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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



JOHN SCHOEN DEAD. 



The news ot the death of John A. Schoen, 

 which occurred Soptemher 0, while not al- 

 togeUier unexpected, was nevertlieloss a 

 shock to his many friends. John Schoen 

 will be missed In the councils of Uie trade, 

 for he was a hard-headed, broad-minded, 

 consers'ative. thinkinj; man. He was ex- 

 tremely popular In social and business cir- 

 cles aiid had the respect and esteem of 

 everyone who knew him. 



John A. Schoen was born July 8, 

 18C7, at Chicago, Illinois. He was a 

 SCrnduate of St. Ignatius' College and 

 attained the degree of bachelor of arts. 

 In 1887 and up to 1895 he was engaged 

 In the wholesale upholstering business un- 

 der the firm name of John A. Schcen 

 Lounge Company. Ill health obliged him 

 to wind up this prosperous and growing 

 business and seek refuge in New Mexico. 

 He lived there ten mouths and returned 

 to Chicago, apparently quite restored to 

 health. He at once became interested witli 

 his father and brother Joseph in Uie 

 wholesale hardwood lumber business— the 

 Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company— 

 and was president of the institution at the 

 time of his death. 



About nine months ago his old malady, 

 tuberculosis, again assailed him, and once 

 more he sought relief in the West, but 

 unfortunately failed to find It. He died 

 at Las Vega's, N. M., Tuesday, September 

 9, after a lingering illness. The funeral 

 was held Saturday from the home of his 

 parents. 555 Cleveland avenue, to St. 

 Michael's Church, where solemn high mass 

 was celebrated, thence by carriages to St. 

 Boniface Cemetery. 



At a meeting of the members of the 

 Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange last 

 Saturday afternoon, the following resolu- 

 tions on his death were unanimously 

 adopted : 



Whereas, The officers and members of 

 this organization have learned with sin- 

 cere sorrow of the death of our late asso- 

 ciate, John A. Schoen, of the firm of the 

 Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 who died at Las Vegas, N. M., Septem- 

 ber 9, and being desirous that the memory 

 of his life may be a matter of record of 

 this Kxchange, therefore be it 



Resolved, That we extend to Mrs. John 

 M. Schoeu, his children, and to the mem- 

 bers of his familiy, our loving sympatliy 

 and sorrow, and if It were possible would 

 gladly lift the burden that has fallen so 

 heavily upon them. 



Resolved, That while we reverently bow 

 to this decree of the Maker and Ruler of 

 all the earth, that we cannot but regret 

 to part with one of our members, so favor- 

 ably known and esteemed. 



Resolved, That these resolutions be 

 spread upon the records of the Chicago 

 Hardwood Lumber Exchange, and that 

 copies of same be transmitted to the fam- 

 ily of the deceased. 



Wisconsin Hardwood Association 



Annuatl Meeting. 



The Lansing Wheel Barrow Company of 

 Lansing, Jlich., has decided to add to its 

 plant a building In which steel scrapers 

 will be made. The new factory will cost 

 about $50,000. 



The AVisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 Association held its annual meeting at 

 Milwaukee on Sept. IG, 1902, and it proved 

 to be one of the most important hardwood 

 lumber meetings ever held. The attendance 

 was not so large as could have been de- 

 sired, but the firms represented were 

 among the vei-y best and most influential 

 in Wisconsin and they were thoroughly 

 united in taking the steps they did, all of 

 the large questions being carried unani- 

 mously. They passed the following resolu- 

 tions: 



Resolved, That we hereby endorse and 

 adopt the Inspection rules of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association as our 

 standard of inspection. 



Carried unanimously. 



They also adopted the further resolu- 

 tion: 



Resolved, That we approve and endorse 

 fhe plan of the inspection bureau of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



Carried unanimously. 



The adoption of the two resolutions 

 above is of added interest because the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States was represented at the 

 meeting by a large delegation of their 

 strongest men, endeavoring to defeat the 

 adoption of the National rules or endorse- 

 ment of the inspection bureau. Such men 

 as C. Crane of Cincinnati, F. C. Fisher 

 of Coal Grove, O., and half a dozen other 

 manufacturers and dealers were present 

 to defeat any attempt to endorse the Na- 

 tional association. The National associa- 

 tion was entirely unrepresented as an or- 

 ganization, except, of course, for the fact 

 that nil the members of the Wisconsin as- 

 sociation present are members of the Na- 

 tional association, and that Mr. M. M. 

 AVall, surveyor-general, was present as an 

 invited guest. 



Nevertheless, the Wisconsin men re- 

 mained firm and while they treated the 

 members of the Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of the United States with the utmost 

 courtesy and respect, they proceeded, while 

 their guests occupied seats in the back of 

 the assembly room, to go on record) in 

 favor of National inspection and endorsed 

 the National association more strongly 

 than it has ever been endorsed by any 

 association. 



This action is peculiarly gratifying to 

 the friends of uniform inspection, who 

 have been laboring, through the National 

 association, so faithfully, for the reason 

 that the Wisconsin association is really the 

 originator of uniform inspection, it hav- 

 ing called the first meeting for a confer- 

 ence on rules that ever was called, more 

 than two years before the National asso- 

 ciation was organized. There is no doubt 

 l3ut that the sentiment engendered at that 

 meeting spread out until it reached the 



uttermost parts of the hardwood trade and 

 resulted in the organization of the National 

 association. 



Furthermore, the rules of inspection 

 which the Wisconsin association presented 

 at that meeting in January, 189G, are al- 

 most identical with the rules adopted by 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion at St. Louis last May, showing that 

 the Wisconsin association was about six: 

 years ahead of the times. 



Eighty per cent of the members of the 

 Wisconsin association have joined the Na- 

 tional association and worked individually 

 to bring the inspection of the National as- 

 sociation to where the Wisconsin associa- 

 tion, as a body, could approve and adopt it. 

 That point was not reached until the pres- 

 ent time, but the Hardwood Manufacturers*^ 

 Association of the United States should 

 have known that the Wisconsin Hardwood 

 Lumbermen's Association, with its splen- 

 did record on that subject, was the last 

 place to go seeking aid and encouragement 

 in a move to defeat uniform inspection. 

 PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. 

 ■ Following is a detailed report of the 

 meeting: 



Promptly at 10:30 the meeting was called 

 to order by President H. 0. Humphrey. 



The roll call by Secretary M. J. Colby- 

 showed the following members present: 



Those present: 



H. C. Humphrey, G. W. Jones Lumber 

 Company, Appleton, Wis. 



M. J. Colby, Curtis & Yale Company, 

 Wausau, Wis. 



F. H. Pardee, Fenwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Wausau. Wis. 



B. F. McMillan, B. F. McMillan & Bro., 

 McMillan, Wis. 



W. J. Wagstaff, Oshkosh, Wis. 



Geo. H. Chapman. Northwestern Lum- 

 ber Company, Eau Claire, Wis. 



Fred Reitbrock. Reitbrock Lumber & 

 Land Company, Athens, Wis. 



C. P. Crosby, Rhinelander, Wis. 



C. K. Ellingson, Elliiigson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Stetsonville, Wis. 



Geo. E. Foster, Foster-Lattimer Lumber 

 Company, Mellen, Wis. 



O. O. Agler, F. W. Upham Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago. 



E. P. Arpin, Arpin Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, Wis. 



The president then read the following- 

 address: 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



The past year has been one of excep- 

 tional prosperity in the hardwood lumber 

 trade; there has been no overproduction 

 and the demand has been very active, with 

 prices steadily advancing since the first of 

 the year, a condition which has been emi- 

 nently satisfactory to the manufacturers 

 and which has. in a measure, enaliled them 

 to recover part of the loss they experienced 

 last winter, owing to the short logging 

 season and being unable to land all their 

 logs to the mill. We hope that the pres- 

 ent encouraging conditions may continue, . 

 but we would ask the members not to be- 

 come so thoroughly absorbed in business 

 as to lose sight of the fact that we have 

 a state association. Give it a little of 



