HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



H. M. A. "Doings" 



The secretary of the Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association of the United States reports 

 an unusually large number of concerns Joining 

 the organization since the last annual meeting 

 held at Cincinnati. 



The organization has loeated a new official 

 Inspector of the association at Nashville and 

 Memphis to take care of the work of eastern 

 Tennessee. 



The secretary reports that members announce 

 a manifest shortage in red gum and all grades 

 and thicknesses of I'/i-inch and I'/j-inch No. 2 

 Common plain white oak. A meeting of the 

 Executive Board of the Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association is scheduled for Saturday, Oc- 

 tober 29, at the association's offices at Cincin- 

 nati, before which a largo amount of detailed 

 work will come. 



Nashville Lumbermen's Club Amends Cum- 

 berland Kiver Log Kules 



On Saturday. October 8. a special called meet- 

 ing of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club was held 

 in the Board of Trade rooms In the Stahlman 

 building at two-lhirly in the afternoon. The 

 meeting was called at the request of the Log 

 Committee, which is composed of the following 

 gentlemen : S. Lieberman of Lleberman, Love- 

 man & O'Brien, chairman ; .T. R. McIIwaine of 

 the Southern Lumber & M.inufacturing Company 

 and Marvin Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 The specific need for the meeting was to con- 

 sider certain changes in the Cumberland river 

 rules for .grading logs, which in the opinion of 

 the committee were advisable in view of the 

 large number of small and defective logs which 

 are now found in the river rafts, as compared 

 with the larger ones received in the past. 



Immediately after the meeting was called to 

 order by President A. B. Ransom, J. R. McII- 

 waine, acting chairman of the Log Committee, 

 was called upon for his report. He stated that 

 the committee desired to submit a change in 

 one clause of the rules, which it seemed would 

 protect buyers of river logs at Nashville. The 

 clause referred to in the old rules was as fol- 

 lows : 



All logs shall be measured at both ends. 

 When there is a variation of one inch .in the 

 diameter, the least end shall be taken as the 

 measurement of the log; if a variation of two 

 inches, the number of inches shall be divided ; 

 if three inches, the number of inches shall be 

 divided as if only two inches ; if four inches, the 

 diameter shall be divided : but if the difference 

 exceeds four inches, it shall be divided as if 

 only four inches. 



This paragraph was changed to read : 



All logs shall be measured at both ends, and 

 the small end of the log shall be considered as 

 the measurement of the log. 



The report as submitted was adopted after 

 considerable discussion. It was brought out in 

 the meeting that Nashville lumbermen as a whole 

 feel that they arc paying too much for logs, 

 those received both by river and rail. 



Secretary Ewlng was instructed to have a 

 thousand copies of the Cumberland River Log 

 Rules printed as amended for distribution. The 

 question of comfortable headquarters for the 

 club was also brought up. but as this was 

 merely a special meeting of the club it was de- 

 cided to bold this matter over until a regular 

 meeting. 



Monthly Meeting Philadelphia Exchange 



The regular monthly meeting of the Phila- 

 delphia Lumbermen's Exchange was held on 

 October 6. Luncheon was served by ,Tacob 

 Wiener, from 12 AS to 1 ;45 p, m., soon after 

 which the meeting was called to order. Frank- 

 lin A. Smith, .Tr., president, occupied the chair. 

 Oeorge A. Howes, chairman of the office and en- 

 tertainment committee, reported verbally that 

 the annual baseball game and the fall outing 

 to Glen Summit Springs were great successes. 



The railroads and transportation committee, 

 in a -written report, recommended that this 

 exchange co-operate in the movement to secure 

 lower freight rates on goods shipped in wooden 



packages than on same kind of goods shipped 

 in paper packages. The committee submitted a 

 copy of a letter written by It to the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission protesting against the 

 action of southern railways in increasing the 

 minimum weight of a car of lumber from :14,000 

 pounds to 40,000 pounds. Recommendation en- 

 dorsed. 



The committee on spruce grading rules sub- 

 mitted a written report recommending the adop- 

 tion of the rules adopted by the Spruce Manu- 

 facturers' .\ssocia1ion, ,7anuary 25, 11)10, pro- 

 vided that the association will make certain 

 changes in those rules ; if the changes are not 

 made, th-e committee believes "that the interests 

 of the spruce trade in the city of Philadelphia 

 and vicinity would best be served by the adop- 

 tion and use, in the purchase and sale of spruce 

 lumber, of the grading rules promulgated by 

 your committee and submitted to the exchange 

 on the second day of June, 1011," Action on 

 the report was deferred and a copy ordered sent 

 to the Spruce Manufacturers' Association. 



Reports were read by the delegates who repre- 

 sented this exchange at the third annual con- 

 vention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways As- 

 sociation, held at Providence, R. I., August .'il 

 to September 3, and at the second National Con- 

 servation' Congress, held at St. Paul, Minn.. 

 September 5 to i). Both reports were received 

 and a vote of thanks extended to the delegates. 



Resolution was adopted urging the importance 

 of a sea level canal, 18 feet in depth with a 

 width of 125 feet at the bottom, between the 

 Delaware river and New York bay. A copy of 

 the resolution was ordered sent to the Hon. J. 

 Hampton Moore of Philadelphia, also to Col. 

 W. M. Black, Corps of United States Engineers, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Annual of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Association 



The twenty-lilth anniversary of the organiza- 

 liou of the New York Lumber Trade Association 

 was celebrated at the association's headquarters. 

 IS Broadway, New York, on Wednesday after- 

 noon, Oitober ID. A full attendance was pres- 

 ent and the gathering was one of the most en- 

 .ioyable and enthusiastic the organization ever 

 had. 



In the report of the Board of Trustees the 

 membership was congratulated on the satisfac- 

 tory conditions in all departments of the asso- 

 ciation, the favorable outlook for the immediate 

 future and for the fact that the organization is 

 entering upon the twenty-fifth year of its useful 

 existence. The total membership of the organ- 

 ization consists of 109 retailers, 107 whole- 

 salers and 17 non-residents. 



Considerable attention was given to the credit 

 system which is operated by the association. 

 This system is being used freely by the members 

 and is found of great value to them. The total 

 number of claims reported since the inaugura- 

 tion of the system reaches $441,018.42, and the 

 amount collected .'5213,221.63, or about 48 per 

 cent of the entire amount. Last year the amount 

 collected for members aggregated $9,000, and 

 there was no legal aid required whatever. As 

 chairman of the Committee on Trade Relations 

 James Sherlock Davis presented an interesting 

 report. He referred particularly to poachers as 

 an evil to be given special treatment. 



The report of the Committee on Legislation 

 stated that it had, through the secretary, ex- 

 amined over four thousand bills which were pre- 

 sented at the last session of the state legisla- 

 ture and had given particular attention to any 

 and all of these which seemed detrimental to the 

 best interests of the trade. 



The Inspection Committee reported that its 

 field of the association work was in very satis- 

 factory condition. During the past year the 

 organization has adopted rules governing the 

 inspection of spruce, short leaf pine and hard- 

 woods, so that grading within this organization 

 is more general than ever before. 



The finances of the association were reported 

 in good shape by the treasurer. 



The election of officers and trustees resulted 

 as follows : 



President — Russell Johnson Perrlne. 



Vice President — .lohn F. Sleeves. 



Second Vice President — Frederick \V. Starr. 



Treasurer — Charles F. Fischer. 



Trustees — Russell Johnson Perrlne, John F 

 Steoves, Frederick W, Starr, Charles F. Fischer 

 David M. Resseguie. John L. Cutler, William P. 

 Youngs, Isaac F. Vanderbeek, (.TU.y I-oomis, Will- 

 iam S. Wondell, Hanunond Talbot, (Julian Ross 

 Richard S. White. Rowland McClave, Louis Bos 

 serf, James U. i'ltlinger, John Egan, William 

 H. SImonson, Arthur P. Bigelow, Albro J. New- 

 ton, Christopher W. Wilson, Elbert M. Wiley, 

 Peter A. Smith. John J. Cooney, Edwin D. Mac 

 Murray, Waldron Williams, George C. r^awery, 

 William F. Clarke, John C. Creveling, William 

 S. Van Cllef, Allan H. Church. Treadwell D. Car- 

 |]enter, Patrick Moore, Jamts Sherlock Davis and 

 Thomas J. Croobie. 



Meeting St. Lotus Lumbermen's Club 



The October meeting of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of St. Louis was held in tlie Turkish Parlor of 

 the Planters Hotel, Thursday evening. October 

 20. As usual dinner was served about 7 o'clock 

 and the business meeting followed. 



The meeting was presided over by Julius 

 Seidel, in the absence of the president and vice- 

 pi-esldents. The speaker of the evening was 

 Roger N. Baldwin, secretary of the Civic League 

 of St. Louis. He spoke on civic affairs. 



J. R. Moorehead, a Lexington, Mo., lumber- 

 man, then followed. He discussed the lumber 

 business from the retailer's end and spoke of 

 the danger from the catalogue houses. 



During the evening a resolution, pledging the 

 support of the club and the members against 

 the prohibition movement, and to work for the 

 defeat of the prohibition amendment, was passed- 



Among those present were : 



W. W. Dings, Garretson-Greason Lumber Co. 



J. S. Garretson, Garretson-Greason Lumber Co. 



William Dings. 



Julius Seidel, Julius Seidel Lumber Co. 



Frank Goepel, Chicago Lumber & Coal Co. 



C. L. Robinson, Chicago Lumber & Coal Co. 



J. F. Schneiders, Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. 



J. B. Kessler, secretary. 



Lee Caruthers, Kirby Lumber Co. 



Hans Wachsmuth. 



R. S. Price, Missouri Lumber and Land Ex 

 change Co. 



R. C. Fine. 



C. B. Colborn. Dermott, Ark. 



Louis Esslg, St. Louis Lumber Co. 



J. W. Putnam, St. Louis Lumber Co. 



S. .T. Gavin, St. Louis Lumber Co. 



Hendrick Foionie, Hogg-Harris Lumber Co. 



Geo. R. Hogg, Hogg-Harris Lumber Co. 



Marshall Rust, Hogg-Harris Lumber Co. 



Charles J. Harris, Hogg-Harris Lumber Co. 



C. F. Querl, Querl-Schnelle Lumber Co. 



W. H. Elbrlng, Newman Lumber Co. 



Ira S. Wadleigh. 



J. G. Knebel, Corlena Lumber & Coal Co., Cor 



F.' G. Ha'nley, F. G, Hanley Cypress Co. 



Henry Roemer, 



A. V. L. Ashby, National Lumber Mfgrs. Credit 

 Corporation. 



A. H. Bush, secretary Lumbermen's Exchange. 



E. C. Robinson, E. C. Robinson Lumber Co. 



G. B. Fulton, Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Co. 



G. W. Petrle, Louisiana Red Cypress Co. 



Thos. W. Frey, Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Co. 



Frank J. Liebke. 



Richard Holekamp, Holekamp Lumber Co. 



J. Bright, Tremont Lumber Co. 



H. W. Wagon, Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. 



Wm. M. Stewart. 



J. L. Benas, Waidstein Lumber Co. 



V. C. Harrington, T. E. Powe Lumber Co. 



Roland F. Krebs, Krebs-Schreve Lumber Co. 



W. M. Klemk, Julius Seidel Lumber Co. 



Hugh Jones, J. F. Ball & Bro. Lumber Co. 



C. E. I^rice, Wm. Buchanan. 



A. J. Harris, Harris Lumber Co. 



Model Flooring Plant Starts Operation 



What Is said to be one of the largest and 

 finest hardwood flooring plants in the world has 

 Just been started up in Michigan. This factory 

 is located at Menominee and belongs to the J. 

 W. Wells Lumber Company of that city. Prep- 

 arations for building the plant were under way 

 prior to October, 1909, when the company's 

 sawmill at Menominee was destroyed by fire. 



