THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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friend of the Hardwood Reooed, sent me a 

 mighty pretty lithograph with a calendar 

 hitchefl to the tail of it, shovring a charm- 

 ing little girl watching her tiny brother, who 

 "was attempting to locate the Russian army in 

 Manchuria on the surface of a large globe. 

 Mr. Tuttle 's wife came in and appropriated 

 that to take home to her little boy. Of course 

 I couldn't tell her no, and it wouldn't have 

 <<one any good if I had. 



And so on with the whole list of fancy 

 «alendars, and I have been reduced in order 

 to be able to locate the day of the week, 

 month and year to a great big-figvired ordi- 

 nary piece of printed work that was sent me 

 by the Exploits River Lumber & Pulp Com- 

 pany of BotwoodviUe, N. F. I have simply 

 «piked this one on the wall and am going to 

 keep it. 



'I am teUing this story not to illustrate the 

 beauties of the calendars, but to try to preach 

 a sermon to the buyers of these things. For 

 "the lumbermen possibly a sensible, plain 

 calendar, bearing the name of the sender 

 or bearing a picture illustrative of some phase 

 of the business may be a profitable investment, 

 as it may by chance, hang on the ofSce walls 

 of some lumberman for some months. But 

 the average fancy calendar as an advertising 

 medium is worth about as much as talking 



into a graphophone and then smashing the 

 wax cylinder. It is money spent and thrown 

 away. There are lots of advertising schemes, 

 not throwing any bouquets at the H.i.RDWOOD 

 Record, which beat the calendar proposition 

 to a finish. Henry H. Gibson. 



New Chicago Hardwood House. 

 The Payson Smith Lumber Company is the 

 name of a newcomer in the Chicago wholesale 

 lumber market. The office headquarters selected 

 for this Arm are suite 1404 In the Fisher build- 

 ing, the modern office structure on the northeast 

 corner of Dearborn and Van Buren streets. E. 

 I'ayson Smith is the manager of this enterprise, 

 and comes here from Minneapolis, where he has 

 been in the hardwood business for some years. 

 Mr. Smith is the son of E. P. Smith, the well- 

 remembered pioneer lumberman and wooden 

 pump manufacturer of Nashville, now deceased. 

 He was associated with hia father in lumber 

 enterprises for some years at Nashville. Thp 

 elder Smith retired from business in 1893. At 

 that time the son removed to Minneapolis and 

 became associated with a banking house there. 

 He again re-entered the lumber business at 

 Minneapolis in 1898, devoting a large portion 

 of his time to the handling of southern hard- 

 woods, but incidentally has been a considerable 

 factor in the northern product. His business 

 at Minneapolis has been successful, and it is 

 with a view to being nearer both the center 

 of production and of distribution that he has 

 removed to Chicago, where he expects to ma- 

 terially widen his field of operations. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



A New Liimber Buyer. 



One of the larger consumers of hardwood lum- 

 1>er in the United States is the Brunswick-Balke- 

 Collender Company, whose principal office is at 

 283 Wabash avenue, Chicago. This company has 

 an immense factory at Sedgwick and Huron 

 streets in this city in which 2,000 people are 

 employed in the manufacturing of billiard and 



white and red oak, elm, ash, birch, poplar, ma- 

 hogany and yellow pine. 



The recently appointed lumber buyer of this 

 company is Theodore Schneider. Mr. Schneider, 

 while a young man, has had a wide range of 

 hardwood experience. He was first employed 

 by the Engel Lumber Company of Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich., and three years ago entered the serv- 

 ice of the Kelly Lumber & Shingle Company of 

 Traverse City. Mich., of which house he has 

 since been chief salesman. He now takes over 

 the great lumber purchasing department of the 

 Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, and It is 

 prophesied that he will make as good a record 

 in that capacity as he has heretofore made as a 

 salesman. 



National WTiolesale Lumber Dealers' An- 

 nual. 



The annual meeting of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, which takes place 

 on March 1 and 2, at the Hotel Bellevue-Strat- 

 ford, Philadelphia, promises to be one of the 

 most important conventions ever held by this as- 

 sociation. The attendance will probably he 

 larger than ever before In its history. Arrange- 

 ments have been made with the railroads for re- 

 duced rates on the certificate plan, which gives 

 a rate of a fare and a third one way, for the 

 round trip. Attending this convention means a 

 very easy means of also covering the inaugura- 

 tion ceremonies at Washington on March 4. 



THEODORE SCHNEIDER. 



"pool tables, bar fixtures, bowling alleys and in- 

 terior finish. The company also has factories 

 In New York City and Cincinnati, and Is now 

 engaged in building another factory at Toronto, 

 Ont The concern uses approximately 25,000,000 

 fee* of lumber annually. Its demands include 



New Pittsburg Hardwood Company. 



On Jan. 10, at Pittsburg, Pa., there was or- 

 ganized the Linehan Lumber Company, the 

 principals of which are Joseph J. Linehan and 

 J. C. Linehan. The company will not only be 

 wholesaler of har<3woods. but will also handle 

 spruce, hemlock and yellow pine. 



Both the gentlemen named have been formerly 

 associated with the Cherr.v River Boom & Lum- 

 ber Company as salesmen. Joseph J, Linehan 



having been western sales manager of that com- 

 pany. The Linehan Lumber Company takes 

 over the former office of the Cherr.v River Boom 

 & Lumber Company in the Farmers' Bank build- 

 ing, at Pittsburg as its office headquarters. 

 Joseph J. Linehan had his first lumber ex- 



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perience down in the West Virginia central hard- 

 wood region, and in 1901 entered the employ of 

 Willson Brothers of Pittsburg, where he re- 

 mained for one year. In 1902 he took charge 

 of the western Pennsylvania and other business 

 as far as the Chicago territory for the Cherry 

 River Boom & Lumber Company, in which capa- 

 city he was eminently successful. 



J. C. Linehan has also made a good record 

 as a salesman, and together the two brothers 

 should make a strong team and command the 

 confidence of both the hardwood lumber pro- 

 ducing and consuming public. 



A Prosperous House. 



The King & Barrels Lumber Company of 

 Cleveland, though a comparatively new concern, 

 is meeting with a full measure of success in the 

 manufacture and jobbing of hardwoods. The 

 president of this company is Charles Bartels, 

 and the secretary is John C. King. In addition 

 to its main office at Cleveland the company nas 

 a branch sales office at Rockford. 111., in charge 

 of W. C. King. 



The King & Bartels Company has just con- 

 tracted to stock the mill of L. A. Rose at 

 Aniwa, Wis., with 3,000.000 feet of elm, birch, 

 ash and basswood logs, which will be manu- 

 factured to its order. It also has a contract 

 for the output of the Lemke & Nickel mill near 

 Merrill, which will give it nearl.v 3,000,000 feet 

 additional northern hardwoods for the coming 

 year. The company also has sources of supply 

 for southern hardwoods at McMinnville, Tenn.. 

 Cairo, 111., and Kennett, Mo. 



Handsome Tally Book. 



The Ross Lumber Company of Ja'-nnstown. N. 

 v., has very kindly sent the HinuwOND Record 

 a beautifull.v bcimd morocco covered tally book, 

 which is a specimen of the New Year gift it has 

 bestowed upon its customers. It is a very 

 handsome and timely gift. This company is one 

 of the best known hardwood concerns in the 

 country, and makes a specialt.v of cherry and 

 birch, and is notably one of the largest cherry 

 handlers in the t'nitcd States. The stock list 

 with which this company accompanies its gift, 

 shows a very complete line of cherry, including 

 a small ' ' " ''m-- . uriy stock, basswocd. maple. 



