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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mr. Moffett was a man o£ commanding presence, quiet and unassum- 

 ing in manner tliough very forceful and witli an apparent immense re- 

 serve power. His life exemplified most thorouglily tlie honest, earnest 

 and brainy business man of the present day. His executive ability was 

 of a high order. 



The passing of Mr. Moffett leaves a void in lumber circles that will 

 be hard to fill. 



Forest Products Exposition Appoints Manager 

 With the ai-rangcmfnt cf details for the incorporation of the Forest 

 rroducts Exposition Company and preliminary plans for that important 

 undertaking, the executive committee of the organization committee 

 formed the Forest Products Exposition Company and engaged George S. 

 Wood of Chicago as manager of the exposition. 



From a standpoint of experience, and general business reputation, this 

 choice seems to have been a good one. Mr. Wood's business career, covering 

 a number of years of activity, has been almost entirely in the field of pro- 

 motion, publicity arid executive authority in public, civic and semi-public 

 undertakings. 



Coming to Chicago from the West, with a thorough newspaper training, 

 Mr. Wood became identified in the early nineties with the principal exposi- 

 tions and trade shows 

 and public celebrations 

 in Chicago and vicinity. 

 :ind this has practically 

 been bis work ever 

 since. The International 

 Live Stock Exposition, 

 the International Horse 

 Show, the Annual 

 IMower Show, Dog Show, 

 Car.iage Show. Power 

 noat S h o w. Poultry 

 Show, First Iteal .\uto- 

 mobile Show ever given 

 in Chicago, and many 

 I'ther similar happenings 

 have engaged the efforts 

 of Mr. Wood in somo 

 important capacity. 



Mr. Wood at present 

 represents the Drake 

 Hotel Company, owner 

 of the Blackstone hotel, 

 and is assistant to the 

 president of the Na- 

 tional Soil Fertilizer 

 League, an important 

 organization of railroad 

 presidents, bank presi- 

 de n t s, educationalists, 

 economists, supporting 

 national legislation for 

 better farming. 

 Mr. Wood is one of the oldest members of the Press Club of Chicago, 

 is a Knight Templar and Shriner, and a member of the Illinois chapter 

 of the Sons of the American Ilevolution, and is at p.-csent serving his sec- 

 ond term as president of the Kansas Society of Chicago. Mr. Wood 

 has many other fraternal and social connections not outlined here. 



In discussing Mr. Wood's appointment as manager some of the largest 

 lumbermen feel enthusiastic over the success of the committee iu securing 

 Mr. Wood, for they realize he is the logical man for the position. 



Death of William Maule 



William Maule, son of the late widely-known lumber dealer, Henry 

 Maule, and brother of the long-time treasurer of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange, Charles P. Maule, died in New York on Sept. 2. Mr. Maule 

 and wife after motoring among the Berkshires, arrived in New York 

 late in the afternoon and had stopped at the Waldorf-Astoria before re- 

 turning the next day to their home, Rriar Crest. Villanora, near Phila- 

 delphia. He left the hotel to visit a club of which he was a member to 

 ali indications in the best of health, but while chatting with some 

 friends there he sank back iu his chair and in an hour was dead of 

 apoplexy. 



Mr. Maule was an extensive seed dealer, being the head of the Wil- 

 liam H. .Maule Seed House, 1707 Filbert street, as well as of the Prac- 

 tical Farmer, at Eighteenth and Market streets. He was connected 

 with the Art Club, of which lie was a charter and life member: the 

 Union League, Racquet Club and the Merion Cricket Club. He leaves 

 a widow and two daughters. 



Adds Dimension Plant 



The Lanib-I'ish Lumber Company, in connection with its gigantic saw- 

 mill at Charleston, Miss., has installed a dimtusion plant for the cutting 

 of material for furniture manufacture and other trade. The chief output 

 will be white and red oak and rod and sap gum, and a limited quantity 

 of ash. 



The Laml)-rish Lumber Company has a Kraetzer Preparator. and by 

 the aid of this equipment will he able to deliver shipping dry dimension 



GEORGE S. WOOD. CHICAGO. MANAGER 

 FOKEST I'ltODUCTS EXPOSITION 



stock witbiu thirty days from the saw. The company also has a dry kiln 

 and can supply the material kiln-dried if required. With the increasing 

 demand for dimension stock the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company should 

 develop a very handsome business in this material. 



Indiana Box Factory Burns 



The Indiana Box Company's plant at Elwood, Ind., was partly de- 

 stroyed by fire on Aug. 22, with a loss estimated at loO.OCO. fully cov- 

 ered by insurance. TTie rest of the plant was saved with difficulty. 

 Boxes for the shipment of tin plate constitute a large part of the com- 

 pany's product, but the trade extends to other industries. 

 Changes in Boston Hardwood House 



The Joucs Hardwood Company of Boston, was incorporated Aug. 20 

 under the laws of the state of Massachusetts with an authorized cap- 

 ital of .$10,000.00, paid in in cash. 



The incorporators are Gardner I. Jones, William L. Erhard and Philip 

 .1. Coyle. The president and treasurer will he Gardner I. Jones, and 

 with the exception of the necessary outstanding shares for qualification 

 of ofBcers and directors, he will be the principal stockholder. 



Tile Jones Hardwood Company, a Massachusetts corporation, is the 

 exclusive selling agent for the New England Hardwood Company, with 

 mills at Mountain Mills. Vt., and its output of birch and maple lum- 

 ber will be in the vicinity of from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 feet per 

 annum. 



In addition to this the :;ompaDy is New England agent for the Mow- 

 bray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati. O., with a largo yard at Cin- 

 cinnati and mills at West Irvine and Quicksand, Ivy., and also for the 

 Tennessee Oak Flooring Company, of Nashville, Tenn.. manufacturer of 

 the Tofco brand of oak flooring. The company will continue to handle 

 at wholesale a general line of gum, ash and cypress lumber. 



The capital slock of the Jones Hardwood Company, the Maine corpo- 

 ration, which is owned by the New England Hardwood Company, will 

 be liquidated by that company. 



Pretty Good for an 

 Invalid 



George Osgood of Os- 

 good & Richardson, the 

 well-known southern 

 hardwood handlers, with 

 offices in the Peoples 

 Gas building. Chicagn. 

 was pretty much of ar 

 invalid for about t'lrei 

 months in the late sjii-in 

 and early summer. Ir 

 order to ge the b'tter o' 

 the trouble, which hat' 

 a pretty good hold on 

 him, he decided to tak 

 a trip to the sumniei 

 home of Harvey WIU< 

 of the T. Wilee Com 

 pany, Chicago, proini 

 nent bartlwood floorin 

 manufacturer. 



Mr. Osgood spent 

 alwut a month at Mr 

 WiJce's home at Empire, 

 Mich., which is locatcr 

 on a small bay openiu-j 

 directly into Lake Mich 

 igan. and his appearanci 

 as shown in the ac 

 companying photograph 

 is very convUisivo proof 

 that the treatment was 

 very efficient for the 

 trouble. 



The string of flsh 

 which the erstwhile in- 

 valid is holding well GEORGE OSGOOD, CHICAGO, IN HIS 

 illustrates the charact-r ELEMENT 



of the sport he had in that section of the coiiiiirv. 



New Chair Factory for Sheboygan 



The twelfth manufacturing plant in Sheboygan. Wis., to he launched 

 as a chair factory has just been organized liy Silas B. Crocker, who has 

 been actively engaged in the chair-making business since 1869. Mr. 

 Crocker, who only recently retired from the Crocker Chair Company, has 

 incorporated the Badger Chair Company with a capital stock of $2,5,000. 

 J. E. Schmidt and W. J. RIetow are also interested. It Is understood 

 that the old tannery property on the west side will be utilized as the 

 plant for the new industry. The product is to be bent chairs, and it Is 

 further reported that the output will be sold to the Crocker Chair Com- 

 pany, which has been buying these chairs from other manufacturers to 

 supply its own trade. Mr. Crocker is himself chiefly interested in the 

 project and local persons only will be connected with him. The Crocker 

 family has been long connected with the Sheboygan chair industry which has 



