January 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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session in Mempliis and it was decided that the meeting of the club would 

 be held in the evening so that some function might be tendered the delegates 

 to this association. Last year a similar arrangement was made which re- 

 sulted in much pleasure to members of both organizations. 



This being the first meeting of 1016, the oflScers who were elected Decem- 

 ber IS were installed. C. G. Kadel, retiring president, turned over his office 

 to S. M. Niclicy, president-Hect. .\rter Mr. Nickey had declared his inten- 

 tion of doing everything he could in behalf of the club and after he hail 

 asked for the earnest and hearty co-operation of all of Its members he an- 

 nounced his standing committees for the ensuing year as follows : 



Entertainment Committee: Ralph Way, chairman, F. T. Dooley, F. E. 

 Stonebreaker, C. R. Ranson. fieo. O. Friedel, 



St.vtistics Committee; C. R. Tustin. chairman, Keith Blanton, A. (!. 

 Fritchey, F. W. Dugan and R. L. Jurden. 



Law and Insurance: S. B. Anderson, chairman, J. V. Rush, James E. 

 Stark, C. D. Henrickson and C. C. Lattanner. 



RivEE AND Rail : Geo. C. Ehemann, chairman, 0. M. Krebs, J. W. 

 McCIure, Walker Welford and R. E. Dickinson. 



Membership: Harry I!. Weiss, chairman, Robert C. Stimson, J. R. 

 McFadden, W. L. Crenshaw and Max Sondheimer. 



Resolutions : J. D. Allen. Jr.. chairman, William Pritchard. S. C. 

 Major, W. A. Stark and Frank McCoUum. 



Ini'ormation : F. G. Smith, chairman. Harry Stimson, B. C. Tully, Tom 

 Welsh, D. R. Trippett. 



Publicity : M. B. Cooper, chairman, Geo. W. Fooshe, R. J. Lockwood, 

 O. IJ. Coppock and J. W. Dickson. 



Mr. Kadel, in surrendering the presidency to Mr. Nickcv. thanked the 

 members for the cordial and effective support given him during his admin- 

 istration. He reviewed the changes in membership which had occurred, 

 showing that, after deaths and resignations w'ere deducted and new mem- 

 bers were added, the net result was a membership of 160. He also pre- 

 sented figures showing that the average attendance at the regular meetings 

 bad been 06, an exceedingly creditable record. 



The report of D. F. Heuer, secretary and treasurer, showed that the 

 finances of the club were in very satisfactory condition. 



Other otBcers installed at this meeting were James V. McSweyn, first vice- 

 president ; Mark H. Brown, second vice-president ; D. l-\ Heuer, secretary- 

 treasurer ; Roland H. Darnell, Ray H. Goodspeed and Paul Rush, directors. 

 There are three directors who hold over from last year. They are Joe 

 Thompson, H. W. Bonner <nnd C. C. Dickinson. 



Appoints Secretary for Detroit Lumber Board of Trade 



The Lumber Board of Trade of Detroit at a meeting held December 

 17 appoinied Charles F. McCIure secretar.v. Afr. McClure will maintain 

 oflices at Clark street and the Michigan Central railroad. 



New York Trades Club Prospering 



The New York Lumber Trades Club has opened its club and exchange 

 rooms in the Lord's Court building. 27 William street. New York City. 

 The club has sent out a circular letter calling special attention to the 

 exchange feature of the board room, which is divided into three parts, 

 equipped with all facilities for lumbermen visiting in New Y'ork as well 

 as resident lumbermen. These facilities include means of obtaining In- 

 formation regarding the lumber trade in New York and vicinity as well 

 as manufacturers and wholesalers of all kinds of lumber in the United 

 States and Canada, their location, the kind of wood or woods they manu- 

 facture, their capacity, shipping facilities, etc. A close analysis of the 

 consuming trade within a radius of fifty miles of New York is contained 

 in another set of files. In addition, each resident member has the privilege 

 of having his card installed on the wall of the exchange room. 



National Wholesalers' Association Set Date for Annual 



Gordon C. Edwards. Ottawa, Ont.. president of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, was in New York last week and accompanied 

 by Secretary E. F. Perry went to Philadelphia to make arrangements for 

 the annual meeting which is to be held in that city. Wednesday and 

 Thursday, March 15 and 16, have been selected as the days of the meet- 

 ing and headquarters will be at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel. On Tuesday 

 evening, March 14, the trustees will hold their annual meeting and con- 

 sider many matters which will come up for discussion at the conven- 

 tion. 



The committee on arrangements consists of Gordon C. Edwards, Ottawa, 

 Ont. ; W. W. Knight, Indianapolis, Ind. ; A. L. Stone, Cleveland, O. ; F. R. 

 Babcock, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; M. E. Preisch, North Tonawanda, N. Y. ; George 

 F. Craig, Philadelphia, Pa. ; B. F. Belts, Philadelphia, Pa. ; J. Randall 

 Williams, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Secretary Perry states that reports so far received from members indi- 

 cate that the convention this year will be very largely attended and that 

 the selection of Philadelphia as the convention city was enthusiastically 

 received among the member^iip. 



Southern Traffic Association Opens Louisville Branch 



The Southern Hardwood Traflic .Vssociation has. after extended negotia- 

 tions between John W. McCIure, president, and J. H. Townshend, secre- 

 tar.v-manager, Memphis, and Mark Brown and D. E. Kline, Louisville, 

 -perfected arrangements for opening a branch olfice in Louisville in charge 

 of Leroy Halyard of Memphis, who has been the assistant of Mr. Town- 

 shend in Memphis for the past two years. Mr. Townshend has just re- 

 turned from Louisville, whither he went to put the finishing touches on 

 this proposition. 



All the members of the Louisville Hardwood Club will affiliate them- 

 selves with the association through this branch office. Furthermore, an 

 advisory board of eight members will be elected at Louisville to co- 



operate with the officers and directors of the association at Memphis. 

 Thus the scope of the association will be greatly widened to the benefit 

 not only of the present members but of those who come into* the organi- 

 zation through the Louisville branch. 



The offices in Louisville will be at 403 Courier-Journal building, and 

 Mr. Halyard will leave to take charge thereof in about two weeks. 



Form Appalachian Logging Congress 



The Appalachian Logging Congress was organized at Asheville, N. C, 

 January 4. W. B. Towusend, president of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany and Little River Logging Company, Townsend and Little River, 

 Tenn., respectively, was elected president. Mr. Townsend was responsible 

 for calling the meeting and officiated as chairman during the initial pro- 

 ceedings. 



The members of the new association will be loggers, timberland own- 

 ers, cruisers and forest engineers, and in fact everybody interested in 

 converting stumpage into raw material for sawmills. 



The meeting was attended by sixty men prominent in the logging work 

 in that part of the country. 



The constitution provides $10 annual dues for Individual members ; 

 $25 dues for mills operating single band mills, and $50 for those operat- 

 ing two or more hand mills. The meetings will be held in April and 

 October of each year. 



Mr. Townsend, as stated above, was duly elected president and H. F. 

 Grlnnell, forest engineer of the Champion Fibre Company, was elected 

 secretary and treasurer. The Clyde Iron Works through its representa- 

 tives, Charles H. Mackintosh, F. C. Adams and W. C. C. Champion, 

 tendered the delegates a very satisfactory banquet. 



With the Trade 



New Virginia Veneer Company 



The namilton-HiU Veneer Company announces its incorporation at 

 Emporia, Va. V. J. Hill, president, and L. L. Hamilton, secretary, state 

 they have severed their connection with the Augusta Veneer Company, 

 .\ugusta, Ga., with which firm they had been associated for years. They 

 have started the Hamilton-Hill Veneer Company with a splendidly equipped 

 mill, and have all appliances for giving quality and good service. 



The Schram Factory to Open at Ladysmith February 1 



The Schram Manufacturing Company will have completed the installa- 

 tion of machinery at its new factory at Ladysmith, Wis., and operations 

 will have begun by February 1. The company comes from Oshkosh and 

 manufactures chairs. The completion of the new factory has been delayed 

 by the large volume of orders which the company has been compelled to 

 work up at its Oshkosh plant. 



American Seating Company Will Move Operating Plant to 

 Grand Rapids 



It is announced from Grand Rapids. Mich., that the American Seating 

 Company will move its operating plant from Racine, Wis., to that point. 

 The Racine plant is a large branch of the American Seating Company 

 and will be given over to assembling and distributing purposes for busi- 

 ness going to the Northwest. The Grand Rapids plant will hereafter 

 attend to business in the East and will be a more important branch of 

 the company than ever before. The Grand Rapids plant has lately been 

 improved and added to considerably, placing it on a much more efficient 

 basis and making larger production possible. 



Robbins Company Retains Flooring Plant 



The last issue of Hardwood Record contained an account of the sale 

 of the Robbins Lumber Company of Rhinelauder, Wis., to the C. C. CoHInf 

 Lumber Company of Madison, Wis. The Robbins Lumber Company writes 

 that whil.3 the Collins company took over the sawmill, planing mill and 

 yards, the Robbins company will retain the hardwood flooring factory 

 and will continue in ithe farming, logging, land and timber and railroad 

 business. 



Chattanooga Packet Company Purchases New Craft 



With a view to benefiting by the Interstate Commerce Commission's 

 decision in its favor last March, relative to interchange of freight 

 between its boats and railroad lines west of the Ohio river, the Chatta- 

 nooga Packet Company has purchased additional river craft so as to 

 give a double service between Chattanooga and Ohio river points. By 

 this means, the opportunity is presented to save from twenty-five to 

 thirty-three per cent in freight rates. 



In addition, the city commission has spent considerable money in im- 

 proving wharfs and providing modern facilities for handling freight of 

 all description. 



Competent river engineers were employed to furnish plans and the 

 work is now under way. When completed Chattanooga will have what no 

 other inland city in the United States has — a thoroughly modern and 

 economical method of handling freight to and from the boats with th«! 

 same ease as it would be handled if shipped by the railroads. A canvass 

 has revealed the fact that there is enough business assured to keep two 

 boats busy on a basis of weekly trips. 



