HARDWOOD RECORD 



WILLIAM DRUHE. 

 President Druhe Hardwood Lumber Co. 



the hardwoods, including the fancy woods, 

 are handled, and large storage yards are 

 operated in St. Louis. Poplar and cypress 

 are probably given more attention than the 

 other TvoodSj but the immense business of the 

 concern requires the carrying of a large and 

 well-assorted stock. Much lumber is also 

 carried by this concern at points of produc- 

 tion, and, where possible, shipments are made 

 direct to points of consumption. Mr. Hib- 

 bard has served three consecutive terms as 

 president of the Lumbermen's Exchange. 



Concerning W. A. Bonsack of the Bon- 

 sack Lumber Company it can be stated that 

 he is a lumberman by heredity, his business 

 being really a continuation along different 

 lines of that of his father, which was es- 

 tablished a number of years ago. This com- 

 pany makes more or less of a specialty of the 

 various oak items, but also carries a large 

 assortment of other woods. The St. Louis 

 yards are capacious and always well stocked 

 with dry lumber. 



R. M. Fry of the E. M. Fry Lumber 

 Company was the first president of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange and has served twice 

 during the intermediate stages of its exis- 

 tence. A number of years ago his business 

 was conducted under the name of the Clark- 

 son-Christopher Lumber Company, and he 

 has always been more or less identified with 

 the hardwood lumber interests of St. Louis. 

 Way back in the early days of railroad de- 

 velopment in this section of the country Mr. 

 Fry was general freight and passenger agent 

 of the Iron Mountain, which road it can be 

 imagined was not of the importance that it 

 is to-day. The business of this concern is 

 more especially of a local character, but some 

 attention is paid to country shipments. 



A. J. Lang has always had three specialties, 

 these being wagon material, gum and cotton- 

 wood. Mr. Lang 's first employment in a busi- 

 ness way was with the Paddock-Hawley Iron 

 Store Company, Mr. Lang being especially 

 connected with the wagon material end of the 

 business, and his duties being to sell ma- 



FRANK H. SMITH, 

 Piesident The F. H. Smith Company, 



terial to the wagon makers. Later he was 

 of the concern of Johanning & Lang and 

 soine five or six years ago sold out to establish 

 his own business. He is also connected with 

 the Consolidated Lumber & Storage Company 

 and makes bis office at the yards of this 

 company. 



Since the death of Nathan "Waldstein, than 

 whom no one was better known among St. 

 Louis lumbermen, the Waldstein Lumber 

 Company has been headed by Franz Wald- 

 stein, his only son, who is at present vice- 

 president of the Lumbermen's Exchange. Mr. 

 Waldstein has continued to develop the busi- 

 ness established by his father until it is 

 now one of the foremost concerns of St. 

 Louis, handling everything on the hardwood 

 list and doing a business which embraces this 

 country and Canada. 



Col. Jack P. Richardson is probably as well 

 known as any lumberman in St. Louis, hav- 

 ing been identified with the trade of this 

 city for a great many years. From the later 

 eighties until 1892, when the hardwood busi- 

 ness of St. Louis was largely done on a com- 

 mission basis, Col. Richardson probably han- 

 dled a larger business than any one in St. 

 Louis, and has since that time managed to 

 retain the full confidence of manufacturers, 

 so that he is still the representative in St. 

 Louis of many mills throughout the southern 

 country. He has always been a staunch as- 

 sociation member and has been one of the 

 strongest members of the Lumbermen 's Ex- 

 change. 



Some years ago Theo. Plummer of the 

 Plummer Lumber Company came to St. Louis 

 from Nashville, Tenn., and became identified 

 with the Arkansas & Missouri Yellow Pine 

 Company as manager of the sales department. 

 When that company went out of existence 

 Mr. Plummer returned to bis early love, the 

 I'.holesaling of hardwoods, of which he has 

 made a most pronounced success. His con- 

 cern has grown with wonderful rapidity and 

 now operates several sawmills in the cypress 

 and poplar districts of Mississippi and Louis- 



THEODORB PLUMMER, 

 President Plummer Lumber Co. 



iana. These two woods are something of a 

 specialty with Mr. Plummer and in selling 

 this stock he caters to a wide territory. 



The Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Company was establiited during the 

 early eighties and upon the death of Charles 

 E. Luehrmann some five or six years ago his 

 sons, George E. W. Luehrmann and Edward 

 H. Luehrmann became president and vice- 

 president, respectively, and T. W. Fry, secre- 

 tary. During recent years this concern has 

 shown evidences of the push and energy of 

 its managers and is to-day doing a tremen- 

 dous wholesale business in all hardwoods. 

 This company has established several sawmill 

 enterprises, the leading one of which is at 

 Marianna, Ark., where is located one of the 

 best equipped hardwood mills in the southern 

 country. This mill is cutting oak and gum al- 

 most exclusively and the sales are made 

 through the St. Louis ofiice. 



Some Strode St. Louis Notes, 



I know a story about George P. Massen- 

 gale, who has since died and been mourned 

 by his large circle of friends. St. Louis 

 was his home and there was no man of 

 whom I thought better than I did of him. 

 Every time I went to St. Louis I used to 

 call on him, and we were very good friends. 

 One time I started to broach the subject 

 of advertising to him. I am very slow and 

 deliberate in conversation, having a hesi- 

 tancy which almost amounts to an impedi- 

 ment in my speech, Mr. Massengale, on 

 the contrary, was a very quick and nervous 

 man, and if he had anything to do, he 

 wanted to do it at once, and get it oif his 

 mind. Then I always suspected that he 

 was busy that morning and wanted to get 

 rid of me. 



"Now, Mr. Massengale," I drawled out, 

 "I thought you would like to take — " 



"Right you are, young man," said Mr. 

 Massengale briskly, reaching for his hat, 

 "I was just going to suggest something of 

 the kind myself, come along; I know a 

 good place!" 



