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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



E. E. Taenzer & Co. 



(Incorporated) 



MANUFACTURERS 

 AND DEALERS 



— HIQH-QRADE — 



Hardwood Lumber 



Band Sawn Thin Stock 

 a Specialty 



MAIN OFFICE AND MILL : 

 Florida Ave. and Y. & M. V. R. R. 



MEMPHIS, 



TENN. 



ALSO MILL AT SHORT BEND. ARK. 



WANTED. 



We are in the market for 

 the following lumber, must be 

 in good dry condition, and if 

 can furnish any or all, please 

 quote us f. o. b. cars shipping 

 point, describing stock, and 

 how soon same can be 

 reached. 



10 to 20 cars 1 In. 1st and 2nd Plain White 

 Oak. 



2 cars 1^ In Island 2nd Plain Whi'e Oak. 



1 car I'i in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oak. 



3 cars lU in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oak. 



2 cars 2 in Island 2nd Plain White dak. 

 1 car 214 In. Ist and 2nd Plain While Oak. 

 5 cars 3 In. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oak. 

 1 car 4 in. Ist and 2nd Plain White oak. 



The ab-^ve stock must be well manufact- 

 ured, equalized trimmed lengths. Prefer 

 band sawn s ock. Could lake 15^t to259o of 

 good Common with same. 



We are also In the market (or the following: 

 10 cars 1 in. Common Plain White Oak. 



5 to 10 cars 1 in Island 2nd Plain Red Oak. 

 10 cars 1 in. Common Plain Red Oak. 



FOR SALE. 



2 cars 1 ta. 1st and 2nd Quartered Red Oak. 

 2 cars 1 in. Common Quartered Red Oak. 

 1 car 1 In x 10 in. and up 1st and 2nd 



Plain Red Oak. 

 Icar l}i In. x 10 In. and up 1st and 2d Ash. 

 Vicar l!i In. x 10 In. and up 1st and 2nd Ash 

 1 car l;< In. X 12 In. and up 1st and 2nd Red 



Gum (iwo years old). 

 1 car 2 In. X 6 In. and up 1st and 2nd Red 



Gum (3 to 4 months old). 

 10 cars 1 In. Gum Ciating lumber, can ship 



rough or d, 2 s. 



3,000.000 ft. 1 in. Poplar. 

 ISi. IVsand 2 in. bang up stock, all grades 

 and good lengths. 



E.E.TAENZER & CO. 



(Incorporated) 



MEMPHIS 



push. The people of the South are now 

 chasing the almighty dollar as hard as 

 any of us. The people of the Old South 

 didn't have to chase the almighty dollar. 

 It came to them, and in the new order of 

 things Louisville is well up to the front. 

 Why, when I first went to Louisville four 

 or five years ago there were some signs 

 of an awakening, but the mule still pulled 

 the street cars through the streets. Now 

 they have given place to electric ears and 

 Louisville has as fine a street-car service 

 as any in the world. 



* * « 



When I left Seelbach Hotel the first 

 morning a one-armed man came up to me 

 and, pushing the stump of his arm in 

 my face, tried to sell me some shoestrings. 

 It's all right for one-armed men to try to 

 sell shoestrings — better him than a two- 

 armed man, but you can beat that. 



Now, Cy Adler of the Adler Organ Com- 

 pany is a one-armed man, and he has 

 beat it all to pieces. Cy Adler began 

 life not many years ago as bookkeeper 

 for the Messenger Hardwood Company at 

 a very small salary. Inside of four years 

 they were paying him four thousand dol- 

 lars a year. That beats selling shoe- 

 strings. And he quit the job to go in busi- 

 ness for himself. He had a little bunch 

 of money, and would go out and buy a 

 few car loads of lumber, inspect it, and 

 load it up and pay for it. Then he would 

 board the train for Chicago and beat the 

 lumber in and have it sold by the time it 

 arrived. Then he would have to collect 

 the money, and replenish his capital be- 

 fore he could make another trip. He did 

 well at it, and never regrets having given 

 up his four-thousand-dollar position. That 

 beats selling shoestrings. From there he 

 has constantly advanced. He bought a 

 .saw mill in Indiana, in connection with 

 Mr. Foote. From there he went to Lyons, 

 Ky., where he established a plant for 

 making parquetry flooring. As the next 

 step he went to Louisville and established 

 the Adler Organ Company, and it is now 

 one of the largest manufacturers of organs 

 in the world. We have known Cy and 

 watched his progress throughout. He 

 used to have an otBce adjoining the 

 Record office in Chicago, and prosperity 

 has not swelled his head any. I spent a 

 day visiting with Cy and talking over old 

 time.s. He showed me through the organ 

 works, where forty completed organs are 

 turned out daily, and additions are being 

 built which, when completed, will enable 

 them to produce si.\ty-five organs a day. 

 And they are contemplating going into the 

 manufacture of pianos also. Being the 

 head of such a concern beats selling shoe- 

 strings. 



Then I went around and visited all of 

 the Louisville people and found them all 

 doing well. Mr. Edward F, Davis ordered 

 in, while I was in his office, one car for 

 New York and another for Los Angeles, 

 Cal., and intends to try the coming year 



to do his share of the business between 

 those two points, and the other boys are 

 doing well. And Louisville is rapidly com- 

 ing to the front as a lumber market. 



IN NEW ALBANY AND PRINCETON. 



When I was a young man I had some 

 splendid opportunities. In fact, I had all 

 there was. The whole world was before 

 me from which to choose. I was un- 

 hampered by money or relatives and 

 could do whatever I wanted to do. A 

 young man wants no better opportunity 

 than that. I am not kicking about lack of 

 opportunity in any case. I had all there 

 was. I thought some of going on the 

 stage. I can look like Napoleon crossing 

 the Alps, by turning my hat sideways, 

 advancing one foot, folding my arms and 

 frowning portentiously. It was surprising 

 how much I would look like Napoleon 

 crossing the Alps. Especially when I was 

 a young man before I grew my mustache. 

 And Washington crossing the Delaware is 

 much the same. You have to elevate your 

 foot a little higher, set it on a box or 

 something, for Washington had his foot in 

 the stern of the boat. Then the ex- 

 pression on his countenance wants to be 

 calm and serene and slightly sorrowful, 

 as becomes the father of a young and 

 prosperous co.untry; and I can look sor- 

 rowful. With such an equipment, I am 

 certain I should have made a hit on the 

 stage. However, I decided to be the presi- 

 dent of the United States, and here I am, 

 slightly disfigured, but still in the ring. 

 * * * 

 All of this is suggested by a trip to 

 A. B. Nickey & Son at Princeton, Ind. 

 Mr. Nickey is a man that I delight to 

 honor. He is one of the old-timers in the 

 hardwood trade. In fact, he divides with 

 Henry Maley the honor of being the father 

 of the hardwood business. He is over 

 sixty years old, but has all the vim and 

 vigor of a man of forty. He showed 

 me over his plant, where in spite of his 

 having a good trade on his low-grade 

 stock from the farmers around about, he 

 has on hand, in connection with his stock 

 at Huntingburg and New Albany, about 

 six million feet of high-grade stock, prin- 

 cipally quartered oak. 



As a result of his sixty years in the 

 hardwood business Mr. Nickey has at- 

 tained to great prosperity. He has saw 

 mills and farms galore. All as the result 

 of hard work and good management. 



I have seen a good many dead men in 

 my time, but never one whom I thought 

 had worked himself to death. Hard work 

 don't hurt anybody. It certainly has 

 not hurt Mr. Nickey, and he works as 

 hard as ever, and has no intention of re- 

 tiring. He is talking of opening up a 

 mill in Memphis, where he has a fine body 

 of oak timber, and he expects to work 

 until he dies. "I expect to die in the 

 harness," he said, "blow up with the saw 

 mill, or something of the kind." 

 "The bane of a man's lite in the saw 



