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coupled its law and insurance committee but declared that, after seeing 

 the lawyers of the club employed, he supposed that the insurance was 

 against burglary. He commended the club very heartily for its action 

 in appropriating $500 for the relief of the Belgians. In conclusion, he 

 thought that every member of the club had a great deal to be thankful 

 for and that one of the chief things of all was that a man of such 

 commanding ability was at the head of the nation. 



.T. R. Walker said that he did not want to talk about rates and that 

 he had not yet descended to the plane where he was willing to tell a Ford 

 joke and sit down. He related the circumstances of the Arkansas lawyer 

 who met a member of the same profession from New England at one of 

 the meetings of the American Bar Association. He said that later this 

 New England lawyer wrote his friend in the Rackensack state and set 

 forth that he was an honest lawyer and also a Republican and wished to 

 practice his profession there. The Arkansas man urged him to come 

 ahead, declaring that, if he was honest, he would have no competition, and 

 that, if he was a Republican, the game laws would probably protect him. 



C. L. Harrison, president of the Gum I^umber Manufacturers" Associat- 

 tion, declared that he was Inspired by the presence of such a large body 

 of representative lumbermen. He said that the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis and the Southern Hardwood Traffic .Association were the most 

 successful organizations of their kind in existence. He very highly praised 

 the spirit of cooperation shown by the members of these organizations 

 and said that it was an inspiration to the Gum Lumber Manufacturers" 

 Association to push forward with all possible vigor in its efforts to carry 

 out its work of boosting red gum, which, he said, 

 had now ceased to be "America's finest hardwood 

 and had become America's finest cabinet wood." 

 with no one to say "Nay" to this slogan. He 

 thanked the Lumbermen"s Club on behalf of the 

 association for the invitation to be present and 

 for the spirit of good fellowship shown, and 

 concluded by asking every member of the club to 

 attend the annual of the Gum Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association on the morrow. 



Luther M. Walter declared that he owed much 

 to the lumbermen in yarious ways and particu- 

 larly in gratitude and friendly feeling. lie said 

 that there was nothing new in rate cases but ad- 

 vances and that these latter were without end. 

 He explained the attitude of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission in its relations to both car- 

 riers and shippers and said that it had no inter- 

 est beyond weighing every possible consideration 

 and doing justice to both. He said everything in 

 regard to rate matters was turned over to seven 

 men, mostly human (except when we lose), and 

 that both the railroads and the shippers were dis- 

 posed to criticise this body. He declared that 

 rate subjects had to be taken up from many angles 

 and that the cards must all be on the table sub- 

 ject to the application of such rules as are recog- 

 nized in transportation. He thought that both the 

 railroads and shippers should abide by the de- 

 cisions of the commission. He declared that 

 pressure was being brought to bear on this body 

 from some; source and that this was done at the instigation of somebody 

 who had a vast amount of money to spend. He thought this effort to 

 exert outside influence on the commission was the most serious problem 

 confronting the shippers in this country. He referred to the father who 

 gave his sons packages of switches with the request that thev break them 

 and used this as an illustration of the necessity for cooperation and unitv 

 of action on the part of shippers throughout the country. He declared that 

 as long as the lumbermen had their clubs and organizations and all of 

 them pulled together they would be able to secure their just deserts. 



Brief talks were made by James Boyd, New Orleans, E. H. Defebaugh 

 and Boiling Arthur Johnson, both of Chicago. 



Substitute Material Men Behind S-A-F-E 

 Secretary J. E. Rhodes, who has just resigned from the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, sent out before his resignation a letter 

 received by him which attempted to explain the purpose of the so-called 

 Society Advocating Fire Elimination, which was organized some time ago 

 at Cleveland. The letter pleaded for the support of Mr. Rhodes and 

 then gave a list of membership behind it purporting to substantiate its 

 claims that the association is bona fide and made up of the best people. 

 The following list will give pretty conclusive evidence as to who are advo- 

 cating those laws which make fat pocketbooks for brick, cement and other 

 patent material manufacturers, but which do not accomplish the end 

 reported to be desired, namely, the elimination of fire: 



Membebs of the S-a-f-e 



nZVx «hoi'' ^.O'nPany. Cu.vahoga Builders" Supply Company. Cuyahoga 

 Brick & Shale Company. Barkwill Brick Company. Hydraulic Press Bri?k 

 & K',,'!:-y.'„H"?.'f^''''"'^"^'V,9''™,P''''/'oO'^'<' ''•■■»' Company. Kelly Island Lime 



HENRY S. HOLDEN. 

 LUMBER COMI 



pany, Donley Bros. Company, Gelst Cement Products Company, UniteS 

 States (Jypsum Company. Van Dorn Iron Works Company, 'Cleveland 

 Macadam Company, National Plasterboard Company. Ohio Quarries Com- 

 pany, C. O. Bartlett-Snow Company, all of Cleveland ; Berger Manufac- 

 turing Company. Canton. O. ; Belden Brick Company, Canton. O. ; Key- 

 stone Clay Products Company, Greenshurgh, Pa. ; The Carbon Brick 

 Corapan.v, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Fallston -Fire Clay CraaJaanv. Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

 Everhard Company, Massillon, O. ; Robinson ca^rrProducts Company, 

 .\kron. O.: Bostwick Steel Lath Company, Niles^OTT Garry Iron & Steel 

 Company. Niles, O. ; Wadsworth Brick & Tile Company, Wadsworth, C; 

 Wellington Machine Company, Wellington. O. ; Claycratt Brick Company, 

 Columbus, O. ; American Cement Plaster Company, Columbus, O. ; Pyrana 

 Process Company, Columbus, O. ; Iron Clay Brick Company, Columbus, 

 O. ; Beaver Clay Manufacturing Company, New Galilee. Pa. ; American 

 Gypsum Company, Port Clinton. O. ; Crescent Portland Cement Com- 

 pany, Wampum, Pa.; General Fireproofiug Company, Youngstown, O. : 

 Toronto Fire Clay Company. Toronto. O. : Northwestern Expanded Metal 

 Company, Chicago, III. ; Hinde Brick & Tile Company. Sandusky. O. ; Alli- 

 ance Clay Products Company, Alliance. O. ; Reynolds .\sphalt Shingle 

 Company, Grand Rapids. Mich. : Excelsior Fire Clay Company, Lisbon, 

 O. ; Colonial Pressed Brick Company. Mogadore. O. ; Lehigh Portland 

 Cement Company. AUentown, Pa. ; Newton Brick Company, Albany. N. T. ; 

 G. B. Mentz i-'ompnny, Wallkill, N. Y. ; France Stone Company, Toledo, O. 



National Hardwood Lumber Association Sets Date for Next 

 Annual Convention 



The board of managers of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 held its regular semi-annual meeting at the executive heada.uarters, Chi- 

 cago, on Tuesday, January 19. Among matters coming before the board 

 for discussion was the selection of the time and place for holding the 

 eighteenth annual convention. Requests for con- 

 sideration had been received from a number of 

 large hardwood markets of the country and all 

 of them were given due consideration. However, 

 b.v a unanimous vote Chicago was selected and 

 the time fixed for Thursda.v and Frida.v, June 

 10-11. The hotel at which the convention head- 

 quarters will be located will be announced at a 

 later daie. 



Authoritative Information on Canadian 

 Competition 



II. I>. I,angille of I'ortland, Ore., one of the 

 foremost lumbermen of the Northwest, has a re- 

 markable article in the Ajiicrican Forcstrji Mag- 

 azine for February on Canadian Competition in 

 the Luml)er__ Industry. Unusually well informed 

 regarding trade conditions. Mr. Langille is par- 

 ticularly well fitted to write a sound, practical 

 article on this topic, and he discusses the situa- 

 tion in a forceful manner. Ills article, which 

 was prepared after extensive Inquiry and investi- 

 gation, is a most valuable contribution to lumber 

 trade literature and is one which evcr.v lumber- 

 man and timbcrland owner should not only read 

 but should keep on file for reference. The facts 

 and figures compiled by Mr. Langille are to be had 

 in no other form without painstaking investiga- 

 tion. This article is another in the series regard- 

 ing lumber conditions which American Forestri/ 

 Maf/a:inc has rrc-ntly bc.-ri iirintlng. 



Stave Dealers Flan Campaign Against Substitutes 

 Members of the National Tight Barrel Stave Manufacturers' -Associa- 

 tion decided on a policy at the recent convention at the Hotel Gayoso, 

 Memphis, whereby a campaign of scientific co-operation between the stave 

 makers, members of the Tight Cooperage .Association and users of tight 

 barrels will be launched. In connection with this co-operation a campaign 

 of education in favor of wooden barrels will be carried on. aiming at show- 

 ing the advantages in using them in preference to steel containers. 



HARDWOOD MILLS 

 ANY, CHICAGO 



With the Trade 



Henry S. Holden Goes With Chicago Firm 

 Henry S. Holden, who for twenty years has been operating in Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., in the veneer business under the style of the Henry S. Holden 

 Veneer Company, closed out his business a few weeks ago and is now 

 located with the Hardwood Mills I-.umber Company, Monadnock building, 

 Chicago, as manager of the veneer department. 



Mr. Holden, whose photograph is shown herewith, is one of the oldest 

 veneer men in the trade and has an unusually wide acquaintance all over 

 the country. He has made a marked success in the veneer business in the 

 past and his acquisition by the Hardwood Mills Lumber Company is a 

 step which cannot but be distinctly profitable to that organization. 



Eichey, Halsted & Quick Open Detroit OfB.ce 

 H.^UDWOOD Record is In receipt of an announcement from Richcy, 

 Halsted & Quick of Cincinnati that owing to the desire to provide for the 

 greater convenience of customers and for more prompt handling of the 

 increasing business, the company will open a branch office on February 1 

 in suite 12r,2 David Wliltney building, Detroit. Mr. Halsted will main- 



