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would be to appoint a traffic man to suggest 

 remedies. 



After a great deal of discussion the report of 

 the Traffic Committee was accepted and the 

 resolution embodied in it was passed. 



Then followed the reading of several com- 

 munications, among them one in regard to the 

 resolutions adopted by the club on the death of 

 J. E. Defebaugh of the American Lumberman, a 

 report of the Auditing Committee appointed at 

 the last meeting, in which it was stated that 

 the finances of the club are in good shape, and 

 a letter from the Merchants" Exchange, asking 

 tor a report from the club on lumber conditions. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Monthly Meeting Memphis Liunbermen's 

 Club 

 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis was held at the Hotel 

 Gayoso January 22. The usual luncheon was 

 served and the attendance was exceptionally 

 large. S. C. Major was in the chair. 



One of the features of the meeting was report 

 of the special committee, headed by W. B. Mor- 

 g.in. secretary-treasurer of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company, which went to San Antonio to ap- 

 pear before the Western Classification Commit- 

 tee in connection with the proposed increase in 

 the rates on packages made of pasteboard and 

 other substitutes for gum and cottonwood lum- 

 ber. This committee stated that it made a re- 

 quest that the matter be left over until the 

 midsummer meeting of the classification com- 

 mittee, at which time it will be taken up fur- 

 ther. Lumbermen here are much interested in 

 this matter because of the important bearing it 

 will have, in its final solution, upon the market 

 for low-grade lumber, with particular reference 

 to cottonwood and gum. 



C. D. Hendrickson of the C. D. Hcndrickson 

 Lumber Company moved the appointment of a 

 special committee to seek new consuming fac- 

 tories for Memphis in order that the consump- 

 tion of hardwood lumber in Memphis may be 

 radically increased, in keeping with its impor- 

 tance as the largest hardwood producing market 

 in the world. The motion, however, after much 

 discussion, was amended in such a way that. 

 Instead of the appointment of a special commit- 

 tee for the purpose, the subject was referred to 

 the publicity committee, one of the standing 

 committees of the organization. 



N. Butley Haynes brought forward again the 

 proposition looking to the establishment of a lum- 

 ber exchange in Memphis for the furtherance of 

 trading among local lumbermen for both immedi- 

 ate and future delivery and for the formulation of 

 rules governing inspection in keeping with the 

 character of the lumber remaining in the Memphis 

 territory. He believes that such a step would 

 be of vast benefit to lumbermen and to the lum- 

 ber industry of this section, and has asked lor 

 early action thereon. The matter was referred 

 to the board of directors and they will, after 

 due consideration, advise the members bj- letter 

 of their views in regard thereto. Then a date 

 will be set at which this subject will be made 

 one of the special orders of business. 



W. R. Barksdale, chairman of the entertain- 

 ment committee, recommended that the annual 

 banquet be held in February and that, contrary 

 to precedent, members be allowed to bring their 

 wives, daughters or sweethearts. This is an 

 entirely new departure, but the members ac- 

 cepted the suggestion most readily and the com- 

 mittee was authorized to proceed along the lines 

 indicated. Mr. Barksdale promised that the af- 

 fair would be of a kind to provide keen enjoy- 

 ment not only for the club members but for 

 the ladies whom they may have the pleasure 

 of. having as their guests. The exact date has 

 not yet been decided upon, this being left to 

 the discretion of the entertainment committee. 



Resolutions were read, adopted, ordered spread 

 upon the minutes and copies ordered forwarded 

 to the families of the deceased in the case of the 



following prominent lumbermen who have re- 

 cently died : John B. Ransom, Nashville, who 

 was president of the Gayoso Lumber Company, 

 Memphis ; F. S. Hendrickson of the F. S. Hen- 

 drickson Lumber Company, Chicago ; George W. 

 Stoneman of the Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Com- 

 pany, Do Vails Bluff, Ark., and M. R. Perkins, 

 Jlemphis. 



A letter was read by Secretary Thompson from 

 Mrs. Edith Gray Hendrickson of Chicago, thank- 

 ing the club for the handlsome floral tribute sent 

 to Chicago on the occasion of the recent death 

 of her husband, F. S. Hendrickson. 



VC. R. Barksdale, on behalf of members of 

 the club, presented to James M. Thompson, 

 secretary-treasurer, a check for a handsome sum 

 in token of appreciation of the splendid service 

 he has rendered the club during the past year. 

 The position is entirely honorary, the constitu- 

 tion and by-laws making no provision for the 

 payment of a salary, despite the large amount 

 of work that has to be done. 



An Important Toledo Concern 



A conspicuous figure in the lumber trade of 

 Toledo, O., is the Frank Spangler Company, 

 manufacturer and dealer in porch columns, com- 

 position capitals, wood turning and hardwood 

 lumber. This business has grown from the 

 modest beginning made by Frank Spangler in 

 January, 1897, when he started to manufacture 

 porch columns and wood turnings in a very 



ing care of the trade, and much of the work is 

 now done under contract in Chicago and Detroit. 

 At the latter city the company has a large 

 warehouse where it keeps on hand always stock 

 columns ready for quick shipment. The column 

 department is in charge of Miss Frutiger, whose 

 fours years of training have made her very ef- 

 ficient in this work, as shown by the growth of 

 her end of the business. Miss Frutiger is also 

 office manager. 



The most important feature of the Spangler 

 business is the lumber department, which is un- 

 der the supervision of the president of the com- 

 pany. Mr. Spangler enjoys the distinction of 

 being a successful experimenter in woods in his 

 city. About twelve years ago he undertook 

 to introduce c.vpress as a substitute for white 

 pine in his territory, and he built up an ex- 

 tensive demand for this wood and now takes the 

 cypress cut of several mills and buys quite 

 heavily in other directions as well. Three years 

 ago he began advocating the use of tupelo for 

 yellow poplar. While this plan has not worked 

 out as successfully as the cypress innovation, 

 the concern now bandies several million feet of 

 tupelo a year. Oak, gum, cottonwood, poplar 

 and other hardwoods are also handled by the 

 company. 



The company, owing to its rapidly increasing 

 business, for the convenience of the large of- 

 fice force and customers who frequently visit 

 its place of business, has moved its office from 

 113 Maumee street to Suite 6 and 7, Smith & 

 Baker building. Here more commodious qu.nr- 

 ters have been secured in a building located in 

 the heart of the business district of Toledo. 



The dominant figure in this enterprising To- 

 ledo concern is Frank Spangler, a lumberman 

 of experience and foresight and a business man- 

 ager of great ability. 



With a strong determination to succeed, with 

 energy and push and a well chosen motto, 

 "Economy, industry and good habits." he has 

 made of a small and modest beginning a large 

 and successful business. 



FRANK SPANGLER, TOLEDO 



small way, to its present enviable position in 

 the trade. 



For a short time these goods were sold as a 

 side line in marketing lumber, but very soon 

 both these lines of production prospered beyond 

 one man's capacity to take care of them. In 

 1004, the business having grown to a remarkable 

 extent, the Frank Spangler Company was in- 

 corporated with the originator of the business 

 at the head and a few of his most trusted em- 

 ployees as associates. The past few years has 

 seen an extensive growth as well as considerable 

 branching out in the business of the company. 

 The present officers are, Frank S. Spangler, 

 president and general manager : Emily A. Fruti- 

 ger. secretary, and A. D. Terhune, general sales- 

 man. The company is also well represented by 

 traveling salesmen. 



In porch column work the company gives spe- 

 cial attention to the large colonial styles usually 

 made to architects' directions. This phase of 

 the company's business has increased so that 

 the Toledo factory is no longer capable of tak- 



Interesting Lumber Exhibit at Indianapolis 



There was held in connection with the meet- 

 ing of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association 

 of Indiana at Indianapolis recently a lumber 

 exhibit which was very interesting and reflected 

 great credit on the concerns participating. The 

 affair was given on the eighth floor of the Cla.v- 

 pool Hotel, and hardwood and softwood manu- 

 facturers from various sections of the country 

 were well represented and showed some attrac- 

 tive displays. 



The Greer-Wilkinson Company. Indianapolis, 

 Ind.. had an extensive line of doors, trim, stair- 

 work, etc., and showed samples of all the neces- 

 sary appurtenances to that class of work, such 

 as varnishes and stains, brass trimmings, stained 

 and ground glass. This concern is a firm be- 

 liever in gum. most of its samples being of that 

 wood. The company has put out an interesting 

 little pamphlet entitled "Buy Gum, By-Gum." 

 In this publication it does not attempt to prove 

 the quality of gum by its own arguments, but 

 quotes unsolicited indorsements received from 

 dealers and private parties who have purchased 

 its product or are using or have used that wood. 

 The company's showing was very creditable. 



The M. B. Farrin Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati laid particular stress on its excellent 

 ■Century Oak Flooring." The samples of 

 "clear" of all sizes showed perfection of manu- 

 facture and of quality, while the No. 1 common 

 was good enough to use anywhere. This concern 

 also deals extensively in all forms of poplar, 

 rough, dressed, bevel and drop siding principally, 

 and in oak and other hardwoods. 



For beauty of display the Rockford Manufac- 

 turing Company, Rockford. O.. was easily in 

 the lead with an unusually fine exhibition of 

 figured veneers and fancy woods, "from quar- 

 tered oak up," as their representative expressed 



