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third prize. Mr. Trotli was winner, four handkerchiefs. After a high 

 class supper the meeting was called to order by President Eugene W. 

 Fry and routine business transacted. W. H. G. Kirkpatrick of Kirk- 

 patrick Manufacturing Company and M. G. Wright of Henrico Lumber 

 Company, who are new members of the club, were theu called upon for 

 and ri'spondiMl with a speech, after which the meeting adjourned. 

 Monthly Meeting Philadelphia Exchange 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular monthly meeting, pre- 

 ceded by a luncheon, on June 4, President William H. Fritz, in the chair. 

 After the reading of the minutes of previous meeting by the secretary, 

 Joseph Hyde, in the absence of John E. Lloyd, chairman of office and 

 entertainment committee, announced that arrangements are being made 

 for the annual baseball game between the wholesalers and retailers, 

 which will be played sometime in the latter part of June. The pro- 

 ceeds of these games are always devoted to deserving charities. 



Charles M. Chesnut, chairman of special committee appointed to visit 

 the Commercial Museum, gave a detailed report of visit. The informa- 

 tion, he said, obtained by a thorough inspection of this institution can 

 but prove of great value lo all merchants seeking foreign trade. 



.\ communication from the Chamber of Commerce of the United 

 States was read at this meeting, informing the exchange of a contem- 

 plated change in by-laws, which would entitle the exchange members to 

 five individual memberships if same are applied for by July 1. It was 

 resolved that the members of the exchange be notifled of the situation. 

 The meeting then adjourned until September. 



EvansvlUe Trade in Outing 



Hakdwood Record has received from Charles W. Talge, secretary and 

 treasurer of the EvansvlUe Veneer Company, Evansville, Ind., a photo- 

 graph of an unusual table, at which the numerous members of the 

 Evansville Lumbermen's Club sat down to dinner on board an Ohio river 

 steamship on the occasion of the recent outing of the organization. 



The table was arranged the whole length of the floor and 120 guests 

 were seated at one time, thus establishing an unique precedent of serving 

 that number of people from one solid piece of wood. 



The unique feature of the proposition is the unusual size of this slab 

 of rotary cut poplar, which was 1,260 inches wide across the grain and 

 .".6 inches long with the grain. To say that this was an unique table-top 

 is speaking very mildly and it unquestionably saved an unlimited amount 

 of damaged linen. 



This unusual piece of veneer was cut by the Evansville Veneer Company 

 and was used at the suggestion of George O. Worland, sales manager 

 of that company, and secretary of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club. 



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With the Trade 



Otis Felger Behind Mahogany Company in Cuba 



Otis A. Felger has just wired Hardwood Record that he has recently 

 returned from Cuba and that on June 17 be completed arrangements 

 for the organization of the Felger-Robbins Company, which concern Mr. 

 Felger has been organizing at Havana, Cuba, for the purpose of manu- 

 facturing Cuban mahogany and other Cuban woods. The company is 

 erecting a band mill at Havana on Havana bay. 



The Felger-Robbins Company is capitalized at .$100,000. The prin- 

 cipal offices will be at Grand Rapids, Mich., and Havana, Cuba. Otis 

 A. Felger, Grand Rapids, is president ; E. W. Robbins, Havana, vice- 

 president and manager, and Henryette E. Olding of Havana is secre- 

 tary; Earl A. Felger of Grand Rapids is treasurer. 



The company has already acquired considerable standing timber and 

 will plan on other holdings in the future. Mr. Felger advises Hardwood 

 Record that a large lot of logs has already arrived at the mill site 

 and the machinery is on the ground ready to be Installed. It is sug- 

 gested that the mill will start operations in sixty days. 



Mr. Felger is too well known in his lumbering operations to need fur- 



was formerly of the MofCett-Robbins 

 familiar with Cuban lumbering condl- 

 He has been successfully operating in 



ther introduction. Mr. Robbin 

 Company, and is probably mon 

 tions than any other individual. 

 Cuba for the past twelve years. 



Miss Olding is spoken of as the most capable American woman on 

 the island of Cuba. She speaks Spanish fluently. Mr. Robbins and 

 Miss Olding will reside in Havana, and the Felger Lumber & Timber 

 Company, Grand Rapids, will act as selling agents in the Grand Rapids 

 territory. Mr. Felger is also interested in the Memphis Band Mill 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., and in a number of furniture factories in 

 Grand Rapids and vicinity. The new move makes it possible to furnish 

 all the lumber requirements of his various interests direct from the 

 forest to the consumer. 



Joins Penrod Walnut and Veneer Forces 



R. L. Jurden, secretary of the Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company, 

 Kansas City, Mo., writes Hardwood Hecord that Sam A. Thompson, for 

 the past two years sales manager for the Norman Lumber Company, 

 Louisville, Ky., has become connected with the Penrod concern and will 

 represent that company after July 1 in the middle-western territory. 



Mr. Thompson is one of the best known and apparently most popular 

 lumber salesmen on the road. He will handle the combined lines of the 

 Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company, embracing walnut lumber and rotary 

 cut veneers of all kinds, and the lumber line of the Penrod-Jurden- 

 McCowen Lumber Company at Brasfleld, Ark. 



Hardwood Lands to he Sold at Auction 

 Willis Ward, one of the trustees oi the estate of the late David 

 Ward, was in Chicago for a few days of this week and gave Hardwood 

 Record the details of the proposed auction sale covering the remaining 

 8,000 acres of David Ward's famous holdings, which at one time totaled 

 90,000 acres. This original acreage was composed of 70,000 acres of 

 hardwoods and 20,000 acres of pine, which was reduced at the time 

 Mr. Ward died to 50,000 acres of hardwood and 20,000 acres of pine. 

 Since that date the holdings have been reduced by sales and exploita- 

 tion until now the pine stumpage is entirely gone, and 8,000 acres of 

 hardwood alone remains. 



According to Mr. Ward, however, this is really the richest stand of 

 all of the holdings. He lays this to the usual tendency to buy as 

 cheaply as possible, and as a natural result the previous sales of hard- 

 wood stumpage have been of tracts which, while excellent, were not 

 of the unusual character of the stand now offered. 



It will be recalled that back in 1900 the trustees of the estate built 

 an immense sawmill plant at Deward. Mich., for the purpose of' working 



AN UNUSUAL TABLE MADE FROM ONE PIECE OF POPLAR VENEER 



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