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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Election of Officers 



The Committee on Xomiiuitions recom- 

 mended the following gentlemen tor office for 

 the ensuing year: 



n-esifli-nt — E. A. Swain, Sholliyvillp. 



Vlce-l'resident — Van 15. IVTrine, Foil Wayne. 



Secretary — C II. Krann-i-. Kiclunoini. Ind. 



Treasurer — James Llucldpy, I'r<M»k\ille, Ind. 



Directors — C. II. Bainaby, ilrci'ncastle ; George 

 ralmer, Sheridan. Ind.; W. A. ilntliiie, Indian- 

 apolis, Ind.; .7. V. Stimson, IIu^^in^burg ; Sam 

 Burliholdfr, rrawford.svillc" ; 1). V. Snain. Shel- 

 iiyville ; Claude Maley, Evansville ; .1. M. Pritch- 

 ard. Indianapolis; C. A. Wood, Munsey ; Frank 

 (Jalbraitli, Sunman ; Haines Egbert. Goshen ; W. 

 W. Kuii;ht. Indianapolis : Bedna Youns. Evans- 

 viUi' : Walter Crim, Salem, and George Waters 

 of ?;('W I'alestine. 



The report of this committee was unani- 

 mously accepted, and the gentlemen placed in 

 nomination by the committee declared officers 

 of the association for the coming year. 



President Swain stated that the association 

 had received an invitation from the Evans- 

 ville Lumbermen's Club suggesting that the 

 next annual meeting of the association should 

 take place at that city. The question called 

 forth considerable debate both for and against 

 the proposed change, but upon vote of the 

 association it was decided that the next meet- 

 ing take place at Evansville, Ind. 



Eesolutions presented by W. W. Knight of 

 Indianapolis and J. M. Pritchard of Mem- 

 phis relative respectively to the conviction of 



ilr. Harlan and others of the Jackson Lum- 

 ber (.'ompany on tlie peonage charge, recom- 

 mending a lenient policy to the president, and 

 New Orleans as the logical point for the com- 

 ing Panama Exposition, were adopted. This 

 i-losed tlie business before the meeting, which 

 tlien adjourned. 



The Banquet 



The annual banquet of the association took 

 place in the evening at the Denison hotel, 

 ilore than 150 were in attendance and en- 

 joyed an excellent dinner, accompanied aud 

 followed by songs, speeches and orchestral 

 entertainment. 



President E. A. Swain of Shelbyville intro- 

 duced F. A. Diggins of Cadillac, Mich., presi- 

 dent of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, who after a few pleasantries 

 said that in following up the conservation 

 policy he hoped that tlie Indiana association 

 would not follow in the footsteps of Michigan, 

 which state attempted to do in an artificial 

 way what nature had refused to do under 

 natural conditions, namely, planting pine on 

 barrens where trees were never meant to grow. 

 Mr. Diggins, however, maintained that Mich- 

 igan stood first in utilization, which policy he 

 maintained was the keynote of conservation. 

 He described the work of the Michigan Hard- 



nis reiatne respectively to tiie cotivictioii oi rie tiescriueu iiie worK oi tue .\iicnigan ritirti- 



Fourth Annual Chicago Wholesale 



Association 



The University Club of Chicago was se- 

 lected as the convening place for the fourth 

 annual dinner and meeting of the Chicago 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers ' Association Sat- 

 urday evening, January 14, E. A. Thornton, 

 chairman of the Entertainment Committee, 

 arranged for a most delightful repast, and 

 before the dinner hour was the host to those 

 members of the lumber fraternity who were 

 fortunate enough to be able to visit the gen- 

 eral lounging room. 



Following the dinner President Mickle 



brought the meeting to order by calling for 



the roll and the reading of the minutes of 



the last meeting by Secretary Charles West- 



cott. In his own address, which follows, he 



pleaded for a fuller attendance at the regular 



meetings, among other suggestions: 



President's Address 



Our association is now closing the third year 

 ol! its existence. It is well at this time to cast 

 our eyes backward in review so that we may see 

 what has been accomplished tor the benent of 

 our members, and also to look to the future 

 with :i view to correct such mistakes as we may 

 have made aud to further strengthen our organi- 

 zation. The reports of the secretary and treas- 

 urer will give you in detail full information as 

 10 our Qnancial condition and the present status 

 of all matters of interest pertaining to our work, 

 hut there are a few subjects that I would like 

 to touch upon in a general way for the purpose 

 of bringing them to your particular attention for 

 discussion. 



MEMBEItSUIP 



When our association was organized three 

 years ago we started with a membership of about 

 twent.v concerns. Owing to a clause of our by- 

 laws as to eligibility we are restricted to a great 

 extent in taking in new members, but we have 

 progressed until we now have forty six members 

 in good standing. A short time ago your mem- 

 bership committee carefully went over a list of 

 Chicago houses and it was found tluit we have 

 nearly all of the eligible wholesalers as mem- 

 bers. There are possibly seven to ten that might 

 '"» added to our list, so that the conclusion we 

 come to is that fifty is about the limit of mem- 



liership that we can expect under our present 

 bylaws. This would give us an income of ap- 

 proximately ,$1,000 annuatly. That income is 

 sufficient to conduct the association on lines sim- 

 ilar to those of the past, having our monthly 

 luncheons, etc., but it is not enough to enable 

 us to continue our inspection bureau, which is 

 running behind. Some plans should be devised at 

 once either to place our inspection department 

 on a self-sustaining basis or to discontinue it. 



ilany of our members are handling hardwoods 

 and western and northern lumber who derive no 

 benefit from the bureau and it is not fair to 

 them to use to the extent that we have the 

 general funds for the maintenance of this de- 

 partment. If we had an inspector who is famil- 

 iar with the various woods, possibly there would 

 be sufficient work to pay expenses. 



ASIALGAIIATION 



It would, perhaps, be well at this time to re- 

 mind you of a proposition which came up some 

 time ago — the consolidation of our association 

 with the Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange 

 and the Lumbermen's Association. You will re- 

 member that this matter was fully discussed at 

 one of our meetings last year and a sentiment 

 seemed to prevail against it, which was based 

 to a great extent on the ground that it would 

 weaken our inspection department. In consider- 

 ing the matter further there are several points 

 to which 1 desire to call your attention. First, 

 that in order for our association to accomplish 

 any great result we should have a paid secretary, 

 one capable of handling its affairs and who could 

 devote his entire time to them. Our members 

 all have as much as they can attend to in looking 

 after their own affairs and it is too much to ex- 

 pect them to give largely of their time to asso- 

 ciation work. The Lumbermen's Association, as 

 you know, employs a secretary, and if we should 

 amalgamate with it wa would have the benelit of 

 his services. Another thing ; this would make 

 our inspector available to all members of the 

 other associations and would, no doubt, give him 

 all the work he could do. 



We will have a report later from the special 

 committee which has this matter in hand and I 

 hope you will give it your earnest consideration. 



Monthly Luncheons 

 .\notbcr matter 1 wish to speak of is our 

 monthly luncheons. There are a good many of 

 our members who do not attend regularly. It 

 seems to me that one of the greatest benefits to 

 be derived from our association is the friendly 

 feeling which develops from frequently meeting 

 the men witli whom we are in daily competition. 

 An hour or two a month spent in this way will 

 do you good. Besides that, it is encouraging to 

 your officers and committeemen to feel that you 



wood Manufacturers' Association and ex- 

 tended a cordial invitation to the Indiana 

 association to attend its coming meeting. 



Lewis Doster of Cincinnati, secretary of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States, spoke in highly compli- 

 mentary terms of the character of his hosts as 

 lumbermen and of the body which they com- 

 posed, and extended a hearty invitation to 

 the pending meeting of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association at Cincinnati. 



J. M. Woods of Boston reminisced along 

 the lines of his early association with the 

 Indiana lumber business, and then told some- 

 thing of the history and condition of the lum- 

 l>er business in his home state of Massachu- 

 setts. 



John M. Pritchard of Memphis invited the 

 attending members to be present at the an- 

 nual meeting of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association at Memphis in June, promis- 

 ing them a royal good time. Other enter- 

 tainers were John M. Seatcherd of Buffalo, 

 who maintained that a tree is of little import- 

 ance unless properly utilized; Douglas Mal- 

 loch, the lumberman poet; Harry Porter, pro- 

 fessional vaudeville artist, and an excellent 

 male quartette. E. V. Stewart of Indian- 

 apolis rendered some excellent vocal selections. 



Lumber Dealers' 



are sufficiently interested in their work to come 

 around and hear what they are doing. At a 

 great many of our luncheons we have had postal 

 acceptances from forty to forty-five and only 

 twenty to twenty-five present, showing that some 

 (if our members have good intentioiis, but are 

 easily sidetracked. 



We will now proceed with our general order 

 ef business, but before doing so I desire to ex- 

 tend my thanks to you for your support during 

 the year in which I have served as your presi- 

 <leut. It is an honor which 1 fully appreciate. 

 I also want to thank the directors and commit- 

 teemen for the efforts and loyalty at all times, 

 and especially to our worthy secretary. He has 

 (lone most of the work and always has been on 

 the .job. 



The president then called on Secretary 

 Charles Westcott, who stated that the receipts 

 for the year had been $3,377.31; the disburse- 

 ments, $3,045.33, leaving a balance to the 

 credit of the association of $331.98. In his 

 report Mr. Westcott outlined the work of 

 t)ie association during the past year and told 

 of its accomiilishments socially and along the 

 lines of the betterment of the trade. He 

 called attention to the work pertaining to 

 jiublicity, inspection, railroad demurrage and 

 switching, amalgamation and increase in mem- 

 bership, laying particular stress along the 

 latter. 



Eeport of Standing Committees 



The various standing committees then sub- 

 mitted their yearly reports. George Pope, 

 cliairman of the Trade Eelations Committee, 

 review'ed exhaustively the standing of the 

 inspection bureau on yellow pine, and was 

 followed by an extended general discussion 

 of that subject. 



So pertinent to the trade was the report of 

 ]•:. H. Dalbey of the Railroad Committee that 

 a motion was passed requesting the trade press 

 to publish it in full. It was as follows: 



