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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 25, 1919 



The Mail Bag 



B 1222— Juniper or White Cedar 



New York. X. Y.. April 14.--Kilit"r llAunwiiun Uecoud : Will you please 

 give us the names of eoncerns who are in position to out juniper or white 

 cedar bout stock liz-lx") to 14" wlile, 14 to l^' long aud resaw it to 3/4"? 

 Or. the stock could lie cut full 3/4 aud it the parties have facilities tor dress- 

 ing it could then he dressed two sides to 5/S". The lumher is wanted 

 green and it could l)e loaded on cars soon as cut. It the mill has no tacll- 

 itles for dressing, we will have this done in New York. 



Cluhs and Associations 



Ex-President Taft to Address Lumbermen 



Arrangements have been (^included which secure Ex-President Taft as 

 one of the speakers who will address the twenty-second annual meeting of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association in Chicago, June 19 and 20. 

 Mr. Taft will speak on the afternoon of the 20th, and it is hoped that 

 other speakers of national reputation will address the meeting. 



Pennsylvania Lumbermen Meet 



The fourth annual meeting of the Eastern Lumber Salesmen's .Associa- 

 tion was held in Philadelphia, April 4. The association began the year 

 with seventy members and quit with seventy-seven. The annual dues were 

 raised from three dollars to five, as it was realized that the expense fund 

 was too small. The election of officers resulted as follows : President, 

 H. C. Magruder ; vice-president. George M. Ilohan ; director for three years, 

 B. O. Strong; director for two years. W. R. Johnston: directors for one 

 year. f}. B. Woodhull. John M. Coin and J. Edwards Smith, Jr. A meeting 

 of the new board was held immediately and E. C. Strong was elected secre- 

 tary and Walter R. Johnston, treasurer. 



Government Will Not Maintain Foreign Trade Intelligence 



Bureau 



The War Trade Board at Washington announces tliat report telling of 

 the proposal to build up a new bureau of the government for the purpose 

 of furnishing American exporters with credit ratings on foreign firms 

 purchasing American goods is erroneous. It is stated that this proposal 

 incorporated the use of certain records which have been secured Ijy the 

 liureau of War Trade Intelligence. The chairman of the War Tracb' 

 Boai'd announces that tlie l)oard has no knowledge of the establishment 

 of a bureau of this character and has never considered a proposal to 

 make the records of the Bureau of War Trade Intelligence available f<ir 

 such purposes. 



May Knock Out Hardwood Rate Increase 



A thirty-day extension has been secureii by the Southern Ilardwooil 

 TraflBc Association in the matter of proposed increased rates on lumber 

 from -Arkansas points to Chicago and other centers. The matter will W 

 vigorously pressed, with a good chance of the increase being knocked out. 

 The points and increases involved are: Helena, two cents; Arkansas CWy. 

 I>ermott. Blissville. McGehee anii other points, one cent. 



The association has advices from the New Orleans Western District 

 Freight Traffic Committee that the latter will consider establishing a 

 uniform scale on forest products to be manufactured in transit, moving 

 between various points in Louisiana. 



Baltimore Protests Ocean Demurrage 

 At the monthly meeting of the lumber managing committee of the Balti- 

 more Lumber Exchange, held on April 7 at the Olil Colony Club, President 

 P. M. Womble and others expressed much encouragement over the outlook 

 for the trade. Those who gave informal talks advanced the belief that 

 the business is on the eve of a period of exceptional prosperity, and tliat 

 preparations to take care of the demanil which is likely to be offered are 

 in order. The c-(unmittee also discussed the action of the Merchants' and 

 Miners' Transportation Company, which runs steamers between Baltimore. 

 Boston, Savannah and Jacksonville, in charging demurrage on lumber pui 

 on the company's wharf at Pratt street, and expressed strong criticism of 

 the charge imposed, which, it was contended, could not be considered in 

 the same class with the demurrage on railroad car-s that are not unloaded 

 within a given time. There was no delay to the company's vessels, it was 

 pointed out. and moreover, the demurrage charge on cars was ba.sed upon 

 war-time conditions, and could not equitably be applied now, when dela.v 

 mattereil very much less, Xo formal action was taken, but there is every 

 prospect that further representations will be made to the company. Presi- 

 dent Womble and others who attended the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lundier Dealers' Association in Philadelphia, in comment- 

 ing on the sessions, declared that the deliberations were the most im- 

 portant carried on for a long time and could not fail to be of far-reaching 

 influence upon the trade. The action taken at the meeting was also 

 • commended. 



With the Trade 



Clarence Boyle, Jr. Goes to Florida 



Clarence Boyle, Jr.. of Clarence Boyle. Inc., Chicago, hardwood manu- 

 facturers and wholesalers, will have charge of the recently developed 

 Florida interests of the company. He also will act as secretary of the 

 Pablo Cypress Lumber Company, whose new band saw mill at Pablo 

 Creek, near Jacksonville, has just begun operations. 



Mr, Boyle will leave Chicago May 1 to take up his residence in Jack- 

 sonville. He has tendered resignations as member of the arbitration 

 board of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago ; the executive commit- 

 tee of Division "C." hardwood wholesalers, and treasurer of The Illinl 

 Club of Chicago, the local Alumni Association of the University of Illinois. 



Clarence. Jr., is the fourth geueration of a family of hardwood lum- 

 bermen well known throughout the South and Middle We.st. His great- 

 grandfather, William Boyle, began operations in Indiana in IS.'iO. His 

 grandfather, L. V. Boyle, continued the business in the hoosier state and 

 in Chicago, besides operating mills at Obion, Tenn.. and Boyle, Mi.ss. He 

 died In California last year. He was eighty-seven years old. 



For the past thirty-seven years Clarence Boyle, Sr., of the third genera- 

 tion has been interested in the hardwood industry in Chicago, In 1913 

 the firm of Clarence Boyle, Inc., began operations, and within two years 

 the business had so expanded that Clarence. Jr., at that time sales man- 

 ager for a steel company in Pennsylvania, was called to Chicago to take 

 charge of that office and otherwise assist "Dad." 



Clarence, Jr., has made many friends among lumbermen. Chicago, he 

 says, always will be his home, but he realizes his experience at the mill 

 will enable him to thoroughly understand the particular problems of the 

 manufacturer, aud thereby better meet the requirements of his trade in 

 later years. 



Clarence. Sr., has l>een spending niucli of his time in the South lining up 

 his mill connections. He will now devote practicall.v all his energy to the 

 selling end of the business. The Chicago office will be his headquarters. 



In addition to regular wholesalers of hardwoods and cypress Clarence 



CLARENCE BOYLE, JR.. AND CLARENCE BOYLE, SR. 



