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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A resolution was then passed that it was the sense of those present 

 that an organization following the plans outlined be formed. 



A resolution of thanks was then extended to Messrs. Pope, Hettler 

 and Hooper for coming to St. Louis and starting the organization off 

 right. 



After J. ■ R. iloorehead, Kansas City, secretary of the Southwestern 

 Lumbermen's' Association, had told a couple of good stories and said 

 that there should be a vigorous campaign started to put the public 

 right on the lumber situation, the meeting adjourned. 



The Annual Golf Tournament 



The Lumbermen's Golf Association of Chicago has set June 8 as the 

 date for the annual tournament. It will be held on the grounds of the 

 Beverly Country Club, at West Eighty-seventh street and South Western 

 avenue, Chicago. The committees having charge of the arrangements are 

 at work and much interest is manifested in the coming event. It is 

 confidently expected that it will surpass the similar tourneys held in 

 past years by the golf association, which have always been successful. 



Philadelphia Exchange Holds Monthly Meeting 



The April meeting of the I'hiladelphia Lumbermen's Exchange was held 

 April 1. The attendance was large owing to the fact that nominations 

 for directors to serve the ensuing year were made. However, the directors 

 will not lie elected until the annual meeting on April S. Those nominated 

 for directors are: John I. Coulbourn of Coulbourn Brothers; Joseph 

 Hyde of Geissel & Richardson ; and Watson Malone of Edwin Malone & 

 Son. The directors whose terms expire on the date of the annual meet 

 ing are : George A. Howes, Amos Y. Lesher of Charles F. Felin & Co., 

 Inc. ; and John E. Lloyd of the William M. Lloyd Company. 



The committee appointed at the March meeting to look into the work- 

 men's compensation law, now before the state legislature, and to com- 

 niunicate with Governor Hrumbaugli on tlie subject, submitted a majority 

 and minority report, the oxclumge adopting the majority report. 



The majority report was submitted by Samuel Roberts of the Grater- 

 Body Company, 'Norrlstown, and William C. MacBride of the Ilaney- 

 Whlte Company, tills city. S. Ashton Souder of Edmund A. Souder & 

 Co. presented the minority report. The changes suggested In the two 

 reports were of technical nature. The committee was given a vote 

 of thanks f<jr its careful study of the matter. 



S. Ashton Souder, William T. Bctts and Owen M. Bruncr were ap- 

 pointed a committee to draw up a letter of protest to be sent to Gov- 

 ernor Brumbaugh in regard to House Bill No. 295, known as the "Grans- 

 back," or "Toothless Housing Bill." The exchange believes the pro- 

 visions of tills bill to be detrimental to the best interests of the city, 

 affecting unfavorably as they do the good health and morals of the 

 citizens. 



Eugene W. Fry of the Henrico Luml)er Company, chairman of a com- 

 mittee which attended a joint meeting of trade bodies in the Bourse on 

 March 15 to consider "reasonable railroad legislation," reported that 

 another meeting would be held April 15. He asked that a now com- 

 mittee be appointc'd as two of the members on the existing committee 

 felt they were not conversant enough with the subject to properly rep- 

 resent the exchange. Robert B. Rayner of Rayner & Parker; Robert G. 

 Kay and Charles M. Chesnut of the Yellow Pine Company were requested 

 to attend the next meeting. 



New York Lumbermen Plan New Club 



The question of again organizing the lumber trade of New York in a 

 lumbermen's club has been reopened. The Lord's Court building, Wil- 

 liam street, has made an attractive offer of space with restaurant and 

 other privileges, that has made the lumbermen sit up and take notice. 

 .\ committee composed of Van W. Tyler, E. F. Perry and an agent for 

 the building, is now canvassing the trade in an endeavor to ascertain 

 what the sentiment is and how many are agreeable to the proposition. 

 The success of such a plan depends on the regular patronage of the mem- 

 bers, and unless assurances are forthcoming that this will be attained the 

 scheme will be abandoned. 



Memphis Club Holds Semi-Monthly Meeting 



The regular semi luontlily m.-.ting ol lli.- LnMil..rmi'ns Club of Mem- 

 phis was held at the Hotel Gayoso, Saturday, March 27, with seventy- 

 seven members and visitors present. C. G. Kadef presided. The usual 

 luncheon was served. 



It was decided at this meeting that the club would entertain all of the 

 railroad ofliciala and lumbermen who attend the conference to be held 

 here April 7 under the auspices of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Asso- 

 ciation. This entertainment will be in the form of a luncheon which will 

 be served in the main dining room of the Hotel Gayoso. It is expected 

 that there will be between :«)0 and 500 guests and the luncheon promises 

 to be one of the most elaborate ever tendered by this organization. 

 All arrangements have been perfected and the members of the club are 

 looking forward to this occasion with unusual pleasure. 



The following resolutions out of respect to the late J. H. Baird, editor 

 and publisher of the Southern Lumhermati at Nashville, were unanimously 

 adopted : 



Hesolved :— That the recent distressing death of James H. Baird has 

 deprived the lumber industry of one of its ablest champions, the lumber 

 press of a gmtta and fearless leader, and the individual members of this 

 organization of a warm and noble friend : 



I'Tiat we desire to convey to his family and associates our profound 

 grief at his untimely death and our deepest sympathy in their irreparable 

 loss. 



W. E. Hyde of the Hyde Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., and the 

 Desha Lumber Company, Lake Providence, La., was elected to active 

 membership. 



It was also decided at this meeting that another dinner dance should 

 be given under the auspices of the club at the Hotel Chisca April 9. 

 These informal affairs have proven a source of very great pleasure to all 

 the members of the club and this accounts for the fact that they are 

 being given with increasing frequency. All arrangements are in the 

 hands of the entertainment committee, which has always shown itself 

 thoroughly capable. 



Paving Engineer Appointed 



F. P. Hamilton of Houston, Tex., has been appointed paving engineer 

 of the Southern Pine Association, and assumes his duties on the first 

 .of the month. Mr. Hamilton is a native of Mississippi, thirty-eight years 

 of age, and a graduate of Washington and Lee University. After his 

 graduation he became assistant engineer, in charge of paving at Jackson, 

 Miss., and later looking after paving for steam and street railways in 

 and about Jackson. He possesses an extensive knowledge of the uses 

 of concrete, which is so essential in the making of the proper base for 

 wood block paving. For the past five years he has been with the Gulf- 

 port Creosoting Company of Gulfport, Miss., and the Creosote Wood 

 Block Paving Company of New Orleans in charge of creosote wood 

 block paving and construction. 



He is a member of the American Association of Civil Engineers, and also 

 of the American Wood Preservers' Association, being a member of the 

 committee on paving of tlie latter association. 



Southern Traffic Association Issues Annual Report 



The annual report of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association for 

 the twelve months ending January 1, 1915, is now off the press and 

 ready for distribution to the members of that body and to others who 

 are sutBciently interested to make application for copies thereof. This 

 report was compiled by J. H. Townshend, secretary and geueraj man- 

 ager, and in addition to giving an interesting tabulation of receipts, 

 expenditures and other features, it contains a full statement of the 

 alms and objects of this ctrganization. I 



The association is stronger and more active today than at any time 

 since It was organized. It Is dealing with traffic problems in a large 

 way and is safeguarding the interests of its members in every possible 

 manner. Even now, before It has completed two full years' work, it 

 has arranged a conference with the traffic officials of the leading roads 

 in the South for the specific purpose of bringing the railroad men and 

 the lumbermen into such close relationship that rates on lumber may 

 be adjusted without constant friction and without appeal to the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. 'I'hls is the biggest thing it has ever 

 undertaken, and the officials believe tliat if they accomplisli what they 

 have in view the results will more than justify all the effort put forth 

 by tliat organization since It was launched. 



J. H. Townshend is a traffic expert of the first order, and he Is ably 

 assisted by Leroy Halyard, who is far from a novice in rate matters. 



Cincinnati Club Nominates New Officers 



So well did the regular nominating comniittoe of the Cincinnati Lum- 

 bermen's Club do Its work In picking representative and able business 

 men in the lumber line for places on the ticket, that there will lie no com- 

 petitive election at the annual ballot casting of the organization this year. 

 When the regular list of candidates was announced the ticket was indorsed 

 unanimously by' the gentlemen delegated to name an opposing ticket. J. A. 

 Bolser, who has acted in the capacity of secretary of the club for some 

 time, was urged to again be a candidate, but refused this honor on the 

 ground that another should be given the opportunity of serving the club. 



The ticket named follows : 



PiiKSIDE.NT : P. Dwight Hinckley of the Dwight Hinckley Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



First Vice-President : S. W. Richey of Richey, Ilalsted & Quick. 



Second Vice-Phesident : J. S. Zoller of the Talbert-Zoller Lumber and 

 Veneer Company. 



TitEAsrRER : J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Company, Ltd. 



Sechetauy : W. S. Sterrett of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company. 



Other business of Importance taken up at the meeting April 5 was a 

 long discussion of the proposition to merge with the Cincinnati Chamber 

 of Commerce, which invitation was extended to the Lumbermen's Club 

 at the March meeting. The project had its several backers and opponents, 

 and in the end the committee in charge of the subject was instructed to 

 change and amend the club's constitutiim and by-laws to the extent of 

 merging with the Chamber of Commerce. At the May meeting the 

 amended constitution will be read, discussed and a vote taken on the 

 merger question. 



Hardwood Sales Report 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Assnciation of the United States, with 

 offices in Cincinnati, has just inaugurated a new system for distribution 

 of a monthly, report of actual sales made by its members. The members 

 of the association report to the secretary each week the actual sales made 

 in that peHod. The reports show the date of sale, kind of lumber, 

 amount, thickness, grade, widths, lengths, condition of stock, delivered 

 price, point of delivery and rate of freight to destination. 



The constiming territory is divided into accuratol.v defined zones. For 

 illustration, the Chicago territory comprises territory surrounding the 

 city of Chicago, which takes practically the same rates of freight from 



