November 25, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



31 



Monthly Meeting Philadelphia Exchange 



Al lln- r''xular iiinnlhly iii('i'ti)is <'if 111-- I.iinilM'riiu'n's 10xclians>* <*f 

 I'liihiili'lplii:!. hclil Xovemlii'i' ::, llie chief Icipic n! ili>^ciiR»ion was how ilic 

 . A.'liaiifie meetings o:in he inixle more inleresllii;; to the inemhers. Thr 

 iliieslinn wms diseiissiMl I'n.ni nil sides iind Hie iiiierchiiiifii^ of idens will 

 nn doiihl help (he pi'^esident "in his plans for fiiliire meeliiiKS. 



A lellei' was sent lo President Woodrow Wilson, asltins him to incor- 

 porate, favorably, one-eent letter postage iu his next message lo (lonsress. 

 A resolution of sympathy in the death of C. B. Coles was iiassed and a 

 copy sent to members of his family. President Chesnut was autliorized 

 to appoint delegates to the twelfth convention of the National Rivers and 

 Harbors' Congress. Thomas B. Ilammer and Joseph .T. Arbclo were 

 appointed delegates lo attend the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Convention 

 at Atlanta. Ga. 



For the December meeting a noted expert has been secured to speak 

 on the now workmen's compensation law, wiiicli becomes ed'eelive in 

 Pennsylvania, .Tanuary 1. 



St. Louis Lumbermen Form New Exchange 



The last meeting of the liUnibermen's Cluh of St. I.ouis was lield at the 

 Mercantile Club November IS, when it was formally announced that the 

 club was merged with the new Lumbermen's Exchange. This merger was 

 the result of a reorganization of the Lumliermcn's Exchange, which has 

 taken several months to perfect, so_ the exchange conhl iucliuli> three 

 groups, with others to come. The three groups already formed are the 

 retail jiine yard dealers, the hardwood dealers and manufacturers and the 

 yellow pine manufacturers and wholesalers. The groups to follow will 

 include all lumber industries. 



The last meeting was in the nature of a banquet and cabai'et perforni- 

 nico. While the members were waiting to enter the banquet liall, .TuHus 

 Siidel, chairman of the entertainment committee, stated that at each 

 plate would be found a paper cap and a paper necktie, and he wanted all 

 to wear them. The members did so and much amusement was the result. 



.\fter the dinner and cabaret, B. C. hobinson, president, called the 



liib lo order for the last time. He said he hoped the members would 



iMke the same interest in the new exchange as they had in the old clul>. 



He introduced Julius Seidel as the toastmaster, who in a few compli- 

 lentary remarks introduced William Dec Becker, the attorney who re- 

 vised the charter of the old Lumbermen's Exchange so the exchange 

 could take in tlic various , groups, who gave an excellent talk on co- 

 operatifin basis vs. the competitive system. 



President Uobinson and other officers were thanked by the members for 

 their efforts iu behalf of the club during the past year, and the club died 

 a natural death. 



At a meeting of tlic board of directors of the New Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change, wliich was held Tuesday afternoon, November 16, Charles E. 

 Thomas was elected president ; C. A. Antrim, vice-president ; R. E. 

 Gruner, treasurer; Walter D. Dodd, secretary, and O. A.T"ier, assistant 

 secretary. 



The nev.- board of directors consists of Charles E. Thomas, representing 

 the hardwood division; C. A. Antrim, representing the yellow pine manu- 

 facturers' and wholesalers' division, and R. B. Gruner, tlie retail pine 

 yards. The board of directors appointed a membership committee con- 

 sisting of Thos. E. Powe, E. H. Luehrmaun and R. F. Krebs, for the 

 hardwood division ; Julius Seidel, George W. Funck and J. A. Rebels, for 

 the pine yards, and C. M. Jennings, E. C. Robinson and T. C. Whit- 

 marsh, for the yellow pine wholesalers and manufacturers. 



Temporary headquarters will be in the Syndicate Trust building ajid 

 the annual meeting of the exchange will be held on December 21. 



Memphis Club Meeting 



John M. Woods was the honored guest at the regular semi-monthly 

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

 November i;-!. He just happened to be in town, but he was in par- 

 ticularly fine fettle and regaled the lumbermen with his usual rich fund 

 of anecdotes. He was in a particularly happy frame of "mind, saying 

 that this w'as due to the fact that a Republican governor had bi'cii 

 elected in Massachusetts and that Harvard had just won a brilliant 

 foot ball victory. He also intimated that some of his good humor was 

 directly attributable to the fact that business was improving in hard- 

 wood circles in the United States. 



Col. Woods paid the Lumbermen's Club a very high compliment on 

 the fact that it arranged regular business and social meetings at stated 

 periods, declaring that these gatherings were not only beneficial to the 

 lumbermen but that they also tended to help the community at large. 

 He thought the spirit in which the lumbermen here caiue together and 

 in which they tackled all problems not only truly laudable but also 

 worthy of emulation at the hands of those engaged in the same line 

 elsewhere. 



Col. Woods seemed disposed to take a little more cheerful view of the 

 general political situation, but he declared that the lumbermen should 

 keep an eye on the legislators in both the states and the United States 

 because their interests not only cross state lines but are also nation wide. 



The mud deposit, which threatens to make the Memphis harbor useless, 

 was discussed at this meeting. The lumbermen have ten members on the 

 citizens' committee which is handling this subject and the club made it 

 quite clear that it would support any movement looking to relief from 

 the unfortunate conditions which have developed. 



The committee on rail and river terminals was not ready to report, 

 iiut aunouncwj that it would have something to say later. The club is 

 interested In more adequate river terminals, as indicated by the appoint- 

 ment of the committee, and will cooperate with the other business organi 

 zations here in seeing that they are realized. 



II was aiinounc^'d that a dinner dance wouhl 'oe given at the Colonial 

 Country Club under the auspices of the Lumbcrrueu's Club tlie evening 

 of November 22. AH arrangements are in the hands of the entertain- 

 ment committee, of which F. T. Dooley Is chairman. This will be 

 quite an elaborate social affair. 



This meeting was largely social, very little business being ti-ansacted. 

 There were fiftytive members and guests present and an unusually 

 delightful dinner was served by the Hotel Gayoso. 



Louisville Club Re-elects Officers 



The annual meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club was held at the 

 Seelbach Hotel. Tuesday evening. November 0. All of the old officers 

 were re-elected, the executives being as follows ; H. E. Kline, Louisville 

 Veneer Mills, president ; Harold J. Gates, Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company, vice-president ; C. M. Sears, Edw'. L. Davis Lumber Company, 

 treasurer, and G. D. Grain, Jr., secretary. Mr. Kline, who was out of the 

 city, stated in a letter that he did not desire to hold the office another 

 year, but the club felt that he was too good a presiding officer to let get 

 away, and insisted on r6-electlng him to the position. The meeting was 

 featured by a number of informal talks by charter meiubers of the 

 club, Edward S. Shippen describing the first meeting, held in 1908 at the 

 Gait House. The club is believed to have been a great force in improving 

 business conditions in the hardwood trade. . 



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Will Operate Dimension Plant 



The old firm of Holmes & Balmer having disconinued business at 

 Lima, O., Cal. Balmer, formerly of that firm, and his son, C. B. Balmer, 

 are equipping an up-to-date hardwood dimension plant at Blulfton, O. 

 The plant is being equipped with Crocker-Wlieeler electric motors and will 

 he ready for operation by I>ecemher 20. The business will be operated 

 under the firm stylo Cal. Balmer & Son. They will manufacture ash, 

 liickory and oak dimension stock exclusively. 



W. L. Briscoe Starts Wholesale Business 



W. L. Brisi'oe. until recently connected witli tlie Dermott Laud & 

 Lumber Company, Dermott, Ark., and prior to lliat with the Paepeke- 

 Leicht Lumber Company, has started a wholesale hardwood business at 

 Dermott handling timber, lumber and logs. As Mr. Briscoe's experience 

 has been mainly in the section in which he is now operating, he starts 

 business with a prospect of a very successful futon-. 



May Enter Politics 



There Is talk that E. V. Babcock, Pittsburgh, Pa., may enter the lists 

 as a candidate for United States senatorship in Pennsylvania. He is 

 president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, and should 

 political lightning strike him, it is a foregone conclusion that the lumber 

 interests of the country would not suffer by having a man like Mr. Bab- 

 cock in the balls of Congress. 



May Establish Barge Line 



A movement is taking form aloug the Mississippi river to establish a 

 barge line between New Orleans and St. Louis, but sufficient progress has 

 not yet been made to justify the announcement of the success of the 

 project. One of the heaviest classes of freight is lumber, and the estab- 

 lishment of the line will depend largely upon what stand lumbermen take 

 in givjng it their support. Considerable encouragement is said to have 

 come from that quarter. 



New Box Factory for Marquette 



If plans now under way are carried through, Marquette, Mich., will 

 become the site of a flfty-thousand-dollar box factory which will employ 

 100 men. It will use balsam and other softwoods as raw material, and 

 also some hardwoods. It is believed that much cull lumber can be used 

 and that this can be procured from large sawmills in the upper peninsula 

 of Michigan. It is reported that the Nufer Cedar Company Is at the 

 head of the undertaking. This company operates box factories at various 

 points in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Michigan and has a large 

 market for its product. 



Creditors Close on Huss Brothers 



Claiming that the Huss Brothers Manufacturing Company, one of 

 Cincinnati's pioneer concerns, engaged in the manufacture of bar fixtures, 

 is insolvent, creditors of the company last week filed an Involuntary 

 petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court in Cincinnati. 

 The lumber companies taking this action are the Ohio Veneer Company, 

 Cincinnati, the Stephen Bilek Company, Chicago and the Talge Mahogany 

 Company, Indianapolis. Their respective claims are .$408.77, .$13.32 and 

 $153.97. 



The acts of bankruptcy charged against the respondent are that on 



