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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NeWs Miscellany. 



Cape Girardeau Meeting. 



The previously announced district meeting of 



tlie Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, about 



the date of which there has been considerable 



confusion, has been ofHcially set for October '.}. 



A CORNER OF THE IXTEKIOIt. 



The conference wili assemble on that date in the 

 rooms of the Commercial Club. Cape Girardeau. 

 Mo., at 2 :30 p. m. In view of the fact that 

 there are several questions of more than passing 

 interest to be discussed the attendance will 

 probably be large. 



The "Lumber Yard" at the Cinciimati Fall 

 Festival. 

 The members of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Cincinnati are proverbially hospitable to the 

 stranger within the gates of their city. The 

 recent Fall Festival, from August 28 to Sep- 

 tember 22, an event held almost every year by 

 Cincinnati merchants and manufacturers for the 



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purpose of bringing out-of-town visitors to the 

 city, they made the occasion of special interest 

 to visiting lumbermen both in a social and 

 business way. Invitations were extended the 

 trade to visit the headquarters of the club dur- 

 ing their stay in the city and an attractive little 

 booklet, bound in imitation veneer, was gotten 



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up, containing the names of the members of the 

 club and citing the advantages of Cincinnati 

 as a lumber center. 



As an exhibit they erected a "lumber yard" 

 at the Festival. It appeared to be simply a 

 row of lumber piles, but, on approaching, en- 

 trances were found on both sides leading to a 

 hollow square where were displayed all kinds 

 of woods handled in that market. The exhibi- 

 tion was not only interesting from a layman*s 



I)Oint of view but w-as of such trade advantage 

 that the technical schools of the city asked for 

 tlie privilege of giving object lessons from the 

 display and begged the donation of the materials 

 at the end of the Festival. The "yard" was a 

 point of great interest to visitors and the pro- 

 gressiveness of the Lumbermen's Club was com- 

 mented upon not only by lumbermen but by 

 merchants in other lines of business. 



The Hoo-Hoo Annual. 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the Order of 

 Hoo-Hoo began at Oklahoma City, Okla., on 

 September 9. with an attendance of nearly a 

 thousand members. The local arrangements for 

 I he entertainment of the visitors were perfect, 

 the various games and theatrical representations 

 being especially enjoyable. ' The officers elected 

 for the coming year were : Snark of the Uni- 

 verse. A. C. Ramsey, St. Louis. JIo. : Senior 



that there will probably be a joint conference of 

 all the traffic managers at an early date, when 

 a committee will be appointed to meet the com- 

 mittee of lumbermen. 



After the adjournment of the commission the 

 railroad men were taken to view the equipments 

 designed by George Harvey and John Toomey, 

 engineers employed on behalf of the lumbermen. 

 The Toomey stake has been thoroughly tested 



EXTERIOR VIEW LUMBER.MEN'S EXHIBIT 

 AT CINCINNATI FALL FESTIVAL. 



Hoo-Hoo. T. n. Rogers, Oklahoma City, Okla. : 

 .lunior Hoo Hoo, W. W. Everett, San Francisco, 

 Cal. : Bojum, George M. Duncan, Houston, Tex.; 

 Scrivenoter, J. H. .Baird, Nashville, Tenn. ; Jab- 

 berwock. Charles Wolflin, Evansville, Ind. ; Cus- 

 tocatian. George E. Youle, Seattle, Wash. ; Ar- 

 canoper, .John L. Alcock, Baltimore, Md. ; Gur- 

 don. R. W. Polk, Little Rock, Ark. 



Atlantic City was chosen as the next meeting 

 place of the annual. 



Five Hundred Pounds Conceded hy 'Westem 

 Roads. 



When the Pacitic Coast Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association opened its case against the west- 

 eru railroads before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission in Chicago, September 19, the rail- 

 roads asked for time on the ground that they 

 were not yet prepared to bring witnesses to 

 prove their side of the case. While the ques- 

 tion was being argued, counsel for the railroads 

 professed their clients' wish to meet the lum- 

 bermen fair mindedly, and it was arranged to 

 postpone the case and appoint a committee from 

 the railroads and one from the lumbermen to 

 meet and devise some means of securing a satis- 

 factory equipment for the cars, as was done 

 in the cases against the eastern and southern 

 roads. The railroads, through their attorneys, 

 also stated that they were willing to allow 500 

 pounds to be deducted from the total weight of 

 the shipment as the weight of the equipment. 

 This concession was agreed to by all the rail- 

 roads but the Union Pacific, which had no rep- 

 resentation at the meeting. Chairman Knapp of 

 the commission stated, however, that they would 

 take it for granted that the Union Pacific would 

 agree to the concession and adjourned the case 

 to some day to be hereafter fixed. 



It was announced on the part of the railroads 



-K.NOTHER INTERIOR VIEW OF THE EX- 

 HIBIT. 



and has successfully carried four loads. The 

 Harvey stake has not as yet been put to a 

 I borough test. On Sept. 22 a party consisting 

 iS L. L. Earth of the Edward Hines Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, John Toomey and George 

 Harvey, engineers, and Walter Ross, counsel for 

 the various lumber associations, representing the 

 lumbermen, and M. K. BarnuBi, assistant to sec- 

 rind vice president of the C, B. & Q. ; C. A. 

 Sihroyer, superintendent car department;. C. & 

 N. W. : J. F. Be Voy, mechanical engineer, C, 

 -M. & St. P.; R. H. Aishtou, general manager 

 c. & N. W. : C. F. Rice, superintetident train 

 siTvice. C., B. & Q. : D. L. Bush, general super- 

 intendent, C, M. & St. P., representing the rail- 



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roads, went to the Rock Island railroad yards 

 and viewed the Harvey equipment. The general 

 opinion was that the stakes were entirely prac- 

 ticable, and tests will be made in the near future 

 on various railroad lines. In the course of the 

 next few days a committee of one from each of 

 the complainant lumber associations will be ap- 



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pointed to meet the railroad men and both sides 

 will select a sub or working committee of prob- 

 ably four men who will take charge of the actual 

 experimental work to be done. 



New Tenoning Machine. 



The single end tenoner shown in the accom- 

 panying cut is made by the H. B. Smith Machine 

 Company of Smithville. N. J., and is the result 

 of nearly sixty years" successful experience in 



