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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May -J.:,, vxn 



MAHOGANY 



THE FULL VALUE OF OUR CLEAN. WIDE 

 BOARDS IS PRESERVED THROUGH CARE- 

 FUL HANDLING AND PILING ON OUR 

 MAHOGANY YARD AT NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



Prominent Hardwocd Lumberman Dies 



R. H. Vansant 



line .il tlw out- 

 staniliiis figurt'S of thi- 

 hardwood lumber in- 

 ■ lustr.v was rpmovpil 

 with the death of 

 Kufus lliimphrcy Van 

 sant, pri'sideiit of 

 Vansant. Kitchen i^ 

 t_'fpnipany of .\shlanil. 

 Ky., on -May 12. Mr. 

 Vansant was 69 years 

 old at the time of his 

 deatli. which followc.l 

 a sliort illness. 



Mr. Vansant was 

 one of the organizers 

 of the old llarihv" 

 .Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation and was tw'ice 

 its president. This is 

 the i>r,^;anizatiou out 

 of which developeil 

 the .\niericnn Hard 

 wood Manufacturers' 

 .Association. 



He was a directio- 

 of the .\slilanil i Ky. i 

 National I'.ank and a 

 dondnant figure in 

 the Democratic party 

 of Kentucky, having 

 lieen campaign chair- 

 liairman of the state, central 

 is business interests were exten- 

 ico he purchased the old Con- 

 "t iiiiUnled a large l>oundary of 



man f<ir the late tuivernor McCreary mid 



and e.xcctitlve committees of his party. '' 



sivi' ontside of .\shland. In the fall of 



asauga plant at Conasauga. Tenn., wlui 



timlicr in Tennessee and (Jeorgia. The plani 



date lini's and Mr. Vansant's sims. II. II. and 

 lagers and controllers. 



The powerful company of which he was the head at the time of his death 



was estalilished liy Mr. Vansant in 1S!I4. lie was also the organizer of 



remodeled along ui)-to- 

 I . look charge as man- 



llie .Ashland Uardwooil Lumlicr Company of which llar.d.l Van-ant. his 

 eldest son. is president and manager. 



In addition to playing a lemling part in hardwood lundicr association 

 work for many years. Mr. Vansant was a Mason and a Knight Templar. 



Mr. Vansant was a native Kentuckian. having been born in Morgan (new 

 Klliott) county in that state, Sept. S, 1S52. In 1ST9 he was married to 

 -Anna V. Hannah, who survives him with four children : Maxie. Ilaroltl, 

 Campbell and Virginia. Two brothers also survive : Jonas of Ashlaml. 

 Ky.. and .Tohn of Elliott county. One sister, Mrs. J. Hall, lives in Hunt- 

 ington. 



The funeral was conducted by the Knights Templar at the family resi- 

 dence in .Ashland on May 14. the Kev. I'aul I'owell of the Methodist Kpis- 

 copal church officiating. 



No Ore Wms Guessing Contest 

 .At a late mectiim of tlie Buffalo l.umlxT K.xchaugc-. liy wav of entertain- 

 nu<nt and general interest, a list of twenty-four spi^cimens of pulisbetl 

 hardwoods was exhibited by F. Chase Taylor, of Taylor & Crate, as part 

 of the variety carried by that yard. The members in attendance were 

 invited to guess as to the sorts. The woods shown were as follows : Cot- 

 licnwood, chestnut, poplar, basswood. red birch, niahog:iny. white ash. 

 Idack ash, heech. cherry, butternut, walnut, cypress, quartered red oak. 

 quartereil white oak. plain white oak. plain red oak. hard maple, soft 

 maple, plain reil gum. white l)irch, hickory, elm and white pine. Mr. 

 Taylor did not hapi)en to have any samples of yellow pine, sycamore or 

 sap gum. or he would have added those, rresident II. L. .\bbott said by 

 way of encouragement that Secretary .Tohn S. Tyler would furnish a meal 

 to the members who came nearest to guessing the list complete, but doubt 

 was thrown upon the results, because some of the guessers conferred 

 together, and even at that the best of them diil not come within two or 

 three of the complete list. The secretary therefore n^sponded by not 

 furnishing the meal. 



Hardwocd Bulletin Is Started 

 The .\nu>rican Hardwood Manufacturi'rs .Association now has an 

 •ofticlal communique." This four page publication was issmd for the 

 first time on May 15 and is called "Hardwood Kulletin." According to 

 the "introductory " the publishers of the bulletin have "no aspiration to 

 enter the already large lield of hi;useor.gans, service letters, trade reports,'' 

 etc.. but merely desire to create "an appropriate medium for the publica- 

 tion of such items of general interest to the imlustry" as ma.v come under 

 their observatlSn. 



