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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



GIVE HIM KOPE. 

 When something liko three years ngo 

 the Northwestern Luml)erman and Tim- 

 berman were driven to a point where the 

 consolidation into the American Lumber- 

 man became absohitcly necessary, the 

 Hardwood Record made a prediction. It 

 predicted that, should Mr. Defebaugh, a? 

 editor of the American Lumberman, pur- 

 sue the policy which had made his former 

 paper, The Timberman, infamous, it, the 

 Hardwood Record, would within three 

 years be called upon to place a wreath 

 •upon the grave of the American Lumber- 

 man, a.s It had done for the Timberman. 

 But he did not pursue the policy of the 

 Timberman. The hard drubbing he re- 

 ceived during the last period of that pa- 

 per's existence had taught him a lesson; 

 and having extricated himself from the 

 embarrassments in which his monstrous 

 vanitj- had entangled him, he, for a period, 

 conducted the new paper with circumspec- 

 tion and decency. During that interval, 

 having a large field practically to himself, 

 he brought the new paper to a condition 

 of prosperity and inllueuce. For Defe- 

 baugh. with his vanity held in leash, has 

 ability of a certain kind. That ability had 

 rapidly built up the Timberman to a cer- 

 tain point, but his seems a character which 

 cannot stand prosperity. He has now 

 brought the American Lumberman to the 

 point at which the Timberman began to 

 decline, and, as in the former instance, his 

 true character is developing in all its 

 Tinloveliness. At present, as in the former 

 period, he appears to have reached a point 

 where he believes his position is secure 

 enough that he may do as he pleases. 

 And when Defebaugh does as he pleases 

 there are things doing. 



The Record has been watching his symp- 

 toms closely. So long as the lesson of the 

 decline and fall of the Timberman was 

 fresh in his mind he behaved himself, and 

 ■we let him alone. As he mounted higher 

 and higher, however, we knew the out- 

 lircak would come. And, sure enough, it 

 has. During tlie past six months Defe- 

 baugh has made more different kinds of 

 a donkey of himself than in any other pe- 

 riod of equal duration. 



During this past six months he has in- 

 ■sultcd. in the most llagraut manner, friends, 

 «nd powerful frieuds, who stood by him 

 through his troubles of several years ago 

 ■when he was too nard pressed to be ar- 

 rogant; he has at meetings of lumbermen 

 •dictated, or attempted to dictate, the poU- 

 ■cles which should be pursued and the men 

 -who should hold the offices, saying to this 

 man, "You can't have luis" and to an- 

 other, "You must do that;" but the most 

 significant symptom in his case is his east- 

 ing aside of all disguise and coming boldly 

 forth in his old attitude to the hardwood 

 trade. 



For Defebaugh has an especial bitter- 

 ness against the hardwood trade. It was 



the hardwood trade which, in the old days, 

 led the revolt against him which resulted 

 in his overthrow. The hardwood trade re- 

 pudiated him and cast him out. It sat 

 upon him hard and often, and Defebaugh 

 hasn't forgotten it, as his recent actions 

 show. His recent attempt to split the 

 hardwood trade by the organization of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States, and thereby to de- 

 feat the movement for uniform inspection 

 of hardwood lumber, to which the whole 

 trade has been bending its energies for 

 a number of years, stands, for its boldness 

 and utter disregard for public opinion and 

 public welfare, absolutely without parallel 

 in the history of trade journalism. 



He opposed the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association in the earliest stages 

 of its existence, and endeavored to start 

 a counter movement iu the Mississippi Val- 

 ley Hardwood Manufacturers' dissociation. 

 At that time, however, the Record had had 

 a two years' -svhirl at him, and had him 

 groggy, 'and the esteemed Timberman was 

 on the toboggan; and he covered his tracks 

 better. The very boldness of his endeavor 

 to push his new organization shows what 

 confidence he has in his present position, 

 and that his character is weak in the same 

 old spots. 



For at the recent meeting of his asso- 

 ciation in Chicago he took absolute pos- 

 session of it. All other newspaper men 

 were excluded from the deliberations. The 

 representatives of four other lumber pa- 

 pers, as clean, able and influential as any 

 four trade papers iu any line of ousiness 

 in the United States, cooled their heels in 

 the lobby, cards sent up with requests for 

 admission being returned with the state- 

 ment that the association was in execucive 

 session, and they could not be admitted; 

 and yet Defebaugh. and two members of 

 the staff of the American Lumberman 

 were in the room all the time. 



The old fight between Defebaugh and 

 the Hardwood trade is on again, only 

 this time it will be of shorter duration. 

 In the former unpleasantness the hard- 

 wood trade was almost entirely without 

 organization ; to-day, with its various state 

 and local associations, all united and act- 

 ing harmoniously through the National As- 

 sociation, the hai-dwood trade is the best 

 organized of any portion of the lumber 

 trade, and Defebaugh will find it so. 

 The jolt he got in Wisconsin will hold him 

 for awhile. 



Another thing is that in the former un- 

 pleasantness the Hardwood Record was 

 the "Whitewashers' Gazette" to a good 

 many hardwood lumbermen; to-day the 

 Hardwood Record has the confidence and 

 esteem of ten men in the trade -where the 

 American Lumberman has that of one; 

 and Defebaugh will find that out as he 

 goes journeying along. 



Another thing is that in the former un- 

 pleasantness the other lumber papers, not 



knowing, in the chaotic conditions thtn 

 prevailing, what was right and what 

 wrong, practically remained neutral; to-day 

 the other lumber papers are united with 

 the Record for justice and decency. And 

 that's another thing Defebaugh will learn 

 as he goes journeying along. 



Another thing is that the position of the 

 American Lumberman is not so strong 

 as was the position of the Timberman at 

 the beginning of the former unpleasant- 

 ness. The lumber trade know Defebaugh 

 better. They know that Defebaugh, the 

 vain and unscrupulous, is an unsafe man 

 to have at the head of such a paper as the 

 American Lumberman. So we do not ex- 

 pect the conflict to be of great duration; 

 and we have our ■wreath ready. 



A CORRECTION. 



tn the last issue of the Record our Mem- 

 phis correspondent stated that the "Frit- 

 chard Lumber Company" of Indianapolis 

 had leased the yard at Memphis formerly 

 occupied by C. C. Mengel, Jr., & Bro. 

 Company of Louisville, Ky., etc. This was 

 a mistake, due to an item which had ap- 

 peared in a Memphis daily paper. The 

 yard was leased by Mr. J. M. Pritchard. 

 but it was leased for the Long-Knight 

 Lumber Company of Indianapolis, of 

 ■which Mr. Pritchard is part owner. They 

 have leased the yard mentioned and will 

 operate extensively in that territory. 



The Long-Knight Lumber Company is 

 one of the oldest hardwood firms of In- 

 diana, having been established by H. C. 

 Long, one of the pioneers in the hardwood 

 lumber trade. It is known throughout In- 

 Indiana for its financial strength, reliability 

 and fair dealing, and we most heartily 

 commend it to the trade of Memphis and 

 tl« South, although it is nearly as well 

 known in that vicinity as is the Record. 



The management and principal owner- 

 ship of the company is vested in W. W. 

 ICnight, president, and J. M. Pritchard, 

 secretary, both young men of sterling char- 

 acter, thorough lumbermen and gentlemen 

 in every sense of the word. The Mem- 

 phis yard will be in charge of Mr. J. M. 

 Pritchard. 



MARRIED. 



At Marinette, Wis., September 10, Jlr. 

 Henry Perry Dutton, son of Col. W. B. 

 Dutton of Racine, Wis., to Miss Winifred 

 Hancock Wright, daughter of Mr. and 

 ]\Irs. J. K. Wright of Marinette. 



The wedding was the event of the sea- 

 son and was attended by a large number 

 of people from Milwaukee, Racine, Green 

 Bay, De Pere, Iron Mountain, as well as 

 the society people of Marinette. 



The bridal couple left on the 8 p. m. 

 train for an extended northwestern trip, 

 caiTying with them the best wishes of a 

 large circle of friends. 



The groom is connected with C. H. 

 Worcester & Co., cedar manufacturers of 

 Marinette, Wis. 



