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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



the floors are of hard maple. The building 

 is complete, with high-class passenger ele- 

 vators, mailing chutes, telegraph office and 

 an individual electric lighting plant. It is 

 very largely tenanted by high-class corpo- 

 rations, including several trade newspapers 

 other than the Hardwood Kecord. 



The spacious suite of offices occupied by 

 the Hardwood Record are on the sixth 

 floor, Dearborn street front, and comprise 

 a reception room, editor's sanctum, office 

 of the treasurer and bookkeeper, and sepa- 

 rate rooms for associate editors and stenog- 

 raphers. 



At these offices, members of the lumber 

 trade from home and abroad will be gladly 

 welcomed, and the services of the editor and 

 staff are at their disposal at all times. 



The Present Issue. 



The publishers offer no apologies for the 

 current issue of the Hardwood Record, be- 

 cause we have done the best we could under 

 the conditions. The paper passed into our 

 hands on January 1. On Tuesday, January 

 3, we moved into new offices, which since 

 that time have had to be equipped; furni- 

 ture bought; telephone and electric light 

 service installed; and organization of an 

 office force made. Beside that, it was 

 deemed best to reset the paper, advertise- 

 ments and all; a considerable number of 

 illustrations had to be made; articles had 

 to be written; and the matter generally 

 put together to make the initial number, — 

 all within a very short period. 



Here it is; it is the best we could do un- 

 der the circumstances. 



Subscription Price. 



It has been deemed just that the sub- 

 scription of the Hardwood Record be in- 

 creased to two dollars a year. This has 

 been done because a paper worthy of the 

 industry which it presumes to represent. 



cannot be built for one dollar a year. As 

 a matter of fact, a subscription price of 

 two dollars a year will not even pay for 

 its paper, printing and mailing. It is not 

 intended to take advantage of present 

 or prospective subscribers of the Hard- 

 wood Record without giving them due 

 notice of this advance, and therefore it is 

 announced that new paid-in-advance sub- 

 scriptions will be accepted at one dollar a 

 year up to February 1, 1905, and that all 

 subscribers in arrears may have the privi- 

 lege of paying their subscription to date, 

 and one dollar in advance, thus securing the 

 paper for the year 1905 at one dollar. 

 Advertising Kates. 



Some amendments have been made in llie 

 advertising rates of the Hardwood Recoiid, 

 to make them harmonious and to provide 

 an adequate revenue for conducting the pa- 

 per. These rates will be found equitable 

 and fair, and the prices will vary accord- 

 ing to the desirability of the location of 

 the space employed. 



After due consideration the publishers 

 have thought it wise to take into their con- 

 fidence its advertising clientage, and with 

 tliat end in view, every advertiser is invit- 

 ed to call at this office and receive proof 

 of exactly the circulation for which he is 

 spending his money. The subscription list, 

 paper and printing bills, and postoffice re- 

 ceipts will be at the disposal of any adver- 

 tiser who chooses to review them. In short, 

 it is proposed to publish a trade newspaper 

 where an advertiser is not required to buy 

 a "pig in a poke." He can ascertain at 

 this office exactly the circulation of the 

 paper, the class of clientage, and its value 

 to him as an advertising medium. The 

 Hardwood Record wants your hearty 

 support and will attempt to deserve it. 

 Hardwood Record, 

 Henry H. Gibson, Prest. 



'Builders of Lumber History. 



William M. McCormick. 



The photogravure supplement accompany- 

 ing this number of the Hardwood Record is 

 a portrait of William M. McCormick, of 

 Philadelphia. In the history of this man's 

 career may be found a refutation of the 

 theory which has frequently been sprefid 

 abroad of late, that the times are only for 

 the man under forty. 



Mr. McCormick was born in Lycoming 

 County, Pennsylvania, on a farm, not far 

 from Williamsport, in 1846. He did not 

 make his first start in a business career 

 until he was more than forty years old, 

 when he removed to Philadelphia, secured 

 an office and began business. 



Up to that time he had in his loyal work 

 for others, made himself master of the lum- 

 ber trade. In that best school, — the school 

 of experience — he had studied many years. 

 He was a worker from boyhood and was 

 gradually advanced from one position to 

 another in the lumber industry until he be- 

 came a salesman, — one of the first and one 

 of the best out of the Williamsport coun- 

 try. 



His practical knowledge immediately be- 

 gan to bring him returns, which soon de- 



veloped into large annual profits. At the 

 age of fifty Mr. McCormick was rated as a 

 man of commercial importance. Today he 

 is one of the larger handlers of Pennsylva- 

 nia hemlock, buying the output of several 

 mills each year; and he is president of the 

 Peart, Neilds & McCormick Company, a 

 large North Carolina pine lumber manu- 

 facturing and box shook house. However, 

 his most important enterprise is the Little 

 River Lumber Company, of Tennessee, of 

 which he is also president. The Little River 

 Lumber Company is the owner of approx- 

 imately 100,000 acres of magnificent poplar, 

 oak, chestnut and hemlock timber lands in 

 Blount and Monroe counties, Tennessee, 

 and has a large and finely equipped saw and 

 planing mill at Townsend, on an extension 

 of the Marysville division of the Southern 

 Railway. 



In Mr. McCormick the average man finds 

 either a staunch friend or a worthy foe. 

 His Scotch Irish ancestry has bequeathed 

 to hira a doggedness to remember and the 

 love of a fight for its own sake. Yet with 

 all, he is a man who never permits his per- 

 sonal prejudice to interfere with a just es- 

 timate of a fellow man. An incident illus- 



trates this characteristic. Some years ago 

 Mr. McCormick and Robert B. Wheeler, an- 

 other distinguished hardwood lumberman, 

 constituted a committee of the Philadelphia 

 Lumber Exchange to pass on the eligibility 

 of applicants for membership. One day Mr. 

 Wheeler called Mr. McCormick on the tele- 

 phone with the inquiry, "What do you 

 know about Mr. ?" 



"I know more than is necessary," an- 

 swered Mr. McCormick, and he punctuated 

 his further answer with verbal pyrotechnics 

 of so much force that an electric live wire 

 was mild in comparison. Finally Mr. 



Wheeler succeeded in getting in a word 

 edge-wise, and suggested that he had not 

 made the inquiry in order to suggest a din- 

 ner invitation to the man, or for the pur- 

 pose of selling him lumber, but that he 

 had applied for membership in the local 

 exchange. 



"Oh!" exclaimed McCormick, "that's all 

 right; I'll vote for him." 



To his friends William M. McCormick is 

 known as the kindest hearted of men. His 

 gruff exterior covers a great and broad 

 sympathy, and one can always tell just 

 where to find him. He is a man loved by 

 his friends and admired by his enemies. By 

 some people he is regarded as a "crank." 

 If such an estimate be just, let us have 

 many more like him, — for by cranks the 

 machinery of the world is turned. 



Cincinnati Lumbermen Elect. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club held its 

 regular monthly meeting and dinner at the 

 Stag Cafe, Thursday evening, Jan. 5, the 

 affair having been postponed from Monday 

 evening, Jan. 1, by President Kipp, at the 

 request of the members. The annual election 

 of officers and the admittance of three new 

 members constituted the business of the 

 session. B. A. Kipp, in recognition of ad- 

 mirable service last year, was re-elected 

 President. Other officers were chosen as 

 follows: First Vice President, I. M. Asher; 

 Second Vice President, J. T. McRoberts; 

 Treasurer, B. Bramlage; Secretary, E. J. 

 Thoman. The Ault-Jackson Lumber Com- 

 pany, J. H. Leiding and O. P. Morton were 

 elected to membership. 



The speaker of the evening was Judge O. 

 P. Hurd, of Watkins, N. Y., who is visiting 

 his sons, engaged in the lumber business 

 here. Several impromptu speeches were de- 

 livered. Among those present were: 



B. A. Klpp. G. L. Vatler. 

 O. P. Hurd. B. Bramlage. 



O. P. TTurd, Jr. J. Watt Graham. 



Myron Banning. A. V. Jackson. 



W. A. Bennett. O. P. Morton. 



K B. Groesbeck. G. K. Jones. 



G. A. Shaw. H. W. Brock. 



J. A. Van Orsdel. Ed Maphet. 



J. A. Wehrj-. I- M. Asher. 



Hall Hagemeyer. Al Hcider. 



Chas. P. Hagemeyer. James Buckley. 

 J. S. Hurd. " " " '^ 



A. E. Hart. 

 H. G. Irwin. 

 H. P. 'W^iborg. 

 J. E. Tiithill. 

 P. W. Mowbray. 

 S. W. Richey. 

 R. G. Km.«wiler. 



C. H. Pease. 



J. B. Cochran. 

 Dr. J. B. Cochran. 

 G. O. Worlan. 

 Ijeland G. Banning. 

 C. P. Morse. 

 J. T. McRoberts. 

 E. J. Shannon. 

 George M. Morgan. 



