May 10. lOli 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



{Continued from page 22a) 



W. J. Eckman Now Heads N. L. E. A. 

 News of the deatb of George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 Memphis, Tenn., and president of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 • elation, was received in Baltimore with great regret. It had been linown 

 that his condition was serious, but the hope was entertained that his 

 rugged constitution would enable him to throw off the malady that 

 afflicted him. and that be might look forward to many years of useful- 

 ness. He was held in the highest esteem by members of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association and otJiers whom he had met, and the 

 sincerest sympathy has gone out to his partner and family. Secretary 

 Harvey M. Dickson, as soon as he was advised of Mr. Burgess' demise, 

 notified W. J. Eckman, of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, Cincin- 

 nati, vice-president of the association, and a committee was named to 

 adopt resolutions of regret and condolence. Mr. Eckman will continue 

 to discharge the duties of president probably until the next annual meet- 

 ing of the organization, in January, 1918, as under the constitution offi- 

 cers can be elected only at the annual. 



Names Southern Rail Committee 



In accordance with the authority given him at the special meeting of 

 the board of governors of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. 

 President James E. Stark has named the following members of the 

 committee of five authorized to handle the light before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission against the proposed blanket advance of 15 per 

 cent in hardwood rates : R. L. Jurden, vice-president of the association ; 

 John W. McCIure. Bellgrade Lumber Company ; Walker L. Wellford, 

 the Chickasaw Cooperage Company, and J. H. Townshend, secretary of 

 the association. Mr. Stark is himself chairman of this committee. It 

 is further announced that Howard Coles, president of the Southwestern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, will name a member of that organization 

 on this committee, thus increasing the number to six. 



Mr. Jurden, it is stated, is to line up Arkansas interests and Mr. 

 McClure is to do the same thing in connection with Mississippi interests. 

 Mr. Wellford, who is president of Associated Cooperage Industries, is to 

 look after the interests of manufacturers and distributors of cooperage 

 products In Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, while the 

 representative, or appointee, of the Southwestern Hardwood Traffic Asso- 

 ciation, will co-operate in looking after .-Vrkansas interests. 



There is to be a meeting of the larger committee here the latter part of 

 this week at which sub-committees will be named to help in the work 

 in hand. When these committees have been named every hardwood 

 organization in the southern field will be found to have direct repre- 

 sentation and to be in line for active and energetic co-operation. 



Real Progress in Fireproofing Shingles 



Secretary R. S. Kellogg of the National Lumber Manufacturers" Associa- 

 tion announces the results of a conference held recently at St. Louis be- 

 tween prominent lumber association officials and officials of the Paint 

 Manufacturers' Association. The conference was called to witness tests 

 held at the laboratory of Dr. Herman Von Schrenck of a new fire-resisting 

 paint compounded by Dr. Gardner of the Institute of Industrial Research. 

 Secretary Kellogg announces that the progress so far has been extremely 

 gratifying. 



The formula for the paint Is held by the paint association and reputable 

 manufacturers are being licensed to put it up under the association trade- 

 mark in connection with their own labels. 



Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club 



George M. Morgan was elected president of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 Club at the recent annual meeting of the organization. Other officers 

 elected were : First vice-president. P. V. Shoe ; second vice-president, John 

 Byrns ; secretary, Chilton EUett ; treasurer, J. Watt Graham. 



The club by unanimous vote displayed their loyalty and self sacrifice for 

 their country when the sum of $125, which had been set aside from the 

 club's funds to defray the expenses of the annual outing,, was given to the 

 Red Cross. The outing, in consequence, has been abandoned. 



Important Northern Traffic Decision 



The bulletin of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' • 

 Association of May 4 contains the following announcement : 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has handed down a decision in case 

 entitled, "Cadillac Lumber Exchange vs. Ann Arbor Railroad," which is of 

 unusual interest to our members. This case was a result of a petition 

 filed by the Cadillac Lumber Exchange and others, alleg:ing among other 

 things that the rates maintained by carriers from points in Wisconsin and 

 Upper Michigan were unreasonably low and prejudicial and that same con- 

 stituted an unwarranted discrimination against complainants and their 

 traffic when destined to points in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and 

 Eastern Trunk Line territory. The above entitled matter came on for 

 hearing at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in July, 1916. This department ap- 

 peared on behalf of all members interested and was able to show the rates 

 complained of were governed by conditions not at all similar to those sur- 

 rounding the traffic of the complainants and by means of diagrammatic 

 maps showed that complainants were already receiving the benefit of the 

 rates from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, which were entirely controlled 

 b.v water competition, actual and potential, and that therefore their rates 

 were upon a much lower basis than would otherwise obtain. The report 

 of the commission contains the following : "Proven and admitted present 

 existence of water competition, with the constant possibility that it may 

 become stronger, which facts differentiate the complaining situation from 

 the situation of those using the rates with which the comparisons are made. 

 From all of the facts of record we find that the defendants have met the 

 burden of proof as to the reasonableness of the rates assailed, and that no 

 undue prejudice or disadvantage to complainant members have been shown 

 to exist, and further complaint will be entered." 



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Baltimore Meets Wage Demands 



The Baltimore Lumber Exchange, at a special meeting held on April 25, 

 passed the substitute for the by-law relating to inspection charges. Under 

 the new section the charge for inspecting 1,000 feet of hardwoods by the 

 inspectors of the exchange is raised to 60 cents. Agreements between 

 buyer and seller on any other basis are permitted, but any inspector who 

 violates the section is liable to dismissal, while the buyer or the seller 

 who connives at the violation or encourages it is subject to a fine and stands 

 suspended until the fine Is paid. The inspection charge was raised because 

 the inspectors had made a lequest for an increase in their pay in the face 

 of the general conditions and the high cost of living. The charge for han- 

 dling lumber has also been increased of late, the lumbermen having thus 

 averted a strike which w'ould have caused serious embarrassment. 



Committees of National Wholesalers 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association has just announced 

 the membership "of the various important committees tor 1917 and 191S, 

 of which the following are some of the most important : 

 ExECCTivE Committee 



M. E. Preisch, President, Haines Lumber Company, No. Tonawanda, 

 N. Y. ; Horace P. Taylor, Taylor & Crate, Buffalo, N. Y. ; W. W. Knight. 

 Long-Knight Lumber Company. Indianapolis ; Gordon C. Edwards, W. C. 

 Edwards & Co.. Ltd., Ottawa, Ont. ; F. R. Babcock, Babcock Lumber Com- 

 pany, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Railroad and Transportation Committee 



L. Germain. Jr.. Cbairm.in, Germain Company, Pittsburgh. Pa. ; Robert 

 G. Kay, Kay Lumber Company, Philadelphia, Pa. ; George F. Kerns, Geo. 

 F. Kerns Lumber Company, Chicago, 111. ; W. G. Power. River Quelle Pulp 

 and Lumber Company. St. Pacome. Que. ; A. R. Turnbull, Rowland Lumber 

 Company. Norfolk, Va. ; O. E. Yeager. Yeager Lumber Company, Inc.. 

 Buffalo, N. Y. : H. B. Sbepard, Shepard & Morse Lumber Company, Boston, 

 Mass. ; J. W. McClure, Bellgrade Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. 

 Abbiteation Committee 



Knowlton Mixer, Chairman, Mixer & Co.. Bufl'alo, N. Y. ; J. W. Turnbull, 

 Turnbull Lumber Company, Philadelphia ; B. H. Ellington, Ellington & Guy. 

 Richmond. Va. ; J. B. Montgomery, American Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; J. V. Stlmson, Huntingburg, Ind. ; F. W. Mow- 

 bray, Mowbray & Robinson Company, Cincinnati, Ohio ; H. M. McDonough, 

 Cypress Lumber Company, Boston, Mass. 



Hardwood Inspection Committee 



Hugh McLean. Chairman. Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. : 

 Daniel McLea. Eisenhauer-McLca Company, Baltimore, Md. ; R. W. Schofield, 

 Schofield Brothers, Philadelphia. Pa. ; N. H. Walcott, L. H. Gage Lumber 

 Company, Providence, R. I. ; C. H. Kramer, C. & W. Kramer Company, Rich- 

 mond, Ind. ; T. T. Adams, T. T. Adams Company, Richmond, Va. ; T. M. 

 Brown, W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville. Ky. 



Special Committee on Single Standard Universal Hardwood 

 Inspection 



Lewis Dill, Chairman. Lewis Dill & Co, Baltimore, Md. ; C. H. Barnaby, 

 Greencastle, Ind. ; B. V. Babcock, Babcock Lumber Company. Pittsburgh, 

 Pa. ; R. M. Carrier, Carrier Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Sardis, 

 Miss. ; R. H. Vansant. Vansant, Kitchen & Co., Ashland, Ky. 

 Trade Relations Committee 



W. E. Litchfield, Chairman, Litchfield Brothers, Boston, Mass. ; W. G. 

 Frost, Frost & Davis Lumber Company, New York City ; L. A. Amsler, 

 United States Spruce Lumber Company, Marion. Va. ; A. J. Brady, Jr., 

 Brady Brothers, No. Tonawanda, N. Y. ; E. K. Harroun-, J. E. Harroun & 

 Son, Watertown, N. Y. ; J. W. Coles, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. A. 



F. R. Babcock, National Councillor. Babcock Lumber Company, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Chicago Golf Annual 



The eleventh annual tournament of the Lumbermen's Golf Association 

 of Chicago will be held, according to the announcement of Secretary P. C. 

 Gifford, at the Beverly Country club, on Tuesday. June 12. The meet will 

 include the regular tournament and luncheon and the get-together dinner 

 and business meeting in the evening. The events will include champion- 

 ship play for the Lumbermen's Golf Association medal, the American 

 Lumberman's cup, the play for the Stillwell cup, for the Lumbermen's 

 Association of Chicago cup, for the Heftier cup, for the president's cup. 

 for the S. O. Knudson trophy, the John O. Nessen trophy, the H. E. Hooper 

 trophy, the half century trophy presented by J. L. Lane and W. L. Sharp, 

 and five flight events, the trophies for which were presented by C. F. 

 Thompson, Fred Burnaby, C. J. True, W. B. Swift and James S. Kemper. 



The officers of the association are : President, Herman H. Hettler ; vice- 

 president, J. W. Embree ; secretary-treasurer, P. C. Gifford, and the com- 

 mittee chairmen are ; On arrangements, J. L. Lane ; membei-sbip, B. A. 

 Thornton; entertainment, J. L. Barchard ; reception, .F. L. Johnson, Jr. 



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With the Trade 



George W. Hartzell Increases Equipment 



In conformity with a plan for rendering even more efficient his model 

 walnut plant at Piqua, O., George W. Hartzell has just about completed 

 the installation of a new Clark mill with additional engines and is strength- 

 ening the inside of the plant at many points. Mr. Hartzell says this will 

 put the company in a very desirable position in the way of getting out good 

 lumber and in good quantities. This is just the beginning of a compre- 

 hensive plan to modernize the plant In every particular, not merely accord- 

 ing to sawmilling standards but taking into account also methods and equip- 

 ment tending to efficiency in other industries, as they can be adapted to the 

 Hartzell operation. 



