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tiou had gone only half way, as on Jan. 23. at 

 Iho Jefferson hotel, the lumbermen's side of the 

 hearing Iwfoie the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission would be resumed. The railroads had 

 had their testimony given some time ago. 



The election of officers was then taken up ami 

 resulted as follows : 



PKEsiDEXT-rHenry G. Rolfes, St, Louis Lum- 

 ber Company. 



First Vice-President — Roland F. Krebs, 

 Krebs-Scheve Lumber Company. 



Second Vice-Pkesidext — Thos. C. Whitmarsh, 

 W. T. Ferguson Lumber Company, 



TnE.tsnKEK — E. C. Robinson, re-elected. 



Secretakt — J. B. Kcssler, re-elected. 



Each of the newly elected officers, in turn. 

 were escorted to the chair. They thanked the 

 members of the club for electing them and 

 pledged their heart.v support in all the club's 

 undertakings. 



An Enterprising Philadelphia Pirm 



Beocher & Barr of Philadelphia succeeded the 

 individual business of J. W. Beecher on Jan. ], 

 1905, when G. G. Barr was taken into partner- 

 ship. H. K. Beecher was taken into the firm in 

 T.IOS. Previous to his admission into the firm 

 Mr. Unri- worked for J, W, Boocher. who oppr- 



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atud mills in Virginia. Wesl Virginia. North 

 Carolina and Pennsylvania, the largest and most 

 important companies being the Glen Union Lum- 

 ber Company, Glen Union, Pa., and the Union 

 Lumber Company of North Carolina. 



Beecher & Barr sell the output for the Tenne- 

 sce Lumber Manufacturing Company, with mills 

 at Sutherland, Tcnn,, where it manufactures 

 white pine, hemlock, poplar, oak. chestnut and 

 other hardwoods; also for the Georgia-Carolina 

 Lumber Company of Savannah. Ga., manufacturer 

 of yellow pine, rough or dressed, long and short 

 loaf timbers. Hoorlng, celling, partition, etc.. In 

 which companies the various members of the 

 firm of Beecher & Barr are nnanclally interested. 

 Each mill cuts about lOO.OOn feet daily. The 

 output goes mostly to tin- r.n'it.-ni markets. 



Meeting Memphis Lumbermen's Club 

 The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, at its 

 semi-monthly meeting held at Hotel Ga.voso Jan. 

 20, authorized President Robertson to appoint a 

 special committee, to be known as the credit 

 committee, to Investigate any and all Individuals, 

 firms or corporations coming to Memphis to en- 

 gage In the hardwood lumber business, to report 

 to the club In executive session as to their relia- 

 bility, character and general reputation, and to 

 secure the assistance of the bankers here as 

 will as the commercial ncineles In this work. 



There have been several instances during the 

 past few years where firms swindled members of 

 the club, as well as other lumbermen operating 

 in Mcmijhis and the Memphis territory, and the 

 duties of this committee arc to conduct such a 

 rigid examination into all new firms and cor- 

 porations as to make any such development im- 

 possible in the future. The matter was brought 

 to the attention of the club as the direct result 

 of the recent failure of and defrauding of ship- 

 pers in the Memphis territory by the Gateway 

 Lumber Company, against whicli there arc many 

 claims. 



S. E. Anderson of the .\nderson-'rully Com- 

 pany, spoke in behalf of the formation of a 

 traffic bureau to he maintained by the club, 

 asserting that, in his opinion, this would result 

 in a great deal of economy to members of the 

 organization and at the same time relieve Mem- 

 phis of the discriminations imposed by the rail- 

 roads. He further declared that it would put 

 Memphis on tlie "railroad map*' and remove it 

 from the class of a "mere way station," to which 

 it has been assigned by the railroads. The 

 matter was referred to the river and rail com- 

 mittee. 



The board of directors and the members of 

 the law and insurance committee of the club 

 n'ill hold a meeting during the current week to 

 decide upon what course to pursue in connec- 

 tion with the proposed appeal by the railroads 

 to the Supreme Court of the case of the Darnell- 

 Taenzer Lumber Company et al. vs. the Southern 

 Pacific and other transcontinental lines. The 

 complainant won a signal victory in this case 

 a few days ago. when the judge of the federal 

 court decided that it was entitled to recover the 

 excess of ten cents per hundred pounds paid 

 during 1907 and 190S, the period during which 

 the transcontinental roads kept in force a rate of 

 eighty-five cents per hundred pounds from Mem- 

 phis and Mississippi river points to Pacific coast 

 terminals. 



J. W. Thompson, one of the charter members 

 of the club, was elected to honorary member- 

 ship by unanimous vote. Mr. Thompson was 

 head of the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company 

 here for years, but is now in Chicago, where he 

 is operating under the firm name of the J. W. 

 Thompson Hardwood Company. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association of the United States, was 

 present and extended a personal invitation to 

 all members of the club to attend the annual 

 of that organization to be held in Cincinnati. 

 Jan. 30-31. He stated that there would be a 

 conference of the oak interests at Cincinnati on 

 Jan. 29 and urged those engaged in the manu- 

 facture or sale of either plain or quartered oak 

 to attend this meeting, which is separate and 

 distinct from that of llic (irgani/.atitm of which 

 he is secretary. 



B. K. Kile of Kile & Morgan, I'rovidence. R. I., 

 another visitor, staled that he had good tidings 

 to bring from the hardwood lumber industry, 

 but declared that it was necessary for the lum- 

 bermen to take a more altruistic view of social 

 and economic conditions and to help solve the 

 problem of a social and economic nature con- 

 fronting business men all over the world before 

 they could expect to have a solid foundation 

 upon which to build. 



A ti'logram was read from T. \V. Brown, presi- 

 dent of the Louisville Hardwood Club, asking 

 the members to attend the annual of the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' .\ssoclatlon 

 In that city March and 7. 



Annual Meeting Philadelphia Wholesalers 



Ttie annual inicliug !mi<I liaiH|\iel nl' the I'lllla- 

 delphla Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Assoclatlop 

 was held at the Manufacturers' Club building on 

 Jan. 11. Contrary to Ibe general custom, the 

 banquet was given the precedence al this meet- 

 ing. A large number of members and guests 

 assembled In the banquet hall at 0:30 p. m. to 

 partake of a fenst of the most elaborate and 



sumptuous appoinuuent. after which the busi- 

 ness for the evening received attention. The 

 most important business to be transacted was 

 the election of officers, which resulted as follows : 



PiiESiDEXT — Horace A. Reeves. Jr.. R. B. 

 Wheeler & Co. 



Vice-President — Owen M. I'.runer. Owen M. 

 Bruner Company. 



Secretary and Treasurer — Ralph Souder, 

 Hallowell & Souder. 



Directors — C. J. Coppock. Coppock-Warner 

 Lumber Company : R. B. Rayner. R. B. Rayner 

 & Co. : and R. W. Wistar. Wistar. Inderhill & 

 Nixon. 



Speeches were made by the newly elected offi- 

 cers and Edwin H. Coane of the Pennsylvania 

 Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company 

 and Jolin W. Long of New York. 



The meeting of this association, which is more 

 or less a private function, was particularly nota- 

 ble this year for an exceptionally animated and 

 enjoyable business and social conference which 

 it afforded its members. For the many pleasant 

 features great credit is due to the committee of 

 entertainment, composed of William T. Betts, 

 chairman. Italpli Soudi-r anil .\ugnstus .1 Cad- 

 wallader. 



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Meeting Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club 



Zero weather did not deter the members of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati from turning 

 out in good numbers to attend its meeting on 

 Jan. S. President Sam Ricliey introiiuced as the 

 guest of the evening J. Van Orsdel as the "big- 

 gest" lumberman from Lexington. Mr. Van 

 Orsdel acknowledged being the "biggest" lum- 

 berman in Lexington, so far as he knew, and 

 said he always entertained a grudge against the 

 Cincinnati "bunch," and ached for a chance to 

 get back at them and his opportunity had 

 arrived to tell tbem just what he thought of 

 them. But as they had furnished him with such 

 a good meal and given him such a warm wel- 

 come, he had concluded to call all animosity off. 



B. F. Dulweber. chairman of the river and rail 

 committee, sent in a splendid report of the work 

 of bis committee on the Southern Railroad's rate 

 discrimination against Cincinnati. The report 

 embraced correspondence with the trustees of 

 the Southern Railroad an<l the lessees, the 

 Cincinnati. Northern Ohio and Texas Pacific 

 railways: also a meeting of the committee with 

 T. C. Powell, vice-president of that road, who 

 explained rati' making to the committee In such 

 a lucid manner that the committee concluded 

 that as the lumber Interests were not affected 



