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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Timber Owners Organize to Fight Fire. 



One of the most important economic move- 

 ments of the day, about which the general pub- 

 lic has yet learned little, is the concerted ac- 

 tion of owners of tiiuber in ditViTent parts of 

 the country in ortrauizini; tm iii(.i..t their hold- 

 ings from tire. In the I'atilie Northwest the 

 Washington Forest Fire Association has Just 

 elected officers at Seattle and begun work for 

 the year with 3,000,000 acres under its care. 

 Th? plans include a system of patrol by rang- 

 ers, resembling the work done by the United 

 States Forest Service in guarding against and 

 extinguishing fires. 



Organizations of similar kind and for a like 

 purpose are at work in Oregon and Idaho. In 

 the latter state a portion of the expense is 

 borne by taxation and paid from the state treas- 

 ury. A western railroad company which holds 

 large tracts of timber has taken steps to guard 

 its property from fire, and during the short 



seventeenth annual, which will be held in Chi- 

 cago Septemlier 8 to 11, are busily engaged do- 

 ing all in their power to make the meeting a 

 decided success. 



The arrangements for the June 5 concatenation 

 are now well under way, and a large number of 

 applications from eligible "kittens" are being 

 considered, so that the success of the gathering 

 is' a foregone conclusion. All members of the 

 order who are in Chicago on that date will be 

 given a rousing welcome at the concatenation, 

 ;!nd it is hoped that as many as possible will 

 arrange their affairs so as to permit their at- 

 tendance. E. H. Dalbey, Heyworth building, is 

 chairman of the Concatenation Committee. 



Before the summer is over Mr. Lacey Is look- 

 ig forward to cruising the Great Lakes and the 



riv 



in the Falma. 



A Trim Little Craft. 

 James D. Lacey of James D. Lacey & Co., the 

 well-known timber brokers, who maintain winter 

 (juarters at Xew Orleans besides their general of- 

 fices in the First National Bank building, Chi- 

 cago, has been cruising southern waters during 

 the past winter and spring in his new craft, 

 the Falma. a photograph of which we reproduce 



Mr. I.acey. accompanied by his wife, left New 

 Orleans Ihe latter part of April for Chicago, by 

 way of the Mississippi river, and while the first 

 part of the trip was ideal, they encountered some 



Conference of Association Officials. 



On Thursday and Friday of last week a con- 

 ference of the Executive and Inspection RXiles 

 Committee and Special Committee on the East- 

 ern Situation of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association was held at its general offices in 

 Chicago. While the several sessions of the meet- 

 ing were executive. It Is understood that the 

 inspection rules have been somewhat rearranged 

 for presentation at the annual meeting at Mil- 

 waukee next month, with the expectation that 

 they will meet with the apijroval of the con- 

 vention and be adopted to succeed the present 

 rules. However, it Is fully understood that the 

 general system of inspection is in no wise to be 

 altered or amended, and that the changes re- ■ 

 ferred to are simply in minor details. 



The meeting was a very full one, as the en- 

 tire E-xecutlve Board were present, with all but 

 two members of the Inspection Rules Committee 

 and the Special Committee. 



Meeting of St. Louis Lumbermen's Club. 



.V most entertaining moathly meeting of 

 the Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis was held 



time that its plans have been in operation Ijt 

 has met with most encouraging success. 



Similar work is beiu'; done on the other side 

 of the continent. I'l,. t .,^\ll■■t- m Maine have 



gone to work in iK. ■ niatic way to 



control the foresu l i . .. i ■,,■.„;. fire. Like 

 organizations are louu.l in oih.-i parts of the 

 country, showing how fully it Is now realized 

 that protection against fire Is of the greatest 



It Is safe to say that fires In this country 

 liave destroyed more timber than lumbermen 

 have cut. When timber was abundant the waste 

 passed almost unnoticed, but now that a scar- 

 city Is at hand and an actual wood famine 

 threatens in the near future, the owners of 

 forest lands are waking up and taking action 

 to save what is left. 



Hoo-Hoo at Chicago. 



.\ big concatenation will be held at the 

 (Jreat Northern Hotel, Chicago, on the evening 

 of Friday, June .I, when from To to 150 candi- 

 dates will be Initiated. The main dining room of 

 the hotel has been secured for the concatenation, 

 and the exclusive use of the large grill room 

 for the luncheon which will follow. 



There seems to be more enthusiasm among the 

 HooHoo of Chicago than has ever been known 

 before, and all the committees appointed for the 



severe storms when Hearing Memphis and Cairo, 

 occasioned by the cyclones and hurricanes which 

 were raging throughout the middle West and 

 Mississippi valley at that time, and were fre- 

 quently compelled to tie up their sturdy craft at 

 river ports and seek shelter from the battling 

 winds and numerous logs and trees floating swift- 

 ly down the river, which made traveling by night 

 impossible. They reached St. Louis, however, on 

 May 3 and continued their .journey up the Illi- 

 nois river on May .'., 1" Ihl i.iin. d .n l\..i i,r by 



friends, who acconi|i.iiii-l ili^i . . . 



The Falma Is sixi^ i.-i i i - i.at- 



terned — on a smalb r -r;,i, in.i ii,. I nited 

 States torpedo boats, which have proved to the 

 world their seaworthiness during their recent 

 c.-ulse in the Pacific, and Mr. Lacey Is expecting 

 to derive a great deal of enjoyment throughout 

 the coming summer from his miniature man of- 



The Falma was built in Cincinnati, and though 

 launched only recently, has already traveled over 

 three thousand miles. She Is equipped with 90- 

 horsepower Emerson engines, and has a guaran- 

 teed speed of twenty-two miles an hour. She Is 

 Substantially and beautifully built, her entire 

 cabin being of mahogany, and her appointments 

 and equipment throughout being of the most Im- 

 proved modern types. 



Tuesday evening. May 12, at the Mercantile 

 Club. Walter J. Hill, president of the Me- 

 chanics-American National Bank of St. Louis, 

 gave a talk on financial matters In general, 

 and explained to the members of the club the 

 good and bad points of the several currency 

 bills before Congress. 



The club began the evening's program 

 with a beefsteak dinner at G:30, after which 

 Mr. Hill gave his talk. At the conclusion of 

 Mr. Hill's remarks, Lloyd G. Harris suggested 

 a rising vote of thanks and they were given 

 most willingly. 



The regular business part of the program 

 was then carried out. 



The chairman of the Entertainment Com- 

 mittee, C. M. Jennings, when he was called 

 on for his report, said that the committee 

 li.id in mind giving some kind of outdoor en- 

 tertainment at the next meeting and Inviting 

 the ladies. This met the approval of all the 

 members except Henry W. Ballman, who ob- 

 jected to the ladies being included. Everyone 

 present wanted to talk at once In reply to 

 Mr. Ballman, but Thos. C. Whitmarsh got 

 the floor and he championed the cause of the 

 ladles in his characteristic way and the re- 

 sult was that Mr. Ballman had to reconsider 

 his objection, so the ladies will probably at- 

 tend the next meeting in June. 



