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maniilaoturci-s. The object of securing tliese exhibits is to add lite and 

 interest to the show and to broaden its scope so that it will embrace as 

 much as possible all the products of the American forests. 



Death of Ben Collins, Jr. 



The Chicago lumber trade lost one of its most popular members a 

 week ago last Monday. Sept. 29, when Ben Collins, Jr., president of the 

 Collins Lumber Company, died at his home 3304 Cornell avenue, after a 

 week's illness from diabetes. Mr. Collins' career as a lumberman covered 

 the greater part of his forty-two .years of life. He had been prominently 

 connected with the pine business ever since entering lumber circles. His 

 first big connection was as vice-president of the Continental Lumber 

 Company of Houston, Tex. He subsequently became connected with the 

 Mercantile Lumber Company of Kansas Cit.v, and later organized tlie 

 Collins Lumber Company, Chicago. This concern has been doing business 

 for about five years, with Mr. Collins as its head. 



Mr. Collins was prominently connected with the alTairs of the Lumber- 

 men's Association of Chicago and the Lumbermen's Club of Chicag,;. 

 being one of the most popular and influential members of both organiza- 

 tions. He was widely known as a golfer in this territory and made a 

 splendid record as a member of the Midlothian Golf Club. He was a 

 Mason, being a member of the Medinah Temple of the Shriuers of 

 Chicago, and also a member of the Union League Club, South Shore 

 Country Club and Chicago I'acht Club. 



Mr. Collins leaves a widow, but no children. 



The funeral services took place en Wednesday, Oct. 1. The remains 

 were shipped to Covington, Ky. 



Coulson Lumber Company Starts Construction 



The latest addiliou to the liardwiind hinibci- industry at Memphis. Tenn., 

 is the Conlson Lumber Compan.v, which has recently been granted a charter 

 under the laws of this state and which will engage in the manufacture 

 of hardwood lumber. The mill will he located at Morehead. Miss., and 

 will have a daily capacity of from 30,000 to 35.000 feet of band sawn 

 stock. The headquarters of the company will be maintained at Memphis. 

 W, N. Coulson, who has been for a long while manager of the lumber 

 sales department of Lee Wilson & Co., is president of the new Arm. 

 B. C. Sweeney, also connected with Lee Wilson & Co., is vice-president 

 and will have charge of the milling operations. C. M. Green is secretary 

 and treasurer. He has also been for some time in the employ of Lee 

 Wilson & Co. It is expected that the new plant will be in readiness for 

 operation about the first of the year. Part of the machinery for the 

 plant has already been ordered and work is going ahead on the buildings 

 to be used b,v the company for the mill and for storage purposes. 



Memphis Lumbermen Agree in Log 'Wiring Controversy 



A conference was held last week Ijetween representatives of the 

 A'alley Log Loading Compan.v with headquarters at Memphis, and various 

 members of the Memphis trade, for whom this concern hauls logs from 

 the rights of way through Arkansas, Mississippi and other surrounding 

 country. 



W. S. Darnell acted as chairman of the conference, which was called for 

 the purpose of considering a complaint entered by the sawmills in Memphis 

 against the announcement that the Valley Log Loading Company would 

 charge fifty cents a car for wiring of logs. The final settlement of the 

 discussion was satisfactory to both sides. 



The basis of the charge has been the cost of material used in wiring, 

 but according to the new arrangement heavy cable bought especially for 

 the purpose* of securing iogs on cars will be used. The charge of fifty 

 cents a car will he levied but reparation will be made if the cables are 

 returned to the company after unloading. 



Final Fiber Box Arguments 



The final arguments in the fiber l>ox lase were heard before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission at Washington, D. C, yesterday. Oct. 9. 

 The National Classification Committee of Lumber, Wooden Box and Allied 

 Interests met in Chicago, Sept. 24. and went over the case with attorney 

 M. F. Gallagher. ,\s it was announced that the fiber box manufacturers 

 would be represented at the hearing by a large delegation, the committee 

 requested all lumbermen who might be in the vicinity of Washington, or 

 who could make it convenient to be there, to attend the meeting. 



A meeting of the lumber and box men was held at the New Willard hotel, 

 Washington, D- C, Oct. S at 2 P. yi. 



The committee feels that the attorneys have the case well in hand, and 

 that it will bo obligatory upon the commission to eventually issue a 

 decision upon the complaint relative to the merits of fiber and wooden 

 containers for certain kinds of freight, and to specify maximum weights 

 for the same. 



Home from Europe 



C. L. Willey, the Chicago mahogany magnate, is home from a three 

 months' trip to Great Britain and the Continent, Mr. 'n'iiley comes back 

 fully recovered from his indisposition of last spring and is in fine foria. 

 physically. He reports a manifest scarcity of fine figured mahogany and 

 other fancy woods that are largely marketed in the Liverpool market, but 

 purchased upwards of 2,000,000 feet of high-class wood which is now 

 arriving at the big Chicago works. 



Mr. Willey's Chicago plant has recently been equipped with two 

 new handsaws in place of the single band rig formerly employed, and 



the institution is very busy in the production of not only mahogany 

 lumber, but of vcrmillion and black walnut as well as of large quantities 

 of sawed, sliced and rotary cut veneers. 



Mmrphy-'Weiss 



W. B. Murphy of Brinkley, Ark., has issued invitations for the marriage 

 of his daughter. Miss Katherine .May JIurphy, to Harry Bonus Weiss, 

 secretary-treasurer of Geo. C. Brown & Co. of Proctor. Ark. The wedding 

 will take place at Brinkley, Ark., Wednesday atternooQ, Oct. 15, and 

 will be celebrated in the First Baptist Church. 



Mr. Weiss has been prominently connected with the lumber business 

 for some lime, having made his headquarters in Chicago, Cincinnati and 

 .M;iii|phis betuie his removal to Arkansas. lie is vice-president of the 

 Memphis Lumbermen's Club, a member of the Businessmen's Club of 

 Memphis, and is also connected with other business and social organizations 

 of that city. 



Carr Lumber Company Incorporated, Fisgah Forest, N. C. 



A charter was ist^iied on Sept. 2'.i lo the I'arr l.umli.-r Company of I'isgah 

 Forest, Transylvania county. N. C. The company is capitalized at 

 $25,000, authorized, of which $2,500 is subscribed by Louis Carr and 

 others. The company will engage in the general lumber business and 

 construct flumes and railroads for handling timber to its mill. 



AUis-Chalmers Company Moves Sales and Engineering Offices 



.\niiiiunrcuiciu is made that the .^llis-Chalmers Company of .Milwaukee, 

 Wis., has moved the sales and engineering departments from Chicago to 

 West Aliis, Wis. The removal occurred on Oct. 7. ' 



It is further planned to eventually move the shops to West Allis so 

 as to concentrate the entire working and ad^ninistrative forces at one 

 point. 



Pertinent Information 



steamship Companies Rescind Order for Marking Export Lumber 



Secretary J. McU. Price of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, who attended the conference between steamship representatives and 

 members of the National Lumber Exporters' Association from Tennessee, 

 Louisiana and Texas held in New Orleans on Sept. 18, stopped at Chat- 

 tanooga on his return for a conference with Fred Atn of the J. M. Card 

 Lumber Company, who is president of the association, but his duties in 

 connection with the committee for the reception of the Grand Army of 

 the Republic at the annual reunion of the veterans prevented his attend- 

 ing the New Orleans conference. With Mr. Arn, Mr. Price went over 

 the action taken at the meeting, also various other matters. The chief 

 subject taken up at the conference in New Orleans was the new rule pro- 

 mulgated by the steamship lines with terminals at New Orleans relative 

 to the marking of export lumber. This rule, which was to have gone Into 

 effect on Oct. 1, provided that carload shipments containing more than 

 one mark or countermark would be declined and that through bills of . 

 lading must be either discontinued, or the railroad, as the agent for 

 the shipper, must turn over each and every piece of lumber so that 

 the mark upon the through bill of lading can he identified, "and all 

 such marks must be easily decipherable and permanent." As a re- 

 sult of the exchange of views, the Leland Line, on the following 

 day, by letter withdrew the new regulation, and the presumption is 

 that the other companies did likewise, although tlie proceedings were 

 held behind closed doors and nothing has been given out about them. 

 It is pointed out hy exporters here that insistence upon the new 

 regulation would have imposed great hardslup upon the exporters and 

 would have virtually made exports prohibitive. Practically all lumber 

 shipped to foreign countries, it is stated, goes out under the special brand 

 of the shipper, whose brand is as much or even more a designation of 

 quality as the naming of a distinct grade. Time, effort and expense 

 have been devoted to making these private brands known and they go far 

 to facilitate trade. It is therefore obvious that the private brand 

 of the exporter should appear upon the planks exported. But it happens 

 very often that one exporter sends lumber of the same quality and char- 

 acter to several buyers abroad, and to put merely the private brand 

 upon the lumber would make it impossible to determine what lumber 

 goes to one man and what planks to another. Under the established 

 practice each piece is numbered, the numbers being entered upon the bill 

 of lading. Numbers alone would not serve the purpose for the reason 

 that without the private brand the pieces sent out by various shippers on 

 the same steamer could not be separated. A brand and number are 

 consequently indispensable, and sometimes a third mark is desired. The 

 requirement that every piece be turned over would be burdensome because 

 of the expense attached thereto. The force of the arguments presented 

 evidently appealed to the steamship lines, and while they have not given 

 any promise, expressed or implied, that the proposed rule will not be 

 resurrected, the belief prevails that the matter has been disposed of. 

 Apart from the reasons stated it has been suggested that the proposed 

 rule might have been a violation of the Harter Act, which require.< 

 that carriers shall issue documents needed to identify shipments. This 

 question, however, has not been raised. 



