THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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There are those in the membership of 

 the National association who atfeud the 

 meetings, do a great deal of talking, get 

 their names and their pictures in the re- 

 ports of the meetings, and who then go 

 home and do nothing to further the in- 

 terests of the association until the next 

 meeting. They only have interest in that 

 worli which will bring them prominently 

 to the front. There are others, however, 

 w-ho make les's noise at the conventions, 

 but who have labored in season and out 

 of season, modestly, unselfishly and unas- 

 sumingly. They are the men who have 

 made the National association, and it is but 

 just that tlie average lumberman, who 

 reads and knows only of the proceedings 

 of the association through the news- 

 paper reports, should be informed as to 

 who those members are. 



CHICAGO COMMENT. 



George Stoneman informs us that he 

 has leased a building at 7G, 78, 80 and 82 

 West Erie street, and will remove his of- 

 fice from 1005 Marquette building to that 

 address. He will continue to handle hard- 

 wood lumber as heretofore, but in addi- 

 tion will take on veneer and fancy wood 

 business, which will not only mean im- 

 ported woods, but all classes of veneers in 

 domestic woods. The removal of his of- 

 fice was made necessary on account of 

 storage room required in handling the 

 veneer business. He will put in a full line 

 of these goods and will have associated 

 •with him, to look after this end of the 

 business, Mr. Geo. W. Noble, formerly 

 with R. S. Bacon Veneer Company of this 

 city, a first-class veneer salesman and a 

 man thoroughly acquainted with the trade 

 and its requirements. The style of the 

 firm will be Geo. W. Stoneman & Co. 



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The Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company 

 will remove their office from the old yard 

 location at Union and Lumber streets to 

 1005 Marquette building, the office formerly 

 occupied by George W. Stoneman. They 

 will do strictly a wholesale business in 

 both northern and southern hardwoods, 

 carrying stocks at mill points for direct 



shipments. 



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A piece of news that was heard with a 

 great deal of sincere regi-et by his many 

 friends, was the sudden death of Mr. Ben 

 Lakin. bookkeeper at the Messinger Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company's office in this 

 city. Mr. Lakin has been in poor health 

 for some time and in addition was trou- 

 bled with insomnia. He was found dead 

 in his room on Tuesday of this week, 

 death resulting, it was supposed, from a 

 hemorrage. Mr. Lakin, despite his physi- 

 cal disability, was always of a genial dis- 

 position and was well liked by everybody 

 in the trade who had occasion to meet 

 him. 



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We were favored with a call this week 

 from T. J. Christian, of the Fullerton- 

 Powell Hardwood Lumber Company. 



South Bend, Ind. Mr. Christian states 

 that business is tiij-top. dry stocks are 

 scarce, and that he found the Memphis 

 lumbermen as fine and accommodating a 

 set of hardwood lumbermen as hang out 

 their shingle anywhere. 



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Clias. J. Starke, of the Henry Starke 

 Land & Lumber Company, Arcadia, Mich., 

 was a recent visitor. He reports Michi- 

 gan stocks pretty well sold out in ad- 

 vance. 



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Messrs. Geo. T. Houston & Co. have 

 leased office quarters in the new Ti-ibune 

 building. It is quite probable that they 

 will discontinue their yard here alto- 

 gether. 



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The traffic department of the National 

 association will have offices in the Old 

 Colony building, suite G70. Mr. Hurlbut 

 will be in charge, as stated in another 

 •column, .•ind will begin the work at once. 



No firm in the country advertises more 

 freiiuently or with better effect than E. C. 

 Atkins & Co., the saw manufacturers of 

 Indianapolis. Ind. Their latest novelty is 

 a book of "Knots." The knot question is 

 one that has troubled the hardwood lum- 

 berman a great deal. One hundred of 

 them are proposed and solved in this little 

 book, a book of catch or trick problems. 



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It is current rumor that twenty of the 

 largest plaiiing mills have joined in a new 

 corporation called the American Sash & 

 Door Company, with a capital of $3,500,- 

 000. Pending permanent organization. W. 

 S. Ijockwood, of the Lockwood & Strick- 

 land Company, will act as president: Maur- 

 ice Von Platen, of Von Platen & Dick, as 

 secretary, and Henn" L. Turner, of Henry 

 L. Turner & Co., as treasurer. 



Mr. R. A. BuiT, for this j'ears lumber 

 purchasing agent of the Lake Shore & 

 Michigan Southern Railway, died at 

 Adrian, Mich., on June 6. 



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The Edmunds ilanufacturing Company 

 of this city had a $15,000 fire this week. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 

 Nashville was well represented at the 

 hardwood meeting in Louisville, Ky., on 

 the 3rd inst. Some of the Tennesseeans 

 attending, though not a full list, were: 

 Messrs. M. F. Greene, .lohn W. Love, P. M. 

 Hamilton, John B. Ransom, J. H. Baird. 

 .T. H. Baskette of Nashville, Capt. A. J. 

 Gahagan of Chattanooga, D. M. Rose of 

 Knoxville, Claude H. Moore of Memphis. 

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The Stearns Lumber Company, a $100,- 

 (X)0 incorporation, is preparing to work 

 the timber and mineral interests of sev- 

 eral Tennessee and Kentucky counties, on 

 a large scale. The officers of the company 

 will be as follows: Justus S. Stearns, 

 president: W. T. Culver, vice-president: 

 R. L. Stearns, secretary and treasurer. 



Options have been secured on 2.5,000 acres 

 of lands in Wheatley County. Kentucky, 

 Scott, Fentress and Pickett counties, 

 Tenne.ssee. Northern capitalists and local 

 people are both interested. The contract 

 has been let for the building of seven 

 miles of railway, which will connect the 

 mines with the Cincinnati Southern, just 

 above Pine Knot. Ky.. and there are now 

 250 men at work on the track. 



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McEwen Ransom, of John B. Ransom & 

 Co., has returned from a trip through 

 West Tennessee. 



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.Tos. Schefifer. aged tjO years, a member 

 of the lumber firm of Scheffer & Son, died 

 here this week. Deceased was well 

 known among the Nashville lumbermen 

 and had been in business a long time. 

 He was a native of Germany. 



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The members of the lumber trade in 

 Clvattanooga have organized for social 

 and business benefits the Chattanooga 

 Lumbermen's Association. Memphis, 



Nashville and Chattanooga — ^it's up to 



Knoxville. 



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The mills of the Gary Lumber Company 

 at Cary, N. C, were burned on the 5th 

 inst. together with the lumber in the 

 yards. Loss, $90,000. 



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The Edgeaeld & Nashville Manufactur- 

 ing Company of this city, one of the larg- 

 est woodworking concerns in the state, has 

 received the contract for the erection of 

 the Daniel C. F.untyn arcade in this city. 



The Love-]?enedict Company of this 

 city and South Carolina has added another 

 20,0<10 acres to its South Carolina inter- 

 ests. 



BUFFALO BITS. 



June 10 was the day appointed for the 

 first outing of the Buffalo lumbermen. 

 The day was wet, cold and stormy. Wliile 

 the inclement weather interfered seriously 

 with the ball game, which is always the 

 star attraction of these social gatherings, 

 still the flow of wit, with its accompani- 

 ments, went on uninterruptedly, and sev- 

 eral indoor games proved very attractive to 

 a large number of the visitors. The 

 Bedell House, Grand Island, was the ob- 

 jective point, and it is needless" to say 

 that the bounteous repast was by no means 

 the least of the many attractions afforded 

 by this charming resort. It is proverbial 

 that lumbermen have a faculty for enjoy- 

 ing themselves under all conditions, irre- 

 spective of the weather, and they certainly 

 proved this on this occasion. 

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Mr. O. H. Stanton, manager at Buffalo 

 for H. M. Land's' Sons Company, has re- 

 turned from Cambridge Springs, Pa., much 

 improved in health. When Mr. Stanton 

 went there some two months ago he was 

 very much run down in consequence of an 

 operation he had undergone some time be- 



