THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



freight to seaports are in cumliination with 

 the sea trust and will deliver their freight 

 only to the vessels of that trust, tlien the 

 situation is changed. 



We do not liolieve tliat the governnicnt 

 lir;:seeution of trusts under the Sherman 

 law will ever anionnt to very luueh or pro- 

 inir,. any very great results. There is hut 

 one way that we see to regulate the great 

 eonihinatiuns, and that is for the govern- 

 ment to own or control the railroads. WIjo- 

 cver owns or controls the railroads of tlie 

 country controls its industries. So long as 

 Si great trust can, through its influence or 

 ownership of railroads, secure rebates or 

 other advantages denied to smaller oper- 

 ators, so long the great trusts will c ntrol 

 • nunerce and industries of the coun- 

 try. 



In foreign matters everything is (juiet 

 and peaceable, except for the dying ef- 

 forts of the ex!>austed B;;ers. The Boer 

 war seems practically at an end, through 

 the fact that tJie Boers are largely either 

 killed ofC or captured. There never were 

 many of them, and what few are left can 

 li'.'ike no headway against the 200.0(iii p,i it- 

 ish siildiers now in South Africa. 



The .sympathy of the .\.merican people 

 has. from the beginning, been with the 

 Boei-s. That sympathy was probably mis- 

 placed, but was the sympathy which a 

 generous people will always have with the 

 under dog that is making a game and gal- 

 h'.nt figlit. Whether the under dog is right 

 or not does not greatly matter, we will 

 sympathize with him anyway. 



It will probably be better all an.uud .-.ml 

 for all concerned that the Br.er war should 

 end, and, much as we dislike to say it, it is 

 l'robabl.^• just as well for South Africa and 

 for the human race generally that it is end- 

 ing as it is. 



(xreat Britain will give South Africa a 

 Iree and progressive government and the 

 "pportuuities for industry and commerce 

 will he greater under her rule than it 

 «ould have been under that of the South 

 Alricin Republics. 



19 



CHICAGO COMMENT. 



Our old bachelor friend, George F. .John- 

 sou, manager of the Quennsec Log & Lum- 

 l)er Company of Milwaukee, Wis., spent a 

 few days in the Chicago market last week. 

 He reports busine.ss up to the limit. 

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Mr. George D. Burgess, of the firm of 

 Busse & Burgess, Memphis, Tenn.. was 

 in Chicago last week. 



Mr. W. W. Whieldon, assistant surveyor- 

 general of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Associati#n, passed through Chicago on liis 

 way South Tuesday of this week. Mv. 

 Whieldon says the inspection work of the 

 association is rapidly on the increase, and 

 ihat most of the stafC inspectors are having 

 more than they can do. He found the sit- 

 uation so strong in Chicago that he pro- 

 iiosed to Mr. Olson to deputize an assistant. 

 Mr. Hiram Buck, formerly foreman at the 



yard of W. O. King & Co., was sec-ni-ed 

 and was hai'nessed in at once. 



Mr. E. W. Bobbins, of tlic lii'ui of Maley, 

 Thompson it Moftett Company, was a vis- 

 itor on the Chica.go market last week. Mr. 

 liolibins has been back and fi.rth lietween 

 Cincinnati and points in Cuba during the 

 last six mouths four tinu>s. He has been 

 looking after shipments of mahogany for 

 their mills at Cincinnati, and has secured 

 and contracted for some fine specimens. 

 The ilaley, Thompson & ilolfett Company 

 have been manufacturing oak and walnut 

 veneers for some time, tlie malioganv fea- 

 ture being a recent addition. Tliey have 

 established a selling agency at Grand 

 Bapids. 5Ii<-h., and New York City, and 

 will have another branch office, prol)al)ly 

 in Chicago, to handle the trade in the 

 Northwest. 



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.Mr. T. H. Wall.- of the Buffola Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y,, was in 

 Chicago one day this week. He is the tall- 

 est and, if we may be permitted a compari- 

 son, the best looking of the Wall brothers, 

 and we enjoyed his visit. He was on his 

 way to Jleniphis on business for the firm, 

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Mr. Robert I. Kidman, representing the 

 well-known London house of Churchill & 

 Son, has been making a tour of the hard- 

 ^YOcd markets of the United States, and 

 spent a few days in Chicago last week on 

 the way around. He was among those 

 present at the National association meet- 

 ing in St. Louis. May 1.5 and 16. and was 

 much interested in the revision of rules as 

 made there. Mr. Kidman will arrive in 

 New York on .Tune 4, and will sail for 

 home soon after. He made some valuable 

 shipping connections while here. 



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C. L. Willey, the hardwood and mahog- 

 any lumber and veneer dealer of this city, 

 will remove his yard from Its present loca- 

 tion at Thirty-fifth and Iron Streets to 

 Robey and Blue Island Avenue about 

 ^ruly 1. The new location adjoins the iJlant 

 of the old Chicago Veneer Company, which 

 was recently purchased by Jlr. Willey. 

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M. E. Stockwell, of M. E. Stockwell & 

 Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich., stopped over in 

 Chicago for a few days attending to busi- 

 ness, on his way home from the St. Louis 

 meeting. 



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W. S. .Johnson of Milwaukee, Wis., was 

 in the city this week. The South Arm 

 Lumber Company of South Arm. Mich,, 

 of which- firm Mr. Johnson was a member, 

 lost their mill by fire two weeks ago, and 

 on the same day the company's new mill 

 at Marquette, Mich., started sawing. Mr. 

 .rohnson says they are no worse off than 

 they were, when it comes to producing 

 lumber, and that it might liave l)een worse. 

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Mr. F. F. Fish, president of the Foster 

 Jyumber Mercantile Agency, has just re- 

 turned from a brief visit to the St. Ix)uis 



market, and reports conditions active in 

 the .Missouri metrotxjiis .-ind a fine line of 

 l)usiness for their institution. Mr. Fish 

 also reports that they are now engaged on 

 tiie revision of their book, which will be 

 issued the first of .July, and promises tliat 

 it will be better than ever, showing recent 

 changes and additions that have been made 

 in the trade during the last six montlis. 



Mr. .T. S. Goldie of Cadillac, Mich., was 

 a visitor to the Chicago market this week. 



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Mr. IL M. Nixon, <if tlie H. M. Xixon 

 Lumber Company, Chicago, spent last 

 week at their mill in Breathitt County, 

 Kentucky. They are making a fine lot of 

 poplar and oak for the fall trade. 



Mr. ■\\^ ^^'es'tendarI). of the W. R. Tucker 

 Lumber Company, this city, sailed this 

 week for pnints in Europe. He will inves- 

 tigate the condition of the foreign lumber 

 markets with a view of making connections 

 for the company for future liusiness. While 

 !'I>road he will visit his parents at the old 

 home at IIa'mI>urg. German.v. 



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Messrs. McCausland and Zearing. com- 

 prising the firm of A. J. McCausland Lum- 

 ber Company of this city, have retunied 

 from a business trip in the Soutli. 



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:\Ir. Joseph Schocn, of tlie Coluniliia 

 Hardwood Lunil]er Coiui)any, has just re- 

 turned from a three Weeks' visit with his 

 lirother John in New Mexico. He sa.v.y 

 tliat .John is looking a hundred per cent 

 better than when he left here. The many 

 friends of .John Sehoen will be glad to 

 learn of his rapid return to good health. 



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The East St. I,ouis Walnut Company is 

 a new corporation, the managing head of 

 v.hich is Mr. .J. L. Lane, formerly of Ivan- 

 sas City, Init for the last year a factor in 

 the hardwood trade of Chicago, The com- 

 pany is capitalized at .f.3.3,000, and have 

 purchased a block of ground in East St. 

 Louis, flhich will be their lieadquarters, 

 200 feet wide by 1,2.50 feet long, located 

 on the Southern Railway. They will at 

 once put in a double track through the 

 yards and erect a large band saw mil!. 

 .\s the name indicates, they will cut walnut 

 exclusively, and will cater Imth to the for- 

 eign and diunestic trade. 



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The Snyder &- Son Company of Piqua. 

 Ohio, one of the largest pole and whiffle- 

 tree manufacturers of the country, have 

 recently closed eonti-act with the (^hicot 

 'Lumber Company of Chicago and Bliss- 

 ville. Ark., to locate a large plant at the 

 l.itter point for the manufacture of their 

 special line. They will begin at once the 

 erection of their mill and factory, which, 

 from advance information, will be of suffi- 

 cient capacity to take a large amount of 

 the hickory produced by the Chicot Lumber 

 Company. 



Mr. licszynsky, the secretary of tho 



