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HARDWOOD RECORD 



HardWood NeWs. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 



A welcon at this office on Fridaj 



Prank R. Barns, 4 Clements Inn, Lon- 

 don, W. C. Notwithstanding his checkered 

 suit ami cockney accent, Mr. Barns was for- 

 merly a well-known American, but is now 

 doing great stunts In selling: American wood 

 - I i" ill' benighted Britisher He is back- 

 on this side for a brief visit, "doncher know." 

 and is being gladly welcomed i> a multitude 

 of friends. 



The many friends of C. G. Powell, vice pres- 

 Ident and general manager of the Fnllorton- 



Poweil Hard?. l Lumber Company of South 



Bend, Ind., will regret to learn that he has 

 been very ill recently, with blood poisoning. 

 and thej will be equallj glad to know thai hi 

 is now on the speedy road to recovery. 



Fortunat.lv th disgraceful and inn ailed for 

 teamsters strike, which for the last month 

 has Involved the lumber teamsters, is dying 

 a natural death, and a great many union 

 drivers are attempting to regain the positions 

 so foolishly threw up to assist In 

 a sympathetic strike. It is prophesied that 



before anothei Issue of the Hahpw Rei 



"i. ii shall appear, the Chicago teamsters' strike 

 will be a thing of the past. 



Ex-Governor William II. Upham of thi 

 Marshfleld Land & Lumber Company, Marsh- 

 field, and many other Important Wisconsin 

 • "I' i pi 1st was i visitor in Chicago on 

 Wedm ds 



William Wilkinson has been appointed nim- 

 bi i tractlng tg< M , ,,,, tne m,,,,,,.. , ; en tral 



lilroad, with office al 99 ..dams street, suc- 

 ceeding the late Tom K. Edwards The Illi- 

 nois Central being such an Important lumbei 

 ng lint thi position Is 

 ol marked distinction to l» occupied bs 

 any man, and thi selei i Ion of Mr. Wilkit 

 doi both himself and the road credit n. 



has i associated with this railroad for 



thirtj i latelj has been contracting 



frelghl agi nl 



To quoti the si cin iilai which ae- 



companied the gift, the Hardwood Record 

 is "dee-light, 'i ' to receive a little electric 

 In a hands. .in. case, at the hands of 

 the inn.. ii Electric" flooring makers, t'obbs 

 a Mit< hell. I,,, . Cadillac, Mil h 



A well known caller a1 the l: thee 



on June 13 was George E. roule, Pacific coa 



' pri entative of tic s A. \v Is Machlm 



' 'ompanj of Boston, n host ..tie el lo ited in 

 tht Lumber Exchange, Seattle. Wash. Mi 

 v.. nl. was ..a ins way to the Pacific coast. 



Ii. I', chirk. ..i' Osborne a Clark, the leading 

 Mi spoils ii.iiilw i concern, was a welcome 



visit, ,i- :,l ih,. |;i foRD ..Hie,' on I'inhii 



Nashville. 

 Three lumber companies have i a merged in 



"lie I e. ,i,i l\ in Nashville. The style of the 



new Arm i in. John M. Smith Lumber Com- 



ipltallzed ai silt, The 



I' porators are John M. Smith of Dickson, 



B, I. Perkins and F, \I. Pettlbone ..r Louisville 



and w i: i h, \\ T Cri iler, ll. C. Card ami 



,i Patterson of Nashville. The Brms which 

 msolidated are the John M Smith Lumber 

 Company ol Dickson the Perkins & ivttlbone 

 Lumber Company of Louisville and the South 

 era Lumber ' ompany of Nashville. Mr. Smith, 

 Who Is one ,,l the lamest i .. . i , 1 . 1 1 dealers in this 

 section, will lie presided ..r Hie new company; 

 \ ii Card - rice-president ; B. I. Perkins, sec- 

 retary : s, w Pettlbone, treasurer, and ll. C. 

 ties department. The 

 firm will make a specialty of high grade poplar 

 and ash. ih. i: v Chestnut! Lumber Com 

 pany's plant in Wesl Nashville has i n ;" 



Special Correspondents.) 



quired and Hie central plant will he operated 

 from thai point. The business will be enlarged 

 and about $20,000 worth of new machinery has 

 been ordered. The Perkins & Pettlbone Lumber 

 Company will be moved here from Louisville, 

 and Messrs. Perkins and Pettibone will bring 

 their families to Nashville at once. In addition 

 to the old Dodge mill, which will do sawing for 

 the new concern, the Craves & Gilliland Lumber 

 Company will also saw for the Smith company. 

 The John M. Smith Lumber Company, by virtue 

 of the merging with the Southern Hardwood 

 Company, acquires n fine tract of poplar timber 

 just seven miles from Nashville, the famous 

 Miller tract, it is said there is poplar timber 

 six to seven feel In diameter in the tract, which 

 comprises 1.600 acres, four million feel are 

 to be sawed there. 



John B Kin-. .in Lumber Company ap- 

 pears as plaintiff in the First Circuit Court in 

 the biggest damage suil ever tried In that trl 

 bunal. The defendant In the ease is the Nash 

 x in.-. Chattanooga & St. Louis railway. The 

 damages asked are $175,000. While the lumber 

 company appears on the docket as the nominal 

 plaintiff the real plaintiff is none other than 

 a large number of Insurance companies, some 

 thirty-five in all. The sun reveals mi Interest 

 Ing story. The John p.. Kans,, ,,, Lumber Com 

 panj u.is .i< troyed by fire about four years 



I-'", anil ii nl si:;o.oiio entailed. The 



plan! of the company, at that time, as now, 

 was located along the tracks of the defendant 



railroad • ipany. The Insuran ompanles 



.1 the Are was caused by sparks from the 



Qg engines of the company. They paid the 



ni company the sum of $107,310.02, ol 



whl.h amount $SS,"60 was paid in losses on the 



lumber, and the rest on the plant proper and 



the inn - 1 Lbo • ."on worth of lumber 



bad i n sold i, nt n..t delivered, ami this was 



n.,1 covered by the policies, being, therefore, a 



total loss. The lumber company : epted a 



■ lis. ..inn .,ii many of the policies for cash In 

 consideration that the companies pay prompt h 



The thirty ii v mpanles sued on lifly one p.,li 



oil '"ii averaging about S3,ooti. The plaintiff 

 insurance companies, who are suitu: in the name 

 "i the lumber company, claimed that the Bparks 

 from the engines had frequently set things afire 

 in lie- lumber yard, as well as firing crossties 

 along the railroad, and there was proof along 

 ihis line The [ilit in tiffs were a number of days 

 ..a i heir proof and the defendant company is 

 now bavins lis Inning trying to contradict the 

 evidence of the plaint ill's. Distinguished conn 

 sel have I. ..ii employed in llie case, which is 

 being watched with great Interest. 



The Hiram ftlow Slave Company, which re 



' ii'. decided to make Nashville hs headquar 



ters. has taken out a. charter Willi a capital stock 



" • I"". I Ii. m "i porators are \ .1. Blow, 



c J. Smith. .1 M.N. Wright, II. B. Carter and 

 i . II Wright. While Nashville will be head- 

 quarters and the principal factory will he lo- 

 cated here, the company proposes to operate 

 plants in several Tennessee counties 



J. M. Passons and T. .1 . Siiiinis of Sparta. 

 Tonn . have purchased the sawmill of E. T. 

 Passons at that place and will at once begin 

 cutting a big stand ol timber In Van Buren 



county. 



I. I'. McLean a well known stave and head 

 man. has als,, decided to put up a big plant In 

 \.is|iville. For a number of years he has oper- 

 aie.i sawmills in various parts of the Btate, 

 selling the rough product to finishers. He Is 

 now determined i.. become a finisher himself, 

 and will manufacture at Nashville as headquar- 

 ters the entire output of the seven sawmills he 

 will short h he rininlng. Mr. McLean moved to 

 Nashville about year ago from Contci villo. 



i.ii'i ii.- has cumulated quite a sum on 



the siave and heading business, and commands 

 a bis foreign trade in addition to his business 

 in the states. The plant he proposes to put up 

 here will represent an investment of about 



$100, Only white oak will be used. The 



company will be incorporated. 



II c Card, A. P. Jacobs and T. II. Dunlap 

 have just returned from a trip through the 

 East. While on their jaunt they took in Niag- 

 ara Kails. 



The Dunlap Planing Mill, which was recently 

 destroyed l.y lire, is to be rebuilt at once. The 

 work will be pushed and the mill will probably 

 be finished bj October, 



The Graves-Gllllland sawmill bus just been 

 completed and will begin work at once. It Is a 

 seven foot mill Willi a capacity of about 25.000 



feel a day. and is located on the east bank of 

 the Cumberland. 



Mr. A. Loveman of the firm of Lieberman, 

 Loveman & O'Brien is in Tanglers, Morocco. 

 with the members of his family. lie will be 

 abroad until September. 



I al lumbermen are .ailing for "more rain," 



while the farmers of the section are getting 

 r. a.l.v to yell "quit." For the past two or 



tin weeks the Cumberland lias been too low 



1.. g.i a tide am] the rivermen and lumbermen 



have I n blue. For the last two or three days, 



however, encouraging reports concerning rains 



above are being i Ivetl. and if the present 



wet spell continues there will he a lot of timber 

 down on the anticipated June rise. 



Many of the Nashville lumbermen on Wednes- 

 day attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Milam 

 Hooper. She was the mother of Mrs. James 

 Love, the latter being a sister in law of John 

 Love "i the well known firm of Love, Boyd .v 



Boston. 



Frank w. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin. 

 Boston, lias returned to his office after a four 



weeks nip through the hard™ I states of the 



South ami West Mr. Lawrence has almost re- 

 covered from the illness which kept him from 



business during ll ally pint of last month. 



ami he will hel|i furnish the wholesalers a 

 winning band In the baseball game to be played 

 during flic outing of the general trade on the 

 24th. Ills hopes f winning are so high that 

 he has decided to Introduce his son. Frank Law- 

 rence, Jr., who Is ii.. i quite sixteen, Into the 

 game, believing that he is a match for any 

 retail baseballlst. Frank Lawrence. Jr.. by the 

 way, is learning the wholesale hardwood busi- 

 ness nnder the eye of his father and promises 

 to he a vvoiihv understudy to the "man from 

 Boston." 



Ihe genera] w Iworklng plant of Frank 11. 



Haskell ..| Lynn. Mass.. was destroyed by fire 

 lasi week, ihe loss ,,r s'j:i.oiiii ,,n the mill build- 

 ing ami contents being partially covered by In- 

 surance. 



Cbappell Bros, of Sidney. N. S., lost their 

 buildings, machinery, stock of lumber and build- 

 ers' finish by lire last week. It is understood 

 that the l..ss ..,, the plant is covered by insur- 

 an. ... 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 



Manilla, i is Association, spent several days 



in Boston lasl week. 



Waller S Kee/.el'. who WHS for ly with the 



W. M. Kiti.-r Lumber Company of Columbus, O., 

 lias he.. .uie associated with tlie Jones Hardwood 

 Company •>! Boston as sales agent for New- Eng- 

 land and eastern New York stale 



Tin arrangements of the Clark & Smith Com- 

 pany of Boston in taking over I conducting 



the business ,,i n id firm of Clark & Smith 



have been completed. The concern Is one of 

 the qldest in hardwood lines in New England, 



having I ii established before the civil War 



by Oliver K. Clark and George L. Smith. From 

 it have graduated many successful hardwood 

 men. now prominent in the business. Willis L. 

 Smith later became a third partner In the firm, 

 which ....led a large storage building and of- 



