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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hardwood Record Mail 'Bag 



Wants Maple Dimension Stock The gains in this class of inspections have 



come fo us largely from the eastern marliets — 



The Eecord is in receipt of a communica- New Yorls City, with its 606.000 feet, shows the 



, , , , , . „ , largest licensed inspection for any month in 



tion from a wholesale lumberman at Urand years (with the exception of April. 1010), and 



■Rnnirls Mifli iskintr for a list of ntodiicers Philadelphia, with about 395,000 feet, furnishes 



Kapids, Micli.,, asKing loi a Ji&t oi pioui.ceis ^^^ ^^^^^^ showing it has made in over a year. 



in the North of maple dimension stock. Any- It is not usual tor the West to lie more con- 



. - T , , servative in its buving than is the East, and we 



one interested in having the address ot the believe that our western markets will soon feel 



, ;,. i,„ „„.;i.:„,i. ti.Ic ^ffir-t. and respond to the influences that have caused 



inquirer can secure it bj wutmg this ofnce. ^^ increased demand elsewhere, and that a good 



Editor year's business will be but the natural result. 



The net cost to the association of the Inspec- 



— : ;; ir , tion Bureau for the month of January was 



Encomiums for Eecord .$221.89. 



, Since our last statement was issued eisht new 



It is not often Hardwood Kecord takes oc- applications for membership have been received, 



X „ 1 ^■\ +1 „- ,^,««,. t:.i.i i^ffoi-c r,f making a total of ninetv-nine since the Louis- 



oasioii to publish tlie many kind letteis ol ,^,jjj^ convention. 



commendation and approval which reach the We desire to call your attention to the third 



. . paragraph on page 7 of our rule book, and more 



editor's desk, but it cannot resist printing particularly to the last sentence ot the para- 



liie attached letter from that dean of the graph. ^ ^ Diggins, President. 



liardnood flooring trade. Thomas Furmau of F. F. Fi.sii, Secretary-Treasurer! 



^ ..,,,,• , " .TAXUAKY STATE.MKXT. 



Detroit, Mich.: „ , . , . ,. t, ■ , 



-....., ^,-. TT Salaried inspectors: Feet inspected. 



Di-.TROiT. Mich.. Feb. lo. 1911.— Editor Hard- Frank R. Buck. Chicago, 111 1T2.021 



WOOD liF.COKD : I read- with great interest your .Tohn .1. Lorden. Chicago, III 29.S.,'<,sl 



orlifni-i-il in regard to "Restraint of Competi- -T- •'■ Shepard. Chicago, III 20."i..'70 



editoiial in legaiu to hestiamt oi i,ompeu ^ ^, i^,-„jtijgafp Chicago. Ill 2.V.,.S]0 



tion" in your issue of February 10, and must ^ n Long, St. Louis, Mo 94,l.'i7 



say that this is one of the most sensible articles W. E. Robinson, St. Louis, Mo 37."!, 200 



thkt I have read in many a day, and I congratu- W.^;^^ I^rth.^Memphis.^T>nn^, ._^_. ..... 122.502 



late you on the publication of this kind of good q j; McSmith. New Orleans. La 17.'>.117 



hard sense matter, which is what the business .t. L. Benson. Alexandria. La 310.7.';i 



«ni-Irt needs at this lime D. E. Buchanau, Cincinnati, 331. r.;).", 



.«0Ud needs at tms umi.. .Joseph Wallman, Louisville. Kv..». .. 19.S.7(i7 



With kindest regards, .Joseph Patterson. New York City 360.142 



Thu.mas FOR.MAX. .1. .1. Miller. New York Citv 246.590 



J. L. Stewart. Buffalo. N. Y 254. 0S5 



The National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 'ri.%''^\S:^;,^'^^l^^\Z.: Pay.:: W^}^ 



tion Report .j. I. Weeks. Pittsburg. Pa 221.,sn,s 



The following letter from F. F. Fi.h. see- f ^ i!Suhg?^^ii^^r- ua. ! ! ! ! ^M 



letarv of the National Hardwood Lumlier As- Thomas A. Hall. Detroit. Mich 304. ISO 



Ed. Borgeson. Minneapolis. Minn LSI ,047 



soeiafion, together wilit the attached re|iorl. u. A. Hoover, chief inspector 159.934 



is self-explanatory : 5 622 4S3 



Chic.igo. III., Feb. 15, 1911. Fee inspectors : 



To the Alembership : We are enclosing our regu- R. W. Child. Mobile. Ala 153. 0S3 



lar monthly statement of official inspections, and (Jeorge R. Dunn. Boston. Mass 63.225 



von will note that the amount so inspected dur- -T. E. Byrns. F.scanaba. Mich 50.462 



ing .January was 7,516,737 feet. Charles Christi.an.son. Manistee, Mich.. 584. o47 



This amount is only about 200.000 feet greater .T. S. Coman, Menominee. Jlich 58.143 



than that for the corresponding month of last W. M. Clemens. Thompson. Mich 428.089 



vear. but the inspections made by our salaried Peterson & Lovell. Manistee. Mich.... 62.571 



men in the large markets exceed those of Jan- Scott & Rieckhoff, Ludington. Mich... 13.119 



uarv. 1910. by 964,620 feet. Walter Tillitson. Grand Rapids. Mich. 362.570 



A"n examination of our records discloses the C. M. Sands. Chattanooira. Tenn 29.529 



fact that our business in the western markets J. H. Gerlach. Norfolk. Va 11.820 



has been about normal. The falling oft in the IC. T. Robinson. Richmond. Va 77.596 



St. Louis market being the result of our having — : 



made a change in inspectors, which deprived 1,894,254 



them of the use of one man for a large part of 



the month. Ctand tntiU 7.516.737 



NeWs Miscellany 



Monthly St. Louis Lumbermen's Club 



The regular monthly meeting and dinner of the 

 I. lumbermen's Club of St. Louis was held in parlor 

 A at the Planters Hotel, Tuesday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 14. Geo. <.'. Hogg, the president of the 

 club, presided. 



Immediately after the dinner Wm. Marion 

 Reedy of the St. liOuis Mirror spoke on the siib- 

 .iect. "The Lumber Question," after which, on 

 mi, tion, he was given a rising vote of thanks. 



The regular order of business was then re- 

 sumed, the reading of the minutes of the pre- 

 vious meeting lieing n-ad and approved. 



Robert McConuell. chairman of the Member- 

 ship Committee, proposed the names of the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen for membership : John Milne, 

 A. J. Gillespie. C. H. Beckers, J. F. Fleishell, 

 C. II. Chesbro, II. A. Hulse, G. P. Shehau. S. W. 

 .Morten, C. C. Martin. J. A. Meyer. 



.VII were unanimously elected members of the 

 association. 



The Traffic Committee, owing to the absence 

 •^if the chairman. Thos. K. I'owe, asked for further 

 time, which was granted. 



J. E. Gatewood, chairman of the Commiitee 

 on Public Affairs, spoke on the capitol removal 



and a resolution was passed advocating its re- 

 moval from Jefferson City to St. Louis. 



The committee appointed to draw up a resolu- 

 tion on the death of Fred Heini, reported as fol- 

 lows : 



During the last few years death has been busy 

 among the ranks of those who laid the founda- 

 tions of the lumber industr.v in this section. In 

 all branches of the local lumber trade the faces 

 of familiar and well-loved brother lumbermen are 

 sadly missed, but we seriously doubt if there will 

 be any more generally missed or deeply regretted 

 than the late Fred Heim, whfise death occurred 

 on February 2. For forty years Mr. Helm had 

 been identitied with the retail lumber trade of 

 this section. He was an honest, straightforward 

 man in all his dealings with his fellows and his 

 personal life was singularly blameless in every re- 

 spect. His simple kindliness endeared him to all 

 who came within the sphere of his influence, and 

 his nobility of character made his life one worthy 

 of imitation. While we bow in humble submis- 

 sion to the Divine Will, we deem It entirely tit 

 and proiier to express our deep sense of loss in 

 the death of one who was at all times a true 

 and tried friend, a high-minded man and an ex- 

 emplary citizen ; therefore be it 



Resolved. 'I hat in the death of Fred Helm the 

 lumber trade tit St. Louis has lost a member 

 whose life and work reflected the highest credit 

 on the business to which he gave nearly all the 

 best years of his career ; and 



Resolved, That we extend to his bereaved fam- 



ily our sincere sympathy in the loss which has 

 befallen them ; and 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions he 

 spread on the minutes of this meeting and a 

 copy presented to the family of the deceased as 

 well as to the lumber press. 



Respectfully submitted, 



P. F. Cook, Chairman. 

 R. F. Krebs. 

 LODIS EssiG. 

 A letter from E. F. Perry, secretary of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, 

 was read, asking that one or two delegates be 

 appointed by the club to attend the annual meet- 

 ing of the association in Washington, D. C. on 

 March 1 and 2. President Hogg appointed W. E. 

 Barns to represent the club. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



Semi-Monthly Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, at the 

 regular semi-monthly meeting held at the Hotel 

 (jayoso, February 18, decided that, instead of 

 employing counsel to appear before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission in connection with 

 the proposed advance of ten cents per hundred 

 pounds on lumber shipments from Jlississippi 

 river points to the Pacific coast, the club would 

 be represented by the River & Rail Committee 

 which has had considerable experience in deal- 

 ing w-ith traffic matters. W. A. Percy was coun- 

 sel for the old Memphis Hardwood Rate Asso- 

 ciation, an adjunct of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, in the hearing of the same case at 

 Washington more than two years ago when the 

 :Memphis lumbermen won a signal victory in 

 the case of the Memphis Hardwood Rate Asso- 

 ciation vs. the Transcontinental Freight Bureau. 

 The issues are exactly the same as were raised 

 at that time and it is believed by the members 

 of the club that the River & Rail Committee will 

 he able to show that the proposed advance Is 

 no more .lustifled now than it was when the 

 previous hearing came up. W. B. Morgan and 

 A. L. Foster will probably look after the matter 

 for the River & Rail Committee. The hearing 

 will be held in Chicago March 15. 



The tariffs have not been published covering 

 the proposed advance of practically one cent per 

 hundred pounds from Memphis and southeastern 

 points to Ohio river crossings and. until these 

 have been issued, the Lumbermen's Club will 

 take no step toward preventing this advance. 

 However, it Is certain that as soon as the tariffs 

 have been given out the River & Rail Committee 

 will appear before the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission and ask for an injunction restraining the 

 advance until such time as there may he a 

 proper hearing of the issues involved. Lumber- 

 men here do not believe any such advance is 

 justified and the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis 

 will stand as a vigorous opponent to higher 

 rates. A. L. Foster, in an interview given out 

 here, takes the view that the railroads are get- 

 ting all the revenue out of the lumber business 

 to wiiich they are entitled. 



There was quite a lively discussion at this 

 meeting over tlic reciuest from the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club asking the Memphis Lumber- 

 men's Club to adopt resolutions strongly o|i- 

 posing the hill which has been introduced into 

 the Tennessee legislature providing for a uni- 

 form standard of grading and measuring logs. 

 It was Anally decided to table the matter and 

 the Nashville organization has been so advised. 

 The hill asks that the Doyle scale be adoiited. 

 This is the one which prevails in Mississippi 

 and .\rkansas from which the majority ot the 

 logs received in Memphis come. Regret was ex- 

 pressed over the fact that the Nashville Lum- 

 bermen's Club, in asking the Memphis organiza- 

 tion to oppose the bill, did not set out more 

 clearly the grounds of the former for opposing 

 the measure. 



The special committee appointed to consider 

 the advis.ability of changing the newly adopted 

 constitution and b.\-laws so as to allow asso- 

 ciate members the privilege of voting reported 

 that it was opposed to making any changes In 



