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HARDWOOD RECORD 



output of its Johnson county operations for- 

 merly handled by the Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 Company of this city. 



The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company has 

 leased twenty-two acres of land on the V. & 

 S. W. Railway in South Bristol and will estab- 

 lish big assorting yards there. The site was for- 

 merly used by the James Strong Lumber Com- 

 pany and is suitable for a lumber yard. A mil- 

 lion feet of stock will be piled on the Bristol 

 yards at once. 



Cincinnati. 



At a meeting of the Manufacturers' Club 

 held at the Queen City Club recently, A. G. 

 Brunnsniiiu of the Anchor Buggy Company and 

 Thomas J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company delivered very interesting ad- 

 dresses. Mr. Brunnsman dealt with "Transpor- 

 tation," and he referred to some concessions 

 recently granted by the railroads to Cincinnati- 

 ans in regard to switching, but held that in 

 general the switching system in Cincinnati is 

 altogether out of date. "It is absurd," he 

 said, "to narrow the switching limits to the 

 basin of the city. The extension of the limit 

 to Lockland is a step in the right direction, but 

 the terminal limits should be extended also to 

 North Bend on the west, Oakley on the east 

 and Latouia and Erlanger (Kentucky) on the 

 south." T. J. Moffett, chairman of the Belt 

 Line System, declared "Railroad facilities have 

 been outgrown everywhere. The shippers say 

 I he trouble is the lack of cars," said Mr. Moffett, 

 "while the railroad men declare it is the lack of 

 terminal facilities and trackage. It often takes 

 longer to switch a car from across the river 

 to Ivorydale than it does- to haul the car from 

 Nashville to Cincinnati. Tnus the effectiveness 

 of the car is reduced 70 per cent. Traffic has 

 increased 100 per cent in recent years, while 

 railroad facilities have only increased 15 per 

 cent. The business of Cincinnati is being throt- 

 tled by these inadequate railroad facilities. The 

 belt line will All a great want. We wish to 

 enroll a hundred leading shippers as stock- 

 holders in the belt line company, each to take 

 ten shares at $100 a share. With such an im- 

 provement Cincinnati will soon be the gateway 

 for. 40 per cent of the business into the- South, 

 whereas now only 15 per cent passes through 

 the city. There are only fifteen miles of spur 

 tracks and sidings in the city, an amount totally 

 inadequate. The belt line will cost about 

 $5,000,000." 



M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrln Lumber 

 Company left for an extensive tour through 

 Europe and a trip up the Nile and through the 

 Holy Land. He will be accompanied "by Mrs. 

 Farrin and will not return until .May. 



Sixty kittens were made members of the Con- 

 catenated Order of Hoo-Hoo on January 23. It 

 was an extra large class, and a number of- spe- 

 cial surprises were sprung by some of the Cin- 

 cinnati members on some of the oldest and most 

 hardened of the Hoo-Hoos, as well as on the 

 kitten candidates. The officers who conducted 

 the initiation were : A. D. McLeod, Bojum ; 

 C. W. Thomas, Junior Hoo-Hoo; II. H. Gibson, 

 Senior Hoo-Hoo: J. S. Hayward, Arcanoper ; E. 

 L. Edwards, Gurdon ; George Dewey, Custoca- 

 tian ; J. M. Powers, Scrivenoter ; Walter Cook, 

 Jabberwock ; B. F. Dulweber, Snark. 



The Stewart-Roy Lumber Company of Cincin- 

 nati was incorporated recently with a capital 

 stock of $50,000 by Charles J. Hunt, Norwood 

 .1. Uttir. ii. W. Bennett, Gregory S. Stewart and 

 William II. Stewart to succeed the Arm of G. 

 S. & W. II. Stewart. The company will conduct 

 a wholesale lumber business. 



The total number of lumber cars received in 

 Cincinnati during the mouth of January was 

 5,040, and cars shipped out 4,1157. The above 

 figures will show distinctly that cars can be re- 

 ceived more rapidly than they can be shipped. 

 C. F. Thauwald & Co., manufacturers of hard- 

 wood mantels, have made preparations for the 



erection of a large dry kiln, seventy-five feet 

 square and twelve feet high. 



Building operations in Cincinnati for the 

 month of January were more than 100 per cent 

 greater than for the same month a year ago. 

 Total permits aggregate $532,219. 



The monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club was held at the Business Men's Club on 

 February 4. The meeting was a strictly busi- 

 ness affair. 



By the collapse of a scaffold which the men 

 themselves had constructed, .T. A. Cook was 

 killed and Charles M. Noble and Alonzo Secher, 

 carpenters, were injured at the new mill being 

 erected by C. Crane & Co. The men fell forty 

 feet, landing on a pile of timber. 



The Thomas Kelsall Company, large manufac- 

 turer of office furniture, was visited by fire 

 recently and the plant almost totally destroyed. 

 The total loss on building, stock and machinery 

 is estimated at $75,000. 



Harry D. Reimeier of the Reimeier Lumber 

 Company is the proud father of a baby boy that 

 recently arrived at the Reimeier homestead. 



Chattanooga. 



Snodgrass & Field, the largest producers of 

 poplar in this market, whose mill was burned 

 last fall, have met with considerable opposition 

 in getting a permit to rebuild on their old loca- 

 tion. They are now rebuilding and will have 

 a new mill in operation before a great while 

 unless some other complications arise. Recently 

 a number of citizens residing near the plant of 

 this concern filed a bill in the chancery court 

 alleging that the plant is a nuisance because of 

 danger to fire, the smoke, odors, etc. The court, 

 however, dissolved the injunction, requiring Snod- 

 grass & Field to give bond in the sum of $20,000 

 to indemnify these citizens against any loss by 

 tire. The concern has commenced the erection 

 of the new mill, but the city has now taken 

 action to have its property condemned for street 

 purposes. The Bluff View Land Company owns 

 land in that vicinity which it proposes to de- 

 velop, and ii is understood that it wants streets 

 extended through the property of Snodgrass & 

 Field. 



Fred Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company 

 recently attended the meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Exporters' Association at Norfolk, 

 Va. J. M. Card, president of the company, is 

 on a business trip through the South. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan of the Loomis & Hart 

 Manufacturing Company, one of the busiest lum- 

 bermen in this city and one of Chattanooga's 

 most enterprising citizens, attended the meeting 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at 

 Memphis on January 29 and 30. Captain Ga- 

 hagan is one of the leading members of the 

 new county court, being chairman of the finance 

 committee. 



T. W. Brazelton, a lumber broker of this city, 

 recently filed a bill In bankruptcy, giving his 

 liabilities at about $4,000. 



A. J. Garrett of Page-Bull & Co. of London, 

 England, was a recent visitor among the lum- 

 bermen of this city. 



Nashville. 



After twenty-five years' association with the 

 well known Trewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, John N. Baskette, general manager and 

 secretary and treasurer, has severed his con- 

 nection with the company and will at once 

 establish the Helena Woodenware Company at 

 Helena, Ark. This new enterprise represents an 

 investment of $50,000 and will manufacture 

 candy and oyster buckets and lard tubs. Mr. 

 Baskette will continue to live in Nashville, al- 

 though he will be in Helena most of the time. 

 The Prewitt Spurr Manufacturing Company 

 which he is leaving operates the only red cedar 

 bucket factory in the world. T. H. Estes has 

 been appointed treasurer in Mr. Baskette's 

 place : the general manager has not yet been 

 named 



The grand jury of Davidson county has re- 

 turned five indictments against Jim Miller and 

 John Dodd, charging each with housebreaking 

 and larceny. These cases grow out of the cut- 

 ting of a number of fine rafts of timber loose 

 from their moorings in the river just above 

 Nashville. The prosecutors in the indictments 

 are Davidson & Benedict, Liebermau, Loveman & 

 O'Brien, the Standard Lumber & Box Company 

 and the Nashville Tie &, Pole Company. The 

 defendants cut five rafts loose that contained 

 about $20,000 worth of timber and then sold the 

 ropes with which the logs had been tied. 



Arthur B. Ransom of the firm of John B. 

 Ransom & Co. has been appointed by President 

 Douglas of the Board of Trade as. a member of 

 the transportation committee of that organiza- 

 tion. This is one of the most important com- 

 mittees of the organization. 



The railroad commission of Tennessee has 

 just taken a step that will be of interest to 

 every lumber dealer in the state. The commis- 

 sion has addressed letters to every railroad in 

 the state, stating the public is complaining of 

 delays on account of car shortage, and informa- 

 tion is asked concerning delays in moving freight 

 from initial points and delays on the roads. The 

 commission desires to know if the delays are 

 attributable to the car shortage alone or to the 

 general industrial conditions that have produced 

 freight for shipment in excess of the capacity of 

 the railroads to handle it. They ask further if 

 the conditions are due to shortage of cars alone 

 or to a shortage of engines and tracks as well. 

 The railroads are asked what steps they have 

 taken or are taking looking to the relief of their 

 patrons. President Finley of the Southern was 

 the first to reply, and he states that his road 

 has already placed orders for thousands of new 

 cars. 



The Louisville & Nashville railroad has noti- 

 fied the Tennessee river packet lines that it will 

 not receive any more lumber from river packets 

 consigned to St. Louis and Chicago. The general 

 shortage of cars and the heavy business in other 

 lines are given as the reasons for the discon- 

 tinuance of such hauls. 



One of the biggest suits heard by the supreme 

 court of Tennessee at the present term was that 

 of John B. Ransom & Co. for the use of a num- 

 ber of insurance companies against the North 

 Carolina & St. Louis railway. The insurance 

 companies are suing the railroad to recover more 

 than $100,000 they paid when the Ransom lum- 

 ber yards burned several years ago. They are 

 merely using the name of the lumber company 

 for the purpose of suing in proper form. They 

 claim the yards were tired by sparks from one 

 of the company's passing engines. 



A special from Benton, Tenn., announces that 

 Pennsylvania capitalists have purchased the 

 Parmientier timber lands near there for a con- 

 sideration of about $100,000. The tracts com- 

 prise some 30,000 acres. A spur track is to be 

 run from the new portion of the Louisville & 

 Nashville to the mouth of Greasy creek, a dis- 

 tance of twenty-eight miles, and tapping the 

 heart of this lumber region. 



The work of installing the buggy stock and 

 handle plant of Muesse Bros. & Grant Lumber 

 Company of St. Louis in the old Rhyne mill 

 near Clifton is under way. The company claims 

 to have located enough hickory nearby to run 

 the plant ten years. 



O. G. Fitzgerald of Clifton, Tenn., has bought 

 a tract of hickory timber lands containing half 

 a million feet on Hardin's creek, and is erecting 

 a mill on the site for the purpose of manufac- 

 turing carriage stock. 



A special from Bolivar, Tenn., announces that 

 the Ward-Kent Company of Greenfield has pur- 

 chased a tract of 3,000 acres of elm and gum 

 timber for $20,000. 



Several northern capitalists have visited Char- 

 lotte, Tenn., within the past few days looking 

 at a valuable tract of timber land with a view 



