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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 1919 



The Mail Bag 



B 1224 — Misstatement 



Louisville, Ky., May 6. — Eilitur IIauuwood Eecokd : We wish to call 

 your attention to the item appearing on page 47 in your issue of April 25 

 in which you express the (act that The LouLsville Novelty Company of 

 Louisville, Ky., is successor to Grunwald Wood Working Company, which 

 is entirely wrong. The Louisville Novelty Company is an absolutely new 

 conceru and has not taken over the Grunwald Wood Working Company, 

 or succeeded it, and we wish you would correct this statement in your 

 next issue. 



Lot'isviLi.E Novelty Company, 



Jacob Christ. 

 B 1225 — Quotations for Abroad 



New York, N. Y.. May 0. — Editor II.MtDWOOD Recokd ; We think your 

 readers would be interested in an inquiry received from the Societe 

 Francaise d' Action Economique, 1 rue des Italiens, Paris (represented 

 here by the International Trade and Industrial Bureau), asking for prices 

 c. 1. f. Le Havre on white oak, red gum, satin nut, white ash, whitewood, 

 okume, pitch pine, palisander wood, mahogany and ebony. Prices are 

 wanted in the rough (grumes), in beams (poutres) and in planks 

 (sciages). 



Prices are also desired on woodworking machinery of every kind, not 

 only to equip destroyed plants but tor new plants to produce "layered 

 woods." These were formerly imported from Austria and Germany and 

 the tarilf is now so high that wood manufacturing will be undertaken 

 extensively in France. 



I.XTERNATIONAL TRADE & INDUSTRIAL BUREAU, 



Daniel T. Pierce, Director, 120 Broadway. 



Clubs and Associations 



Twenty-second Annual 



At the coming twenty-second annual convention of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association to be held at the Congress hotel, Chicago, June 

 19 and 20, it is interesting to note that during the past year the member- 

 ship has passetl the thousand mark and in tact by the time the conven- 

 tion meets will have almost reached 1,100. 



The wonderfully arranged program for the convention is published on 

 the second editorial page of this issue. It presents a stronger appeal 

 than any other program in the history of the association. 



It does not appear that any important grading rule changes will be 

 submitted. The grading rules committee over the signature of J. W. 

 McCIure, chairman, makes the usual announcement that any proposed 

 changes must be submitted to the membership thirty days prior to the 

 meeting. The proposed changes are as follows : 



CHANGES 



GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS 



..tJ^^u*''",'^''''*'''" "Manufacture" on page 9, substitute for second sentence. 

 It should be edged and trimmed carefully to produce the best possible 

 appearance while conserving the usable product of the log." 



STANDARD INSPECTION 

 COTTONWOOD 



Add "Sound stain shall not be considered a defect in any grade." 



ME.XICAN AND AFRICAN MAHOGANY 

 CAPTION NO. 2 WORMY 



Change the lengths to read "2 feet and over long." 



WALNUT 

 CAPTION FIRSTS AND SECONDS 



Change lengths to read "not to exceed 45% of 8 and 9 feet lengths." 



WALNUT 

 SELECTS 



Change lengths to read "admitting not to exceed 10% of 6 and 7 ft. 

 lengttis and not to exceed 50% under 10 ft. long." 



ADDITIONS 



CAPTION MEXICAN, AFRICAN AND CUBAN MAHOGANY 

 NO. 3 COMMON 



No. S Common must be 3" and over wide, 2 feet and over long and 

 must contain at least 25% of sound cuttings. Minimum width of cut- 

 tings IV2 , and no cutting considered which contains less than H6 square 

 inches. 



CAPTION STEAMED WALNUT 



Insert under caption Walnut, Standard Inspection : 



When^ Walnut has been steamed and is sold and specified as "Steamed 

 Walnut It shall be graded according to the above rules, except sap shall 

 not be considered. 



Protest Discrimination Against Southern Ports 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association participated in the con- 

 ference with the United States Shipping Board at Washington, arranged 

 by the Mississippi Valley Waterways' Association for the purpose of 

 securing more boats from gulf ports for handling cotton, lumber, cotton 

 seed products and other commodities from the Mississippi valley to Eng- 

 land, France and other European markets. The conference was held 



May 23 and 24. Various protests have been made by letters and tele- 

 grams on the part of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, the 

 American Hardwood Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis, the Mississippi Valley Waterways' Association and other 

 business organizations in the lower Mississippi Valley against the alleged 

 discrimination of the U. S. Shipping Board against southern gulf ports 

 and against the resultant damage to lumber, cotton and other industries 

 which have large quantities of their products to offer the overseas trade. 



Mr. Townsend said that he had been unable to secure any definite state- 

 ment from the United States Shipping Board regarding an increase In 

 the number of boats sailing from southern gulf ports to European ports or 

 regarding the dates on which boats would clear from the former for the 

 latter. He is putting forth every possible effort to secure something tan- 

 gible and, unless he does so In the immediate future, the association will 

 participate in the Washington conference. 



There is just a suggestion that, if relief cannot be secured through an 

 appeal in person to the board, the whole subject may be laid before the 

 present session of Congress. The Memphis Freight Bureau has already 

 wired Senators John K. Shields and K. D. McKellar of Tennessee at 

 Washington to give the shippers from Tennessee and from Mississippi, 

 Arkansas and other southern states every possible assistance in getting 

 this vitally important subject settled to the satisfaction of southern indus- 

 trial interests. 



Exporters to Meet at Chicago 

 President Edward Barber of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, has called the semi-annual meeting of the board of managers of the 

 orgaDization for June 19 and 20 at Chicago, the sessions to be held at 

 the same time and place as the annual meeting of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association. The board is expected to discuss various matters 

 of the highest importance to the membership, and will also follow the 

 proceedings of the National Hardwood Lumber Association closely. 



Meeting of Wholesale Trustees 



The board of trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation will meet at headquarters, 66 Broadway, New York, N. Y., 

 Thursday, June 5. The meeting will be an important one and according 

 to indications the whole list of twenty-one trustees will be present. 



It is reported that special gains have been made in membership and 

 association activities since the last annual convention. 



President Horace F. Taylor has recently announced the membership 

 of various committees : The executive committee being composed of 

 Horace F. Taylor, president of the association ; J. W. McClure, Bellgrade 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. ; F. R. Babcock, Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburgh ; H. W. McDonough, Cypress Lumber Company, Boston ; 

 W. B. Power, River Quelle Pulp & Lumber Company, St. Paeome, Que. 



The hardwood inspection committee is composed of Hugh McLean, 

 Buffalo, chairman ; S. M. Nickey, Memphis ; C. W. Kramer, Richmond, 

 Ind. ; R. L. Palmer, Boston ; L. L. Shertzer, Demopolis, Ala. ; Daniel Mc- 

 Lea of Baltimore, Md. 



A special committee on single standard universal hardwood inspection 

 is composed of Lewis Dill, Baltimore, Md., chairman ; C. H. Barnaby, 

 Greencastle, Ind. ; E. V. Babcock, Pittsburgh ; R. H. Vansant, Ashland, 

 Ky., and T. M. Brown of Louisville, Ky. 



The board of managers and bureau of information consists of A. L. 

 Stone, Cleveland, O., chairman ; C. L. Millard, Norfolk, Va. ; H. A. 

 Batchelor, Nashville, Tenn. ; Duncan McLaren, Toronto, Out. ; R. B. 

 Rayner, Philadelphia, Pa., and H. M. Bickford of Boston, Mass. 



Salesmen Meet at Syracuse 



On April 23 members of Empire State Association of Wholesale Lumber 

 and Sash and Door Salesmen held a meeting at Hotel Onondaga, Syracuse, 

 New York. After the dinner and the accompanying speeches, business 

 matters came up for discussion. There was more or less speech-making, 

 in which Bill Phymister, Andy Brady, Jr., and Ralph Curtis Hartman 

 participated. These three speakers discussed the importance of close 

 cooperation with the retail trade, to the end that both retailer and whole- 

 saler may profit by a better mutual understanding. One of the principal 

 objects of This association is to so conduct itself that its members may 

 merit the business of the retailers of the state of New York. 



The slogan of the association is "Buy from the Man on the Job." 



A discussion also came up relative to cancellation of orders by some 

 wholesalers on a rising market and by some retailers on a declining mar- 

 ket, and it was the general opinion that a contract should be considered 

 binding by both parties, unless a good reason could be shown for cancella- 

 tion. The practice of some wholesalers and some retailers avoiding their 

 obligations under bona fide contracts was condemned, and a committee 

 was appointed to cooperate with both wholesale and retail associations on 

 this subject. W. J. Phymister was made chairman of this committee. 



Arrangements for the summer outing are in the hands of a committee 

 composed of Charles Allen, Harry R. Harmon, and Charles Johnson. 



With all the gayety, there was a note of sadness. With one accord the 

 thoughts of the boys there assembled turned to the memory of Maurice 

 Wall, who bravely died at Chateau Thierry. After considerable discus- 

 sion, it was decided that the association adopt a French orphan girl as 

 a memorial to him. Eugene Carson of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany was appointed chairman of a committee to look after this matter. 

 The adopted child of the association will keep green the last resting place 

 of the departed member. 



