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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NASHVILLE 



A Hoo-Hoo concatenation will be beld in 

 NashTiUe this week at which time some six- 

 teen candidates will be put through the mys- 

 teries of the order. The work will be in charge 

 of J. II. Baird, scrirenoter, and Cecil Ewiu;;, 

 vico-gercut for middle Tennessee. The initia- 

 tion will be preceded by a banquet at the Build- 

 ers' E.xchange. The Nashville Lumbermen's 

 Club will also hold a session that night. Mem- 

 bers of the Hoo-Hoo from all over middle Ten- 

 nessee have been invited to be on hand. 



Hamilton Love, now a pi-osperous lumberman, 

 a member of the firm of Love, Boyd & Co., 

 has not lost the art of writing, acquired many 

 years ago by him when he was a reporter on 

 The Nashville American. That paper in the 

 near future will issue a big anniversary edi- 

 tion in which will be many interesting historical 

 articles, many of them having a commercial bear- 

 ing as well. Hamilton Love has consented to 

 write a history of the timber business in Ten- 

 nessee for this edition and those who have evvr 

 read after him lend assurance that the article 

 will be both interesting and correct. The new 

 Lumbermen's Code, recently got out by Hamilton 

 Love, has been a welcome addition to the busi- 

 ness equipment of lumbermen all over the coun- 

 try. 



R. and J. S. Young have purchased for $1S. 

 000 cash the property of the Standard Lumber 

 & Box Company, located on Bridge avenue and 

 the Cumberland river. The sale of the lot, 

 buildings, saw and planing mills and other ma 

 chinery was made by A. E. Potter, trustee, for 

 the purpose of satisfying a mortgage and wind- 

 ing up the old business. The sale was at 

 auction and was well attended, the bidding be- 

 ing spirited. The two Youngs, purchasers of 

 the plant, were formerly interested in the busi- 

 ness. It is their purpose to improve it ex- 

 tensively and conduct the business. 



A sad and unexpected shock to the family 

 of Capt. F. M. Hanultt)U, the well-known local 

 lumberman, and Jo Wallace, his son-in-law, of 

 the firm of Norvell & Wallace, was experienced 

 last week in the unexpected death here of 

 Capt. A. M. Graves of Geneva, O. Captain 

 Graves was a brothrr-in-law of Captain Hamil- 

 ton. He had been visiting at the home of 

 tbe Hamiltons. The old gentleman, who was 

 74 years of age, entered a local barber shop to 

 take a bath and while there was "touched" by 

 a negro bath boy for ,^20. He was unable to 

 get the money back and called at the office 

 of the Nashville Banner to tell of his loss. 

 He walked to the third floor and just as he 

 entered the editorial rooms, where half a dozen 

 people were at work, he fell forward dead. He 

 never spoke a word. Every possible aid was 

 summed, but to no avail. He never rallied. Heart 

 failure is attributed as the catise of his death. He 

 had been in delicate health for some time. Cap- 

 tain Graves had not been engaged in active 

 business for some years, but for quite a while 

 he was a captain of steamers on the great 

 lakes. The body was taken to Geneva for 

 burial. 



The musicale and dance at the Builders' 

 Exchange a few nights since proved a delight- 

 ful affair. The chief musical attraction was 

 the celebrated Vanderbilt Glee Club, and after 

 the Glee Club concert Secretary Tom Evans anfl 

 his pretty assistant. Miss Alice Womack, played 

 the role of host and hostess. Delightful refresh- 

 ments were served. 



State Superintendent of Public Instruction 

 Prof. R. L. Jones will leave this week for 

 East Tennessee, where he will go to inspect 

 a large tract of timber land known as "Jeffrey's 

 Hell" in Monroe county. The land in question 

 is owned by the county and it is desired to 

 sell it and apply the proceeds for school pur- 

 poses. There are 12.000 acres of heavily tim- 

 bered land and the TelUco River Lumber Com- 



pany has submitted an offer of $10 an acre, or 

 .?120,000 all told. Professor Jones is not sure 

 that he will recommend the sale. He may de- 

 termine in favor of selling just the timber rights 

 and keeping the land, as he figures that the 

 land in forty years will have another growth 

 of timber on it. 



Nashville may land the Southern Motor Car 

 Company, which has been operating in Jackson, 

 Tenu., for the past three years. In fact. Man- 

 ager Exile Burkett of the company admits that 

 a movement is well under way to move the 

 plant to Nashville, although he will not state 

 at this time whether or not Nashville capital 

 is to be associated. He does state that if the 

 plant comes here its force of workmen will be 

 increased from fifty to 150 men, which means 

 the capacity of tbe plant will be increased from 

 230 cars a year to 500 or more. In case the 

 plant does come to Nashville it is said th" 

 plant formerly occupied by the Phoenix Cotton 

 Jlills may be utilized. It is pointed out that by 

 coming to Nashville the concern will get more 

 into the heart of the hardwood belt and will 

 have the advantage of better freight rates as 

 well, being able to take advantage of the river 

 to compete with the railroads. 



The lumbermen of East Nashville, represent- 

 ing some fifteen big plants along CumberlanJ 

 river above the upper bridge, are very much 

 interested in the proposition of getting bettor 

 fire protection. A few days since the follow- 

 ing committee from that section, together with 

 Secretary E. S. Shannon of the Board of Trade, 

 called on the members of the Finance Commit- 

 tee of the City Council, urging on that body 

 the necessity of building a water main to that 

 section at a cost of only $0,000 : T. F. Bon- 

 ner, J. L. Mcllwain, Lou Frank, Olin White, 

 Charles Hunt, Hamilton Love, L. M. Ross. E. 

 T. Lewis, H. M. Bachelor, Jr., J. P. Meredith, 

 and F. H. Walker. It was shown in the pre- 

 sentation to the members of the committee that 

 tue section sought to be protected works hun- 

 dreds of men and that the weekly pay roll 

 is -$5,000 ; that the property value from an in- 

 surance standpoint is .f750,000, and risks of 

 practically $560,000. It was stated that a fire 

 in that section would result in heavy loss and 

 throw hundreds out of employment. Several 

 members of the Finance Committee expressed 

 themselves as favorable to the project. 



Rushton and Son and Inglehart Bros., capi- 

 talists of Evansville, Ind., have just closed a 

 deal whereby they acquire a large tract of tim- 

 ber lands near Winchester. Tenn., a short dis- 

 tance southeast of Nashville in middle Ten- 

 nessee. 



Hunt, Washington & Smith have recently pur- 

 chased from the Davidson, Hicks & Greene Com- 

 pany a new site for their lumber business at 

 the corner of Fifth and Crutcher streets in 

 East Nashville, the consideration being .$5,463.70. 

 The property consists of five acres. The lum- 

 ber yard of the purchasing company will be 

 located on this new site. All three of these 

 gentlemen are youngsters and hustlers. 



W. S. Morgan, of this citj-, formerly Secre- 

 tary of State, has recently sold to C. D. M. 

 Greer, T. B. Caldwell and E. J. Manlgan of 

 Memphis a tract of timber and coal lands in 

 Van Buren, Sequatchie, Grundy and Warren 

 counties for a large consideration. There are 

 some 15,500 acres in the tract and it averaged 

 $10 an acre. The tract comprises about one- 

 half of the well-known Lawson Hill tract, pur- 

 chased by Mr. Morgan as an investment some 

 five years ago. The lands are about twenty 

 miles from the Herbert domain, owned by the 

 state, and when the state builds its branch road 

 to its property the line will pass through the 

 Hill tract. 



John B. Hansom, Jr., has a new Chalmers- 

 Detroit automobile and the young lumberman 's 

 making frequent use of the car, both for busi- 

 ness and pleasure. 



It is announced that the Tennessee Inspection 



Bureau is co-operating with the East Nashville 

 lumbermen in helping them to secure better fire 

 protection for their plants in East Nashville. 



A special from Dickson, Tenn., announces that 

 the "H" Lumber Company has been organized 

 at that place for the purpose of selling and 

 manufacturing all kinds of lumber. Pitt Hens- 

 lee is president, Oury Harris is vice-president, 

 and S. G. Robertson, secretary and treasurer. 

 The company has mills at Shubert, Hollow 

 Rock, Tenn., and Walfield, Miss. The company 

 also has yards at various other points in Ten- 

 nessee and adjoining states. 



The steamer Bob Dudley which sunk in the 

 Cumberland a few weeks ago has been suc- 

 cessfully raised. The boat has been towed to 

 Paducah for docking and her owners expect to 

 have her in commission in the near future. No 

 insurance was carried on the boat or its cargo. 

 The damage was about $5,000. 



LOUISVILLE 



President O. O. Agler was in Louisville re- 

 cently in connection with the forthcoming annual 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 

 While here he was the guest of Dr. William 

 Cheatham, a leading physician of Louisville, and 

 accompanied the latter on a motor trip through 

 the central part of the state, This was the 

 first time that Mr. Agler had got a real close 

 look at the Kentucky blue grass country, and he 

 enjoyed the trip immensely. 



A matter which is interesting most of the 

 members of the Hardwood Club has come up in 

 connection with drayage charges on shipments 

 over the Southern and Illinois Central from com- 

 petitive territory in tbe South. Lumbermen 

 whose yards are on Louisville & Nashville ter- 

 minals are listed among industries to whose 

 plants shipments over the other roads are hauled 

 free in order to meet the competition with the 

 L. & N. tariffs listed with the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission provide that 2 cents of the 

 published rate on lumber be paid to the transfer 

 companies named by the roads. Of late, how- 

 ever, the drayage people have complained that 

 the allowance is too small to permit a profit, and 

 have asked for a cent additional. The railroads 

 iiave refused to pay this, and the transfer com- 

 panies have accordingly demanded it of the lum- 

 ber companies. Inasmuch as the tariffs provide 

 that the rate for hauling shall be 2' cents, which 

 is to come out of the published rate, the lumber- 

 men have refused to stand for the additional 

 charge and have informed the transfer com- 

 panies to that effect. The result has been the 

 holding up of several cars of lumber which are 

 now on the tracks of the Illinois Central and 

 Southern awaiting a settlement of the question. 

 Legal advice to the hardwood men interested is 

 in favor of refusing to pay the claim of the 

 cransfer companies. 



Local liardwood circles have been very much 

 interested in a recent decision of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission on the question of transit 

 l*rivileges on grain shipments because the ques- 

 tion involved is similar to that affecting lumber 

 shipments. Local grain shippers attempted to 

 have the system of transit allowances revoked on 

 the .ground that substitution of tonnage prevailed 

 to such an extent as to create fraud. The Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission held that substitu- 

 tion must not occur, but that the transit privi- 

 leges would be continued. This is regarded by 

 lumbermen as laying down a principle in the 

 icconsigument of lumber at transit points, and 

 to mean that the identity of the stock must be 

 preserved in making the reshipments. 



Sawmills out in the state, which got a late 

 itart this spring on account of the prolonged 

 dry weather, are nearly all running now, ac- 

 cording to information received by local hard- 

 wood men. Rains during the latter part of 

 April and most of May have filled the streams 

 and furnished a tide sufficient to set the logs 

 in motion. Many of the local mills are getting 



