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Southern Traffic Developments 



Further suspension lias been ordered of the proposed withdrawal 

 of the stopping-in-transit privileges on logs, rough staves and stave 

 bolts at Alexandria, La. The tariff making this provision has been 

 suspended until March 30. 



Tariffs of the Missouri Pacific and St. Louis Southwestern pro- 

 viding for the cancellation of joint through commodity rates on lumber 

 in carloads from points in Arkansas and other sfcites to points In 

 Central Freight Association and Trunk Line territories have been 

 suspended until June l.S. A former order had suspended the tariffs 

 from August 15 until December 13. 



A complaint was filed last week by the King Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company versus the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, in 

 which it is claimed that excessive charges were assessed on sawmill 

 machinery shipped by the Berlin Machine Works at Beloit, Wis., to 

 the mill of the company at Nocatee, Fla. 



A complaint submitted to the commission last week by the W. E. 

 Heyser Lumber Company of Cincinnati is typical of the experience 

 of many companies, it is said. A car of lumber was shipped from 

 Quick, W. Va., consigned to shippers' order at Detroit, Mich. Transit 

 Railway delivery was specified. Almost at the time of the departure 

 of the car, the agent of the Transit Railway in Detroit was instructed 

 to deliver the car to the Yeomans-Diver Company. The car reached 

 Detioit via the Pere Marquette, instead of the line specified. The 

 Heyser company was notified and information as to delivery retjuestetl. 

 The company advised the Pere Marquette agent the name of the con- 

 signee and a.sked that excess charges not be assessed, as the car had 

 been misrouted. Two weeks later the company was advised that the 

 car remained in the Detroit yards and disposition was requested. 

 Again the information was forwarded. Three weeks passed and again 

 delivery instructions were requested. This time delivery was made. 

 The Heyser company asks reparation for the demurrage charges. 



Reparation has boon ordered in the following cases: C. E. Ferguson 

 Sawmill Company versus St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern et al. 

 .The defendants are required to return $583.27 before December 15, 

 with six per cent interest. The refund was due to an error in the 

 cypress lumber rate. 



Aberdeen Lumber Company versus New Orleans & Xortheastorn ; 

 •unreasonable rate, rough Cottonwood lumber from Xai)les, La., to 

 Moline, 111. 



Trinity Lumber Company versus Missouri, Kansas & Texas et al. ; 

 unreasonable rate on lumber, Atmar, Tex., to Evanston, 111. 



Midland Lumber Company versus Yazoo & Mississippi Valley ; un- 

 reasonable rate, gum lumber, Midnight, Miss., to Cairo, 111. 



Tremont Lumber Company versus Chicago & Eastern Illinois; un- 

 ' reasonable rate, lumber, .Tonesboro, La., to Carlisle, Ind. 



Taylor & Crate versus Yazoo & Mississippi Valley ; unreasonable 

 rate, gum lumber, Ilinchcliff, Miss., to West Toronto, Canada. 



Crescent Lumber Company versus Illinois Ceutral; unreasonable 

 rate, Gladys, Mi.ss., to Whitby, Canada. 



Pee Dee Lumber Company versus Atlantic Coast I.inc; umeasoiKiMc 

 rate, Pee Dee, S. C, to PottsvUle, Pa. 



Tennessee Tie and Timber Company versus Louisville A: .\ashvillc; 

 unreasonable rate, ties, Tudor, Ky., to Hume, 111. 



Wateiman Lumber and Supply Company; unreasonable rate, lum- 

 ber, Waterman, Tex., to O'Neil, Neb. 



Trexler Lumber Company versus Toledo, St. Louis & Western; un- 

 reasonable rate, lundier, Prentiss, Miss., to Utica, N. Y. 



Salzer Lumber Company versus Northern Pacific; unreasonable 

 rate, edging. Walker, Minn., to Robinson and Wing, N. D. 



Weed Lumber Company versus Southern Pacific; unreasonable rate, 

 box shooks. Weed, Colo., to Phoenix, Ariz. 



Estabrook-Skcele Lumber Company versus Chicago & Northwestern ; 

 unreasonable rate, lumber, Wabeno, Wis., to Kankakee, III. 



Tri-State Lumber Company versus Baltimore & Ohio; unreasonable 

 rate, dry oak, Albright, W. Va., to Kyser, W. Va. 



J. W. Darliii_' L\>mlipr Company versus Louisiana Railway an.l Navi- 

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gation Company; unreasonable rate, cottonwood lumber, Wilhelm, La., 

 to South Bend., Ind. 



D. T. Crockett & Co. versus Seaboard Air Line ; refunds and waiving 

 of undercharges, lumber, Cates Mill to Capitola, Fla. 



Hanks Lumber Company versus Richmond, Fredericksburg & Po- 

 tomac ; refund and waiving of undercharge, lumber, Penola, Va., to 

 Wall Kill, N. y. 



Singer Sewing Machine Company versus Chicago, Rock Island & 

 Pacific : unreasonable charges, lumber, Olneyville, Ark., to South Bend, 

 lud. 



Wood & Skilton versus Southern Railway; unreasonable rate, lum- 

 ber, Cleveland, N. C, to Cape Charles, Va. 



Dembevie Lumber Company versus Pennsylvania Railroad : luirea- 

 sonable rate, lumber, Allenhurst, Ga., to Jersey' City, N. J. 



The Meaning of "Solid" 



A recent lawsuit in a i-ounty court in England turned upor. 

 The meaning of the word "solid" when applied to furniture. A 

 customer, it is stated, ordered a solid mahogany bedroom suit and 

 iigreeil to pay $61.75 upon delivery. He refused to accept the fur- 

 niture, claiming that all the wood in it was not mahogany, conse- 

 quently it was not solid. When the case came to court the maker 

 of the furniture admitted that some of the inside parts were not 

 mahogany, but he insisted that the articles conformed in every way 

 to what in trade is called solid mahogany. The court's decision 

 agreed with him. 



Custom rules. If iu ordinary business it is usual to apply a cer- 

 tain name to an article of a particular kind, the article may be 

 legally sold under that name, without conforming to exact definitions. 



The manufacturers of articles of mahogany and other expensive 

 woods in the United States, especially caskets, fixtures, and fine fur- 

 niture, frequently observe the letter as well as the Spirit of the contract 

 when they use the word solid. The casket maker may be taken as an 

 exam[ile. If a customer asks for a solid mahogany article, he is 

 apt to get it; but that does not mean that all the wood is of as 

 high class as that which appears on the outside. There are different 

 grades of mahogany. The ' ' sound wormy ' ' is perforated with holes 

 in large numbers and of various sizes, from a knitting needle to a 

 lead pencil. This is the work of the teredo in tropical waters. Such 

 wood is not suitable for outside work, but it is excellent for cores 

 over which to glue veneers. 



The hidden jjarts of the article nuiy be of the ))erforati'cl niahog 

 .•my. and the covering consist of veneer of high grade, ('ost is thus 

 kc])t down, and yet the article contains no wood except mahogany. 

 The same process may be followed when other woods are used. 

 Solid articles may have fine figured stock outside, and plain and 

 cheaper grades for the hiddan parts. 



Practically all good furniture, if the pieces are of large size, is built 

 ii|i. Table tops are of sheets of veneer glued upon cores of other 

 woods. Solid pieces of that size would warp and check, but the 

 built-up stock holds its shape. It is not customary to have cores 

 of the same wood as the outer surface, yet that process is followed 

 where the customer insists ■ soli. I wood. Massive table legs arc 

 occasionally made of expensive English oak, if the customer insists: 

 but they are cheaper and better if a core of white pine, chestnut, or 

 yellow jioplar is within, and the covering only is of the expensive 

 oak. If the customer objects to having a cheaper wood within, the 

 maker has been known to build up the legs of the table with oak 

 boards glued firndy together, and do the turning afterwards. That 

 is done by the nuiker because a built-up piece is less liable to check 

 than is the solid stock, and the customer gets the "solid" English 

 oak table, legs and all. 



It is evident that "solid" used in this sense does not mean that 

 each part is one piece, but means only that the whole article is of 

 one wood. A suit at law in this country would probably result as 

 •n England if custom were followed in defining the word "solid." 



