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HARDWOOD RECORD 



oi the river may be cut o£E most any day. The 

 men made their demands on Friday and Mr. 

 Crane stated the case, hut the men were obdurate. 

 Mr. Crane said : "Well, I'm going away to- 

 night and will not be back for a couple of 

 weeks, so we will close, the mill down for the 

 present." This caused three hundred men em- 

 ployed in the plants of C. Crane & Co. to be 

 thrown out of employment. A uumljer of the 

 men, whose homes are in the little towns along 

 the river, departed for their homes Saturday 

 and Sunday, and the big mills will be put in 

 the hands of machinists and millwrights for an 

 overhauling As the strikers are unskilled la- 

 borers it will not take long to break in a new 

 force of men to All their places when the mills 

 resume operations. C. Crane & Co. have entered 

 into a plan by which before long the mills on 

 the river will not have to depend upon water 

 conditions for logs. The Chesapeake & Ohio 

 railroad, which taps the West Virginia lumber 

 regions, will haul the logs direct to the mill, 

 and the old method of rafting will be abandoned. 

 This will insure the mills of a continuous supply 

 of logs at all seasons and at a more economical 

 rate. The sales department of the plant has not 

 been affected by the strike and all the teamsters, 

 who have recently secured an advance in wages, 

 and the yard men will keep right on as usual. 

 Mr. Crane was apparently not disturbed over the 

 conditions .ind left the city on his intended trip. 

 The Ohio Valley Exposition is progressing 

 rapidly in the construction of the buildings, in 

 which principally yellow pine and cypress were 

 used. The great buildings cover several blocks ' 

 of the canal and the entire distance is roofed 

 over. During an inspection of the progress of 

 the work Saturday, Col. S. B. Stanberry, tlie 

 well-known local representative of the Chicago 

 Coal & Lumber Company, who is one of the Board 

 of E.\position Commissioners, took an involuntary 

 bath in the murky waters of the canal. One of 

 the exhibits will be a model dairy, with twenty 

 bovine beauties, to give an illustration of the 

 best way to procure a supply of pure milk. This 

 exhibit is erected on a special platform in the 

 middle of the canal, and is of course surrounded 

 by the water. A plank was placed across the 

 dairy platform in order that the commissioners 

 might cross over. All passed over safely until 

 it came to the turn of the heavy-weight colonel, 

 who when he had reached the middle of the 

 plank was suddenly precipitated into the water 

 by the breaking of the plank. He was fished out 

 spluttering and thoroughly unhappy for a mo- 

 ment, but being fat and good natured quickly 

 realized the humor of the situation and laughed 

 heartily over bis ducking. He is being con- 

 gratulated on all sides on his narrow escape from 

 drowning, as the canal at that point is as much 

 as a foot deep ! 



Some years ago the Third National Bank of 

 this city loaned the International Mahogany 

 Company .f23.343.80 and took as security ware- 

 house receipts on a lot of Cuban mahogany. The 

 notes were indorsed by Robert Laidlaw and L. M. 

 Moraques, and they agreed to be responsible for 

 any amount which the security would not pay. 

 The notes were not met and the bank sold the 

 lumber, but when it was sold it was found to 

 measure 377,520 feet short of the amount shown 

 by the warehouse receipts and the bank sued. 

 At the hearing in the common pleas court Judge 

 James B. Swing directed a verdict for the de- 

 fense. On Saturday last this was afBrmed by 

 Circuit Court Judges Giffen and Smith, with 

 Judge Peter F. Swing dissenting. In the upper 

 court it was held that no fraud or collusion was 

 alleged and that no charge was made that the de- 

 fendants knew that the property pledged was 

 not as set forth in the warehouse receipts, the 

 bank cannot recover, as it was incumbent on it 

 to investigate its security and discover whether 

 or not it was as represented. The actual amount 

 the bank lost was .f 17.Glfi.29. 



C. "Mack" Clark, the smiling Cincinnati repre- 

 sentative of the Swann-Day Lumber Company of 



Clay City, Ky., took a run over to the mill plant 

 last- week. Before leaving he said business at 

 present was slow, but that the shipments from 

 the mill for July were as good as those of the 

 same month of any years. Their mills at Clay 

 City are running full with a good supply of logs. 



The recent letter issued by President R. M. 

 Carrier of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asocia- 

 tion of the United States and put out in circu- 

 lar form to the trade by Secretary Doster on 

 "Mixed Grades" or the "Evils of Mixed Grad- 

 ing," has caused widespread intei'est, both 

 among lumbermen and the consumers of lumber. 

 Secretary Doster is compiling a circular of ex- 

 cerpts from the many replies received at his 

 office to the letter, which will be printed and sent 

 to the lumber trade and consumers. 



Dwight Hinckley, who has been a noted mem 

 ber of the "Can't-Get-Away Club." h.'is weakened 

 and fell. He will take his wife and family to 

 -Atlantic City for a short stay, leaving this week. 

 He will be back in good season for the Memphis- 

 Cincinnati ball game, and in the meantime will 

 leave affairs in President Clif Walker's very 

 capable hands. 



Secretary Lewis Doster is contemplating a trip 

 to the East to look after the affairs of his asso- 

 ciation, and will probably not be able to return 

 in time to see the Memphis club trimmed. 



W. A. Hopkins, the treasurer-manager of the 

 New River Lumber Company, who was the victim 

 of an automobile accident a few weeks ago, has 

 fully recovered and is again attending to busi- 

 ness. He says he was not so badly injured as 

 the papers stated, but it was necessary for him 

 to stay in retirement for several weeks. He says 

 the shake-up did not destroy his liking for the 

 speed buggy in the least, and he comes down to 

 the office every moi-ning with gasoline. 



Fred Coun, of the Bayou Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany, stopped in Cincinnati long enough one day 

 last week to tell the folks in the office that he 

 was on his way to Michigan with his wife, to en- 

 joy a vacation and a real rest. Sam Conn left 

 for the mill at Itta Bena, Miss., and will be the 

 busy man around the company's office at Natchez 

 until Fred Conn returns from his vacation. 



Clif S. Walker, president of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club, is getting busy with his com- 

 mittees for the opening meeting on the first Mon- 

 day in September, but this being Labor Day 

 the executive board will probably defer the meet- 

 ing until the second Monday. The date, how- 

 ever, will be duly given in the invitations which 

 Secretary Joseph Bolser will send out. 



E. J. Thoman, office manager of Bennett & 

 Witte, has sent his wife and family on a vaca- 

 tion to the northern part of the state, where they 

 will remain for some time, until Mrs. Thoman's 

 health is fully restored. 



J. C. West of Parkersburg W. Va., vice-presi- 

 dent of the Midland Lumber Company, spent a 

 few days in this city while en route home from 

 Chicago. 



Walter Quick, of Richey. Halstead & Quick, Is 

 on a vacation on the Pacific coast. 



0. P. Hurd of Cairo, 111., visited his wife's 

 home in Covington last week and called upon 

 the trade here. They left for a stay at the 

 seashore and eastern points. 



J. D. Serena, Secretary of the Roy Lumber 

 Company, says they are now at home in their 

 cosy offices at the yards in the West End. The 

 flew offices have been comijleted and a large sign 

 in white attracts the eye of the passers by. He 

 says that business with them is fairly good. 



1. M. Asher, representing the Logan-Maffett 

 Company, passed through the city last week 

 on his way to his new territory in Indiana. E. 

 Maffett, of the company, was in the city look- 

 '.-ig after the interests of his company and re- 

 turned home last week. 



A. W. Euler of the Memphis office of Bennett 

 & Witte, and the European representative, was In 

 the city for a few days recently. 



T. J. White, representative of Bennett & Witte 



at Moline, 111., passed through the city on bis 

 way to his old home at Ripley, O., where he was 

 married on Wednesday last. 



Charles F. Shiels Js the happy papa of twins. 

 He is perfectly content to stay and enjoy his 

 summer at home. Anyway, Charley always was 

 :in admirer of Teddy Roosevelt. 



A. K. Dickerson, the man who made Ben Kipp's 

 grades famous, is the proud father of a new 

 baby. No use talking, this department of the 

 lumber trade is good. 



B. A. Kipp, the well-known "Honest'' Ben 

 Kipp, mot with a severe accident last week which 

 kept him within doors for a few days. While 

 riding on a street car he had the misfortune to 

 be jolted o,jr, which bruised him up considerably. 

 Jlr. Kipp. as the receiver of the Standard MiU- 

 work Company, is rapidly getting that concern in 

 good shape. Business at the plant is very good. 



The handsome sales manager of Wiborg & Han- 

 na Company. \^'alter E. Barlett, of this city, and 

 Miss Florence Elizabeth Hamel were married at 

 the home of the bride's parents in Hartwell, C, 

 on Saturday, July 30, and left on a honeymoon 

 trip. They will be at home to their friends in a 

 handsome home at 208 Highland avenue. Hart- 

 well, after September 15. 



TOLEDO 



The volume of building in Toledo proper 

 showed a slight decrease as compared with 

 July, moo, but this had but little if any effect 

 upon hardwood conditions, as the shortage came 

 in commercial and industrial building, which 

 does not consume any large amount of this 

 material. 



The Irving Macomber company announces that 

 it will at once erect a large industrial structure 

 suitable for small woodworking and other light 

 manufacturing concerns. The plant will be 

 located at Fourteenth and Wakeman streets and 

 will be built on the unit system. The building 

 will be four stories high, containing 200,000 

 feet of floor sprfce, and supplied with power 

 from a central plant. As soon as the rooms 

 are filled other additions will be made to meet 

 requirement^ 



Expert timber buyers are scouring north- 

 western Ohio in a search for hardwoods for use 

 on the Panama canal. Some splendid logs have 

 been purchased, one farmer receiving $350 for 

 a single tree. 



Hardwood business is looking up at Clyde, 

 O. Not only is a building boom in process in 

 tliat little city, but several large factories, among 

 them being the automobile plant of the General 

 Motors Company, are proving splendid custom- 

 ers. The season promises to be a record one. 



The Wapakoneta Wheel Company, newly or. 

 ganized at Wapakoneta. O., will soon have Its 

 building completed and be ready for business. 

 Edwin Abe is president : C. T. Kolter, vice- 

 president : L. N. Blume, treasurer ; John 

 'J'aeusch, secretary, and Ed Trau, general man- 

 ager. 



The Toledo & Ohio Central railroad, through 

 its attorneys, Dolye & Lewis, this week filed a 

 petition in the common pleas court at Toledo, 

 calling in question the powers and legality of 

 the Ohio State Railroad Commission. The board 

 some time ago ordered the company to establish 

 a station in Fairfield county. The company 

 asks an injunction restraining the enforcement 

 of the order and denying the power of the 

 board. The question has never been raised in 

 this state and the outcome is being watched 

 with much interest. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



H. T. Bennett has returned from a pleasure 

 trip to Canada. 



James T. Eaglesfield of the James T. Eagles- 

 field Company, is home after a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion spout Mt Leland, Mich. 



