HARDWOOD RECORD 



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GEORGE F. KIEL. MEMPHIS. TENN., 

 PAEPCKELEICHT LIMBER COMPANY 



H. LUEIIRMANN, ST., LOUIS, MO., C 



LUEIIUMANN HARDWOOD LUMBER 



CO.MPANV 



LEON ISAACSEN, COAL GROVE, O.. YELLOW 

 POPLAR LUMBER COMPANY 



that five to twent.y-five cars foi' immediate shipment, but a coiUi'ai't the 

 delivery of which is strung out through a period of nine to twelve or 

 more months. It lumber goes up, the buyer insists on having his 

 "pound of flesh." If it goes down, he either holds up the shipment, 

 cancels the order, or. by complaints, mal<es the shipper wish he had. 

 What do you do in such a case? Sue your customer and compel him to 

 take the lumljpr or comply with his request? Any one present who has 

 sued customers and compelled them to take lumber according to eon- 

 tract, stand up. I want to see you. 



President Carrier: I would like to announce that the date of 

 the meeting of sales managers to be held in Chicago has been 

 changed to February 23. 



First A'iee-President Frank F. Fee now took the chair by r(?- 

 quest of the president. 



Vice-President Fee: There are some important matters that 

 we want to push through and get off our hands, but first I think 

 Mr. Mayhew should be complimented for his excellent and ener- 

 getic paper on this subject. He has taken the matter up in the 

 way that it deserves. 



I desire to say that three of the speakers who were expected 

 to be here are unavoidably detained. Messrs. Mershon and 

 Baker, however, have sent their papers here and they will ap- 

 pear in our proper publications. Mr. Thwing, however, has been 

 detained by sickness. 



We come now to the next order of business — reports of 

 committees. 



Mr. Yansant: Mr. Chairman, the chairman of the Executive 

 Grading Commission desires to make a report. There has been 

 heretofore an agreement made between our association and a 

 rule adopted in connection with grades used by railroads and 

 ordered through their purchasing agents, and in printing the 

 rules we have found it a little inconvenient for the railroads 

 to make a distribution of them to the master car builders and 

 the Maintenance of "Way Association members. So it has been 

 rearranged with practically no change in the wording, so that 

 it will be printed differently. I move that the printing on this 

 plan be adopted. 



The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. 



Mr. Yansant: There has been a question up before this asso 

 ciation with regard to changing the grade of sound wormy 

 chestnut, but this cannot be done nor printed without consulta- 

 tion with the Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion and the New York Lumber Trade Association. Your com- 

 mittee has prepared a rule on this question, which I think will 



lie acceptable to every lumber manufacturer and user of this 

 wood. The report is signed by the committee. Kow, this cannot be 

 adopted and put in force until we get the consent of the New 

 York Lumber Trade Association and the Eastern States Retail 

 ijumber Dealers' Association. I believe, however, as I have had 

 conference with that committee quite often on that question 

 that this rule might be entirely acceptable to them, and I move 

 that the Executive Grading Commission and the Executive Board 

 be authorized to continue negotiations and when any agreement 

 is reached to have it published as our rule. 



The motion was carried unanimously, after being duly seconded. 



.\ member: Many of us would be i;lad to get something to 

 cat. Let us adjourn for lunch. 



Mr. Yansant: We arc not quite through, I want to finish my 

 job. There has been, with reference to dressed lumber, a ques- 

 tion as to what should be considered bright sap. That matter 

 I move to refer to the Executive Grading Commission and Execu- 

 tive Board in order that when an agreement is reached with 

 those parties who constitute that committee the agreement as 

 made for it be published. 



The motion was seconded and carried unanimously. 



Mr. Yansant: Y'^ou are all aware, as the president referred to 

 it in his address, that we made an agreement with the eastern 

 people in regard to this rule. I hope every manufacturer will 

 be careful to stay within the rule until we get all these matters 

 working satisfactorily. [Applause.] I thank you; I am done. 



Mr. Delaney: Are you going through with these committee 

 reports now? It was quite difficult this morning to get the dele- 

 gates in here and I am afraid if we take a recess we will meet 

 the same difficulty this afternoon. May I ask about how much 

 longer it will take to go ahead now? If it will take too long 

 we will probably have to get something to eat. 



Secretary Doster: For the information of those present J will 

 state that the Committees on Statistics or Prices will not make 

 their reports in the convention, because they have not all fin- 

 ished their work, but they will submit their reports to the 

 main office after they leave or before they leave to the office 

 in the registration room near the elevator. There will be re- 

 ports from the following committees presented, namely, Trans- 

 portation & Freight Rates, Standard Weights of Hardwood Lum- 

 ber, Forestry, Costs of Manufacturing, J. E. Defebaugh Memorial, 

 Sales Code, Arbitration, Resolutions and Nominations. 



Mr. Yansant: I will dispose of one of them just now — the 



