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HARDWOOD RECORD 



iM'liiuary In. I'.ll- 



which was roproscntativc of the entire southern harilwooil prndue- 

 iiig territory; whieh was earnest in its consideration of business 

 and patriotic jiroblems, and wliich showed more real i)eii and vim 

 than has been seen in Cincinnati for some time. Tlie volume of 

 attendance was even more a source of gratification to President 

 Hums and assistant to the president, !•'. K. Gadd, because of the 

 upheaval in transportation facilities from all parties of the countrv. 



In speakiufj of oflicials there were two ex-secretaries of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association in attendance, as well as a num- 

 ber of ex-presidents, l^ew Doster, who is now assistant to the vice- 

 president in charge of sales for E. C. Atkins saw people, and Mr. 

 Doster 's successor as secretar.v, W. II. Weller, now in charge of sales 

 for Offutt & Boicc of Huntington, \V. Va., were on lianil 

 and botli showed considerably less worry than they used to when 

 they were responsible for the smooth running of the association 

 machinery. 



B. L. Jurdcu, prcsi<lcut of the newly-formed Anierk-an Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association; B. F. Dulweber, second vice- 

 president, and Directors E. A. Lang, M. B. Cooper and T. M. Brown 

 were all in attendance at the Manufacturers' meeting. 



There were a number of young ladies of Cincinnati who should 

 be grateful to some of tlic lumbernicn who wore around the Sinton 

 lobby during the convention. These young ladies were in charge 

 of the sale of 250 Smileage books, and between what they bought 

 themselves and what they made other people buy, the lumbermen 

 came pretty close to getting the whole week's job done in two days. 



A man who can put real pep into a convention smoker surely 

 deserves all commendation he can get and then some. Frank Gadd 

 has never said anything about having been a show manager, but 

 he surely demonstrated that he knows how to pull things off in the 

 right manner. The crowd wasn 't a bit bored and stuck right down 

 to the finisli. The good time at the smoker is going to bring a good 

 manv back next year. 



One of the unique features of the convention was provided by 

 the Frauipton-Foster Lumber Company of Pittsburgh. This outfit 

 is surely a bunch of "go-getters." They arc handling worlds and 

 worlds of railroad material from all parts of the country to all 

 parts of the country. There were five live wires from the Pitts- 

 burgh office on hand, namely: D. B. Frampton, P. E. Burke, C. D. 

 Newport, W. E. Conistock and W. E. Hamner. These bo.vs wanted 

 to do something nice for the convention delegates so they had 

 printed up a lot of attractive cards which contained the picture of a 

 pretty girl, the name of the Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, 

 and stated that "A gentleman is one who knows he is all right and 

 then forgets it. " 



The.v also provided some fifty dozen very beautiful carnations, 

 ■ but did not leave these carnations to pin themselves on the coat 

 lapels of the convention" eers." They provided a trio of pretty 

 girls from the "Oh-Boy" company, whieh had a day off on account 

 of heatless Monday, or as in the theatrical business, heatless Tues- 

 day. These .young ladies in the order of their size were: Lautoria 

 Jordan, Mabel Grctc and Alicia Smitlu If anyone intentionally 

 got into the convention hall where thc^mioker was held without 

 having a carnation on his coat he wasn 't worth pinning one on. In 

 fact, the remarkable thing about the fifty dozen carnations is that 

 they could have gone so far when there were more than 600 people 

 at the smoker and a good percentage of them insisted upon being 

 decorated two or three times. 



In speaking of the Frampton-Foster Ij\imber Company I was very 

 much surprised on learning that with all its pep and vigor it is one 

 of the oldest concerns in the country in the railroad material busi- 

 ness. In fact, the Framptons have been in business for the past 

 sixty-five years. D. A. Frampton is the originator of the concern, 

 he now being eighty-four years old. He secured one of the first 

 orders ever placed b,v the Pennsvlvania Railroad for railroad mate- 



rial, and the companv has the original of this order in its files at 

 Pittsburgh to this date. 



The concern has spread out a good deal iluring the last two <ir 

 three vears and now has thirty-eight men in the fiehl buying rail 

 road material and has an office force nC thirty locateil in the 

 Hessenii'r building at Pittsburgh. 



There was more or less credence given to a rumor current ilur- 

 ing the convention that a certain young hardwood man originating 

 from Buffalo and now associated with his brothers in Memidiis. 

 has .iust become engaged. Up to the time of going to press the 

 report had ncjt lircii dlViciallv denied. 



One of the most ;i\ve-inspiring and depressing sights was in the 

 erstwhile bed of the Ohio river, now one solid mass of dirty, ragged 

 aiid ponderous ice cakes. The level of the ice bed is a good luanv 

 feet above the normal level of the river and its surface is literally 

 pockmarked w'ith the wreckage of boats, launches, barges and all kinds 

 of river craft. Houses even and other structures are not unknown 

 sights riding on top of or half submerged in the mass of frozen water. 



Men experienced in river work declare that millions of dollars will 

 he lost along the river and that it will be (iractically im])ossible to 

 hold anything that is not now out of ilircct iDutact with the flow. 

 It was depressing to see hundreds of well nuide and previou.sly usable 

 and useful barges, which it is said now bring in the neighborhood of 

 .■Ji.'i.OOO apiece, twisted, battered and broken .-iiid tlivowii like straws 

 in the discard on the river banks. 



The trouble stretches wa.v up into the heailwaters of the Ohio and 

 Mississippi and carries on down to the Arkansas and Mississippi shores. 

 Many a log raft has gone riding on its wa.v, one operator on the Big 

 Sanily having lost in the neighborhood of 30,000 logs. But in spite of 

 this, which seems almost a climax to operating troubles, the lumbermen 

 showe<l a hearty courage and an indomitalile spirit to "carry on" 

 until the work is finished : to stay with the task of getting out the 

 stuff for Uncle Sam and for the normal industries, and to prove u]) 

 the statement that the lumbermen, being pioneers, retain the hardihood 

 and the courage of those who have in the past invaded the wilderness 

 to turn to useful purposes the resources which nature ]ilaceil in inac- 

 cessible regions for the use of man. 



Will Crawford, secretary of tlie Yellow l'o[ihir Lundier Company, 

 Coal Grove, Ohio, had a splendid time at the manufacturers' meeting 

 until he got down with a case of measles. The doctor in Cincinnati 

 threatened to put a fence around him. With a baby boy at home, 

 he didn't know which way to run, but when Colonel Isaacson took the 

 7nattei' in hand ever_ything went smoothly. 



Col. R. H. Vansant was not present ow'ing to his so.journing in 

 Florida, due to the illness of Mrs. Vansant. Young ' ' Van, ' ' the 

 second tall poplar, and his partner, John E. McCall, in the Ashland 

 Harihvood Lumber Company, Ashland, Ky., reported their Kentuek.y 

 mill was turning out a lot of good oak and poplar and the.y anticipate 

 the |jrice will be a happy one for the new year. 



The Texas delegation was presided over by A. Deutsch of the Sabine 

 River Lumber & Logging Company, San Antonio. With him were 

 Frank Keith of the Keith Lumber Company, Voth, Tex.; C. E. Walden 

 of the Sabine Tram Conipan.v, Beaumont ; A. 0. Davis of the same 

 conijiany, Bex H. Browne of the Beaumont Lumber Compan.y, H. G. 

 Bohlssen of the H. G. Bohlsseu Manufacturing Company, New Caney, 

 Tex.; P. A. Byan of the Phillip A. Byan Lumber Company, Lufkin. 

 The party went on to spend some time at Washington to assist in 

 any way by co-operation with the Southern -Hardwood Emergency 

 Bureau and others in furnishing such hardwoods as will be needed 

 from Louisiana and Texas. They are very enthusiastic about the 

 new association, which aims to bring about a better exchange of 

 views on production and the sale of their lumber. They were happily 

 received and made themselves particularly happ.v in the entertainment 

 of the newspaper boys and co-operation in the work of the convention, 

 they being members of the hardwood manufacturers ' organization. 



— M. 



