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Lbis story, saying he had the bean iu his own 

 hands. 



Chester F. Korn came downtown today to see 

 President Taft, who is the guest o£ the Ohio 

 Valley Exposition directors, and is also attend- 

 ing the meeting of the Ohio Valley Improvement 

 Association, which meets on the 22d to inaugu- 

 rate dam No. 37 in the great system of "nine 

 teet from Pittsburg to Cairo" locks and dams 

 being built by the United States government. 

 Mr. Korn says that business at the Farrin-Korn 

 plant was fair at present, but had been slow 

 during the summer. He said the business re- 

 ceived on Saturday of last week, and Monday 

 of this, in the mails looked like a return of 

 prosperity times, but Tuesday's mail was light, 

 which is usual. Mr. Korn is of the opinion 

 that much of the cry of slow business was due 

 to a spirit of pessimism, and that conditions 

 were better than were generally represented. 

 He is an optimist of the highest type, and be- 

 lieves everything is working out all right. 



Sam Conn of the Bayou Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany is in Wisconsin looking after a lumber 

 deal. Mr. Conn is an expert timber cruiser, and 

 his advice is always sought on timber questions. 

 The mill of the company at Itta Bena, Miss., 

 is running steadily and cutting an average of 

 30,000 feet per day, principally gum and oak. 

 Fred Conn is at the mill looking after its af- 

 fairs. 



The appointment of Walter A. Knight as re- 

 ceiver for the Madsonville Lumber Company on 

 Saturday last by .Judge Lueders of the probate 

 court or Hamilton county occasioned quite a 

 surprise in local lumber circles. The company 

 has been operating yards iu Madisonville for a 

 number of years and was looked upon ay a 

 standard house. W. W. Hunt stated that his 

 son, Howard Hunt, had been managing the busi- 

 ness until recently, when on account of failing 

 health he was compelled to leave the city, and 

 that recently the railroad company from whom 

 the ground was leased had transferred it to 

 another concern and compelled him to vacate. 

 The assets were stated to be $20,000 and liabili- 

 ties $22,000. 



"Billy" Galle, head of W. F. Galle & Co., 

 hardwood dealers on the west side, was the vic- 

 tim of an accident last week. Just as he started 

 to ride uptown his horse jumped suddenly for- 

 ward, and in so doing pulled the front axle of 

 the buggy free from its fastenings, and the 

 front of the buggy dropped to the ground, throw- 

 ing Mr. Galle, who weighs over 200 pounds, 

 head foremost to the ground, striking the curb- 

 stone with his head and right shoulder. His 

 bead was badly crushed and bruised, while his 

 right arm was splintered in three places. Mr. 

 Galle was taken to his home, where bis family 

 physician dressed his wounds, and has succeeded 

 so far in saving his arm, though it will be 

 many months before he will have the use of 

 it. Mr. Galle is a member of the lumbermen's 

 and • the furniture organizations of this city, 

 and was extended sympathy on all sides. 



B. A. Kipp, "Honest 'Ben' liipp," was the 

 victim of a street car accident several weeks 

 ago, which was not looked upon as a serious 

 matter. He had the misfortune to fall from 

 the running board of a street car on which he 

 was riding to the granite street, in.iuring his 

 limbs. He was taken home, where it was thought 

 a few days' rest would restore him. This proved 

 fallacious, as Jlr. Kipp is still hobbling around 

 with the aid of a cane. 



Visitors to the Queen City during the past 

 fortnight included A. W. Lucas of the Lucas 

 Laud & Lumber Company, Waverly, Tenn. ; B. 

 S. Cooper of Briggs & Cooper, Ltd., of 

 Saginaw. Mich. ; J. Hillenbrand, Batesville, Ind. ; 

 W. F. Johnson. Indianapolis, Ind.. and W. A. 

 Noble of the Leavitt Land & Lumber Company, 

 Chicago. 



The southern states have a very unique dis- 

 play of the products of the South at the Ohio 

 Valley Exposition. Among them the lumber in- 



terests have a most interesting line of stuff. 

 The lumbermen make a display of all the lum- 

 ber woods indigeneous to the South, especially 

 the hardwoods. Each class of wood is repre- 

 sented by a log, showing the bark of the wood ; 

 from this a section is cut showing the "hewn" 

 surface, another section shows the lumber 

 "rough-sawed," another section is "dressed." 

 while still another shows the wood varnished 

 and "finished." Several fine boards of yellow 

 pine, cypress, curly poplar, plain and yellow 

 poplar are shown. W. E. DeLaney of the Ken- 

 tucky Lumber Company, as soon as he saw the 

 display, sought permission and added an inch 

 plank of clear poplar, 33 inches wide and IS feet 

 long, together with a piece of poplar panel 40 

 inches wide, which he had brought up from the 

 company's yards. 



The baseball committee of the Lumbermen's 

 Club has decided that there will be no more 

 games this season. They have received most 

 cordial invitations to visit both Memphis and 

 Indianapolis, but after careful consideration con- 

 cluded that as it is getting near the season when 

 inclement weather may be looked for at any 

 moment it will be better for all cout-erned to 

 call the ball season closed until next spring, 

 when an effort will be made to have a circuit of 

 games. 



President Clifl: S. Walker of the Lumbermen s 

 Club named the following delegates to the Ohio 

 Valley Improvement Association convention at 

 the Sinton Hotel. Thursday, Seiiteniber 22 ; 



G. C. Ault. B. A. Kipp. 



E. E. Beck. S. E. Giffen. 



W. A. Bennett. T. J. Moffett. 



Ferd Brenner. W. H. Flinn. 



S. B. Stanbery. Walter Johns. 



J. W. Darling. W. E. Roy. 



W. H. Eckman. W. S. Sterrett. 



A. II. Card. M. E. Short. 

 H. A. HoIIowell. C. C. Trimble. 

 Max Kosse. Lewis Doster. 

 W. E. DeLaney. James Buckley. 

 D. C. Snook. Harry Meade. 

 J. A. McEntee. S. G. Boyd. 

 George M. Morgan. C. C. Crane. 



S. W. Richey. W. Duhlmeier. 



J. C. Rash. C. F. Korn. 



Frank Scott. Alexander Schmidt. 



J. S. Talbert. 1>. Hinckley. 



Horace Wildberg. Edward Barber. 



Earl Hart. J. M. Menzies. 



C. S. Walker. George Littleford. 



J. A. Bolser. W. H. Hopkins. 



H. R. Brown. F. W. Mowbray. 



B. F. Dulweber. L. W. Kadlna. 

 E. L. Edwards. C. F. Schells. 

 H. Freiberg. C. M. Clark. 

 J. W. Graham. T. B. Stone. 

 W. E.. Heyser. H. C. Mickle. 



The Lumbermen's Club is still active in its 

 declaration and application of the "square deal" 

 proposition. During the summer three impor- 

 tant cases have been submitted to the Arbitra- 

 tion Committee, in which parties outside of the 

 city have appealed their cases to the club for 

 adjustment. All have been satisfactorily ad- 

 justed. A case is now before the Arbitration 

 Board from a concern in Tennessee, which is in 

 dispute on a shipment of lumber to a local con- 

 cern. Though the parties In Tennessee are in 

 no way connected with the club, their case 

 will receive the same careful attention as though 

 both parties were members. The object of the 

 "square deal" Is to assure every concern ship- 

 ping Into Cincinnati, or dealing in this market, 

 that they will be accorded full justice at all 

 times, and their claims will receive the closest 

 attention, and ever.v case will be thoroughly in- 

 vestigated, the arbitrators hewing close to the 

 line, letting the chips fall where they may. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



Several creditors of the Anderson Carriage 

 JIanufacturing Company, Anderson, have filed a 

 petition in the federal court here, asking that 

 the company be adjudged bankrupt. The concern 

 is already in the hands of a receiver. 



The Furnas Office & Bank Fixture Company 

 is preparing to rebuild after a $30,000 loss from 

 fire at its plant recently. 



Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice-presi- 

 dent of the United States, has launched a move- 

 ment for a permanent state organization to 

 protect, conserve and replant the forests of Indi- 

 ana, lie has been joined by a number of pub- 

 lic-spirited citizens. 



The Roper Furniture Company is dismantling 

 ils plant at Mishawaka and is moving to Dixon, 

 Hi., whore it will occupy a new plant and em- 

 ploy about 175 men. Many employes of the 

 company have obtained employment with the 

 National Veneer Products Company at Misha- 

 waka. 



MEMPHIS 



The Aetna Cabinet Company has recently oc- 

 cupied a new plant at 321-329 West Maryland 

 street, and now has one of the largest fac- 

 tories of the kind in the city. 



Bids will be opened by tiie board of public 

 works on October 7 for furnishing hardwood 

 counters and grille work for the new city hall 

 l)iiilding. The estimate of cost is $13,500. 



Perfect weather conditions have prevailed over 

 this section for the past fortnight and this 

 has enabled lumber manufacturers to make good 

 progress with operations at their mills. The 

 majority of those in this section are running 

 on full time and the output is about up to 

 the average. Most of the lumbermen here 

 hold to the view that business is sound and 

 that there ought to be a satisfactory demand 

 for hardwood lumber throughout the fall and 

 winter, and are making their plans accordingly. 

 It is also pointed out that there is no large 

 surplus of hardwood lumber on the market and 

 that, if there is to be enough to meet the re- 

 quirements of the trade, it is incumbent upon 

 the manufacturers to produce the stock. There 

 have been more inquiries during the past few 

 days than for some time. 



The announcement of the Transcontinental 

 lines that the old rate of Soc per 100 pounds 

 on shipments of hardwood lumber would be 

 restored on October 10 has brought the Mem- 

 phis Freight Bureau into action. This organ- 

 ization is strongly opposed to the advance, be- 

 lieving the rate to be unreasonable and un- 

 justified. It is taking the matter up before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission and it is 

 expected that this body will hand down a de- 

 cision similar to that in the case of Geo. D. 

 Burgess et al. versus the Ti'anscontlnental 

 Freight Bureau, which involved this same rate. 



Lee Wilson & Co., with headquarters in this 

 city, have lelet contract for the construction of 

 their band mill, box factory and veneer plant 

 at Wilson, Ark., which were burned some time 

 ago. The machinery will be supplied by the 

 Allis-Cbalmers Company of Milwaukee, while 

 the construction work will be done by the Vir- 

 ginia Bridge & Iron Company of this city. The 

 contract was let to another firm about three 

 months ago and the management hoped to have 

 the plant in operation by this time. The firm 

 which agreed to do the work, however, threw 

 up the contract a short time ago, thus forcing 

 the company to relet this. 



I'rominent traffic officials of the Southern lines 

 are of the opinion that there will he a large 

 volume of business this fall and winter. The 

 railroads are always put to the test to handle 

 the business offered them w'hen cotton is mov- 

 ing freely and this year promises to be no ex- 

 ception. In fact, some of the roads are look- 

 ing for such a large business that they are 

 increasing their operating force and are also 

 in some cases augmenting their rolling stock. 

 The latter is particularly true of the Louisville 

 i Nashville Railroad Company, which is now 

 building 450 cars at its plant at Decatur, Ala 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 is at Atlantic City. Before returning to Mem- 

 phis early in October he will go to New York 

 iind other eastern points. 



K. J. Darnell of H. J. Darnell. Inc., sailed 



