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tablislietl, the principal benefit of tlie Na- 

 tional association to tlie trade at large an'l 

 its members individually, comes from tlie 

 bringing together of the trade at the con- 

 ventions; and in order that those conven- 

 tions may be as largely attended and as 

 thoroughly representative as possible, the 

 association should be kept upon a thor- 

 oughly democratic basis. Whenever yon 

 begin to burden the association with this 

 thing and that tiling, and raise the dues 

 to meet the expenses, you are going to 

 lose ground. That, of course, is only my 

 personal opinion. 



And I believe that is all. 



ANOTHER MEMPHIS POEM. 



We don't knovr what is the reason but 

 nearly all the poetry we get comes from 

 Memphis. It may be the climate. It 

 might be the water, if the people down 

 tliere drank water. We get a poem from 

 Memphis nearly every day, but this is the 

 only one since that great effusion of June 

 Allen's that we have considered worthy of 

 publication. The writer asks us not to 

 publish his name, for reasons which you 

 will understand after you have read the 

 poem. The sentiment of the poem> is very 

 fine and will recall to the minds of many 

 of our readers the scenes of their youth. 

 The poet gets his "feef tangled consider- 

 ably, but that can easily be overlooked. 

 People frequently get their feet tangled in 

 Memphis. 



We trust that the other hardwood poets 

 of Memphis will not take offense that we 

 publish this poem after rejecting theirs. 

 If they will read and study this poem 

 carefully they will see how siiperior it is, 

 and they will strive to improve. 



We have every desire to encourage the 

 aspirations of the Memphis lumbermen and 

 to that end have decided to offer as a prize 

 a year's subscription to the Record for the 

 best poem submitted to us by a Jl'emphis 

 lumberman or employe of a lumberman be- 

 fore next Christmas. June Allen barred 

 on account of being a professional. 



THE OLD-TIME SAW MILU 

 By Memphis Inspector. 



In a valley, siecluded and lonesome. 

 Where wailed the whippooi-^-ill, 



Recollections of pioneer days 

 Call back the old saw mill. 



The primitive times of long ago, 

 When timber was virgin and fine; 



Not a tree, even walnut, was selected 

 Save clear and straight as a line. 



The old saw mill was a factory crude; 



Water the power, with overshot wheel; 

 The machinery Was mostly of wood; 



Manner of sawing, hard to reveal. 



The saw, ancient sash saw, worked 

 Vertically in groove, not space; 



Cut in movement downward only, 

 Backing while ascending into place. 



Slow and lazy the old saw sawed. 



The laborers numbered few men; 

 While the saw was making "a line" 



The sawyer filled the places of ten. 



The old saw sawed, and sawed, and sawed, 

 An hour, many times, on a board. 



If the log was large and lengthy 



The wood wheels squeaked with their 

 load. 



How different now the mills of to-day. 

 Steam feeds, band saws double cutting; 



Ocean greyhounds over crafts which sail 

 Show not advancement more fitting. 



These factories and mills complete 

 Are clearing the forests with a will; 



Are typical American industries'. 

 How modem to the old saw mill. 



But in memory's picture land, 

 In a wooded valley, under a hill. 



Returns a scene of early days. 

 And we think of the old saw mill. 



LOCAL GOSSIP. 



P. N. Jaynes, of the Hobe-Jaynes Lum- 

 Vier Company of Minneapolis, was in Chi- 

 cago most of the past two weeks and fav- 

 ored the Record otHce with a visit. Mr. 

 Jaynes states that the ha;rdwood situation 

 in the Northwest is extremely gratify- 

 ing. The demand, he says, has been 

 steady all year and the prospects are for 



lietter business in the fall. 



* * * 



Mr. A. R. Vinnedge, of Vinnedge Bros., 

 and the efficient secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, is spend- 

 ing his vacation in the East. He will be 

 away from business two or three weeks. 



* * * 



George F. Johnson, manager of the 

 (^uinnesec Log & Lumber Company of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., showed up in Chicago this 

 week. He says they have succeeded in 

 accumulating a pretty fairly complete line 

 of hardwoods, which they are now offer- 

 ing for sale. 



* * * 



J. Y. Stimson, manufacturer of hard- 

 woods at Huntingburg, Ind., and Owens- 

 boro, Ky., was in Chicago this week. Mr. 

 Stim.son states that trade with him has 

 been good all season, and that as a fact 

 he was completely sold out of everything 

 in shipping condition, except a lot of 1-inch 



common white oak. 



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H. M. Nixon, president of the H. M. 



Nixon Lumber Company of this city, is on 



the sick list, but is expected back at the 



office the arst of the coming week. 



* * * 



Otto Meyer, representing the Bonsack 



Lumber Company of St. Louis, paid the 



Record office a call Wednesday of this 



week. 



» # * 



T. J. Christian, assistant general man- 

 ager of the Fullertou-Powell Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., 

 spent a few days this week among fhe 



Chicago trade. Tom says business is tip- 

 top and that his nine-year-old son nolmes 

 is the champion boy fisher of the state. 

 The youngster captured a five-pound bass 

 a few days ago at Lake Maxinkuckee. 



* * • 



H. C. Jackson, sales agent of the Michi- 

 gan Maple Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 has been visiting the trade around Chi- 

 cago the past two weeks. Mr. Jackson 

 says the supply of marketable maple 

 throughout Michigan is growing very low. 



* * • 



P. A. Gordon has resigned his position 

 as traveling salesman with the Fullerton- 

 Powell Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 South Bend, Ind. He has not definitely 

 allied himself in a new position, but is 

 contemplating a connection with a yellow 

 pine concern after a short rest. 



* * a 



Charles H. Barnaby of Grcencastle, Ind., 

 whose reputation for finely manufactured 

 quartered white oak is well known in the 

 lumber trade, is just returned from an ex- 

 tensive trip around the lakes. The lake 

 trip was made from Buffalo to Chicago and 

 included a short stay at all the important 

 intermediate points. Barnaby says it was a 

 fine outing and that he is going back 

 home so fresh that he will probably break 

 a hame string when he starts pulling 

 again. He has just recently added two 

 veneer machines to his plant and will be 

 on the market with quartered oak veneers 



in a short time. 



* # * 



W. H. Russe, of Russe & Burgess, was 

 in attendance at the meeting, Tuesday, of 

 the Ti-afflc Bureau, of which committee he 

 is chairman. He spent a day with his 

 family, who are at the South- Haveil 

 (Mich.) resort for the summer and will 

 later on take a more extended rest there. 



* a * 



Frank F. Fish, president Foster Lumber 

 Mercantile Agency, left this week for an 

 extended business trip to the Pacific 

 Coast. The nature of his errand is, of 

 course, to extend the influence and busi- 

 ness of the Blue Book. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 

 H. C. Magruder, dealer in hardwoods 

 at Fourth and Lewis streets, this city, has 

 been appointed the eastern agent for the 

 oak flooring and other hardwoods manu- 

 factured by the M. B. Farrin Lumber Com- 

 pany of Cincinnati. Mr. Magi'uder will 

 retain his present offices until he finds 

 more commodious and handsome quarters 



uptown. 



• * * 



Interesting hardwood insurance news 

 was brought from Buffalo by R. H. Mc- 

 Kelvey, of the Lumber IT ndcr writers. No. 

 66 Broadway, recently. He tells of a meet- 

 ing of the hardwood people up there, 

 headed by Orson Yeager and Angus Mc- 

 Lean, protesting against the increased 

 rates and indorsing the work done by the 

 Underwriters and by the Mutuals. The 



