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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, I'JH) 



The Mail Bag 



B-1221— Hardwoods for Export 



, March 2G. 1910. — Editcir ILMiiiwoon Record : We have 



an inquiry from a special friend in England, who is in the market for 

 a variety of high-grade hardwood, all to be used for frames. This includes 

 quartered white oak, basswood, black walnut, mahogany and a tew other 

 of the ordinary woods. He wants to buy in about $1,000 lots. Will you 

 Ijlease advise to whom we shall write to get quickest results? 



National Association Program 



The National Luinlier .Manufaelun-rs' Association will meet in Con- 

 gress hotel. Chicago, April 15. and will remain three days in ses,sion. 

 The program contains many interesting features, among which are the 

 following : 



Standards of Wood Construction — Chairman. W. H. Merrill, Chicago, 111. 



Standards of Wood Construction from the Standpoint of the Architect — 

 Sullivan W. .Tones, New York City. 



Commercial Uses of Treated Lumber — A. R. Joyce, Chicago, 111. 



Development in Heavy Timber Construction — C. E. Paul. Chicago, 111. 



Protection from Fire in Wooden Ruildlng.s — W. C. Robinson. Chicago. 111. 



Building Codes in Relation to Standards of Wood Construction — R. S. 

 Whiting. Chicago. 111. 



Standards for Wooden Shingles and Their I'se — J. S. Williams, Seattle, 

 Wash. 



Industrial Opportunity Through Organization — Charles S. Keith, Kansas 

 Citv. Mo. 



Organization for Trade Extension — Chairman, John J. Comerford, De- 

 troit, Mich. 



I»roblems of the Industry as Viewed by the Salesman — Harry T. Ken- 

 dall. Houston. Tex. 



National Advertising from the Standpoint of the Retail Dealers — Findley 

 M. Torrence. Xenia, Ohio. 



Ilarne.ssing the Advertising Forces of the Industrj- — Murray Springer, 

 Chicago. 111. 



The Economics of Advertising — Charles Coolidge Parlin, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



Retail Service — Chairman. J. C. Dionne. 



What the National I.nndier Manufacturers' .Association is Doing for the 

 Retail Merchants — II. R. Isherwood. Chicago, 111. 



The Railroad Problem — Honorable Walker D. llines. Washington, D. C. 



Trade Organization in American Industry — Honorable William B. Col- 

 ver, Washington, D. C. 



.V National Lumber Policy — Honorable Henry Solon Graves, Washing- 

 ton. D, C. 



American Ships for American Goods — Charles E. Piez, Philadelphia, Pa. 



International Commercial Policy — Honorable Wm. S. Culbertson, Wash- 

 ington, D. (?. 



The Opportunity for Foreign Trade in Lumber — Honorable F.urwell S. 

 Cutler, Wa.shington, D. C. 



The Lumber Congress Program 



A program of twenty pages, printed in pamphlet form, has been issued, 

 covering the four days' session of the American Lumber Congress in 

 Chicago. April 14-17. The session, however, includes the meeting of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association as well as of the congress. 

 The latter will be held April 14, 15. 16; the former 16 and 17. On the 

 evening of .April 14 a dinner will be given at Congress hotel by the 

 National Lumlier Manufacturers' Association to the secretaries of the 

 regional and state associations of lumlier distributors and the secretaries 

 of the associations of lumber manufacturers. Among the numbers on the 

 program of the congress are the following : 



The National Responsibility of American Industr.v — John H. Kirby, 

 Houston, Tex. 



Trade Extension and .Advertising — F. J. Ward, Clinton, la. 



.Adverti.sing That Sells Lumber — L. R. Putman. New Orleans. La. 



Originality in Lumber .Advertising — ^B. J. P.oorman. Great Falls, Mont. 



The Financing of Home Building — J. R. !Mof»rehead. Kansas City, Mo. 



The .Advertising of West Coast Woods — S. O. Krantz. Seattle, Wash, 



Coordination of Trade Extension .Activities by Manufacturer and Re- 

 tailer — J. A. Mahlstedt. New Rochelle. N. Y. 



Lumber Merchandising Service — Horace F. Taylor. Buffalo, N. Y. 



Service That Sells Lumber — D. J. Fair. Sterling, Kans. 



Selling Homes — George P, Thompson. Minneaiiolis, Minn. 



Lund)er Merchandising Service — George K. Merrill, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Selling Ideas — A. L. Porter. Spokane. Wash. 



Railroad Tie Makers Meet 



Officials of the Association of Railroad Tie Producers held a meeting in 

 St. Louis late in March. It developed that the present financial outlook 

 of the railroad administration, due to the failure of congress to provide 

 sufficient appropriations before adjournment, is already having its effect 

 upon the jilans of the tie producers, both large and small, as some roads 

 have ceased their prompt payment for cross ties delivered, while others are 

 seemingly adopting a policy of forcing a loan from the larger tie pro- 

 ducers by withholding payments to them in preference to those producers 

 who are less capable to carry the road accounts. 



This policy is declared to be hardly consistent with the administration's 

 declarations made earlier in the year that there would be no difference 

 made in the treatment of the large or small producer. 



The larger producers are quite willing to help the roads during their 

 present financial embarrassment, providing the administration will recog- 

 nize some nmre of the salient points in connection with the production 

 of crossties. to which they have in the past seen fit to pay only scant 

 attention. 



Forestry Troops Coming Home 



It is expected that all units of the Twentieth Engineers, or forestry 

 troops, still in France will return to the United States by the middle of 

 June. Host of the mills have been shut down and the men have been 

 (levoting much of their time to road building. 



Vehicle and Implement Departments to Meet 



The plow anil Ullage department of the National Implement and Vehicle 

 Association will hold its annual meeting at the Hotel La Salle. Chicago, 

 on -April 16. The meeting will be featured by the annual election of offi- 

 cers and reports of several important committees. The past season ■will 

 be review-ed and future conditions thoroughly discussed. 



The farm wagon department will hold an important meeting in Chicago 

 on April 22 at the Congress hotel, at which important announcements 

 will be made for putting into effect publicit.'f propaganda relative to the 

 advantages of farm wagons on Jarm and country roads as compared with 

 Other methods of transportation. 



Discontinue Traffic Committee 



The Freight Traffic Committee for North .Atlantic ports, which has 

 been in control of the movement and issuance of permits for freight traffic 

 via the ports of Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk 

 and Newport News, was disbanded as of April 3 and traffic managers 

 were appointed as follows : 



Boston — L. II. Peters, Chamber of Commerce, 



New York — B. M. Flippin, 141 Broadway. 



Philadelphia — A. J. Bell, Room 463 Broad Street Station. 



Baltimore — F. J. Couse, B. & O. Central Building. 



Norfolk — C. H. Freeman. 



Newport News — W. L. Devine. 



These traffic control managers will receive applications for commercial 

 export freight from the agents of the steamship lines booking the car- 

 goes from ports and from the representatives of the foreign governments 

 and the United States Food Administration upon their assurance of 

 definite ocean tonnage being assigned. The permits for carload export 

 freight will be issued at the port from which the property is to be ex- 

 ported, bearing serial numbers with the prefix G. O. C. and the name of 

 the port as a prefix. 



Announcement is also made that C. H. Markham, regional director of 

 the Allegheny region, including Baltimore, has ordered the cancellation 

 of all embargo restrictions on the shipment of domestic lumber to this 

 city. The lifting of the embargo became effective April 1 on the eastern 

 lines of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania, and thus ends the 

 last of the war restrictions imposed. 



Important Traffic Developments Recorded 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association is seeking to secure all 

 possible available space for transporting overseas cargoes of hardwood 

 lumber and forest products belonging to its members. To this end it 

 has asked that the latter supply it, with all possible dispatch, an ap- 

 proximate idea of the amount of tonnage they have ready for forward- 

 ing. This information, when it has been compiled, will be forwarded to 

 M. P. Billups of the U. S. Shipping Board, with headquarters at New 

 Orleans. This compilation is being made at the special request of J. H. 

 Rosseter, director of operation, for the board. 



The association announces that it will complete within the next few 

 days its plans for writing marine insurance for its members. 



The association, in a statement issued to its members, says that 

 prospects are quite bright for securing restoration of export rates via 

 Pacific coast points in effect prior to June 35, 1918, on staves, heading, 

 hoops, bolts and bungs, in carload lots, 40.000 pounds minimum. If 

 successful, the rate from Memphis to Pacific coast ports will be cut from 

 80 to 58 cents and those from other valley points extending from Chi- 

 cago to New Orleans will be reduced in proportion. 



The War Trade Board, according to the association, announces that 

 it has information that "the British government has issued a general 

 import license which exempts all raw materials from the operation of 

 import restrictions." Commenting on this, the association observes : 

 "The action of the British government removes all restrictions with 

 respect to lumber imports." 



Traffic Association Has 350 Members 



New members are coming into the Southern Hardwood Traffic As- 

 sociation at a very gratifying rate, according to J. S. Thompson, as- 

 sistant to J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager. Since the recent annual 

 of that body there have been thirty firms to become identified with this 

 organization, bringing the total membership to about 350, representing 

 an annual output of 350.000 cars annually. 



The association is notalily busy in its claim department. It reports 

 having filed more claims during March than during any previous month 

 in its history both as to numbers and as to the amounts involved. It 

 has found it necessary to increase its force at headquarters here and is 

 now employing eight men and two stenographers. The branch office 

 at Louisville uses five persons and there are two each at the branch 



