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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



rifiee of time and money to attend the 

 meeting, hoping- to be able to a£foi"d the In- 

 diana people relief in the matter of oak 

 inspection, and the action of the Indiana 

 association in attempting a complete re- 

 vision of rules on woods in which they 

 had not the slightest interest, effectually 

 put a stop to any action on the part of the 

 Board of Managers. For, while the Board 

 might have taken the responsibility of 

 changing the rule on oak, it was, of 

 course, utterly out of the question to even 

 consider the advisability of making a gen- 

 eral revision of the rules. 



So the whole matter went over until the 

 next annual meeting; but I am firmly con- 

 vinced that if the Indiana association had 

 confined its recommendations to the rules 

 on oak, they could have secured such rules 

 as they wanted six months before they did. 

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As the time for the St. Louis meeting 

 drew near President Burkholder called a 

 meeting of the directors' of the Indiana as- 

 sociation at Indianapolis, to which I was 

 invited. 



That meeting was attended by President 

 Burkholder, Secretai-y J. M. Pritehard and 

 Directors Heni-y Maley, J. O. Wood and 

 C. H. Burnaby, two directors, Mr. 

 Swain of Seymour and Mr. Stimson of 

 Huntingburg, being unable to be present. 



Being asked what, in my opinion, would 

 be done with the inspection rules at the 

 St. Louis meeting. I stated that I believed 

 there would be a thorough revision and 

 that the Indiana people would be conceded 

 the privilege of making the rules on oak. 



"I do not believe" I said "that much at- 

 tention will be paid to your rules on other 

 woods, nor to any attempt that may be 

 made to change the foi-m of the present 

 rules to something entirely new and 

 strange; but I thoroughly believe, from 

 what I know of the sentiment of the trade, 

 that if you gentlemen will prepare a set of 

 rules on plain and quartered oak that 

 those rules will be adopted. 



After thoroughly discussing the matter, 

 it was unanimously decided to have Mr. 

 Pritehard, the member of the National 

 rules committee for Indiana, present at St. 

 Louis' a set of rules on oak and leave every- 

 thing else alone. 



A set of rules on oak was accordingly 

 drafted, Mr. Pritehard presented them at 

 St. Louis and they were adopted. 



And -that is a true story of what the in- 

 fluence of Indiana has been in the National 

 association, and how the Indiana lumber- 

 men suecee<led in dictating the rules on 

 oak lumber. 



The Ford Lumber Company of Ford, 

 Ky., state that "demand for poplar is 

 strong and at advanced prices. Stocks of 

 logs and lumber are short and we look for 

 a further advance of .$5 per thousand feet 

 on best grades, and proportionately on sid- 

 ing. We are unable to fill orders that 

 come to us, or give .'satisfactory answers to 

 inquiries as to where stocks can be se- 

 cured, when we can't furnish it." 



LOCAL GOSSIP. 



Among the recent visitors to the Chi- 

 cago market was Mr. A. R. Vansiekle of 

 A. R. Vansiekle & Son, Tamms, 111. 



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The Lesh & Matthews Lumber Com- 

 pany have finally gotten into their new 

 quarters downtown. They have, as previ- 

 ously announced, given up the yard busi- 

 ness in Chicago and will conduct a 

 strictly wholesale business, with yards at 

 M'emphis and other points South. Their 

 new address is lOOo Marquette building. 



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O. O. Agler, secretary and treasurer of 

 the F. W. Upham Lumber Company, is 

 back in the harness again after two or 

 three months' absence on the east coast 

 for the benefit of his health. Mr. Agler 

 has fully recovered and the only sign that 

 he is not himself again is lo.vs of abouf 

 twenty-five pounds' weight. 



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Charles J. Starke and Charles Christian- 

 son of Arcadia and Manistee, Mich., re- 

 spectively, were a pair of visitors' to the 

 Chicago market this week, and inci- 

 dentally favored the Record office with a 

 call. 



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C. L. Adler, proprietor of 'the Adler 

 Lumber Company of Lyons, Ky., arrived 

 in Chicago Friday of this week after a 

 three weeks' visit among the trade in the 

 eas't. He reports trade quite active and 

 the "Superioi'" brand of flooring in ex- 

 cellent demand. 



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The Record office was favored this week 

 with a call from Mr. Schwamb, an old- 

 time hardwood lumberman of Chicago. 

 Mr. Schwamb has practically been in 

 business retirement since closing out 

 the Schwamb Lumber Company's business 

 here in 1S97. He has, however, interested 

 himself in lands in Idaho, which he be- 

 lieves will prove a good investment. 



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J. p. Schuh, formerly connected with 

 the Hardwood Export Company of Mt. 

 Vernon, Ala., is in the city this week call- 

 ing on friends in the ti-ade. 



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Thomas M'cFarland has been spending 

 a couple of weeks at his home in this city. 

 He returns to Cairo the earl.v part of next 

 week to look after business at that end 



of the line. 



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W. W. Whieldon, assistant surveyor- 

 general of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association, passed through Chicago 

 on his way home from an extended trip 

 throughout the South. He reports the 

 new rules of inspection as being favorably 

 regarded everywhere. 



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M'r. J. Edward Smoot of Memphis, who 

 used to be a log man "pure and simple," 

 has for the past six months been con- 

 nected with Heath, Witbeck & Co. of Chi- 

 cago as southern bu.ver. Mr. Smoot was 

 in Chicago this week and made a call at 

 this office. He said being a log man pure 



and simple was not what it had been rep- 

 resented to him. Being "pure" was a 

 great handicap and being "simple" was 



absolutely fatal. 



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Mr. J. B. Grant, southern representative 

 of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Buffalo, was in Chicago Thurs- 

 day on his way to South Haven, Mich^ 

 where he and his family will spend a few 

 weeks' vacation. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 

 It is probable that some definite action 

 toward a uniformity of terms of sale wilt 

 be taken by the trustees of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association in 

 the fall. A week or so ago Secretary E. 

 F. Perry went to Toledo, O., to be present 

 at a meeting of the committee on terms 

 of sale. The matter was thoroughly dis- 

 cussed from every sfanndpoint, those pres- 

 ent including, besides Mr. Perry, A. L. 

 Stone, of the Nicola-Stone Lumber Com- 

 pany, Cleveland; Mr. Mitchell, of the 

 Mitchell & Roland Lumber Company, To- 

 ledo; Wm. B. Mershon, Saginaw, Mich., 

 and E. B. Foss, Bay City, Mich. The 

 committee's recommendations will be acted 

 upon as .soon as the trustees meet. 



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That freight-rate war is on in earnest. 

 It has brought the figure for can-ying all 

 kinds of goods to South Africa from this 

 port to 10 shillings a ton, or about $2.50, 

 which is 21 shillings threepence less than 

 the lowest I'ate from London. One of the 

 new lines, though— the Houston— has just 

 secured contracts from the British South 

 Africa Company, the Rhodesia Railway, 

 the Consolidated Gold Mines, De Beers, 

 and all the affiliated firms, to ship all the 

 machinery and merchandise needed for 

 several years, and the result of this may 

 naturally be to end the war for good and 

 all, as 10 shillings is a niinous rate for 

 the service. 



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J. Q. Barker, of the Kanawha Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, Charleston, W. 

 Va., and Andrews, N. C, was a recent 

 New York visitor. 



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The majority of the creditors of the 

 Hawley Box Company, Eleventh avenue 

 and Thirty-fourth street, have agreed to a 

 composuion at 20 cents on the dollar, and 

 $7,100 cash has been deposited to pay it 

 Amended schedules show liabilities, $35,- 

 698, and assets, $19,777. 



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Mr. Whiting, who is the president of 

 the company, is enthusiastic over the 

 prospects of the fall season. He says the 

 mill has started nicely, and is to make a 

 specialty of hardwood trim and oak floor- 

 ing. They will shortly stiirt running botb 



night and day. 



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Besides those already mentioned, there 

 drifted into the metropolis during the past 

 fortnight; H. B. Curtin. of the Pardee &. 

 Curtin Lumber Company, Sutton, W. Va.; 



