January 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



33 



The Mail Bag 



B1208 — Poplar Squares Sought 



New York, N. Y., Jan. lit. — EihT'ik ilAiii'WtiuD Record : Can you advise 

 where we can locate a car or two of 4x4 firsts and seconds poplar squares? 

 We could use this stock either all firsts and seconds or No. 1 common and 

 better, and may be able to use a small amount of 3x3's or 4x4, or 6x6 to 

 fill out the car, if we cannot secure a full car of the 4x4's. 



B 1207 — Army Man Seeks Logging Connection 



, N. Y., Jan. 15. — Editor I^Iardwood Record : Doubtless 



you know, or knew of , who was with a Michigan concern 



for several seasons after finishing Biltmore. He was woods manager and 

 I believe he filled the place successfully and with credit. 



He resigned to enter the air service. Now he expects to be let out in 

 a few weeks, or has the option of staying for six months, but it may not 

 be permanent. He is getting $166.50 a month and allowance of $30 for 

 town quarters, since he is married, showing that he has advanced rapidly 

 and to a high rank (mechanically, he is engaged in ground work, and 

 nence has not sought commission). 



He does not care to go back to the Michigan concern, as It has less than 

 ten years* work left, growing constantly less, with no western holdings. 

 He wants to go where there is a future. He is an X No. 1 surveyor, quick 

 and reliable as a woods foreman, and produces results, gets along fine 

 with the men. In fact, I think he has done about as well as any Biltmore 

 man, although not in a spectacular way at all. 



Can you suggest anything or any place for him? I might add that I 

 learn his wife's health is poor and he has a desire to locate where he can 

 have good town living quarters or conditions, and yet get back and forth 

 to his work. Is there any opportunity in the trade journal line for him? 

 He is well educated, writes a fine letter. 



Sorry to bother you to this length, but I am still sufficiently interested 

 In the Biltmore Forest School boys to try to help any who are worth 

 it, and he is well worth it. . 



Clubs and Associations 



Hardwood Club Meeting Announced 



The Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club will hold its next 

 meeting at the Grunewald Hotel, New Orleans, Febi^uary 24. The election 

 of officers is among the important business to be transacted at the meet- 

 ing. The Southern Pine Association holds Its meeting in New Orleans 

 on February 25, and the meetings are thus close enough together to permit 

 members to attend both,' if they desire to do so. 



Annual Meeting of Hardwood Lumber Association 



The board of directors of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 met In Chicago, January 17, and fixed the date for the twenty-second 

 aunual meeting, which will be held June 19 and 20, 1919, in Chicago. 



At the directors' meeting fifty-four new applications for membership 

 were passed upon and accepted. Thus far during the current fiscal year 

 ninety-four new members have been received into the association. In no 

 other year in the history of the association has this record of new mem- 

 bers been equalled. The losses in membership during the same period 

 have not amounted to twenty per cent of the gain. 



Wood Preserving and Timber Men Will Meet 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the American Wood Preservers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held at the Hotel Statler, St. Louis, Mo., January 28 and 29. 

 The tie and timber division of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce and the 

 initial organization formed as a nucleus for the national association will 

 meet the two following days. There will be a joint dinner of the two bodies 

 on Wednesday evening and prominent speakers will attend. The Tuesday 

 session will be devoted to the consideration of preservative materials. 

 Wednesday afternoon will be given over to the discussion of the tie problem. 

 The program as already formulated is very interesting. 



Wholesalers' Trustees Hold Meeting 



The board of trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation held an important meeting at the association headquarters on 

 Wednesday, January 15. Many matters of interest were discussed, among 

 them being surplus of government lumber. Other questions were in con- 

 nection with the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the 

 National Federation of Building Construction. 



A resolution was adopted advocating the return of the railroads to 

 private ownership with proper government regulation at the earliest 

 feasible moment. 



It was voted by the trustees that the next annual meeting be held at 



Philadelphia on Wednesday and Thursday, March 19-20. This will be the 

 twenty-seventh annual of the association. 



There were reports from the various committees, the membership com- 

 mittee reporting a total enrollment today of 455. 



Plow Makers to Meet at Pittsburgh 



The plow and tillage implement department of the National Implement 

 and Vehicle Association will hold a meeting In Pittsburgh, Pa., February 

 5 at the William Penn Hotel. Although the rulings of the War Industries 

 Board still hold as affecting standardization and elimination in the plow 

 and tillage implement lines, this department of the association In its usual 

 progre-ssive manner will review all of the standardization work under- 

 taken during the period of the war with a view of further Improving them. 



The meeting at Pittsburgh will be the first held by the department In 

 the East for a number of years, but an occasional meeting further east- 

 ward than Chicago is becoming more advisable because of the large num- 

 ber of eastern and southern manufacturers now belonging to the association. 



The meeting of February 5 at Pittsburgh will be open to all manu- 

 facturers in the plow and tillage implement lines regardless of association 

 affiliation ; in fact, non-members are most cordially urged to attend. 



Industrial Medical Advisers 



The government announces its purpose of furnishing manufacturers 

 with the names of physicians who are competent to look after the health 

 and well being of industrial plants, but this service will be provided on 

 request. The organization by which this work will be done is connected 

 with the Department of Labor, and belongs to the division of industrial 

 hygiene and medicine, of which A. J. Lanza, Washington, D. C, is chief. 



This organization is prepared to furnish industries with the names of 

 skilled industrial medical advisers on request. The demands for com- 

 petent medical directors for the factory departments of hygiene are being 

 met by the service with an adequate list of physicians, all of whom had 

 experience and training in this particular function. Hundreds of such 

 physicians are listed in the government's registry bureau in Washington 

 and hundreds are being added to the registration files. 



In each instance the service satisfies itself of the training of the physi- 

 cians before their names are allowed on the list. Thu.s only those best 

 qualified are listed and manufacturers have the advantage of knowing that 

 by availing themselves of this service their dispensary section will be In 

 competent hands. 



Program for Alluvial Land Meeting 



The program for the second annual of the Southern Alluvial Land 

 Association, to be held in Memphis Friday, January 31, beginning with a 

 luncheon at 12 o'clock, is given herewith : 



Greeting — John W. McClure, president. 



Report of F. E. Stonebraker. secretary. 



Report of John M. Pritchard, treasurer. 



Addresses : 



"The South," by Hon. H. G. Pleasant, Governor of Louisiana. Baton 



Rouge. 

 "The Live Stock Industry," by Arthur C. Davenport, general manager 



Corn Belt Farm Dailies, Chicago, 111. 

 "Diversified Farming," by E. R. Lloyd, manager Farm Bureau, Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, Memphis. 

 "Federal Farm Loans and Their Application," by L. K. Thompson, 

 president Mississippi and Arkansas Joint Stock Land banks, 

 Memphis. 



Election of Officers. 



New Business. 



.Adjournment. 



Invitations have already been mailed and acceptances indicate that the 

 attendance will be larger than ever before. The association has had an 

 exceptionally active year and it faces a period in which a number of 

 problems of vital interest to its members must be solved. The meeting 

 is therefore regarded by officers and members alike as of unusual im- 

 portance. 



Evansville Lumberman's Club 



Joseph Waltman, the newly-installed president of the Evansville Lum- 

 bermen's Club at Evansville, Ind., at the last meeting appointed his stand- 

 ing committees for the ensuing year, as follows : 



Me.mbership — Charles A. Wolflin of the Wolflin West Side Lumber 

 Company, chairman ; Louis Iloltman of the Schnutte-Holtman Lumber 

 Company and Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz. 



Publicity and Resolutions — William B. Carleton, chairman ; Elmer 

 D. Lubring of the Luhring Lumber Company and George O. Worland of 

 the Evansville Veneer Company. 



River and Rail — William S. Partington of Maley & Wertz, chairman; 

 John C. Keller, traffic manager of the club, and D. B. MacLaren of the 

 D. B. MacLaren Lumber Company. 



Entertainment — J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, chair- 

 man ; Elmer D. Luhring, and Henry Kollker of the Mechanics Planing 

 Mill Company. 



Co-operative — George O. Worland, chairman ; Daniel Wertz, and William 

 Heyns of the Evansville Dimension Company. 



The next meeting of the club will be held on the second Tuesday night 

 in February, when the bill recently introduced in congress to give the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission the power to fix railroad rates the same 

 as before the war, will be taken up and discussed. J. C. Greer is working 

 on a plan to get up some sort of an entertainment for the members and 

 their friends, and this matter also will be brought up at the next meeting. 

 Members are interested in the suggestion of E. D. Tennant, secretary and 

 treasurer of Hoo-Hoo, that the order be revived in Evansville, and it Is 

 probable that a concatenation will be held soon. At one time the order 

 had a large number of members In Evansville. John 0. Keller has been 

 reappointed traffic manager for the club. 



