HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Ford, who has been looking after the interests 

 of the company during the aljscnce of Mr. Good- 

 lander, reports that lousiness has been very 

 good indeed. He said that there was some fall- 

 ing off of orders a short time ago but that 

 there has been a renewal of active buying during 

 the past four or Are days. 



News has reached here of the death of James 

 Wheeler, in New Mexico. He was the only child 

 of C. L. Wheeler of J. W. Wheeler & Co., 

 Madison Ark., and went to New Mesico some 

 time ago in search of health. His father bought 

 him a fruit farm and believed that his condition 

 would improve. He was taken quite ill a few 

 days ago and a telegram was received here 

 April 15, reporting his death. The body was 

 shipped to Noblesville. Ind., where interment 

 occurred. Members of the lumber fraternity 

 sympathize deepiy with Mr. Wheeler in his 

 bereavement. 



NASflVILLE 



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It is rumored here in lumi>er circles that sev- 

 eral prominent lumbermen from distant cities 

 have been in Nashville for some days trying to 

 close up a deal whereby the large timber inter- 

 ests of Nat Baxter of Nashville, in certain tracts 

 in Naples, Texas, will be secured. Among those 

 who are said to be after the property are M. H. 

 Sullivan and his son, Roy Kushton and D. F. 

 Sullivan of Montgomery, Ala,, and J. S. Lyon 

 of New York. These gentlemen are closely iden- 

 tified with the Sullivan-Sanford Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Sullivan Lumber Company, and 

 they own large timber interests in Florida and 

 Louisiana. 



W. J. Cude. the well-known Nashville lum- 

 berman, has closed up a deal whereby he be- 

 comes the owner of the handsome Alex Perry 

 residence on Sixteenth avenue. South, in this 

 city. The consideration is $12,500. The house 

 is one of the largest and handsomest in the 

 city and it is located on a corner lot on a popu- 

 lar residence street. Mr. Cude, who already 

 owns a palatial country home on the Harding 

 road just out of Nashville, will either make this 

 a winter home or else convert it into an apart- 

 ment house. 



Details of a big timber deal from Cheatham 

 county are contained in a special from Ashland 

 City. The Dodge tract, comprising some several 

 thousand acres located in the First and Thir- 

 teenth districts of the county, have been pur- 

 chased by the Ayer & Lord Tie Company of 

 Chicago. Tbe consideration is $32,102. Mills 

 will be put on the land in the near future to get 

 out the timber for the market. 



An enjoyable and profitable meeting of the 

 new Nashville Lumbermen's Club was held Tues- 

 day night at the rooms of the Builders' Ex- 

 change, President John W. Love presiding. In 

 his opening remarks. President Love paid feel- 

 ing tribute to the memory of the late John B. 

 Ransom, former president of the Nashville asso- 

 ciation. A number cf talks then followed, F. 

 M. Hamilton, dividing perhaps with Simon Lle- 

 berman the honor of being the oldest lumber- 

 man of the city, leading off. 



The Nashville lumbermen will again be repre- 

 sented by a crack baseball team and they will 

 probably take on various contenders for diamond 

 honors this summer. Clarence Dews is cap- 

 tain of the Lumbermen's team and the Baseball 

 Committee is composed of the following : W. 

 J. Wallace, chairman ; E. N. Lofton, Rufus 

 Wolfe, Wade Kirkpatrick and Henderson Baker. 

 A special from Chattanooga. Tenn., announces 

 the failure there of the Zach Taylor Lumber 

 Company. An assignment has been executed 

 naming R. E. Evans as trustee. The liabilities 

 are about ?24,000 with assets valued at $34,000. 

 A special from Harriman announces that John 

 H. Hatfield of that place has sold to Laycash, 

 Chapman & Cheslcy of Buffalo, N. Y., four mill- 

 ion feet of hardwood timber standing on a 1,700- 



acre tract between Cliffy Creek and Oakdale. 

 It is learned that the Buffalo company will at 

 once begin the erection of a big sawmill near 

 Oakdale. In addition to the timber on the tract 

 it is said there are some fine coal veins beneath" 

 it, which may also be developed in the near fU' 

 ture. 



Secretary T. H. Evans of the Nashville Build- 

 ers' Exchange reports lots of work for the lum- 

 bermen and contractors. Many residences are 

 in course of construction and some big buildings 

 are likewise under way. On Monday, April 25, 

 the executive committee of the Y. M. C. A. 

 will take bids on the great building to be erected 

 here. It will cost a quarter of a million and the 

 committee hopes to award every contract In 

 Nashville. The plans have been on exhibition for 

 some days at the rooms of the exchange. 



April 15 was John W. Love's busy day. He 

 was chairman of the Board of Trade Commit- 

 tee appointed to work up interest in behalf of 

 the $150,000 bond issue voted by the county, 

 the proceeds to be used in buying the state fair 

 grounds from the private corporation formerly 

 owning the same, and then deeding the same to 

 the state of Tennessee to be used as a permanent 

 state fair grounds. Chairman Love was hurry- 

 ing about all day in an automobile getting voters 

 to the polls and when the court was over at 

 night it was found he and his associates had 

 been successful. 



Much damage to timber is reported from a cy- 

 clone that swept over that section of the state 

 on April 16. Great damage to growing timber 

 also resulted in Maury county from a storm. 

 The following are the standing committees of 

 the Nashville Lumbermen's Club for the ensuing 

 year : 



Membership — E. W. Pearson, P. J. Lovenhart 

 and Charles E. Hunt. 



Entertainment — F. C. Guthrie, Olin White, C. 

 L. McConnell. 



Transportation — M. F. Green, A. N. Trice and 

 C- R. Boyd. 



Credit and Claims — J. S. Denton, A. Loveman 

 and H. A. Batchelor, Jr. 



Railroad Logs — T. H. Dunlap, J. A. Hamilton 

 and M. C. Ewing. 



River Logs — S. Lieberman, Marvin Ransom 

 and J. R. Mcllwain. 



Retail Interests — James C. Scheffer, B. W. 

 Kirkpatrick and Al C. Farris. 



Resolutions — F. M. Hamilton, S. C. Ewing and 

 T. F. Bonner. 



A disastrous fire recently destroyed the ware- 

 house and its contents of the Bradford Whole- 

 sale Manufacturing Company, furniture. The 

 building and contents were valued at $35,000 

 with $20,000 insurance on the stock and $5,000 

 on the building. The company figures its loss 

 above insurance at about $10,000. The ware- 

 house will be rebuilt at once. 



L. H. McCrary of Woodbury, Tenn., has sold 

 to T. N. McGee his Interest in the saw planing 

 mill at that place. The purchaser will Install 

 a hoop mill in the near future. 



A saw mill near Lillard's Mill on Duck river 

 in Marshall county belonging to W. A. Sharp & 

 Son of Lewisburg. has been destroyed by fire. 

 The loss was about $1,200 with no insurance. 



Secretary of State Hallum W. Goodloe has 

 granted a charter to the Tennessee Lumber Com- 

 pany, with a capital stock of $50,000. The In- 

 corporators are : T. B. Johnson, G. W. Kllle- 

 brew. Johnson Bransford, A. H. Robinson and 

 Robert Lusk. 



Harrison Hopper, a prominent lumber dealer 

 of Pulaski. Tenn.. recently died while in Nash- 

 ville at the residence of his brother-in-law O. 

 W. Crockett. For a number of years Mr. Hopper 

 was a member of the firm of Brannon & Hopper, 

 but for the past three years, following the death 

 of his partner all of the duties of the business 

 fell on his shoulders. The result was that he 

 sustained a nervous break-down from which he 

 died. Mr. Hopper was sixty years old and leaves 

 a widow and three children. 



A terrible boiler explosion in a sawmill near 

 Bowling Green, Ky.. just north of Nashville, Is 

 reported in a special from the Kentucky town. 

 The boiler was in the sawmill of Frank Kister, 

 Jr. James Welcher, aged forty-five years, and 

 leaving a wife and seven children, was instantly 

 killed. Five other men were injured. Pieces of 

 the boiler were blown hundreds of feet away. 

 Window lights in the courthouse and city hall 

 at Bowling Green were broken and the mill was 

 blown to atoms and outhouses nearby were shat- 

 tered. 



LOUISVILLE 



A good many sawmills out in the state, which 

 have depended on water transportation as a 

 means of getting the timber which they manu- 

 facture, have been idle for most of the past 

 month or two, but recent heavy rains have 

 furnished sufllcient water to allow the logs to 

 move and resulted in more active operations In 

 the sawmill district. The rain held up business 

 in local yards for some time, but good weather 

 has now resumed and the volume of shipments 

 is getting back to normal again. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club and its mem- 

 bers have been moving along quietly, doing a 

 lot of club work and considerable work in con- 

 nection with the convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. President O. O. 

 Agler and Secretary Frank F. Fish were down 

 from Chicago a week ago and attended one of 

 the Seelbach dinners of the club. They said 

 that the plans for the national convention here 

 in June are now in good shape, and both of 

 them repeated the prediction that Louisville may 

 look for a record-breaking crowd. The local 

 entertainment committee has about decided on 

 its plans for the meeting, but intends to keep 

 them under its collective hat for a little while 

 longer. 



The Hardwood Club and its members were 

 greatly interested in an address on the new 

 demurrage system which recently went Into 

 effect, delivered before the Traflic & Transporta- 

 tion Club by D.. C. Harris, traffic manager of 

 C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company and a member 

 of the transportation committee of the Hard- 

 wood Club. Mr. Harris went into the proposi- 

 tion in detail and showed just how the system 

 will operate. He endorsed it In general, saying 

 that the Mengel company will give it a trial. 

 It is optional with the shipper, who may use it 

 or not as he sees fit. There has been some 

 objection to it on the ground that the railroads 

 should not be permitted to require the bond 

 which must now be given, but the lumbermen 

 as a rule do not regard it as excessive. Mr. 

 Harris, by the way, spoke for the shippers of 

 Louisville at the Traffic Club meeting. 



The lumber folk learned with more than pass- 

 ing interest of the change in the Traffic & 

 Transportation Club whereby J. B. Ford is suc- 

 ceeded as president by Alfred Brandeis, the 

 grain man. Mr. Ford left for Cincinnati, having 

 been appointed to a higher position in the service 

 of the Southern railway. 



The Hardwood Club is maintaining its interest 

 in transportation matters, and expects shortly 

 to be able to announce some of the things which 

 have been accomplished. C. C. McChord, a lead- 

 ing local attorney, who has been looking after 

 part of the legal work in connection with the 

 rate question, has just been elected president of 

 the Consolidated Casualty Company, a West 

 Virginia insurance concern. 



Charlie Platter of the North Vernon Lumber 

 Company is taking an active part in the work 

 of the club. Although his company is a new- 

 member, its representatives are on deck every 

 time, and are giving substantial aid in the work 

 of making Louisville known as the greatest hard- 

 wood market of the country. The company will 

 take a big part Id the convention in June. 



