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wood Manufacturers' Association of tlie United 

 States. 



Lewis Doster. secretary of tiie Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 snatciied a few hours from iiis busy sanctum to 

 run over to Indianapolis Tuesday, January 17, 

 to look in on tlie Indiana Hardwood Lum- 

 bermen's Association convention in session at 

 tlie Denison Hotel, and extend an invitation to 

 attend the great convention in this city on 

 January 31 and February 1. 



The coming convention of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers of the United States is the one theme 

 of conversation now. Committees are worthing 

 to extend a proper welcome to the visiting dele- 

 gates, while the entire office force is overwhelmed 

 with work getting out literature. The program 

 is nearing completion, and will embrace most 

 interesting and attractive features. From present 

 indications the attendance will exceed that of 

 a year ago, and much good will be accomplished. 



The Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati, 

 which has been visited and admired by hun- 

 dreds of lumbermen of the country, and thought 

 to he as impregnable as Gibraltar, was destroyed 

 by fire on the night of Januar.y 10, the de- 

 struction being complete. The disaster was due 

 to faulty construction, and after burning for 

 about thirty minutes under the roof, the entire 

 building collapsed. The loss is about $.S50,000. 

 So confident was the directory of the chamber 

 in its indestructibility, that only $125,000 was 

 placed in insurance. There remained about 

 .$12.5.000 in bonded indebtedness so the plant will 

 be practically a total loss. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & White left Jan- 

 uar.y 19, for Memphis and the South, where he 

 will remain for two weeks. T. J. White is tour- 

 ing the Ohio and Indiana circuit. 



W, S. Sterrett, former head of the Sterrett 

 Lumber Company, will return February 1 to his 

 "old love," and become sales manager for the 

 Farrin-Korn Lumber Company. The Sterrett 

 Lumber Compan.v has discontinued business. 



Ralph McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company, returned January 20 from the state 

 convention at Indianapolis, and was up to his 

 ears in the accumulated mail. W. E. DeLaney, 

 who has been out on the road for a week past, 

 returned to his desk on Januar.y 2,3. He is the 

 chairman of the Entertainment Committee of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, and will 

 be a very busy man for the next ten days. 



Lewis Doster. secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, has secured for the 

 use of the convention, all the committee rooms 

 from 901 to 007 on the convention floor of the 

 Sinton Hotel, so that there will be plenty of 

 room for the committees to work. 



The Bayou Land & Lumber Company has re- 

 moved its oflices from the Mitchell building to 

 .301 and 303 Neave building, at Fourth and 

 Race streets. President C. S. Walker, after the 

 collapse of the Chamber of Commerce building, 

 which is next door to the Mitchell building, lost 

 confidence in the stability of that tall structure 

 and immediately set about hunting a new and 

 safer location. 



The Business Men's Club opened up club 

 headquarters on the second floor of the Grand 

 Hotel January 19, having rented the entire sec- 

 ond floor. This will remain the club house until 

 the completion of a new building. Arrangements 

 are now on between the directors of the Chamber 

 of Commerce and the directors of the Business 

 Men's Club which may result in a combination to 

 build a more commodious building on the site 

 of the ruins of the old chamber. Already senti- 

 ment is crystallizing in favor of rebuilding by 

 retaining the massive granite walls, which re- 

 main intact. 



turers, has been elected a director of the 

 Fletcher-American National Bank. 



Notice has been filed with the Indiana secre- 

 tary of state that the Tibbits-Cameron Lumber 

 Company of Milwaukee has withdrawn from 

 all business transactions in the state. 



The Parry Automobile Company has been 

 sold at receiver's sale to interests that organized 

 the Motor Car Manufacturing Company, with 

 an authorized capitalization of $7,'i,000. The 

 purchase price was $50,000. About 1,000 cars 

 will be built this year. 



During the last month the following lumber- 

 men have .ioined the Indianapolis Commercial 

 Club : N. W. Nordyko, treasurer of the Adams 

 & Raymond Veneer Company ; L. H. Griswold, 

 lumber broker ; H. .T. Barnard, general manager 

 Central Veneer Company ; W. C. Headley, repre- 

 senting J. J. Newman Lumber Company, St. 

 Louis : Wallace L. Wolf of the Nicola, Stone & 

 Myers Company, Cincinnati, and Ross 'S. Hill, 

 Jr., secretary-treasurer of the Dynes Lumber 

 Company. 



MEMPHIS 



INDIANAPOLIS 



F. M. Bachman, president of the F. M. Bach- 

 man Company, lumber and veneer manufac- 



There has been seme rain and cold weather 

 in this territory during the past few days, but 

 it has caused no interruption in the operation 

 of such hardwood plants as were well supplied 

 with timber. The car situation is somewhat 

 improved, and the streams in this territory 

 present a slightly more satisfactor.v water 

 stage, which is another factor in favor of the 

 logging interests. 



Manufacturers here continvie to operate wher- 

 ever possible. It has already been intimated that 

 there is some forced curtailment, but it may 

 be said that there is no voluntary reduction of 

 output, the tendency being in the opposite direc- 

 tion. The demand on the whole has shown 

 some increase and encouraging reports are heard 

 from consuming centers. Railroads are show- 

 ing a greater interest in both lumber and timber 

 as a result of more extensive construction work 

 under way and the increase in their equipment. 



Application has been filed here for a charter 

 for the Phillip A. Ryan Lumber Compauy, which 

 has a capital stock of .$50,000 and which will 

 engage in the hardwood lumber business at this 

 point. Phillip A. Ryan is the moving spirit in 

 the new company, while associated with him are 

 James E. Ryan. Margaret Ryan, J. D. L. Whit- 

 aker and Mark -\. Brown. Readers of Hardwood 

 Record are familiar with the recent trade where- 

 by J. V. Stimson of the Ryan-Sfimson Lumber 

 Company, bought out the interest of Mr. Ryan. 

 This left Jlr. Ryan without any interest in the 

 hardwood lumber industry of this section, and 

 he immediately proceeded to the organization of 

 a company bearing his own name. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis is looking 

 forward with much pleasure to the coming of the 

 semi-annual convention of the National Associa- 

 tion of Box Manufacturers to be held here Feb- 

 ruary 15, 16, and 17, and elaborate prepara- 

 tions are being made for the entertainment of 

 the delegates thereto. This work is in charge 

 of the Entertainment Committee of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis, and. while no report has 

 been made by this committee, it is felt by the 

 members that its interests will be taken care of. 



Suit was instituted here some days ago against 

 the Nathan Paine Lumber Company in the United 

 States district court by the Tennessee Hard- 

 wood & Manufacturing Company of this city. 

 It is set forth that the action was for the pur- 

 pose of preventing them from moving $350,000 

 worth of lumber from the yards of the latter on 

 the strength of a replevin granted last October. 

 The Tennessee Hardwood & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany claims that the Paine Lumber Company had 

 no right under the Tennessee constitution to 

 transact business in this state, alleging that it 

 was not incorporated under the laws of Ten- 

 nessee. The outcome of this suit will be awaited 



with much interest by lumbermen throughout 

 Tennessee. 



The Pearce Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at Pine Bluff, Ark., with a capital stock of 

 $00,000. T. Pearce is president, J. F. Ruther- 

 ford, vice-president, and James H. Allen, formerly 

 of Memphis, secretary and treasurer. The com- 

 pany has leased the plant of the Bluff City Lum- 

 ber Company at Kearney, and will cut about 

 30.000.000 feet of lumber from timber lands 

 ad.1acent to that plant. John F. Rutherford, vice- 

 president of this company, is president and gen- 

 eral manager of the Bluff City Lumber Company, 

 which owns the plant and timber in question. 



The Frisco System is preparing to remove its 

 roundhouse and yards from Front street to 

 Bellevue. in the eastern part of the city. At 

 tlie same time it is announced the shops of the 

 s.ystem here will be enlarged at a cost of 

 $50,000. There is some discussion among offi- 

 cials of the Frisco System of the advisability of 

 installing shops here large enough to take care 

 of a great deal of the repair work which is now 

 done to cars and engines on the Birmingham 

 division. The Frisco System will continue to 

 maintain its extensive yards, which were opened 

 some time ago, at West Marion, Ark., but the 

 Bellevue yards will be larger, and will aid 

 materially in handling trafiic to and through 

 this city. 



The Lockwood Lumber Company has filed an 

 amendment to Its charter whereby its capital 

 stock is increased from $100,000 to $300,000. It 

 is domiciled at Pelahatchie. Rankin county. Miss. 



W. C. Pierce. Jonesboro, Ark., has leased 

 the band mill of the old Chicago Lumber Com- 

 pany at Marked Tree, Ark., and will convert 

 it into a cypress shingle plant. It is proposed 

 to have the latter in operation at an early 

 date. 



One of the most interesting reports regarding 

 new railroad plans has just reached Memphis in 

 dispatches from Jackson, Tenn., to the effect that 

 the Burlington System, which controls the New 

 Orleans, Mobile & Chicago, plans to build an 

 extension from Middletnn. Tenn., its northern 

 terminus, to Jackson. 



NASHVILLE 



In the recent death of Andrew B. Benedict. 

 Sr.. Nashville has lost one of its pioneer lumber- 

 men. Born in Connecticut in 1839. Mr. Benedict 

 served in the Civil war and immediately there- 

 after engaged in the stave business in Nevada. 

 He came to Nashville in 18S0. .ioining his 

 brother. C. H. Benedict, in the lumber business. 

 For twenty years the firm of Benedict Brothers 

 was one of the prominent manufacturers and 

 exporters of this section. Afterward Mr. Bene- 

 dict was president of the Benedict Love Com- 

 pany, which had extensive timber interests in 

 the Carolinas. However, for the past few 

 years he had not been in active business. A 

 wife, two sons, two brothers and two sisters 

 survive him. 



The S. G. Holland Stave Company has filed 

 articles of incorporation, with a capital stock 

 of $100,000. The incorporators are : S. G. 

 Holland, D. G. Hart, Pitt Henslee, J. E. Nesbett, 

 and George Lovell. 



.\nother new lumber industry in this section 

 is the B. & M. Lumber Company, capitalized at 

 $20,000. with the following incorporators : 

 John W. Boyd. Hamilton Love, C. E. McGlock- 

 lin. William W. Andrews, and Wendell McFad- 

 den. This is a subsidiary company to that 

 of Love, Boyd & Co., and for the present, at 

 least, the entire output of the new concern 

 will be handled through the sales department 

 of the parent concern. The offices will be in 

 Nashville, but the operations of the company 

 will be in Williamson county and other parts 

 of the state. 



The annual banquet of the Builders' Exchange, 

 a few nights since, in the handsome quarters 

 of the association in the Noel building, was a 



