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HARDWOOD RECORD 



will attend the concatenation at Cumberland, 

 Md., to be held by Vicegerent R. W. Oswald, re- 

 appointed for the western district of Maryland. 



In the meantime Wm. T. Kuhns, present vice- 

 gerent at Baltimore, has issued a circular calling 

 a meeting of the members there looking to co- 

 operation with Mr. Stephenson in promoting in- 

 terest there. Mr. Kuhns has in this the co- 

 operation of Maurice W. Wiley, who has always 

 been a good woriier at Baltimore, and he will 

 have the assistance and co operation of John L. 

 Alcock as soon as the latter gentleman returns 

 from a trip to England. 



Aft^r these meetings and conferences Mr. 

 Stephenson will proceed to New York, then to 

 Boston, and on the way back will take in Buf- 

 falo, Cleveland and other points where Hoo-Hoo 

 activities have been put under way. 



Local Lumber Fire 



On Monday evening a fire starting in the 

 shavings chute of a three-story brick building 

 in West Twenty-first street, between Throop and 

 T.oomis, occupied by George Pagel, sash, door 

 and blind manufacturer, and Jacob Huether, 

 maker of ice cream pails, resulted in the de- 

 struction of the building with a total loss of 

 between $75,000 and $100,000. Fortunately the 

 fire was confined to the one building, but it was 

 a narrow escape for the surrounding structures 

 and the numerous lumber yards of the West 

 .Side lumber district. 



Win Prize in Industrial Parade 



The evening of October 18 was surely an 

 Atkins night at Indianapolis. The occasion was 

 the great industrial parade given by the business 

 men of central Indiana. All the big industries 

 were represented by suitable and attractive floats 

 and other displays. The parade was over seven 

 miles in length, with thousands of contestants 

 for first prize. We show herewith the prize 

 winner, and, as usual, it is "Atkins Always 



Result of Liverpool Timber Sales 



The recent sales at the Liverpool market were 

 attended by representatives of most of the largest 

 firms in Great Britain and also by numerous 

 influential Americans. Owing to an unusually 

 Iceen competition for the various lots presented, 

 there was scarcely any perceptible falling off 

 in prices. One firm suggests that wood for the 

 coming sales be forwarded slightly more readily 

 than heretofore. Supplies generally during the 

 month of September came forward in fairly 

 liberal quantities, though it is reported that the 

 slight improvement in business during the first 

 part of the month was more or less checked 



;|i; ATKINS' PRIZE WIXMNG FLOAT IN INDIANAPOLIS INDUSTRIAL PARADE. 



Ahead." The Atkins division covered fully three 

 city squares. It was led by the Atkins Drum 

 Corps, followed by over 600 marchers. Then 

 came the prize-winning float which represented 

 the universe, in the center of which rested the 

 earth, through which passed a mammoth hand 

 saw twenty-five feet in length. Around the float 

 was a twenty-inch band saw, double cut, seventy- 

 five feet long, on which was Inscribed the legend, 

 "We Go Around the World." Sitting at the cor- 

 ners and just visible above the clouds were four 

 beautiful young ladies appropriately dressed, 

 representing respectively North and South Amer- 

 ica, Europe and the Orient. Following this was 

 a mammoth car thirty feet long, on which skilled 

 workmen were going through the various proc- 

 esses in the manufacture of saws, such as filing, 

 hammering, fitting, etc. At the rear arose a 

 large tempering furnace, from which red fire 

 belched forth as the door was opened. It was 

 but another demonstration of the fact that what- 

 ever the Atkins company undertakes to do Is 

 done successfully. 



by labor disturbances. Very firm prices have pre- 

 vailed. 



The arrivals of round logs of ash from the 

 United States have been small, but the stock on 

 baud is still heavy and moves slowly. A fair 

 amount of ash lumber has been received, though 

 a slight demand and unchanged prices still pre- 

 vail. Altogether the imports of ash have been 

 more than sufficient to fill the demand. 



The prices of black walnut logs of good quality 

 and size are unusually satisfactory, though small 

 logs of poorer grade are not inquired for. The 

 arrivals have been light. The majority of the 

 planks and hoards received have been of medium 

 or poor grade, and the price received has been 

 only ordinary. There is still a heavy stock on 

 hand, especially in the lower grade. 



The chestnut market remains unchanged, while 

 prime clean hickory butts are sought after and 

 tommand good prices. 



Good quality oak planks of good dimensions 

 show an increased demand, though, as usual, in- 

 ferior stock is not wanted. This is especially 



true of coflin planks, while the outlook for oak 

 planks is also good. The arrivals of round 

 southern. oak have been light and come to an un- 

 changed market. Waney logs from Baltimore, of 

 large dimensions and good quality are scarce 

 and sell at a good figure. The stock of boards, 

 I.rincipally of medium and lower grades, is long. 

 Inferior quality poplar logs are dilHcult to dis- 

 pose of, but logs of good quality and size are 

 wanted. Poplar lumljer is in fair demand, though 

 low-grade stuff is too plentiful at present, which 

 tends to depress prices. There is fair business 

 in the best grades of gum. while bay poplar is 

 exceedingly quiet, prices being about as previous. 

 Cypress and California redwood show small sales 

 and fairly firm prices, while the stave market has 

 had but a small import with unchanged (piota- 

 tions. 



Chicago Switching on New Basis 



The beginning of a new era in the industrial 

 development of Cliicago, as well as in the rela- 

 tions between shippers and the railroads, is seen 

 by representatives of both sides in an agreement 

 on a new schedule of uniform switching rates 

 and rules for the Chicago district. The agree- 

 ment has been reached by committees represent- 

 ing the Chicago Association of Commerce, the 

 Illinois Manufacturers' Association, and the Chi- 

 cago Board of Trade and the principal railroads 

 entering the city. 



It was announced on Nov. 7 that the central 

 Idea of the agreement Is that Chicago rates shall 

 apply from all points within the Chicago switch- 

 ing district as defined by the rules — that Is, that 

 every industry is entitled to the published freight 

 rate to or from the city without additional charges, 

 such as switching or per diem, etc., and that 

 uniform and reasonable rates shall be charged 

 for handling cars from one point to another 

 within the district. 



Thus a location in one part of the city will be 

 as favorable for an Industry as far as the rates 

 are concerned as in another, as the Chicago rate 

 on shipments into or out of the city will include 

 delivery, and as the rates for switching between 

 points in the city will be the same instead of 

 varying as heretofore, according to the practice 

 of individual roads. 



It is predicted that this will mean an impor- 

 tant stimulus to the industrial growth of the 

 city, as the extent to which the charges will be 

 absorbed by the railroads will be greater than In 

 any other city. 



While the rates fixed by the agreement are 

 higher than those named by the commission, the 

 committees representing the shippers have agreed 

 that they arc fair and reasonable. 



The rules state that Chicago rates are to ap- 

 ply on all carload traffic to and from all indus- 

 tries, warehouses, and elevators provided with 

 private sidings and located within the Chicago 

 territory, the line bringing the traffic into or 

 taking the traffic out of the district to absorb 

 such connecting line switching charges as may 

 be necessary to make delivery to or receive from 

 such industries, warehouses, and elevators, when 

 the freight charges are $15 per car or more. 



Mammoth New Japanese Paper MiU 



From Consul-Gcneral Thomas Sammons, Yoko- 

 hama, comes news of a $4,000,000 paper mill 

 which has been established at Tomakamai, in 

 Hokkaido, Japan, completed in August, 1910. 

 This is the most important individual commer- 

 cial enterprise of this natuVe in the far East. 

 Only one foreigner is employed, being an Ameri- 

 can who was sent out to assist in installing 

 the paper making machinery. 



The cost of the paper making machinery in this 

 plant is placed at $1,000,000. Of this all 

 but 3 per cent, it is stated, was purchased in 

 America. An inspection of the plant shows that 

 all the heavy machinery — in fact, practically all 

 of the machinery proper — was manufactured by 

 well-known paper mill machinery establishments 

 in the United States, mostly by the Bagley- 



