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HARDWOOD RECORD 



win pul. one in shortly. While all the litteen 

 jicres which cumiirise the tract are not now 

 ill use, the company is continually spreading 

 out. :ind the rapid erowth of its yard indicates 

 lliat llic entire space will soon be put to use. 



JI. F. McCowen is president of the I'om- 

 ljnn.\. lie is well known all over the conn- 

 Iry, iiarticularly in ihe Middle We.st. and his 

 Unowiedgc of the consuming trades has made 

 liini an expert at this end of the hardwood 

 lumber business. Though interested in many 

 I'nterprises. Mr. Mct'owen devotes much of his 

 time and attention 1o the (ihio liiver Saw Mill 

 Compauy. 



IT. I.. Menaugh is vice-president of the eom- 

 Iiany. and if an active lumtierman. U. F. Smith, 

 treasurer, is the local manager in charge' of 

 the Louisville situation, and he can be fojnd 

 •always ou the .job." This trio makes a com- 

 bination which, in the opinion of those who 

 know them, is hard to beat. 



The fonipany controls the output of live 

 mills, most of them located ou the Ohio river, 

 which accoHUts for the name of the corpora- 

 tion. Some of the finest quartered oak ever 

 maniifacUired in the Ohio valley has been turned 

 <iut by these mills, and the company is mak- 

 ing a specialty of this item, although it car- 

 ries a large and varied stock of olher hard- 

 woods. 



Though not oni> of the organizers of the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club, which is exploiting the Ken- 

 tucky market so succe.->sfully, the company has 

 been a member for most of the period of its 

 existence, and is regarded as one of the firms 

 vhich is making the club a leading factor in 

 -the induslry. 



An Investment That Never Passes a 

 Dividend 



Users cf the Tower One-man 2-saw Trimmer 

 report tliat it requires no more power than a 

 swing cntofl saw. This machine squares the 

 ends of the lumber and makes it of uniform 

 lengths, also raising the grade by cutting off 

 bad ends and saving freight by removing waste. 



It would be hard to And a machine that pays 

 bigger dividends, unless it is the Tower Edger 

 or tlie (Jordon Hollow Blast Grate, both manu- 

 factured by the same concern as the 'JTower One- 

 man 2-saw Trimmer, viz.. the Gordon Hollow 

 Blast Grate Company of Greenville. .Mich. 



Machine Painted and Damp Proofed 

 flooring 

 The difficulty encountered by almost every 

 builder in keeping hardwood flooring from swell- 

 ing, shrinking and warping after it is laid has 

 resulted in the invention of a machine for ap- 

 plying paint to the back side of flooring before 

 it is shipped from the mill, thus after the floor- 

 ing is laid at the building and the top surface 

 filled, the porous wood is protected, both top 

 and bottom, from the effect of moisture. In 

 many instances good floors have been ruined by 

 being laid in damp buildings. The principal difli- 

 culty up to the present has been the expense 

 of labor in handling so many short pieces inci- 

 dental to end-matched flooring, and the time re- 

 •quired to paint each piece separately without 

 ilaubing the face side. 



An ingenious machine has recently been per- 

 fected oy c. F. Leatherbec- of Boston, which 

 tonsisls of mechanism for feeding flooiing 

 through the machine and spreading jiaint evently 

 on the under surfaie of (he floor. This is done 

 at the rate of 1(10 feet in length per minute. 

 In addition to the machine is a conveyor and 

 <3ryer. Th? flooring in coming from the machine 

 is received by the conveyor and is moved auto- 

 matically to the dryer, which receives it and 

 delivers it after an interval thoroughly dry and 

 ready to bundle. 



Mr. Leatherbee has so arranged the meclian:sm 

 that the flooring is not touched by hand from 

 the time it is put into the machine until it is 



received from the dryer. In this way the danger 

 of daubing the face by handling is avoided. Tlie 

 patent rights have been acquired by the Tainting 

 Machine Company. 217 Chamber of Commerce 

 Building. Chicago, which is now engaged in 

 manufacturing the machines. 



The well-known T. Wilce Company of Chicago, 

 whicn is noted for its progressiveness in the 

 hardwood flooring trade, has been quick to see 

 the advantages of this proposition, and has 

 r.ow machines in operation at its plant on Tbioop 

 street. 



The New Interstate Commerce Law 



The new interstate commerce law was signed 

 bj the president on June 18. and will go into 

 efl'ect sixly days thereafter, except sections 12 

 and 10, which are of especial interest to ship- 

 pers of lumber : 

 From section S : 



Qro'r.\Tioxs of U.vri:s 

 (Effective August 13.) 

 "If anv common carrier sub.iect to the pro- 

 visions of this act. after written request made 

 upon the agenl of such carrier hereinafter in 

 this section referred to by any person cu- com- 

 pany for a written statement of the rate or 

 charge applicable to a described shipment l)e- 

 tween stated places under the schedules or 

 tarifls to which such carrier is a party, shall 

 refuse or omit to give such written statement 

 within a reasonable time, or shall misstate in 

 writing the applicable rate, and if the person or 

 company making such request suffers damage in 

 consequence of such refusal or omission or in 

 consequence of the misstatement of the rate, 

 either through making the shipment over a line 

 or route (tiv which the proper rate is higher 

 thau the rate over another available line or 

 uute, or through entering into any sale or 

 other contract wbereunder such person or com- 

 pany obligates himself or itself to make such 

 shipment of freight at his or its cost, then the 

 said carrier shall be liable to a penalty of two 

 hundred and fifty dollars, which shall accrue to 

 the I'nited States and may be recovered in a 

 civil action brought by the United States." 

 From section 12 : 

 Slspensiox op I{.\ti;s .ixn Cl.issific.itioxs 

 (Effective .Tune IS. J 

 ■■Whenever there shall be filed with the com- 

 mission any schedule stating a new individual 

 or joint rate, fare, or charge, or any new in- 

 dividual or joint classification, or any new 

 iudividual or joint regulation or practice affect- 

 ing any rate, tare, or charge, the commission 

 shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, 

 either upon complaint or upon its own- initiative 

 without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, 

 without answer or other formal pleading by 

 the interested carrier or carriers, but upon 

 reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing con- 

 cerning the propriety of such rate, fare, charge, 

 classification, regulation, or practice : and pend- 

 ing such hearing and the decision thereon the 

 commission upon filing with such schedule and 

 delivering to the carrier or carriers affected 

 thereby a statement in writing of its reasons 

 for such suspension, may suspend the operation 

 of such schedule and defer the use of such rate, 

 fare, charge, classification, regulation, or prac- 

 tice, but not for a longer period than one hun- 

 dred and twenty days beyond the time when 

 such rate, fare, charge, classification, regula- 

 tion, or practice would otherwise go into effect : 

 and after full hearing, whether completed 

 before or after the rate, fare, charge or classi- 

 fication, regulation, or practice goes into effect, 

 the commission may make such order in refer- 

 ence to such rate, fare, charge, classification, 

 regulation, or practice as would be proper in a 

 proceeding initiated after the rate, fare, charge, 

 classification, legulation, or practice had be- 

 come effective ; Provided, that it any such 

 heaving cannot be concluded within the period 

 of suspension, as above stated, the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission may, in its discretion. 



extend the time of suspension for a further 

 period, not exceeding six months. At any hear- 

 ing involving a rate increased after January 

 fiist. nineteen hundred and ten, or of a rate 

 sought to be increased after the passage of this 

 act, the burden of proof to show that the in- 

 creased rate or proposed increased rate is just 

 and reasonable shall be upon the common car- 

 rier, and the commission shall give to the 

 hearing and decision of such questions prefer- 

 ence over all other questions pending before it 

 ai-d decide the same as speedily as possible." 

 Desig-vatiox of Routes 

 (Effective June 18.1 

 "In all cases where at the time of delivery of 

 property to any railroad corporation being a 

 common carrier, for transportation subject to 

 the provisions of this act to any point of 

 destination, between which and the point of 

 such delivery for shipment two or more through 

 rtiutes and through rates shall have been estab- 

 lished as in this act provided to which through 

 routes and through rates such carrier is a 

 party, the person, firm, ov corporation making 

 such shipment, subject to such reasonable ex- 

 ceptions and regulations as the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission shall from time to time pre- 

 scribe, shall have the right to designate in 

 writing by which of such through routes such 

 property shall be transported to destination, 

 rnd it shall thereupon be the duty of the Initial 

 carrier to route said property and issue a 

 tl: rough bill of lading therefor as so directed, 

 and to transport said property over its own 

 line or lines and deliver the same to a con- 

 necting line or lines according to such through 

 route, and it shall be the duty of each of said 

 connecting carriers to receive said property 

 and transport it over the said line or lines and 

 deliver the same to the next succeeding carrier 

 or consignee according to the routing instruc- 

 tions in said bill of lading ; Provided, bow- 

 ever, that the shipper shall in all instances have 

 the right to determine, where competing lines 

 of railroad constitute portions of a through 

 line or route, over which of said competing 

 lines so constituting a portion of said through 

 line or route his freight shall be transported." 



The law applies to interstate transportation 

 of oil by means of pipe lines, and t6 railroad, 

 express, sleeping car, telegraph, telephone and 

 cable companies (whether wire or wireless) en- 

 gaged ill interstate liusiness. 



Memphis Lumbermen Plan Good Times 



The baseball ti.am of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis will play the return engagement 

 with the Nashville lumbermen's ball team on 

 July 23. 



The Nashville boys went down in defeat at 

 Mi^mphis on the first day of July when they 

 played in this city, and the Memphis players 

 say they are going to Nashville in order to give 

 the team there an opportunity to win back their 

 laurels lost in Memphis, if possible. This does 

 not mean, however, that there will not be a 

 strenuous contest. As a matter of fact, it is 

 expected that the game will be, a very vigorous 

 one from start to finish. 



Manager McCiun^ and the other members 

 have been working hard to secure a large dele- 

 gation from Memphis, and a large number will 

 attend. 



It may be necessary, especially if Nashville 

 wins, to i)Iay still another game this summer. 

 In that event the last game will probably be 

 played in Memphis. 



The moonlight picnic and boat ride which was 

 enjoyed by the members of the Lumbermen's 

 Club last year will be repeated on July 2(i. The 

 steamer I'attona has been engaged for this pur- 

 pose and all club members, their families and 

 friends are invited to go on this excursion. 

 There will be dancing on the boat as well as at 

 Riverside Park and there wdll be good music at 

 both places. 



