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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(5) To conduct technical investigations of tbe properties of wood as a 

 construction material. 



(6) To develop and extend practical fire prevention methods and 

 processes. 



As previously reported, steps will be taken to raise $200,000 a year for 

 five years, work to be started wben the minimum of $50,000 per year for 

 five years is guaranteed. According to the revised report, action taken 

 aft«r the close of the meeting practically assures sufficient funds for the 

 starting of the work. 



The report strongly emphasizes the fact that the plan does not take 

 anything away from any existing organization. Instead it supplements 

 and strengthens all publicity, educational and trade extension effort in 

 promoting the use of forest products. 



New Hetnlock and Hardwood Secretary 



The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Mannfarturers" Association, at a 

 meeting in Chicago on February 23, elected O. r. Swan secretary to fill tbe 

 vacancy caused by the resignation of R. S. Kellogg, who recentl.v resigned 

 to become secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 

 Mr. Swan has accepted the position and will take charge of the office about 

 the middle of March, as soon as he can close up bis work with the Forest 

 Service at Washington. 



Mr. Swan brings abundance of experience to the office which he is about 

 ■to assume. Following five years at the university in engineering and for- 

 estry courses, he passed the two severest examinations given by tbe Forest 

 Service, namely, those for the position of forest assistant and for engineer 

 in forest products. These examinations covered tour days' written work 

 under the Civil Service Commission, and a rating on certain reports and 



experience. During his ear- 

 lier years in the service he 

 was employed in timber 

 measurements, topographi- 

 cal surveys, and general 

 forestry work in western 

 states, and later, special- 

 ized in the preservative 

 treatment of timl>er by 

 (Toosoting and other com- 

 mercial processes : eventu- 

 ally having charge of a 

 large cooperative project 

 in California to determine 

 timber treating policies for 

 I lie Pacinc Electric Com- 

 pany of Los Angeles, and 

 nine other California elec- 

 tric companies. Tliis work 

 risulted in the building of 

 three wood prcser\'inc 

 plants on the Pacific coast. 

 In 1008 he was in 

 charge of an administra- 

 tive office of the Forest 

 Service at Albuquerque, 

 N. M., developing wood 

 utilization lines for the 

 tiatlonal forests of that 

 region. In 1900-1010 he 

 was sent to England, 

 France and Germany to investigate lumbering, wood utilization and chem- 

 ical wood preservation treaiments in those countries, and on his return he 

 Introduced into the United States the French Boucberle pole preserving 

 process for use on the national forests, and on sap pines of the Southeast. 

 In 1010 he was placed in charge of the eastern division of the branch of 

 products of the Forest Service, which work, upon the discontinuance of 

 the Chicago office absorbed the latter, and the entire work is now given 

 national scope and administrative direction, and is designated as the office 

 of Industrial Investigations. As chief of the latter office Mr. Swan has 

 organized lines of work dealing in commercial investigations of interest to 

 the lumber and wood-using trades. He has followed the work of trade 

 association secretaries through correspondence, reports, and personal ac- 

 quaintance, and b.v frequent attendance at trade conventions. He has had 

 the opportunity of meeting all of the lumber association secretaries and 

 those of many other related trades in their home offices where their work 

 and problems were reviewed and the work of the Forest Service corre- 

 lated. He has had the opportunity of studying conditions through travel 

 In every state in the Union, and of discussing with the leading men in 

 the principal industries their various trade problems in their broader 

 aspects. 



Through annual details to the Forest Service Laboratory at Madison, 

 Wis., and visits to other research laboratories in the eastern United States 

 he has been in close touch with the latest research on wood problems. 



He h.as prepared reports on timber treating policies for twelve different 

 companies, including the Boston Elevated, the Pacific Light and Power 

 Company, I^os Angeles, Cal., and the San Joaquin Light and Power Com- 

 pany, Fresno, Cal., and certain railroad companies. He has been in charge 

 of a detailed study at certain navy yards in order that reports might be 

 prepared on methods of specifying purchasing and storing lumber, and on 



O. T. SWAN, Ni:W SKCKIOIARY NOItTlI- 

 ERN HEMLOCK AND HAItDWOOD MANU- 

 FACTUUERS' ASSOCIATION. 



the adaptability of the various kinds of lumber for the various purposes 

 requirecl at navy yards. 



The duties of the branch of Industrial Investigations which has been in 

 charge of Mr. Swan since its establishment in Washington are essentially 

 commercial researches. The office is charged with investigating the 

 methods, prices, products, waste, utilization, and other economics of the 

 lumber industry and the several important wood-consuming industries. 



The application of the results of the work of this office is brought 

 about through cooperation in commercial demonstrations with the indus- 

 tries, trade associations, and government l)urcaus, through travel and 

 public addresses, and conferences v\'ith influential men, through the publi- 

 cation of thirty bulletins annually with a combined circulation of approxi- 

 mately 230,000, and a large weekly correspondence on special problems. 



Mr. Swan is a raemlier of the Society of ,\merican Foresters, the com- 

 mittee of structural timbers of the American Society for Testing Materials, 

 and the committee for the standardization of shipping containers. 



With the Southern Pine Association 



The Southern Pine .\ssfK'iation surely sffins to lie getting busy in a 

 hurry, and already has a full force of inspectors in the field both aiuong 

 the mills and on complaint work, who have been working for about thirty 

 days. The inspection service will be extended to non-subscribers on the 

 basis of $10 per day for the service of the inspector, plus traveling 

 expenses. 



The most important development recently was the appointment of An- 

 drew J. T. Moore of New Orleans as traffic manager. Mr. Moore took 

 up his new duties on the 

 first of March. He has 

 been assistant cominis 

 sioner of the transporta- 

 tion department of the 

 New Orleans Board of 

 Trade, and is well known 

 in traflic circles in other 

 parts of the South. 



The board of directors 

 of the association met in 

 the Lumbermen's Clui' 

 building at Memphis on 

 Friday. I'ebniary 20. A 

 more complete report oi' 

 this meeting is contained 

 on another page of this 

 issue. 



One announcenu'nr 

 which was made at thr 

 meeting is that the as- 

 sociation is working wltli 

 the committee on stand- 

 ard freight car designs 

 of the American Rail 

 way Association sub- 

 committee on designs an<l 

 specifications, of w h 1 c h 

 G. L. Wall is chairman. 

 Tile purpose of the com- 

 mittee is the drawing up 

 of designs for standard specifications for use in cutting yellow pine car 

 mjitorial. 



Other meetings referred to in the recent literature sent out by the- 

 association are the meetings of the Texas lumbermen at Beaumont. Sat- 

 urday, March G, and the Mississippi manufacturers at Laurel, Febru- 

 ary If). 



Nashville Club Presents Excellent Report at Commercial Club 

 Annual Meeting 



The Lumbermen's Club of Xasliville, through President Henderson 

 Baker and Secretary Cecil Ewing, submitted a report to the Commer- 

 cial Club of Nashville, to be used in the annual report of that body 

 for 1914. The Lumbermen's Club became affiliated with the Commer- 

 cial Club of Nashville on its re-organization. 



The meetings were held weekly during the past year with a full 

 attendance at practically all meetings. The report called special atten- 

 tion to the work of the transportation committee, referring particularly 

 to rates on lumber affecting Nashville shippers. It also called atten- 

 tion to the trading on the floor at the meetings, during which many cars 

 of lumber have changed hands among the club membership, tbe result 

 of this being that an order received locally by Nashville lumbermen does 

 not go out of Nashville if any members of the club can furnish the 

 stock at the price offered. 



The report cited a complaint recently filed for the club by T. M. Hen- 

 derson, commissioner of the Nashville Traffic Bureau, and several other 

 rate matters, in which were the complaints against the N., C. & St. L. 

 railroad on log rates from local stations and against proposed advances itt 

 rates on the same road from Nashville and Chattanooga. In both these 

 cases the railroad was successful. 



ANDREW (i. T. MOORE, RECENTLY AP- 

 POINTED MANAGER OF THE SOUTHERN 

 PINE ASSOCIATION. 



