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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. E. DELANEY, CINCINNATI, O., FIRST 

 VICE-PRESIDENT 



C. L. KITTER, HUNTINGTON, W. VA. 

 VICE PRESIDENT 



SECOND 



C. M. CRAWFORD, COAL GROVE, 0., 

 TREASURER 



The ninth annual convention of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States was held at the Sinton Hotel, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesdaj' and Wednesday, January 31 and 

 February ], 1911. 



MORNING SESSION, JANUARY 31 



The oppuinj^ session was called to order in the convention hall 

 of the Sinton Hotel at 11 o'clock a. m., President K. M. Carrier in 

 the chair, and Secretary Lewis Doster recording. 



President Carrier: Gentlemen of the convention, we are doubly 

 honored today, first in being able to meet here in Cincinnati; and 

 second'^ in being welcomed by the honorable mayor of this city, 

 Dr. Louis Schwab, whom I have the pleasure to introduce to you. 



Address of 'Welcome by Dr. Louis Schwab 



Mr. Prfsiilont, ladies and gentlemen, your president recalls the fact 

 that you met in our cit.y about a year ago ; and I was of the impression 

 that it was then my privilege and pleasure to look into your faces and 

 try to creep into your hearts and become part of your affections : but he 

 told me that I was not the man that welcomed you at that time, but it 

 was the vice-mayor. I perhaps had in mind a lumber convention of some 

 other brand than yours. It seems that your interests are divided and 

 sub-divided into various classifications just like all other organizations 

 are. But just the same I want to say that I am glad to bo permitted 

 to be with you this morning, and to see such an interest manifested" in 

 the business which calls you together. 



Unhappily I am not fortified this morning with an address such as I 

 see your president has in store for you : so that whatever shortcomings 

 .vou may notice in me I feel quite sure will be made up when you hear 

 from him. fApplause.] 



You are interested in the hardwood manufacture. A few days ago I 

 ln(]uired of Mr. Dulweber, who is one of cur townsmen, what hardwood 

 manufacture meant, and found that it did not mean the manufacture of 

 wares, of which hardwood is a component part, as I had judged that it 

 meant, lie told me that that was not correct, but that you dealt largely 

 with the working up of the timber. But I think that everybody is inter- 

 ested in woods of every variety, because it I understand it, one of the 

 purposes of your convention, and that which brings you together, is to 

 classify these various timbers into their relative values, and that in that 

 classification it turns out that what possibly was considered high-grade 

 lumber in years gone by, and what was then considered common, will now 

 probably have to shift iJositions. [Applause, and a voice, "He is a lum- 

 berman, sure."] And I suppose that that largely is because of the 

 scarcity of the article, so that the price of the ordinary may be brought 

 lip to what the price of the extraordinary was in times gone by. 

 I Applause.] 



There is nothing tliat seems so sad to contemplate as the remarkable 

 destruction of our forests, and I know that probably this interests you 

 more than it does the ordinary individual who has but a superficial idea 

 of the magnitude of this great interest. During the past summer while 

 in Michigan I stood amazed before a great conflagration which destroyed 

 a mill that was right out in the woods on a little stream that connected 

 two lakes. It took fire about noontime. Roundabout there were piles 

 and piles and piles of newly cut maple, and the extent of the destruction 

 there seemed pitiful 'away off in that little isolated village, which was 



without any protection against the ravages of fire, so that in the course 

 of half a day there was destroyed upwards, I think, of three million feet 

 of splendid timber. Now that was pitiful enough, because it had already 

 been prepared for market ; but what are we to think of the vast destruc- 

 tion of timber that occurs in the uncut condition in which you perhaps 

 are vastly more interested than any one else? 



What your real purpose in coming together outside of the immediate 

 business in hand of course is with you. You come here, I suppose, to 

 increase your friendly relations with each other. You come here to grasp 

 each other by the hand ; you come here to get better acquainted with 

 each other ; you come to a city in which I have always had a sort of 

 (^elfish idea that you could enjoy yourselves in immeasurable ways better 

 than In almost any other place on this beautiful and habitable globe of 

 ours. [Applause.] 



When I was a young man — and I am reminded of the fact that time 

 is passing on — when my friend Kline, who used to be a Cincinnatian 

 and has now wandered away to what we call one of the suburbs of Cin- 

 cinnati, Louisville, came up and greeted me as cordially as he did thirty 

 years ago — I say, when I was a young man I studied a little botany — 

 just a little — just enough you know to make a man feel as though he 

 would like to study some more ; and I have often regretted that the 

 privilege was not given to me to take in more, because if there Is any- 

 thing under the shining sun that seems to be comforting it is to go out 

 into the woods and become acquainted with the trees that we meet, or 

 to go out into the fields and become acquainted with the flowers that we 

 meet, and the great forests of our country, so beautiful in all their varied 

 foliage, can only be appreciated by one who knows something about this 

 peculiar vegetable kingdom. I do not know how much knowledge of that 

 sort you interlace with your work. 



There must have been a time long before man came to the earth when 

 this was one great vast forest, and this country perhaps was richer in 

 forestry than any other place on the globe. We know that this must have 

 been so because of some of the ancient trees that have been found, and 

 because of the limitless coal fields that are still in existence. So how 

 pleasant it is for us to contemplate our trees after a little more intimate 

 knowledge of them through a study of the science which deals with them. 

 As I met the various men this morning with whom I had some little 

 acquaintance before, I could feel the influence of the jolly feeling per- 

 vading every one of them. Each one seemed to have a heartier handshake 

 than the other. When I saw that great, big, good-natured, whole-souled, 

 full-jeweled, rubber-tired lumberman of ours. Colonel Crane, who has the 

 great lumber yards in the East end, I thought I was at home, you know, 

 because if your Lumbermen's Club here is made up of that kind of stuflf 

 I do not think that you can go very far wrong when you get together. 

 [Applause.] Just like trees which you have, so is this remarkable man, 

 all on the outside : whatever there may be he just carries his heart where 

 everybody can look at it. [Applause.] 



I understand from some one that Cincinnati is one of the largest lum- 

 ber centers in the country. Now how singular it. is that we sometimes 

 are indifferent to the reputation which our city enjoys with those who 

 live outside of it. I was proud to Icarn of that fact. When I look at 

 the great lumber plants that we see along our rivers, I can understand 

 that we have not lost out in this important interest. 



Perhaps you may come also for the purpose, and perhaps it may be 

 apropos to this convention to study up the recent tariff conditions that 

 have thrilled the country, this reciprocity the president seeks to establish 

 Iwtween Canada and ourselves. How much that will aft'ect vour delihera- 



