February 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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We Are Always In Touch Witli 

 Our Customers and Mill 



To give the full measure of service it is not sufficient 

 that the lumber merchandiser confine his attention exclu- 

 sively to the customers, leaving his shipping connections 

 to take care of themselves. Nor can a man successfully merchandise his product if his entire time is 

 taken up with the manufacturing end. TTie basis of our organization is a system which makes pos- 

 sible a constant, direct current from the factory customer through us to the mill, and from the mill 

 through us to the factory consumer. 



It is easy enough to camp with your customers and make all kinds of promises, trusting to luck 

 that you will find ways of fulfilling them afterwards. The point is that with our direct contact with 

 the customer and with the mill at the same time, we know exactly what we can do and so can guar- 

 antee our ability to live up to our agreements. 



Now, while the tide of industry is slowly ebbing back to normal it is gratifying to anyone to know 

 that he can absolutely count on a thing working out exactly as planned. So, as your lumber re- 

 quirements develop you can well afford to fill them through an organization that has a national repu- 

 tation for strict dependability and straight grade shipments. 



Clean Dealing Is Our Business Policy 



ABERDEEN LUMBER COMPANY 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 



FIVE MILLS: Ten Million Feet on Sticks, Oak, Gum, Cypress, Cottonwood, Sycamore, Elm 



He has fought his last great fight, his tired hand folded above his faith- 

 ful heart. He has passed through the darls niglit of death into the light 

 and brightness of an eternal morning. 



Many old-time members of the Chicago trade e.xpressed them.selves as 

 feeling a distinct loss over the death of their old-time associate. 



The Lumbermen's Association tlirough a committee composed of William 

 Kurz, John J. .\iiderson and John A. Olson, compiled and adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolutions : 



Whereas. The board of directors of the Lumbermen's Association of 

 Chicago learns with deep regret and profound sorrow of the sudden death 

 on Friday, Jan. 24, 1919, of C. B. Flinu, president of this association, 

 also of tlie Metropolitan Lumber Company, for over fifty years our asso- 

 ciate in the lumber trade and one of the few remaining members of the 

 trade of the earlier days of Chicago, a man whose enterprise, foresight and 

 business integrity had won for him not only a competency, but furnished 

 also an inspiration and example of business energy and ethics worthy of 

 emulation ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Flinn, the lumbermen of Chicago 

 have lost a friend and associate whose affability and many splendid qual- 

 ities of character had endeared him to all who knew him ; be it further 



Resolved, That we tender to his bereaved family our deepest and heart- 

 felt sympathy in this hour of their great affliction, and remind them that 

 their surest consolation may be found in the unsullied record of his earnest 

 and faithful lite. 



Watchful, untiring and unsparing of himself he laid down his life 

 unfinished, but faithful to the end. 



Mr. Flinn was born in Maine in 1S47. He had been very active in lum- 

 bering in the operating as well as the selling end during the entire period 

 since he came to Chicago. 



He leaves a widow and two sons, Franlj B. Flinn and Charles F. Flinn 

 of San Francisco. 



Charles F. Latimer Dies 



Charles F. Latimer of Ashland, Wis., died suddenly on Wednesday morn- 

 ing, January 29, in his apartment in the Kenwood hotel, Chicago. Mr. 

 Latimer had been associated with the banking business and lumbering 

 industry for a good many years, being sixty-two years old at his death. 



His first connection in the banking business was at Musliegon, Mich., at 

 the age of fourteen, and he thereafter made rapid advancement. Muskegon, 

 Mich., in those days was a distinctly lumbering city, and through his con- 

 stant association with lumbermen he naturally became involved in the 

 lumber business. 



He left there for Ashland, Wis., in the 'SOs, and soon became interested 

 in the lumber business, and in 1895 he organized the Ashland Lumber 

 Company. This was back In the old, white pine days of Wiscon.sin, and 

 this concern shortly became one of the most important factors in the 

 production of that famous material. In addition to his connection here 



Mr. Latimer was director and vice-president of the Foster-Latimer Lumber 

 Company of Mellen, Wis. He was an officer in the Peninsula Lumber 

 Company of Portland, Ore. ; was interested In the Lyon Cypress Company 

 of Loui.siana, and with the West Coast Timber Company of Oregon, and 

 the West Side Lumber Company of California. 



Barge Line Loses Money 



The barge line operating under government control between St. Louis and 

 New Orleans, consisting of five tow boats and twenty-nine barges, in Its 

 operation to the last of November, earned $4.S.500 and expended $52,000, 

 exclusive of overhead expenses. The boats averaged five round trips each 

 between the two cities. 



Atlas on World War 



The Rand, McNally Company of Chicago and New York has issued a 

 remarkably complete Atlas of the World War, showing maps of all the 

 nations engaged in the conflict ; continental and world maps, shoTylng 

 national interrelations, world commerce routes and colonial interests of 

 warring nations. Also a chronological summary of the principal events 

 of the war from its inception to the present time, with a general analysis 

 of conditions and progress of the great conflict. 



The Atlas is undoubtedly of such a character as to be of great value to 

 those contemplating foreign trade endeavors, as it gives a vast amount of 

 valuable information and a graphic idea of trade routes and extent of 

 foreign markets. 



Government Will Have Regular Sales Force 



Plans have finally been completed for a formal sales organization to 

 dispose of surplus material in the hands of the War Department. The 

 work will be divided under various directorships, under the general super- 

 vision of C. W. Hare. 



The sale of all building materials of all kinds, including finished mate- 

 rials, fabricated stock and equipment will be under the direction of Major 

 Crunden, while the sale of automotive vehicles as well as horse drawn 

 trucks will be under the direction of Captain Glover. 



The quartermaster stores, including such items as food, clothing, cots, 

 horses, mules, paints, etc., will be handled by L. H. Hartman. 



It is stated that materials on hand will be sold from time to time as 

 demand requires in the following manner : 



Lumber will be sold through producers in line with a general agreement 

 with producers. The remainder of the material will be sold cither for 

 cash at auction to the highest bidder under a sealed proposal or at current 

 market prices. If there is a current market for the respective articles. 



