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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(CoiidnKt'd /lom ;iayc 55.) 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen Hold Annual 



Tte twcntj'-secoiul annuiU conVLiitiou of the I'eunsylvanln Lum- 

 hermnns' Assoclatlou wns held In the Ilotel Walton, I'bllndelphia, on 

 .January 28 and 29. After the meeting of committees and board of 

 directors, the convention was called to order at 2 1". XI. on January 2S 

 liy President J. J. Mlllelsen of Mcchanlcsburg. After the roll call and 

 the reading of the annual reports of the oflicera, the following topics were 

 discussed : The Light Delivery End of the Business ; The Average Do- 

 inurrase Agreements; Our National Forests, and Local Associations. 



Ou January 29, at 9 :15, the delegates, by Invitation of the Curlia Tub- 

 llshing Company, were escorted through Its plant, a privilege and com- 

 pliment which was much appreciated. The second session of the meeting 

 was called to order at 10 ::;0, at which the subject of Modern Road Build- 

 ing was discussed. Justin Tcters, manager of the rcnnsylvania Lumber- 

 men's Mutual I'ire Insurance Company, then gave an emphasized talk on 

 the advantaLjes of mutual Are Insurance companies. He was followed 

 by the reading of the reports of the various committees. The election of 

 directors then followed, and Henry Talmer. Langhorne ; William S. Golf, 

 Wilkcs-Barre. and Theodore A. Mehl, Rosemont, were voted in for three 

 years. The board of directors later re-elected J. J. Mlllelsen, president ; 

 Theodore A. Mehl, vice-president ; T. J. Snowdcn, treasurer and J. Fred- 

 erick Marlin, secretary, which closed the business session. 



A moving picture was then thrown upon the wall of the hall, through 

 the courtesy of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, illustrating the lumber 

 Industry from the telling of the tree to the shipping of the lumber to 

 the trade. At 1 p. m. 2G9 members of the association and their friends 

 sat down to a sumptuous dinner. President Mlllelsen acted as toast- 

 master. Speeches were made by Hon. M. Clyde Kelley. congressman from 

 Pittsburgh, who spoke on association work ; Hon. Gifford Pinchot, who 

 gave an interesting talk on forestry, and Hon. Charles R. Miller, governor 

 of Delaware, who impressed upon the boys the necessity of a harmonious 

 get-together spirit in trade. This wound up the most interesting conven- 

 tion In the history of the association. 



The committee in charge of the entertainment was composed of Henry 

 Palmer, chairman: C. Frank Williamson and Benjamin Stokes. The 

 souvenir of the occasion is an artistically gotten up booklet in green and 

 gold, the front cover inlaid with a square of highly-polished maple wood. 

 It contains the names of the officers and the speakers, the menu, and photos 

 of the officers and speakers, and was donated by the Pennsylvania Lumber- 

 men's Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Philadelphia ; Lumbermen's Mutual 

 Fire Insurance Company. Boslon. Mass. ; Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance 

 Company. Mansfield. Ohio ; Indiana Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany. Indianapolis. Ind., and the Central Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance 

 Company, Van Wert, Ohio. 



Forest Products Exposition Bulletin 

 With the approach of the Forest Products Exposition, which Is to be 

 given at the Coliseum, Chicago, April 30-May 9, and the Grand Central 

 Palace, New York. May 21-May -30, Indications point to one of the most 

 important, popular, attractive and result-producing industrial expositions 

 that has ever been held in America. Reports and reservations of space 

 from every section of the country and branch of the industry bear out the 

 report of the manasement that every phase and part of the American 



wood industry will be well represented and forming the great shop 

 window of the industry, which Is the fundamental purpose and ambition 

 of the undertaking. 



During the past two weeks some of the most important details of 

 active participation have been decided upon delinltely. Contracts are 

 being let by the principal lumber manufacturing associations for t'lelr 

 respective exhibits of the utility, possibilities and general advantages of 

 their particular productions, while Individual exhibitors are engaged in 

 more or less elaborate preparations. At recent meetings several brandies 

 of the hardwood manufacturing Industry have appointed committees with 

 power to act toward representation; at the annual meeting of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association of the United States the tight stave 

 manufacturers took steps to coiiperate with the slack stave manufacturers, 

 the oak manufacturers decided on a definite plan to exhibit, the yellow 

 poplar manufacturers decided to secure representation, and several other 

 branches of the hardwood industry took up the matter with definite pur- 

 pose. At the same time tlie American Wood Preservers' Association, at 

 Its meeting in New Orleans, appointed a committee with power to act, 

 and space was secured at both Chicago and New York for an extended 

 display, while the committee was authorized to undertake to secure joint 

 display with the paving block manufacturers. 



Among other reservations that have been decided upon are E. C. Atkins 

 & Co., Clyde Iron Works, Barrett Manufacturing Company; Seattle Cedar 

 Lumber Manufacturing Company, Mossraan Wood Turning Company, and 

 a number of others, while more than rifty individual manufacturers, 

 producers, specialty concerns and organizations have practically closed 

 for their representation. The space has been allotted for the forestry 

 division of the United States Department of Agriculture for an extensive 

 and most comprehensive demonstrating exhibit of the operations of this 

 service in research and testing. 



With the Trade 



Robert F. Whitmer Banquetted 



Robert F. Wliitraer, the well-known and popular head of the extensive 

 lumber house of William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., has abundant reason to 

 remember with pleasure his fiftieth birthday, which fell on Sunday, 

 January 25. To commemorate it. 125 of his employees and business 

 associates tendered him a complimentary dinner in the north garden of 

 the Bellevue Stratford hotel, on the evening of January 24. which prcved 

 one of the happiest and most enjoyable social reunions in the history 

 of the company. The decorations for the occasion were elaborate and 

 artistic and the music of the choicest, as everybody was eager to show 

 his appreciation of the pleasant relations which have always existed 

 between employer and employee of this house. R. S. Coryell acted as toast- 

 master, and a number of acceptable speeches were made. A pleasant 

 surprise awaited Mr. Whitmer, when F. H. Ely, in a neat and appropriate 

 speech in behalf of those present, presented him with a handsome loving 

 cup suitably inscribed. Mr. Whitmer acknowledged this token of respect 

 from his employes and business associates in a speech which the boys 

 pronounced a dandy. There is nothing that will bring about so effectually 



L. W. CROW F. J. fiivE GEORGE J. POPE 



On January 26 the board of directors of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago held a meeting at the association headquarters and elected the 

 following officers tor the ensuing year: L. W. Crow, president, Francis J. Pike, vice-president, George J. Pope, treasurer. E. E. Hooper, secretary. 



