January 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Big Plans for Chicago Annual 



The annual meeting of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago has 

 for years been a big event in the world's lumber metropolis. Plans for 

 the meeting and dinner this year provide for a more comprehensive 

 gathering than has ever been accomplished before. The members will 

 meet in the red room in the Hotel LaSalle on Monday, January 13. The 

 board of directors will meet several days prior to the general "meeting to 

 choose the new president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. 



Lumbermen's Association of Texas Annual Set for April 10-12 



The thirty-flrst annual convention of the Lumbermen's Association of 

 Te.xas will take place in the Galvez hotel, Galveston, Texas, April 10, 11 

 and 12, 1917. The program for the meeting will not be announced until 

 after March 1. The officers of the association are working up a program 

 that will depart in every way from past programs of this or any other 

 retail lumber association, reflecting in new and interesting ways the latest 

 and most constructive ideas in the merchandising of building material. 



Dimension Manufacturers to Organize 



Invitations have been mailed to about 1,000 manufacturers of dimen- 

 sion stock in the United States asking them to meet in Memphis January 

 19 for the purpose of organizing the Dimension Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, which proposes to have its headouarters in this city. 



As setting forth the objects and purposes of the association the Invita- 

 tion mailed to manufacturers in this line is given herewith : 



"This meeting is called to perfect a permanent organization and 

 adopt a constitution and by-laws, and elect such officers as appears 

 are needed, and also either to formulate a set of rules to govern the 

 inspection of this class of lumber, or appoint a committee to draft 

 a set of rules to be adopted at a later meeting, as seems best. 



"We urge all manufacturers who make oak or hickory rims, sawed 

 felloes, bows, handle blanks, furniture stock or wagon stock of any 

 kind to attend this meeting." 



These invitations have been signed by the following : 



M. F. Hannahs of Memphis, R. T. Bugg of Winchester, Tenn. ; J. V. 

 Wright of Bolivar, Tenn. ; W. S. Elder of Pine Bluff, Ark. ; J. E. Munal 

 of Memphis, S. E, Marion of Yorktown, Ark. ; W. C. Norton of Marvel, 

 Ark. ; and C. B. Lyon of Memphis. 



C. E. Van Camp New Assistant Secretary Gum Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association 



C. E. Van Camp has entered upon his duties as assistant secretary of 

 the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association. He has succeeded J. T. 

 Kendall, who held that position for three years and who, on January 1, 

 became secretary of the American Oak Manufacturers' Association. 



Mr. Van Camp is only thirty-two years of age, but he has been very 

 prominently identified with the hardwood lumber trade of Memphis and 

 section in connection with the Indiana Society. He was one of the or- 

 ganizers of that body and has served as secretary of the organization 

 since it was established several years ago. Mr. Van Camp has been en- 

 gaged in the printing business since coming to Memphis and has handled 

 all of the printing for the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 

 including the stock reports and the literature issued by that body. He 

 has gone a step further and helped in the compilation of some of this 

 material and is, therefore, regarded as being closely in touch with the 

 work of the association and as being well equipped to take the place made 

 vacant by the resignation of Mr. Kendall. 



Meeting of Carolina Lumber Association 



The Western Carolina Lumber & Timber Association held its semi-annual 

 meeting in its rooms in the Electrical building, Asheville, N. C, on Monday, 

 January 1. The association went on record as opposing the suggestion of 

 the representative of the Interstate Commerce Commission to place lumber 

 on a sliding scale of rates according to the size of the carloads. Secretary 

 Forrester explained that under that arrangement a car of lumber weighing 

 20,000 pounds would be rated at 4S cents a hundred, while a car weighing 

 70,000 would be rated at 25.6 cents. The proposal met with vigor- 

 ous protest, and it was arranged that a representative should attend the 

 rate meeting In Chicago on January 17 for the purpose of opposing such 

 move. 



The association also recorded its opposition to an advance in rates to 

 Cincinnati from three to four cents. The Cincinnati market absorbing the 

 lower grade from the moimtain district would be closed to the shippers in 

 that territory imder such an advance. A finance committee was appointed 

 to raise funds to properly present the case. 



In his opening talk. President Whiting urged increased membership. He 

 advocated changing the name to Appalachian Lumber Association or some- 

 thing similar that would convey the idea of an association for a broader 

 purpose. The secretary told of trips to various points in the interest of 

 association matters, bearing particularly on the rate meetings which he has 

 attended. 



Receive New Reconsignment Tariffs 



The Traffic Department and Lumber Exchange of the Cincinnati 

 Chamber of Commerce last week received copies of the railroad's proposals 

 as to reconsignment charges from the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 A conference will be held in Washington between shippers, the railroads 

 and the commission on the proposed rates. Guy M. Freer, president of 

 the National Industrial League and head of the Cincinnati Chamber of 

 Commerce's traffic department, will represent the chamber at the confer- 

 ence and C. C. Hagemeyer and Dwight Hinckley, prominent Cincinnati 

 lumbermen and active in club affairs, will represent the lumbermen of 

 Cincinnati. 



The proposals would cancel tlie tariffs now permitting the shipment of 

 cars to designated hold points for reconsignment. 



A charge of J3 per car is proposed for cars reconsigned in transit ; $5 

 for reconsignment within 24 hours after arrival at terminal and prior to 

 placing on unloading tracks ; $7 a car if reconsigned after 24 hours ; $6 i£ 

 reconsigned within 24 hours of arrival at terminal and placement on 

 loading tracks and $7 a car if reconsigned after 24 hours after arrival 

 and placement. 



If cars are reconsigned on arrival to points within switching limits of 

 terminal, no charge will be made, but the local switching tariffs will apply. 



Oak Flooring Headquarters in Cincinnati 



Cincinnati lumbermen see a further recognition of Cincinnati's leader- 

 ship in the lumber world, in the recent announcement that the Oak Floor- 

 ing Manufacturers' Association will remove its headquarters from Chicago 

 to Cincinnati about May 1. This removal, it is said, was obtained through 

 the efforts of Walter J. Eckman, president of the Lumber Exchange of the 

 Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, 



H, A. Bocklcr, Jr., is president ; W. L. Ciaffey, secretary, and Walter J. 

 Eckman, treasurer, of the association. This organization handles, it is 

 claimed, ninety-flve per cent of the oak flooring manufactured in the 

 United States, a total of 150,000,000 feet. 



Traffic Association Elects Officers 



The following officers and directors of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 -Vssociation were duly elected at the meeting held at Memphis, January 2, 

 as recently forecasted in H.iRDWoon Record : 



President, James E. Stark, Memphis Veneer & Lumber Company. 



First Vice-President, Ralph L. Jurden, Penrod, Jurden & McCowen 



becond Vice-President, F, B. Robertson. Ferguson-Palmer Companv, 

 Inc. • 



Directors— For one year: J. R. Hamlen, Little Rock, and Paul Smith, 

 Helena. 



-,r^^r '™ years: Frank May, Memphis; T. M. Brown, Louisville, and 

 H. W. Wheeler, Pine Bluff. 



, For three years: L. E. Brown, Memphis; J. F. McSweyn, Memphis; 

 John W. McClure. Memphis: S. M. Xickev. Memphis; F. L. Gregory 

 Blissville, Ark.; C. H. Murphy, Pine Bluff: D. S. Watrous, Little Rock! 



There will be a meeting of the board of governors of this organization 

 held January 9 at which it is anticipated that J. H. Townshend, secretary- 

 manager of the organization since it was launched, will be chosen to 

 succeed himself. 



The annual meeting of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association will 

 be held at Memphis, January 18, and it is expected that the attendance 

 will be unusually large as more than 100 members have signified their 

 intention of being present. The association has had a marvelous growth 

 during the past year and it is expected that the annual meeting will prove 

 unusually interesting because of the many traffic problems which now 

 confront that organization and because of the splendid work which it has 

 done during the past year in behalf of its members and in behalf of the 

 hardwood trade at large, full details regarding which will be given in the 

 report of officers, and of special and standing committees. 



Memphis Lumbermen Making Big Plans 



The meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at the Hotel Gayoso, 

 Saturday, January 6, was characterized by the reports of President 

 Nickey and Secretary Heuer, the retiring officers, by the address of 

 Ralph May, the new president, and by important recommendations by 

 the entertainment committee looking to arrangements for a dinner to 

 be given jointly by the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, the Gum 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the American Oak Manufacturers' 

 Association, and the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis the evening of 

 January 19, as well as by the recommendations of the special committee 

 suggesting a plan by which the rooms furnished and finished in the 

 Business Men's Club by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis will become 

 of great benefit to this organization. 



President Nickey in surrendering the gavel to Mr. May. his successor, 

 paid the club a very high compliment on its proof of the value of co- 

 operation. He said that the members of the club used to regard each 

 other as competitors but that this view had entirely passed and that 

 they were able to work together for the good of all without considering 

 their own particular interests^ He said also that this spirit of active 

 co-operation had been largely responsible not only for the success of 

 the Lumbermen's Club itself but also for the launching of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, the American Oak Manufacturers' Association, and the Southern 

 Alluvial Land Association. 



Mr. Nickey made a number of recommendations. Including the following : 



1. That associate members may become active members. 



2. That the information, publicity and statistic committees be dropped. 



3. That a new committee in their stead, called the house committee, 

 be appointed by the president to serve one year. 



Secretary Heuer, In his report, showed that twenty new members had 

 been admitted during the past year, while there had been a loss of seven, 

 including two by death. This, he said, brings the total to 173, distrib- 

 uted as follows : active, 156 ; associate, 13 ; honorary, 4. 



The report of Mr. Heuer, who is also treasurer, showed the financial 

 affairs of the club to be in very satisfactory condition. 



Ralph May, in picking up the gavel, remarked : "This is the best 

 looking tool I ever stood behind or pushed around," Mr. May is one of 

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