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Louis, the amount of hardwoods handled through 

 St. Louis offices, the amount of hardwods car- 

 ried in stocli in St. Louis, the amount of oak 

 and maple flooring carried in St. Louis. This 

 information is to be published in the form of 

 an advertisement in the leading lumber .iournals, 

 and the club to distribute these statistics in 

 the form of a leaflet of such dimension that all 

 members will be able to enclose a cop.v in every 

 outbound letter from his office, setting forth 

 thereon the advantage of St. Louis market, ad- 

 vising buyers all over the country that no matter 

 what they want or how they want a car 

 mixed, that St. Louis is the place where the 

 different commodities are carried in stock and 

 always to be had. 



Kindly give this your consideration and 

 greatly oblige. 



Yours respectfully, 



J. L. SCHEVE. 



Secretary Kessler then read letters from the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States and from the Southwestern Lum- 

 bermen's Association, inviting the members of 

 the club to attend their meetings. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



notable success. The chair appointed a commit- 

 tee composed of G. F. Kerns, E. H. Klann, 

 Edward Skeele, Lewis E. Starr and S. C. Ben- 

 nett to discuss the matter and report at the next 

 meeting. 



Another special committee was appointed by 

 the chair to look into the advisability of initiat- 

 ing some general terms of sale and a credit move- 

 ment. The committee is composed of F. P.. Me- 

 Mullen, George D. Griffith and A. H. Schoen. 



The Hardwood Exchange Defies Hoodoo 



The members of the Chicago Hardwood Lum- 

 ber exchange showed their contempt for the hoo- 

 doo of Friday, January 13, by holding their regu- 

 lar monthly meeting at the Union League Club on 

 that day. The meeting brought out some inter- 

 esting discussion, considerable of the time be- 

 ing taken by the report and a discussion of the 

 work of the Publicity Committee by Chairman 

 Ilarvey S. Hayden. 



Chairman O. O. Agler of the Trade Relations 

 Committee was the first speaker after luncheon, 

 the roll call and the reading of the minutes of 

 last meeting having been disposed of. Inasmuch 

 as another member of that committee had made 

 an informal report at the previous meeting Mr. 

 Agler spoke briefly. In referring to the adop- 

 tion of the recent tentative agreement, the speak- 

 er stated that his committee had met, in con- 

 junction with other lumbermen, four times with 

 the railroad officials. He reviewed the agreement 

 and analyzed it for the benefit of those present, 

 maintaining that while there were some provis- 

 ions which did not seem in accordance with the 

 rights of the lumbermen, it had seemed to the 

 committee that, in order to further the interests 

 not only of the lumber trade as a body, but of 

 Chicago industries as a whole, it was wise to 

 accept. The lumbermen and the brickmakers 

 were the last to hold out, and at this date prob- 

 ably there is no decided opposition to the pro- ■ 

 posed switching arrangement. 



Joseph Dion, the live chairman of the Mem- 

 bership Committee, showed that in the interim, 

 since the last meeting his workers have secured 

 seven new members : the Van Cleave Lumber 

 Company, represented by Fred S. Tarbell ; White 

 Brothers Lumber Company, represented by C. B. 

 White ; Konzen, Stumpf & Schafer Lumber Com- 

 pany, represented by J. L. Guabrio ; C. P. Marsh 

 & Co. ; Pike-Dial Lumber Company ; the Marshall 

 Lumber Company and Schultz Brothers & Cowan 

 Company, represented by James Cowau. All the 

 new members in attendance addressed the meet- 

 ing briefly. During the session the application 

 of the Kimball-Sullivan Lumber Company was 

 passed upon favorably. 



Chairman Hayden of the Publicity Committee 

 showed a printers proof of the booklet which has 

 been in the process of preparation for two months 

 and which is to be issued by the Exchange and 

 sent to producing points all over the country. 

 Mr. Ila.vden reviewed the various departments of 

 the pamphlet and asked for suggestions as to 

 mailing, etc. The book will be bound in veneer, 

 which will be stained to represent five different 

 hardwoods. Five thousand copies will be issued 

 on the original order. 



A suggestion which if ultimately carried out 

 will prove not only interesting, but a valuable 

 asset to the local lumber fraternity was ad- 

 vanced by one of the members who suggested the 

 advisability of a monthly report of sales to the 

 Exchange by the various members. This plan 

 has been followed by other organizations with 



Live Wire in the Eastern Field 



J. S. Ilickok, lumber purchasing agent for the 

 National Casket Company, 3 West Twenty-ninth 

 street. New York, is a valuable factor in the 

 eastern lumber field. His keen business judg- 

 ment and afl'able manner make him one of the 

 most popular men with the lumber selling end 

 of the hardwood trade. 



Mr. Ilickok began business in 1001 as book- 

 keeper w-ith A. Seaton & Son, Zelienople, Pa., 

 where he gradually worked bis way into the 

 outside field, and operated several portable mills, 

 including the making of oil barrel staves. Later 

 he became financially interested in several ven- 



J. S. HICKOK, PURCHASING AGENT FOR THE 



NATIONAL CASKET COMPANY, NEW 



YORK CITY. 



tures, but subsequently sold out. In May, 1909. 

 he went to Asheville, N. C, to take charge of 

 the lumber interests at that point for the Na- 

 tional Casket Compan.v, which erected an ex- 

 tensive dimension plant there, designed to con- 

 sume approximately 7,000,000 feet of chestnut, 

 oak and poplar per year. In March, 1010, he 

 was transferred to New York, where he makes 

 his headquarters at the above address. Mr. 

 Ilickok is making one of his regular visits to 

 the Asheville plant to size up conditions there. 



readers of the Record are familiar. lie fur- 

 ther stated that, in this organization of the 

 committee, it had secured the services of A. L. 

 Foster of the J, W. Thompson Lumber Com- 

 pany, to take personal charge of the work. 

 This action, it was explained, was taken upon 

 the recommendation of W, A. Percy, who will 

 be the attorney of the lumber interests before 

 the commission. Mr. Percy represented the 

 Memphis Hardwood Kate Association in the 

 old case before the commission involving the 

 transcontinental rate, and Mr. Foster was sec- 

 retary of that association, and therefore thor- 

 oughly familiar with the details of the case. Mr. 

 Foster will secure the necessary subscriptions 

 to defray the cost of appearing before the com- 

 mission and otherwise opposing the advance 

 of 10 cents per hundred pounds in the trans- 

 continental rate on hardwod lumber from Mem- 

 phis and Mississippi river points to Pacific coast 

 terminals. Shippers in the entire territory 

 affected will be asked for contributions because 

 of the importance of defeating this proposed 

 advance. Appearance before the commission will 

 be made March la, according to the arrange- 

 ments already made with that body. 



The entertainment committee, upon which de- 

 volved arrangements looking to the entertain- 

 ment of the delegates to the semi-annual con- 

 vention of the National Association of Box 

 Manufacturers to be held here February 13, 16 

 and IT. reported that it had decided that lunch- 

 eon would be served to the delegates by the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at noon on the 

 fifteenth and sixteenth, and that a theater party, 

 smoker or some other form of entertainment 

 would be provided for the evening of the six- 

 teenth. 



A letter was read from the secretary of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association inviting 

 the officers of the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis to its annual at Cincinnati, January 31-Feh- 

 ruary 1. The communication was acknowl- 

 edged with thanks and a committee was ap- 

 pointed, of which F. E. Gary of the Baker 

 Lumber Company, was made chairman, to ascer- 

 tain the number of delegates from Memphis to 

 this convention and to make arrangements for 

 the trip. 



The subject of rates from Arkansas and 

 Louisiana points to the gulf brought up by 

 Howard E. Coles of the Bliss-Cook Oak Com- 

 pany, was referred to the River & Rail Com- 

 mittee, which is to make an Investigation thereof 

 and report at the next meeting. 



A letter was read from former President 

 S. C. Major thanking the members of the 

 club for the handsome floral offering presented 

 on the occasion of the recent death of his wife, 

 and also for the resolutions of sympathy adopted 

 unanimously by the club at the last meeting. 



T. D. Nellis, manager of the newly opened 

 yards of John M. Woods & Co., Boston, and 

 J. H. Stannard, local manager of the G. W. 

 Jones Lumber Company, Applcton, Wis., were 

 elected to active membership. 



Semi-Monthly Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The attendance at the i-egular semi-monthly 

 mei'ting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, 

 held at the Hotel Ga.voso January 21, was larger 

 than for some time, there being more than 

 seventy-five present. President James E. Stark 

 was in the chair. The usual luncheon was 

 served. 



The most important feature of the meeting 

 was the report of the Rl%-er & Rail Committee 

 through L. W. Ford. He stated that this com- 

 mittee had met and had organized as a separate 

 body from the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis in 

 order that it might properly take up the fight 

 before the Interstate Commerce Commission in 

 the transcontinental rate case with which 



Meeting Evansville Lumbermen's Club 



The monthly meeting of the Evansville Lum- 

 bermen's Club was held on the night of January 

 10. with Secretary Geo. O. Worland recording. 



After the disposal of regular business, officers 

 for the ensuing year were elected as follows : 

 Bedna Young of Young & Cutsinger, president ; 

 D. B. MacLaren of D. B. MacLaren & Co., first 

 vice-president ; F. W. Rietz of Clemens Reltz 

 Sons, second vice-president, and Elmer D. 

 Luhring of the Wolflin-Luhring Lumber Com- 

 pany, secretary. The directors of 1910 were 

 re-elected to serve during 1011. 



O. W. McCowen. the retiring president, gave 

 a forceful talk, in which he advocated the 

 keeping of a bureau where information on 

 credits and business standing could be ex- 

 changed by the different clubs. Mr. McCowen 

 said that several cases had come under his 



