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HARUWOOU KKCOKU 



with the law in carrying on their businmiii. Nothing of that nort 

 is iurluilca in the work. No *urb invent igntiouii iiro within thv 

 avopc of it* tlutiM. 



FOKKST I'UOOrtTK tlXltWlTIOS 



The $10,000 oppropriation whirh ConcreM provided to cnnblo the 

 y'orMt Service aa a whole to take part in the Korest ProJuctt 



Kz]>o«ilion in Chicago and New York will innko 



iblc for 



the Diviniiin of Induvtrial InveNtigationK, and likewise the i-'orcst 

 I'rodurtH I^uborntory at Madiiion, Wis,, to place their work before 

 the wood iiHcnt of thin country in a way not pORnible heretofore. 

 Their exiiibitii arc now being prepared, and while no Hpecillc infor- 

 mation him been given out n» to the precine nature of the exhibitii, 

 it may be depended upon that they will be prnctii'nl iiml will b« 

 prepared with an eye tiliigle tu iitilir.iition. 



Williiim A. 1^-nnett, ol IIm 

 finn of Ifennett * Witle. liar.l 

 wood lumber dealers of t'in 

 cinnati, paswe.! away at \\\- 

 rosidence, 3:il6 Reading roii.l. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, S u n d a y 

 afteruouii. April 19. 



Mr. Bi-nnett had iM-en .suf 

 fering for many weeks from 

 kidney trouble with complii-.'i 

 tions but hi.s exceptionally 

 strong con.stitntion had kept 

 him up weeks after his doctor 

 Miid there was no hope of his 

 recovery. 



He was born in Dover, Ky.. 

 in 1S34, and came to Cincin- 

 nati when a young man. lie 

 accepted a position with the 

 C. W. & S. G. Boy.l lumber 

 firm, and while with that con 

 cern he acquired a masterful 

 knowleilge of the lumber 

 business. In 1SS7 Mr. Ben 

 nett with Charles Witte. -a 

 fellow workman connecte^l 

 with the same concern, forme. I 

 the firm of Bennett & Witte. 

 which was a partnership. 

 Mr. Witte died in 1896 an.l 

 Mr. Bennett became the sole 

 gwiier of the business, whieh 

 has grown to one of tlie 

 large-st of its kind in the conn 

 try. At the time of his deatlj. 

 besides being the sole owner 

 of the firm of Bennett A: 

 Witte, he was vice-president 

 of the Ohio National Life In 

 surance Company. He was :ui 

 active member of the Chamber 

 of Commerce and a former 



president. He was a member Till: I.ATi; Wll.l.IA.M .\. V.K 



of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association 



and a charter member of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati and 

 its second president. He also was a member of the Business Men 's 

 Club. ^Vhen the company that formerly operated the Havilan<l hotel 

 of Cincinnati got into financial difficulties, Mr. Bennett was appointed 

 receiver of the property an«l succeeded so well that the receiver.ship 

 was soon lifted and the company reorganizcil. 



Mr. Bennett leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Raymond 

 Betts, who is manager of the eastern office of the Queen City Silver 

 Company, a branch of the Cincinnati Coffin Company, whose head- 

 quarters are New York City. The funeral services were held at the 

 late residence Tuesday afternoon, April 21, with Rev. Chas. F. Goss 



«r till' rre>bMeriun cliurch 

 ofliciating. The burial was at 

 Spring (irove cemetery. Mr. 

 Bennett nil through life had 

 very jdnin and simple tasteii 

 and, as was ex|K'cted, the fu- 

 neral services were carrie«l 

 out in the simplest form. 

 Rev. Mr. Go»», who was a 

 life long friend of Mr. Hen 

 nett, preached a IxMintiful 

 sermon, referring mainly to 

 the unseen side of the de- 

 ceased's life which to those 

 who knew him intinintely 

 would fill 3 large volume, oa 

 he was a man of very char- 

 itable tendencies whose purge 

 was always open when called 

 upon. 



The Lumbermen 's Club at- 

 tended the funeral in a body, 

 C. C. Hagemeyer, presirlent of 

 the club, and T. B. Stone, of 

 the T. B. Stone Lumber Com- 

 pany, being honorary pall 

 bearers. The active pall bear- 

 ers, most of whom are lum- 

 bermen, were as follows: Jas. 

 .\. Porter, Ben Bramlage, B. 

 A. Kipp, George M. Morgan, 

 S. W. Hiehey, Emil Thoman, 

 .\. H. Belts, and John Havi- 

 lanil. The club sent a casket 

 spray of white Killarney roses. 

 All the floral offerings were 

 very handsome and entirely 

 filled the large room where 

 the remains reposed. These 

 were banked around the grave 

 ]>revious to the arrival of the 

 funeral party and it would 

 .ni:tt. t'l.NCiN.N.VTI. OHIO. appear that the handsome ma- 



hogany casket was simply sub- 

 merged among a bower of 

 roses and lilies instead of Ijeing consigned to a grave. Mr. Ben- 

 nett's memory will live long among the friends who knew him 

 and many of Cincinnati's prominent Innibcrmen will long remember 



his wise counsel. 



An Inferior Substitute for Ash 

 I'or some years bo.it onrs of Australian mountain nsh have been shipped 

 to England, where they came in competition with American nsh. The 

 timber was cut In New South Wales. It was recently learned that an 

 Imitation had been put on the market. It looks like ash, but Is in every 

 way inferior to it. and Is said to be a species of eucalyptus. The Kovem- 

 ment of New South Wales has taken steps to prevent the palming off 

 of the Inferior wood for the ash. 



