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played Saturday, August 27. Mauager McClure 

 has bepn working on this proposition for quite a 

 long while and now has all details completed. 

 It is expected that the two games at Cincin- 

 nati and Indianapolis will go a long way toward 

 settling the title of champion of baseball so far 

 as lumberdom is concerned. Memphis now holds 

 the title and it goes on the invasion with the 

 determination to keep it. Memphis has never 

 played Cincinnati and there is no way to arrive 

 at the possible conclusion of the contest. 

 Indianapolis came South last summer and went 

 up against the Memphis team only to meet with 

 defeat. The boys from the Hoosier State left 

 swearing vengeance and. whatever may be the 

 outcome of the Cincinnati game, it Is certain 

 that there will be a strenuous fight at Indian- 

 apolis. However, it is believed that the games 

 between Memphis and Cincinnati and Memphis 

 and Indianapolis will tend to greatly strengthen 

 the kindly relations existing between the lum- 

 bermen of the several cities involved, and it is 

 certain that, whatever the outcome, the Mem- 

 phis lumbermen will he royally entertained at 

 the hands of their fraternity at both places. 

 Both Concinnati and Indianapolis are advertis- 

 ing the forthcoming games and talking about 

 them to such an extent that it is regarded as 

 certain that the attendance will be of record- 

 breaking proportions for amateur baseball. 



Arrangements are being made for resumption 

 of operations by the Helena Chair & Manufac- 

 turing Company at Helena. Ark. The company 

 contemplates the installment of new and more 

 modern machinery and also more extensive ware- 

 house facilities. The plant has been idle for 

 some time. 



The suspension of the plant of the Tyronza 

 Lumber Company is announced, and it is stated 

 that it will remain closed down until September 

 1. The company has quite a stock of lumber 

 on its yards. The suspension will be taken ad- 

 vantage of to make necessary repairs. 



A large number of Memphis Hoo-Hoo are 

 planning to go to the annual concatenation to be 

 held in San Francisco in September. There will 

 be a special car from Nashville and Memphis, 

 which will be carried by way of Chicago, where 

 it will be attached to the IIoo-I-Ioo special from 

 that city. A route has already been mapped 

 out for the Hoo-Hoo special which will take in 

 some of the most interesting features of the 

 western country. It is for this reason that the 

 Memphis members of the order who are going 

 to San Francisco are looking forward with so 

 much pleasure to the trip. 



The Greeneville Stave Company has decided 

 to put up a stave mill at Benton. Ark., to cost 

 $10,000. The citizens of the latter place do- 

 nated $5,000 to the company in order to secure 

 the plant. It is planned to have the factory in 

 operation within the next sixty days, and it 

 is estimated that its annual pay roll will not 

 be less than $100,000. The company owns 25.000 

 acres of timber land in Saline county, which will 

 supply enough material to keep the mill run- 

 ning for many years. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company has been absent from Mem- 

 phis for about a week. He has been spending 

 the time at Chicago. Indiana points and New 

 york. He will return to Memphis next week. 



C- B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumlwr Company 

 is at Fremont, Mich., where he is visiting his 

 parents. His wife and child are with him. 

 Charles carried his automobile along with him 

 and at the latest reports he had forgotten the 

 day of the week, month and year. He says he 

 is leading quite a strenuous life, and his friends 

 are prepared to believe this in the light of his 

 forgetfulness. 



A. J. McCausland, who was for some years 

 manager of the Jlemphis office of W. E. Kelly 

 & Co. and who is now connected with a promi- 

 nent box and lumber firm of New Orleans, was 

 In the city during last week. 



J. F. Mclntyre, of J. F. Mclntyre & Sons Com- 



pany, Pine Bluff, Ark., spent the week end in 

 Memphis. Mr. Mclntyre says that the hardwood 

 mill which he has been constructing for some 

 time has been completed and has begun opera- 

 tions. The plant has a capacity of about 23,000 

 feet of hardwood lumber per day. Mr. Mclntyre 

 was a member of the Memphis lumber fraternity 

 for a long while, being prominently connected 

 here, and much pleasure is expressed over the 

 fact that he has perfected his plant at Pine 

 Bluff and is down to the manufacture of lumber 

 again. 



W. A. Hansom of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from Charlevoix, Mich., where 

 he has heen visiting his family. The latter are 

 spending the summer there. 



James E. Stark of James E. Stark & Co. is 

 building a handsome home on 'WiUett street, 

 near Central avenue, in the handsomest resi- 

 dence section of Memphis. Mr. Stark will not 

 say just what this house will cost him, but this 

 is not because of modesty on his part but be- 

 cause he says he cannot tell. It will have ten 

 rooms and will be an elegant place, being built 

 of white stone with colonial columns. 



The Memphis Saw Mill Company has com- 

 pleted the repairs and improvements at its plant 

 in i\ew South Memphis, which have been under 

 way for some time, and the plant has resumed 

 operations. The improvements wnich have been 

 made have to do largely with increased facilities 

 for taking off the output of the band saw. and 

 it is figured that the capacity will be materially 

 enlarged thereb.v. The plant has been closed 

 down for the past five or six weeks in order 

 that this work might be done without any hin- 

 drance. 



The Green River Lumber Company is putting 

 in a new mill in North Memphis, displacing the 

 one which it has operated for the past few 

 years. It is of practically the same size as the 

 old, but the capacity, by virtue of the fact that 

 the new^ plant will be in prime condition when 

 completed, will be larger than heretofore. The 

 installation has been under way for some time, 

 and the company will resume operations within 

 the next few days. 



The Anderson-Tully Company is enlarging its 

 offices in North Memphis. The box and veneer 

 plants of this company are in operation, but tlie 

 sawmill, as previously stated, is closed down on 

 account of lack of timber, due to the very low 

 stage of the Mississippi and its tributaries. 



J. S. Houston, of the Memphis Veneer & Lum- 

 ber Company, will arrive in Memphis next week 

 from Chicago. This firm is operating its veneer 

 machinery on full time and reports a good de- 

 mand for its output. 



The Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company is 

 running steadily at its maximum capacity, and 

 while the demand for hardwood flooring is not 

 extensive, it is disposing of its output at a satis- 

 factory rate, as may be judged from its extensive 

 operations. 



W. H. Kusse. president of Russe & Burgess, 

 Inc.. and former president of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, will, together with 

 John Ij. Alcock, of Baltimore, and Harvey M. 

 Dickson, of Norfolk, leave for Europe in Sep- 

 tember. They are a committee appointed by the 

 association to look after certain features of the 

 work of this organization in Europe. 



Charley Ransom, of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany, has left for Charlevoix, Mich., where he . 

 will spend some time. The wife and child of 

 his brother, W. A. Ransom, are summering at 

 tliat point. Charley is up against a hard propo- 

 sition and will thank some of his lumber friends 

 to help him out. His brother's little son, who 

 is named for Charley, is the cause of all the 

 trouble, which appears to lie in the fact that 

 Charley does not know whether the boy is or is 

 not C. R. Ransom, Jr. The members of the 

 Ran.som household are very much at variance 

 in their views on the subject. Charley insists 

 tliat tile "Jr." goes with the youngster's name, 

 while other members say that it does not. 



W. B. Morgan, secretary-treasurer of the An- 

 derson-Tully Company, is spending some time 

 at Highland Park, Chicago, with his family. 



F. T. Dooley, of the DooleyStern Lumber 

 Company, is in Michigan. 



While no names can be given at this time, it 

 is certain that a number of prominent hard- 

 wood lumber manufacturers of Memphis will at- 

 tend the mass meeting to be held in St. Louis, 

 August 24, which will have for its purpose the 

 entrance of a strong protest against the recent 

 action of the railroad trunk lines in the terri- 

 tory under the jurisdiction of the Southwestern 

 Freight Traffic Committee in cancelling rate di- 

 visions on lumber on all tap line connections. 

 The lumbermen here claim that this action will 

 result in an advance of considerable proportions 

 in lumber rates, and that lumlier will thus be 

 rendered that much higher to the consumer. A 

 number of the prominent hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers operating in Memphis and 

 throughout the . Memphis territory own logging 

 roads, and they are therefore vitally interested in 

 the outcome of this action on the part of the 

 trunk lines in this territory. The view is enter- 

 tained in some quarters that the motive behind 

 the trunk lines lies in a desire on their part 

 to make these tap lines so unprofitable to their 

 owners as to make them eager to dispose of them 

 to the best advantage, thus enabling the trunk 

 lines to get possession of valuable feeders at 

 very limited cost. These roads have been built 

 at large expense and purely for the purpose of 

 rendering large tracts of timber lands available, 

 and lumbermen who have invested their money 

 in tuem have no idea of losing the advantage 

 they now have through their possession with- 

 out entering a most vigorous protest. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has been vary- 

 ing the monotony of its weekly meetings by 

 having them in some place other than the ac- 

 customed rendezvous, the Seelbach Hotel. Two 

 of the August meetings have been held at 

 "Devil's Kitchen," on the Taylorsville road, the 

 members of the club having found that the in- 

 novation gave opportunity for a pleasant auto- 

 mobile ride, followed by dinner under the trees 

 at the wayside inn, a combination which proved 

 well-nigh irresistible. The meetings there have 

 been well attended, and while the warm weather 

 continues it is likely that many of the weekly 

 gatherings will take place at resorts other than 

 the down-town hotel. 



Traffic matters are continuing to attract at- 

 tention from the club. Transit rules, which are 

 being worked on by the railroads, were taken up 

 at a meeting held between shippers and repre- 

 sentatives of the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion August 16 and the general proposition gone 

 into. Attorneys of members of the club were 

 present and looked after the interests of the 

 lumbermen. It is expected that the general sub- 

 ject will be worked out and rules for this market 

 in regard to lumber and other commodities de- 

 cided upon in the near future. 



One of the most interesting topics discussed 

 recently at meetings of the Hardwood Club was 

 the all-absorbing question of the influence of the 

 automobile industry on the lumber business. 

 Although a good many took the ground that 

 since the automobile industry consumes lumber 

 in volume, it is a good thing, whereas some of 

 the others pointed out that the craze for motor 

 cars has resulted in the absorbing of money 

 that would otherwise have gone into other lum- 

 ber-consuming lines, such as building, carriages, 

 etc. Since automobiles do not consume as much 

 wood stock as high-grade horse-drawn vehicles, 

 upon which the auto business has had a depress- 

 ing effect, it was suggested that the unqualified 

 statement cannot be made that the motor car 

 industry is good for the lumber business. 



Though it is agreed in this market that busi- 

 ness conditions are basically good, although the 



