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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Indiana HardWood Lumbermen's Association. 



The sixth annual meeting of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association was call- 

 ed to order in the ordinary of the Grand hotel 

 at Indianapolis, Ind., by J. V. Stimson, presi- 

 dent, the following named gentlemen being 

 present : 



C. S. Baer. Wabash. 

 C. H. Barnaby. Greencastle. 

 W. P. Best, Indianapolis. 

 James Brickley. Bruokville. 

 .S. Burkhoider, CrawfordsTille. 

 Roy Burkhoider, (_'raw(ordsville. 

 J. W. Clark. Indianapolis. 

 W. H. Coppock, Indianapolis. 

 S. P. Coppock, It. Wayne. 

 J. M. Day, St. Louis. Mo. 

 James C. Dickens. Indianapolis. 



E. P. DiUman, Indianapolis. 



F. L. Donnell, Grecnsburg. 

 Lewis Doster, Columbus, Ohio. 

 R. H. Pcssler. Indianapolis. 

 C, J. Frank, Indianapolis. 



W. H. Gillette. Louisville, Ky. 



W. H. Guirl, Clay City. 



M. M. Hardin, Crawfordsville. 



F. D. Hester, Indianapolis. 

 N. Hoftman. Indianapolis. 

 A. N. Holloway, Cloverdale. 

 A. C. Hyser. Indianapolis. 

 IjOuIs H. Katter. Huntingsburg. 



C. N. Kimball. Chicago. 



W. W. Knight, Indianapolis. 

 H. M. Kramer, Richmond. 

 J. C. Lockwood, Anderson. 



A. M. Londen. Indianapolis. 

 Claude Maley, Evansvllle. 

 Henry Maley. Edinburg. 

 Sayles Mallock, Chicago. 



J. D. Marls. Indianapolis. 

 Owen Moffett. Madison. 



D. I. Neher, Frankfort. 



G. II. Palmer. Sheridan. 

 Earl Palmer, Paducah. Kv. 

 C. E. Platter, North Vernon. 

 F. M. Platter. North Vernon. 

 J. M. I'ritchard. Indianapolis. 

 W. C. Pulse, Greensburg. 



W. J. Roach. Indianapolis. 

 Dan J. Shepard. Indianapolis. 

 F. R. Shepard. Imlianaiiolis. 

 W. B. Sharpc. Inclian!ir)iills. 

 .7. V. Stirason. Ilniuingsburg. 

 C. D. Strode. Chicago. 



B. F. Swain. Shelbvvllle. 

 li. A. Swain, Shelbyvllle. 

 W. E. Talbert. Greensburg. 

 O. L. Wade. Indianapolis. 



Geo. M. Waters, New Palestine. 



J. II. Williamson, the Sentinel. Indianapolis. 



A. W. Wlllents. Indianapolis. 



J. C. Wood. .Muncie. 



Clias. A. Wood. Munclr\ 



President Stimson 's Address. 

 The minutes of the jireceding meeting were 

 read by Secretary Pritchard and approved. 

 President Stimson then read his annual ad- 

 dress to the association which follows: 



Gentlemen of Ihe Indiana Iliii-dwood Lumber- 

 men's Assodatiin and friends : 

 At this the sixth annual meeting of the In- 

 diana Hardwood Lurabermeus Association we 

 desire to call your attention to what has been 

 accomplished in a brief way. 



Six years ago about a" dozen lumbermen 

 met in the lobby of the ilrand hotel when tlie 

 thermometer stood about twenty-live degrees be- 

 low zero, and the gas supply was low, and put 

 this body into existence, and today its member- 

 ship roster is about ltd of the best lumbermen 

 In the state, and that means the best there 

 arc. It has brought the lumbermen throughout 

 the state, and many lumbermen from adjoin- 

 ing states, together for business and social 

 purposes, through which they have become per- 

 sonally act|uain1ed and personally interested in 

 each other's welfare, rejoicing with each in his 

 honest effort and consequent success. This 

 body has been largely responsible for bringing 

 about man.v salutary changes and reforms in 

 rules of Inspection of hardwood lumber and in 

 the constnicti<m of the same. The rules of 

 inspection of lumber most unlvei'saii.w in use 

 today in the T'nited States aiul abroad are on 

 comparison almost the identlial rules drafted 

 by this association's inspection committee four 

 years ago. ami which were then iiresented before 

 the Xathfnal Hardwood I,uml)er Association at 

 Chicago. Anil about the same time the Indiana 

 Association of Hardwood Lumbermen saw the 

 necessity for national an<l state legislation, regu- 

 lating freiglK rates, and strengtiiening the pow- 

 ers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 

 farther safeguarding shipper's Interests through- 



out tin- country. Ncjl only between states, but 

 within the borders of the individual states. 



It seems the time is at hand for united ac- 

 tion along these lines. It is a fact at this 

 time that the carrier says what you shall pay. 

 when and iiow- and what, and when you shall 

 pay car service which falls as a penalty and 

 a tax on your business. Tbe shipper has only 

 to load the cars niienever he can get them, 

 pay the railroad company what it claims and 

 look pleased about it. Especially if the ship- 

 ment is made from some isolated 'railroad point. 



There is now legislation introduced in both 

 this state and in the national congress that 

 should b'come law. The bill before the national 

 congress to strengthen tlte Interstate l^'ommerce 

 Commission, to give it discretionary powers in 

 regard to what the Just rate shall be and should 

 be. and to give this commission Judicial as 

 well as executive powers. There is also sen- 

 ate bill "No. 22 in this state, known as the 

 "Xewhouse" bill, and which is introduced in 

 the house by Representative Branch of Mor- 

 gan coxmty. providing for a state railroad com- 

 mission. Through this commission shippers may 

 hope to obtain much relief, and I would recom- 

 mend tltat all tbe members of this association 



J. C. WOOD. 



make earnest efforts to see personally tlie mem- 

 ber of national congress or senate, also the mem- 

 ber of liouse and state senate and explain the 

 needs of these measures and urge their early 

 passage; also there is pending in tliis state 

 house bill No. 2, relative to mutual insurance, 

 which is of Interest to all lumbermen In the 

 state, and I would recommend thai you use 

 your earnest efforts to secure Its passage. 



We I>elie\e that most memt.ers of the bodies 

 of legislation are earnest and lionest men and 

 desire to serve tlie people, who are their con- 

 stituents, when they are convinced of what this 

 constituary requires, but they must depend on 

 the various interests to show llie Justness of 

 these requirements, tlierefore it is for you to 

 urge and push the work of legislation. The 

 transportation companies are always represented 

 l)efore these bodies by their able lawyers, and 

 shrewd lobbyists, therefore it is necessary that 

 we be represented there as sliippers. feeders 

 of these great railroad companies, to show up 

 the shippers' side of tile l>usiness. and lo this 

 end your l)oard of managers have contrlbute<i 

 to tile matter of interstate commerce legisla- 

 tion, and lo tlie Indiana Shippers' Protective 

 Association, and we hope this will meet wl.th 

 your approval. 



I congratulate you on wiiat this association 

 has accomplished in the past, and my faith is 

 its mission is Just at the dawning. I will 

 lake this opportunity to thank you for your 

 earnest and cheerful co-operation in the worlc 

 of this association: and I desire to especially 

 thank Mr. I'ritcliard, the able and efficient 

 secretary, upon whom the hard work of this 

 association lias largely fallen, and to whose 

 efforts we greatly owe our success. R^spect- 

 fnlly submitted. 



J. V. Stimsox, 



President. 



Treasurer's Report. 



Treasurer C. H. Barnaby of Greencastia 



then submitted his annual report. 



Amount on hand at last meeting. $314.61 

 Received in dues 164.00 



Total receipts $478.61 



DISBURSEMENTS. 

 Gave check to J. M. I'ritchard, 



Secretary's Expenses $14.50 



Gave check to Grand Hotel Ban- 

 quet expenses 97.00 



Gave check to A. L. Lvon. Treas- 

 urer Interstate Commission .... 25.00 



Total disbursements .... 136.50 



Balance on hand $342.11 



Report of the Secretary. 



The secretary then read his report as fol- 

 lows : 



To the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's A!». 

 sociation : Gentlemen — It gives me great pleas- 

 ure to report that at the time of this the sixth 

 annual meeting of the Indiana Hardwood Lum- 

 bermen's Association we are in a prosperous 

 condition and that the work of the association 

 is going along smoothly and we believe satis- 

 factorily to all our members. Our growth dur- 

 ing the past year numerically has not been as 

 great as in some former years, but it must be 

 remembered, however, that in the last three 

 years we have increased our membership over 

 100 per cent and that we have in this time 

 canvassed the held pretty thoroughly and we 

 have secured a good proportion of the Arms in 

 our stale that are likely to be iuterested in 

 an association of this kind. At a recent meet- 

 ing of our board of managers about twenty 

 names were dropped from our membership rofl, 

 largely on account of change of business, firms 

 closing out their business, and death. ITiiu 

 <ieduction from our membership list has not 

 been ijuite made up by new additions this year, 

 but we have on our membership roll at this time 

 sixly-live live, active members. This still leaves 

 our association one of the strongest, if not the 

 slrongesl. numerically of the state associations 

 of this kind. 



.\t our last meeting we took up vigorously tho 

 question of transiwrtation of lumber liy rail, 

 and the correspondence in the secretary's office 

 during the past year has been largely upon this 

 subject. .\t the time we took ii|) this question 

 (me .year ago very little was heard of it from 

 any source. Today we cannot pick up a daily 

 paper tn- a monthly magazine but wliat we see 

 from one to live articles on the subject of trans- 

 portation. The country is thoroughly aroused 

 oil this (|uesllon and at the jiresenl time Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt Is tlie leader, representing the 

 people, in a demand for fairness and justice 

 in all matters relative to transportation. Posi- 

 tive results have not yet been obtained, but 

 public o]>lnlon is aroused. Our assoclatiou has 

 been foremost in this movement as It has been 

 in many others for the good of lumbermen, and 

 today we stand liand in hand with many other 

 or:ianlzations that have become interested and 

 are helping to bring about the desired results. 

 W" believe that while great progress has been 

 made along tills line the time is now ripe for 

 even more aggressive work than we have done 

 in the past, and while we cannot presume what 

 the action of tills c*»nvention will be on these 

 subjects at this meeting, we cannot help but 

 feci that the sentiment of the meeting will be 

 to push the work most vigorously. 



We wish to recommend to the association that 

 it amend its by-laws to give Its Ixiard of man- 

 agers tlie authority to set the dale of the annual 

 meeting, such meeting to be held some time dur- 

 ing tlie month of January. .\t the present time 

 our by-laws slate that the annual meeting shall 

 tie held on the third Tuesday in January. We 

 think lliis change in the by-laws is necessary 

 for the reason that tbe Indiana Retail Lumber 

 I>ealers' .\ssociation liolds its meeting during the 

 monlli of January and that its attendance and 

 our attendance and the convenience of many of 

 our mirmbers make it necessary that these two 

 associations confer Jointly upon dates of holding 

 their annual meetings and so arrange these meet- 

 ings tliat they will not conlllct with one another, 

 and that tliey be so arranged that the meetings 

 can be held during the same week, which will 

 allow any of our members to attend both meet- 

 ings by making only one trip. Further. I would 

 recommend thai a committee be appointed to 

 revise our liy-laws to meet the present needs of 

 our association and lluit they be authorized to 

 have 500 ccqiies printed. 



In closing we wish lo thank all the members 

 of the Indiana Harilwood Lumliermen's .Associa- 

 tion for their help and loyal support of the 



