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HARDWOOD RECORD 



vuu about ■■simvloiis riiillpi'iiic mahogany" l>elntf ulTf-nd to tlir poor. 

 Innocent bnyer. 



\Vc also cunsiWiT tluil Ko in:- bencrai-tors to Uio nltlmali' (oiisnmors. 

 ^is many ol tlirni arc now getting a Philippine mahogany table, where 

 last year they b.iu^.lil lor "Bonuine mahogany." one with a blreb top and 

 sort maple leirs. iNDi.vNA Qr.MiTniinn Oak ('o.MrANv, 



Wlllard Wlnslow, I'resiilenl. 

 B 670; — Seeks Maple Liuiug Stock 



Lester. I'a., I'eb. L'1. — Kdltor IIahowood Kkcori) ; Kindly sive me a 

 list of mannlaeturers from whom I ean buy birds-eye maple lining stoel< 

 lUl to size. I would appreciate it very mvieli if yon would give me this 

 information liy return mnil. 



The desircil information has been supplioil. Anyone having the 

 stoek to offer ami wi-sliiug to be plaeefl in toueh with the inquirer 

 may have the address on application. — Er>lTOi;. 



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Clubs and Associations 



Committees of Chicago Association 



Til.' roilowini; is a list of eommittces appointed at the meeting of the 

 hoard ol ilireetors of the Lumbermen's Association o£ Chicago, held at 

 thi' association ronm.s on February 0. All committees are here listed 

 with the exception of the committees on arbitration and appeals, which 

 were elected at the annual meeting of the association lield on Jan- 

 nary 11). 



'I'KADK REi..vrioNs foM .Mil TKF 1 K. L. Tliorutoii. clia I ruiiiTi : A. IL 

 Scluien. A. II. lUith. M. S. Porter. J. C. Ilalpin, 11. 1.. .\(l;irns. .1. A. 

 Diik. A. A. Sislek. 



iNsi'Kiiiiix I'ci.uMiT'rEES ; Geo. .7. Pope, chairman; Pine — .1. R. Duthic 

 I' \V .Luobs V. I'. .Mashek, Geo. T. Mlckie : hardwood — O. O. Agler. 

 ■riieo. Katliaoer. lico, I >. Griffith. John M. Kiel. 



Trveek Co.mmittee ; A. F. Marsh, chairman: F. U. Gadd, H. II. 

 llettler. John G. Hedges. A. E. Smith, E. A. Thornton. 



Mbmbersiiip Committee: Ch.is. Westcott. chairman: F. J. Ileitmann, 

 K. L. Krown. XL S. Porter. A. II. Ruth, John McDonnell. Peter ISeck. 

 Sam Olson. 



Entertainment Committee : H. I>. Welch, chairman : L. L. Rolio. 

 ('has. Darling, J. S. Ilurd, Wni. T. Fritrs. J. U Lane, Arthur Noilau, A. 

 A. Sistek. „ 



PiiRi.icrrv CoMMiTTEi; : Paul I., Si'liniecliel, chairman: C. C. Collins, 

 .T II. Dion. i,. A. liixicl. Ilaiuili.ii 1 1 iiiLhii l.iy, P. S. Fletcher. 



FiN^Nci: C.>MMriTEK: S 1'. r.'iirMii. rii:i iiinan : E. W. Dierssen, J. H. 

 Dion. iN. r. Hand. (ieo. .1. Pop.. .\ mIi, i... \. F. Mashek. 



Credit Cu.mmittei: ; Geo. A. .Mi:ki. Lliairman : C. E. Garnet. E. F 

 .Manrose. 



HODSK Commit-tee: F. L. Johnson. Jr.. chairman: John Ilan.sen, L 

 E. Starr. 



Hi'ii,ni\r. Committee: Geo. J. Pope, chairman: E. A. Thornton. E. E.. 

 Sk.'cle. 



CuMMiTTEE ON AuBiTRATiON : F. J. Ileitnuinn, Fred H. Smith. F. I!. 

 \I(Mullen. C. G. Plinn. E. A. Lang. II. D. Traeger. 



Cci.MMiTrri: ON AiTEAi.s : M. F. Rittenboiise. Clias. liaiiiiiK. G.'o. H. 

 liriflith. C A. Marsii. Mordock MacLeod. John Olsen. Jr. 



Monthly Meeting Philadelphia Exchange 



The I'hiladelpbia Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular monthly 

 meeting on the evening of February u. After supper the meeting was 

 called to order in the exchange rooms by President Ben.1amin Stoker. 

 This will be the last of the monthly meetings which include special social 

 features, to be held under the present administration as the election 

 of new officers and other annual business and ceremonies will take place 

 in April. For this evening's entertainment the president invited James 

 Edward Caltell, the mayor's statistician, and a remarkable adept at his 

 profession, to speak on "Philadelphia." Mr. Caltell in his speech dwelt 

 on the wonderful power this city wielded in the commercial and financial 

 world, with its extensive manufacturing industries, strong and safe fi- 

 nancial Institutions, shipbuilding plants and railroads. 



The regular meeting was then called to order at which the president 

 announced that Gucker Brothers had been elected members of the ex- 

 change. Report of the committee attending the National Rivers and 

 Harljors Congress in Washington, D. C was next read ; also a letter from 

 the Washington r.oard of Trade requesting the exchange to join in 

 the work of developing the national capital and making it the most 

 l>eautiful city in the world. A resolution to that effect was passed. 

 .\ resolution was also adopted at the reiiuest of the National Deeper Water 

 Ways Association to write the state senators to vote favorably on the 

 hill now before thi' House to purchase the Chesapeake and Delaware 

 Canal. At the request of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, it was resolved that the president and two other delegates 

 lie sent to represent the exchange at the coming annual convention 

 in Buffalo on March 4 and -j. President Stoker subsequently selected 

 Charles P. Maule and John E. Lloyd as the other two delegates to com- 

 plete the committee of three. Action was also taken on similar requests 

 from the American Academy of Political and Social Science and Chamber 

 of Commerce. 



The meeting wound up with an interesting talk by Richard Torpin. 

 who claims to be the oldest lumberman in the trade today as he is 

 seventy-nine years old. His comparison of the old with the present 

 Philadelphia was very amusing. 



Flans for the National 'Wholesalers' Meeting Progressing 



Arrangcmi nts for the twenty -second annual m.-ctlm; of liic .National 

 Wholesale Lmubcr Healers' .Association to he held at the irucpiols hotel. 

 liulTalo, X. v., March 4 and 5, are progressing, and indications point to a 

 large meeting. Secretary Perry states that letters received from mem- 

 bers show an unusual interest in the meeting this year. 



.V number of import:int questions wiil be presented for consideration. 

 The chairmen of the committees on bureau of Information, railroad and 

 iransportatiou, tiro insurance, forestry legislation and other committees, 

 are at work with their committeemen and will have interesting papers 

 to submit covering the year's activity. 



The program and banquet committees are busily eng!iged in shaping 

 up llieir work. Replies to invitations to the various trade organizations 

 have been recei\cd not only from the wholesale and retail associations, 

 iiut also from the National Conservation Congress. American Forestry 

 Association, Railroad Business Association and others, so that the repre- 

 sentation will be general. 



George S. Wood, manager of the Forest Products Exposition, was In 

 New York a short time ago conferring with Secretary Perry, and the 

 matter of the exposition will be given full discussion. 



The annual banquet of the organization will be held at the Iroquois 

 licitel, Thursday evening, March 5, at t o'clock. The plan adopted a 

 K.uple of years ago. namely, that the ladies participate in the banquet 

 with the men, will be followed this j-ear, and it Is expected that a large 

 number of tlie members will bring their wives, daughters, etc. The social 

 feature of the annual meetings has kept pace with the association in- 

 terest taken in the business sessions, and the easy access afforded by 

 BufTalo to the many members of the association and its natural points 

 of interest, will afford an unusually good combination of business and 

 pleasure. 



Twelfth Annual Meeting 



The board of gov-'ruors of the National Lumber Mantifacturers' Asso- 

 ciation has fixed the date for the twelfth annual meeting on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, May 5 and 6, 1914, in the audience hall of the Coliseum, 

 ('hicago, in connection with the Forest Products Exposition. The presi- 

 dent and secretary were authorized to prepare a program to deal largely 

 with the question of better methods of merchandising lumber. With 

 this end in view, prominent architects, builders, wood preservers and 

 representatives of the fire prevention and insurance interests will be 

 Invited to address the meeting, in order that the lumber manufacturers 

 may get the views of the men who specify, purchase and consume lumber, 

 as well as of those who would regulate and restrict its use. 



Meeting Memphis Club 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at its last regular meeting on 

 Tuesda.v, February 17, went strongly on record in favor of employers" 

 liability law, and instructed the law and insurance committee to see 

 that such a law along this line was passed that the interests of members 

 of this organizaticm would be thoroughly protected. This action was 

 taken when it was made known that, at the coming session of the 

 Tennessee legislature, an act of some sort covering this feature would 

 bo passed and the lumbermen believe that, if such is to be the case, the 

 club ought to lend its support to a measure that will be fair to them- 

 selves as well as just and equitable to employees. 



The club also instructed the resolutions committee to draw up and 

 forward to the proper authorities a strong protest against the proposi- 

 tion of the International Shipping Federation to insert in bills of lading 

 a provision that, in case of strikes of stevedores or other causes leading 

 to delay in the loading and unloading of vessels, shippers shall bear 

 tlieir pro rata share of any loss arising therefrom. The protest is to 

 lie sent to all the forwarding agents in the United States, to steamship 

 ofiicials on the other side and to the officers o€ the International Ship- 

 ping Federation. It was suggested that this provision inserted in the 

 bills would render the latter non-negotiable and impose still other undesir- 

 able handicaps. 



The river and rail committee reported that it had reached an agree- 

 ment with otBcials of the Illinois Central whereby all over-rate claims 

 would be refunded at Memphis instead of Chicago, where Memphis ship- 

 pers are concerned. This agreement covers all over-rate refunds whether 

 the shipments originate at Memphis or whether they are destined to this 

 point. If they originate at Memphis it does not make any difference 

 whether or not they are delivered on lines of the Illinois Central. It 

 also makes no difference if they originate on other lines, provided Memphis 

 is the destination. The agreement, however, does not hold unless the ship- 

 ments either originate here or Memphis is the destination thereof. 



S. B. Anderson, chairman of the special committee appointed to raise 

 the necessary funds to defray the expenses of the banquet tendered in 

 November to members of the Lumbermen's Clubs of Louisville and Nash- 

 ville and the delegates to the red gum conference, reported that he and 

 his associ.-ites had succeeded so well that they had raised a surplus over 

 and above the sum needed. Needless to say^ this committee was given 

 a vote of thanks and "honorable" discharge. 



F. E. Stonehraker, who is chairmau of the committee having in charge 

 the furnishing of the rooms in the Business Men's Club to be used by 

 the Lumbermen's Club, reported that these would be ready for occupancy 

 before the end of the current month. 



J. D. -Mien. Jr.. president of the club, announced at this mei'ting that 



