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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



and opportunity. It has the will all right. 

 So long as the trade is as solidly organized 

 as it is to-day that paper is powerless; 

 liut it has tried, is trying and will never 

 (■e;ise trying, to bring discortl and dissen- 

 sion into the ranks; and when it succeeds, 

 if it ever does— hut there! I hope it never 

 will. 



.\nd that is a lirief but true account of 

 the origin, rise and progress of the Chi- 

 cago Hardwood lAimber Exchange. 



LOCAL GOSSIP. 



F. D. Smith, one of the proprietors and 

 active manager of F. R. Crane & Co., of 

 this eit.v, is combining a little business 

 with pleasure in a trip East and South by 

 cast. He ^^■ill be gone for two or three 



weeks. 



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George Thamer, of the Empire Lumber 

 Company, is taking his vacation on the 

 installment plan. He spent last Sunday 

 with his family, who are enjoying the 

 lireezes at I-ake Geneva in Wisconsin. 

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George Korg, tlie very efficient managi'r 

 of the Ward Lumber Company's plant at 

 Itosedale, Miss., is spending this week in 

 Chicago, conferring at headquarters and 

 visiting among old friends. Mr. Kerg 

 states that the Ward Lumber Company 

 have the largest stock of cottonwood lum- 

 lier in the South, approximately G.OO0,0(t(l 

 leet on sticks. They are also well prepared 

 lor any contingency that might arise to 

 prevent logging operations, having nearly 

 two million feet of logs on the river bank 

 ;ind mill yard at Rosedale. The Ward 

 Lumber Company are producin.g about 

 4(».(iOO feet per day at this point alone, but 

 are not increasing their stock any, since 

 shipments average aliout the same as the 



dail.v production. 



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Harry Saxton, of the firm of Saxton & 

 Co.. Knoxville, Tenn.. is fating a belated 

 vacation this year, owing to the fact that 

 his attention has beeu required at home 

 the greater part of the summer, where 

 tliey have just completed the erection of a 

 new saw mill. He arrived in Chicago the 

 early part of this week, accompanied by 

 his wife, and left Tuesday for a trip 



around the lakes. 



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Mr. E. W. Robbins, of the firm of Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Company of Cincin- 

 nati, was in the city two or three days 

 this week on business. Mr. Robbins re- 

 turned less than a month ago from Cuba, 

 where his firm are heavily interested in 

 mohogany operations. He had completed 

 a vacation of two weelvs before his arrival 

 in Chicago, with a party of friends from 

 (Mncinnati, just north of Detroit. This is 

 on par with a jump from the Infernal 

 Regions to Paradise. 



Frank Robertson, the junior member of 

 the firm of Goodlander-Robertson Lumber 

 Company of Memphis, Tenn., spent a week 



in Chicago and surro\indiug territory. He 

 reports business with them as very satis- 

 factory and trade prospects from the Mem- 

 phis point of view altogether flattering. 



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M. Roeder, for a long time lumber pur- 

 fhasing agent for the Brunswick-R.-ilke 

 Collender Company, but for the past three 

 years in the wholesale and commission 

 hardwood lumber business on his own ac- 

 count, is (luitting the lumber business and 

 Chicago. He will leave next Tuesday for 

 Idaho, where he contemplates locating and 

 eventually becoming a farmer. Mr. Roeder 

 was highly regarded in the trade here as 

 an honest, industrious man and none but 

 will join tlie Record in wishing him peace 

 and prosperity in his new field of en- 

 deavor. 



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Mr. R. T. Witbeck, of Heath, Witbeck 

 iV: Co., is laid up with typhoid (ever. He 

 has been confined to his bed for a little 

 more than two weeks and is barely started 

 on the road to recovery. 



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Geo. W. Stoneman & Co. have accumu- 

 lated a sufficient stock of mahogany and 

 oak veneers since their advent into that 

 branch of the business, about three months 

 ago, to warrant them in making special 

 efforts to extend their trade lines. Mr. 

 Noble, the veneer man of the firm, is on 

 a trip in the Northwest for that purpose. 

 Meanwhile Mr. Stoneman is exhibiting the 

 layout at this end. 



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S. J. Vinnedge & Co. is the style of a 

 new wholesale hardwood lumlier firm 

 which has opened an office in this city next 

 door to the Record office. Mr. Vinnedge 

 is an old-time Indiana lumlA;rman, and 

 was formerly connected with the firm of_ 

 Vinnedge Bros, of this city. Some ten 

 years ago he disposed of his interests in 

 that firm, since which time he has not been 

 actively engaged in business. They ex- 

 liect to do a general wholesale hardwood 

 lumber business. 



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Mr. Decker, of the McKinnie Lumber 

 & Veneer Company of Paducah, Ky., was 

 in Chicago last week for a day or two. 

 He brought his family with him and left 

 them at the Chicago Reach Hotel to en- 

 joy a few weeks' of Chicago's matchless 

 weather. Mr. Decker is, as one of his 

 Chicago friends said, "a man who will 

 take anywhere." On hearing which. Mr. 

 Desker added, "or anything." He is a 

 big. good-looking man, and attributes most 

 of his success in the lumber business to 

 the fact that he is a suliscriber to the 

 Hardwood Record. 



It is stated that the firm of Blair & 

 Failey will dissolve and discontinue the 

 manufacture of staves and heading. They 

 have been operating a plant at Evans- 

 ville and Terre Haute, Ind. The Evans- 

 ville plant has already closed down and 

 .will go out of commission shortly. 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 



Walter T. Hart, of Price & Hart, hard- 

 woods, of 18 Broadway, returned last 

 ^\•eek from a trip through the West and 

 South, which lasted about ten days, and 

 which was of a most comprehensive na- 

 ture. The main impression of his trip, and 

 the one which he brought home with him, 

 was that there have been fewer occasions 

 when the stocks of hardwoods at the mills 

 were lighter than they are at the present 



tinie. 



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Again during the past fortnight was F. 

 R. Whiting, the genial president of the 

 Whiting Lumber Company of Elizabeth- 

 ton, Tenn.. a visitor to the metropolis. Mr. 

 Whiting is cutting two million feet a 

 month o£ choice hardwoods, not to men- 

 tion white pine, and as he manages to 

 dispose of it all, one can believe his as- 

 sertion that trade is good. 



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About the middle of September will wit- 

 ness a meeting in tliis city between rep- 

 resentatives of the National Wholes;! le 

 Lumlier Dealers' Association and the sec- 

 retaries of the seven eastern retail asso- 

 ciations over tlie question of trade rela- 

 tions. The retail secretaries meet this 

 week at New Haven and later will be rep- 

 resented at the Retail Secretaries' Asso- 

 ciation meeting in Chicago on September 

 6 and 8. Plans will then be perfected 

 and a date set for the meeting here. 



W. W. Reilley, the popular Buffalo (N. 

 Y.) hardwood dealer, was a recent metro- 

 politan visitor. From New York he hur- 

 ried to New England to spend his vaca- 

 tion thei'o. 



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Recent visitors, aside from those already 

 mentioned, were; W. D. Youngs, of W. 

 D. Youngs & Co., West Bay City, Mich.: 

 Thos. Stroug, of the Skillings, Whitney 

 & Barnes Company. Ogdensbui'g, N. Y. ; 

 T. B. Blades, of the Blades Lumber Com- 

 pany, Elizabeth City, N. C; C. H. Bond, 

 of Rathbun & Co., Oswego, N. Y.; E. C. 

 Mershon, Saginaw, Mich.; Pendennis 

 ^\'hite. North Tonawanda, N. Y.; H. E. 

 Bates, of E. A. Souder & Co., Philadel- 

 phia; C. D. Crandall, Big Rapids, JIi<h.; 

 H. B. Hewes, of the Jeanerette Lumbe?- 

 & Shingle Company, Jeanerette, La., and 

 J, F. Batchelor, of the Batchelor" Cypress 

 Lumber Company, Panasofifkee, Fla. 



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Quite a number of well-known New 

 York lumber dealers attended the ball 

 game at Philadelphia on August 27 be- 

 tween teams of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change and the Master Builders' Exchange 

 of the Quaker City. They went to Gci- 

 mantown Junction cu a special train and 

 said they would have enjoyed the trip 

 even if the lumber dealers had not won 

 by a score of nine to eight. 



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Secretiiry E. F. Perry, of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. 



