inch sliip- 

 |iing cull. 



Mills: Clinton (Band Mill), La Follette, 

 Pioneer and Turleys. Tenn. 



Office: WS-107 Empire Building 

 KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



Oak 



We have a full line of both quar- 

 tered and plain, Red and white, 

 THOROUGHLY DRY, also some 

 fin© wide POPLAR and CHEST- 

 NUT. 



JohnDulweber&Co. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Man About Town. 



BY C. D. STRODE. 



OFF FOR DETBOIT. 



1 concluded to £■) to Detroit and there 

 was no doing anything with me. Several 

 of my friends tried to persuade me not to 

 go, but it was useless to reason with me. 

 I said no, that I was going, and I am glad 

 I went. 



It is the hlamedest town for a place to 

 eat and save your money. You go along 

 the street and drop in most anywhere and 

 you can get a meal for 10 cents to $5; that 

 is, I tried the 10 cent kind and have good 

 evidence of the $5 kind. Pretty nearly 

 every other store is a place to eat, and the 

 place between is a savings bank. You 

 can spend all the money you want for 

 things to eat, and if you have any left, you 

 can put it in a savings bank. 



For sure Detroit is a nice place. Thomas 

 Forman has a plant there. This is the 

 same Tom Forman that used to be at Pe- 

 toskey. Mich., and of whom I have fre- 

 quently written. He was burned out in 

 Petoskey, and has since erected a plant in 

 Detroit, and 1 want to tell you about that 

 plant, but first 1 will tell you how to get 

 out there. Don't believe anything a po- 

 liceman or street car conductor tells you; 

 if you do you will go c|ear wrong and 

 never get there in the world, as 1 came 

 prolty near not doing. 



I will give you my experience in get- 

 ting out to Mr. Forman's plant, so that 

 if you go to Detroit, and 1 hope you may. 

 yoi! will know what not to do in order to 

 get out to Mr. Forman's plant. 



In the first place you don't want to get 

 on just any old street car. The city directory 

 says that the plant is at the crossing of 

 the car line with the Pere Marquette Rail- 

 way. I got on a car that the policeman 

 aiul a street car conductor told me crossed 

 the Pere Marquette Railroad, and the con- 

 ductor put me off at the depot, which is 

 only three or four blocks out, and I wan- 

 dered around lor two hours trying to find 

 the plant, until at last a man with gray 

 whiskers and wearing a Grand Army but- 

 ton put me next to the fact that 1 was 

 entirely off my beat anfl that Thomas For- 

 man's i)laat was clear at the end of the 



line. 



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When I got out to Thomas Forman's 

 l)Iant, however, I forgot all my troubles. 

 He has an excellent, up-to-date plant, to 

 which he has devoted a great deal of time 

 and thought, and believes he can produce 

 iiuiple flooring of the very best quality at 

 ibc lowest possible price. 



After all is said and done, that is all 

 there is to any business. That a man may 

 produce an article at a lower cost than 

 the next; that is, that is all to the manu- 



facturing business. To this end Mr. For- 

 man has turned all of his remarkable in- 

 telligence. To this end he has devoted all 

 his energy, and I believe he has succeeded. 

 One who sees his plant would think so. 



It was believed for awhile that the trusts 

 would throttle competition, but as I have 

 said before, they carry their own remedy 

 with them, and they cannot compete with 

 well-directed Individual effort. It is, of 

 course, a beautiful idea that they will con- 

 trol the production in a certain line and 

 boost prices to a remunerative point, but 

 there is so much money in this country 

 and so much energj' and ability of the 

 Thomas Forman variety, which can always 

 command capital which will enter into ac- 

 tive competition with the trusts, for them 

 ever to completely control anything. There 

 is nothing that will take the place of the 

 active personal supervision of such a man 

 as Thomas Forman. Money won't hire it 

 and it is half the battle. 



Among the lumbermen of Detroit I was 

 extended the glad hand. Stillwell & Co., 

 E. W. Leech, Leech, Roach & Co., Brown- 

 lee & Co., McClure Lumber Co., I found 

 very pleasant gentlemen and altogether I 

 was very glad 1 went to Detroit. 

 AT BUFFALO. 



And I got sick at Huffalo. It is strange 

 that a man such as 1 am, having the duties 

 to perform that I have, should waste time 

 being sick. I couldn't realize it for awhile. 

 I hadn't been sick before since 1 can re- 

 member, and to be actually sick, lying 

 prone on my back, and having to depend 

 on somebody else to wait on mo was cer- 

 tainly a new experience. 



It wasn't very pleasant. 1 don't like to 

 be sick. People were all very kind to me, 

 and I want to especially mention in that 

 category Taylor & Crate, Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, Frank Vetter and Char- 

 lie Stanton; especially Charlie Stanton. 

 The rest of the boys offered to do any- 

 thing and asked me to call on them if 

 there was anything they could do, which 

 there wasn't, and Charlie Stanton took me 

 out driving Sunday through all the sub- 

 urbs of Buffalo and gave me companion- 

 ship, which was what I needed. 



THE DRIVE THROUGH BAFFALO. 



1 never enjoyed a drive more in my life. 

 It was an ideal day. Charlie has got a 

 goon horse and we had a good time. 



Charlie confided to me that it was the 

 be.'-t horse in Buffalo, but some men are 

 like that: if they own anything, from a 

 ride to a mowing machine, it is the best 

 one of the kind there is. They are honest, 

 too, and believe just what they tell you, 

 but Charlie has got a .good horse, in spite 

 of being that kind of a man. If Charlie 



