HARDWOOD RECORD 



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B-1190 — Mine Props, Railroad and Car Material 



Fredericktown, Mo., April 20. — Editor Hardwood Eecoed : Enclosed 



find fifteen cents in stamps tor copy of your paper. Read in the "Tear 



Book of the Department of Agriculture" of your co-operating on reports 



of the wood users. 



I am in position to furnish to the trade good lot of mine props, rail- 

 road tics, car material, wagon stock, furniture and agricultural Imple- 

 ment material, etc. 



• Any information you would supply would be more than simply duly 

 appreciated. 



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Clubs and Associations 



American Hardwood Plans Promising 



Everything is in readiness for the semi-auuual of the American Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association at the Hotel Chisca, Memphis, Satur- 

 day, May 25. 



John M. Pritchard, secretary-manager, says that indications point to an 

 exceptionally large attendance and to a most interesting and enthusiastic 

 meeting. 



Invitations have been mailed to all members and the following official 

 outline of the programme has been given : 



Luncheon, 12 :30 p. m. 



Greeting, R. L. Jurden, president. 



Report, John M. Pritchard, secretary-manager. 



Address, "Government Regulation and Price Fixing of Raw Materials 

 for War Requiremepts," Gen. L. C. Boyle. 



General discussion : 



(a) Uniform cost of manufacture. 



(b) Direct and indirect government requirements. 



(c) Dimension oak. 



(d) Exportation of white oak after the war. 



(e) Uniform terms of sale. 

 New business. 



4 :30 p. m. — Organization hardwood dimension department. 



J. T. Kendall, first assistant to Secretary-Manager Pritchard, who is 

 handling plans for this organization meeting, says that replies are being 

 received which indicate that there will be quite a large number of hard- 

 wood dimension manufacturers present. Fifteen dimension manufacturers 

 from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and 

 Kentucky constitute the organization committee, which issued the call 

 for the meeting and they will all be present. 



Dimension interests have found difficulty in getting together and hold- 

 ing together, but the belief is entertained that a dimension department 

 can be successfully established and operated in connection with a going 

 organization of such ability and prominence as the American Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association and that such a department will be an accom- 

 plished tact before adjournment. 



National Inspection Committee Reports 



The inspection rules committee of the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation through Chairman John W. McClure of Memphis, has issued a 

 report on the proposed changes in inspection rules to come up at the 

 meeting in Chicago on June 20 and 21. No change whatever in the 

 present rules is recommended, the report being given over to additions to 

 the present rules, the additions covering vehicle lumber and dimension, 

 grade of No. 1 and No. 2 common ; rules for grading oak ship timbers ; 

 rules on ceiling, chock rails, garboards and planking. Suggestions re- 

 garding beams and keelsons, keel shoes, horn timbers, rudder posts, rudder 

 stock, shaft log, stern post, stem grips, all of the latter being for wooden 

 ship construction. 



There is also a paragraph covering rules for grading hardwoods for 

 construction work. 



The report specifies the kinds of oak coming under the respective head- 

 ings of white oak and mixed oak. In the first case it says : 



"Under these specifications shall be understood to mean the white oak 

 group, including white oak, burr oak, post oak, chestnut oak, cow oak, 

 live oak, overeup oak, swamp oak, chinquapin oak and other less known 

 varieties of this character." 



Under "mixed oak" are included "any and all woods of the red or black 

 oak group, not necessarily containing any of the white oak group unless 

 definitely so specified." This group includes red oak, black oak, yellow 

 oak, scarlet oak, Spanish oak, Turkey oak, willow oak, pin oak, black 

 Jack, water oak and other less known varieties of this character. 



There is a detailed paragraph covering "select car stock" for passenger, 

 refrigerator and locomotive work ; a paragraph covering freight car stock 

 including all cars other than refrigerator and passenger cars ; a heading 

 for "select dimension" to be the same grade as "select car stock" and 

 covering any hardwood specified ; a heading for common dimension cover- 

 ing any hardwood ; one for switch ties ; one for bridge building and dock 

 timbers ; one for crossing plank and one for sheet piling. 



Chicago Club Adopts Resolutions on Death of Recent Members 



At a meeting of the board of directors of the Luiiil"rni'n"s Association 

 of Chicago held on May 13, the followiim i--..luii-M \, > m ;i.l-iri,Ml: 



Whereas: We have learned with pr..t ;( m. iiiirn death 



on Sunday, April 28, of Ira M. Smith, i -i i^ i m mber of 



the firm of Von Platen & Dick Compauj i 



Resolved: That Mr. Smith having Ijnii pr. iiiu.i i.:. , j 1 utifled for 

 many years with the mill work business of the ritv <if ('liioa»>, we point 

 with pride and satisfaction to the life of our late associate as a bright 

 example of business integrity and uprightness, worthy of enaulation ; and 

 be it further 



Resolved : That the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago tender to 

 the bereaved family its condolence and warmest sympathy in this hour of 

 their gieit affliction- and be it further 



Resolved Thtt these resolutions be spread on the recoids of the as 

 socntion an 1 t c py be sent to the family of our Ipcci rl 1 rother and 

 to tne lumbei pre'.s 



Whehe\s \Se learn with leep regi t M 



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 lumber trade an 1 presi lent of the Lum 



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fimen of Chi 

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bereavement an 1 commend them for 



11 things for the best an 1 I e it further 



tions be spread up n the r^coids of this 



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Action Taken on Amalgation Resolutions 



Since the piomulgation of the plan for the adoption of but one set 

 of inspection rules by the hardwood trade, and the Issuance of the reso- 

 lutions as described fully in the last issue of H.\bdwood Record, there 

 have been different actions taken by various hardwoods bodies through- 

 out the country. So far as these have come to H.iRDW00D Record in the 

 form of official proceedings they are given herewith. 



The following comes from Frank F. Fish, secretary-treasurer of the- 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, dated Chicago, May 15 : 



Editor Hardwood Record : President Woods directs me to send you 

 the enclosed copy of letter which goes tomorrow to our entire membe; 



ship, and to request that you publish ■ ■ - ■ ■ — 



valuable journal 



Thanking you in 



this letter in the next issue of your 



Jvance for this courtesy, we are, 

 The N.4TI0XAL Hardwood Lumber Association. 



The letter follows : 



May 16, 1918. 

 Subject: Letter dated May 8, 1918. 

 Signed by T. M. Brown, Louisville. 

 To Members : 



The following facts are submitted : 



On Monday, April 15, the secretary received a telegram as follows : 



"McClure advises us of his talk with you regarding vehicle matter, and 

 in line with his suggestions have today wired E. O. Robinson of Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, also Charles A. Bigelow of Northern Bureau, 

 to meet in Chicago at Annex Wednesday, to discuss this matter. We want 

 National association represented, so please arrange. I leave for Chicago 

 Monday afternoon and will 'phone you Tuesday morning. 



"R. L. Jurden. President. 

 "American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association." 



As this telegram gave less than two days' time, the secretary sent a 

 copy of the message to six members located near Chicago and invited them 

 to be present on April 17 to discuss the army vehicle situation. Four 

 responded and were present at the meeting April 17, but no representative 

 of the vehicle industry appeared, and as no action was possible that sub- 

 ject was dismissed after some discussion. The importance of closer organi- 

 zation of the hardwood industry was then discussed and the opinion 

 advanced that the first necessary step in that direction would be the 

 adoption of a single standard of inspection by all hardwood lumbermen. 



A majority of the directors heard from since the Louisville circular 

 appeared, are strongly in favor of only one set of grading rules, but do 

 not approve or endorse the entire plan outlined in the Louisville letter, 

 and our members are hereby officially notified that your president and 

 board of directors were not even informed that this meeting of April 17, 

 1918, was to be held. This subject will probably be one of the prominent 

 questions for the consideration of the convention to be held in Chicago 

 June 20 and 21. As proxies are not recognized it will be necessary for all 

 members interested to attend the June convention and vote on the ques- 

 tion at that time. Yours very truly, 



F. F. Fish, Secretary-Treasurer. John M. Woods, President. 



Under date of May 10 the Buffalo Lumber Exchange issued the follow- 

 ing announcement on this subject : 



Editor Hardwood Record : At the regular meeting of the Buffalo Lum- 

 ber Exchange, the following resolution was adopted : 



That the Buffalo Lumber Exchange disapprove of the resolutions by 

 T. M. Brown, chairman of a committee of lumber manufacturers as set 

 forth in a circular letter dated at Louisville, Ky.. May 8, 1918. and 

 addressed "to every member of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 and the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association." 



That information as to this action be given to the lumber press. 



Motion duly seconded and carried unanimously. 



John S. Tyler, Secretary. 



Some forty members of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 who are located at Chicago met unofficially on Friday, May 10, for a dis- 

 cussion of the proposition, and the results of their findings are embodied 

 in the following letter, which was addressed to ten leading local organi- 

 zations, as follows : 



Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, Minneapolis ; Phila- 

 delphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association ; Lumbermen's Club. Cin- 

 cinnati, O. ; Lumbermen's Exchange, St. Louis : New York Lumber Trade 

 Association, Buffalo Lumber Exchange, Detroit Hardwood Club, Grand 

 Rapids Lumbermen's Association. Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation and the Northern Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Association. Rhine- 

 lander. Wis. 



