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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Annual National Lumber Exporters' Association 



The eleventh annual convention of the 

 Kational Lumber Exporters' Association was 

 held at the Hotel Gayoso, Memphis, Tenn., 

 Thursday and Friday, January 19 and 20, 

 with President Harvey M. Dickson of Nor- 

 folk in the chair. The attendance was un- 

 usually large, there being delegates present 

 from practically every part of the country. 

 The meeting was very enthusiastic and was 

 pronounced one of the most successful in the 

 history of the organization. 



President Harvey Dickson, in his annual 

 address, dealt with conditions obtaining in 

 the export trade and referred with consider- 

 able emphasis to the work of the special com- 

 mittee, composed of himself, W. H. Eusse and 

 John L. Alcock of Baltimore, which went 

 abroad for the purpose of looking after cer- 

 tain features of the work of the organiza- 

 tion in Europe. He also dealt with the uni- 

 form bill of lading, for which the associa- 

 tion has worked for a number of years and 

 regarding which subsequent action was taken 

 by the association. He paid special compli- 

 ments also to Secretary Price and to Assistant 

 Secretary Palmer, declaring that, to their 

 untiring efforts, much of the success of the 

 organization during the past year was due. 



President Dickson also handled several other 

 subjects in masterly style, but his address was 

 not given out for publication and probably 

 will not be released for the trade press. 



The report of the treasurer, Ernest M. 

 Price of Baltimore, showed the financial con- 

 dition of the association to be better than 

 ever before. 



The only feature of the report of Secretary 

 Price made public was that regarding mem- 

 bership. It was stated that the organization 

 now has the largest membership in its his- 

 tory, and that the growth during the past 

 year was very gratifying to the association. 

 In a general way the reports of both the 

 secretary and the assistant secretary dealt 

 with the accomplishments of the past year, 

 the gist of which has been made public from 

 time to time through the trade papers. 

 Neither report was available for publication. 



One of the most interesting matters regard- 

 ing which action was taken was the decision 

 of the association to appoint a representative 

 to look after the work of the organization 

 abroad, a decision which grew largely out of 

 the report of the committee which made a 

 study of foreign conditions and which recog- 

 nized the desirability of such representation. 

 It was stated this representative would be 

 chosen at an early date, provided it were 

 possible to find a man who would answer the 

 requirements of the association. 



It was also decided to coiiperate with the 

 Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters' Association 

 in the efforts now being made by the latter 

 to secure a uniform bill of lading on lumber 

 alone. The National association has devoted 

 much of its time and attention to the im- 

 provements of ocean bills of lading, and it is 



determined to render to the Gulf Coast asso- 

 ciation all the assistance possible to the end 

 that its members may enjoy the greatest pos- 

 sible protection in the documents covering 

 their shipments to foreign countries. 



The association also voted to join the Na- 

 tional Classification Committee on lumber and 

 wooden box interests of the United States, 

 which has its headquarters in Memphis and 

 its secretary and treasurer iu the person of 

 Charles E. Brower of this city. This com- 

 mittee has for its purpose the securing of a 

 revised classification on wooden boxes so that 

 the rates on these may be more equitable as 

 compared with the rates now obtaining on 

 packages made of pasteboard, fiber and other 

 material. This question touches all branches 

 of the lumber industry, and it was because 



HARVEY M. DICKSON, NORFOLK, VA., RE- 

 ELECTED PRESIDENT] 



of this fact that the association took the 

 action already recorded. 



It was decided to recommend the appoint- 

 ment of C. W. Kobinson to fill the vacancy 

 on the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad 

 Commission. 



Eesolutions were adopted extending the 

 warmest thanks of the association to the 

 Memphis and Arkansas members, who ar- 

 ranged all details connected with the enter- 

 tainment of the visiting members, and who 

 did their work in a most acceptable manner. 



Eesolutions were also adopted in favor of 

 New Orleans as the place for holding the 

 Panama Canal Exposition. 



Election of Officers 



The election of officers resulted as follows: 



President — Harvey M. Dickson, Norfolk, re- 

 elected for the third time. 



First Vice-President — S. B. Anderson of the 

 Anderson-Tully Company, Memphis. 



Second Vice-President — F. E. Hoffman of the 

 Hoffman Brothers Company, Fort Wayne, Ind. 



Treasurer — Ernest M. Price, Baltimore, who 

 has held the position ever since the organiza- 

 tion of the association. 



Directors — Ludwig Hayman of the Hugo 

 Forcheimer Company, New Orleans ; T. B. Allen, 

 Galveston, Tex. ; Fred Arn of the J. M. Card 

 Lumber Company, Chattanooga ; Edward Barber 

 of Illingworth, Ingham & Co., Cincinnati and 

 Leeds ; John L. Alcock, Baltimore : George M. 

 Spiegel, Philadelphia ; G. A. Farber, London ; 

 W. M. Ritter, Columbus, O. ; W. II. Russe, Mem- 

 phis ; C. F. Korn, Cincinnati ; Frank F. Fee, 

 Little Rock, and Walter I. Hart of New York. 



The first four are new members, the others 

 having been re-elected. 



J. McD. Price was again appointed secre- 

 tary and L. Palmer assistant secretary. The 

 headquarters of the former will remain at 

 Baltimore and that of the latter at New 

 Orleans. 



No action was taken regarding the next 

 meeting place of the association. This will 

 be decided later by the board of managers, 

 as is the usual custom. 



Social Featuies 



The banquet tendered the visiting members by 

 the members from Memphis and Arkansas was 

 given at the Hotel Gayoso, Thursday evening 

 at 7 :,30. The large dining room and table were 

 beautifully decorated and an orchestra rendered 

 delightful music during the evening. Th* 

 menu was a splendid one and was thoroughly 

 enjoyed by all present. 



Included in the guest list were Norman G. 

 Wright of the Wright-Graham Company, Glas- 

 ,i,^ow, Scotland, and "Jack" Munro of H. J. 

 Munro & Co., Liverpool. The toastmaster later 

 explained that these gentlemen had come all 

 the way from their homes to attend this ban- 

 quet, and that they would return b.v the next 

 steamer. Max Sondheimer, who acted as toast- 

 master, was at his best and contributed very 

 largely to the enjoyment of the evening by 

 his humorous remarks, and his sallies of wit at 

 the expense of some of the gentlemen present. 

 Man.v toasts were drunk during the evening, 

 the first "to Memphis." being proposed by Presi- 

 dent Dickson. An "absence" toast was also 

 proposed for George M. Spiegel of Philadelphia, 

 and much regret was expressed over the fact 

 that he was not present. 



One of the first talks of the evening was made 

 by President Dickson, who deplored the fact 

 that he was not given to making humorous talks 

 and who also declared that he was not feeling 

 at all well. However, he gave the gentlemen 

 present a splendid account of the work of the 

 committee, of which mention has already been 

 made, referring feelingly to the good fellowship 

 of the brokers, importers and other interests who 

 entertained himself and his associates during 

 their stay in Europe, a fellowship which he had 

 accepted as a harbinger of closer relations and 

 more satisfactory accomplishments as between 

 the interests on both sides of the water. 



Mr. Munro spoke at length and made quite a 

 hit when he declared that, while the exporters 

 on this side and the brokers and importers on 

 the other side of the Atlantic were of different 

 nationalities, they were all descended from the 

 same race, the Anglo-Saxon, and stil! had a 

 great deal in common. He referred to the visit 

 of the delegation from the National Lumber 

 I^xporters' Association to Europe and recounted 

 how much pleasure it had given the importers, 

 brokers and other interests to act in the capacity 

 of hosts thereto. He paid the members of the 

 association a high compliment for what they 

 had done in the direction of correcting certain 

 ivils that had crept into the export trade, and 

 assured the members thereof that, if they ever 

 came to Europe again, they would receive just 

 as good treatment as on the previous occasion. 



