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liad madi' upon the community, the fi-iemls lie 

 had won. tlie hearts he had contiuered. were all 

 manifested in the .splendid testimonials Ici his re- 

 vered miMuor.v in the greaf outpouring that at- 

 tended his funeral in blizzard wealher at the 

 West End church on Thur.sday last. lie was a 

 devout mi'mber of this church. The structure 

 was crowded to overflowing. 



As a specimen of the testimonials re]ire- 

 senting the love and respect in which Mr. Kan- 

 som was held by every religious, social and hiisi- 

 ness body with which he was associated, the 

 following resolutions adopted by the Xashville 

 I.umliermen's Association, of which he was presi- 

 dent at the time of his death, is printed below ; 



Whereas, In the death of John B. Ransom the 

 entire lumber trade of America has sustained a 

 great loss, the hardwood manufacturing business 

 of the .South an irreparable loss, and the lumber 

 interests of Xashville the greatest loss in its 

 liistory, it is proper that the members of the 

 Nashville Lumbermen's Association, of which 

 Mr. Ransom was a member from its organiza- 

 tion, of which he was president at the time of 

 Ills death and for many years preceding, and 

 the memliers of which have been closely asso- 

 ciated with him, most of them for man.v years, 

 should express their deep sense of loss and their 

 appreciation of his noble qualities. Therefore, 

 be it 



Resolved. That this body lias recognized in 

 John B. Ransom a man of the highest type of 

 character. A self-made man in the truest" sense, 

 he was one of nature's noblemen. He attained 

 to an e.vceptional commercial and financial suc- 

 cess solely as the result of native ability and 

 force. Ambitious to succeed, he was yet always 

 considerate of his associates and competitors, 

 and deeply interested in the success and welfare 

 of all his friends. John B. Ransom was a sin- 

 gularly modest man, free from vainglory, and 

 really undervaluing his own great abilities. He 

 never spoke of his own achievements, but was 

 always quiclJ to give full credit and to speai; 

 in admiration of the accomplishments of others. 

 John B. Kansom was a public-spirited man. In 

 recent .vears particularly he has interested him- 

 self as few men have in the building up of his 

 home city and state. Brought into close con- 

 nection, through the ramifications of the great 

 business he had built up, with most of the in- 

 terests of the city and state, he strove to ad- 

 vance them all. At the time of his death he 

 was prominently identified with the erection of 

 the new buildings ot the Young Women's Chris- 

 tian Association, the Young Men's Christian 

 Association, and with many other public enter- 

 prises, to all of which he gave his unremitting 

 personal attention. 



Mr. Ransom was a man of deep affections, and 

 his Iiome life was beautiful. He was to his 

 immediate family, and to his large connection, 

 the soul of generosity and tender consideration. 

 Democratic in his tastes, he shunned all osten- 

 tation. He treated rich and poor, the powerful 

 and the humble, with equal consideration and 

 kindness. 



"His life was gentle, and the elements 



So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up 



And say to all the world. 'This was a man '.' " 



Resolved, further, That these expressions be 

 spread upon the minutes of this special called 

 meeting of the Nashville Lumltermen's Associa- 

 tion, and that a copy be sent to the family and 

 to the daily jind lumber newspaper press. 



F. S. Hendrickson 



Till' hardwood fraternity will learn with sin- 

 cere sorrow of the death of Forman Spencer 

 Hendrickson. president and general manager of 

 the F. 8. Hendrickson Lumber Company of the 

 Masonic Temple, Chicago, handler of southern 

 hardwoods. 



Mr. Hendrickson died on January 5 of cere- 

 bral malaria. He was taken ill in the South 

 about a week before Christmas, and returned 

 to this city about two weeks ago. in a critical 

 condition. He leaves a widow and three daugh- 

 ters, and was the first of a family of five chil- 

 dren to pass away. 



Mr. Hendrickson was born at .New Buffalo, 

 Mich., fifty-two .years ago. .\fter completing 

 his preparatory school work he entered the Tni- 

 versity of Michigan, from which he was gradu- 

 ated in the class of 1880. He first went into the 

 grocery business with his father, but soon after 

 obtained a position as stenographer in the Insane 

 Asylum at Pontiac. Mich. After coming to 

 Chicago he started with the old Chicago Lumber 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Company, but in 1893 he went Into partnership 

 with A. J. Howard, with which firm he continued 

 until 1002, when he organized the F. S. Hen- 

 drickson Lumber Company. This concern was in- 

 corporated in 1908 and has so continued up to 

 the present time. The F. S'. Hendrickson Lum- 

 ber Company will he continued by his associates. 



Till' funeral services were conducted at Mr. 

 Ilendrickson's late residence, ,'5748 Kimbark ave- 

 nue, at four o'clock in the afternoon of January 

 C. The remains were shipped to Ann Arbor for 

 interment. 



Mr. Ilendrickson's standing in the Chicago 

 trade was enviable. He was a man who did 

 business on a high plane of morality, and he 

 achieved a reputation for upright dealing that 

 has placed his house as one of the foremost 

 handlers of southern hardwoods in this market. 

 His untimely taking-off is much to be deplored. 



.\t a special meeting of the Chicago Hardwood . 

 Lumber Kxchange. called for the purpose of 

 taking action relative to the death of Mr. Hen- 

 drickson, the following resolutions were adopted : 



Whereas. The members of the Chicago Hard- 

 wood Lumber Exchange learn with profound sor- 

 row of the death of Jlr. Foreman S. Hendrickson. 

 who has. for many years, been a valued friend 

 of all members of the lumber trade : and. 



Whereas, We all hold the memory of his con- 

 duct and honorable life both as a citizen and 

 member of our organization with the highest re- 

 spect and commend the emulation of his honesty 

 and uprightness ; therefore, be it 



Resolved. That we express our deep sense of 

 loss in the death of one standing so highly in 

 the lumber trade, and commend his efforts to 

 promote a high standard of business and civic 

 life. 



Resolved, That we extend our deepest sympa- 

 thy to the afflicted family, and he it further 



Resolved. That the secretary forward a copy 



of these resolutions to the bereaved family and 

 the lumber trade journals. 



F. L. Brown, president of the exchange : J. II. 

 Dion, secretary : J. S. Trainer, Fred D. Smith, 

 Edward Skeele, II. S. Hayden, A. W. Wylie. Park 

 Richmond, C. L. Cross, Theo. Fathauer. A. R. 

 Vinnedge and George Thamer attended Mr. Ilen- 

 drickson's funeral as representatives of the ex- 

 change. 



John H. Lidgerwood 



t)u January 1 at bis homi' in .Morristown, 

 N. J., occurred the death of John II. Lidgerwood, 

 president and treasurer of the Lidgerwood Manu- 

 facturing Company, the largest manufacturers of 

 logging machinery in the world. Mr. Lidger- 

 wood was eighty years old: he had lived a life 

 of great usefulness and was generally recognized 

 by lumbermen all over the country, as well as 

 by the entire machinery trade, as a man of 

 upright and forceful character and a strong 

 figure in his special field. 



Mr. Lidgerwood was horn in New York, hut 

 went to Morristown w'iien he was only sixteen 

 years old. He married a daughter of the late 

 Judge Stephen 'S'ail, who .started the Speedwell 

 Iron Works in 1812. When he began to learn 

 the machinery business Professor .Morse was 

 working on the telegraph, and the building in 

 which the experiments were carried on is only a 

 few feet from the house in Speedwell avenue 

 occupied by Mr. Lidgerwood at the time of his 

 death. Mr. Lidgerwood was a prominent and 

 widely beloved figure in Morristown. He was 

 one of the organizers of the Church of the Re- 

 deemer in that city and was a member of the 

 Morristown Club and also of the New I'ork 

 Yacht Club. 



Tales About LiVe Ones and 

 Dead Ones. 



Bj the Editor. 



It Happened on Broadway 



Joe Liiiehan of the Liiiehan Ltiniber Com- 

 pany of Pittsburg, wlio has a parquetry floor- 

 ing plant in New York City and an oak floor- 

 ing factory at Catlettsburg, Ky., rotates be- 

 tween these three points. .Joe tells a story 

 about meeting a Pittsburg man on Broadway 

 a few nights ago with his electric lights all 

 agoing anil adorned with an evening suit that 

 was not only ill-fitting but unmistakably of 

 ancient vintage. At home this man is one of 

 the quiet and well-behaved sort, and belongs 

 to the strictly good and virtuous class of the 

 community. 



Joe shook hands with the Pittsburger and 

 passing up the subject of his unmistakable 

 inebriety, said to him: "Where in the mis- 

 chief did you get those clothes?" 



The individual beamed on Joe benignly 

 and replied: "Joe, this is a great town, and 

 it has great hotels. Shay, Joe, do you know 

 I am stopping at the finest hotel on Broad- 

 way. Even the bellboys there will do any- 

 thing for me. A bellboy got me this suit of 

 clothes. ' ' 



Where He Kept His Overdraft 



F. A. Kirby, salesmanager of the Cherry 

 Eiver Boom & Lumber Company of Scranton. 

 Pa., has this anecdote to relate about a 

 Columbus lumberman : 



The cashier of a Columbus bank with which 

 the individual in question did business ac- 

 costed him one day with the observation: 



"Where do you keep your moaey?" 



The man hesitated at the query, but evcatu- 



ally observed : ' ' Why I do business here at 



your bank. ' ' 



' ' Yes, I know you do business here, but 



what I want to find out is where yoii deposit 



your money. All you ever have here is an 



overdraft. 



Opened By Mistake 



Jas. A. Cheyne of the Pennsylvania Door 

 & Sash Company of Pittsburg, tells how he 

 got back at a southern shipper sotne time 

 ago. The institution had an order, vphieh had 

 been held up for months, for a carload of 

 tupelo gum mouldings. Mr. Cheyne wrote the 

 concern that the delivery of the goods ■was 

 months past due and insisted that prompt 

 .shipment be made. 



A reply to his communication materialized 

 in the form of a long-winded and discursive 

 letter explaining that Mr. Cheyne did not 

 understand conditions that prevailed in the 

 south country. The company recited the trou- 

 ble with labor, the floods that had prevailed 

 in the woods, the necessity of overhauling and 

 repairing dry-kilns and planing mills, but 

 failed entirely to give him any satisfaction 

 about the delivery of his moulding order. 

 Mr. Cheyne read the letter carefully and re- 

 enclosed it in the envelope, which he endorsed, 

 "Opened by mistake," and returned it to 

 the writer. 



Jim says the people are real "peevish" 

 about it, and insist thev have been insulted. 



