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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10. iniT 



roads and traffic managers of the various lumber organizations, as well as 

 of many firms, and that efforts will be made to bring about some relief 

 from the car shortage and the various embargoes now in force. 



It was announced, too. that a strong delegation of Memphis exporters 

 would be in New Orleans April 30 to participate in the hearing before 

 G. N. Brown, attorney-examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 in connection with the proposed reduction of free time on lumber ship- 

 ments in that port from ten to five days. The association has already pro- 

 tested against this reduction, but the exporters are going down with a 

 view to presenting as strong arguments as possible against such a course. 



It was announced, too, that the association will file formal protests 

 with the commission against the proposed increases in demurrage and re- 

 consigning charges in various parts of the country. These Increases become 

 effective at different times in different parts of the country, but the asso- 

 ciation is not going to spare any effort looljing to the defeat of these 

 measures. 



The board confirmed the appointment of F. B. Larson as assistant to 

 Secretary Townshend, as successor to the late Paul J. Fischer, and also 

 the appointment of L. J. Morris as rate and claim clerk of the association, 

 as successor to Mr. Larson. 



Wisconsin Organizing Its Resources 



The committee on statistics of the Northern Hemlocli and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association has been organized into a bureau on statistics 

 and educational information, and one of it's first acts was to divide the 

 territory of the association into four districts. The bureau is made up of 

 three representatives from each of the four districts. The purpose of the 

 Irareau will be to collect and compile complete statistics on the production 

 of lumber by the association mills, and of stocks on hand whereby tlie mar- 

 ket situation can be more accurately determined from time to time. 



Traffic Conference for Pittsburgh 



In connection with the annual meeting of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association, which will be held at the William Penn hotel, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 21 and 22, there will be an important traffic 

 conference, at which not only members of the association, but traffic 

 managers of all lumber associations, and of various individual plants will 

 participate. 



The object is to endeavor to find some way to relieve the lumber business 

 from present embargoes, and to consider other traffic matters pertinent 

 to lumbering. It is hoped that representatives of railroads thoroughly 

 conversant with the traffic situation may be present. 



Plans are rapidly developing for the program for the twenty-fifth an- 

 nual meeting and the banquet, and the executive committee is co-operating 

 with a local committee of Pittsburgh wholesalers, consisting of F. R. Bab- 

 cock, J. B. Montgomery and W. H. Schuette. 



Carriage Men Alarmed at High Costs 



After an all-day session at the hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, during which 

 the principal subject discussed was the high cost of material and the diffi- 

 culty of getting it, due to the shortage of freight cars, fifty of the leading 

 carriage manufacturers of the United States left Cincinnati last week with 

 business unfinished, and will return for another meeting March 30. 



As a result of the coming meeting, it is believed, tiie Interstate Commerce 

 Commission will be appealed to in an effort to reduce the high cost of 

 building carriages. 



Theodore Luth of Cincinnati, president of the Carriage Builders' Na- 

 tional Association, who called both meetings, announced that the manu- 

 facturers must place their orders at once if they expect to receive goods 



during the present year. The railroad embargo on steel supplies used in 

 making buggies, scarcity of these goods and sky-high prices, have com- 

 bined to make carriage manufacturing extremely hazardous for those en- 

 gaged in it. 



Some manufacturers testified that, because of the freight congestion, they 

 had to have shipments made by express, which heightened the expense. 

 Several expressed the opinion that they would be fortunate to get ship- 

 ments within the next year by freight, and all had hard-luck stories to 

 tell, notwithstanding it was the unanimous opinion that sales are con- 

 stantly increasing in spite of the popularity of the automobile. 



As a few of the luckier manufacturers have a plentiful supply of mate- 

 rial on hand, it is thought that a system of co-operation may be arranged 

 to aid those less fortunate. 



Five new applications for membership were received. 



Memphians Solicit Important Conference 



A motion was offered and adopted by unanimous vote at the regular 

 semi-monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, March 3, In- 

 structing the secretary to extend an invitation to President John M. 

 Woods, Secretary F. F. Fish and the entire executive committee of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association to attend the next meeting of the 

 club to be held Saturday, March 17. The question of the application of 

 the inspection rules of the association will be the particular subject to be 

 discussed at that time, and the members of the club want the presence of 

 these gentlemen in order that whatever action is to be taken may be taken 

 with as little delay as possilde. The motion was offered by W. L. Crenshaw 

 of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company. 



W. S. Mayes, who is conducting a hardwood lumber business under his 

 own name at Covington, Tenn., filed his application for active member- , 

 ship. He will he voted on at the next regular meeting. 



Resolutions prepared by R. S. Maddox, state forester, and presented by 

 J. D. Allen, Jr., asking the club to endorse the movement looking to the 

 creation of a strong sentiment throughout Tennessee for the prevention 

 of forest fires, were unanimously adopted. This is to be a subject for 

 legislation in Tennessee during the present session, and the forester is 

 securing the endorsement of commercial bodies, and particularly lumber 

 organizations, as an aid In passing this measure. 



An invitation was read from the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, asking that the president and two other members of the club 

 attend its forthcoming annual at Pittsburgh, March 21-22. 



The question of preparing a float to be used In the pageant to celebrate 

 the opening of the new bridge across the Mississippi river was referred 

 to the publicity committee of the club. 



Stephen S. Burnett, Buenos Aires and New York, who has spent consid- 

 erable time in South America, making a study of the lumber business told 

 the lumbernjen of Memphis that lumber interests in South America were 

 making rapid strides in the development of their resources and that they 

 must be regarded as active competitors for European lumber business after 

 the war is over. He intimated that prices were choapcr in South America 

 than in this country, and pointed this out as making this threatened com- 

 petition wortliy of serious consideration. 



The special committee appointed to consider changes In the constitution 

 and by-laws recommended by S. M. Nickey in his valedictory address in 

 December, reported favorably on these, and they will be voted on In the 

 near future. They Involve elimination of the provision that out-of-town 

 members m\ist be associate members, and give them the right to be either 

 active or associate. They likewise provide that the publicity, information 



and statistics committee shall t)e droijped and that one committee, the 



FAREWELL DINNER TO FRANK R. GADD AT THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB, CHICAGO, ON MONDAY NIGHT, FEBRUARY 20, JUST PRIOR 



TO HIS LEAVING FOR HIS NEW DUTIES AT CINCINNATI 



