April 10, 191C 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The course would include lectures on some of the followiug subjects : 



1 — The strengtli of wood; how it is determined and commercially 

 rated ; variability in the same species and different species ; the strength 

 of our own and competing woods as scientifically rated. 



2 — The strength required in wood under different conditions of service ; 

 margins of safety uses where strength is not a determining factor; the 

 arguments for the usi' of our wood for different purposes where the 

 question of strength may be advanced. 



3 — Euilding codes. 'Fhe ratings given our own and competing woods 

 and restrictions as to use in different cities and states. Errors and 

 changes which should be made in these codes. 



4 — The decay of timber and its relative durabilit.v. 



(a) Cause of decay under different conditions of service. 



(b) Decay in buildings, 



(c) Transmission of decay infection. 



Id) Decay of railroad timbers, doclfs. posts, poles and piling, 

 (e) Relative resistance of decay of our own and competing woods 

 under different. conditions of service, 

 ij — rreservative treatment. Methods, material and cost. 



(a) Shingles, fence posts, parts of building construction, such as 



ends <tf stringers, porch columns, etc. 



(b) Development of the n.se of preservatives as a method of in- 



creasing the use of lumber and timber products. 

 6 — The uses of wood. 



7 — I'ommerciai grades and comparison of our own grades and those 

 of other woods, showing methods of defining a quality of material. 



8 — Prices. The cliangiug lumber markets of the I'nited .States, future 

 development, controlling prices. Graphic presentation of freiglit rates 

 from different producing centers to competing marliets. Prices of com- 

 parative items of different woods in the same market. 



9 — Seasoning of different woods and its bearing on shipping weights, 

 durability and strength of the wood. Depreciation of grades tbrougli 

 seasoning by air drying or kiln drying. 



10 — Competing materials; their advantages and disadvantages and 

 costs. 



(a) Concrete, 

 lb) Steel. 



Ic) Fiber packages. 

 Id) Roofing materials. 

 11 — Manufacturing limitations at the mill which the salesmen should 

 understand. 



12 — Manufacturing requirements of the consumer which the salesmen 

 should understand. 



Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Quarterly 



Meeting 



*'Tiie Efficient Merchandising nf Liiniber" is a subject whicli is of vast 

 importance to the lumber manufacturing industry, and the board of 

 difectors of tlie Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation at its last meeting decided that this question should be thoroughly 

 discussed at the quarterly meeting of the association, to be held in 

 Milwaukee, Tuesday, April 25. The sales managers' committee of the 

 association has been asked to handle the matter, and has been very busy 

 in preparing the program, which promises to be interesting and valuable. 



The program relating to efficient salesmanship as applied to northern 

 forest products will cover the entire morning session of the meeting, 

 while the general association work will be taken care of in the afternoon. 



The schedule such as prepared by the sales managers is diviiied into 

 four beads ; the first being a discussion on "The Successful Lumber 

 Salesman of To-day," and will he handled by a subcommittee consisting 

 of Mr. Klass of the Holt laimber Company. Oconto, Wis., wlio will act 

 as spokesman ; W. B. Earle of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 

 Hermansville, Jlicli., and Murdock MacLeod of the Oconto Company of 

 Chicago. 



"Service and the Part it Plays in Securing and Ruilding Business" is 

 the subject which will be taken care of by Win. .7. Kessler of the New 

 Dells Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., chairman : E. .T. Gilloidy. 

 Foster-Latimer Lumber Company. Mellen, and F. H. Butts, Park Falls 

 Lumber Company, Park Falls. Wis. 



George C. Robson of the Kinzel Lumber Company, Merrill. Wis., and 

 L. Schoenliofen. Connor Lumber Corapan,y, MarshfJeld, Wis, : E, Rowlands. 

 C. -\. Good.vear Lumlier Company. Tomah, and .S. Gillson of the Rice Lake 

 Lumber Company, Rice Lake. Wis., have been chosen to prepare a talk 

 •on the need for co-operation between manufacturing and sales depart- 

 ment. 



C. F. Rea of the Sawyer-Goodman Company, Marinette, has been asked 

 to prepare a paper on the standardizing of hardwood shipments in 

 width and lengths. 



The afternoon session will commence with a paper on branding lumber 

 by E. A. Hamar of Chassell, Mich., who has given this subject consider- 

 able study. There will also be a talk i>y Mr. Isherwood of Sawyer. Wis., 

 on the problems of the retailer. Mr. Isherwood is ver.v capable of 

 handling this topic and his paper will be of unusual interest. Further 

 than this there will be the general routine work of the association. 



J. T, Phillips, Green Bay, Wis., newly elected president of the associa- 

 tion, will preside over the meeting. 



Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club Meets 



At the April meeting of the Cincinnati I^umUermen's Club the nominat- 

 ing committees announced the candidates on tlie regular and independent 

 tickets. The annual meeting and election of the club will take place 

 May 1. The election this year promises to be the most hotly contested 

 of any held in recent years, each faction naming prominent anil popular 

 lumbermen as their standard bearers, so therf- is little to clioose between 

 the two tickets, and the club is assured of a fine administration no matter 

 who Is elected. The candidates nominated on the regular ticket are : 

 President, C, C. Hagemeyer ; vice-president, James R, Davidson : second 

 vice-presidenf, P, .\, Rutledge ; secretary, O. P, Stratemeyer ; treasurer, 

 S. E. Giffien. The independent candidates are : President, M. P. Christie ; 



vice-president, C. F. Shields ; second vice-president, James West ; secretary, 

 Harry R. Brow-u ; treasurer, S. E. Giffen. Mr. Giffen, it will l)e noted, has 

 been named on both tickets. 



It was decided at this meeting to hold the annual outing of the club 

 early in June. A committee will be named soon to make ail arrangements. 



A nuitler of Inipoi'tance was taking up of Ihe rapid transit proposition 

 and after listening to an adflress on the benefits which lumbermen and all 

 Cincinnati would derive from the project, an unqualified indorsement of the 

 rapid transit bond issue wliich soon will be voted on and the plan for the 

 interurban loop was given by the club. Mayor Puchta told the lumbermen 

 that the rapid transit issue was the most important proposition to be 

 submitted to Cincinnati in a quarter of a century and would result in 

 bringing much additional business to the city. 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Association Inaugurates Stock Report 



Service 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of tlie United States is 

 about to inaugurate a new service which should be of great value to its 

 members in keeping track of the general trend of the market, actual 

 sales, and stocks on band. It is the latter feature that is to be gotten 

 at now, and will be similar to the monthly sales reports. Just a few 

 of the woods will 1)0 featured at the start, but it is the intention of 

 Secretary Weller to gradually extend the service through the hardwood 

 list. Stocks on hand at the first of each month will be shown, lumber 

 cut during the past month, total orders at hand, and stocks remaining 

 at end of each month will be given. Secretary Weller has sent out 

 blanks to the mills asking for the .March reports on plain white oak, 

 poplar, chestnut, and cottonwood, rlassili<'d as to grade and thickness. 



Lower Rates on Memphis Log Shipments 

 J. II. Townshend, -secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, is in receipt of advices from the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission to the effect that this organi::ation lias won a victory over the 

 St. Louis, Irou Mountain & Southern and Rock Island systems in 

 -Vrkansas in the case involving a reduction in rates from points in both 

 .\rkansas and Louisiana to Memphis <in shipments of logs. The association, 

 on behalf of a number of prominent hardwood lumber firms in Memphis, 

 filed a petition in 1914 through which lower rates were sought, the 

 petitioners asking for a reduction of one cent per hundred from points 

 on the Iron Mountain and one to si.v cents per hundred from stations on 

 the Rock Island. It is estimated that the rate reduction will entail a 

 saving of about $75,000 per year to lumber interests owning timberiands 

 in Arkansas, and it is also pointed out that the lower rates will make it 

 possible for Memphis lumber firms to increase the territory in Arkansas 

 and Louisiana from which tliey draw logs. 



In addition to the decision in favor of lower rates, the commission 

 has held that the complainants are entitled to reparation for the rates 

 which have lieen paid. It is estimated that this reparation will approxi- 

 mate Sin. 1101). This case was heard in Memphis in December, 1915. 



Building Strike Arbitration 



Members of the joint arbitration board appointed under the agreement 

 entered into recently between the Building Construction Employers' Asso- 

 ciation and the Building Trades' Council for the purpose of preventing 

 labor troubles in Cincinnati, last week formed a permanent organization. 

 tJnder the contract, this board will decide all grievances, questions, 

 disputes and demands. Officers elected are : President, John K. Peck ; 

 vice-president, Fred Hock ; secretary, Joseph A. Cullen ; treasurer. Bills 

 Hummel. When the board disagrees an umpire shall be called in. 

 William Tateman has consented to act. Dean of the t'niversity of 

 Cincinnati Schneider may be an alternative umpire. 



Date Set for Commissary Managers' Meeting 



Secretary Russell E. Lee of the National Commissary Managers' Asso- 

 ciation announces that the seventh annual convention of the association 

 will be held at Chicago, August 8-9. One of the principal speakers will 

 be Harry A. Wheeler, formerly president of the Union Trust Company 

 of Chicago, and also formerly president of the Chamber of Commerce of 

 the United States. Mr. Wheeler has been introduced to a number of rep- 

 resentative audiences composed of operators in different branches of lum- 

 bering and all have heard him prophesy that the commissary managers 

 will be well repaid for their trip to Chicago. Other speakers will be John 

 D. Shoop, superintendent of schools, Chicago ; Anderson Pace, advertising 

 consul for the Illinois Railways, and John R. Parsons, advertising man- 

 ager for Carson, Pirle, Scott & Co., Chicago. 



The Chicago Lumber Hearing 



The most important railroad rate hearing in the history of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission, at which will be threshed out the whole 

 problem of rates and classification of lumber, the nation over, involving 

 every freight relation of America's second greatest industry, has been 

 announced for the coming summer in Chicago. After years of special 

 hearings by various examiners and commissioners. Interstate Commerce 

 Commissioner B, H. Meyer, chairman of the commission, will himself take 

 charge of the investigation. 



The problem will be taken up at the Chicago hearing soon after July 1 

 and will be discussed until the whole problem has been gone through to 

 the very bottom, from every angle. When this hearing is completed it 

 will have been the most thorough ever held of rate prolilems, and will 



