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Forester Graves. \V. L. Hall, chief of tbe Appalachian division of the 

 Forest Service, and C.corBe Otis Smith, director of the Geological Survey. 

 left Washington for Asheville on May 29. The proposed purchase in- 

 volves 8G.000 acres of hardwood stumpage. and is made subject to a 

 twent.v-.vear cuttin? time contract taken over recently by a logging 

 company. 



Death of Harry A. Eankin 



Harry A. Ifankin nf Harry Rankin & Co.. attorney-in-fact for the 

 ilauufacturiui; Lumbermen's T'uderwriters of Kansas City, died at his 

 liome in <TOShon, X. Y.. on June *2. Mr. liankin has been failing in healtli 

 for some time and his death, while a shock to his associates, was not 

 entirely unexpected. 



Harry Itnnkin was born in Lawrence, Kan., iu 1.S63. He was a srad- 

 ur.te of the Kansas State University and later attended T. S. Naval 

 Academy at Annapolis in the class of 1SS3. 



He first entered the lire insurance business as a local agent at Law- 

 I'ence. Kan., moving to Kansas Cit.v in 1SS8. where he soon became a 

 member of the firm of Kinney. Medes. Crittenden & Rankin. This firm 

 was distinct from tbe fire insurance firm of Kinney. Medes & Crittenden. 

 ;ind wrote only steam Iioiler. casualty and employers liabilit.v insuranct'. 

 Later, on the retirement of Messrs. Kinne.v and Crittenden, the tire 

 insurance and liability business was combined and conducted under the 

 firm name of Medes, Kankin & Medes. In 1894 Mr. Rankin retired from 

 this firm and. establishing the Harry Rankin agency, built up in a short 

 time a very large insurance business, making a specialty of grain and 

 lumber lines. 



Owing to diflkultics which he experienced in placing lumber lines 

 under rates and forms fair to the assured he. after a thorough investi- 



The rcaiarkable success of mutual insurance among lumbermen is a 

 direct evidence of the feasibility of the plant. At the time the idea was 

 first .started rates, policy forms and adjustments in most sections of the 

 country were very unsatisfactory and often very unfair. Through the 

 success of the association ?»Ir. Rankin represented and other similar asso- 

 ciations, lumbermen have been greatly benefited in insurance matters. 



From a very small beginning in 1S08. the Manufacturing Lumbermen's 

 Underwriters has gone to a membership of 3S0. and has nearly .$."0,000.(100 

 of insurance in force. 



C. C. Hagemeyer, New President Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati. 



The members of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club are to be congratu- 

 lated on I heir selection of C. C. -riagemeyer as president of the club. 

 Mi\ Hagemeyer. middle-aged and in the prime of his life, with the benefit 

 of his long experience in the hardwood as well as the yellow pine lumber 

 business, is well fitted to take up the many problems that confront such 

 an organization^ as the Lumbermen's Club. Aside from being a very 

 successful business man. he possesses a certain calm reasoning power 

 that is hard to explain but has been very effective in solving difiicult 

 business and club problems, and his advice has been frequently sought 

 and eheerfull.v given. His business career dates back to about 1867. when 

 he started the Licking River Lumber & Mining Company at Bosttm Sta- 

 tion. Ky.. which continued until 1880. In 1881 he started a mill at 

 Butler. Ky.. and this was continued until all of the large amount of 

 timber owned by the company had been cut out : this operation closing up 

 three or four .years ago. In lS9o be started the Covington Lumber Com- 

 liany of C^'ovington. Ky., a retail yard handling yellow pine and all kinds 

 of yard stock, and carried on this business together with a number of line 

 yards until 1911. at which time he sold out to the Veith & Sweighert 



Tin: I.ATK HARRY A. RANKIN. HARRY R-\N 

 KIN & CO.. KANSAS CITY. MO. 



WARWICK BENEDICT. RANKIN-BENEDICT 



UNDERWRITING CO.MPANY. KANSAS 



CITY. MO. 



C. C. HAGEMEYER. NEW PRESIDENT OF THE 



CINCINNATI LUMBERMEN'S CLUB, 



CINCINNATI, O. 



gation of lumber insurance conditions throughout the South, conceived 

 the idea of applying the principles of inter-insurance to manufacturing 

 lumber plants. As a result he organized the Manufacturing Lumber- 

 men's Underwriters and in November 1898, with only eleven members, 

 tbe.v began issuing small policies. As the plan promised such decided 

 benefits to lumbermen, its growth was rapid and Mr. Rankin soon asso- 

 ciated with him Guy II. Mallani. who at that time was connected with 

 the Texas Tram & Lumber <'<impany. at Beaumont. Tex., and well and 

 favorably known throughout the South. As Mr. Rankin at that time 

 still retained his local agency business, tbe management was conducted 

 In the name of Guy H. Mallam & Co.. until the dissolution of their part- 

 nership in Noveinber lOOo, since which date the attorneyship, until very 

 recently, has been in the name of Harry Rankin & Co., with Warwick 

 Benedict as manager during tbe jjast seven years. 



Foreseeing the inevitable, the attorneyship was last month transferred 

 to Rankin-Iienedict Uuderwritiug Company, the business now being con- 

 ducted in that name. 



Mr. Benedict was also born in Lawrence. Kan., in 1873, and. going to 

 Kansas City a few years after Mr. Rankin, was employed by the firm of 

 ICinney, Medes & Crittenden as office boy. later becoming their Kansas 

 City. Kan., representative. When Mr. Rankin went into business for 

 himself. Mr. Benedict went with him and soon after the organization of 

 the Manufacturing Lumberman's Underwriters became special agent and 

 adjuster. He was of material assistance in increasing the membership 

 of the organization and upon Mr. Rankin's removal to New York, tool; 

 np the active management. 



Lumber Company, the present owners. In 1901 with II. L. Mickle he 

 started the II. L. Mickle Lumber Company, wholesale dealers in yellow 

 pine, and this business has grown to large proportions, Mr. Hagemeyer 

 still taking a very active part, and last January purchased Mr. Mickle's 

 interest. Mr. Hagemeyer also started the Tennessee Lumber & Coal 

 Company at Glen Mary. Tenn.. in 1908. having purchased a large supply 

 of timber and erected a modern mill at that point. This plant was in 

 charge of his son. Hall Hagemeyer. with the general oflices at Cincinnati. 

 Mr. Hagemeyer is very enthusiastic in club aSfairs and his ability and 

 business experience insures a successful year for the club. 



Pennsylvania Company Plans Improvements 

 The I'ennsylvania Company contemplates extensive improvements in 

 Baltimore, the nature of which was outlined by I'resideut Rea May 29 at 

 a conference with Mayor Preston and other city officials. The plans pro- 

 posed include the erection of a great freight terminal station, extending 

 along Calvert street from Bath to Madison streets, a distance of four or 

 five blocks. The station, together with improvements under consideration 

 at Bayview and Canton, wouhl call for an outlay of about .flO,000,000. 

 Under the plan, as proposed, the present Calvert station would be closed 

 for passenger traffic, or at the most, the company would provide for a 

 second story station to serve the needs of local traffic only. The pro- 

 jected closing of the station is likely to call forth the most determined 

 opposition. When the railroad company planned the abandonment of Cal- 

 vert station three .years ago the residents along the line of the Northern 

 Central Railway who traveled on the accommodation trains sent out 



