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The Mail Bag 



Any reader of HARDWOOD RECORD desiring to communicate 

 with any of the Inquirers listed in this section can have the ad- 

 dresses on written request to the Mall Bag Department, HARD- 

 WOOD RECORD, 537 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, and referring 

 to the number at the head of each letter and enclosing a self- 

 addressed stamped envelope. 



B 735 — Wants Market for %" Quartered Sycamore 



Nashville, Tenn., May 18. — Editor Hardwood Kkcoiid : Can you fur- 

 nish us the names of lirms huyinj; %" quartered sycamore? We can 

 furnish considerable of this stock and are anxious to get in touch with 

 one or two good connections. . 



This concern is in a position to supply a considerable quantity of 

 this line of stock. Parties wishing to secure the name can do so by 

 writing Hardwood Becord. — Editor. 



B 736 — Wants Oak and Ash Wagon Stock 



Brooklyn, N. Y., May I'l. — Editor H.midwood Rkcouu : We would be 

 pleased to become acquainted with some millmen who cut oak and ash 

 truck and coach poles, sawed felloes, evener.s, bars, rungs, whiffletrees, 

 etc., for wagons, trucks and automobile use. Anything that you can do 

 to bring the millmen and myself in communication will be highly 

 appreciated. , 



Those inteie;-t:il in the above inquiry can have the name and 

 address on application to this office. — Editor. 



B 739 — Wants 5/4" No. 3 Common Poplar 



Uayton, O., May 19. — Editor Uaudwood Rfx'ORd : We understand you 

 have a column in which you advertise the wants of customers. You 

 may say that we want a few cars of 5/4" No. 3 common poplar. 



The writer of this letter is a reputable concern manufacturing 

 products from hardwood lumber. Anyone interested should write 

 H.\RDW00D Record. — Editor. 



B 738 — Wants Name of Export Houses who Handle Dogwood and 

 Persimmon Shuttle Blocks 



Tullahoma, Tenn., May 16. — Editor Haudwood Record : Will you 

 please furnish us the names of one or two export houses that would 

 likely be in the market for dogwood and persimmon shuttle blocks? 



This concern has been given the names of a few people who will 

 probably be interested in what it offers. Others desiring the name 

 and address should write H.^rdwood Record. — Editor. 



Clubs and Associations 



Annual Meeting of Southern Cypress Association June 10 



The Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association announces that the 

 annual meeting will convene at the Grunwald hotel, New Orleans, at 

 lU :30 a. m. on Wednesday, June 10. It is already evident that this 

 will be one of the most important meetings ever held by the association. 

 A large budget of new business, which should be of extreme interest to 

 all manufacturers of cypress, will be presented and a full attendance, 

 therefore, requested. Frederick Wilbert is president of the association 

 and (jeorjie E. Watson .seeietar.v. 



Provision for Bates to Buffalo Meeting 



Secretary Fish of the National Hardwood Lumber Association states 

 that provision has been made for low rates to Buffalo on return trip 

 basis for the seventeenth annual convention which will be held June 

 18-19. 



The New York Central Lines have arranged to run a special train 

 from Chicago to Buffalo over the Michigan Central Railroad. This 

 train will leave Chicago from the Twelfth street station at 5 :40 p. m. 

 Wednesday, June 17, arriving at Buffalo the following morning at 7:15. 

 Train will consist of a buffet car, dining cars, necessary number of mod- 

 ern sleepers, including observation car. The regular one way fare from 

 Chicago to Buffalo on the Michigan Central is .'i;i2.00, but during the 

 period of the convention round trip tickets good for thirty days will 

 be on sale, from Chicago and other western points to Buffalo, at greatly 

 reduced rates. Round trip from Chicago will be $19.00. These tickets 

 are also good for return by boat via Cleveland and Detroit for those 

 wishing to return that way. 



The Michigan Central will also issue round trip tickets from various 



easteru points, including New York, Boston and other points. These 

 round trip tickets are good for stop overs at Buffalo and other points. 

 I'ullman tare between BuDalo and Chicago is .$3.00. 



Thus far elaborate arrangements are being made to take advantage 

 of this special train. .V large delegation of hardwood men will come 

 on from Memphis in two or three special cars, which will be switched 

 onto the Buffalo special. Chicago will be the gathering place for at- 

 tendants iit the convention for miles around. It is expected that this 

 special train will be made up of a considerable number of well filled 



Outing of Grand Rapids Lumbermen 



The regular annual meeting ot the Grand Rapids Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation will be held at the Kent Country Club on Tuesday evening. May 

 26, 1914. Aside from the election of officers, the meeting promises to be 

 one of the big events of the season. An invitation which has been mailed 

 to the members requests not only the attendance of every member of the 

 association but also "their wives, sweethearts, the traveling men, the office 

 girls, and the boys." 



Secretary A. M. Manning expects the largest gathering ever held by the 



The Lumbermen's Outing Week 



The lumbe 

 indication ot 

 point for all lumbermen 



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ot Winnipeg are making strenuous efforts, with every 

 make the 1914 annual the focus or rallying 

 as well as Hoo-Hoo during the week Sept. 7 



A "ten-strike" was certainly made when the "Fort Garry" — the new 

 Grand Trunk Pacific palace hotel — was secured as headquarters for vari- 

 ous functions, which include two or three banquets, a ball and soiree, 

 as well as the various business sessions. This hotel is the last word in 

 building construction, the largest building in Winnipeg and contains 

 400 rooms. 



A number of side-trips for Hshing, boating, etc., are being planned, 

 notably one to Minaki, the home of tie muskellonge and sturgeon, and 

 to Eort Frances, the land of the big moose, both situated near Wlnni- 

 ppg. 



To show that this annual outing is to be a big thing, several large 

 companies with international reputations in the lumber world have do- 

 nated thousands of beautiful badges, pennants, and hats to be given 

 to all who attend. No annual ever held has done as much, which says 

 a great deal. 



There will be two special cars from Portland, Seattle, and Sound cities 

 and three or four special cars with British Columbia lumbermen, with 

 their wives, who «-llI visit Winnipeg for this occasion. 



Everyone interested is invited. Free booklets can be had by address- 

 ing the Publicity Committee, 309 Donalda block, Winnipeg, Man. 



National Lumber Manufacturers at San Francisco in 1915 



That the lumbermen of the United States will hold their 1915 con- 

 vention at the Panama-Pacilic International Exposition was the news 

 flashed to exposition officials from Chicago on May 6 during the con- 

 vention of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. That the 

 gathering at San Francisco will be all-inclusive is indicated by the fact 

 that the National association includes the eleven great affiliated organi- 

 zations of lumbermen representing every phase of the industry. These 

 are ; The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the U. S., the West 

 Coast Lumber Manufacturers" Association, the Western Pine Manufac- 

 turers' Association of which George X. Wending of San Francisco 

 is one of the governors, the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association, the 

 Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association, the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, the Michigan Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, 

 the North Carolina Pine Association, and the Georgia-Florida Saw Mill 

 Association, all of which will be represented at the exposition. 



In addition to the lumbermen's congress, there will be a national 

 exhibit of lumher and manufactured lumber products, consisting largely 

 of the traveling Forest Products Exposition, which after being displayed 

 in various eastern cities will be housed in the exposition palaces. 



In addition to this comprehensive exhibit and congress will be the 

 convention and varied lumber exhibit of the Concatenated Order of Hoo- 

 Hoo. a lumbermen's association with 150,000 representatives in fifteen 

 countries, represented in San Francisco by Frank W. Trower. its High 

 Priest of Osiris. The IIoo-Hoos are planning to erect a unique lumber- 

 men's building at a cost of .f50,000 to house their exhibits of lumber 

 products, and as social headquarters for lumbermen generally. 



Hoo-Hoo Concatenation at Buffalo 



Buffalo was for a while going a trifle slow on the Hoo-Hoo pilgrimage, 

 but the old swinging gait appears to have been regained, so that the con- 

 catenation held on May 14 by Vicegerent John A. Murphy was a decided 

 success. The commodious hall of the Eagles resounded with the enticing 

 cry of the Black Cat and ten fine kittens responded with purrs of satisfac- 

 tion. 



Following is the list of new members received : Harry L. Abbott, Buffalo 

 representative of the Atlantic Lumber Company : William P. Miller of 

 Miller, Sturm & Miller ; Edwin M. Bobbins, head of the Robbins Veneer 

 and Lumber Company : Albert G. Herron and Alvah A. Adamy of the Yale 

 Timber and Lumber Company : Henry H. Orr, Arthur L. Miller and Charles 



