December 25, 1915 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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at Memphis, pritnarily, though it granted it wiil be oC very great assist- 

 ance to all manufacturers of lumber and lumber products at points In 

 Mississippi and Louisiana. 



The petition specifically asks for transit privileges which will allow 

 hardwood lumber to be brought into Memphis from outside points, sorted, 

 graded, dressed and otherwise treated and then shipped out on a rate 

 equal to the through rate from point of origin to destination via Memphis, 

 plus $3 per car. 



Evansville Club Elects Officers 



At the last monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club held 

 on December 14, the followini^ oIHcers were elected to servo the ensuing 

 year : President, Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz ; vice-president, Charles 

 A. Woldiu of the Wolflin-Luhring Lumber Company ; secretary, Mertice 

 Taylor of Maley & Wertz ; directors, J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber 

 Company ; .T. A. Waltman of the J. A. Waltman Lumber Company, and 

 Claude Maley of Maley & Wertz. Mr. Wertz has served two years as 

 president of the club and Mr. Taylor has served one year as secretary and 

 both have made efficient officers. The following committee was appointed 

 to draft resolutions on the death of Samuel M. Burgess who passed away 

 here on December 2 ; William B. Carleton, J. C. Greer and Charles A. 

 Wolflln. A copy of the resolutions will be sent to the aged mother of 

 Mr. Burgess at Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The Cottage Building Company and the Evansville Planing Mill Com- 

 pany have been enrolled as new members. The next meeting of the 

 club will be held on the second Tuesday in January when the newly-elected 

 officers will be installed. 



Annual Election of Memphis Club 



S. M. Nlckey, of the Green River Lumber Company, was chosen presi- 

 dent of the Memphis LuTub-'i-meu's Club iu the annual election held at the 

 Business Men'.s Cluli Saturday. December l.S. He defeated his rival for 

 first honors, II. B. Weiss of George C. Brown & Co., after one of the 

 most interesting contests in the history of this organization. The elec- 

 tion was held between the hours of 7 and 9 p. m., after a campaign lasting 

 just seven days, and after the 123 votes cast had been counted by the 

 judges, the results were announced as follows : 



President : S. M. Nickey, Green River Lumber Company. 



First Vice-Pre.sident : Jas. F. McSweyn, Memphis Band Mill Company. 



Second ViOE-PKEsiDENr : Mark II. Brown, Brown & lUKkney Inc. 



SECRETARY-TitE.\si;RER : D. F. rieuer. A. N. Thompson Lumber Company. 



Directors : Roland II. Darnell. H. J. Darnell, Inc. ; Ray H. Goodspeeil, 

 Jno. M. Woods Lumber Company ; Paul Rush, Riel-Kadel Lumber Company. 



President Kadel, who occupied the chair during the evening, announced 

 the names of the successful candidates and as each was called there was 

 a great deal of applause and not a little speech-making. S. M. Nickey 

 gave the members to understand that he very much appreciated the honor 

 which had been conferred on him and confided to them that he had been 

 through something of a race. He pledged his best eflforts in behalf of the 

 club and asked that everybody support him vigorously to the end that his 

 administration might be successful. 



H. B. Weiss, the defeated candidate for the presidency, said that the 

 results had not i)een surprising to him for the reason that he had known 

 the outcome practically from the start because of the numerous members 

 who had pledged their support to Mr. Nickey when that gentleman ran 

 before. He assured those who voted for him that he appreciated their 

 support and promised that in the course of the next ten, fifteen, twenty 



or twenty-five years, he would get even with some of those who had 

 handed him all that "sympathy" racket. He said that he had been 

 down town until ten or eleven o'clock every night during the campaign 

 either soliciting votes or doing office work and he besought all the mem- 

 bers of the club who knew his wife to clarify, instead of muddy the 

 waters of his domestic life by explaining to her that he had been running 

 in absolutely good faith and not trying to put anything over on her. 

 One would have almost imagined that be was afraid to go home after his 

 defeat, so solicitous was he. Although defeated, he made one of the 

 most humorous and most attractive talks of anybody who ascended the 

 speaker's rostrum during the evening and proved himself one of the 

 best of good losers. 



J. F. McSweyn, the "grand old man" of the club, was taken ill on 

 Tuesday and could not even be present at the election. He wrote a letter, 

 however, penned before he knew whether he had won or lost, in which he 

 said that he was proud of his connection with the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, the best fellows in the world, with not a runt, socially or 

 physically, among them. George Friedel, his opponent, was called out 

 of the city on account of sickness during the election and could, therefore, 

 not tell how he happened to lose. 



Mark 11. Brown asserted that he had won on his looks, but T. E. 

 Jones, his defeated rival, explained that he and Mr. Brown had decided 

 to make the race on the platform of the ugliest man to win and that 

 Mr. Brown had taken the blue ribbon in a walk. 



D. F. Heuer, nominee for secretary and treasurer on both tickets, ex- 

 pressed very great surprise over the fact that he had been elected, much 

 to the amusement of all present. 



The three newly elected directors spoke briefly. All of them are very 

 young men, Paul Rush being both the youngest and the smallest member 

 of the club. All appeared happy over their victory and were profuse !n 

 their thanks to those who made their election possible. 



Refreshments, both liquid and solid, were served throughout the 

 evening, though President Kadel insisted every now and then on closing 

 the bar for five minutes or more. While the votes were being counted, 

 Miss Florence Corrington, assistant secretary of the club, was marched 

 into the room and presented by President Kadel with a check for $100 

 and $1 in silver, as a slight token of the appreciation of the members 

 of the clever manner in which she had performed her duties. Miss Cor- 

 rington has, for the past two years, been in charge of the rooms in the 

 Business Men's Club, finished and furnished by the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis. She was so surprised that she was hardly able to murmur her 

 "thank you." 



President Kadel also improved the wait by asking Charles E. Ransom, 

 one of the most popular members of the club, to explain just how it felt 

 to be the proud father of his first child. Charley answered as only he 

 could and brought down the house as usual. 



Interest in the election was well maintained until the last vote was 

 cast. These elections have done more than perhaps any other one factor 

 to hold the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis together in such an effective 

 manner. Perhaps the most notable feature of these elections is the man- 

 ner in which the defeated candidates bow to the will of the majority, show 

 no ill-will and buckle down to work wherever the administration assigns 

 them. 



Just before adjournment, a letter was read from C. W. Holmes, one of 

 the charter members of the club, tendering his resignation. The election 



DANIEL WERTZ, NEWLY ELECTED PRESI- 

 DENT OF THE EVANSVILLE LUM- 

 BERMEN'S CLUB 



M. NICKEY, SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE 

 FOR PRESIDENCY MEMPHIS LUM- 

 MEN'S CLUB 



H. B. WEISS, UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE 

 FOR PRESIDENCY MEMPHIS LUM- 

 BERMEN'S CLUB 



