HARDWOOD RECORD 



2?. 



Hemlock and Hardwood Association to Move Offices 



Tho bcadquarters of the Xortliorn Henilock and Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association will he Ino^■ed trorn Wausau, Wis., to Oshkosh on 

 May 1, in order that the offices may be more centrally located and easier 

 of access for the members. The decision was reached at a meeting of the 

 directors of the association held at Milwaukee recently, after a majority 

 of the members had voted by mail in favor of Oshkosh. O. T. Swan, the 

 government forestry expert who was secured as secretary of the association 

 some time ago, took up his duties at Wausau on April r> and attended the 

 recent meeting in Milwaukee. 



The regular quarterly meeting of the association will be held in Madison, 

 April 27 and 28. The first day of the gathering will be devoted to asso- 

 ciation work, while the second day will be given up to an inspection of the 

 T'nlted States Forestry Products Laboratory. 



Evansville Club Plans Outing 



At the regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, 

 held at the St. George hotel April 13, it was decided to hold the annual 

 summer outing some time in .Tune, the exact date to be decided upon later. 

 President Daniel A. Wertz appointed the following committee to cooperate 

 with Secretary Mertice K. Taylor in arranging the outing : Claude 

 Maley of .Maley & Wertz : Charles A. Wolfiin of the Wolflin-Luhring Lum- 

 ber Company and Frank Ilancy of John A. Reitz & Sons. This committee 

 and Secretary Taylor will make a report at the next meeting of the club 

 which will be held on the second Tuesday in May. Secretary Taylor 

 hopes to make tlie outing this year the most successful in the history 

 of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club. Resolutions on the death of James 

 H. Baird, publisher of the Southern Lumberman at Nashville, Tenn., 

 recently killed in an automobile accident, were adopted at the meeting. 



Lumbermen's Association in New Quarters 



Secretary E. E. Hooper Of the Lnjiilicrnien's .Vssociation of I'hicago and 

 James S. Kemper, manager of the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Com- 

 pany, have gotten fairly well established in their new quarters in the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange building, corner of Madison and LaSalle streets. 



The new quarters with the large reception room and dining room, also 

 the general meeting room and the kitchen from which the restaurant will 

 be supplied, occupy the entire fourth floor of the building. The new 

 quarters are extremely attractive in every way, and being so centrally lo- 

 cated are going to be visited by a great many lumbermen from out of the 

 city, and also from the local trade. 



It is expected that by the first of next month all the details of finishing 

 up will be completed so that the quarters will l)e in tiptop shape for 

 welcoming all visitors. 



The reception room and dining room are both spacious and will be 

 fitted up in fine style. The adjoining kitchen gives direct service for the 

 dining room, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance of 

 lumbermen at luncheon every day. 



St. Louis Plans Comprehensive Organization 



Two representatives appointed from each of the lines of the lumber in- 

 dustry present at the meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, on March 30. 

 to confer on a formation of a Federation of Wood Industries, met and 

 it was decided by the committee that an association of this character 

 should be formed. Meanwhile a sub-committee composed of Thos. C. Whit- 

 marsh, chairman. O. A. Pier and C. M. .Jennings was appointed to work 



oui a tentative budget of ways and means for completing the proposed 

 federation. The committee will meet on April 28 to report on the progress 

 made. The proposed plan is meeting with much favor. 



Philadelphia Lumbermen at Play 



The Philadelphia Lumbermen's Golf Club opened the season on the 

 afternoon of April 14 with a handicap tournament over the Pine Valley, 

 N. J., course. M. C. Burton and W. P. Shearer turned in the same net 

 cards, and accordingly divided a dozen golf balls between them. As only 

 eleven holes of the new links are open, the lumbermen played twice around 

 or twenty-two holes in all. The course when completed will be the 

 "sportiest" east of the Mississippi, and scores were uniformly high. 



.\s the Pine Valley managers refused any "greens fee" the lumbermen 

 presented two old English prints depicting golfing scenes. These prints 

 will be hung in the main clubhouse when it i.s completed. Dinner was 

 served following the play. In the absence of Anderson Ross, Eli B. 

 Hallowell presided at the meeting, which was addressed by John Riley, 

 George Craig and others. 



Three of the lumbermen belong to Pine Valley, namely E. B. Humphreys, 

 Maurice C. Burton and Eugene W. Fry. 



^JC/-vai:«rom';it^'OTi;TO!)iOTiTOtm3tm!!)t M^ 



L 



With the Trade 



Introducing Mr. Brown of Park Falls 

 Accompanying this story is a likeness of W. W. Brown, formerly of the 

 Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Two Rivers, Wis., who has taken 

 charge of the hardwood department of tlje Park Falls Lumber Company of 

 Park Falls, Wis. 



.\ previous issue contained a more detailed account of Mr. Brown's 

 lumber career, but at the time it was carried there was no photograph avail- 

 able. Hardwood Record takes pleasure in presenting Mr. Brown's likeness 

 with the belief that some of his friends in the trade will want to congratu- 

 late him on his new move. 



J. A. Holmes Dead 



John .\. Holmes, who came to St. Louis as a youth nearly sixty years 

 ago and acquired a fortune in the lumber business, died at his residence, 

 9 Portland place, a few days ago, following a general breakdown. He 

 was seventy-six years old. He had been under the care of physicians thir- 

 teen months, and during the last three months had not left the house. 



Mr. Holmes was born at Coatesville, Pa., October 18, 1838, and came 

 to St. Louis in 1856, when eighteen years old. The following .year he 

 engaged in the lumber business with his uncle, Robert Holmes, at the 

 northwest corner of Broadway and Elm street. 



L'pon the death of the uncle, in 1863, he organized the firm of J. A. 

 Holmes & Co., in which his brother, the late Daniel S. Holmes, was a 

 partner and which in 1896 was incorporated as the J. A. Holmes Lumber 

 Company. He continued active in its affairs untilhis health began to 

 fail. 



Mr. Holmes was married in 1868 to Miss Belle Robb of Chester county, 

 Pennsylvania, who survives him, together with four children : Mrs. Wil- 

 liam II. Keeeh, Mrs. Frederick E. Woodruff, Robert Holmes and J. Howard 

 Holmes, all residing in SI. Louis. 



J HYDE, DIRECTOR PHILADELPHIA 

 LUMBERMEN'S EXCHANGE 



W. W. BROWTSr, PARK FALLS, '^VIS. 



THE LATE J. A. HOLMES, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



