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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 2.1, 1921 



Manufacturers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



Ash 



Poplar 



Red Gum 



Mixed Oak 

 Elm 



Sap Gum 



Soft Maple 



Tupelo 



CUMMER LUMBER COMPANY 



SALES OFFICE: 



280 MADISON AVENUE 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 



MAIN OFFICE 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



Invents Eight-Wheeled Trailer 



Alpx Feigelsou, a lieaumunt inventor, luis [iciiected au oiglit-wheel 

 trailer designed to be used behind tractors. The new trailer has a 

 capacity o£ 25 tons and it is claimed for the invention that a train of 

 them will track perfectly. Several of them have been placed in use, 

 Mr. Feigelson demonstrating that when coupled out to its greatest length 

 the trailer can be turneil in a space of 18 feet. 



Clubs and Associations 



Evansville Endorses Hardwood Code 



The Evansville Lumbermen's Club has endorsed the proposed sales code 

 of the National Hardwood Tainiber Association and at its meeting in Xlay 

 it is expected that one or two minor changes in this code will be suggested 

 so that they may be taken up at the national conventicm to he held at 



rilibub'Ipbui ill -llllie. 



Oppose Lighterage Restrictions 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association has petitioned the 

 Trunk Line Association. New York, for a hearing on Proposal No. 2S9S, 

 Docket No. IM dated April 9, lil21, in which the Erie Railroad proposes 

 to amend its tariff containing lighterage and terminal regulations in New 

 York Harbor and vicinity so as to restrict tbi> movement of lumber for 

 lighterage delivery in New York llarhor and confine the movement of this 

 commodity for points in New York and Brooklyn where delivery can be 

 madi' from cars on private sidings or team tracks, and which will not 

 involve a break-bulk service. 



This Is evidently the beginning of another attempt on the part of the 

 railroads serving New York to either abolish the lighterage delivery of 

 lumber in New York Harbor or to get an extra charge for the service in 

 addition to the New York rate. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association has persistently 

 opposed a nundier of somewhat similar previous attempts on the part of 

 the railroads serving New York, as to refuse lighterage service to lumber 

 shippers while affording lighterage service to shippers of other commodities 

 would lie a serious discrimination against the lumber iudtistry. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association proposes to vigorously 

 oppose any attempt to restrict or withdraw the lighterage service on 

 lumber in New York, as such procedure on the part of the carriers would 

 riiaterially increase the transportation cost of delivering lumber in New 

 York and teuil to further retard the building situation. 



Louisville Against Tariff on Lumber 

 The Louisville Hardwood Club at a meeting on April 12 discussed the 

 proposed tariff on importations of lumber from Canada, and could see 

 nothing in this proposal but higher prices for the consumer, greater deple- 

 tion of American forests, and the possibility of Canada evening the score 

 by placing tariffs on American lumber moving into Canada. It was 

 argued that in view of the fact that the United States sells and ships more 

 lumber into Canada than is shipped from Canada into .\merica. such a 

 tariff would lienelit a chosen few, but injure many more shippers, especially 

 hardwood shippers. It was felt that there was no need of any such tariff, 

 anil that laws of supply and demand were best fitted to take care of the 

 situation. 



Following a long discussion of the matter the organization adopted reso- 

 lutions protesting the enactment of any such tariff, and instructed the 

 secretary to send copies to the state representatives at Washington. 



Chicago Hoo Hoo Plan Concatenation 



As a prelude to the annual meeting of the annual convention of the 

 .\merican Wholesale Lumber Association the loyal Hoo Hoo of Chicago 

 will hold a grand concatenation at the headquarters of the. Lumbermen's 

 Association on the evening of May 17. F. M. Baker, vicegerent of the 

 Chicago chapter, held a meeting with a number of the members on Friday. 

 .\pril 22, and plans were made to secure a number of candidates and hold 

 the usual festivities. It is anticipated that this affair will be an especially 

 large and bajjpy one because of the large number of visitors who will be 

 here for the wholesalers' meeting and will no doubt attend. 



Carriage Makers Optimistic 

 With display of an optimism over the business outlook, which probably 

 excelled that of any gathering of its kind in recent months, members of 

 the Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club at the Business Men's Club elected 

 a new board of governors and heard an address by Richard Crane of the 

 R. G. Dun & Co. Those named as governors were E. E. Hess, A. Gndier, 

 F. H. Bossemeier and Henry Voss. In the course of his address Mr. Crane 

 urged that more attention be given to thfe study and solution of problems 

 concerning education, capital and labor and law questions. A dinner and 

 entertaiiHiient followed the b\isiness meeting. 



