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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10, 1922 



(Continued from page 26) 

 The statistical reports submitted indicate a large increase in all associa- 

 tion activities, particularly the Credit Bureau. Since the annual meeting 

 17 applications from new members and other reinstatements of old mem- 

 bers were considered, putting the membership to date 525, compared with 

 513 a year ago. Three members were expelled for non-compliance with 

 by-law requirements. 



The committee attending the American Lumber Congress submitted a 

 complete report, the trustees expressing the hope that the congress could 

 function as a spokesman for the' lumber industry on fundamental matters, 

 such as standardization, and steps were taken to offer the co-operation of 

 the association toward this end. 



In the matter of lumber standardization. President Schuette announced 

 that according to the annual meeting action, he had appointed a committee 

 on lumber standardization. The secretary outlined the circumstances 

 which led to his conference with Secretary of Commerce Hoover, resulting 

 in an invitation to the committee to attend the preliminary conference at 

 Washington in May. The committee's report embodied in a bulletin to 

 members June 2, and the statement made by President W. H. Schuette 

 to the conference were approved. The delegation at Washington had 

 requested that hardwoods be considered separately from softwoods, since 

 which time the committee on lumber standardization recommended to the 

 trustees that they regarded the inspection rules of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association sufficiently satisfactory to make an additional stand- 

 ardization in hardwood lumber grades unnecessary. This was promptly 

 considered b.v the trustees, and Secretary Schupner dispatched the fol- 

 lowing telegram to Secretar.v of Conmierce Hoover. June 10 : 



"Our board of trustees, consisting of lumber producers and wholesalers, 

 has unanimously and emphatically endorsed the statement our president, 

 W. H. Schuette. made to the Standardization Conference on May 25 that 

 softwoods and hardwoods should be considered separately. Our trustees 

 believe that the inspection rules of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation now nationally and internationally used by the hardwood industry 

 and accepted by consumers and wood using industries make an additional 

 standardization in hardwood grades unnecessary. These standards and 

 inspection protection are the result of twenty-five years' effort, in which 

 consumers' interests and requirements have always received consideration 

 and the manner in which these rules are administered afford complete 

 protection to hardwood consumers." 



This was affirmed by the trustees, who further voted to co-operate with 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association in the carrying out of the 

 action previously taken at the hardwood convention seeking to co-operate 

 with the Secretary of Commerce in his standardization plants, in the spirit 

 of the above telegram sent to Mr, Hoover. At the second Standardization 

 Conference in Chicago, July 21-22, the association will be represented by 

 C. V. McCreight, chairman of the association's lumber standardization com- 

 mittee. 



On the matter of the hardwood sales code, P, S. Underhill. chairman 

 of the delegation, which appeared on behalf of the association at the 

 Chicago conference July 21, reported in detail. While it was recognized 

 the amended code was not a perfect instrument, it was regarded as a step 

 in the right direction, and the trustees voted to recommend the code to its 

 members, which is effective only as applied by buyers and sellers in their 

 contracts. 



It will be recalled at the annual meeting at Washington, a strong invita- 

 tion was received from the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion to hold the next anniml meeting in Pittsburgh. This was adopted by 

 the ti*ustees, the matter of time and other details of the meeting being 

 referred with power to the executive committee. 



McClure Names His Executive Committee 

 John W. McClure, president of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, has appointed his executive committee for the current year, as 

 follows : J. W. McClure, chairman, Memphis, Tenn. ; E. V. Babcock, 

 Pittsburgh, Pa. : Horace F. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y. : Charles A. Goodman, 

 Marinette, Wis. ; Charles H. Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind. ; Earl Palmer. 

 Memphis, Tenn. ; W. E. Chamberlin, Boston, Mass. 



With the Trade 



Baltimore Lumber Plants Heavily Damaged by Fire 



Lumber yards and wood working estaldishmonts in Baltimore suffered a 

 loss estimated at not less than $150,000 to $200,000 by fire on the evening 

 of June 23. There were, in fact, two fires. One of them started in the 

 factory of the Acme Box Company, at the southeast corner of Eden and 

 Fleet streets, late in the afternoon, from some unknown cause, and the 

 other broke out almost at the same time in the yard of the Shinnlck 

 Lumber Company, 720 South Carolina street. Both fires, because of the in- 

 flammable nature of the material which they had to feed on, spread 

 rapidly, sweeping away the hardwood yard of James J. Lannon. south- 

 west corner of Eden and AUccanna streets, adjoining the Acme Company 

 plant, and destroying also a freight shed of the American Express Com- 

 pany, at Lancaster and Caroline streets, while more or less damage was 



sustained by the factory of the H. D. Dreyer & Co.. Inc., at Aliceanua antl 

 Fleet streets. Various other himber establishments, among them those of 

 the James Lumber Company, the MacLea Lumber Company, Otto Duker & 

 Co., and the J. H. Duker Box Company, were threatened, but the work 

 of the fire department proved effective in saving these properties. The 

 loss on the plant of the Acme Company is estimated at $35,000 to $50,000, 

 on the Lannon yard at $50,000 ; on the Shinnlck Company plant, which 

 makes a specialty of ship ceiling, at $10,000 ; on the freight shed at $10,000. 

 and on the Dreyer factory at $5,000. Practically the entire loss is covered 

 b.v insurance, and arrangements have already been made to rebuild. 



Talge Company Fights Damage Suit 



The trial of the suit of Otto Burrows against the Talge Mahogany 

 Compan.v of Indianapolis, Ind., which was venued to Lebanon, Ind., is 

 being heard in that city. Five days of the last week of June were required 

 for the plaintiff to present testimony. According to the contention of the 

 plaintiff Burrows was injured in .\pril, 1916, while employed in the Talge 

 plant, when a piece of timber from a conveyor dropped on his head. He 

 claims that his injuries are permanent and is seeking to recover $25,000 

 damages. The case was tried in Lebanon four years ago and Burrows 

 received a judgment for $7,500. An appeal to the state supreme court 

 resulted in a reversal of the judgment and the case was sent back for 

 retrial. 



Byrd Company Formed in Indiana 



The Byrd Lumber Company has been incorporated at Marion. Ind., with 

 rr capital of $60,000. The directors of the company are Louis E. James, 

 Lillian C. Broadbent and Oscar C. Bradford. 



Indiana Rate Hearing Set for Mid July 



Continuance until fail of hearings on the demand ot Indiana manufac- 

 turers of furniture, agricultural implements and automobiles for the elim- 

 ination of what are said to be unfair freight rates on twenty-three trunk 

 lines operating from Chicago to the Pacific coast has been refused by 

 A. B. Cronk. chief of the rate division of the Indiana public service com- 

 mission. Hearings are scheduled to start before the middle of July, before 

 an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission at the Indianapolis 

 federal building. Mr. Cronk sent a letter Saturday to W. F. Cleveland, 

 Chicago, traffic manager of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, and 

 representative of the other railroads affected, saying that Indiana manu- 

 facturing concerns operating under the freight rate schedules are l^eing 

 discriminated against to such an extent that delay is impossible. 



A comparison of rates paid by Indiana and Illinois shippers is to be 

 presented at the hearings by the Oliver Plow Company, the Studebaker 

 Corporation, the Ft. Wayne Corrugated Paper Company and the Indiana 

 Furniture Manufacturers' Association, and representatives of manufac- 

 turers of Evansville, Indianapolis, Vincennes, Terre Haute, Richmonil and 

 a number of other Indiana cities. Probably the most important of the 

 hearings will be that on kitchen cabinet rates to points east of the Missis 

 sippi river. Alore than eighty per cent of the kitchen cabinets made in the 

 United States are made in Indiana, it is said. The rate on kitchen cabi- 

 nets is one and one-half times the rate charged against other articles of 

 furniture east of the Mississippi. To points west of the river, the cabinets 

 now carry the regular rates for furniture. The commission will seek a 

 regular rate on cabinets throughout the entire country. The commission 

 also will seek a lower rate affecting the Indiana log industry. 



MacLaren-Holcomb Nuptials 



On Wednesday evening, June 28, David B. MacLaren, well known hard- 

 wood lumber dealer, of Evansville, and Miss Helen LaClede Holcomb, also 

 of this city, were united in marriage, the ceremony having been performed 

 liy the Rev. A. M. Couchman, pastor of the Central Methodist Episcopal 

 church of Evansville. Mr. MacLaren has been engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness in this city for a number of years and formerly was the president of 

 the Evansville Lumbermen's Club. The bride is the daughter of the late 

 Silas M. Holcomb, of Fort Branch, Ind., and a sister of Judge Oscar 

 Holcomb, a member of the supreme bench of the state of Washington. 



Gus E. Bauman, of the G. E. Bauman Hardw'ood Lumber Compan.v of 

 Evansville. is back from a business trip to Memphis and the south and 

 reports that there has been some improvement in the trade situation in that 

 section of the state. 



Elmer D. Luhring. of the Luhring Lumber Company of Evan.?ville, has 

 been re-elected a director in the Mercantile-Commercial bank here. 



Newr Panama Highways to Increase Wood Imports to New 



Orleans 



With the completion within less than a year of a network of highways 

 which will open more than 1,000,000 acres of virgin hardwood forest on 

 tile west coast ot Panama, New Orleans will establish itself more firmly 

 :i-< one of the great world markets for precious woods, according to E. de la 

 I i>sa. consul general of Panama in the Crescent City. Panama City is the 

 trrminus for the roads under construction. They will extend for a dis- 

 tiince of approximately 150 miles into the mountains, which are said to 

 ci-ntain more than 145 varieties of hardwoods, consisting of mahogany, 

 walnut, rosewood, cedar and dyewood. Added to this wealth of forest 

 products are medicinal plants and herbs which have failed to find their way 

 to the markets of the outside world because of the inaccessibilit.v of tlie 

 ninimtain regions where they grow in abundance. The system of roads 

 now iieing constructed will make it possible to reach forests of great 

 extent and incalculable wealth, according to the New Orleans Pannnian 

 cousul general. 



