THE WHOLESALE LUMBER DEALERS' 



CONVENTION 



REPORTED BY 

 Mrs. Lydia Adams- Williams 



TT HE sixteenth annual meeting of of the next generation, in whose behalf 

 •*■ the National Wholesale Lumber he was speaking. 

 Dealers' Association was held at the ^,^.^^^ .^^.^.^ 



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New Willard Hotel, Washmgton, D. 



C, March 4 and 5, 1908. The annual address of the president 



The attendance was representative, of the Association, Mr. J, M. Hast- 



delegates coming from all parts of the ings, of Pittsburg, Pa., dealt princi- 



United States. pally with the year's business condi- 



The most important questions con- tions. 



sidered were those relating to lumber Secretary E. F. Perry gave a very 



transportation and rates. The preser- complete report of the year's work, 



vation of the forests received much at- He urged the formation of a plan of 



tention, about one-fourth of the time, co-operation with the Forest Service, 



exclusive of the banquet, being devot- whereby the study of Forestry may be 



ed to that subject. The work of the introduced into the public schools of 



U. S. Forest Service was highly prais- ^^g country. 



ed. Resolutions were adopted favor- Committees were appointed on nom- 



ing the Appalachian Bill and com- inations, resolutions, and trade rela- 



mending President Roosevelt's ef- ^jons ; and reports were heard from the 



forts to increase the effectiveness of committees on hardwood inspection, 



the work of the Forest Service. fij-e insurance," trade relations, arbitra- 

 tion, and marine insurance, and legis- 

 lation. 



OUR LITTLE SUCCESSORS 



FOREST PRESERVATION 



A pleasant feature of the conven- 

 tion, early in its progress, was a re- 

 ception tendered the delegates and i^^g second day's session was de- 

 their guests by President Roosevelt. voted to topics connected with forest 



The President said to them : preservation. The chairman of the 



"It behooves every man who wishes forestry committee of the National 



to see the land left_better, instead of Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 



worse, for the children that come after ^-jon, Hon. Nelson P. Wheeler, an old- 



him, to join with the Government in ^-jj^g lumberman and a member of 



trying to take steps to make the lum- Cono-ress from Pennsylvania, present- 



ber industry a permanent industry, to ^^ ^ very interesting report, in which 



perpetuate, through use, the forests of j^g said that conservative lumbering 



this country. We, all of us, in this jg getting to be the rule, that all 



country, must turn our attention more parts of the tree are used, even the 



and more to the conservation of the scraps being raked together and sent 



natural resources of the land ; but ^o the pulp mills. He said that the 



there is no body of our citizens to lumbermen are doing more, probably, 



whom it is a matter of such immediate than any other agency to promote the 



moment as this body that I am now cause of forestry ; that they approve in 



addressing." general of the National Forest policy 



Mr. Roosevelt remarked on the of the Government; and that under 



presence of some little representatives such management the forests should 



