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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Logan & Maphet 

 Lumber Co. 



MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS. 



PINE AND 

 HARDWOOD 



Watch This Space for Stock. 



White Pine. 



30 cars 1 inch log run. 

 2 cars U inch No. 1, 3 and 3 com- 

 mon. 



6 cars 1 inch No. 4 common. 



Yellow Pine. 



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

 2 cars l\ inch No. 3 clear. 



7 cars li inch No. 1 common. 

 10 cars 1 inch log run. 



Poplar. 



2 cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds, width 18 

 inches up. 



1 car l-i inch 1st and 2nds, width i8 



inches up. 



2 cars IJ- inch 1st and 2nds, width 



18 inches up. 

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



to 17 inches. 

 10 cars IJ inch 1st and 2nds, width 



8 to 17 inches. 

 5 cars 1 J inch No. 1 common, in- 

 cluding select. 

 1 car each 1^ 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 sa]>. 

 20 cars 1 inch shii)ping culls. 

 10 cars 1 inch mill cull. 

 1 car each IJ inch and 2 inch ship- 

 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. 



The Man About Town. 



BY C. D. STRODE. 



AT CHATTANOOGA. 



The Read House has been changed from 

 liie American plan to the European plan 

 and Is now run that way. I don't like 

 the American plan. A fellow is liable to 

 overeat. Under the gentle guidance of 

 the waiter (who expects a tip) you order 

 everything on the bill of fare, from soup 

 to nuts. It doesn't cost any more. Then, 

 after you have eaten of it, you don't feel 

 ju?t right. You get anxious over things 

 which should not cause you any anxiety 

 and are generally depressed. To order 

 everything on the bill of fare at the Read 

 House cafe would cost you something like 

 $50, to say nothing of overeating. Ben- 

 jamin Franklin says it is best for a man 

 to get up from the table hungry, and I be- 

 lieve Ben knows. It is a plan I always 

 follow in a European cafe. Thus I am 

 not troubled with indigestion, and I save 

 myself up for such times as somebody 

 buys my lunch. The Read House is now 

 a first-class hotel that would be a credit 

 to any place in the world. It is a credit- 

 able place, but 1 would not have you infer 

 from that that you can get credit there. 

 1 did not try it, for I was afraid it would 



not work. 



* * * 



The first place I started for in Chatta- 

 nooga was the Ferd Brenner Lumber Com- 

 pany, and I did just right. For Ferd has 

 developed into a sort of father-in-law to 

 the lumber trade of Chattanooga. Every- 

 l)ody likes him and he likes everybody 

 and gets along with everybody. Ferd is 

 doing well in Chattanooga and all of his 

 friends throughout the lumber trade are 

 rejoiced thereat. 



I had forgotten how to get to his place, 

 it had been so long since I had been to 

 Chattanooga, so I got on a car that the 

 policeman told me ran close to his office. 

 To make sure I asked the conductor if 

 he went to "Citico Junction," and he said 

 he did. or near there, so I boarded the 

 car in the pouring rain and after a while 

 the conductor rang the bell and told me 

 this was "Citico Junction." "You will 

 have to walk up the road a little ways," 

 he said, and the car pulled out. 



1 failed to see anything that looked like 

 a lumber yard, so I asked a wayfaring 

 man the way to "Citico Junction." 



"You came out on the wrong line," he 

 said, "and if I was you I would go back 

 to town and start over again." 



This was not very encouraging, and I 

 asked him how to go to Citico Junction 

 from there. He said it could be reached 

 by walking about two miles, and I started 

 out. A little ways the sidewalk failed me 

 and I had the two miles to walk through 

 Die i-ain up the middle of the road, which 



had recently been worked, and the red 

 clay mud was very slippery. I went down 

 to my knees and the paper in my pocket 

 fell into a ditch and I Anally arrived at 

 Brenner's office a sorry looking sight. 



SOME CHATTANOOGA CONCERNS. 

 After Brenner had brought me down 

 town to the hotel, I met Mr. Williams, of 

 the Williams & Voris Lumber Company. 

 They have a saw mill here, a very fine 

 plant, and some very fine lumber which 

 they are offering for sale, and Mr^ Will- 

 iams is a mighty fine man. 



After he showed me over his plant 1 

 went up to the yard of the Case Lumber 

 Company. The Case Lumber Company 

 originally owned a very fine saw mill 

 plant at this place, but nearly a year ago 

 they sold it out to the all-prevailing Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company. Then they 

 sold their stock of lumber to the same 

 ubiquitous concern and started a whole- 

 sale yard at this place under the compe- 

 tent management of Mr. Fowler. They 

 have one of the finest equipped wholesale 

 yards in the country, and it is only a 

 question of time when they will be en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of lumber. It 

 is all planked, with elevated tracks, much 

 of it is under shed and they are equipped 

 with a trimmer and edger for making good 

 lumber of all they buy, and they have a 

 fine assortment of lumber on sticks. Mr. 

 Fowler, the manager, is one of the finest 

 men I ever had the i)leasure to meet, and 

 he entertained me royally. I shall not 

 soon forget Mr. Fowler. 

 * * ♦ 



I went out to see what kind of a plant 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company had in 

 Chattanooga and was very favorably im- 

 pressed. I met Mr. Fitzgibbons, who for- 

 merly had charge of the yard at Bedford, 

 Ind., and who now has charge of their 

 plant in Chattanooga, and found him a 

 most pleasant gentleman. The Hugh Mc- 

 Lean Lumber Company have here between 

 three and four million, feet of lumber on 

 sticks, and a lot of as fine logs as I ever 

 saw. 



And thereby hangs the tale. Their yard 

 room for piling logs was somewhat lim- 

 ited, and Mr, Fitzgibbons was put to his 

 wits' end to solve the problem of how to 

 take care of logs, but he solved it. He 

 invented a derrick which is somewhat dif- 

 ferent from any derrick I ever saw. It is 

 moved along the yard on a track and 

 picks up the logs from the car or wagon 

 or ground, turns them all with the small 

 end toward the saw and deposits them on 

 a pile. As a consequence, the logs in 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company's yard 

 arc piled up higher than a house, and that 

 without any trouble or expense. 



