THE HARDWOOD RECORD 



13 



The Man About Town. 



BY C. D. STRODE. 



GETTING OUT THE PAPER. 



Billy Bennett used to say that it was 

 my custom to ramble around until I could 

 not put off the getting out of the paper 

 any longer, then I would sit down 

 wherever I happened to be — on a log or 

 anywhere — and write up the Hardwood 

 Kecord. Billy was wrong in this. It is 

 more of a job to write up the Hardwood 

 Record than you might think and more of 

 a job now than it used to be. Where 

 tliousands of readers are hanging on what 

 you say, watching to see you trip and 

 writing you long letters about it if you 

 do, you have got to be mighty careful. 

 And on account of being sick in Buffalo 

 one Sunday, which, by the way, is about 

 the only time I devote to writing up the 

 paper, is Sundays, I got down to Cleveland 

 without having any copy sent in, and 

 Kimball was worried, writing and tele- 

 graphing me for copy, but I figured that 

 I still had a day and that in a day a good 

 deal could be done, so 1 went around look- 

 ing up a stenographer and finally got one, 

 and began un.winding myself on paper. 

 There were three pages of "Man About 

 Town" and two or three pages of edi- 

 torials on every subject under the sun 

 and I gave it to her all in a bunch. The ' 

 first three or four pages she did not say 

 anything, but when I began romping away 

 about the glories of autumn, how nice it 

 was to be a humorist, etc., she threw up 

 her hands. Said she had taken for 

 a good many people, but they usually had 

 notes or something to dictate from, and 

 seeing me reel it off without any notes 

 almost caused heart disease. Well, it is 

 not much of anything when you get used 

 to it and she did not know how many mis- 

 takes I made. 1 don't think I made any, 

 but if I did she would not know it. And 

 I got the stuff to the paper and I cannot 

 see but what it was as good as any. 

 Maybe the subscribers noticed the differ- 

 ence, but the entire issue of the Hardwood 

 Record, business situation and all, was 

 written up in a day, without saying any- 

 thing about the stuff I sent in which was 

 unfit for publication, for various reasons. 

 You see, when I am away from the office 

 any length of time, things constantly hap- 

 pen which render the publication of cer- 

 tain things unwise and 1 have to leave 

 Kimball some discretion when I go away. 



THE ADVANCE LUMBER COMPANY. 



Then, the paper being off my mind, 1 

 went first of all to see the Advance Lum- 

 ber Company, and I want to say right here 

 that the Advance Lumber Company of 

 Cleveland is probably the largest hard- 

 wood concern — hardwood did I say? They 

 handle white pine, hemlock and every- 



thing under the sun, in addition to their 

 hardwood. 



At the head of the Advance Lumber 

 Company is Henry C. Christy, one of the 

 big men in the hardwood trade. A mil- 

 lionaire two or three times over. Mr. 

 Christy devotes more time to his business 

 than any employe of the concern, and yet 

 has time to be a most pleasant and agree- 

 able gentleman. He is president of the 

 Advance Lumber Company, vice-president 

 of a bank carrying $12,000,000 deposits, is 

 head of a grocery company and several 

 other concerns of equal importance, and 

 he is no dead weight in any of them. 



He took me around and introduced me 

 to a number of the bright young men he 

 has in his employ. He asked me whom I 

 would like to meet first and I told him the 

 treasurer, if it was just the same. I don't 

 know why, but I always like to know the 

 treasurer, and he introduced me to A. G. 

 Webb. Mr. Webb is a very pleasant man 

 and quite a wealthy, man, and owns a sub- 

 stantial interest in the Advance Lumber 

 Company, and besides being director of 

 three or four banks, he is one of the best 

 informed men I have ever met. and he 

 thinks it would be to the general interest 

 of the trade if Roosevelt should be 

 elected. He and I heartily agreed upon 

 that point, and, in fact, there was no 

 difference whatever. I have noticed that 

 I hardly ever have any difference of 

 opinion with the treasurer of a good sub- 

 stantial company. 



Next I shook hands with W. P. Hilton, 

 manager of what they call their "specialty 

 department." a thorough mechanic and 

 aggressive business man, full of ambition 

 and energy and pushing his department to 

 the front. 



The next man I met was D. C. Phelps. 

 He has charge of the white pine depart- 

 ment, and anyone who knows Mr. 

 Phelps, knows that he is a hustler. 



I also met F. C. Peitch. assistant gen- 

 eral manager, A. S. Bliss, assistant to Mr. 

 Peitch and H. P. Blake, city salesman, all 

 first-class men in their way and nice peo- 

 ple to meet. 



Then I shook hands with E. B. Smith, 

 and he took me down to lunch. Smith is 

 a nice fellow, but he has a hard task. 

 He has charge of the company's freight 

 matters and they feel if he fails to get a 

 claim there is not much use in anybody 

 else trying. Mr. Smith generally takes 

 the opposite side of every argument, I 

 presume from force of habit. He pre- 

 tended to be in favor of the election of 

 Mr. Parker. I guess, though, it was just 

 to bring out the facts in the matter and 

 am confident that if I were a general 

 freight agent and Smith would tell me 



Logan & Naphet 

 Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 



PINE AND 

 HARDWOOD 



Watch This Space for Stock. 



White Pine. 



30 cars 1 inch log run. 

 2 ears IJ inch No. 1, 2 and .■? com- 

 mon. 



6 cars 1 inch No. 4 common. 



Yellow Pine. 



5 cars U inch No. 1 and 2 clear. 

 2 cars U inch No. ?> clear. 



7 cars \\ in^h No. 1 common, 

 10 cars 1 inch log run. 



Poplar. 



2 cars 1 inch 1st and 2uds, widtli 18 

 inches up. 



1 car li inch 1st and 2nds, width '8 



inches up. 



2 cars li inch 1st and 2nds, width 



IS inches up. 

 10 cap; 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 8 



to 17 inches. 

 10 cars IJ inch 1st and 2nds, width 



8 to 17 inches. 

 5 cars li inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 1 car each IJ inch and 2 inch No. 1 

 common, including select. 

 15 cars 1 inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 4 cars 1 inch clear bright sap. 

 20 cars 1 inch shi])ping culls. 

 10 cars 1 inch mill cull. 

 1 car each li inch and 2 inch shi|)- 

 ping cull. 



Mills: Clinton (Band Mill), LaFollette, 

 Pioneer and Turleys, Tenn. 



Office: 105-107 Empire Building 

 KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



Oak 



We have a full line of both quar- 

 tered and plain, Red and white, 

 THOROUGHLY DRY, also some 

 fine wide POPLAR and CHEST- 

 NUT. 



JohnDulweber&Co. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



