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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The company manufactures beech, birch 

 and maple veneers, making a specialty of 

 door and dimension stock for interior trim 

 manufacture. Located in the heart of the 

 Adirondacks, with experienced men to oper- 

 ate it, the company no doubt will have a 

 successful entrance into the field its has 

 just entered. 



E. S. Bacon of the E. S. Bacon Veneer 

 Company, Chicago, 111., has returned from 

 his trip abroad, having attended the Liver- 

 pool mahogany sales of November 9 and 

 10. He purchased logs which will make 

 some 400,000,000 feet of veneers and which 

 will be cut as fast as two slicers can handle 

 them. 



NeWs Miscellany 



Meeting of Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club 



Owing to the fact that a number of the mem- 

 bers of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati fol- 

 lowed the delegates to the convention of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States when tbey left for their homes, 

 the attendance at the meeting of the club held 

 at the Gibson House on February 6 was smaller 

 rhan usual. The regular dinner was served at 

 G :30, and during ita enjoyment the "Pork 

 Chops" troubadours discoursed such grand opera 

 selections as "Steamboat Bill," "Casey Jones," 

 and "Schnitzelbank," to the great delight of 

 those assembled. As the club also interests itself 

 in civic affairs. President Walker had as his 

 guest Prof. John Shearer of the Ohio Mechanics' 

 Institute, who gave a most entertaining talk on 

 the question of the removal of the Miami and 

 Erie canal from the interior of the city. This 

 was highly appreciated by the members. 



After dinner was disposed of. President 

 Walker called the meeting to order and stated 

 that the club had just come through a most 

 exciting month. He cited several important 

 events that had taken place and then called for 

 the minutes of the last meeting, which were read 

 and approved. 



The chair stated that the secretary was in 

 receipt of a number of interesting communica- 

 tions, which follow : 



The following invitation was received from the 

 Natioual Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association : 



New Tork, January 20, 1911. 

 Mr. Cliff S. Walker, President Lumbermen's Club 



of Cincinnati. 



Dear Sir : The next annual meeting of this 

 association will be held at Washington, D. C, 

 New Willard Hotel, on Wednesday and Thursday, 

 March 1 and 2, 1911. 



In addition to the consideration of matters of 

 direct importance to the members of this asso- 

 ciation, other mattei-s of interest to the trade in 

 general will be considered. On behalf of our 

 Board of Trustees, this invitation is extended to 

 you and to other delegates whom you may ap- 

 point from your association to attend this "meet- 

 ing, and also that they may be our guests at the 

 banquet, which will be held by our association 

 at this time. 



At your earliest convenience, please advise us 

 of the names of the delegates. 



Yours very truly, 



E. F. Persy, Secretary. 



On motion the invitation was accepted, and 

 the president empowered to appoint the dele- 

 gates. The chair announced that the delegates 

 would be named at a later date. 



President Walker called attention to the fol- 

 lowing letter en the railroad situation, received 

 from B. F. Dulweber, who was unavoidably 

 absent : 



„ January 24, 1911. 



C. S. Walker, President Lumbermen's Club of 



Cincinnati. 



Dear Sir : My attention was called a few 

 days ago to some figures which were recently 

 compiled from reports made to the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, showing a comparison of 

 the total revenue, net earnings and the earnings 

 per mile of the railroads for the years 1907. 1909 

 and 1910. As you are probably aware, 1907 was 

 the most prosperous year for the railroads until 

 1910. 



1907— 



Total revenue ?2, 589,1 05.578 



Net earnings 840,589,76-4 



Net earnings per mile 3,696 



1909 — 



Total revenue $2.443,.H]2,232 



Net earnings 827,814.999 



Net earnings per mile 3,-'J53 



1910— 



Total revenue $2,779,240,875 



Net earnings 938,121,107 



Net earnings per mile 3,963 



The general membership of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati does not seem to be interested 

 in this proposition, and is apparently content 

 with an increase of twenty to twenty-five per cent 

 on lumber, on which the charges are already fifty 

 per cent higher than the next lower commodity, 

 which is transported. But I am assuming that 

 you still have a personal interest in the matter, 

 and therefore take the liberty of calling your 

 attention to the above comparison. 

 Yours truly, 



B. F. DOLWEBER. 



On motion the communication was received 

 and referred to the River «& Rail Committee. 



The following letter, acknowledging the result 

 of an arbitration case which was presented to 

 the club on the "square deal" platform, was read 

 i)y the secretary : 



Sandersville, Ga., January 30. 1911. 

 J. A. Bolser, Secretary Lumbermen's Club, Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. 



Dear Sir : We beg to acknowledge receipt of 

 your letter of January 26, inclosing copy of the 

 report of the committee appointed by your club 

 to adjust differences betw'een ourselves and oue 

 of our customers. 



We note carefully the report in detail and 

 shall abide by their decision, and herewith offer 

 our sincere thanks to the committee, to Mr. 

 Walker, your president, and to the club as a 

 whole. Yours very truly, 



Rock Comfoht Lumbek Co., 

 C. D. Shellnutt, Sec.-Treas. 

 The chair called attention to the letter re- 

 ceived from Secretary Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 conveying the thanks of the association in a 

 series of resolutions for the entertainment fur- 

 nished the delegates to the convention by the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati. 



Cincinnati, February 6. 1911. 

 J. A. Bolser, Secretary Lumbermen's Club cf Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio. 



Dear Sir : In accordance with the instructious 

 of the last annual convention of this associa- 

 tion, it is my pleasure to submit to your club 

 herewith copy of the resolutions presented to the 

 convention by the Committee on Resolutions. 



It gives me great pleasure personally to pre- 

 sent this to the club, feeling as I do that its local 

 influences are beginning to be of a far-reaching 

 nature, and I believe that the successful meet- 

 ing which we have had, duplicating in size the 

 meeting in 1910, was the result of the interest 

 shown by the local lumbermen's club. 

 Very truly yours, 



Lewis Doster, Secretary. 

 A copy of the resolutions will be found in con- 

 nection with the Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation's report on pages 64 and 65 of this 

 issue of the Record. 



The reading of the resolutions was greeted 

 with applause. On motion, the communication 

 was received and filed. 



The secretary tlien read the correspondence 

 between the Memphis Lumbermen's Club and 

 President Walker, in which the Memphians chal- 

 lenged the Cincinnatians to show wherein they 

 were the "Greatest" hardwood market. This 

 correspondence was published in the Haudwood 

 Record of January 25. President Walker said 

 that as the lettergram had not stated further 

 particulars, and that he had received no reply 

 to !iis letter to the Memphis Lumbermen's Club, 

 he was still in the dark as to whether the Mar- 

 quis of Queensberry rules were to apply, and 

 also as to the weight of the gloves to be used. 

 The correspondence afforded considerable amuse- 

 ment. 



On motion the letters were ordered filed. 



A series of resolutions declaring the clvib to 

 be in favor of the abandonment of the Miami 

 and Erie canal within the city limits were 

 unanimously adopted. 



A letter from the Wildberg Lumber Company, 

 stating that as it could not be benefited by re- 

 maining a member of the club any longer, pre- 

 sented its resignation. 



.\s the resignation could not be accepted under 

 the laws, the secretary was instructed to adjust 

 the matter and report. 



The resignation of the Sterrett Lumber Com- 

 pany was presented, with the statement that the 

 company had gone out of existence and that 

 Will S. Sterrett was now the sales manager of 

 the Farrin-Korn Lumber Company. 



On motion the resignation was accepted. 



Prof. John Shearer was then introduced, and 

 he prefaced his talk with a few remarks on gen- 

 eral matters. Among them he said : "I am 

 pleased to see so many young men, and to meet 

 so generous a body of men, as evidenced by your 

 excellent dinner. If you are as generous in the 

 measurement of lumber as you are In the meas- 

 urement of the beef steak I have just enjoyed, 

 I should certainly like to do business with you." 



Meeting Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The regular semi-monthly meeting of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis was held at the 

 Hotel Gayoso on Feb. 4, with President James 

 E. Stark in the chair. There was a large at- 

 tendance and the usual luncheon was served. 



The principal topic of discussion was the 

 proposed opposition of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis to the advance of ten cents per 

 hundred pounds on shipments of lumber from 

 all Mississippi valley points to Pacific coast 

 terminals on the part of the trans-continental 

 railroads, effective May 15. C. W. Holmes, one 

 of the members of the River & Rail Committee, 

 reviewed the history of this case, as well as 

 the other cases in which the lumbermen of Mem- 

 phis have appeared as complainants before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, and called the 

 club's attention to the hearing before the com- 

 mission in this case which had been set for 

 .March 15 at Chicago. He urged that the club 

 lake such action as would authorize the River 

 & Rail Committee, which has organized itself as 

 a separate body from the club, to proceed with 

 the employment of counsel in plenty of time to 

 allow the gentleman thus employed to prepare 

 his brief. Mr. Holmes also referred to the 

 prestige which the I^umbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis had gained through its numerous victories 

 over the railroads and gave this as an added 

 reason for pushing the present case before the 

 commission with vigor and dispatch. He also 

 Impressed upon the members the moral effect of 

 giving up the fight before the commission In 

 this case. His report showed that the responses 

 to the letters asking for subscriptions from lum- 

 bermen and lumber organizations throughout the 

 affected territory had been rather disappointing, 

 indicating that they were not taking as vigorous 

 interest in the affair as to show that they real- 

 ized what was really at stake. 



A. L. Foster of the J. W. Thompson Lumber 

 Company also spoke along the same lines. He 

 believes that, while the case involving the ad- 

 vance in Pacific coast rates will be a hard one, 

 it can be won if the proper presentation Is made 

 Iiefore the commission. J. V. Rush, another 

 member of the River & Rail Committee, spoke 

 very strongly in favor of carrying on the fight, 

 asserting that, after having gone as far as it 

 liad, it was out of the question to turn back and 

 give up. He believed in Increasing rather than 

 decreasing the prestige of the club along the 

 lines already indicated and urged prompt, vigor- 

 ous and unequivocable action. 



James E. Stark, president, also addressed the 

 club members, calling their attention to a pro- 

 posed advance in freight rates from Ohio river 



