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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 25. 1922 



Third Annual of American Hardwood Association 

 Will Be Momentous 



The third annual of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 at Louisville, Ky., March 7 and S, looms as one of the most important in 

 the history of this organization, according to John M. Pritchard, secretary- 

 manager. The attendance promises to be of record proportions, as, in addi- 

 tion to the large number of members present from the entire hardwood 

 producing territory, a handsome number of consumers have indicated that 

 they will be there. A most interesting program, too, is being arranged, 

 some of the papers being of as much value to consumers as to manufac- 

 turers. Furthermore, the association, at this annual, must determine the 

 scope of its future activities in the interest of the hardwood lumber indus- 

 try. This is rendered necessary by the unfavorable opinion of the Supreme 

 Court In the Open Competition Plan case. Nothing has yet come out of 

 Washington indicating what associations may or may not do in the way of 

 compiling and distributing the basic facts of the industry they represent, 

 and it is admitted that the question of determining the future of the 

 statistical department will be rendered somewhat difficult unless some 

 light is shed on this from Washington. 



Secretary-Manager Pritchard announces that W. A. Babbitt, secretary of 

 the National Association of Woodturners, South Bend, Ind., and chair- 

 man of the committee on standardization of dimension stock for the Wood- 

 Using Industries' Association, will address the convention on "Standardiza- 

 tion and Utilization of Dimension Stoclt." Steps have been in the making 

 for a long while to bring about standardization of dimension stock with 

 a view to cheapening its cost and to eliminating waste, and it is suggested 

 that something definite will probably be accomplished in this direction at 

 the annual. 



Mr. Pritchard also announces that W. P. Wilson, president of the 

 National Door & Sash Association and head of A. Wilson & Son, Wheeling, 

 W. Va., will deliver an address on some phase of the sash and door Industry. 

 He Is reputed to be a very interesting speaker, and is known to be thor- 

 oughly in touch with all phases of the business in question. 



Southern Sash, Door and Millwork People Meet 



The Southern Sash, Door & Millwork Association held its quarterly meet- 

 ing at the Grunewald Hotel, New Orleans, February 15 and 16, and after 

 devoting the two days to serious consideration of many important prob- 

 lems, the 52 delegates attending from fourteen states and the District of 

 Columbia boarded a special coach for Shrevcport, La., for sightseeing pur- 

 poses and thence to Jackson, Miss., where they were officially disbanded 

 until the next conclave. 



Special addresses at the sessions In New Orleans were made by President 

 P. F. Conway, Secretary C. B. Harmon, H. T. Didesch, assistant secretary, 

 Millwork Cost Bureau ; F. C. Doyle, a St. Louis putty expert on "Prime- 

 less Putty," and various others prominent in this Important phase of the 

 lumbering industry. 



The delegates to the Southern Sash. Door & .Millwork .Association's 

 quarterly meeting were obviously much impressed with the confusion 

 thrown into trade association work in general by the hardwood decision by 

 the United States Supreme Court and considerable effort was spent In 

 trying to clear up the confusion. The discussion on this subject was ably 

 led by Secretary Harmon, who asserted that "trade associations have been 

 misunderstood, undervalued, misrepresented and subjected to unjust and 

 prejudiced criticism." Secretary Harman denied that It was the object 

 of a public-spirited trade organization to try to fix prices either directly 

 or Indirectly. That was the least of its concern. "Maintenance of grades, 

 standards, rules and regulations is the aim of the typical trade association," 

 according to Secretary Harman's definition of their proper functions. 



The delegates were entertained royally by the home members, being 

 dined and banqueted at the Southern Yacht Club and the city's most 

 famous French cafes and taken about the city for sightseeing, etc. 



Appalachian Loggers Outline Spring Program 



A meeting of the executive committee of the Appalachian Logging Con- 

 gress was held at Knoxville, Tenn., Farragut Hotel, February 4. C. L. 

 Babcock, chairman, president, and other members of the committee present 

 were : W. T. Latham, Andrew Gannett, W. H. Hopkins, J. P. Vestal, 

 C. F. Maples. Lewis Doster, chairman of the Entertainment Committee, 

 was also in attendance. The program for the next meeting, Cincinnati, O., 

 May 9 to 11, was discussed in detail. In the beginning it was decreed that 

 the Congress as a whole should adopt a conservation policy toward forest 

 products and all pertaining thereto, and the program for the coming Spring 

 Meeting to be prepared accordingly. The following is the outline of the 

 program adopted by the committee : 



Cruising — By some professional cruiser. Twenty minutes' talk touch- 

 ing upon all phases of this class of work, followed by general discussion 

 of 20 minutes. 



The balance of the time of the program will be devoted to three ad- 

 dresses by men who are prominently identified with the Lumber Industry, 

 on the following subjects: (1) Timber Cutting and Swamping; (2) 

 Skidding both by Team and Steam; (3) Railroad Operations; (4) Rail- 

 road Maintenance. 



These subjects are to be subdivided under several heads, and a chairman 

 Is to be appointed of a committee, empowered to choose his associates, and 



see that these subjects receive the proper consideration, and are discussed 

 in a thorough manner. A paper of approximately twenty minutes' length 

 to be prepared by the Chairman, touching upon the subject in general and 

 not less than three five-minute papers are to be prepared by the other mem- 

 bers of the committee, touching upon the subdivisions of the subject, this 

 to be followed by a general discussion participated In by those present. 



One thought was uppermost in the minds of those present, it being "Con- 

 servation of Timber from Stump to Mill." Also, that the program be pre- 

 pared with these thoughts, which will enable the reduction of costs, there- 

 by conserving the lumbermen's money 



Southern Hardwood Traffic Announcements 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic -Association announces that reductions 

 ranging from one-half to four cents per hundred pounds on lumber and 

 lumber articles will become effective February 28 from points in Mis- 

 sissippi valley territory east of the Mississippi to destinations in Iowa, 

 Kansas and Nebraska, thus putting producing territory east of the Missis- 

 sippi on the same basis as that west of this stream so far as destinations In 

 the states mentioned are concerned. It points out, however, that, where 

 there are two or more delivery lines to the same place, the rate by each 

 line is different, and it, therefore, suggests that it be consulted regarding 

 rates before shipments are actually pledged to any particular road. 



The Missouri Pacific railroad, according to the association, has estab- 

 lished, effective March 3, a net rate of 9%c on logs and lie on lumber from 

 Memphis to Little Rock, thus equalizing these rates with those applying 

 Santa Fe in Louisiana to the following ports ; Galveston, Texas City, 

 Port Houston and Houston, and Beaumont. The new rate to the first 

 named four Is 12 cents and that to Beaumont is 10 cents. 



Eight cents per hundred pounds on lumber and lumber articles from 

 New Albany, Ind., to Norfolk, Va., via the Southern Railwa.v, effective 

 March 5. 1922. 



Three to four cents per hundred pounds on lumber and lumber articles 

 from numerous points on the Rock Island system to Virginia cities, ef- 

 fective February 28, 1922. 



Two cents per hundred pounds In handling charges at New Orleans on 

 both logs and lumber on the part of all the lines entering that port with 

 the exception of the Louisville & Nashville. These charges, on the new- 

 basis, are 2 cents on lumber and three cents on logs. 



Absorption of handling charges, effective February 4, 1922, on the part 

 of the Ivouisville & Nashville, on competitive traffic at Mobile, except 

 when originating in Alabama, Tennessee (not Including Mississippi river 

 crossings) or Mississippi. 



Reduction (extent not yet known) in rates on lumber and lumber articles 

 from points on the Louisville & Nashville south of Decatur, Ala., to East- 

 ern cities, as a result of agreement to publish through tariffs. 



Evansville Lumbermen's Club Meets 



The regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club was 

 held at the New Vendome hotel on Tuesday night, February 14, and there 

 was a good attendance. General trade coudltions and railroad rates 

 were discussed, the discussion being led by Daniel Wertz of the Maley & 

 Wertz Lumber Co. and John C. Keller, the traffic manager of the club. 

 It was generally agreed that trade had been very dull during the past 

 two months and that they believed it would show some improvement with 

 the coming of spring. The question of the annual summer outing of the 

 club was not brought up but It probably will be discussed at the next 

 meeting of the club, which will be held on Tuesday night, March 14. 

 The outing will be arranged by the entertainment committee, of which 

 Gus E. Bauman Is the chairman. It is expected the outing will be given 

 this year on a steamboat on the Ohio river. 



With the Trade 



Carrier Will Build English Cottage in Memphis 

 R. M. Carrier, head of the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 Sardis, Miss., and president of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, has purchased a lot 200x200 feet on Belvedere boulevard, one 

 of the most prominent residence thoroughfares in Memphis, and will build 

 thereon this spring with a view to making Memphis his future home. This 

 Is to be an English type cottage, which is to be built around two rooms 

 bodily imported from England in 1914 and now used as part of his resi- 

 dence at Sardis, Miss. The woodwork in these consists of English oak 

 paneling, and oak frieze and panel ceiling and It is more than 300 years 

 old. The cottage is to be of antique brick construction, with antique 

 broken tile roof to give the appearance of a century or more of age. The 

 antique idea will be carried out on the interior with Imported furniture. 

 Extensive English gardens are being planned by a Boston architect and 

 landscape gardener and the Carrier home will be distinctly different fronj 

 anything in Mimphis. 



