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woods — ' because they tliiln 't trim up 

 straight'! Lower limbs, small trees ami 

 iiuderbrush were all sacrificed to make 

 straight the paths of picnic parties; and to 

 get a nice sod started and have a park! 

 The gentle donor of this ti'act wouM have 

 liroken his heart over the looks of it when 

 these improvements (?) were completed, and 

 have hurled imprecations down ujioii the 

 stupidity which nntlid all he had so lovingly 

 and intelligently done, but chiefly upon the 

 .slothful and incompetent commissioners who 

 trusted such work to such hands, ' ' instead of 

 saving from destruction the remarkable 

 natural beauty of the little plot. 



Rogers, in The Tree Book, pays a graceful 

 and sympathetic tribute to the flowering dog- 

 wood, a tree which must be known to be 

 .-ippreciated: "The grace and beauty of the 

 leaves, with their channelled, curving, parallel 

 veins, must strike one in summertime. Be- 

 fore they change color the clustered fruits, 

 standing where the flowers stood, burn bright 

 against the leafy background. These shin- 

 ing, waxy berries are never lost to view, even 

 when the foliage takes on shades of crimson 

 and scarlet. They deepen and intensify these 

 royal colors until the hungry liirds have 

 taken the last one. The leaves fall and leave 

 behind a bare gray tree, set with multitudes 

 of buds, pledge of next year's flowers and 

 leaves and fruit. The artist will tell you that 

 1 l;o dogwood wears its finest colors in the 

 wintertime! Go out into the woods in late 

 Pebruary or early March, just when the wil- 

 lows and aspens show green — just a hint of 

 it — through their telltale bark. All the other 



early trees wear that rapt, expectant look 

 that precedes the bold casting off of bud 

 scales. The silky twigs and velvety buds 

 of the dogwood, alive and thrilling with the 

 stir of the sa]i, show marvelous tones of olive 



PRINT OF DOGWOOD LEAF. 



and grey an<l lavender, with deeper purple 

 shadows and warm hints of red — the colors 

 Japanese artists revel in." 



The photograph accompanying tliis article 

 was furnished by P. K. Villadsen of Thorsby, 

 Ala., and shows the tree in its natural forest 

 environment in that region. 



'Builders of Lumber History. 



Walter Nathaniel Kelley. 



(.S'e<; Pvrtriiit Siipplciiicnt.) 

 Walter Nathaniel Kelley of Traverse City, 

 .Mich., whose portrait appears as supplement 

 to this issue of the Hardwood Kecobd, is one 

 of the best-known lumbermen in the state of 

 .Michigan, and especially in that section 

 known as the "Traverse Bay country." 



Mr. Kelley was born at JIaybee, Monroe 

 .ounty, Mich., May 4, 1866. His father was 

 a native of Scotland ; his mother was Hol- 

 land Dutch. The boy received a common 

 school education at Maybee, and at the early 

 age of fifteen left the parental roof to shift 

 for himself. 



His first position was as telegraph operator 

 for the Wabash railroad at Wliittakcr, Mich., 

 and he continued in it until he was twenty, 

 when he was able to turn the little capital 

 and business training he had accumulated to 

 much better account. He went to .Slights, 

 (irand Traverse ccninty, nine miles from 

 'I'raverse City, and entered the lumber busi- 

 ness, becoming a partner in the firm of J. A. 

 Doty & Co., under which title operations were 

 conducted for two years. At the end of that 

 time Mr. Kelley purchased Mr.' Doty 's inter- 



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est and ojierated as Walter N. Xelle}' until 

 the year 1891. The enterprise includei-l the 

 manufacture of shingles, as well as lumber; 

 also charcoal and other by-products. The com- 

 pany owned considerable hanlwood and hem- 

 lock ftumpage, which kept it well supplied 

 with material. 



In 1891 Mr. Kelley took in anotlu'r partner 

 — C. T. Covell of Whitehall, Mich., and to- 

 gether they operated as Kelley & Covell until 

 1898, when affairs were readjusted once more 

 and Mr. Kelley engaged alone in the manu- 

 facture and wholesaling of lumber at Traverse 

 City, forming the Kelley Lundier & Shingle 

 Company, of which he is president and man- 

 ager at the present time. W. L. De Witt is 

 vice-president ; George E. Becker, treasurer, 

 and A. W. Overholt, secretary. The company 

 makes and wholesales hemlock and all kinds of 

 Michigan hardwood lumber, lath and shingles; 

 it operates two saw and shingle mills at Frank- 

 fort, Mich.; one saw mill and a shingle mill 

 at the head of East Bay, three miles, from 

 Traverse City, and a saw mill and shingle mill 

 at Atlanta. During the current year it has 

 manufactured 25,000,000 feet of hardwoods 

 anil hemlock, and about 311,11110,01111 shingles. 



A well-assorted stock of all kinds of Michigan 

 hardwoods and hemlock is carried in the 

 Traverse City and neighboring yards at all 

 times, and the company owns sufficient tim- 

 ber tributary to its several mills to last ten 

 years or more. It also controls a logging 

 railroad which strikes the Pere ^larquette at 

 Moorestown .Junction. 



The Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company 

 operates a wholesale yard in Grand Eapids, 

 Mich., having as its agent there J. F. Quig- 

 ley; there also a fine assortment of Michigan 

 hardwoods and hemlock is kept on hand — 

 usually about -,000,000 feet. Birch is a spe- 

 cialty, and all kinds and grades are carried. 

 Two lumber barges are kept in commission, 

 the Einma E. Thompson and the Isabel Sands, 

 wiiich ply between the various lake ports. 



Mr. Kelley is also president of the South 

 Side Lumber Company of Traverse City, 

 which operates a saw mill and maintains a 

 yard at Hiawatha, near ilanistique, and is 

 interested in retail yards at various points — 

 Detroit, Toledo, Hillsdale and St. Johns— 

 and in the Buft'alo Maple Flooring Company 

 of Buffalo, N. Y. 



He is a member of the Fellowcraft Club of 

 Detroit, and is affiliated with numerous lodges, 

 being a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, 

 a Hoo-Hoo and an Elk. In politics he is a 

 Kcpiiblican, while in religion he frankly 

 brands himself "a heathen," which may stand 

 as far as creeds and dogmas go, but which his 

 good works and sterling character belie. 



At the age of eighteen Mr. Kelley married 

 Miss Nellie L. Van Liew, and they have a 

 family of five attractive children — four girls, 

 the eldest of whom is Mi-s. Herbert Montague 

 of Traverse City, and one boy. 



Walter N. Kellet^^^j^' good fellow" in 

 the truest sense of<ljf'^oid — genial, good- 

 natured, a staunch friend. His calm, delib- 

 erate manner, a heritage from the maternal 

 stock, does not in any wise convey an impres- 

 sion of indecision, but on the contrary of rea- 

 sonable deUberatiou and sane, unhurried judg- 

 ment; beneath the unruffled exterior and 

 easy-going, almost indift'ercnt manner is felt 

 the certain penetration, clarity of foresight 

 and executive ability which have made it pos- 

 sible for the man to know ojiportunities when 

 they presented, and to cany them to success- 

 ful issues. 



in Temporary Difficulty. 



.Judges McMichacl and Ferguson on Oct. 4 ap- 

 pointed Chas. II. Thompson of Lewis Thompson 

 vt Co.. Inc., rci'eivpi- for the Uumbargcr Lumber 

 Company nf 1 liiladi-lphia. a corporation under 

 Vi.-ginia laws, upun tUe petition u£ creditors and 

 stoclcholders that the concern he declared tem- 

 poraril.v insolvent. The .Janney-Whiting Lumber 

 I'ompan.v and other creditors with claims repre- 

 senting .^liO.OOO. instituted the receivership pro- 

 ceedings through J. Howard Reber, attorney, 

 and an affidavit was also filed by J. J. Rum- 

 barger, president of the company, admittins' 

 insolvency. 



The t<)tal liabilities of the concern were said 

 to amount to $2SO,000. covering unpaid ac- 

 counts and money borrowed. The company has 

 assets aggregating .faT.j.OOi). which include hill.s 

 and accounts, .f IJOO.oOO : lumlirr. .$100,000; plan- 

 ing mill. .fli.'i.ooO, and timbcM- lands. .$.50,000. 

 Fnder the management of .Mr. Thompson the 

 company expects lo meet all its obligations. 



