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quality, and is considered one of tbe best of 

 Philippine woods. It is heavy and durable, and 

 has a dark yellovy color with a reddish tinge. It, 

 however, is not lasting when placed in contact 

 with the soil, though in water and in the air its 

 lasting qualities are excellent. The wood when 

 air dried has a weight of about seventy-one pounds 

 per cubic foot, and its specific gravity is 1.145. 



While not easily worked, it is used consider- 

 ably in carpentry work. When made into furni- 

 ture and finished naturally, it has a beautiful ap- 

 pearance. The wood is employed by wheelwrights, 

 and is also used in making all kinds of farm im- 

 plements and for ship building. Considerable 

 quantities of it are cut for piling and also for 

 studding and cross beams in house construction. 

 Charcoal of excellent quality can be made from 

 this timber. Its sale in the West Indies is based 

 on cubic meter, it bringing from $50 to $90. As 

 a rule there is no over-abundance of the azeitona 

 on the local markets in the West Indies. 



On some of the islands of the Lesser Antilles. 

 the natives call another tree azeitona preta, also 

 pau preto and po pleto. This is also a large tree 

 which often attains a height of ninety feet and a 

 diameter of four feet. It is most abundant in the 



JAMES B. WALL, BUFFALO, N. T. 



southern part of St. Thomas and in the forests of 

 most of the smaller islands. The wood is not 

 durable and can be used to advantage only in 

 interior finish. 



Made Police Commissioner 



.Tames B. Wall of BufTalo, N. Y., of the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, has become one of 

 the board of police commissioners of that city. 

 On March 1. Mr. Wall assumed his office, and It 

 was made the occasion for a reception, which was 

 attended by a committee of officials representing 

 the police department, the Ad Club, Chamber of 

 Commerce, and many other friends. Mr. Wall 

 succeeds Ilenry C. Zeller, who Is now in Europe. 

 In behalf of the police department, Superinten- 

 dent Michael Regan presented the new police 

 commissioner with a floral design in the form of 

 a horseshoe, built entirely of roses. Tbe gift 

 was accompanied by an address of welcome. 



Mr. Wall made a speech of appropriate accept- 

 ance and pledged himself to the best Interests of 

 the city and department in the performance of 

 bis duties. The new commissioner was assured 

 by Superintendent Regan and tbe ofSclals of the 

 department, Individually and collectively, of the 

 best of success, and tbe further assurance of their 

 hearty co-operation In tbe work of tbe depart- 

 ment. 



It goes without saying that in tbe mind of 

 every hardwood lumberman of the country, few 

 of whom do not know J. B. Wall, it is believed 

 that the city of Buffalo has secured a most ad- 

 mirable head to its commission. It is under- 

 stood that Mr. Wall's duties will not interfere 

 with his work in connection with the hardwood 

 lumber business, and the several other business 

 institutions with which he is allied. 



Death of a Salesman 



There died at the Borgess Hospital, February 21, 

 .7. F. Bitner, southern Michigan salesman of the 

 Racine Lumber & Manufacturing Company. Ra- 

 cine, Wis. Death resulted from ulceration of 

 the bowels and inflammation of the kidneys. The 

 remains were taken by bis father to Spring Mills, 

 Pa., for interment. Mr. Bitner had been asso- 

 ciated with the Racine Lumber & Manuf.icturing 

 Company since last fall, previous to which time 

 he was employed by Mowbray & Robinson at their 

 Quicksand, Ky., mill. 



Mr. Bitner has a large number of friends in 

 the trade who will sincerely regret his demise. 



Reopening of Pacific Coast Hardwood 

 Freight Bate Case 



The Interstate Commerce Commission recently 

 entered an order in which it gerrymandered ter- 

 ritory very seriously in establishing district 

 freight rates on hardwoods to the Pacific coast. 

 This order made a rate of eighty cents in the 

 territory east of Chicago, south of Grand Rapids 

 and Saginaw district of Michigan, and south 

 slightly east of Toledo, O., clear through to Mo- 

 bile, Ala., and continued the seventy-five cent 

 rate from the Mississippi valley, Chicago, Wis- 

 consin, and the northern peninsula of Michigan 

 and made a third rate of eighty-five cents cov- 

 ering the northern portion of the lower peninsula 

 of Michigan. 



Demand is now made that the case be re- 

 opened by the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 .sion, and a preliminary consultation on the sub- 

 ject was held at Chicago on Mar. 20 by parties 

 at interest. It is understood that the ruling 

 made by the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 was based on an error in analyzing the sources 

 of supply of hardwood shipments to the coast, as 

 well as the wishes of the shippers. It is be- 

 lieved that the order will eventually be ma- 

 terially amended. 



Death of an Indiana Pioneer Liunberman 



On Mar. 12, at Rochester, Ind., there passed 

 to the Great Beyond, Wm. M. Downs of the 

 firm of W. M. Downs & Sons, Rochester, Ind. 

 The immediate cause of Mr. Downs' death was 

 paralysis. He was seventy-three years old. Mr. 

 Downs came to Indiana forty-five years ago and 

 established himself in the sawmilling business in 

 the then unbroken wilderness of tbe state, and 

 has continued In that occupation either in- 

 dividually or in connection with his sons, James 

 Downs and W. K. Downs, ever since. His first 

 sawmill was of the mulay variety, which was 

 rebuilt Into a circular mill some twenty years 

 ago. He has not been a large operator, but has 

 sawed about a million feet of lumber per annum. 

 His death will be sincerely mourned by a largo 

 number of friends. 



The business will be continued by his two 

 sons, James and W. K. Downs, under the Arm 

 name of Downs Brothers, W. K. Downs having 

 taken over his father's Interest. 



Death of Thomas S. Hayden 



Thomas S. Hayden, one of the best known 

 and wealthiest men of Denver, who formerly 

 was associated with his brother, Harvey S. 

 Hayden. In the furniture bouse of the A. H. 

 Andrews Company, Chicago, died suddenly of 

 acute Indigestion on Mar. 7. 



Mr. Harvey was seventy-three years old. and 

 was l>orn in Rochester, N. Y. He went to Mil- 

 waukee while a young man, and then removed 



to Chicago, where he was engaged in business 

 for several years. He moved to Denver in 1885. 

 At the time of his death Mr. Hayden was presi- 

 dent of the Denver Union Water Company ; vice- 

 president of the Colorado-Nevada Power Com- 

 pany ; president of the Southern Sierra Company, 

 and was interested in other important western 

 enterprises. 



Besides a widow, three sons and one daughter 

 survive him ; and his three brothers, Harvey S. 

 Hayden, president of the Hayden & Westcott 

 Lumber Company, Chicago ; Frederick Hayden, 

 Jacksonville College, Jacksonville, 111., and 

 George R. Hayden of Milwaukee ; and a sister, 

 Mrs. Daniel Newhall, residiug at Buffalo. 



Many of the older business men of Chicago 

 will recall Mr. Hayden very well, and his demise 

 will be a matter of sincere regret to them. This 

 is the second death to occur in the family of 

 Harvey S. Hayden during the last month, a sis- 

 ter having died only a few weeks ago. 



New Chicago Hardwood House 



The firm of Schultz, Holloway & Co., Fisher 

 building, was dissolved by mutual consent on 

 Mar. 1, G. H. Holloway retiring. Mr. Hollo- 

 way has now opened an oflice, suite 1412 Great 



G. H. HOLLOWAY, HOLLOWAY HARDWOOD 

 LUMBER COMPANY, CHICAGO. 



Northern building, 20 W. Jackson boulevard, 

 and will operate under the title of the Holloway 

 Hardwood Lumber Company In band sawed 

 southern hardwoods. He will give his particular 

 attention to the marketing of the output of four 

 of the highest class southern manufacturing 

 houses in the country. The institutions repre- 

 sented by him will be Wilson & Cochran of 

 Lottie, La., with an annual output of fourteen 

 million feet of cottouwood and cypress; the 

 Howe Lumber Company, Wabash, Ark., annual 

 producers of ten million feet of oak, ash and 

 gum ; the G. W. Sims Company of Proctor, Ark., 

 annual producers of seven million feet of gum, 

 and the Mark H. Brown Lumber Company of 

 Mounds, Ark., which manufactures a like amount 

 of oak, gum and ash. 



Mr. Holloway will also do more or less busi- 

 ness, especially in dimension stock and various 

 cut-up nmterials, individually, from other sources 

 of supply. 



Since his connection with the hardwood busi- 

 ness of Chicago, Mr. Holloway has achieved n 

 very enviable reputation for fair dealing, and 

 numbers the majority of whoIei5aIe hardwood 

 consumers of Chicago among his friends and 

 patrons. The flue connection that he has es- 

 tablished for himself for his Chicago trade and 

 his splendid reputation for fulfilling with ac- 



