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the result that the consolidation can not become 

 effective until the latter part of November. 



C. D. Hendrickson, chairman of the river and 

 rail committee, reported that during the interval 

 between the last spring meeting and the first 

 meeting for the fall season, he and lais associates 

 liad completed the launching of the Lumbermen's 

 Traflic Bureau and had also successfully opposed 

 the proposed advance in freight rates to Cana- 

 dian points, having secured an order from the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission suspending the 

 advance until later. 



J. W. jMcCIure. chairman of the special com- 

 mittee appointed to look after estimated weights 

 on hardwood lumber shipments, said that the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission had notified 

 liim that there would be a hearing in Memphis 

 December 13-14, in connection with this subject. 

 "The committee was continued in power and was 

 instructed to prepare the necessar.v evidence to 

 'be submitted to the commission. 



James E. Stark spoke vigorously In Ijehalf of 

 the Lumbermen's Traffic Bureau, declaring that 

 it would prove a big factor in the handling of 

 the transportation problems of the lumbermen 

 ■of Memphis and vicinity if they gave the proper 

 support to those in charge thereof. He thought 

 that it ought to be used on every possible occa- 

 sion and that, if the lumbermen assumed this 

 attitude, the results would be highly gratifying 

 as well as extremely beneficial. 



Mr. Stark also addressed the c:ub In connec- 

 tion with the alleged high rates charged by the 

 insurance companies. He declared that the rates 

 were out of all proportion to the risks involved. 

 In fact he said that some of the companies 

 realized that they were charging entirely too 

 much and they were adopting flat rates and sub- 

 stituting these for the regular schedules. He 

 thought the law and insurance committee of the 

 club ought to take this matter up with similar 

 committees of other organizations throughout the 

 ■countr.y to the end that insurance rates might 

 be placed on a level more Just and equitable to 

 the insured. 



J. H. Townsend. general manager of the newly 

 formed Lumbermen's Traffic Bureau, made a 

 brief talk in which he said that it was his 

 desire to do everything he could for the lumber- 

 men from a traffic standpoint. He made an 

 -appeal to the individual lumbermen and lumber 

 firms to call upon the bureau whenever it could 

 be of service to them. 



The club also adopted resolutions opposing 

 the granting of a charter to the terminal com- 

 pany of the Rock Island System unless proper 

 safeguards were contained therein on behalf of 

 the city of Memphis. Special reference was 

 made to the right of the city to collect taxes 

 from the western roads. Emphasis was also 

 laid upon the fact that, if such a charter is 

 granted, the terminal company ought to guar- 

 antee that all roads seeking entrance into Mem- 

 l)his may have the use of these terminals. This 

 action was taken because of the belief in some 

 •quarters that the Rock Island System and some 

 of the other roads were seeking by means of 

 this proposed terminal company to sever direct 

 relations with the city of Memphis, transacting 

 all business through the terminal company in- 

 stead of through their own organizations. The 

 club instructed the secretary to send a copy 

 •of these resolutions to the officials of the roads 

 interested. In addition to this, the resolutions 

 provide that the law and insurance committee 

 of the club shall appear before the commis- 

 sioners of the city of Memphis when the charter 

 hearing comes up. 



Two new members were elected: A. J, Tip- 

 ler of Forrest Cit.v, Ark., manager of the For- 

 rest City Manufacturing Company and the Wis- 

 arkana I^umber Company, and T. E. Jones of 

 the F. T. rtoob'v Lnmljer Compunj'. 



Meeting St. Louis Lumbermen's Club 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis held its 

 last meeting at the Planters hotel, on Oct. 15. 



After the usual dinner. President Rolfes called 

 the meeting to order and the minutes of the 

 previous meeting were read and approved. 



Julius Seidel, president of the Julius Seidel 

 Lumber Company, gave a report of the National 

 Conservation Congress meeting held at Indian- 

 apolis recently, to which he was appointed a 

 delegate. 



The following names were read by the secre- 

 tary as having been passed on by the board of 

 directors for membership. They were submitted 

 by the membership committee and were unani- 

 mously elected to membership : J. F. Schneiders. 

 Frost-Johnson Lumber Company ; C. C. Mullen, 

 Long-Bell Lumber Company : W. F. Biederman. 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Cor- 

 poration : A. V. Lashly. National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers" Credit Corporation ; H. R. Asman, 

 Colonial Lumber and Timber Company ; A, C. 

 Baird, Baird & Brown ; Max J. Mosher, Mosher 

 & Shields : W. B. Switzer, W. B. Switzer Lum- 

 ber Company ; B. O. Lettwich, Leftwich Lumber 

 Company ; J. K. Wesson, J. J. Newman Lumber 

 Company ; W. M. Stephenson, Scrivenoter, Con- 

 catenated Order of Hoo-Hoo ; Charles C. Curry. 

 Secretary Kessler read the report of the 

 special committee which had been named to re- 

 vise the by-laws of the club. A minority as 

 well as a majority report was submitted. Action 

 on the report will be taken at the next meeting. 

 Resolutions on the death of Christian F. 

 Liebke were then adopted by a rising vote. 



E. C. Robinson offered a resolution, which 

 was passed unanimously, extending the thanks 

 of the club to the delegates to the National Con- 

 servation Congress, Julius Seidel and John B. 

 Kessler. He also called the attention of the 

 members of the club to the convention of the 

 Federation of Retail Merchants, which will be 

 held in St. Louis, November 19-21. . 



James E. Gatewood spoke of the error of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission in its decision 

 in the eighteen-cent freight rate. He also spoke 

 of other rates advanced by the railroads in spite 

 of the orders of the commission and stated that 

 other advances were contemplated by the rail- 

 roads. Mention was also made of what the 

 shippers in the Southwest had to go against. 



W. E. Barnes then told of the lumber trade 

 conditions as they were at the present time. 

 This brought the meeting to a close. 



Action Against Railroads 



The first attempt of the National Lumber Ex- 

 porters' Association to proceed against the rail- 

 roads with terminals at New Orleans and against 

 a number of others as well on account of their 

 refusal to issue through bills of lading has re- 

 sulted in failure, the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission, which was asked to suspend the new 

 tariffs filed with the commission because they 

 eliminate the provision for through bills on 

 lumber and logs, having refused to issue such 

 an order. The National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association will now go ahead and file formal 

 complaint against the new tariffs as an unwar- 

 ranted discrimination against lumber and logs, 

 and the question will be fought to an issue on 

 its merits. The association had sought by the 

 first petition to prevent the new tariffs from 

 going into effect on Oct. 15. It was unable to 

 do this, but the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion announced that its refusal to order a sus- 

 pension was without prejudice to the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, and that a peti- 

 tion asking for the cancelation of the tariffs at ■ 

 least in so far as the.v allow for through bills 

 of lading on other freight and deny them on 

 lumber and logs could be submitted. There is 

 every prospect, however, that the action con- 

 templated will be taken this week. In the first 

 petition only the railroads west of the Missis- 

 sippi river with terminals at New Orleans were 

 included. The new complaint, however, will 

 be general, applying to all of the railroads that 

 carry export lumber, it being the purpose of 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association to 



fight the discrimination against lumber and 

 logs as unjust and as highly injurious in its 

 effects upon an important division of commerce. 

 There is also pending a petition against the 

 Southern Railway, asking the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission to issue an order requiring 

 the railroad to comply with the provisions of 

 its tariff which has been in effect for a number 

 of years and to declare that the recent notifica- 

 tion to shippers of lumber and logs that after 

 a certain date no through bills of lading would 

 be Issued except under regulations practically 

 prohibitive, is not in effect a tariff filed with 

 the commission and does not supersede the old 

 schedule. It will be observed that the two 

 petitions filed differ, one charging discrimina- 

 tion, while the other asks that the railroad 

 complained of comply with its tariff require- 

 ments. The association realizes that- the com- 

 mission has no authority to order railroads to 

 issue through bills of lading, but it takes the 

 ground that as the railroads have undertaken 

 to do so with respect to other classes of freight, 

 they can be compelled to grant the lumber ex- 

 porters the same privilege. Efforts have been 

 in progress a long time by President Harvey 

 M, Dickson and Secretary J. McD. Price of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association to get 

 the railroads to give the shippers of lumljer 

 and logs fair treatment, but the railroads have 

 persistently refused to meet a demand which 

 the exporters feel is in every way equitable. 



Philadelphia Lumbermen in Golf Tourna- 

 ment ■ 



The Philadelphia Lumbermen's Golf Club held 

 its regular meeting and tournament at the 

 Huntingdon Valley Golf Club grounds, Oct. 16. 

 The weather was ideal and the game was en- 

 tered into with a heai-ty athletic zeal. As the 

 tantalizing bunkers, sand holes and ditches were 

 profuse on the eighteen hole course, the sharp- 

 est attention was required on the part of the 

 player if a fair score would be made. Thirty- 

 six golfers divided into eight foresomes and two 

 twosomes started on a handicap game at one 

 p. m. The contest continued with good natured 

 rivalry until about half past five o'clock, when 

 the last bunch handed in their score card. 



The game resulted in the following net scores : 



Horace A. Reeves, Jr., 110 ; Frank Buck, 

 109 ; Eugene W. Frey, 99 : W. Henry Smedley, 

 123 ; J. Deland Williams, 102 ; Eli B. Hallowell, 

 84 : J. Craig Huff, 94 ; James Crowell, 109 ; 

 John H. Schofleld, 98 ; T. U. Nixon, 96 ; William 

 P. Shearer, 109 ; Robert W. Schofleld, 95 ; S. P. 

 Bowers, 93 ; Thomas E. Coale, 94 ; William 

 .\llen, 102 ; Joseph P. Comegys, 115 : F. A. 

 Benson, 108 : Edward Swenk, 90 : John E. 

 Howes, 88 ; George M. Spiegle, 86 ; Ben C. 

 Currie, 96 ; W. H. Fritz, 93 ; W. L. Rice, score 

 not given : J. W. Turnbull, 80 : J. B. McFar- 

 land, 90 : M. C. Burton, 97 ; H. W. Smedley, 91 : 

 Joseph W. Janney, 91 ; E. B. Humphre.vs, 91 : 

 H. R. Humphreys, 100 ; Harry Humphreys, 96 ; 

 Frank E, Schofleld, 93 ; William Meyer, 108 : 

 Frank R. Whiting, score not given ; George W. 

 Stoker, 117 : Benjamin Stoker, 137. 



The prizes awarded were : J. W. Turnbull, 

 first prize, a cigar stand : Eli B. Hallowell, 

 second prize, a golf ball marker. For best ball 

 forward, W. H. Smedley and J. B. McFarland 

 were awarded golf gloves. 



.\fter a sumptuous dinner, the meeting was 

 called to order by President Frank Buck. The 

 minutes of the previous meeting were read, after 

 which the completed list of by-laws were unani- 

 mously adopted. A resolution was passed to 

 hold the next and final tournament in Novem- 

 ber, at the Merlon Golf Club grounds. 



A Lively Entertaiiunent at the Chicago 

 Lumbermen's Club 



Saturday evening, Oct. 12, was the date of a 



highly satisfactory effort on the part of the en- 

 tertainment committee of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Chicago to demonstrate to the members what 



