The Hardwood Record 



VOL. XIV. 



SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1902. 



No. 3 



The Hardwood Record. 



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SUPPORT THE INSPECTION BUREAU. 



Our Man About To^Yn has in this is.su€ 

 touched, ill a semi-humorous way, upou a 

 vital point in the matter of national inspec- 

 tion. It is that the national inspection 

 rules are of themselves of absolutely no 

 avail. The vital point is to have an official 

 iutei'pretation and application of those 

 rules. 



Should the Xational association stop at 

 the making of the rules, it is probable that 

 more harm than good would result, for 

 every consumer in the land would claim 

 the privilege of putting an ignorant or dis- 

 honest inspector to work at applying those 

 rules, and they would aftord no protection 

 whatever. 



Tlie Inspection Bureau is the backbone 

 of the association, and the lumberman who 

 has spent time and money in perfecting the 

 inspection rules must lend his support to 

 the Inspection Bureau if he would not have 

 all his work wasted. 



As the Man About Town aptly says, the 

 rules without the Inspection Bureau is like 

 a lot of laws with no power to inten)ret 

 and apiply them. The National association 

 is attempting to govern the inspection of 

 hardwood lumber in this country, and to 

 do this it must have an e.xeeutive and 

 judicial as well as a legislative department. 

 Any government which simplj- makes laws 

 but does not seek to enforce them amounts 

 to but little. 



The trade must support the Inspection 

 Bureau. And we wish to say that simply 

 giving it the disputed cases to handle is 

 not sufficient. A corps of inspectors can- 

 not be maintained all over the couuti'y 

 simply to help you out after you get into 

 ti'ouble, without making the dues of the 

 association sutficient to furnish a revenue 

 of $50,000 a year instead of ?3,o00, as at 

 present. Mr. Wall has been giving a qual- 

 ity of service such as money can scarcely 

 secure, and he has been giving it for 

 nothing. He has made no complaint, 

 but he will get tired of it some day unless 

 the trade comes to the front and lend his 

 department the support to which it is en- 

 titled. 



To be frank, it seems to us that a good 

 many lumbermen refuse to have their lum- 

 ber inspected by national inspectors for 

 the reason that they hope to make a gi-ade 

 pass which is not so good as a national 

 gi-ade. This sort of business is getUng 

 them into more and more trouble, and they 

 want the national inspectors handy to 

 help them out when they get into trouble, 

 but they had as well understand that the 



Inspection Bureau cannot be sustained on 

 that kind of business. They had bettor 

 sell on national inspection and at corre- 

 sponding prices, thereby avoiding trouble. 

 We believe they will And it more profitable 

 in the long run. 



It is curious to read some of the letters 

 Mr. Wall receives from lumbermen" who 

 have never contributed anything to the 

 support of the Inspection Bureau, com- 

 plaining that there are not enough inspect- 

 ors located at various points to protect 

 their interests. How in the world do they 

 suppose such inspectors are to be main- 

 tained? 



The National association has progressed 

 finely in getting the lumbermen together 

 and doing some fine legislative work, but 

 it will all be of no avail if the Inspection 

 Bureau be not supi)orted. 



THE FIRST DAY'S WORK. 



Perhaps the chief characteristic of the 

 work of the convention this year was the 

 general desire on the part of all its mem- 

 bers to treat each department of the trade 

 and each section of the country, as it re- 

 lates to the trade, with fairness and, in 

 fact, liberality. 



The revision of rules committee were in 

 session the greater part of three days, giv- 

 ing heed and consideration to all the 

 claims and suggestions as to inspection on 

 the various kinds of hardwoods. This 

 committee, appointed with a view of giv- 

 ing the whole trade a representation, pre- 

 sented a unanimous report and with but 

 two exceptions that report was accepted. 

 The same wise, harmonious and intelligent 

 action that evidently prevailed in the com- 

 mittee room was carried out on the main 

 floor of the convention. 



The one exception to the committee re- 

 port of importance was in the rules on wal- 

 nut. The rules as adopted were presented 

 by Mr. Lendrum, who, as he stated, repre- 

 sented eleven of the largest manufacturers 

 of this wood in the counU-y. The sale for 

 this product is mainly in foreign markets 

 and when Mr. Lendrum pointed out the 

 competition they had to meet— the require- 

 ments of foreign purchasers being more 

 lenient on logs than our specifications were 

 on lumber— and that it was to the best in- 

 terests of trade as well as the country at 

 large to ship a manufactured product 

 rather than raw material, he was given 

 the support of the convention. 



The report of the Inspection Bureau was 

 of such a favorable nature and its expo- 

 nents were so confident of the piaoticaoii- 



