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the chauffeur appointed by the garage to instruct 

 him in the intricacies of the speed clutches, 

 borrowed the machine without asl^ing leave one 

 night, ran into a hack, killed two horses 

 smashed the machine and carriage, and incident- 

 ally almost cut off the earthly career of the 

 lowly driver. Thfe other day while W. E. De- 

 Laney of the Kentucky Lumber Company was 

 in Indianapolis, telling the table people the kind 

 of lumber best suited for their uses, the chaffeur 

 attached to his garage took the machine out for 

 a "joy ride" and had it with trimmin's. While 

 sailing along a road unknown to him at law- 

 less speed, he was suddenly brought to conscious- 

 ness by landing in the middle of the canal, and 

 the entire party, ladies and gentlemen, were 

 fished out and sneaked home to get dried out. 

 leaving the machine in the ditch until the next 

 day, when it was fished out with block and 

 tackle. The "gay" chauffeur explained that he 

 had mistaken the road and in the dark dashed 

 across the canal at a place where there was no 

 bridge. 



Out at St. Bernard the K. & P. Lumber 

 Company has moved its offices from the old 

 frame shed on the Carthage pike, to a hand- 

 gome brick structure on the corner. 



The mills of the Francke Lumber Company 

 are running and piling up great stocks of walnut 

 and oak for the foreign market. The main 

 office of the Francke Lumber Company is in 

 Germany. The mill is well supplied with logs 

 and is covering new ground to the north of 

 the mill with lumber piles. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte has re- 

 turned from an extended trip in the East, look- 

 ing after his interests in that section. 



Sam Conn, vice-president of the Bayou Land 

 & Lumber Company, left May 20 for Yazoo. 

 Miss., the mill plant of the company. Arrange- 

 ments have been made whereby Fred Conn will 

 return to the Cincinnati office to look after 

 this end of the business. Fred reports that 

 business at the mill has been good, that he 

 last week sold twenty-five carloads of oak to 

 exporters, and the outlook for the future was 

 bright. 



Thomas Flannery, formerly connected with 

 Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company at 

 Morehouse, Mo., has been engaged as representa- 

 tive of the Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company 

 of this city. Mr. Hinckley says that the yellow 

 pine side of his business is unsatisfactory, the 

 selling having fallen off. which is attributed to 

 the check in the building boom by the cold 

 weather. The rates are low enough to sell any- 

 thing, he said, but just at present there was 

 not much doing. 



Joseph Bolser. chairman of the entertainment 

 committee of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, 

 is arranging for an outing to take the place of 

 the .Tune meeting, but instead of being held 

 on the regular meeting day, it will take place 

 later in the month. 



The Queen City Furniture Club will have its 

 outing at Laughery Island Saturday, June 18. 

 The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange will take a 

 day off and go to Glen Park on Saturday, 

 June 25, and enjoy field sports and a Kentucky 

 chicken dinner. A number of the local lumber- 

 men are members of both these organizatlon.s. 



There have been reports of difficulty in obtain- 

 ing cars for shipments, but inquiry at the rail- 

 road headquarters says there is no chance of a 

 car shortage at present at any railroad point 

 on the main lines, but there are cases where the 

 mills are located on the branch lines, where it 

 Is difficult for the railroads to supply empty 

 cars under even favorable conditions, and at 

 these points there may be an apparent short- 

 age. The car service bureau reports a largely 

 Increased number of idle cars the past week. 



The Cincinnati furniture exhibition building 

 Is now in process of remodeling and will be 

 ready to receive consignments on June 15 for 

 the opening on July 1. This will be the first 

 exhibition building in Cincinnati for furniture 



in years, though the first exhibition ever held 

 was in the Queen City. 



Cincinnati will have another boost as a great 

 hardwood center. The new central depot is now 

 a fact, as the promoters have applied to council 

 for a franchise and right of way. The plan 

 embraces a central depot on Third 'street, from 

 Elm to Broadway, with an entrance from Fourth 

 street. The main building, train sheds and 

 tracks is estimated to cost ?32,000,000, and the 

 financial side of the transaction is in the hands 

 of eastern capitalists. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, attended the convention 

 of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation at New Orleans last week. 



Chairman Vansant of the Grading Commis- 

 sion of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion of the United States was at the Cincin- 

 nati headquarters on Saturday a week. 



Fred Duling of the Graham Lumber Company 

 returned from a trip through Ohio the past week, 

 reporting fair success. 



The furniture manufacturing Industry in cer- 

 tain lines is dull, which is unaccountable at 

 this season of the year. The case goods manu- 

 facturers and table makers are fairly busy. The 

 manufacture of desks tor export is the real busy 

 line, the demand from South America being 

 strong, with a noted improvement to the Euro- 

 pean trade. 



The managers of the Ohio Valley Exposition 

 have been refused the Washington Park for 

 art building purposes by the park commission- 

 ers, but have worked out a better plan, and will 

 cover the canal for several blocks with build- 

 ings more suitable to their purposes, and will 

 avoid the unnecessary expense for the unsightly 

 bridge which spanned Elm street on former occa- 

 sions of fall festivals. 



Things are becoming active in baseball cir- 

 cles. President Cliff Walker of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club on May 19 received from 

 J. W. McClure, manager of the Memphis Lum- 

 bermen's Club ball team, a challenge for a 

 game. President Walker turned the challenge 

 over to Dwight Hinckley, manager of the Cin- 

 cinnati Lumbermen's ball team. Mr. Hinckley 

 promptly replied to the challenge and asked the 

 Memphis manager to name his dates and terms. 

 The games are not to be tainted with profession- 

 alism, but will be purely for sport. 



TOLEDO 



A. H. David of the David Lumber Company 

 reports that export trade with Canadian points 

 lias been unusually brisk recently. Shortages 

 are confined mainly to birch, and some Ohio and 

 Michigan woods. Elm has been in ready de- 

 mand, but basswood appears to be a little weak. 

 The local demand for hardwoods is picking up. 



Dwight J. Peterson, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Peterson, has returned from a European tour. 

 They were absent for about three months. 



Frank M. Cramer of Toledo has been appointed 

 chief clerk in the freight department of the 

 Kanawha & Michigan railway. He was formerly 

 commercial agent of the W. & L. E. and general 

 cgent of the traffic department of the same road. 



Manager G. G. Roberts of the Big Four Hard- 

 wood Company has returned from a business 

 trip to New York. 



Frank Booth of the Booth Column Company 

 will attend a meeting of the manufacturers of 

 colonial columns, which will be held at Cincin- 

 nati on May 24. In speaking of business condi- 

 tions he said, "Colonial columns for both In- 

 terior and exterior work are in splendid demand. 

 Oak, chestnut and birch are especially good sell- 

 ers. The outside trade is very strong, and local 

 business has shown much improvement recently. 

 We have all the business that we can attend to 

 at present." 



Building permits for new structures in Toledo 

 issued last week amounted to $98,500. May will 



show a marked increase in building operations 

 over last year, and hardwood consumption has 

 been correspondingly heavier. 



The Toledo Transportation Club has discon- 

 litiued its Saturday noonday luncheons until 

 next September, when it will again be main- 

 tained through the winter. The club will hold 

 Its annual outing at Sugar Island some time 

 next month. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Clarence Donald, formerly in the retail busi- 

 ness at Morris, has opened an office here and will 

 conduct a general lumber commission business. 



E. H. Greer and C. D. H. Houghton of the 

 Greer-Houghton Lumber Company have returnei 

 from an extensive trip over the state. 



The H. Lauter Company, furniture manufac- 

 turer, is building a four-story brick fireproof 

 addition to its plant at a cost of $48,000. 



After a business trip to Kansas City. George L. 

 Maas and Ransom Griffin of this city and A. 

 Fromme of Terre Haute have returned home. 



The American Bridge Company and the Ameri- 

 can Sheet & Tin Plate Company of Gary, sub- 

 sidiary corporations of the United States Steel 

 Corporation, are preparing to building five hun- 

 dred dwellings at Gary for the accommodation 

 of employees. 



An effort is being made to organize a lumber- 

 men's club, to include both hardwood and yellow 

 pine men of the city. For some time the city 

 has been without a social organization of lumber- 

 men. 



Reason A. Hooton of the R. A. Hooton Lumber 

 Company has returned from a business trip to 

 Chicago. 



A special meeting of the Indiana Manufac- 

 turers & Shippers' Association was held in this 

 city May 20, at which a protest was made 

 against the proposed increase in freight rates oa 

 coal by the railroads. 



The eleventh annual meeting of the National 

 Dining Table Manufacturers' Association was 

 held in this city May 18 and 19, about fifty 

 members being present. 



The Indianapolis TraCe Association, with 

 which are identified most of the lumber con- 

 cerns in the city, acted as host for 1.400 travel- 

 ing salesmen on the afternoon of May 14. The 

 salesmen were taken in special trains around the 

 Belt railroad to show them the city's many 

 factories. This trip was followed by a dinner 

 and vaudeville entertainment at the German 

 House. 



CHATTANOOQA 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company has started 

 its mill after a shutdown of several weeks on 

 account of the scarcity of logs. 



For several days the log boat of the McLean 

 Lumber Company has been here towing logs from 

 Dallas island, about fifteen miles above the city, 

 to the company's river landing, near its mill. It 

 is expected that the boat will return to the down- 

 river operations soon. 



The H. L. Judd Company Is running its mill, 

 getting out a good quality of logs, and reports 

 business good. It manufactures curtain poles, fix- 

 tures and novelties and is erecting a large addi- 

 tion to its plant. 



F. S. Gladden is in the city looking after the 

 interests of his firm. He Is securing considerable 

 stock of oak, poplar and chestnut. 



The East Tennessee Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company is adding a line of boxmaking machin- 

 ery to its planing mill. In the future It will 

 manufacture all kinds of packing boxes and bottle 

 cases. 



Several barge loads of cross ties are being 

 received here each week and are being reloaded 

 onto cars tor shipment North. This is a new 

 Industry In this section. 



