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HARDWOOD RECORD 



been identified with the trade of the metro- 

 politan district for many years, and who is 

 most favorably known to practically every 

 buyer of hardwoods in the east. Mr. Shep- 

 herd looks after the trade in the metropol- 

 itan district, New Jersey, eastern Pennsyl- 

 vania, Delaware, Maryland and the District 

 of Columbia. The Emporium Lumber Com- 

 pany is the largest producer of eastern hard- 

 woods in the country, its annual output run- 

 ning between 30,000,000 and 35,000,000 feet. 

 Another house that is taking on hard- 

 woods in addition to its building lumber 

 trade this season and which promises to be 

 a no inconsiderable factor in the business 

 is that of the Stevens-Eaton Company. This 

 concern was organized within the last few 

 months and is made up of the members of 

 the great North Tonawanda white pine house 

 of White. Gratwick & Mitchell and of the 

 old New York jobbing and commission house 

 of Stevens, Eaton & Co. Pendcnnis White 

 of North Tonawanda is president of the 

 company. The hardwood department is han- 

 dled by T. S. Miller, wlio is well and favor- 



ably known in the New York market, hav- 

 ing been New York sales manager for the 

 W. M. Eitter Lumber Company of Columbus, 

 0., for several years. While the Stevens- 

 Eaton Company has but recently taken on 

 hardwoods to any extent, with its commer- 

 cial standing and close identification with 

 the metropolitan trade it should become an 

 important factor in this business. 



William . E. Uptegrove & Bro., whose 

 commercial reputation in the east for many 

 years has been confined very largely to the 

 mahogany lumber and fine veneer trade, and 

 to the production of cedar into cigar box 

 lumber, two years ago took on a domes- 

 ti'5 hardwood department and are meeting 

 with as much success in this line of indus- 

 tr}' as they have compassed in the past in 

 the foreign woods line. 



There are other institutions of high com- 

 mercial standing in New York which have 

 been and are at the present time doing a 

 large business in hardwoods, but a more 

 detailed mention of them will be left to a 

 later date. 



J^attonal HardWood Lumber Asso. 



An imporfant meeting of the board of man- 

 agers and inspection bureau committee of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association was 

 held at the Burnet house, Cincinnati, 0., 

 commencing at 2 p. m. Wednesday, March 15. 



At this meeting there were present the fol- 

 lowing: 



Earl Palmer, president, Ferguson & Talmer. 

 Paducah, Ky. 



O. O. Agler, second vice presidtnt, Upliam & 

 Agler, Chicago, 111. 



J. Watt Oraham. third vice president, liiabam 

 Lumber Company. Cincinnati. O. 



A. R. Vinnedge, secretary. A. R. Vinnedge 

 Lumber Company, Chicago. 111. 



W. A. Bonsack, director, Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. Louis. Mo. 



Gardner I. Jones, director. ,Toni's Ilaidwood 

 Company, Boston, Mass. 



W. A. Bennett, director, 

 cinnatl. O. 



liennctt & Witle. Cln 



KIIT, Presldeul, Cincinnati Lunib(Minen's 

 Club — H. A. Kip|) *i < o. 



M M W.M.I.. Inspector General. B\iffalo. 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Compan.v. 



E. E. Goodlander, director, Goodlander-Robert- 

 son Lumber Company. Memphis, Tenn. 



D. F. Clark, director, Osborne & Clark, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn. 



O. E. Yeager. director. Buffalo, N. Y. 



K. C. Colcord. Bowman Lumber Company, St. 

 Albans, W. Va. 



M. M. Wall, acting inspector general, Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. 



W. W. Knight, Long Knight Lumber Company, 

 ludtanapolis. Ind. 



The board of managers and the inspection 

 tnireau committee went into executive ses- 

 sion, and afterward announced that they 

 went over inspection matters very careftilly 

 and in detail, and arranged that il. JI. Wall 

 of Buft'alo, who has been acting inspector 

 general for some months past, assume the 



duties of that office until the time of the 

 annual meeting of the association, which 

 takes place at Buffalo May 18 and 19. 



It was also voted to locate salaried inspect- 

 ors at the very earliest moment possible at 

 the following chief hardwood lumber markets 

 of the country: New York, Buffalo, Cincin- 



(). O. AGLER, Second Vice President National 

 Association — Upham & Agler, Chicago. 



nati, Chicago, Grand Eapids, St. Paul, Minne- 

 apolis, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans. 



At the time of the meeting arrangements 

 were completed for the employment of 

 salaried inspectors for New York, Buffalo, 

 Memphis and New Orleans, and the other 

 markets will be covered as fast as competent 

 inspectors can be found to assume the duties. 

 It was announced that the association was in 

 the market for first-class hardwood inspectors, 

 whose reputation for integrity was beyond 

 i|uestion, who could be depended on to make 

 an impartial inspection of hardwood lumber 

 under the rules as laid down by the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. This plan of 

 iusjiccting lumber will supplant in all the 

 leading trade centers the fee system that has 

 been employed in the past, and it is believed 

 that the system will result in a great stride 

 toward universal inspection. 



It was annotinced that this departure of 

 the association was preliminary to eventually 

 putting all the association's inspectors on a 

 salaried basis, and it was anticipated that 

 these inspectors would be rotated from mar- 

 ket to market, and thus not be brought under 

 local influence for any length of time, which 

 might impair their judgment. The meeting 

 was entirely harmonious and the entire body 

 worked as one man for the accomplishment 

 of better methods and a higher standard for 

 hardwood inspection. 



During the evening of March 15 the board 

 of managers and the inspection bureau com- 

 mittee of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, together with C. II. Stanton, of 

 Buffalo, ex-surveyor general of the associa- 

 tion; Lewis C. Slade, of Saginaw, Mich., ex- 

 president of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association; Floyd Day and C. M. 



