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Clubs and Associations 



Interesting Program for Wisconsin Meeting 



The tall meeting of the Northern Ilomlock and Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association as recently announced In Uajidwood Kecoud will be 

 held at Eau Claire. Wis., on Wednesday, Oct. 29. The headquarters of 

 the association will be the Galloway hotel and the sessions will be held 

 at the Eau Claire Club. 



The prosram Includes reports on stock on hand Oct. 1, market condi- 

 dltlons, standard sizes for hemlock, advertising, forest products exposi- 

 tion. Insurance, log Input, and woods wages. In addition, some excellent 

 committee reports are being prepared on these subjects which will be of 

 more than usual Interest and value. 



D. II. Tiemann of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., 

 who is recognized as an expert in wood seasoning, will describe his ex- 

 periments in kiln drying lumber and a representative of the Chamber of 

 Commerce of the United States will discuss the work of that important 

 organization. 



The visiting members following the meeting will have an opportunity 

 of seeing the mills of the John H. Kaiser Lumber Company and the New 

 Dells Lumber Company, which plants include a box factory and an 

 Interior finish factory. 



Chicago Ciub Entertains 



On Wednesday evening. Oct. "J. the Lumbermen's Club of Chicago 

 ■ utertained the wives and friends of the members with an informal 

 dance and evening of cards and other informal entertainment. The 

 entertainment committee had made excellent arrangements providing a 

 very good orchestra for the dancing and also prizes for the card games. 

 About fifty people were in attendance, some remaining on the tlanco 

 floor, while others spent the evening at the card tables. Pool and bil- 

 liard tables were thrown open for the evening without charge, and were 

 well patronized. 



Important Meeting Memphis Club 



The regular meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, held at the 

 Hotel Gayoso, Saturday. Oct. 18, was well attended. Thereto there were 

 a number of gendemen present who were in Memphis to attend the red 

 gum conference here during the forenoon. The usual luncheon was served. 



The river and rail committee said that it was negotiating with oflicials 

 of the Illinois Central railroad in regard to the payment of overweight 

 charges at Memphis instead of through the Chicago offices, and that it 

 had not quite completed this work. 



The committee also reported that it had received information from 

 Washington that the Willis bill, designed for the purpose of giving the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission wider jurisdiction in connection with 

 the weighing of lumber and other freight, was not complete and that it 

 would be withdrawn. The committee also reported that another bill was 

 being prepared and that when this was received it would proceed to carry 

 out the instructions of the club regarding recommendations of such a 

 character as to thoroughly protect the interests of shippers. 



The committee also reported that the physical valuation of the rail- 

 ■oads would be undertaken by the commission at an early date and that 

 the United States had been divided into sections for this purpose. Chatta- 

 nooga has been selected as the headquarters for the Southeast and Kansas 

 City for the Southwest. The committee asked that it be authorized to 

 secure one of the branch stations for Memphis and the desired authority 

 was granted. 



The statistics committee, through D. F. Heuer, read extracts from its 

 report for 1912 showing the amount of lumber produced at Memphis and a 

 number of other interesting features in connection therewith. This report 

 has already been published in Hardwood Record. 



F. E. Stonebraker, chairman of the committee appointed to furnish the 

 rooms to be occupied by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis in the home 

 of the Business Men's Club, stated that it had been found that there 

 would be 105 panels and that, as there were not enough specimens of 

 hardwood lumber In this section to make each one of a different wood, it 

 would be necessary to duplicate in some Instances. He brought forth 

 considerable applause when, out of deference to the delegates to the red 

 gum conference, he declared that most of the duplications would be made 

 of red gum. 



The entertainment committee was authorized to take such steps as It 

 saw proper in connection with the visit of the Indiana Retail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association. The association will pass through Memphis .Tan. 22. 



At the completion of the regular business. President Prltchard extended 

 a warm welcome to the delegates to the red gum conference, declaring that 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis was very much pleased with the privi- 

 lege of entertaining these gentlemen. He called on a number of them for 

 brief talks. W. E. Delaney, chairman of the red gum conference and 

 president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, expressed very 

 great pleasure at being with the lumbermen of Memphis, whom he charac- 

 terized as thoroughly aggressive and also as a little egotistical, as evi- 

 denced by the fact that they were taking atepfl at this meeting to bring 

 a part of the government machinery from Washington to Memphis. He 

 dwelt at some length on the great good to be accomplished by organization. 



While he agreed that the lumbermen took rather long iliuucos, he thought 

 that they were quite as conservative us other business men when every- 

 thing was considered. He intimated that the disposition on their part to 

 take chances grew out of necessity rather than choice. 



Discussing the red gum conference, he said that the principal object of 

 the red gum conference was to And a larger market and that the gentle- 

 men participating therein would work seriously to this end. He said that 

 one Industrious gentleman bad already discovered a new by-product made 

 of red gum, but the exact nature thereof, as well as the effects to be 

 accomplished thereby, will hardly bear publication. 



C. L. Harrison of Cape Girardeau, Mo., was Introduced as the originator 

 of the red gum conference. He said that he had taken tbis step because 

 his firm was up against It, as it was in the position of a man trying to 

 sell gold dollars at ninety cents apiece. He declared that gum manufac- 

 turers were going to put gum on the market in the right way and that 

 they had come to .Memphis, which is the center of the chief territory 

 producing gum, to make the start. He thanked the club for the very 

 cordial hospitality shown to himself and other delegates. 



T. W. Fry of St. Louis, Charles Thomas of BelzonI, Miss., and E. A. 

 Lang of Chicago were called upon aud responded briefly, expressing very 

 great pleasure at being present, and reiterated the expressions of others 

 regarding the hospitality shown to the various delegates. Mr. Lang took 

 occasion to Invite the members of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis td 

 make their headquarters with the Lumbermen's Club of Chicogo when in 

 that city. 



Nashville Trade Visits Louisville 



The recent visit of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club to Louisville was 

 one of the most enjoyable events recorded in a long while. The Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club was the host of the Nashville men. and took the 

 visitors in charge when they stepped down from their sleeper at seven 

 o'clock in the morning, continuing the entertainment until midnight. The 

 day's program included breakfast at the Seelbach Hotel : a visit to a 

 number of mills In the southern part of the city: luncheon at the Louis- 

 ville Country Club : the afternoon at the races at Churchill Downs : din- 

 ner at the Seelbach ; the evening at Keith's vaudeville theater, and sup- 

 per at the Seelbach. The Nashville men indicated that they had had a 

 good time, and are talking about arranging a trip to Memphis by both 

 Nashville and Louisville clubs. 



National Inspection for September 



As Indicated by the records of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, the inspection department officially inspected and measured 15,679,- 

 862 feet during the month of September, 1913, which is a slight reduc- 

 tion over the month of September, 1912, and about 2,000.000 feet less 

 than were inspected during August. 1913. The total earnings of the In- 

 spection bureau for the month amount to .$5,232.94. and the expenses and 

 salaries of the inspectors, including the chief inspector, were $5,920.82, 

 so that the work was conducted at an expense to the association of 

 $687.88. 



Philadelphia Exchange in First Meeting 



The Lumbermen's Exchange held its first monthly meeting after the 

 summer suspension, in Griffith Hall, on Oct. 9. In the evening Instead of 

 the afternoon as heretofore, this arrangement having been made the 

 better to accommodate the business men and so assure a larger attend- 

 ance. The experiment so far as one can judge from a single trial, bids 

 fair to prove a success. At :30 a supper provided by the favorite caterer 

 of the exchange. Mr. Wiener, and of which the menu was as usual par- 

 ticularly tempting was served, and the augmented attendance gave It the 

 appearance of a jovial social gathering. At 7 :30 the meeting was called 

 to order by President Benjamin Stoker, who announced that with the 

 object of giving to these meetings In the evening a social as well as 

 business character, the famous Kindling Wood Quintette, with John E. 

 Howes, accompanist, would open the session with some choice selections 

 of music, a feature unanimously approved, .\fter this special treat the 

 regular business was taken up. After the reading of the minutes of the 

 previous meeting, Amos Y. Leshcr. chairman of the Forestry Commission, 

 made his report. Thomas B. Hammer, chairman of the committee repre- 

 senting the exchange at the Atlantic Deeper Waterways convention, then 

 read an Interesting report on the work which Is being done In that direc- 

 tion, after which Robert C. LIppIncott gave the boys a little talk on 

 some of the experiences of the lumber business running back flfty years, 

 showing the wonderful advance made from the increased facilities In 

 this branch of Industry. His description of the old crude logging and 

 transportation methods of that time was very amusing. It Is the feel- 

 ing of Mr. LIppIncott that lumbermen as a rule are a broad, honorable 

 set of men. John E. Lloyd, president of the William M. Lloyd Company, 

 then aired some very sensible Ideas as to the right and wrong methods 

 pursued by the present day lumbermen, and made some Ingenious prognos- 

 tications as to how the lumber business may possibly be conducted In 

 the future. Mr. Lloyd possesses a teeming brain and his remarks were 

 received with applause. President Stoker announced with pleasure that 

 hereafter talks of this kind from the members and others would add to 

 the attractions of these meetings. Frederick S. Underbill, S. Ashton Bon- 

 der, John B. Llo.vd and Amos Y. Lesher were appointed a committee to 

 represent the exchange at the Fire Prevention Convention, to be held 

 In this city from Oct. 13 to 18. After a few more selections from the 

 quintette this meeting adjourned. The November meeting after the supper 

 In Griffith Hall, will be held in the exchange room. 



