The Hardwood Record 



VOL. XIV. 



SATURDAY, JUNE 14. 1902. 



No. S 



The Hardwood Record. 



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TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT OF THE NA- 

 TIONAL HARDWOOD LUMBER 

 ASSOCIATION. 



As will be seen by the letter herewith 

 the traffic department of the Xational 

 Hardwood Lumber Association has been 

 organized by the traffic committee of the 

 association. Mr. W. D. Hurlbut. than 

 whom there is no better freight traffic man 

 in the United States, has been secured to 

 act as traffic manager for the association. 



This worii bids fair to become the most 

 important of any work the association has 

 yet undertaken. It has greater possibili- 

 ties of direct benefit to memliors of the 

 association in the matter of dollars and 

 cents than has any other department. We 

 are not informed as to exactly what Mr. 

 Hurlburt's duties will lie, but to place the 

 freight business of the entire association 

 into the hands, of such a competent man 

 as Ml-. Hurlbut certainly gives promise 

 of yielding splendid results. With a mem- 

 bership of 500 the National association 

 has probably a daily business of 1,000 

 ears of lumber, estimating the average 

 freight at .$7.5 a car, and the result is a 

 freight revenue for the railroads from 

 hardwood lumber of appro.ximately $2.5,- 

 000,000 annually. The management of 

 that amount of freight, with power to 

 handle it any way that will best serve the 

 interests of the members of the Xational 

 association, would certainly put Mr. Hurl- 

 but in position to secure the most favor- 

 able possible terms from the railroads. 



True to its traditions this traffic de- 

 partment will impose no financial obliga- 

 tion upon the association. It is offered to 

 the members as a convenience, to be used 

 by them if they so desire, and if not used 

 liy a member it costs him nothing. The 

 meml)ership dues in the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association will remain at 

 ?10 per annum. If a member wishes to 

 use the inspection bureau, he pays for its 

 services so much per thousand; if he 

 wishes to use the traffic department, he 

 pays for it at the rate of 1-lOth of 1 per 

 cent on his capital rating in Dun's Agency: 

 if he doesn't wish to use either the inspec- 

 tion bureau or the traffic department it 

 doesn't cost him a cent. The .$10 a year 

 which he pays goes to meet the running 

 expenses of the association, for the pub- 

 lishing of rules, conducting the secretary's 

 office, etc., and no lumberman can secure 

 the services of either the inspection bu- 

 reau or the traffic department unless he 

 be a member of the National association 



and contribute his $10 a year for general 

 expenses. 



We cannot say all we woyld like to say 

 about this new department of the associa- 

 tion, because we have not, as yet, positive 

 information as to what the scope of the 

 work will be, but we can see in it great 

 jiossilnlities; and sentiment of the lumber- 

 men who have discussed the matter in 

 this office during the last month is unani- 

 mously and enthusiastically in favor of 

 giving this department sufficient support 

 lliat a thorough test of its power for good 

 be made. Not a lumberman wliom we 

 have heard discuss the matter has failed 

 to assert that he is willing to pay his pro- 

 portion of the expense. We believe that 

 almost every hardwood lumberman iu Chi- 

 cago can be counted on for active support. 

 With its usual good fortune in securing 

 good men the association secured Mr. 

 Hurlbut. Those In best position to know 

 assert that he unquestionably stands at the 

 head of his line of business, not only as a 

 man having a thorough and practical 

 knowledge of railroad freights, but as an 

 organizer and a producer of results. 



We trust our readers will lend this 

 traffic department their heart.^ support. 

 The cost will not be excessive, and is so 

 arranged that it will not be heavy on any 

 except those best able to afford it. It will 

 cost a firm having $10,0ii0 capital $10 a 

 year, a firm having .$25,000 capital $25 

 per year. If a firm shipping 500 cars a 

 year place their freights in the hands of 

 the traffic department and it saves them 

 the small sum even of 50 cents a car, it 

 will mean a direct total saving to the firm 

 of .$250 a year, besides the general ben- 

 efit which will accrue from Mr. Hurlburt's 

 efforts in securing a better classification 

 for lumber, the absorbing of switching 

 charges etc. 



i Each member of the association should 

 join this Traffic Department. Following 

 is President Smith's letter to the trade: 



To the Members of the National HardwooLl 

 ' Lumber Association, 



Gentlemen: — By the unanimous vote of 

 the members of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association at a convention held 

 May loth and 10th in St. Louis, the presi- 

 dent was given authority to appoint a 

 ti-ansportation committee to formulate 

 and put into execution a plan for the es- 

 tablishment of a traffic department in 

 connection with this association. 



I herewith beg to inform you that this 

 committee is comjjosed of the following 

 members: W. H. Russe. chairman, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn.; C. R. Mengel. Louisville, Ky.; 

 Fred M\ Upham, Chicago, 111. ; F. M. Pos- 

 sell, Cincinnati, Ohio: J. M. Bullard, St. 



