September 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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L. B. Stoddard... | 



Western Pine Manufacturers' Association 



A. W. Cooper. ... J 



fGum Lumljer Manufacturers' Association 

 .T. W. McCIure -{Southern Hardwood Traffic Association 



l^ National Lumber Exporters' Association 



E. V. Babcock National Hardwood Lumber Association 



K. 1'". Masters National .\ssociation of Box Manufacturers 



\V. L. Rice North Carolina Pine Box & Shook Association 



George L. Forester. . Western Carolina Lumber & Timber .\ssociation 



V. W. Krafft National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers' Association 



J. R. Moorehead. .. Retail lumber interests 



W. S. Phlppen National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' .-isaociation and 



other wholesale interests 

 To facilitate the transaction of business, a subcommittee, consi.sting 

 of ten members of the large committee, was appointed, as follows: 



E. V. Babcock, C. H. Worcester, John H. Sargent, J. W. McClure, 

 B. P. Masters, J. E. Moorehead, F. R. Gadd, W. H. Snell, A. W Clapp 

 and R. II. Downman, chairman. 



"The Seventeen Questions" 



The list of seventeen questions propounded to lumbermen by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission was discussed at some length by the 

 meeting as a whole. The members of the committee will take this 

 matter up with the various organizations which they represent. 

 It had been previously announced in the trade press that answers to 

 the questions will probably not be before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission much earlier than the end of the year. 



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Interesting Traffic Developments 



Interesting Traffic Developments 



Fev/er lumber matters have been handled by the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission during the last month than has been the case 

 for over a year. Few opinions on any subject have been handed 

 down, but lumber cases seem to have failed to reach the mouth of 

 the hopper. There have been practically no unreported opinions ren- 

 dered during the past thirty days. Complaints have been scarce and 

 few briefs have been filed by the attorneys for lumber companies. 

 Orders with regard to hearings, amendments and interventions have 

 been fairly numerous but few have dealt with lumber. The fourth 

 section orders of the past month have been much under normal. 



Such lumber discussion as has taken place around the commission 

 has dealt with the questions propounded by the commission in the 

 matter of reclassification of lumber. 



Various rates claimed to be excessive have called forth a complaint 

 from the Northwestern Cooperage and Lumber Company of Gladstone, 

 Mich., against the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad 

 Company. The rates questioned are between Michigan and Wisconsin 

 and Illinois •points. 



Unlawful charges were assessed on lumber by the Missouri Pacific 

 Railroad Company, according to a complaint filed by the Julius 

 Seide) Lumber Company of St." Louis. The lumber in question was 

 destined to Dundee, 111. 



Rates on forest products between Ursina Junction, Pa., and Little 

 Falls, N. Y., have been challenged by the United Lumber Company 

 of Uniontown, Pa. Mine timbers and ties are the principal products 

 involved. 



Three complaints have been filed by the Lycoming Timber and 

 Lumber Company, Inc., Pottsville, Pa., versus the Chesapeake & Ohio 

 Railroad Company. Rates involving shipments of mine timbers be- 

 tween Pennsylvania and Virginia and Pennsylvania and Maryland 

 are questioned. 



Binder and canvas slats, unfinished, are subjected to undue and 

 unreasonable discrimination and disadvantage when a rate higher 

 than that on lumber is applied. This is the contention of the Nash- 

 ville Hardwood Flooring Company in a complaint filed against the 

 Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad. The Nashville company 

 manufacturers binder and canvas slats from the edgings of common 

 hardwood lumber. The unfinished product is shipped to the manu- 

 facturers of agricultural implements in Illinois and Missouri. The 

 carriers apply the sixth class rate to carloads and the third class rate 

 to less than carload shipments. 



An amendment has been admitted by the commission to the com- 

 plaint of the Neimeyer Lumber Company versus the St. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain & Southern Railroad. 



The case of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad has been dismissed 

 on the request of the complainants. 



Reparation has been awarded in the following lumber cases: 

 F. O. Swanson & Co. versus the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- 

 ern ; .7oycc Watkins Company versus the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney: 

 The Twin Tree Lumber Company versus the New York, Philadelphia & 

 Norfolk ; Lehigh & Havens Lumber Company versus the Texas & Pacific ; 

 A. E. Baird Lumber Company versus the Louisville & Nashville ; Watters- 

 Tonge Lumber Company versus the Louisville & Nashville ; Ford Brenner 

 Lumber Company versus the Southern Railway Company : Nebraska Bridge 

 Supply & Lumber Company versus the Southern Railway Company ; Mutual 

 Wheel Company versus the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney ; Defiance Lum- 

 ber Company versus the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ; Carolina Lum- 

 ber Manufacturing Company versus the Atlantic Coast Line Railway Com- 

 pany : Daugherty, McKey & Co. versus the Apalachicola & Northern Rail- 

 way Company. 



A hearing has been assigned for October 20 at Oshkosh, Wis., be- 

 fore Examiner Bell, in I. and S. 694, which deals with lumber rates to 

 points on the C. N. and C. P. Railroad. 



The Wisconsin & Arkansas Lumber Company has been permitted 

 to file an amendment in its complaint against the St. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain & Southern Railway. 



Cannonading and the Weather 



The unusual rainfall the past few months has been attributed to 

 cannonading in Europe. It is no new theory that heavy detonations 

 produce rain, but the proof of it has not yet been brought forward. 

 The battle grounds are from three thousand to five thousand miles 

 from the eastern half of the United States. If the continued rains 

 here are due to battles, the effect ought to be more apparent nearer 

 the scene. The fact is, there has been less rain than usual in the 

 war area during spring and early summer. Belgium, Holland, north- 

 ern France and western Germany have had seven weeks of severe 

 drought, and England has had less rain than usual for that season. 

 It is diflicult to believe that artillery produces rain thousands of miles 

 awaj' and none near the scene of fighting. 



No one has claimed that cannonading increases or decreases tem- 

 perature over wide areas ; yet last winter was uncommonly mild in the 

 war area ; and the spring and early summer have been unusually cold. 

 There was frost in parts of England June 19, an occurrence unknown 

 at that late date in the past, and on June 26 in Holland there was a 

 killing frost. The weather has been unusually cold the past several 

 months in the eastern part of the United States; and even on the 

 Pacific coast the summer has not yet warmed up. 



Instead of charging uncommon weather to the war, it should be 

 charged to influences acting from without, in all probability originat- 

 ing in the sun's heat, magnetism, or some other astronomical phe- 

 nomenon which is wholly independent of earthly wars. 



