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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1920 



WARREN ROSS LUMBER CO. 



BAND BULL, AND TAHD. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



We are running our mill continually, manufacturing all kinds 

 of Hardwoods, and maintain a complete stock here. We 

 ship direct from the mills all kinds of Northern & Southern 

 Hardwoods, also Mahogany. 



has been vice-president and general manager. This field, Mr. Perry stated 

 In resigning, has grown so rapidly with his increasing acquaintance and 

 experience, that all o£ his time is demanded. 



Memphians Heard Indian Song Bird 



Oscar Silvertongue, known widely in vaudeville circles as "Chief Sil- 

 vertongue," of the Hoopla tribe on the Indian reservation in Humboldt 

 County, California, proved the particular drawing card at the last semi- 

 monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, held at the Hotel 

 GayosQ Saturday, Nov. 13. Advance notice that he would sing brought 

 out by far the largest attendance of the year. And those who came were 

 not disappointed, if one may judge by the boisterous applause that greeted 

 his rendition of classical selections, rag-time or the popular melodies of 

 the day, some of which were sung by request. 



Miss Mary Russell, general secretary of the Associated Charities, de- 

 livered a brief talk during which she gave the lumbermen, who con- 

 tribute to this organization, a much more definite idea regarding the 

 use to which their contributions are put. 



National Manufacturers' Directors to Consider Move to Capital 



The question of the advisability of moving the general oflSces of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association to Washington, D. C, will 

 be one of the matters considered when the board of directors meet in 

 Chicago at the Congress Hotel, in quarterly session, Dec. 1. 



Other questions which will be before the board are that of more sys- 

 tematic publicity for the lumber industry, and the formulation of definite 

 legislative proposals incorporating principles of the National Forestry 

 policy adopted July 10, 1920. 



The move to Washington is proposed on the ground that many of the 

 activities of the association would be more advantageously conducted 

 near the seat of Federal government and its various bureaus applying to 

 commerce and industry. 



National Hardwood Meeting Will be Planned 



The regular midyear meeting of the board of managers of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association has been called for Dec. 16. This is a 

 somewhat earlier date than usual for this particular meeting, which 

 usually has been held in Janujiry, but the association wishes to be able 

 to announce prior to the first of January the date of its twenty-fourth 

 annual meeting so it may have a longer time in which to to make prep- 

 arations for it. 



Evansville Club Meets on Dec. 14 



The next regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 at Evansville, Ind., will be held at the New Vendome Hotel In that city 

 on Tues(^ay evening, Dec. 14. and it Is expected that the tact there will 

 be an annual election of officers at this time will bring out a good attend- 

 ance. Joe Waltman of the Evansville Band Mill Company has served as 

 president of the club for the past two years, and it is expected he will be 

 reelected without opposition. He has made a splendid presiding officer 

 and is popular with all the members. William S. Partington, traffic man- 

 ager for Haley & Wertz, has served as secretary and treasurer of the club 

 for three years and will have no opposition for reelection. He has filled 

 the position with ability. The last meeting of the club was held Tuesday 

 evening, Nov. 14, and there were several business matters taken up after 

 a business men's luncheon had been served under the direction of Secre- 

 tary Partington. A letter was read from the Chamber of Commerce at 

 Cairo, 111., asking the cooperation of the club In an appeal to the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission to have a readjustment of rates for gateways 

 like Cairo and EvansvUle. The club decided to lend its support to the 

 appeal. A letter was read by Secretary Partington from the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association saying that the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission would be asked to repeal the demurrage that was recently granted 

 the railroad companies, for the reason that the car shortage is no longer 

 as serious as it was when the demurrage charge^ was permitted. Secretary 

 Partington reported that the Interstate Commerce Commission had recently 

 ruled thfit a state public service commission can not fix railroad freight 

 rates or in fact regulate them in any way. Mr. Partington said this would 

 put a stop to the effort of the Indiana commission to fix log rates, as had 

 been promised to the log shippers. Several of the members discussed mar- 

 ket conditions at the meeting and most of them reported the conditions 

 bad. All agreed that it would be some time before there is any, marked 

 improvement in the hardwood business. John C. Keller, traffic manager of 

 the club, reported that the railroad companies want to put on a "spot- 

 ting" charge, which will work a new hardship on the shippers. 



Louisville Club's New Committees 



The Louisville Hardwood Club at a meeting a few days ago named com- 

 mittees to serve during the year, these being named by President W. H. 

 Day, before he left for the East, and read off at the following meeting. 

 They were as follows : Entertainment — E. B. Norman, George Wilcox, Jr., 

 and J. S. Thompson. Finance — Edward Devol, A. B. Norman, Sr., W. N. 

 Willis. Transportation — J. S. Thompson, A. E. Norman, Jr., J. J. Pfeister. 

 Logs — Harry Kline, Clarence Anderson, H. J. Gates. Lumber — Preston P. 

 Joyes, Edward L. Davis, Tom Fullenlove. 



Alluvial Land Booklets Nearly Ready 



Two elaborate descriptive booklets for nation-wide distribution, telling 

 of the development and the opportunities for farming, in the alluvial soil 

 or "delta" portion of the Lower Mississippi valley will soon be ready for 

 distribution by the Southern Alluvial Land Association of Memphis, mem- 

 bership in which is held by many lumbering concerns in the Memphis 

 region. 



One of the booklets will deal with the alluvial lands of Mississippi and 

 the other with the one-time bottom lands of Eastern Arkansas and North- 

 eastern Louisiana. The literature follows on a splendid booklet issued 

 last year under the title "The Call of the Alluvial Empire." It is being 

 compiled under the able editorship of F. D. Beneke, secretary of the 

 association. 



The booklets are being issued by the association with a view to erasing 

 some of the old impressions of the lower valley region, and to tell just 

 what has been accomplished and the possibilities of further development. 

 The association has no interest in any land transaction, neither owning, 

 buying nor selling. It is striving to aid in the development of the whole 

 lower valley region. 



National Wholesalers' Trustees Meet 



The fall meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association was held at headquarters, G6 Broadway, New 

 York City, Nov. 11. 



J. B. Montgomery, Pittsburgh, chairman Arbitration Committee, was 

 present and reported the progress made on inter-association arbitration, 

 which was proposed by the Arbitration Committee of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. Other associations are following in this 

 plan, and a meeting of the Inter-Associatlon Committee will shortly be 

 held at Columbus, Ohio, to further consider means for making the plan 

 operative. 



The report of the Bureau of Information, submitted on behalf of A. L. 

 Stone, Cleveland, chairman, referred to the expansion of the facilities of 

 this department to meet the changing economical conditions. 



The Legislative Committee referred to its investigation of the Wood bill 

 introduced in Congress, which aims to organize a central government pur- 

 chasing agency, and to its consideration of federal income taxes. 



The Forestry Committee, J. Randall Williams, Jr., chairman, reported 

 on the conference recently held in New York between lumber, pulp and 

 paper interests on the bill to be introduced in Congress providing for a 

 more comprehensive national forestry policy. 



The traffic department reported that it had filed a protest with the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission against the proposed cancellation of 

 water competitive rights from the southeastern territory, and had filed 

 a protest against the proposed increased demurrage rates, which were to 

 be effective December 1. The activity of the department in connection 

 with the additional charge for lighterage deliveries in New York City 

 was covered at length, and the association will proceed vigorously with 

 this. Other transportation matters are having attention and will be 

 covered in bulletin form to the members. 



The association has grown rapidly since the last annual meeting, 55 new 

 applications having been since received, showing a membership of 516, the 

 largest in the history of the association. All the departments are render- 

 ing a valuable service to the members, and with the existing economical 

 occurrences the need of these special services will be more pronounced. 



The trustees present at the meeting were : J. W. McCIure, Memphis, 

 Tenn. ; W. H. Schuette, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; H. W. McDonough, Boston, Mass. ; 

 D. O. Anderson, Marlon, S. C. ; J. C. Campbell, Tioga, W. Va. ; G. C. 

 Edwards, Ottawa, Ont. ; T. B. Hammer, Philadelphia, Pa.; G. F. Kerns, 

 Chicago, 111. ; P. R. Babcock, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; C. H. Barnaby, Greencastle, 

 Ind., H. F. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y. ; A. K. Turnbull, Norfolk, Va. ; E. F. 

 Perry, secretary. New York ; W. W. Schupner, department manager, New 

 York ; W. S. Phippen, traffic manager. New York. 



St. Louis Furniture Board Elects Officers 



The Furniture Board of Trade of St. Louis held its annual meeting a 

 few days ago, electing E. Ritter of the Central Furniture Company presi- 

 dent. Other officers elected by the furniture manufacturers were as 

 follows : 



S. G. Songstad of Conrades Manufacturing Company, first vice-president ; 

 Waldemar llanpeter, second vice-president ; Walter Junghans, treasurer ; 

 H. S. Tuttle, secretary ; directors, H. A. Borndrock, J. H. Meier, Joseph 

 Peters, W. E. Frank. S. C. Frampton, H. Kahn, E. Lucas, A. B. Moses. 

 Mr. Tuttle was reelected for the thirty-fifth time, it being the thirty-fourth 

 annual meeting of the organization, which now has a membership of 56 

 firms. It is regarded as one of the most powerful bodies of its kind In the 

 United States, due to the fact that its members make St. Louis the sixth 

 city in the nation in the manufacture of furniture. 



