HARDWOOD RECORD 



the lumber trade journals, which have kindly 

 supplied the exchange files with copies lor the 

 year ; also thanks were extended to J. E. Chal- 

 lenger of the Philadelphia Car Service Associa- 

 tion for the valuable information furnished the 

 oxchange. Frederick S. rnderhill and William 

 O. MacBride, by authority, extended the thanks 

 of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 also of the Philadelphia Retail Lumbermen's 

 Association, to the exchange for use of rooms 

 during the past year. In resolution the exchange 

 expressed its gratification at the timely call is- 

 sued by President Roosevelt for a conference to 

 be held in Washington, D. C. in May, of the 

 governors of the several states, and representa- 

 tives appointed by them, to study the problems 

 relating to the conservation of our natural re- 

 sources of minerals, timber, water supply, etc. 

 The tellers in charge of the vote for directors 

 of the exchange not having completed compiling 

 the vote, the intermediate time was filled in 

 with calls upon officers-elect for extemporaneous 

 speeches, which were well received, after which 

 the meeting was adjourned. The new directors 

 are Herbert E. Weitzel, Owen M. Bruner and 

 Daniel Adams. The faithful trio, Henry C. 



ried 



F. S. UNDERBILL, THE NEW PRESIDENT 

 OF THE EXCHANGE. 



Riley, Samuel B. Vroomau and Franklin Smed- 

 ley, who composed the auditing committee last 

 year, were again elected to continue under the 

 present administration. 



At 7 o'clock in the evening the twenty-first 

 annual banquet of the exchange was held in the 

 banquet hall of the Union League Building. The 

 tables, at which nearly one hundred and fifty 

 members and gue.'^ts were seated, were decorated 

 with spring blossoms and artistically strewn 

 here and there with pieces of bark and small 

 branches of trees ; the latter were enthusias- 

 tically waved during the dinner to accentuate 

 the various witty remarks of the speakers. 



The booklet beside each plate, containing the 

 names of the members of the exchange and the 

 menu, of a character to tempt the most epicu- 

 rean palate, was an attractive piece of art. The 

 covers were made of the fiber of a remarkable 

 tree which grows on certain Pacific islands, 

 which is skillfully manipulated by the natives, 

 making a delicate and pliable wood-like mate- 

 rial. These were fancifully colored with native 

 vegetable dyes and ornamented with an emerald 

 green lizard and gilt lettering. On the first 

 inner page was a strong quotation from Car- 

 lyle: ■'Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, 

 but for one who can stand prosperity, there 

 are a hundred that will sl.ind adversity." These 

 books were presented by the lumbermen's insur- 

 ance companies. 



The entertainments of the evening 

 and of a most enjoyable character. William L. 

 Rice, conspicuous as retiring president, and 

 toastmaster of the evening, called on Frederick 

 S. Underbill, the newly elected president, for a 

 speech. After the most vociferous applause and 

 a violent outburst into the popular inspiring 

 song, "He's a jolly good fellow," Mr. Underbill 

 took courage and began his address to his brother 

 lumbermen. From start to finish so fitting were 

 his words, so ingeniously wrought into his 

 speech were graceful references to the noble 

 vocation of lumbermen, that the appreciation of 

 his hearers could not be restrained, and a search 

 for offerings ended in the abstracting of flowers 

 from vases on the tables, potted plants from 

 the floor, bundles of wood and small decorative 

 trees, to lay humbly at his feet. 



G. A. Howes of the Entertainment Committee 

 exercised his famous quartette, and the inimit- 

 able Edwin -H. Coane, who had lately left a sick- 

 bed, sang his "Jersey Sam," a side-splitting re- 

 production of an old man, who compared the 

 present to the good old times of fifty years ago. 



James Edward Cattel, secretary of the Atlan- 

 tic Deep Waterways Association, was another 

 most acceptable speaker. H. Stanley Bristol of 

 the United States forestry service, Washington, 

 D. C, elucidated the object of this service and 

 urged the necessity of the cooperation of lum- 

 bermen and other business men for its further 

 extension. Herbert P. Robinson, the newly elect- 

 ed vice-president, and other men of note, deliv- 

 ered eloquently their word of commendation for 

 the organization whose birthday they were as- 

 sembled to celebrate. Francis Spencer Edmonds, 

 a young man of growing distinction, expressed in 

 his all too short address his views on the sub- 

 ject of panics, during which he brought for- 

 ward some interesting statistics. It was regret- 

 ted that Senator Philander C. Knox, presidential 

 candidate, and Edwin S. Stewart, governor of 

 I'ennsylvania, could not be present, but letters 

 from them pleaded prearranged and unavoidable 

 duties. 



As tb^ midnicrht Imnr drew near, with a so- 

 ;;,. vi:^- .! '.. li,' "Auld Lang Syne" 

 ; h _ 111 'I 1 ' '- ■ II! I 1 .1: \\ont down on a ban- 

 ,,i, I \\h!.h \>;i~ :iiiiri:i ii. ■ 'll.v one Of the most 

 successful ever recorded in the history of the 

 exchange. To the committee on entertainment, 

 composed of Herbert P. Robinson. William H. 

 Smedley, George A. Howes, Fisher Dalrymple 

 and William T. Betts, be all praise. 



St. Louis Lumbermen's Club Meeting. 



The entertainment committee of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of St. Louis provided a Dutch lunch- 

 eon for the monthly meeting that was held at 

 the Mercantile Club, Tuesday evening, April 14. 

 W. A. Bonsack, first vice president of the club, 

 presided in the absence of President J. A. Free- 

 man. 



After the meeting was called to order, Mr. 

 Bonsack introduced Dr. Herman von Schreuck, 

 the well-known authority on forestry, who spoke 

 on the subject, "The Conservation of Forests." 

 The doctor spoke extemporaneously and very 

 rapidly and fluently, and was listened to with 

 close attention. A resolution of thanks was 

 given him for his interesting talk. 



At the conclusion of Dr. von Schrenck's ad- 

 dress the minutes of the March meeting were 

 read and approved. 



The secretary, Mr. Kessler, read the statement 

 of W. W. Dings, treasurer of the club, which 

 showed that the receipts of the club since the 

 organization had been $1,125 and the disburse- 

 ments $619.10, leaving $505.90 in the treasury 

 at present. 



The membership committee reported the fol- 

 lowing applications and they were unanimously 

 elected to membership : Frank G. Hanley, Henry 

 Boeckler, G. H. Barnes and I. N. McCrcery. 



The committee on public affairs reported as 

 follows: "Your committee on public affairs, to 

 whom was referred a paper Introduced by Mr. 



Seidel, representing a bill known as H. R. 10457, 

 introduced in the House of Representatives on 

 December 19, 1907, by Hon. Frank D. Currier 

 of New Hampshire, and then referred by that 

 honorable body to the committee on agriculture, 

 beg to report that they have considered same 

 and recommend that the Lumbermen's Club of 

 St. Louis indorse same and, in case of accept- 

 ance, the secretary notify Mr. Currier of the 

 House of Representatives as well as the House 

 committee on agriculture." 



This bill referred to the establishment of a 

 forest reserve in the Appalachian mountains and 

 White mountains. The report was adopted and 

 it was resolved that every lumberman in St. 

 Louis send an individual letter to the Missouri 

 congressmen to indorse the bill, and that the 

 secretary prepare a general form letter to send 

 to the members of the club so that they could 

 send in uniform letters. 



Lloyd G. Harris then read a motion which 

 W. W. Dings had prepared. It was as follows : 



"The National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 will meet in annual convention June 11 to 14 

 at Milwaukee. At that time there should be 

 presented to the association an invitation from 

 the lumbermen of this city to hold the next 

 annual meeting in St. Louis. The Lumbermen's 

 Exchange at the last regular meeting appointed 

 a committee to present to this club the matter 

 of formally inviting the national association to 

 this city in 1909. It is suggested that a com- 

 mittee of three be appointed by the chair to at- 

 ■ tend the Milwaukee meeting and invite the na- 

 tional association, as above set forth ; also, that 

 this committee shall endeavor to secure an in- 

 vitation from the Business Men's League and 

 the mayor of our city. The national association 

 Is one of the strongest organizations in the 

 United States, and it should be deemed an honor 

 to entertain its members. We should go before 

 them with statistics relating to St. Louis and 

 give our reasons for believing that St. Louis is 

 the best convention city in the United States. 

 I therefore move you that a committee be ap- 

 pointed at once, as the time for action is 

 limited." 



The motion was carried. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company 

 has resumed operations at its Richwood, W. Va., 

 mill, and General Manager Armstrong says that 

 all mills in that district have resumed. This 

 means that there are now about fifteen hundred 

 men employed out of more than three thousand 

 that have been idle for several months but who 

 win all be busy again soon. 



A syndicate of Oregon lumbermen, headed by 

 Dr. W. J. Pettlt of Portland, has just returned 

 from Panama, where they made an extensive In- 

 vestigation of hardwood timber prospects along 

 the canal and secured a large tract. They also 

 cruised Colombia forests and find many varieties 

 of hardwood In that country. They will not 

 commence logging operations for some time to 

 come. 



The Nile Lumber Company is a new concern 

 at Friendship, O., capitalized at $11,000. 



Fire In the lumber yards and dry kilns of the 

 Camden Lumber Company at Camden, Ark., re- 

 cently caused damage of about $25,000. 



W. R'. Futch of Opalousa, La., and Charles Mc- 

 Donald of New Orleans have organized the Beau- 

 mont Hardwood Lumber Company at Beaumont, 

 Tex. The company is capitalized at $75,000. 



J. II. Sloan has secured a contract to furnish 

 railroad ties for the Santa Fe and Is cutting 

 them from his timberland in Apache Canon, 

 in New Mexico. They are then put through a 

 preserving process at Albuquerque. 



Samuel Bridges of Dickinson county, Michigan, 

 has contracted to furnish the Chicago & North- 

 western with 75,000 railroad ties in the next two 

 years. 



