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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NeWs Miscellany 



E. C. Mershon's Gift to Saginaw City 



Dedicated 



Ou August 23 the beautil'ul Mm-sbon-Whit- 

 tier Swimming Pool, dedicated to tlie memory 

 of August H. Mershon and Josepli A. Whlttier, 

 during- tlieir lives distinguished citizens of Sagi- 

 naw, Mich., and presented to that city by E. C. 

 Mershon, the well-linown machinery manutac- 

 turer and lumberman, and Joseph A. Whitticr, 

 was opened with fitting ceremony. A big au- 

 dience was present, including all the city^ offl- 

 cials, and all enjoyed the pretty exercises by 

 the little friends of the Mershon and Whittier 

 families. Miss Marion Mershon unveiled the 

 Augu.itus H. Mershon tablet, John Wickes the 

 medallion of Joseph A. Whittier, while the com- 

 memoration tablet was unveiled by Will Wickes. 

 Alter the ceremony, which closed with a few 

 appropriate remarks by E. C. Mershon and 

 Mayor Stewart, Mr. Mershon rang the bell from 

 the tower of the Natatorium as a signal to the 

 boys for their first dip in the water, and a 

 great crowd of youngsters plunged in almost 

 as one. 



Philadelphia LumlierTnen Win Ball Game 



The annual contest between nines of the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange and the Master Build- 

 ers' Exchange of Philadelphia came off on the 

 grounds of the Pennsylvania Railroad Y. M. 

 C. A. on September 7. The attendance was 

 large and many rooters were on hand for both 

 sides. It was a spirited game and to the 

 lumbermen fell the victory. Many times in the 

 past have the builders been the winners, and 

 their crow naturally has grown loud in the 

 land, until in their good-natured arrogance they 

 hinted that they should be obliged to look for 

 a stronger opponent unless something unexpect- 

 ed happened. It happened. To the tune of 16 

 to 12, the builders bit the dust. The pro- 

 ceeds of the game will be divided between a 

 number of deserving charities. The commit- 

 tee, who bad charge of the affair, was com- 

 posed of Franklin A. Smith, Jr., William C. 

 McBrlde, Charles P. Maule, John H. Lank, sec- 

 retary of the exchange ; George H. Howes, man- 

 ager of team for lumbermen ; John Atkinson, 

 Frank H. Reeves, Thomas F. Armstrong, Will- 

 iam R. Dougherty, F. M. Harris, Jr., Charles 

 E. Smith, secretary of Builders' Exchange, and 

 Benjamin K. Xusbaum, manager for the builders. 



A Big Help to Shippers to Chicago 



Shippers of lumber to Chicago, who have no 

 personal representative in this city and who 

 are called upon from time to time, justly or 

 unjustly, to cancel orders for rejected cars, as 

 well as the innumerable consumers of forest 

 products located m the lumber metropolis, are 

 in a position to derive great benefit from a 

 concern which for years has been doing a re- 

 markable business along those lines. About 

 fourteen years ago W. M. Towne conceived the 

 idea of acting in the capacity of local repre- 

 sentative for out-of-town firms who found them- 

 selves in that predicament, and so practical 

 was the idea that today Towne's Emergency 

 Express, the outgrowth of the initial attempt, 

 is not only an indication of the business abil- 

 ity and personal force of the man at its bead, 

 but is a boon to the shipper and consumer alike. 

 Mr. Towne numbers among his satisfied cus- 

 tomers a bulk of the Chicago trade as well 

 as leading concerns in the principal shipping 

 points throughout the country. While be en- 

 joys an enviable reputation among the trade at 

 large, his confidence in the feasibility of his 

 plan as a means to help all parties concerned 

 is so absolute that he will not be satisfied 

 till every lumberman who ships to Chicago and 



who has no local representation, is enrolled as 

 a regular customer. And it is hard to conceive 

 of anything which should be more truly wel- 

 come to the outside trade than this plan. 



H. R. Foster Enters Chicago Trade 



The trade in the Chicago territory will be 

 pleased to learn of the entrance of H. R. Fos- 

 ter into the ranks of the local lumber frater 

 nlty. For eight years Mr. Foster has acted 

 in the capacity of secretary and treasurer of 

 the P. S. Hendrickson Lumber Company of this 

 city and in that olHce ran the large business 

 of that concern in co-operation with its re- 

 cently deceased head. Through his former con- 

 nection he became well known among the trade, 

 and as he was outside a good part of the 

 time, bis acquaintance will enable him to start 

 out well equipped to handle a large business 

 in his own name. He traveled principally in 

 the central states and Canadian points. 



Mr. Foster started his connection with the 

 lumber business in a box factory of a Mlchi- 

 .!;an manufacturer, where for a number of years 

 he was foreman of the manufacturing depart- 

 ment. Previous to this he had worked his way 

 through Michigan University and for five years 

 held the chair of botany in the State Univer- 

 sity of Washington. Following his employment 

 in Michigan, he worked with the Anderson- 

 TuUy Company for several years, being em- 

 ployed in the manufacturing end, and from 

 there worked up to the connection which he 

 recently severed with the F. S. Hendrickson 

 Lumber Company. His duties there ceased the 

 first of last June. 



Mr. Foster is a member of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association and will conduct 

 his own business along much the same lines as 

 the old Hendrickson company, doing a straight 

 wholesale hardwood business, though leaving 

 out the manufacturing end of it. He states 

 that he has already a very satisfactory volume 

 of trade and that now he is in the market for 

 Cottonwood, gum, oak and ash. 



Sales -4.gent for Big Hardwood Operation 



The Ward Lumber Compauy, well-known 

 manufacturer, exporter and wholesaler, with 

 headquarters at Lynchburg, Va., has secured 

 the exclusive sales agency for an important 

 hardwood operation in Bedford county, Vir- 

 ginia. This operation is the cutting of a virgin 

 tract of hardwood timber, heretofore considered 

 a prize out of reach of lumbermen, but which 

 has been made accessible by the completion of 

 a broad gauge railroad, twelve miles in length, 

 which taps the jjroperty. The owners of the 

 road and timber are George Meyers, of New 

 York City, and his son, George Meyers, Jr., 

 and it is their intention to construct in all be- 

 tween thirty and forty miles of road. Two 

 locomotives and a number of cars have already 

 been put into commission and a modern Lane 

 mill complete in every detail and having a 

 capacity of 30,000 feet a day will begin cutting 

 shortly. The timber on the property is largely 

 white oak of excellent quality and there is also 

 considerable poplar of good description. It is 

 estimated that some twenty million feet of 

 high-class white oak will be cut from the tract 

 and on the completion of the road over fifty 

 million feet will- be made accessible. 



Tlie Ward Lumber Company, by this new 

 connection, is placed in position to give its 

 trade some unusually fine stock, well manufac- 

 tured and of splendid quality. It expects to 

 begin making shipments within a very short 

 time. 



Report of Northern Hemlock & Hardwood 



Association's Cut and Shipments 



For August 



Under date of September 12, Secretary R. S. 

 Kellogg, of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, issued a statement 

 covering the reports from fifty-nine members of 

 the organization, giving totals for the cut and 

 shipments of hardwood and hemlock lumber 

 during the month of August. This showing was 

 particularly gratifying, the total amount of 

 hardwoods manufactured being 12,374,000 feet 

 and the amount shipped being 13,586,000 feet. 

 The statistics for hemlock were not quite so 

 favorable ; there were 48,755,000 feet sawed by 

 the forty firms reporting and 33,061,000 feet 

 shipped by the forty-nine firms reporting. 



The hemlock cut in August was somewhat 

 greater than in July, while the hardwood cut 

 was less than during the preceding m-ontb. 

 Hardwood shipments in August were practically 

 the same as during the month of July, and for 

 the first time this year exceeded the cut. 



Hemlock shipments in August were over 10 

 per cent heavier than in the month previous. 

 The figures covering the total hardwoods cut 

 and shipped during the eight months of the 

 year show a considerable stock on hand ; there 

 were 137,984,000 feet cut during this period 

 and 85,146.000 feet shipped. The figures for 

 licmlock thus far this year are 235,839,000 feet 

 cut and 218,691,000 feet shipped. 



The Freight Fight Victory 



The shippers of Cincinnati were highly elated 

 when they learned of the decision of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission on September 21 sus- 

 pending the freight rate increases proposed by 

 the railroads of Cincinnati and other cities In 

 southern and southwestern territory. The Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Cincinnati, through the Re- 

 ceivers' and Shippers' Association, was to secure 

 a full hearing before the commission, the ship- 

 pers feeling that they would be sustained if this 

 were done. The commission has now suspended 

 the increased schedules and ordered the full hear- 

 ing, as told in the following press dispatch re- 

 ceived late Wednesday : 



Washington, Sept. 21. — Suspension of in- 

 creased tariff schedules filed recently by forty 

 railroads operating in the Western and South- 

 western territory was ordered today by the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission, the date of op- 

 erating being extended until January 5, 1911. 

 The commission ordered a full hearing on com- 

 plaints against the proposed tarill becoming ef- 

 fective, reserving announcement of the time and 

 place for the hearing. Among the railroads in- 

 cluded in the suspension order are the Chicago 

 i: Alton, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Rock Island, 

 Illinois Central, Chicago & Northwestern, Great 

 Western, Burlington, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary, Cleveland, 

 Cincinnati. Chicago & St. Louis, Chicago Termi- 

 nal Transfer Railroad Company, Elgin, Joliet & 

 Eastern Hill Steamboat line. Michigan Central. 

 Louisville & Nashville, Mobile & Ohio, Iron 

 Mountain. Toledo, St. Louis & Western, Wabash. 

 Chicago Southern, Galveston, Harrisburg & San 

 Antonio, Missouri, Kansas, & Texas, and Mis- 

 souri Pacific. The commission ordered suspen- 

 sion of the rates tor the reason that from a con- 

 sideration of the character and amount of the 

 advances It appeared that there was sufficient 

 around for claiming that the advances were 

 unlawful and that the rates established by the 

 new schedules were unjust and unreasonable. 



Schultz, Holloway & Co. Start Business in 

 Fisher Building 



The latest acquisition to the lumber business 

 in Chicago is the co-partnership of J. M. Schultz 

 and G. H. Holloway, two well-known members 

 nf the Chicago trade, under the firm name of 

 Schultz, Holloway & Co., with oflJces at 1107 

 lisher building. The new concern will deal in 

 Ac'Uow pine and hardwoods, conducting a general 

 wholesale and jobbing business. Railroad busi- 

 ness in both the United States and Canada will 

 be solicited. 



James M. Schultz, who is also a member of 

 the firms of Schultz Brothers and Schultz 

 Brothers & Cowen, is prominently known in 



