September 25, 1915. 



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quite an enthusiastic one and tlie attendance was big, considering the 

 number of members who are still absent from the city. 



John W. Walsh, chairman of the grading committee of the club, re- 

 ported that, after much discussion and study, he and his associates were 

 in favor of recommending that the Lumbermen's Club go on record as 

 favoring a special grade for hardwood lumber to be known as the "select 

 grade" and that the recommendation be liled with the rules committee of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association. The report brought out 

 considerable discussiop and was amended so as to read that a regular 

 grade of "selects" be established. By this action the club put itself 

 on record as desiring that the rules committee of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber .Association establish a regular grade under the foregoing 

 title. 



President Kadel appointed a committee to raise the amount subscribed 

 by the club last siuimer to be given to the trade extension department 

 of the I'orest I'roducts Federation .$."iOn. This money is to be solicited 

 from the members and is to be entirely voluntary. .T. D. Alien, .Tr., 

 .Ino. M. Pritchard and IL B. Weiss constitute this committee. 



B. F. Duhveber of Cincinnati, who is a member of the club, was 

 present and spoke briefly. He paid a special tribute to the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis for its work in behalf of both local and national 

 lumber interests and likewise paid bis respects to the Gum Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association and the Southern Hardwood Traffic Asso- 

 ciation. He declared that no organization had done more than the 



former in behalf of the particular w i in which it is interested and' 



likewise asserted that the latter had been a most important factor in 

 handling rates and other matters to the benefit of the entire hardwood 

 trade. 



The next meeting will be held at the Colonial Country Club near White 

 Station. This was decided when the Invitation of that organization 

 was accepted. The club building is finished in red gum and many of 

 the members have not had the pleasure of seeing this. The members 

 will meet at a central point down town and will drive out to the Colonial 

 Country Club in automobiles. 



Southern Men Pleased With Results of Traffic Conference 



Jobu W. McClure. president of tbe Southern Hardwood Traflic .Vssocia- 

 tion : .T. H. Townslii'nd, secretary of tb;it organization, and I*. P. Wilnau, 

 traflic manager for Lee Wilson & Co.. have returned from Chicago, where 

 they attended the recent conference of lumber organizations looking to the 

 working out of plans for answering the seventeen questions propounded 

 by the Interstate Commerce Commission in connection with the reclassifi- 

 cation of lumber and lumber products, Mr. McClure was appointed a member 

 of the executive committee of thirteen, as well as of the smaller committee 

 on which will devolve most of the work in connection with this subject. He 

 is the accredited representative of the Southern Hardwood Traflic Asso- 

 ciation, the National Lumber Manufacturers* .Vssociation and the (Jum 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 



Mr. McClure said to the H.midwhod Record correspondent that he 

 regarded the action of the various lumber organizations in deciding to 

 co-operate in answering these questions as a movement of farreaching im- 

 portance, not only as to its influence on the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission but also because of its prol)able effect upon the carriers. Mr. 

 McClure pointed out that the fact that all the lumber people decided 

 to get together insures that there will be uniformity of answers given 

 to the commission and that none of the lumber organizations will be 

 working at cross purposes. He also believes that the answers will be 

 far more comprehensive and mucli more intelligent as a result of the co- 

 operation of all of the.'^e organizations than they possibly could have been 

 had these associations attemiJted to give their answers separately. He 

 believes that the lumber interests are on the right track and that the 

 best possible results will follow the meetings called from time to time 

 by R. H. Downman, general chairman of the two committees appointed by 

 the organizations participating in this movement, 



Mr. McClure also expressed himself as pleased with the resolutions 

 which were adopted by the various lumber organizations participating in 

 this conference against any reelassiflcation of lumber. This is regarded 

 as by far the most important subject confronting the lumber trade at the 

 moment, even overshadowing a number of traffic controversies and other 

 features pending before the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



First Fall Meeting Cincinnati Club 



Practically the entire membersliip of the Ciuciuuati Lumbei-men's Club 

 was on hand at the fountain room annex of the New Gibson hotel, Sep- 

 tember 20, to attend the first meeting of the fall and the initial conclave 

 under the new administration elected last summer. The meeting was 

 preceded by a dinner. 



Chairman Davidson of the railroad committee reported on pending 

 classification and rate changes. This report provoked considerable dis- 

 cussion regarding what action should be taken by the Cincinnati Club. 

 It was decided finally to .await the return to Cincinnati of B. F. Dul- 

 weber, a member of the railroad committee. Mr. Dulweber, it was said, 

 will have collected considerable data re the rates discussion, which will be 

 laid before the club at the next meeting. 



Treasurer Stratemeyer reported that the finances of the club were a 

 trifle strained and suggested that an assessment of $10 a head be levied 

 to put the organization upon a more safe and sound basis. Mr. Strate- 

 meyer's suggestions met the instant approval of the membership and his 

 motion was carried unanimously. 



Under the head of new business it was decided to instruct the secretary 

 to notify the framers of the new constitution to insert in the new set 

 of bylaws an article calling upon the treasurer to make a report at each 

 meeting in regard to all reeeijits juid expenditures. 



August Showing for Southern Pine 



Figures published September 13 by the Southern Pine .\ssociation giv- 

 ing summaries for August business show that during that month ship- 

 ments exceeded production by 7.23 per cent, and that the August demand 

 was 16.37 per cent greater than production. During the same month 

 stocks on hand decreased 2..1(; per cent, which was eqiuil to 27,71i.1.:'.nn feet. 



Stearns Salt & Lumber Company Plant More Than Mere 

 Sawmill 



The t'nited States forestry bihoratciry. located at Madison, Wis., ha- 

 had one of its engineers, F. H. Hallauer, looking into the methods used 

 by the Stearns Salt & laimber Company in manufacturing low-grade 

 timber and what would otherwise be waste into merchantable products. 

 The investigations of Mr. Hallauer have revealed the fact that the 

 plant of the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company is more than a sawmill. 

 owing to the fact that so many by products of timber are manufactured. 

 and the proportion of wages paid per million feet of logs manufactured is 

 greater than any ordinary sawmill operations. 



In comparing the amount of money paid by the Stearns Salt & I^um- 

 ber Company dui'ing 1014 in wages, with the amount wbicli would liave 

 been paid twenty-five years ago, in proportion to the number of feet of 

 logs manufactured, tbe report shows that the Stearns cqmpany is pay- 

 ing out in wages nearly twice the amount which would have been paid 

 in the same operations twenty-five years ago. The result of all this is 

 to increase the local revenue in Ludington and insure permanenc.v in 

 operations at that point. 



During 1014 this company manufactured 2.S,0r>,5,.Sll feet of logs and 

 expended for wages $434,844.00. This does not include wages paid for 

 operations In its camps, which amounted to $180,434.00. During that 

 year it shipped into Ludington O.O.jO cars of logs and paid in freight 

 therefor $03,,50.S.04. The total number of cars consigned to and from 

 the company during 1914 amounted to 11, 27,^5 cars, with the total freight 

 amounting to $300,468.51. Figuring freight and wages paid in the manu- 

 facture of this 28.055. 811 feet of logs, we get the tremendous total of 

 ,'8015,747.83, 



Poor Business Leads to Suicide 



Simon Herrnstadt, for many years .pssociated with the wholesale hard- 

 wood business in New York City and Boston, died from a self-inflicted 

 wound, September 7. He conducted a wholesale business at 66 Broad 

 street. New York, until recently, when he was forced to quit because of 

 lack of business. Worry over business and grief over the loss of his 

 brothers in the German army unbalanced his mind. He was forty-nine 

 years old. 



Mr. Herrnstadt was prominently known in the hardwood market and at 

 one time enjoyed a large trade. He is survived by a widow and three 

 children. 



To Build Hardwood Mill in Texas 



It is stated that a large hardwood manufacturing company has been 

 in touch with the Chamber of Commerce of Beaumont, Tex., with the idea 

 of establishing a large hardwood plant in Beaumont. Secretary C. R. Bone 

 is endeavoring to locate a suitable site, and it is expected that a decision 

 will be made in the near future. 



The plant will probably have a daily capacity of 100,000 feet and will 

 ship all of its products from Beaumont. 



Charles E. Cartier Moves to Grand Rapids 



Charles E. Cartier of the widely known Cartier fanuly of Ludington 

 has moved his family to Grand Rapids, JSIich., where he as president of the 

 Cartier-Holland Lumber Company will work actively with E. M. Holland, 

 his partner. 



Mr. Cartier is the youngest son of the late Antoine E. Cartier of Luding- 

 ton. The senior Cartier was president and founder of the Cartier Lumber 

 Company, and was also president of the Northern Michigan Transportation 

 Company for a good many years. 



Charles Cartier is a graduate of the University of Michigan. On leaving 

 college he became manager of the Cartier Enameling Works at Ludington, 

 and later of the Handy Things Manufacturing Company, also of Luding- 

 ton. Following this work he became interested in a merchandising enter- 

 prise in that city, and about four years ago formed tlie Cartier-Holland 

 Lumber Company with E. M. Holland, formerly sales manager of the 

 Stearns Salt & Lumber Company. Mr. Holland is. as above stated, also 

 now a resident of Grand Rapids. 



Large Price for Timberland 



Near Warsaw, Ind., the sum of .'<28.500 was recently paid for 160 acres 

 of timberland, an average of $178 an acre. The purchaser was the Pea- 

 body Lumber Company of Warsaw. The price paid was about $10,000 

 more than the property was expected to bring. Many lumbermen attended 

 the sale. 



