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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 



1922 



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National Opens Inspection to Consumers 



The inspection service of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation was opened to consumers on September 22. This was the 

 result of unanimous action taken by the executive committee of 

 the association at a meeting, with a full attendance, held in Chicago 

 on that date. 



For more than a year the executive committee and board of 

 directors had had this plan under consideration, desiring to work 

 out a practicable plan whereby consumers of hardwood lumber 

 might secure official National inspection on direct application. 



The annual address of Horace F. Taylor, former president, deliv- 

 ered at the twenty-fifth annual convention, contained some sug- 

 gestions along this line, and the report of the committee on officers' 

 reports referred these recommendations to the executive committee. 



The formal notice of the opening of the service to consumers, 



sent out by Frank F. Fish, secretary-treasurer, follows: 



Following the suggestion contained in the annual address of former 

 President Ta.ylor, that a method be adopted by which buyers of lumber not 

 members of the association may obtain the privilege of National Inspection, 

 the executive committee of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 authorizes the following procedure : 



That application for this class of inspection be made to the executive 

 office of the National Hardwood Lumber Association with a complete state- 

 ment of the facts surrounding the transaction, and if the desired inspec- 

 tions can be made without transgressing any of the established rules of 

 the association, it be arranged for and carried into effect with the under- 

 standing that a reasonable charge shall be made by the association for 

 its services, to cover cost of same, which charge shall be borne by the 

 party applying for the inspection ; this arrangement to continue in effect 

 until rescinded by the board of managers of the association, in case Its 

 application appears impracticable. 



Institute Holds Regional Meeting 



Eepresentatives of more than fifty hardwood manufacturing 

 establishments of Louisiana, a majority of whom were executives, 

 met at Alexandria in that state on September 22, with J. M. 

 Pritchard, secretary-manager of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Institute, and chief of their inspection department, to discuss the 

 inspection service of the institute and formulate plans for inter- 

 pretations of the rules so that the manufacturers may plan the 

 work from the stump to the shipping department in such a way 

 as to reduce loss to the minimum for the general benefit of the 

 public, the trade and the manufacturers themselves. Mr. Pritchard 

 opened the discussion with an illustrated talk, in which he gave all 

 the most accepted practical economies, new to many of the manu- 

 facturers, first, of cutting the logs; second, of sawing in its many 

 details and, third, the inspection, making suggestions to enable all 

 departments to better do their work with a view toward the final 

 accomplishment of putting out the finished product to meet the 

 requirements of the fabrication. 



Cutting logs in the past has been done with a view toward get- 

 ting the longest possible cuts, but Louisiana and Texas manufac- 

 turers say that in the future they will insist that their logs be cut 

 with a view toward getting as much as possible of the lumber of 

 even grade in the same piece, with the better qualities at the butt 

 and the worst at the top. Much information was disseminated 

 both by Mr. Pritchard and the manufacturers themselves about 

 how to saw the logs in such a manner as to get the most quality 

 and quantity when not at the sacrifice of quality. It developed 

 that the different mills had used quite varied methods of handling 

 different types of logs, as well as in the use of j)reserving the lum- 

 ber after it had been sawed. There has been no attempt at estab- 

 lishing any new inspection rules, according to Mr. Pritchard, but the 

 work here was merely to better acquaint all the manufacturers 



with the interpretations and to familiarize all with the most 

 efficient methods of meeting them without loss of resources. All 

 those present at the conference were invited to be the guests of 

 Hillyer-Deutseh-Edwards, Inc., Oakdale, La.; Sherrill Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Merry ville. La.; Ferd Brenner Lumber Company 

 and Brewer Nienstedt of Alexandria to a luncheon at the Hotel 

 Bentley, where the meetings were held. Mr. Pritchard made a brief 

 speech after the luncheon, in which he outlined the idea behind the 

 institute. He assured everyone that the time has come when the 

 ultimate consumer must be given serious consideration and an abso- 

 lutely square deal, and that the greatest work of the institute will 

 be to build up a service that will make the hardwood business an 

 open and aboveboard affair, with efficient service to all parties 

 concerned in any manner. 



H. D. Edwards, chairman of the Louisiana membership commit- 

 tee, read a report that showed Louisiana well up with its percentage 

 of memberships in the institute. A part of the afternoon was spent 

 at the yards of the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, where prac- 

 tical inspections were made and discussed. This brought out many 

 interesting and none too well understood practices in modern 

 inspection work. 



Thomas H. Welsh Succumbs to Heart Disease 



Thomas H. Welsh of the Welsh Brothers Lumber Company died 

 here September 21 from violent illness attributable to heart dis- 

 ease, from which he had suffered for several years. Interment of 

 his remains took place in Calvary cemetery the following day, after 

 celebration of requiem mass and funeral services from the resi- 

 dence of his brother, J. W. Welsh. 



The deceased came to Memphis about twenty years ago and 

 remained with the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company at its 



