The Hardwood Record 



VOL. XVI. 



SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1903. 



No. 2 



The Hardwood Record. 



PUBLISHED BY 



C. V. KIMBALL, 



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Contributions on subjects of interest 

 to lumbermen are invited from any 

 person. Subscribers and others arc re- 

 quested to notify us of changes in per- 

 sonnel or organizations of hardwood 

 lumber firms. We desire especially to 

 receive particulars of installation of 

 new plants, transfers of property and 

 timber holdings and experiments in 

 new methods of manufacturing or the 

 utilization of by-products. New publi- 

 cations of interest to the trade, including 

 catalogues, stock lists and circulars will 

 receive attention if sent to this office. 

 Our columns are also available for 

 criticism and comment on any article 

 published or for news of any sort con- 

 cerning the hardwood trade. 



Our readers will confer a favor when 

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 that they saw the advertisement in the 

 Hardwood Record. This is little 

 trouble and costs nothing, but it helps 

 us and is information wanted by the 

 advertiser. 



MEETING OF THE NATIONAL 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



ASSOCIATION. 



We are in rer<'iiit of the following invi- 

 tation: 



You are respecttnlly invited to attend 

 tlie sixth annual meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Liunber Association, to be held 

 at the Claypool Hotel. Indianaiiolis. Ind.. 

 ilay 21 and 22, 1"JU3. 



The convention will be called to order at 

 10 a. m. on Thursday. May 21. and as it 

 lii'oniises to be one of the most important 

 meetings the association has held, yoti are 

 earnestly requested to be present. 



F. H. SMITH, President 



A. K. AIXXEDGE. Secretary. 



Inclosed with the invitation was the fol- 

 lowing circular from the Imliaiia Associa- 

 tion: 



A IIOUSIEK WELCOME. 



To the Hardwood Trade: 



The Indiana Hardwood I^(unbermen"s 

 Association extends a warm invitaiton to 

 al! members of the hardwood trade to par- 

 take of its hospitality during the annual 

 meeting of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association, to l>e held in Indianapolis, 

 May 21 and 22, IW.i. 



The headquarters for the convention will 

 be in the new Claypool Hotel, than which 

 there is no finer or better equipped hotel 

 in the West. Indianapolis is a great con- 

 vention city, and the ■■Claypool" is espe- 

 cially adapted to take good care of such 

 meetings. It has a large and hand.some 

 auditorium, with cf)mmittee rooms, etc, all 

 within the hotel. It has 4(io guest rooms, 

 i-anging in price from $1..jO per day up- 

 ward, on the European plan. 



On the evening of May 22 a lianquet will 

 be given the visiting Inndiermen at the 

 "Claypool," where an opportnnity will be 

 l)iesented to meet and listen to some of 

 Indiana's many famous men. 



It was in Indiana that the hardwood 

 business of the West h;ul its origin, and 

 the last census shows that she still main- 

 tains her ))osition as the largest producer 

 of hardwood lumber of any state in the 

 Liiion. A large percentage of the hard- 

 \\ood lumbermen in the producing sections 

 of the South and West, and the central 

 markets of the East and North, were 

 origin.'illy Indian.-i men. and learned their 

 business heri'. and it is our wish to make 

 tins meeting of the N;itlonal association 

 an occasion for a reunion of su<'h men and 

 lor cOiiiiiiemorating and celebrating the 

 greatness, past, present anil i)rospective, of 

 Ihe great business to which our state gave 

 birth. 



If yiui will iKJUor us with your presence 

 xvc will give .vou a genuine ■'Hoosier wel- 

 come" and do om- best to make your stay 

 jileasant and prolitabh^ to you. 



Indiana llai-ilwnod laimbermen's Asso- 

 ciation. 



W. ,W. KNKHIT. 

 Chairman Eiiterlainnu'ut Committee. 



In our estimation the coming meeting of 

 111" National association will be one of the 



most important in its history. It has 

 reached a point where, if its affairs be con- 

 ducted with wisdom, it will pass triumph- 

 antly to the completion of its work. 



It is our opinion that anything which 

 in.iures the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association injures the hardwood trade. 

 Looking back to the point from which it 

 started, even the most carping critics can- 

 not deny that it has achieved great results. 

 Only tliose closely associated with the- 

 \-\ork know how much patience it has 

 taken to bring the hardwood trade into as- 

 harmonious relations as those existing- 

 to-day. Old sores had to be healed, deep- 

 rooted prejudice removed, and gross self- 

 ishness appeased. But patiently, persist- 

 ently and unselfishly the work has beeit 

 pushed along, gathering strength and sub- 

 stance with each passing year. 



Such a work was bound to be a slow 

 work. At the beginning the hardwood 

 lumbermen had no confidence in one an- 

 other and confidence is a plant of slow 

 growth. The great difficulty -o'us to get 

 the hardwood lumbermen together at the 

 meetings. Once that was done, the rest 

 was not ditBeult. 



You may bring 2.5 men in any legitimate 

 line of business in this country together, 

 and the common impulse will be toward 

 that which is good; and the larger the as- 

 semblage the stronger the impulse will be. 

 A man may think dark and crooked 

 thoughts in his own mind, and plan dark 

 and crooked schemes in his own heart; but 

 he will not pull them out into the light of 

 day in the presence of those whose respect 

 he desires. Selfishness, prejudice and nar- 

 rowness may exist in the heart of an indi- 

 vidiuil, but if be conies before an enlight- 

 ened body of his fellowmen and shows 

 what is in his heart, shows the crooked, 

 twisted, malicious offspring of his lonely 

 l-roodings, he will receive oid.v contempt 

 and pity; and if he has any shame about 

 him. he will be ashamed. 



We have known men to come to the- 

 nieetings of the National association with; 

 dark and crooked schemes in their minds, 

 schemes tliat -svould give them unfair ad- 

 vantage if they could be put through, and 

 when the.v met in open session, with bright 

 and able men all about them, they were 

 ashamed to bring the matters up. Such 

 schemes thrive in dark, out of the way 

 corners, where two or three kindred si)irits 

 may get together and discuss them, but 

 they -wilt in the bright sunshine of pub- 

 licity. 



We have known others to come to the 



