February 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



THIRTEEN BAND MILLS 

 SIX PLANING MILLS 

 ELEVEN FLOORING UNITS 

 NINE DIMENSION MILLS 



Annual Capacity 

 130,000,000 Feet 



I 



NDUSTRIAL conditions are developing in a 

 most reassuring way. Improvement in our own 

 business is most gratifying. We are greatly encour- 

 aged over the prospects for the future. 



W. M. RiTTER Lumber Co. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO 



Clubs and Associations 



Louisville Division Southern Hardwood Traffic Association Holds 

 Fifth Annual 



The fifth annual iiK'uting of the Louisville divisiou of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association was held at the Pendennis Club, Louisville, 

 the evening of Feb. S, following the usual dinner, and with the membership 

 of the Louisville Hardwood Club present, that organization having passed 

 up its weekly meeting. 



A. E. Norman, Jr., Norman Lumber Company, Louisville, was re-elected 

 vice-president in charge, and J. S. Thompson was reappointed district 

 manager. 



About thirty nienibors were present o^^t of a total of forty-two, fifteen 

 new members having been secured during the year. The principal speakers 

 were : J. Van Norman, general counsel for the organization ; J. H. Town- 

 shend, secretary-manager, from the Memphis headquarters ; J. S. Thomp- 

 son, district manager, and A. E. Norman, Jr., vice-president in charge. 

 Mr. Norman's report was short, the active work being taken care of In 

 the manager's report. 



Vice-President Norman named the following advisory board : C. H. 

 Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind. ; John Churchill, Navco Hardwood Company 

 and Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, Louisville ; E. L. Davis, Edward 

 L. Davis Lumber Company, Louisville ; H. J. Gates, Louisville Point Lum- 

 ber Company ; Preston P. Joyes. W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company ; 

 D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills ; W. A. MacLean. Wood-Mosaic Com- 

 pany ; E. B. Norman, Holly Ridge Lumber Company, Louisville ; C. E. 

 Platter, North Vernon Lumber Mills, North Vernon. Ind. ; Daniel Wertz, 

 Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, Evansville. 



Mather Heads Chicago Association 



N. C. Mather was elected president of the Chicago Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion at a meeting of the new directors held two weeks ago at the associa- 

 tion headquarters at No. 11 South La Salle street. Frank H. Burnaby was 

 elected vice-president and P. S. Fletcher treasurer. Edwin Ewing Hooper. 

 who resigned the secretaryship of the association at the annual meeting 

 after thirty-two years' service, was made an honorary vice-president. 



Third Lumber Congress and National Wholesalers' Annual 



The Third American Lumber Congress and the annual meeting of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association will be held in Chicago at 

 the Congress Hotel, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 30 to April 1. 



On March 29 and 30 the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion will hold its annual meeting at the new Drake Hotel. On March 31 

 and April 1 the wholesalers will join with the members of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association and others in holding the Lumber 

 Congress. 



A meeting of the board of trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association was held on Wednesday, Jan. 26, with a meeting 

 of the executive committee on Tuesday. One of the most important mat- 

 ters discussed was the selection of the time and plans for holding the 

 twenty-ninth annual meeting. Strong invitations were received from many 

 cities, including St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, O., Chicago, 111., Klchmond, 

 Va., Buffalo, N. Y.. New York City and Atlantic City, N. J., and the 

 trustees finally concluded it to be in the interest of the association to hold 

 the meeting at Chicago, 111., March 29-30. 



The meml>ership of the association has reached its pinnacle of 529, and 

 is growing toward the west and central west to such proportions that the 

 trustees recognize the desirability of selecting a place which would appeal 

 to this contingent. One of the strong deiermining factors in favor of 

 Chicago was the probability of other important lumber gatherings being 

 held in Chicago at the time of the annual meeting of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. Preparations are under way for the 

 American Lumber Trade Congress and other conferences of manufac- 

 turers from the south and Pacific Coast, and the trustees considered it 

 opportune, under these circumstances, to meet in Chicago. 



A. L. Stone, chairman of the board of managers of the Bureau of Infor- 

 mation, reported on Its investigation among the members with a view of 

 obtaining information of assistance in securing the enactment of legisla- 

 tion clarifying the guarantee clause of the Railroad Act. Many members 

 of the association have vast sums tied up because of a ruling of the comp- 

 troller of the treasury preventing partial payments to railroads who are 

 not in a position to flic their final accounting and who urgently need funds 

 to meet current obligations. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are due 

 members of the association, and the Bureau of Information is co-operating 

 with others in an effort to obtain early payment of these needed funds. 



The report of B. C. Currie. Philadelphia, chairman of the railroad and 

 transportation committee, was covered by Traffic ^anager W. S. Phlppen, 

 who reported Its activities in connection with railroad rates. New York 

 lighterage, proposed increase of demurrage rates, and especially on the 



