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HARDWOOD RECORD 



plant was formerly owned by the Prewitt-Spurr 

 Manufactui'ing Company, but was recently sold 

 to J. JI. Overall, W. W. Vaught and W. L, Pat- 

 terson, all o£ Murfreesboro. 



NashTille, in the death of W. K. Phillips last 

 week, lost another of its most useful citizens, a 

 man like John B. Ransom who was prominently 

 identified with the most progressive business 

 interests of the city, and one interested in sev- 

 eral big lumber concerns here. Mr. Phillips died 

 suddenly in Florida while there for his health. 

 He was vice-president of the Nashville Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, a director in the firm of 

 John B. Ransom & Co., a director in the W. J. 

 Cude Land & Lumber Company, a director in the 

 Fourth National Bank, president of the whole- 

 sale grocery firm of Phillips-Trawlck Company, 

 a director in the Cumberland Telephone and 

 Telegraph Company, a director in the Carnegie 

 Trust Company, and was interested in other 

 prominent business concerns. His funeral was 

 attended by many prominent lumbermen and 

 other business men and was one of the largest 

 seen in Nashville for many a day. 



A committee of stockholders of John B. 

 Ransom & Co., Nashville Hardwood Flooring 

 Company and the W. J. Cude Land & Lumber 

 <_'ompany, has adopted strong resolutions on the 

 death of Mr. Phillips. This committee was com- 

 posed of A. B. Ransom, J. B. Ransom, Jr., 

 \Yalter Keith. J. W. Love, and R. T. Wilson. 

 The Fourth National Bank also adopted similar 

 resolutions upon his death. 



In the removal of George C. Brown & Sons to 

 Memphis, Nashville has lost one of its prominent 

 hardwood concerns. This firm for some time 

 has had a yard in Memphis and now the head- 

 quarters of the concern will be located at the 

 Memphis yards. This firm is a manufacturer 

 of all kinds of hardwoods. Lewis E. Brown will 

 be president, Butler Smith of McJIinnville will 

 be vice-president, and G. E. Reynolds treasurer. 

 Attendant upon the removal to Memphis is a 

 reorganization of the company with a capital of 

 $100,000. 



Arthur B. Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 has recently been elected vice-president of the 

 organization that is raising funds for the erec- 

 tion of the Galloway Memorial Hospital in Nash- 

 ville, to commemorate the late Bishop C. B. 

 Galloway of the Southern Methodist Church. 

 Already between $40,000 and $50,000 have been 

 raised. 



A bill has been filed in tlie United States toiirt 

 at this city by the Lumber Underwriters, the 

 well known lumbermen's mutual fire insurance 

 company of New York seeking to restrain State 

 Insurance Commissioner Reau E. Folk from re- 

 voking the license of the company to do busi- 

 ness in Tennessee. Judge Sanford has set the 

 hearing on the application for injunction, for 

 February 2G at Knoxville. The license of this 

 compan.v was recently revoked by the Tennessee 

 Commissioner when the Lumber Underwriters, 

 without the consent of a party suing them, trans- 

 ferred the suit to the Federal Court. The Un- 

 derwriters claim that this Tennessee law is in 

 violation of the Federal constitution. 



W. J. Butts, who has been with the W. J. 

 Cude Land & Lumber Company for some time, 

 has accepted a position with John B. Ransom 

 & Co. 



W. J. Cude, after an attack of grippe lasting 

 two weeks or more, is out again. 



LOUISVILLE 



"Old Kentucky Homo" from now until after 

 the convention of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association will be the favorite song of lum- 

 bermen. Begin to practice now, for it has been 

 decided and the word has gone forth that on 

 June 9 and 10 Louisville — the Seelbach hotel — ■ 

 will be the refuge of at least a thousand of the 

 faithful. Frank F. Fish, secretary of the asso- 

 ciation, was the guest of the local Hardwood 

 Club at the meeting February 15. The conven- 



tion was discussed informally and C. M. Sears, 

 Barry Norman and Mark Brown were authorized 

 to continue the arrangements for entertaining 

 and completing all details. 



Railroad men still hold the floor with the club, 

 in spite of the interest that is felt in the work 

 of the convention. C. C. McChord, former mem- 

 ber of the Kentucky Railroad Commission, ad- 

 dressed the members regarding reshipping ar- 

 rangements in effect on lumber in Louisville as 

 compared with like arrangements at other points. 



Mr. Wiekliflfe of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Com- 

 pany, who was interviewed by the Record cor- 

 respondent, reports business as ".lust whooping." 

 January was a splendid month for the firm and, 

 thougli hard to realize, the company has broken 

 all lecords this month, though not half over and 

 the shortest month of the year. 



C. R. Mengel and D. C. Harris of the same 

 company left recently for Pensacola, Fla.. where 

 tiipy are to meet one of their ships that is 

 bringing a cargo from British Honduras. They 

 expect to be gone but a few days. Luckily, the 

 company can get all the cars it needs. It is 

 ordering ahead and one day last week had eleven 

 on its siding ; all of the eleven were loaded and 

 siiipped by the following evening. It Is using its 

 entire yard force to load as many cars a day as 

 I)ossibIe. 



Mark Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons' Lumber 

 Company is busy not only at his work in the 

 oihce. but also in making arrangements for the 

 couvention. Heavy ground is hindering them 

 somewhat in handling, especially as orders are 

 coming in steadil.v. All the traveling men are 

 se;;ding in good business and inquiries are numer- 

 ous. 



A. E. Norman was very busy with a customer 

 when the EECOr.D correspondent called, but found 

 lime to say that he is well pleased with business 

 and his appearance proved his words. Although 

 it was raining and sleeting, the yard force was 

 I'usy doing what they could in the weather, as 

 Mr. Norman put it. 



C. M. Sears of the E. L. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany recently returned from a month's business 

 trip. He is highly optimistic over business con- 

 ditions generally. He will probably stay at home 

 now for a w-hile to help out on the executive 

 committee of the Hardwood Club, of which he is 

 cue of the hard-working members. 



Barry Norman, president of E. B. Norman & 

 Co., has returned from a week's visit to French 

 Lick. He is looking fine and is very busy at 

 his desk, where a bunch of work piled up for 

 1dm in his absence. The company is going full 

 speed and expects to do a larger business in 

 I'ebruary than in the preceding month. Mr. 

 Booker is kept going all the time, as the box 

 factory, his department, is shipping and deliver- 

 ius cases as fast as they are turned out. 



D. E. Kline of the' Louisville Veneer Mills and 

 his son, Harry, when the the Record man called 

 were busy in the yard and factory. They had 

 ,1ust received notice from the railroad company 

 that there were seventeen cars of logs on the 

 1i-ack for them. Mr. Kline, although very near 

 (be river, prefers to get his logs by rail ; he says 

 be finds the logs in better condition than (hose 

 that come by water and they have fewer defects. 



H. J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company left February 14 for a week's trip 

 through Ohio. Ed Shippen and his two oldest 

 boys, whom he is breaking into the lumber busi- 

 ness, were busy in the yard. They have not 

 removed all of the logs received lately from the 

 river, although they are slightly alarmed at the 

 prospects of a flood resulting from the snow that 

 is now in the mountains, combined with heavy 

 lains. Their stock is somewhat broken as a re- 

 sult of the big business of January, and their 

 shipments East are large. Mr. Shippen enjoyed 

 the Cincinnati convention from a business stand- 

 point as well as for the entertainment features. 

 He took some nice orders and looks for a banner 

 year for his concern. Inquiries are coming in 

 tiist and they have a number of orders ahead. 



The North Vernon Lumber Company is moving 



along with the rest of the hardwood people. Mr. 

 Hess said that the high grades are moving better 

 than ever before at this time of the year, but he 

 complains of a lack of business in the low grades. 



Mr. Davis, in charge of the lumber depart- 

 ment of the Mengel Box Company, reports a 

 splendid business with quartered oak and poplar 

 moving most freely. January was a good month 

 and both branches of the firm's business are gain- 

 ing every day over the receipts of last year. 



The Ohio River Saw Mill Company has all the 

 work that its force can take care of. Collections 

 t^re improving and inquiries and orders are 

 coming in fast. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, is 

 having a fair business. Mr. McLean recently left 

 on a three weeks' business trip in the East. 



It is only a matter of time now before the Ken- 

 lucky and Indiana Bridge Company will either re- 

 build or put up an entirely new structure. A 

 consultation with expert engineers was held in 

 this city this week and I. G. Rawn, president of 

 the Monon, and C. C. F. Bent, vice-president of 

 the Baltimore & Ohio, were present. The South- 

 ern railroad was represented by General Super- 

 intendent C. L. Harris. The above mentioned 

 roads own the bridge, having bought it at the 

 time that it went into the hands of a receiver 

 some years ago. 



The shipping interests of Louisville are 

 anxiously awaiting the decision of the Kentucky 

 Railroad Commission in regard to the demurrage 

 rules, that have been proposed for Louisville by 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission. The result 

 of the conference with Louisville business men 

 which was held on February 3rd, was to have 

 been aunounced the 17th. but it is put off again 

 and is expected during the next ten days. The 

 Hardwood Club in connection with the Com- 

 mercial Club and all shipping men except the coal 

 people, put themselves on record, as being in 

 fa'^or of the rules, and even went so far as to 

 propose to the state commission that the same 

 rules be adopted throughout the state. 



D. C Harris, traflic manager of the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, is a prominent factor 

 in the new movement of the Traflic and Trans- 

 portation Association of this city. The idea is 

 to promote better feeling and knowledge among 

 the shipping interests and the railroad men of 

 this vicinity, and to accomplish this, a nomi- 

 nating committee has been formed of which Mr. 

 Harris Is a member, to secure some leading 

 merchant or railroad man to make an address 

 after luncheon, at noon on Tuesday of each week, 

 to be followed by a general discussion among 

 those present. The plan will be given a trial on 

 next Tuesday and very satisfactory results are 

 looked for. 



At last the appropriation for the Ohio River 

 is assured. The river gets for the first year, over 

 .$4,000,000, including cash and amount author- 

 ized, with the usual maintenance fund and work 

 in some places has alread.v been begun. Locally, 

 the most important feature will be the work of 

 widening the canal. A year and a greater part 

 of the appropriation will be spent in securing the 

 necessary sites and the completion of the plans. 

 The appropriation will give the Tennessee and 

 the Cumberland all-tbe-year navigation and will 

 open up a territory that, as far as timber and 

 coal is concerned. Is still in its Infancy. While 

 we cannot have navigation the year round on the 

 Ohio for the present, the appropriation will give 

 us the assurance that the work for a nine-foot 

 stage is moving at last. 



The Salesmen's Protective Association is the 

 name of a new organization formed February 10, 

 but the wholesale lumbermen and salesmen, who 

 attended the recent convention of Kentucky re- 

 tailers. The following officers were elected: 

 President, W. C. Ballard of Louisville ; vice- 

 president. W. G. Layer, of Cincinnati ; secretary, 

 R. McCracken, of Cincinnati ; treasurer, E. M. 

 Eastland, of Louisville. The membership is com- 

 posed of about fifty traveling men and whole- 

 salers in the Ohio Valley and the Middle West. 



The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company 



