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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Guests 

 Harry A. names, Thomas Bell, S. P. Towers, 

 Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugli. Malcolm G. Campbell, 

 Thomas E. Coale, James SherlocU Davis, Edward 

 W. Deakin, Lewis Dill, William Geiger, Harrold 

 E. Gillingham, Frank K. Gillingham, James F. 

 Hope, G. A. Kuemmerle. William M. Loaverty, 

 William H. Lincoln. E. P. Mason. William M. 

 McCormick, John N. McLean, Clarence G. Meeks, 

 Clayton W. Nichols, E. F. Perry. Charles S. 

 Rich, William Seymore Runk, Mahlon L. Savage, 

 Henry J. Scott, Dr. Alexis Dupout Smith, George 

 M. Smith, Edwin S. Stuart. William T. Tilden. 

 Morris S. Tremainc, James R. Turner and 

 Richard S. White. 



Change in Title 



One of the well-known car and cargo lumber 

 jobbing houses of Chicago is the Marsh-Hathway 

 Company. During the last few days the name 

 of this company has been changed to the Hath- 

 way Lumber Comijany, the change being in name 

 only, as the othcers and stockholders continue the 

 same. The head of this institution as president 

 and manager is Frank .1. Ilathway. 



All contracts and other obligations of the 

 Marsh-Hathway Company will be continued and 

 executed as though no change in name had been 

 made. The new company is remembering its 

 friends in the trade by sending them as a Christ- 

 mas gift a registered key cliain which bears a 



FRANK J. HATHWAY, PRESIDENT AND 

 MANAGER HATHWAY LUMBER COM- 

 PANY, CHICAGO. 



numbered metal label. These numbers are regis- 

 tered at the office of the Hathway Lumber Com- 

 pany, and in event the owner's key is lost the 

 embossed request on the tag. asking that the.y 

 be notified of the finding of the key, will insure 

 its return. 



The offices of the Ilatbway Lumber Company 

 are at 910 Chamber of Commerce. It handles 

 a full line of building and hard woods from all 

 lumber producing sections of the country. 



Change in W. M. Eltter Lumber Company's 

 Sales Departnfent 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, the big 

 poplar, hardwood and white pine manufacturer, 

 with headquarters at Columbus, O.. has just 

 added to its western division sales force W. L. 

 Morley, who from this date will represent the 

 company in Indiana territory and will be under 

 the Jurisdiction of the Chicago otBce, located jn 

 (he Fisher building. 



H. A. Shead, who was located in Indiana tem- 

 porarily, will return to Chicago as representative 

 in northern Illinois and Wisconsin. Mr. Morley 

 has been engaged in several branches of the 

 lumber business during most of his life, and for 

 the past year has been representing the Midland 

 Lumber Company at Cincinnati. 



Dissolution Antwerp Lumber House 



The Rkcord is advised by August Brants that 

 his old house of Brants, Franck & Co. of Ant- 

 werp. Belgium, was dissolved October 1, and 

 that the affairs of the house are being liquidated. 

 Mr. Brants continues in the American hard 

 and soft wood business under his own name at 

 20 Rue de la Commune, Antwerp. 



Death of Arthur Hill 



Arlbur Hill, one of the foremost lumbermen 

 (if Michigan, as well as an important figure in 

 the political life and lumber history of the state, 

 died at his home in Saginaw, December G, after 

 a long illness. Mr. Hill began at the bottom 

 round of the ladder and by energy and ability 

 rose to a high place in the lumber industr.v. 

 His death removes from the state of Michigan 

 one of its foremost lumbermen and one of its 

 most conspicuous figures in business affairs. He 

 was recognized not only in his native state but 

 llu-oughout the country as an excellent business 

 man, and his qualities as a citizen won him 

 extended recognition outside of any commercial 

 class. 



Arthur Hill was born at St. Clair, Mich., in 

 1S44, coming from a line of distinguished an- 

 cestors. His father, James H. Hill, traded a 

 tract of land he bad inherited for a lumber 

 scow, and during the summer he sailed and in 

 the winter logged on the Black river. In 1850 

 the elder Mr. Hill, attracted by the possibilities 

 of the Saginaw valley, removed to Saginaw and 

 began the operation of a small sawmill. Arthur 

 Hill as a young man thus acquired a knowledge 

 of lumber manufacture in the humble capacity 

 of sorter, scaler and tally man in his father's 

 mill. Finishing his common school education at 

 Saginaw, he entered the University of Michigan 

 and was graduated as a civil engineer. His first 

 serious employment was as a law surveyor in 

 Minnesota. Returning to Saginaw, he engaged 

 in looking lands, which occupation he followed 

 for seven years. 



After discontinuing the work of cruising, the 

 firm of Hill Brothers was formed, with Wilbur H. 

 Hill, his brother, as a senior member. When 

 the timber on the Saginaw waters was ex- 

 hausted, operations were transferred to the upper 

 peninsula of Michigan. Later, on the death of 

 Wilbur H. Hill, the firm name was changed to 

 Arthur Hill & Co., Ltd. This concern also bought 

 300,000.000 feet of timber on Georgian Bay. 

 manufacturing part of it into lumber and selling 

 the rest of it to Canadian interests. 



Mr. Hill was also interested in the Cranberry 

 Lumber Company of Dulutb, Minn.; and was 

 associated with the late Eldridge M. Fowler and 

 Edwin C. Whitney of Ottawa. Out., in the organi- 

 zation of the St. Anthony Lumber Company, 

 which operated in Minnesota for several years, 

 cutting about 30,000,000 feet of lumber a year. 

 It also secured control of the Mississippi River 

 booms at the Twin Cities and later sold out to 

 the Weyerhaeusers for more than .$2,000,000. 

 Previous to this time it had bought a tract of 

 000,000,000 feet of timber near Ottawa, Ont., 

 where a sawmill was erected. 



Mr. Hill was also interested in the Madera 

 Sugar Pine Company, of which he was president. 

 This company built a large sawmill on its Cali- 

 fornia holdings and a flume nearly sixty miles 

 long. In 1004 Mr. Hill bought interests in the 

 Booth-Kelly Lumber Company of Eugene. Ore., 

 in company with well-known Michigan and Min- 



nesota lumbermen. The concern had at that 

 time 4,000,000,000 feet of timber. 



The firm of Arthur Hill & Co. owned the 

 majority of the stock in the Saginaw Steel 

 Steamship Company, which was formed in 1890. 

 Mr. Hill and his associates also controlled other 

 steamship lines, and the ships in which they 

 ivtre interested have had a notable history. 

 They have operated as far north as Alaska and 

 as far south as Panama, and during the Spanish- 

 American war were used as transports by the 

 government, carrying military supplies to th.> 

 Philippines and to China. They were also used 

 as oil carriers, operating between Texas and 

 ■New York and between San Francisco and 

 Honolulu. 



In addition to all the interests enumerated, 

 which give some idea of the versatility of the 

 man, Mr. Hill also had heavy investments in 

 mining operations in the West, as well as ex- 

 tensive stumpage holdings in various parts of 

 the country. 



In public aJTairs Mr. Hill was also conspicuous 

 and successful. He was one of the generous 

 patrons of the beet sugar industry in Michigan, 

 and did a great deal toward its development. In 

 the city of Saginaw, where he was greatly be- 

 loved by the residents, there are many notable 

 examples of his philanthropy. Three times he 

 was mayor of the old Saginaw, previous to the 

 consolidation of Saginaw City and East Saginaw. 

 He was apitointcd a legent of the University of 



THE LATE ARTHUR HILL 



Michigan by the late Governor A. T. Bliss, and 

 was elected to a full term of eight years in 

 April, 1905. He was a candidate for United 

 States senator from Michigan to succeed the 

 late Russell A. Alger, but later withdrew from 

 that contest. 



As illustrating the splendid energy and force- 

 fulness of the man. Mr. Hill's business activities 

 and his keen interest in public affairs continued 

 until the illness which resulted in his death. 

 The state of Michigan has lost a most note- 

 worthy figure in the death of Arthur Hill. 



Gifts from the Trade 



lu line with the Yuletide season, but quite 

 out of the usual, D. H. Day, hardwood manu- 

 facturer and dealer of Glen Haven, Mich., is 

 sending to his many friends a very artistic cal- 

 endar for 1010. It is a stiff board, eighteen by 

 fifteen inches, with a reproduction of the famous 

 painting, "The Village Championship." done in 

 colors. The calendar is bandy, attractive and. 

 ornamental. 



John W. Coles, the prominent wholesale lam- 



