The Hardwood Record 



VOL. XVI. 



CHICAGO, JUNE 25. 1903. 



No. 5 



The Hardwood Record. 



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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING. 



At the last annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, held 

 at Indianapolis May 21 and 22, the Board 

 of Managers was instructed to select an 

 executive committee of five from Its mem- 

 bers, such committee to have the full pow- 

 ers of the Board of Managers and to be re- 

 sponsible to that body. 



The secretary took a ballot by mail, 

 which ballot was examined and verified by 

 the president, and the secretary was in- 

 structed to announce the selection of the 

 following named gentlemen: B. F. Swain, 

 Shelbyville, Ind.; William H. White, Boyne 

 City, Mich.; O. O. Agler, Chicago, 111.; B". H. 

 Smith, St. Louis, Mo., and J. W. Thomp- 

 son, Memphis, Tenn. 



The president further instructed the 

 secretary to call a meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee at the earliest conveni- 

 ent date, and accordingly a meeting was 

 called on Monday, June 22, at the secre- 

 tary's office, at which B. F. Swain, O. O. 

 Agler and William H. White were present. 



This meeting was merely a preliminary 

 one to get the new officers started right, 

 to take care of a few pressing matters and 

 provide for future meetings. 



The affairs of the Traffic Bureau were 

 gone over thoroughly, and while it was con- 

 ceded that the whole affair, in its rela- 

 tionship to the National Association, was 

 a pretty bad mess, the executive com- 

 mittee could see nothing for it under its 

 instruction from the annual meeting ex- 

 cept to pay off the indebtedness of the as- 

 sociation bequeathed it by the Trafllc De- 

 partment, and a start was made in this 

 direction by authorizing the secretary and 

 treasurer to issue vouchers in favor of 

 W. D. Hurlbut and the National Traffic 

 Association to the amount of $600. 



The following committee appointments 

 were made by the president and confirmed 

 by the committee: 



Rules committee, for throe years, D. F. 

 Clark, Minneapolis, Minn.; Robert M. Car- 

 rier, Sardis, Miss., and J. W. Graham, Cin- 

 cinnati, O. 



Inspection bureau committee, for three 

 years, H. W. Carey, East Lake, Mich.; E. 

 A. Swain, Cincinnati, O., and M. M. Wall, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. 



Transportation committee, for one year, 

 W. A. Bennett, Cincinnati; A. R. 

 \innedge, Chicago; C. R. Mougel, Louis- 

 ville, Ky. ; J. W. Thompson, Memphis, 

 Tonn., and F. M. Possell, Cincinnati, O. 

 Mr. E. A. Swain was present and re- 



quested the committee to take some ac- 

 tion which would provide the association 

 with an inspection on Tupelo. Accord- 

 ingly the executive committee, after much 

 discussion, decided to refer the matter to 

 the rules committee, and should that com- 

 mittee recommend the adoption of a rule 

 the secretary was instructed to make such 

 provision for getting the matter before the 

 members as he deemed expedient. 



It was arranged that the executive com- 

 mittee should hold quarterly meetings, 

 which were to be well advertised and to 

 which all members of the Board of Man- 

 agers and of the association should be 

 invited and requested to submit sugges- 

 tions for the association work. The date 

 of the first meeting will be October 14, 

 and the meeting place Cincinnati. The 

 one following will come in January and 

 the next in April, about a month before 

 the annual meeting. The location for the 

 second and third meetings was not se- 

 lected, the idea being to hold them at dif- 

 ferent points so as to come in touch with 

 the lumbermen of the different sections. 



The secretary presented a report in 

 which he stated that dm-iug the firet 30 

 days of his administration 11 new mem- 

 bers had been added to the membership 

 roll and no resignations. 



He also reported that ho had sent the 

 following letter to Mr. Lewis Doster, sec- 

 rotary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States: 



"Chicago, 111.. June 0.— Mr. Lewis Dos- 

 ter, Secretary Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, Columbus, (Jhio: Dear Sir — At 

 the sixth annual meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, held in In- 

 dianapolis, May 21 and '22, the following 

 committee report was unanimously 

 adopted: 



•• 'We, the committee on revision of In- 

 spection rules, to wliom the matter was 

 referred, whether or not it was advisable 

 for the committee on revision of inspection 

 rules to meet with a committee appointed 

 bv the Manufacturers' Association, beg 

 to report that we are in favor of said plan 

 and would be .glad to confer with any com- 

 mittee that the Manufacturers' Association 

 may apppoint. Information of that na- 

 ture, however, nnist be presented to our 

 association in writing by the JIanufactuers' 

 Association.' 



"We sincerely trust that this action on 

 the part of the National Association will 

 meet with the approval of your association,, 

 and that a committee from your associa- 

 tion may be appointed to confer with th"e 

 revision committee of the National Asso- 

 .iation to the end that the two associations 

 may come to an agreement on the matter 

 (if Inspection rules. 



