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HARDWOOD RECORD 



honor to the lumber industry of the Queen City. 

 It was proposed by one of the members to secure, 

 it possible, an old ox-team and log wagon from 

 some logging outfit and bring the outfit to the 

 city, together with a load of logs. This part 

 of the display may not materialize, owing to the 

 long distance the outfit would have to be brought 

 by rail. But one thing sure — the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati, who never do things by 

 halv&s, will surely have a most creditable turn- 

 out. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati is still 

 taking an active part in the fight against the 

 freight rate advance, and upon the instructions 

 of the Executive Board, Secretary Bolser has 

 sent the following letter to members : 



Dear Sir : Inclosed vou will find a reprint of 

 the address of B. F. Dulweber. at Chester Park, 

 on Friday, .Tunc IS. on the freight rate situation. 

 This address practically expresses the views of 

 the Elver and Rail Committee. [This address 

 was printed in full in the H.1RDW00D Record of 



The" committee recommends that the Lumber- 

 men's Club, in connection with other organiza- 

 tions and individuals, make au effort to prevent 

 tlio contemplated advance in rates. This matter 

 is of such importance that an expression from 

 each member of the club is desired, which will 

 determine the action that will be taken. It is 

 therefore suggested that you read and carefully 

 consider the inclosed reprint and fill out and 

 return the inclosed postal card promptly to the 

 secretary In the event that the membership 

 de-ides to make a fight on the advance in rates 

 it will be necessary to make some expenditures, 

 ■ind owing to the difliculty of having general 

 club meetings during the summer months, it is 

 su-'^-ested that the Executive Board be empow- 

 ered to expend such sum for this purpose as it 

 mav deem necessary or advisable. Provision 

 for" your vote on this question is also made on 

 the inclosed postal card. 



The PosT.iL Card 



Do vou favor the club making an effort to pre- 

 vent the proposed advance in freight rates .' 



(Yes or No.) 



Do vou favor empowering the Executive Board 



to expend such sums as may be necessary or 



advisable. ■ ■ • • ■ ■ • • ■ ■ ■ • 



(Yes or No.) 



Please express opinion, sign card, and mail 

 promptly. 



It will be at least a week before the results 

 can be tabulated and the announcement of the 

 result made, but there is no doubt but that the 

 Executive Board will be given authority to go 

 to any expense in the matter of securing low 

 freight rates. 



Monday. August 29. is rapidly approaching, 

 the greatest day in all Cincinnati's history. For 

 on that day the Memphis lumbermen's baseball 

 team will lie the guests of the baseball club of 

 the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club and will be 

 given a few points on the great national game, 

 un the same day the Ohio Valley Exposition 

 opens with a big industrial parade, a work- 

 horse parade and other doings. Garry Herrmann 

 had a game with the Bostons and Redlegs 

 scheduled for League Park, but when he heard 

 of the other counter attractions he very 

 patriotically called the league game off. Dwight 

 Hinckley, manager of the Lumbermen's Club 

 baseball" team, is at present at Atlantic City 

 toning up for the game with sea baths, but will 

 return in a day or two to complete arrange- 

 ments for the great lumber contest. 



The strike at the mill of C. Crane & Co. is 

 still on. so far as the strikers are concerned. 

 During the past week an attempt was made to 

 engage the teamsters and yard hands in the 

 local and shipping departments who were not 

 out in a sympathetic strike. A saloonist in the 

 neighborhood of the plant, whose business was 

 evidently affected hy the strike, got busy, and 

 informed a number of the men in the yard that 

 he would board them free, if they quit work. A 

 telephone uiessai, brought a relay of police to 

 the plant, and the ambitious saloonist got 

 "pinched" for inciting riot. Mr. Crane refused 

 to be disturbed over the conditions, when asked 

 at the Sinton one day last week in regard to 

 the strike, he looked amu.sed and said : "Yes : 

 theyr'e striking, but I am not bothering with 

 that now, I have some other matters more im- 



portant. The city is repairing a sewer that 

 runs tjrough my property and I'm looking after 

 that." 



The first meeting of the fall and winter cam- 

 paign of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati, 

 which is usually held on the first Monday of 

 the month, will be postponed to the second Mon- 

 day of September, owing to Labor Day falling 

 on the 5th. The meeting will be held in the 

 Gibson House assembly room, with the usual 

 dinner. 



An interesting exhibit in the forestry divi- 

 sion of the exposition will be made by Prof. 

 Crumley. He shows how waste land not worth 

 a cent to the owners was planted in catalpa 

 trees, and that these trees are now worth $17 

 a year to the owner. They are used for fence 

 posts. The professor has samples of scrub 

 growth of useless little trees on the waste land, 

 and samples of the money-making catalpas. He 

 instructs to be sure and get the straight catalpa. 

 as they give better results than the twisted 

 variety. A display of the woods native to Ohio 

 shows that the osage orange makes the most 

 substantial fence posts, and that the other trees 

 rate as follows : Locust, red cedar, mulberry, 

 white cedar, catalpa, chestnut and oak. 



The mill of the Freiberg Lumber Company is 

 closed down temporarily for lack of mahogany 

 logs, the log yard being cleaned up. This plant 

 specializes in Mexican mahogany lumber, and 

 carries in its yards one of the largest stocks of 

 ma.iogany lumber in the West. The veneer 

 plant is also idle, owing to a lack of flitches. 

 The Freiberg company has added extensive im- 

 provements to its plant, among them being a 

 handsomely furnished lumber office. The desks 

 and furniture are made of selected Mexican ma- 

 hogany in the natural finish, while the walls 

 are paneled in handsome veneer woods of all 

 classes in various finishes. • 



J. C. Tompkins, manager of the Gden-EUiott 

 Lumber Company, of Hattiesburg, Miss., stopped 

 in Cincinnati for a day or two last week, look- 

 ing over trade conditions and trying for orders. 



The numerous friends of Leland G. Banning, 

 the widely-known hardwood lumberman of Cin- 

 cinnati, will be pleased to learn that he is rap- 

 Idly recovering his health, and during his long 

 convalescence in Genoa, Italy, had regained nor- 

 mal weight. He is expected to return home 

 as early in the next month as possible. Mr. 

 Banning will be welcomed as one returned from 

 the grave, as when he was , discovered sick in 

 Ceylon almost a year ago, his friends had grave 

 doubts of his ever returning. 



The Chamber of Commerce statistical bureau 

 furnished the following as the receipts and ship- 

 ments of lumber for the month of July : Re- 

 ceipts, 6.594 cars, against G.244 cars in the 

 same month last year. The shipments for July 

 were S,969 cars, compared with 4,991 cars for 

 the same month in 1909. 



The Roy Lumber Company is now occupying 

 the offices at the yards on McLean avenue. J. 

 D. Serena, secretary, says that since the change 

 to the Roy Lumber Company there has been a 

 steady increase in the volume of business. The 

 <ompany is represented in the Indiana territory 

 by C. if. West, who also covers Michigan. 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, director of the Biltmore 

 Forestry School, with a number of forestry stu- 

 dents, spent a day in Cincinnati, looking over 

 the mill plants. The Doctor and his students 

 arrived in the morning and departed in the even- 

 ing. As no previous announcement of their 

 coming had been made, the Entertainment Com- 

 mittee of the Lumbermen's Club were unable to 

 extend to the visitors the hospitality of the city. 



Cincinnati's building boom still keeps up, witli 

 indications for business as long as weather con- 

 ditions permit. The Building Commissioners' 

 oflice issued more permits in July than ever 

 before in the history of the department. 



Among those who enjoyed a vacation away 

 from home is Miss M. Graham, secretary of the 

 Graham Lumber Company. Miss Graham is at 

 Huronia Beach, where the Graham family have 



a cottage. J. Watt Graham is sitting on the lid 

 at the ofiice, hut he says it is not bard work, as 

 business is not very active. Fred Duling. the 

 road representative, left for a business trip in 

 the South. He had Just returned from a stay 

 in toe wilds of the North. 



TOLEDO 



The Booth Column Company of Toledo is one 

 of the most prosperous and growing woodwork- 

 ing concerns in the city, and is just now start- 

 ing an addition to its factory in order to allow 

 the installment of new machines for the making 

 of interior hardwood pedestals. This concern 

 uses a variety of hardwoods, among which are 

 No. 1 common and select and No. 1 shop and 

 select poplar and common and better white pine 

 for exterior work. For interior work oak, 

 chestnut, birch and yellow pine. 



The manager of the Toledo Bending Company 

 pronounces business in the manufacturing of 

 buggy parts, in which, this company is exclusive- 

 ly engaged, "dead." "There is but little call for 

 buggy parts, the automobile trade digging a ter- 

 rible hole into this business," said he. "What 

 trade there is is badly split up so that there is 

 but little for the various concerns." 



W. S. Booth of the Booth Column Company 

 has recently returned from Whitmore Lake, 

 Michigan, where he spent a couple of weeks 

 with liis family. The family is now pleasantly 

 located in a cottage at Toledo Beach, where 

 Mr. Booth can enjoy the pleasures of outdoor 

 life and still personally attend to his business 

 here. 



Frank Spangler of the Frank Spangler Com- 

 pany in a recent interview said to a representa- 

 tive of the H.iEDWooD Record : "Business is 

 picking up with us at the present time, but 

 from April until August 1 it has been fairly 

 quiet. The fall trade is starting out in fair 

 shape, but conditions would undoubtedly he 

 much better if there was a more settled feeling 

 of security about the country. The demand for 

 hardwoods could be much better than it is, 

 although I look for a better trade this fall. It 

 looks at present as though there might be a 

 picking up in the furniture lines, which have 

 been rather slow all summer." 



Two tiny visitors from Costa Rica recently 

 arri%'ed unlooked for at the Gallup-Rufling Com- 

 pany's factory at Norwalk, O., where they 

 created no small sensation. The tiny visitors 

 uiade the journey all the way from Costa Rica 

 hidden away in a large knothole in the heart of 

 a piece of cocobolo, one of the hardest woods 

 in the world. They were honeybees and with 

 them was found a quantity of honey which they 

 had evidently made and deposited in the hole 

 before the entrance to it had grown over. They 

 were released when a buzzsaw at the Gallup- 

 Ruffing factory ripped away one side of the 

 knothole a few days ago. When the knothole 

 was opened the bees were found crawling fran- 

 tically over the honey comb. The bees are much 

 smaller than American honey bees and, according 

 to a Norwalk apiarist, have no stingers. It is 

 believed that the bees had been in the knot- 

 hole many years. 



Business is reported good at the factory of 

 the Toledo Carriage & Woodwork Company, 

 makers of carriage and auto wood stock. "The 

 carriage business just at present is good, but 

 hickory, the material used in the manufacture 

 of these parts, is scarce and correspondingly 

 high, and we experience much difficulty In secur- 

 ing sufficient quantities of satisfactory ma- 

 terials." 



INDIANAPOLIS 



B. F. Swaiu, president of the National Veneer 

 & Lumber Company, has gone to Alaska for a few 

 weeks. 



Ezra Rhodes of South Bend has purchased eight 



