HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25, 1918 



values, and it can be expected that future changes in the rules will 

 follow uniformity in principles of inspection, and that all lumber 

 below firsts in quality will be graded according to cutting value. 



Firsts and seconds, according to Mr. McClure, can remain a com- 

 bined grade as at present, but seconds are to be a cutting grade 

 instead of a defect grade. 



commission in the purchase of lumber and expressed high apprecia- 

 tion of the National association. Lieut. HoUande's remarks were 

 brief but much appreciated. 



On motion of F. S. Underhill of Philadelphia, suitable resolu- 

 tions were adopted pertaining to the recent deaths of a number of 

 prominent association members. 



Inspection Petition Voted Down 



T. M. Brown, who has represented a number of lumbermen in an 



Under present methods, all standard grades except selects are 

 inspected from the poor side of the pieces, while in selects both 

 sides are inspected. He then went on to say that the new grades 

 of selects adopted a year ago has caused no disturbance and that 

 improved and additional grades may beeoine necessary. 



He said: "If important branches of the consuming trade use 

 lumber for purposes where only one face 

 of the cutting is required to be clear, we 

 should have more grades specifying best 

 face inspection. On the other hand, a 

 large element of the trade requires cut- 

 tings which are exposed on both faces 

 after being worked into the finished prod- 

 uct, and ther« should be rules which accu- 

 rately describe the grades used for such 

 purposes. ' ' 



He went on with a brief reference to 

 the inspection proposals which were 

 printed in detail on page 38 in the May 

 25 issue of Hardwood Record, and then 

 told of frequent conferences held with 

 industries represented in the consumption 

 of specialized material covered under the 

 grades suggested. 



He read the report of the committee 

 on inspection rules and moved this be 

 adopted. His request was favorably 

 acted upon, it being moved by E. V. Bab- 

 cock that the report of the inspection 

 rules committee be adopted in toto. 



The chair then called upon Lieut. 

 Jean Hollande, a member of the French 



army, now connected with the French High Commission 

 located in New York City. Lieut. Hollande said that he with his 

 father and grandfather before him were lumbermen before he 

 entered the service; that he had been doing business with Ameri- 

 can shippers for about thirty years. He is here representing the 



effort to bring about the adoption of National hardwood rules by 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 through the adoption of certain resolutions described in detaU in 

 previous issues, was then given the floor. 



Mr. Brown introduced himself in his capacity as chairman of 

 this body of lumbermen, and then read the resolution which had 

 previously been forwarded in the mail to 

 all members of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association. He said that of the 

 membership within the association, num- 

 bering 932, votes approving the plan were 

 received from 537 and opposed to it from 

 91. Less than 100 expressed themselves 

 as not caring to vote. 



He then analyzed the apparent align- 

 ment of sentiment for and against the 

 resolution and then moved its adoption, 

 calling upon Ealph Jurden, president of 

 the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, to explain how the original 

 meeting happened. 



Mr. Jurden said that he could speak 

 authoritatively on this subject. He said 

 that the opinion that the petition em- 

 anated from other organizations is not 

 true, but rather that it came only from 

 individual members of the National as- 

 sociation. 



He then referred to the contro- 

 versy between the hardwood lumbermen 

 and the vehicle interests, saying that 

 it eventually reached the stage where 

 settle it. A prominent vehicle man- 

 ufacturer in talking with one of the lumbermen inter- 

 ested officially in this controversy, made the suggestion that had 

 the hardwood lumbermen one central committee which could speak 

 and act for the entire hardwood trade, the executive committee of 



