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<3ent J. Anderson Ross had presented a special prize to be contested 

 for and known as tlie "Belgium Fund Loving Cup," In this connection 

 «very member of the club was solicited to contribute one dollar toward the 

 fund now being collected in this city for the Belgium sufferers. The 

 result of this collection was forty dollars. 



S. r. Bowers won the president's prize, a small loving cup. He was 

 also awarded first low net prize, score 70, a pair of golf shoes. The 

 second low net score, 77, a silli muffler, went to Horace W. Smedley ; 

 third lowest net score, 78, a pair of golf gloves, fell to W. 11. Smedley. 

 An additional prize, given by H. C. Magruder, and Icnown as the Magruder 

 bigh gross prize, was a tie between H. Winfleld Allen and William T. 

 Betts, with scores of 124 each. On resorting to a toss up Betts won. 

 No one was enlightened as to the character of the prize, and considerable 

 <^uriosity was manifested as to the contents of the mysterious package. 

 On opening a dozen beautifully appearing golf balls met the eye. Ad- 

 miringly they were lifted, but alas ! they only proved a clever trick in 

 painted paper. 



A fine dinner was served at 6 :30, after which the meeting was called 

 to order, with rresident J. -Anderson Ross in the chair. After the read- 

 ing of the minutes of previous meeting, a resolution of thanks was voted 

 to H. C. Magruder, J. I. M. Wilson, Eli B. Hallowell, Carl Saye and 

 R. Wyatt Wistar, who are members of both the Ijumbermen's and Over- 

 brook clubs, and to the Overbrook Golf Club, for courtesies extended. 

 Horace W. Smedley, R. Wyatt Wistar, William P. Shearer and .T. Elmer 

 Troth, who tied for a prize in the September 

 tournament, and who made the identical score 

 at Huntingdon Valley Country Club links on 

 the- outing of the Lumbermen's Exchange in 

 October, played together again on this occasion 

 for decision as to the prize winners, but so 

 equally were they matched that the result was 

 still another tie. A toss up. which seemed the 

 only settlement, ended in Shearer and Troth 

 bearing off a Norfolk jacket as prizes. J. I. M. 

 Wilson bad kindly prepared for the golfers at 

 this meet a light luncheon of which they 

 were invited with much appreciation to partake 

 immediately on return from the links. The 

 ■weather was ideal and the game, including 

 other events of the day, was enjoyed to the 

 full by all. 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Inter- 

 Insurance Exchange 



After more than a year and a half of dis- 

 cussion and agitation the ofBcers of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers* Association have at 

 last launched the inter-insurance department 

 as recommended by the members at the annual 

 meetings of the National association, held in 

 Kansas City, June, 1913. and in Chicago, May. 

 1014. The new department will be known as 

 The National Jjumber Manufacturers' Inter- 

 Insurance Exchange, and owing to the general 

 support promised by the manufacturers will be 

 ready to begin business at an early date. 



At a meeting of the board of governors held 

 in Chicago October C, President Downman was authorized to appoint a 

 committee with power to inaugurate the insurance work of the association. 

 The committee met in Chicago last week, and concluded all the necessary 

 arrangements. The work will be under the direct supervision of the 

 advisory committee, which consists of the following members : 



William Irvine, Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association, Chippewa 

 Falls. Wis. ; C. F. Wiehe, Northern I'ine Manufacturers' Association. 

 Chicago, 111. : F. E. Wnymer, Genruia-Florida Saw Mill Association, Jack- 

 sonville, IHa.; W. E. DeLaney, Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States, Cincinnati. Ohio : Chas. A. Bigelow, Michigan Hard- 

 wood JIanufacturers' Association, Bav City, Mich. ; Nathan O'Berry, 

 North Carolina Pine .\ssociation. Goldsboro, N. C. ; W. A. Holt, Northern 

 Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' .'Vssociatlon. Oconio, Wis. : E. A. 

 Sclfridge, Redwood Manufacturers" Association, Willlts, Cal. : Edward 

 Schwartz, Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, I'.urton. I.a. ; 

 Geo. X. Wendling, Pacilic Coast Sugar & White Pine Manufacturers' 

 Association, San I'rancisco, Cal.: W. B. MacKay, West t'oast Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association, Portland, Ore.: J. P. McGoldrick, Western 

 Pine Manufacturers' Association. Spokane, Wash. : II. II. Foster, Yellow 

 Pine Manufacturers, Malvern, Ark.: J. Lewis Thompson, Yellow Pine 

 Mauufaiturers, Houston, Tex.: John L. Kaul, Yellow Pine Manufacturers, 

 Birmingham, Ala.: R. II. Downman, President National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association (ex officio). New Orleans, La.; J. E. Rhodes, 

 Secretary-Treasurer, Chicago, 111. 



Secretary Rhodes presented communications from over one hundred of 

 the members of the affiliated associations in which they promised to 

 support the exchange from its inception. 



Chas. F. Simonson of Chicago, was engaged as manager, and will 

 occupy offices adjoining those of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association in the Otis building, Chicago. The committee feels for- 

 tunate in having been able to secure the services of Mr. Simonson for 

 this office, as he is exceptionally well qualified by experience to place this 

 work upon a successful and satisfactory basis. For the past twent.v-five 

 years he has held responsible positions in connection with the insurance 



CHAS. F. SIMONSON 

 OF THE NEWLY ORG 

 ANCE EXCHANGE 



business in both the field and olHce. For six years he made a study of 

 mill and factory hazards for the Western Factory Mutual Fire Insurance 

 Companies. He was general inspector of the Hartford Fire Insurance 

 Company, western division, for nine years, and during the past few years 

 has been superintendent of the governing committee of the Western 

 Union, Chicago, during which he ibstituted a uniform system of schedule 

 rating, formulating over thirty-two schedules containing more than two 

 hundred classifications, including schedules covering sawmills, planing 

 mills, lumber yards, etc. 



Mr. Simonson is very familiar with inter-insurance, and is considered 

 competent to establish a very thorough system of inspection. 



The members of the committee do not believe that the National ex- 

 change will he any material competition with the existing inter-insurance 

 associations, for it is very evident tliat there Is more business to be 

 placed than all combined can carry. The infiuence of the National 

 exchange will lie exerted toward the reduction of fire hazards in saw- 

 mill plants. A schedule of basic rates will be prepared as nearly on the 

 basis of rates made by existing inter-insurance associations as possible, 

 and the business of the exchange will be reinsured until such time as 

 it is possible to safely carry its risks alone. No policies will be issued 

 until powers of attorney have been signed representing at least two 

 million dollars' of insurance, and this is already promised on approved 

 plants. Subscribers will not be confined to members of the affiliated 

 associations of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association alone. 

 Risks will be accepted upon a basis of physical 

 conditions without regard to association mem- 

 bership. The work of the manager will be under 

 the direct supervision of the executive com- 

 mittee of the advisory committee, which consists 

 of the following members: 



William Irvine, Northern Pine Manufact- 

 urers' As.sociation, Chippewa Falls, Wis. : W. 

 E. Deljiney, Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation of the United States. Cincinnati, Ohio; 

 Edward Schwartz, Soufi-ern Cypress Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Burton, La. ; W. A 

 Holt, .Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association. Oconto. Wis.; C. F. 

 Wiehe. Northern Pine Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. Chicago, III. : John L. Kaul, Yellow Pine 

 Manufacturers, Birmingham, Ala. ; R. H. Down- 

 man, President National Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association (ex officio). New Orleans, La. 

 The committee has secured the best possible 

 management, and will take every precaution 

 necessary to safeguard the interests of the sub- 

 scribers. The success of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Inter-Insurance Exchange is as- 

 sured from the start. 



Annual of New York Lumber Trade 

 Association 



About 120 members were present at the 

 luncheon and meeting of the New Y'ork Lumber 

 Trade .\ssociation on November 11. The oc- 

 casion was the twenty-eighth annual of the 

 organization, and special efforts were made to 

 have a good representative attendance. Lunch- 

 eon was served at 1 o'clock and there was much 

 fun of an informal nature. After luncheon the 

 business meeting convened and heard reports 

 from officers and committees covering the past year. The report of the 

 trustees reviewed in detail the work done since last November. 



The election brought back to office for another term all the old In- 

 cumbents, as follows : 



President — Russell Johnson Perrine. 

 First Vice-President — John F. Sleeves. 

 Second Vice-President — Frederick W. Starr. 

 Treasurer — Charles F. Fischer. 



Sycamore in England 



The sycamore which supplies considerable timber in England is very 

 like that of the United States, though of a different species. There is 

 always a demand for large sycamore timber, that is, of course, if clean and 

 fairly conveniently situated, and prices are high. It is not often, however, 

 that large, clean sycamore wood is offered in quantity, and when a goodly 

 hatch of such trees are put on the market they are generally snapped up 

 at once, the price obtained varying greatly according to district, condition 

 of roads, and distance from railway. But it is rarely that sycamore trees 

 are found in quantity together, such as in a plantation, the bulk of the 

 timber of this kind coming from fields and hedgerows. The sycamore is .1 

 farm tree, excellent for shelter, not too bard on the adjoining farm crop.s, 

 and for these reasons it has become the farmer's friend, and has been 

 extensively planted all over the country. It is a profitable tree, too, as 

 the growth is rapid, and at, say, sixty or eighty years' growth it will con- 

 tain from forty to sixty cubic feet of wood, which, under the most favor- 

 able conditions, will bring 62% cents per cubic foot in the woodland. 

 This very price was paid for a large number of sycamore trees on the 

 Fenrhyn estate, in Wales, the majority of which were removed from 

 farms and hedges at various parts of the estate. The usual price is from 

 .30 to 50 cents. 



CHICAGO, MANAGER 

 ANIZED INTER-INSUR- 



