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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 23, 1917 



what is being acc?>mplishea in an agricultural way. He is enthusiastic 

 over the prospects for development and colonization, and will use the 

 monthly bulletin to convey some of this enthusiasm to prospective buyers 

 or settlers. 



Informal Grade Meeting at Memphis 



John W. McClure, chairman of the inspection rules committee of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, said recently that the meeting 

 called by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis for the Hotel Gayoso, Satur- 

 day, May 19, was converted into a gathering of the local members of 

 the association and that President Ralph May surrendered the chair to 

 W. H. Eusse who presided. 



Mr. McClure further said that he told those present that the report 

 which had just been made public bad been adopted by the entire inspec- 

 tion rules committee and that it had the unqualified support of each 

 ihember of the committee. He also said that practically all comments he 

 had heard were favorable and that he anticipated little opposition to the 

 proposed changes at the forthcoming annual of that body. 



Lumbermen identified with the association here are making their plans 

 to attend the annual in Chicago and indications are that the special 

 train leaving here the evening of June 13 for Chicago will carry an 

 unusually large delegation from this city. 



National Association Active 



The National Retail Lumber Dealers' .Association, with headquarters 

 In the Dime Banls building, Detroit, now seems to be going along in a 

 very active manner. The association is well olEcered and has employed 

 Charles A. Bowen as its secretary. The organization has received expres- 

 sions of co-operation in writing from various lumber manufacturing 

 associations, among which are. the Southern Pine Association, the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the .American Oak Manufacturers' 

 Association, the National Hardwood Lumber Association, the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, the California Redwood Association, the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' -Association, etc. 



Federal Lumber Trade Commission Completes Itinerary 



The Federal Lumber Trade Commission recently appointed by the gov- 

 ernment consists of John R. Walker, who will go to Great Britain, France 

 and the Netherlands; A. A. O.xholm, who will go to Norway, Sweden, Den- 

 mark and Finland ; R. A. Simmons will go to Russia and Siberia ; Nelson 

 C. Brown will go to soutnern Europe and Mediterranean countries, and 

 has completed an Itinerary for a preliminary trip through the United 

 States. 



The meetings have already been held at Norfolk, Savannah, Jackson- 

 ville, Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleaus. Meetings to be held arc as 

 follows : 



Bogalusa, La., May 25 ; Houston, Tex.. May 26 : Beaumont. Tex., May 

 28 ; Lake Charles. La,, May 29 ; Shreveport, La., May 30 ; Little Rock, .Vrk., 

 May 31, all southern pine. 



Memphis. Tenn., June 1 and 2, gum and oak manufacturers. 



Minneapolis, Minn., June 4 ; Cloquet. Minn., June 5, northern pine 

 association. 



Chicago, 111., or Oshkosh, Wis., June 6, northern hemlock and hardwood. 



Cincinnati, Ohir>, Juno 7. Niiti(in:il hardwood manufacturers. 



Buffalo, N. y., June 8, Buffalo lumbermen. 



Westwood, Cal., June 20, California white and sugar pine manufac- 

 turers. „ „ 



San Francisco, Cal., June 21, Douglas Fir Exploitation aud Export Com- 

 pany, the Pacific coast selling organization for export trade. 



Eureka, Wash., June 22 ; San Francisco, Cal., June 23, redwood manu- 

 facturers. 



Portland. Ore. ; Aberdeen, Wash. ; Hoquiam, Wash. ; Raymond. Wash. ; 

 Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., June 25 to July 4, West Coast Lumbermen's 

 Association. 



Spokane, two days, not fixed, with Western Pine Manufacturers Associ- 

 ation. 



Memphis Prepares to Entertain Commissioners 



Members of the Federal Lumber Trade Commission have advised Secre- 

 tary J. T. Kendall of the -American Oak Manufacturers' Association that 

 they will spend June 1 and 2 in Memphis investigating various phases 

 of the gum and oak industry as well as other hardwoods in this section. 

 These gentlemen are getting ready to go to Europe to make a special 

 investigation Into foreign trade conditions In the interest of exporters of 

 lumber in the tinited States and they are making a tour of the lumber 

 producing regions with a view to gathering information regarding the 

 amount of lumber produced, the quantity available for export and various 

 other subjects that will be of benefit to them in their work abroad. 



Preparations are being made by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, 

 the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association and the Oak Manufacturers' 

 Association to lacllltate these gentlemen in every way during their stay 

 in Memphis. At a meeting of representatives of these three organizations 

 held here May 14, an entertainment committee was appointed composed 

 of three members from each of these organizations as follows : Lumber- 

 men's Club — President Ralph May, Secretary Douglas F. Heuer, and James 

 B. Stark ; Oak Manufacturers' Association — Vice-President W. H. Russe, 

 R. L. Jurden, and Secretary J. T. Kendall ; Gum Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association — President H. B. Weiss, Secretary John M. Prltchard, and 

 John W. McClure. 



These gentlemen will not only look after the entertainment of the 

 members of the commission, but will see that they are provided with 

 means of visiting the various hardwood plants In Memphis and are sup- 

 plied with the data and Information they desire regarding the hardwood 

 Industrji In this city and section. 



Owing to the size of this committee and the difficulty of getting all 

 members together, it was decided that a smaller committee of three, to be 

 known as the executive committee, should handle all preliminary matters. 

 This committee Is composed of Ralph May, president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club and Secretaries Kendall and Prltchard of the oak and gum associ- 

 ations. 



It has been decided that the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis will hold 

 Its next regular meeting June 2, and that the members of the commission 

 shall be guests of honor on that occasion. If plans can be worked out 

 to that end, the meeting Is to be held at the Memphis Country Club. The 

 usual luncheon rfill be served. .An Invitation has been extended by the 

 Lumbermen's Club to all members of the gum and oak associations not 

 identified with that organization to be present at this meeting. 



Chair Makers Meet at Evansville 



Chair manufacturers from Indiana and adjacent territory held a get- 

 together meeting and business conference at Evansville on Wednesday, May 

 16, that was largely attended. The manufacturers were welcomed to- 

 Evansville by Mayor Benjamin Bosse, president of the Globe-Bosse-World 

 Furniture Company. William B. Baker, of Chicago, secretary of the Na^ 

 tional Association of Chair Manufacturers, made one of the principal ad- 

 dresses of the day. He went Into discussion of the general manufacturing 

 situation and gave it as his opinion that the present war will not seriously 

 interfere with the manufacturing business of the United States. The car 

 shortage was the main thing discussed at the meeting. Some of the manu- 

 facturers expressed the fear that the inability to get lumber and other 

 materials will handicap them seriously in turning out the manufactured 

 product. It was also pointed out that after the federal government starts 

 to move troops the car shortage situation will become more acute than 

 ever. The manufacturers denied that the purpose of the meeting was to 

 discuss the boosting of prices. In the evening the chair manufacturers 

 were entertained at a banquet by the Evansville Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion at which the constitutional convention was discussed and the work- 

 men's compensation law was given some consideration. 



Important Meeting of Memphis Club 



-All owners of lumijer mills and woodworking enterprises in Memphis 

 as well as all operators of lumber yards in this city will move their clocks 

 forward one hour at midnight May 31 and leave them in this position 

 until Sept. 30 next. This was decided by unanimous vote at the regular 

 semi-monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis held at the 

 Hotel Gayoso Saturday. May 12. This daylight savings plan was adopted 

 as a war measure, with the additional advantage that It gives to all 

 employes of the lumber firms an extra hour of daylight for work in their 

 gardens or for any healthful amusement in whidi they may desire to par-, 

 ticlpate. 



The patriotic spirit of the lumbermeh found further out-cropjjiug in the 

 report of S. M. Nickey showing that they had voted overwhelmingly in 

 favor of the war taxation listed in the referendum sent out by the United 

 States Chamber of Conunerce. Only one feature was opposed, that involv- 

 ing proposed retroactive taxation on incomes and excess profits. .All the 

 others carried by majorities averaging more than six to one. 



Plans were outlined during the meeting covering the trip of the Mem- 

 phis delegation to Chicago to attend the forthcoming annual of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber .Association. These, in brief, provide tor a 

 specially chartered train which will leave Memphis between five and six 

 o'clock on the evening of June 13. In addition to the Memphis delegation 

 there will be a number of other members of the association in the Mem- 

 phis territory on this train. Memphis will send a large and Influential 

 delegation to Chicago. 



Max Sondheimer, Frank B. Robertson and W. C. Bonner were appointed 

 a committee to look after the donation by members of the club of 24,000 

 feet of lumber asked by the Memphis -Associated Amateurs. This will be 

 used by the latter for the purpose of buUding grandstands on grounds con- 

 trolled by this organization In the city limits. 



H. B. Weiss, secretary of George C. Brown & Co., and president of the 

 Gum Lumber Manufacturers' -Association, was elected to represent the 

 club on the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. George C. 

 Ehemann, of George C. Ehemann & Co., whom Mr. Weiss succeeds, was ten- 

 dered a special vote of thanks for the excellent services rendered by him 

 during the past year. 



F. E. Stonebraker, one of the representatives of the Lumbermen's Club 

 at the recent conference of river Interests at St. Louis, May 8 and 9, gave 

 an enthusiastic account of what was done by the conferees toward re- 

 habilitating transportation on the Mississippi and its tributaries and urged 

 the lumbermen to get squarely behind this proposition and support It with 

 all the strength of which they were capable. The lumbermen have shown 

 themselves strongly in favor of reviving water transportation on a large 

 scale and they may be counted upon to do their part in this work If the 

 Interest manifested in the report of Mr. Stonebraker may be taken as a 

 safe criterion. 



The next regular meeting of the club, it was decided, would be held 

 June 2 when the members of the Federal Lumber Trade Commission will 

 be the guests of honor. Plans are in the making now for the holding of 

 this meeting at the Memphis Country Club, where an elaborate dinner wll) 

 be served. 



