HARDWOOD RECORD 



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C. H. Hacitlet;^ an Appreciation. 



Muskegon's most honored and philanthropic 

 citizen, Charles Henry Hackley, died suddenly 

 on Friday. Feb. 10, and was buried on Feb. 14 

 from his late residence in that city. 



" Muskegon has again gone back to Its busy 

 workaday life, but wherever two or three are 

 gathered together, whether they be the young, 

 vigorous boys and girls nf its high school, the 

 patrons of its beautiful library, the earnest 

 students of its training school, the convalescents 

 of its hospital or the unfortunate ones whose 

 lives are made easier at its Home for the Friend 

 less, you will hear the name of Charles H. Hack 

 ley spoken with accents of deepest grief. 



It Is easy for the multi-millionaire to give, but 

 to give wisely and unostentatiously is seldom 

 compassed by the man of money. Charles H 

 Hackley solved this problem better, perhaps, 

 than any other American citizen ; true, others 

 have given more, but usually they have so 

 planned that their names shall be enriched quite 

 as much as the philanthropic schemes they have 

 endowed. 



LATK CHARLES H. HACKLEY. 



Like the majority of lumbermen of great 

 wealth. Mr. Hackley began life in poverty, and 

 in 1856, at the age of nineteen, he arrived at 

 Muskegon with only $7. Here he started to 

 work immediately at the first thing that came 

 to his hand, which proved, in his case, to he 

 common labor in the mill of Durkee. Truesdell 

 & Co. This was his entrance into the lumber 

 business, which he always honored by fair deal- 

 ing and just endeavor. His connection with 

 the hardwood trade was with the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Ronnell Company of Grand Rapids, with 

 mills and timber at Hackley. Wis. Although in 



later years, a man of affairs, yet through the 

 long noviciate of his early life and hard work, 

 Mr, Hackley never forgot the people or the place 

 uf his adoption, and when in 1888 Muskegon 

 was surprised with the gift of $100,000 for a 

 beautiful library, it was only the first step in 

 his matured plan of helping his fellow men. 



Many wealthy men have given libraries to 

 their native or other cities, but Charles Hackley 

 did more ; through his generosity to Muskegon 

 when the high school w^s burned and his gift 

 and endowment of the manual training school 

 and gymnasium, he prepared the coming gener- 

 ations to get the most from the 42,100 volumes 

 he had placed within their reach. The beautiful 

 Hackley square with its statues of Lincoln, 

 Crant. Sherman. Farragut, Kearney and McKln- 

 ley is not only an ornament to the city but is 

 a lesson in patriotism to every man, woman and 

 child who passes through its winding paths. The 

 magnificent training school is a fitting memento 

 of a man who has put his thought into deeds. 

 Mr. Hackley learned early in life thaX honest 

 work with the hands guided by an earnest and 

 well directed brain is the best heritage that can 

 be given to man. Five hundred students In the 

 Hackley Manual Training School acknowledge 

 this 'gift with heartfelt gratitude. Although a 

 strong and vigorous man. almost to the day of 

 his death, Mr. Hackley had great sympathy for 

 the sick and distressed and in the endowed 

 Hackley hospital t<iday many a poor mortal 

 stops his groans long enough to whisper a prayer 

 of thanksgiving that the city has known a man 

 of great compassion. And in the Hiome of the 

 Friendless there are many tears for the man 

 who proved the name of their beautiful 

 home a misnomer, for he was Indeed a friend 

 to all within Its walls. 



Although the value in dollars and cents of 

 Charles H. Hackley's benefactions is much, yet 

 the real value lies in the way they have been 

 given. There is not one person In the Michigan 

 town, whether rich nr poor, who has not en- 

 joyed the boundless charity of this truly great 

 man just passed away. It was not the charity 

 which flings gold at' you with lavish hand and 

 face turned aside, when you ask for a "cup of 

 cold water." but rather the charity which means 

 love, sympathy and real friendline.ss. 



Mr. Hackley was a particularly modest man 

 and he refused many political and municipal 

 honors, but at the earnest solicitation of hi? 

 friends, he did at last consent to have his por- 

 trait painted by the famous French artist Char 

 train, who made a trip to Muskegon for that 

 purpose, at the time he was in this country 

 painting President Roosevelt. The half-tone pub- 

 lished today in the Hardwood Record is from 

 this portrait, which hangs in the art gallery 

 of the Hackley library at Muskegon. Mr. Hack- 

 ley leaves a wife and an adopted son and daugh- 

 ter to mourn his loss, but all Muskegon grieves 

 with them, and the lumber fraternity has lost 

 one of its most distinguished and honorable ex- 

 ponents. 



Association NeWs. 



Memphis Lumbermen's Club Aftennath. 



The following gentlemen attercled the ban- 

 quet of the Lumbermen 's Club of Memphis, 

 held Feb. 8 at the Gayoso hotel, Memphis, 

 of which a partial report was given in the 

 Feb. 10 issue of the Hardwood Record: 



Theodore L. Schneider, Chicago ; J, T. Mc 

 Roberts, Cincinnati ; Berton E. Kile. Providence. 

 E. I. ; Joseph B. Cabell, A. Dircks. Union City, 

 Tenn. ; W. H. Greble, Elliott Lang. W. A. Ben- 

 nett, Earl Palmer, Paducah, Ky. : C. D. Strode. 

 Chicago: John K. Williams, 'New Orleans: A. 



M. Love. Leiand, Miss. : J. V. Stimson .nnd H. 

 Stimson. ITimtingburg, Ind. : Ralph Gilchrist, 

 Alpena. Mich. ; R. Sondheimer, Cairo, 111. ; Arno 

 Spaltcholy, St. Louis : Ed O. McConnell, St. 

 Joseph. Mo. : H. J. McCausland, Chicago : W. A. 

 Gilchrist. Chicago, and Donald Mann. F. E. 

 Gary. James E. Stark, Lee Pescia, C. W. 

 Holmes, S. R. Corhitt. H. B. Anderson, S. B. 

 Anderson, Fred Zupke, John W. McCIure. George 

 L." Smith, O. K. Palmer. H. B. Sweet, F. A. 

 Conkling, F. E. Stonebraker. W. S. Bragg, George 

 C. Ehemann. T. B. Edgington. R. J. Darnell, W. 

 R. Barksdale. P. S. Smlthwlck, W. S. King. 

 George D. Burgess. G. T. Fitzhugh, John A. 



Scott, E. W. Fcrd, E. E, Goodlander, W. E, 

 Smith, Robert J. Wiggs, W. L. Crenshaw, E. E. 

 Taenzer. J. II. Mallory, P. Pidgeon, Benton 

 Kraughton. M R. Grace, H. M. Rodgers, W. A. 

 Dolph. L. i: Arthur, A. L. Foster, George W. 

 Fooshe. J. B. Turner, J. G. Gaither, J. S. Morris. 

 John W. Bailey. C. L. Wbeeler. William M. Ken- 

 nedy, John Dwyer, C. C Cameron, M. it. Perking 

 and C. F. Gardiner of Memphis. 



The regular list of speakers and the sub- 

 jects which were assigned to them is here 

 given : 



G, T. Fitzhugh: "Log-Bun Lawyers." 



S. B, Anderson, retiring president Lum- 

 bermen's Club: "The Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis." 



Joe E. Williams, editor Lumber Trade 

 Journal, New Orleans, La.: A subject of 

 his own dioice. 



Earl Palmer, president National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association : ' ' The National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. ' ' 



It. .1. DAK.NELI. (IF MEMPHIS. 



John W. Bailey : ' ' Progress. ' ' 



C. D. Strode, H.\rd\vood Becord, Chicago, 

 111,: "How to Run a Lumber Business." 



Col. I. F. Peters, commissioner Industrial 

 League: "The Woodworker a Prime Fac- 

 tor in the Growth and Development of 

 Memphis. ' ' 



John Dwyer, A. G, F. A, I, C. B. E.: 

 "Any Old Thing and Every Old Thing." 



Elliott Lang, secretary National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association: "The Export Situa- 

 tion." 



W. A. Bennett : ' ' My Experience in Man- 

 ufacturing Lumber," 



George D. Burgess: "My Travels in Eu- 

 rope, ' ' 



Other .sijcakers were George B. Stimson, 

 president of the Indiana Hardwood Lumber- 

 man's Association, E. E. Goodlander and M, 

 D. Perkins. Each of these were well re- 

 ceived. 



C. C. Cameron, general freight agent of 

 the Illinois Central Railroad, was also called 

 upon. 



