PecenUiHi- 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Lumber Exchange Is Defended 



The St. Louis Lumber Trade Exchange was defended at the resumption 

 in that city of Attorney General Barrett's dissolution suit. Witnesses 

 testified that liefore the exchange was formed the giving of short measures 

 and inferior quality were common practices among ilealers in St. Louis. 



That the cost of doing business exceeded the service charge of the ex- 

 change, which was $15.09 per thousand feet was the testimony of Geo. 

 L. Walters of the Mound City Lumlier Co. He said dealers lost $43,747.53 

 on total sales of 82,542,515 feet during 1920. 



R. E. Gruner of Phillip Gruner & Bros. Lumber Company said freight rates 

 were responsible for high prices. He cited Douglas fir as an example, say- 

 ing it could be purchased on the Pacific Coast for $13 per thousand feet 

 and the rate on it is from $24 to $26 per thousand feet to St. Louis. 



Lieut. Governor Lloyd of Missouri testified in behalf of the exchange, 

 saying the formation of it was beneficial to ilealers and consumers. 



Evans'ville Club Annual 



The regular monthly meeting of the I-^vansville Lumbermen's Club will 

 be held at the New Vendome Hotel on Tuesday night, December 13. at 

 which time the annual election of oflicers will take place. J. C. Greer, 

 head of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, has l)een the president of the 

 club for the past year and he has not indicated that he will stand for 

 re-election. William P. Partington, secretary and treasurer of the club, 

 probably will be re-elected. There will be a business men's luncheon 

 served, followed by a discussion of business matters. 



Mayor Benjamin Bosse of this city recently appointed a committee of 

 leading citizens to devise ways and means of giving employment to men 

 and women of the city w'ho have been idle for the past few months. At 

 the first meeting of the committee, a sub-committee was appointed, headed 

 by Edward L. Israel, of the Washington .\ venue Temple, and the purpose 

 of this committee will be to work out plans for the building of 500 new 

 homes in the city during the next six months that will give work to 

 some of the idle men. It is proposed to rent the houses for sums ranging 

 from $20 to $25 apiece. 



Manufacturers of phonographs and other musical instruments in Evans- 

 ville and other towns and cities in southern Indiana report that their 

 trade has not been so good during the past month or two and that because 

 of the falling off in business some of the plants are either closed down 

 or are being operated on short time. 



The new buildings of the Blue-Reel Lumlier Company at Petersburg. 

 Ind.. a few miles north of here, have been completed and the company 

 now has one of the most modem lumber plants in this end of the state. 

 The company owns yards and plants in several other southern Indiana 

 towns. 



George Foote, of the Evansville Band Mill Company, has returned from 

 a business trip to Vlncennes, Ind. 



Wholesalers' Annual at Washington 

 As previously announced, the next annual meeting of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association will be held at Washington, D. C. Secre- 

 tary Schupner was in Washington a few weeks ago and the dates have 

 been set for Wednesday and Thursday, March 22 and 23. 



This, the thirtieth annual meeting, marks another decade in the asso- 

 ciation's history, and the selection of Washington as the convention city 

 assures a large attendance. The convention program and arrangements 

 have been referred to the Executive Committee, and announcements will 

 follow in due course. The committee will be pleased to promptly hear from 

 members with suggestions of matters to be considered at the convention. 



Secretary Makes Trip 



W. W. Schupner. secretary of the Nati'>nal Wliolesale Lumber Dealers' 

 .\ssociation, is making a visit to members in several cities, and looking 

 after association matters requiring immediate attention. 



He was at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, November 30 and Decem- 

 ber 1 ; the William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, December 12 ; at the Congress 

 Hotel, Chicago, December 13, 14 and 15; at the Iroquois Hotel, Buffalo, 

 December 16 and 17. 



Inter-Association Arbitration Meeting Called 



A meeting of the Inter-.\ssociation .\rbitration Committee, of which 

 Dwight Hinckley of the Dwight Hinckley Lumber Company of Cincinnati, 

 is chairman, has been called for December 13 at Chicago in the Congress 

 Hotel. The meeting was called for the purpose of hearing the report of the 

 sub-committee, which last spring was appointed to prepare a general plan 

 governing inter-association arbitration. Fred Larkins, assistant secretary 

 of the .\merican Wholesale Lumber Association, is chairman of this sub- 

 committee. 



In the call which he issued for the meeting Mr. Hinckley urges all lum- 

 ber associations — manufacturing, wholesale and retail — to send a repre- 

 sentative to consider the plan which will be offered. 



Speaking of arbitration in connection with the call for this meeting 

 Mr, Hinckley said : "During the past several years arbitration of business 

 disputes has grown in favor particularly among lumbermen. One associa- 

 tion alone has handled over three hundred cases this year and in some 

 instances the amount involved has gone Into thousands of dollars. We 

 believe the time has come when some definite or practical plan should be 

 followed in handling these disputes, particularly where the parties inter- 

 ested do not belong to the same association. The object of the meeting 

 in question is to devise such a plan and form a league of associations, which 

 will work under this agreement. Please be advised that compulsory arbi- 

 tration will not be a part of the plan. ' 



Baltimore Exchange Holds Annual Meeting 



The annual meeting of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange was held on the 

 afternoon of December 5 at the rooms of the Old Colony Club, in the 

 Southern Hotel, instead of at the Merchants' Club, as usual, and the cus- 

 tomary banquet was omitted in the face of the prevailing conditions in 

 the trade. W. Hunter Edwards, president, submitted his yearly report, 

 and the statements of the secretary-treasurer and of various committees, 

 showing the work done during the year, were also presented. Mr. Ed- 

 wards gave a review of business conditions during the twelve months, 

 which, he admitted, had not been of an encouraging character, but did 

 not venture to make a forecast for the future. The other reports showed 

 that the Exchange has held its own and that much work of benefit to the 

 trade has been done. The election of officers resultetl in the following 

 slate being chosen ; 



President — W. Hunter Edwards. 



Vice-President — George Waters, George Waters & Son. 



Treasurer — L. H. Gwaltney, John H. Zouck & Co. 



Managing Committee — Pembroke M. Womble, William M. Burgan. Lewis 

 Dill. George E. Waters, Theodore Mottu. Henry D.' Dreyer, Daniel MacLea, 

 MacLea Lumber Company ; Frederick A. Ascherfeld, H. Rowland Clapp, 

 John L. Alcock. John L. .\lcock & Co., and Ridgaway Merryman. 



New Orleans Club Stages Membership Frolic 

 The New Orleans Lumbermen's Cluh, comprising the leatiing hardwood 

 as well as pine and cypress lumbermen of the extreme Southern section, 

 has embarked upon a membership campaign, following its recent removal 

 into its new and thoroughly modern home at Union and Carondelet streets. 

 The club at the present time has a membership of upwards of 350 leading 

 members of the industry. The first step taken in the campaign was a 

 big social "stunt," arranged by a special committee, on which the tutrd- 

 wood phase of the industry was represented in the person of C. H. Sherrill, 

 president of the Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Company, of New Orleans and 

 Merryville, La. 



The staid lumbermen sent all cares to the four winds on the night of 

 November 20 and with their wives, daughters and friends celebrated the 

 formal opening of their new quarters with an elaborate housewarming 

 party, at which music, dancing, vaudeville numbers and brief, appropriate 

 addresses were the principal features. The function, at which lumber- 

 men worshiped at the shrine of the Goddess Terpsichore until a late hour, 

 served the two-fold purpose of giving the campaign its first real imijetus 

 and also of opening up what promises to be a really brilliant and enjoy- 

 able social season for the club. 



With the Trade 



Brown Entertains in New Offices 



On Tuesday, Nov. 29, the Louisville Hardwood Club held a meeting 

 at the new offices of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, the club 

 having been invited to attend a special dinner arranged by the Brown 

 company, which also invited a few guests from the hardwood trade. One 

 of the best dinners that a.ny lumberman ever sat down to was arranged 

 by J. G. Brown, who has forgotten more about good food than most 

 people know. The interesting feature of the evening was dicussion of 

 the old days in the hardwood trade, in which some of the old timers told 

 of interesting experiences and adventures in their early days in the lum- 

 ber trade, much of the information on changed conditions being almost 

 new to the younger members. 



Davis Joins May as Buyer 



The E. R. May Hardwood Co. has recently announced that O. I. Davis 

 has joined the company as a buyer. Mr. Davis is a brother of Charley 

 Davis, of the Mengel Company hardwood department, and was with that 

 company, the Stimson Veneer &. Ijumber Company, Memphis ; J. V. Stimson, 

 at Huntingburg, Ind., and other prominent houses. Mr. May reported that 

 he had recently closed a very nice agreement with a large English concern 

 to be exclusive representative in this territory, and in return will have 

 his lumber handled exclusively by this concern in the Hull. Liverpool and 

 Manchester markets. 



Dooley Wins Suit from St. Louis 



In case a shipment of hardwood lumber is made to a buyer and there 

 is some stock therein below grade, the latter must take all that is up to 

 grade and pay for it at the invoice price. 



This is, in brief, the principle established by the decision of the jury 

 in the Chancery Court at Memphis, Tenn., which heard the case of the 

 Ozan Lumber Company, of St. Louis, vs. the F. T. Dooley Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Memphis, and which decided In favor of the latter. 



The trial lasted more than two weeks and the facts developed therein 

 may be briefly summarized as follows : 



In May, 1920, the defendant firm sold to the complainant three cars 

 of No, 1 common white and red oak at $140.00 per M. On arrival of the 

 lumber, the complainant claimed that it was below grade. The de- 

 fendant firm insisted on oflicial Inspection and this showed that 81 per 

 cent of the lumber was up to grade. The latter offered to take care 

 of the 19 per cent degrade lumber. The complainant, however, insisted 



