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HARDWOOD RECORD 



were it not for prohibitive freight rates on 

 roads which do not yield to the small mills 

 which are the life of this particular branch 

 of the industry. If a proper disposition was 

 shown by manufacturers to pay producers a 

 value commensurate with present high prices 

 of stumpage, and a price corresponding to 



that paid for hardwood lumber, the chaotic 

 condition of the dimension stock business 

 would gradually assume steady and normal 

 conditions, and would be out on "dress 

 parade" with its woodworking confreres in 

 other lines. — Kaufmakn Stave & Lumber Com- 

 I'Axy, 



Car Equipment Meeting. 



Delegates from nearly all the important 

 lumber associations of the United States 

 met in joint convention in Club Eoom 4, 

 Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, at 10:30 a. m., 

 Oct. 25, agreeable to the call of the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion. 



The Wa3-s and Means Committee, made 

 up of these delegates, proceeded to make 

 an organization under the direction of F. E. 

 Babcock of Pittsburg, chairman of the" 

 Executive Committee. The following named 

 persons, representing the organizations ac- 

 companying their names, were present : 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Chicago Whole.sale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation — Edward Hines. president; represented 

 by C. F. TViehe, Chicago. 



Saginaw Valley Lumber Dealers' Association 

 — F. E. Parker and L. C. Slade, Saginaw. 

 Mich. 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion — N. W. McLeod, St. Louis, substitute for 



C. L. Millard. St. Louis, Mo. 



Southern Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion — Silas W. Gardiner, Laurel. Miss., substi- 

 tute for John L. Kaul. Birmingham, Ala. 



Northwestern Hemlock Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation— W^. A. Holt. Oconto. Wis. 



Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation — Richard S. White, president, repre- 

 sented by J. D. Crary. New York City. 



National Hardwood Lumber Association — 

 Earl Palmer, Paducah, Ky. 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States— R. H, Vansant. Ashland. Ky. 



Georgia Interstate Saw Mill Association — 

 W. B. Stillwell. Savannah, Ga. ; F. E. Waymer, 

 Savannah, Ga. 



National WTiolesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation— F. R. Babcock. Pittsburg, Pa., and 

 R. W. Higbie, New York City. 



WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE. 



Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion — H. C. Humphrey, Appleton. Wis.; E. P. 

 Arpin, Grand Rapids, Wis. 



J-iimber Exchange of Baltimore- Lewis Dill 

 and B. P. Gill, Baltimore, Md. 



Lumber Dealers' Association of Connecticut 

 —J. D. Crary. 



Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation — J. D. Crary. 



Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of New 

 York State — J. D. Crary. 



Illinois Lumber Dealers' Association — W. T. 

 Boston, Yorkvllle; W. H. Hunter, La Salle; 

 George W. Hotchkiss, Chicago. 



Northwestern Cedarmen's Association — E. L. 

 Clark, Chicago. 



National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation — Lewis Dill, Baltimore, Md. 



Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia— J. 



D. Crary. 



National Association of Box & Box Shook 

 Manufacturers — A. M. Wight. Chicago. 



Saginaw Valley Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion— F. E. Parker and L. C. Slade. Saginaw, 

 Mich. 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Association 

 — N. W. McLeod, St. Louis, Mo. 



Buffalo Lumber Exchange — George B. Mont- 

 gomerj', Buffalo, N. Y. 



Pitt.sburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 oi.Ttiin — A. M. Turner, Pittsburg. 



White Pine Association of North Tonawanda 

 and Buffalo — George B. Montgomery, Buffalo. 



Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Cleveland — J. V. O'Brien, Cleveland. 



Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion — R. H. Downman. 



New Jersey Lumbermen's Protective Asso- 

 ciation — J. D. Crary. 



Lumber Dealers' Association of Rhode Island 

 —J. D. Crary. 



Union Association of Lumber Dealers, Cin- 

 cinnati — James Anderson, Sidney. Ohio. 



Nebraska Lumber Dealers' Association — 

 William Krotter, Stuart, Neb. 



New Hampshire Lumbermen's Association^ 

 W. C. B. Robbins, Boston. 



Massachusetts Wholesale Lumbermen's As- 

 sociation — W. C. B. Robbins, Boston. 



Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association 

 — John M. Pritchard, Indianapolis. 



Addresses were made on the subject of the 

 work that is possible of accomplishment 

 by E. H. Downman of New Orleans, E. H. 

 Vansant of Ashland, Ky.; E. W. Higbie of 

 New York city, W. B. Stillwell of Savan- 

 nah, Ga.; Silas W. Gardiner of Laurel, 

 Miss.; George B. Montgomery of Buffalo, 

 N. W. McLeod of St, Louis — all of whom 

 pledged the support of their associations 

 and of themselves individually to the move- 

 ment that had been instituted by the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion in filing a complaint with the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission against the 

 railroads for a proper equipment of flat 

 and gondola cars. 



The Ways and Means Committee took 

 up the matter of financing the work both 

 before the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 and, if need be, in the courts. It was 

 resolved that an initial fund of at least 

 $10,000 should be raised for this purpose. 

 E. H, Downman was elected chairman of 

 the Ways and Means Committee and E, ¥. 



Perry, secretary. The chair was authorizetl 

 to appoint a committee of five to make al- 

 lotment of the just sum that should be- 

 asked from each of the lumber associations- 

 for the establishment of the fund for jirose- 

 cuting the car stake fight against the rail- 

 roads. The chair appointed as such com- 

 mittee Lewis Dill, W. B. Stillwell, George 

 B. Montgomery, J. D. Crary, W. T. Bos- 

 ton. 



The meeting then adjourned until 2:30' 

 p. m., when Chairman Dill reported that he 

 had already secured pledges of a sum con- 

 siderably in excess of the amount named 

 at the morning session, with the added as- 

 surance that sufficient money would be- 

 forthcoming to carry the claims of the lum- 

 bermen to the court of last resort if neces- 

 sary to go thus far to enforce them, The- 

 report was accepted and adopted. 



A general discussion took place and ad- 

 dresses were made by E. P. Arpin, E. L. 

 Clark, Earl Palmer, J. D. Crary, W. B.. 

 Stillwell, E. H. Downman and others. The 

 arguments were very enthusiastic in de- 

 fence of the position taken by lumbermen 

 in the car equipment controversy. 



Secretary Perry reported that before ac- 

 tion was taken the matter had been taken 

 up by the National Wholes'ale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association with the railroads and that 

 they had either returned evasive or nega- 

 tive answers to any request that their Kule 

 19 on this subject, which provides for an 

 allowance of 500 pounds, be taken into ac- 

 count. He stated that complaint had there- 

 fore been filed before the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission but that no suit had yet 

 been brought, and it was hoped the mat- 

 ter might be amicably adjusted without en- 

 tering upon legal proceedings. 



W. W. Boss, the well-known railroad 

 attorney of New York and Chicago, wa» 

 introduced, and he concisely and logically 

 explained to the delegates the intricacies- 

 incident to carrying on a suit of the sort 

 proposed. 



The conference of the Ways and Means 

 Committee thus ended and the Executive 

 Committee -went into session. 



Arrangement of a Veneer J\IilL 



The rapid growth in tlie veneer industry 

 is creating an occupation for the man of 

 mechanical ability, now limited, but increas- 

 ing so rapidly that any prediction as to its 

 ultimate outcome would be but a barren 

 statement. For the man of mechanical 

 ability, the construction and arrangement 

 of a veneer mill and its mechanical equii>- 

 nient is a con.stantly broadening field of 

 occupation. Absurd as the statement may 

 seem, it is nevertheless true that the ar- 

 rangement of a veneer mill today is a com- 

 plete reversal of that prevailing prior to 

 the advent of the roller dryer. These widely 

 different methods suggest this as an oppor- 

 tune time to look briefly at the old before 



it passes into entire oblivion to make way 

 for its successor, which will be thoroughly 

 looked into before this treatise closes. 



Before the roller dryer c.tme into use, the 

 veneer mill of proper arrangement was so 

 laid out that the length of the building waa 

 behind the machines, which were placed 

 end to end, with boiling vats behind, and 

 track, drag saw and log yard behind (he 

 vats. Insofar as the vat, track, drag saw 

 and log yard arrangement is concerned, 

 this is still the best method, as it fulfills 

 the idea of continuously moving the log for- 

 ward until its product is finished. This con- 

 tinuous forward movement was accomplished 

 only as far as the clipper; thereafter it was 



