HARDWOOD RECORD 



which can 

 li for which has been mate- 

 mi I Icnow of no better time 

 I ■IS to talte in what stoclJS 



f luladelpliiaiis . 



At a meeting of prominent b 



hotel, Philadelphia, Pa., a commii 



Itnown as the Foreign Trade Con 



tor the purpose of pursuing ways 



t'lireigii Trade 



at the Adelphia 

 ve members to be 

 lia, was organized 

 .' tor this city its 



share in the Latin-American trade, which the European war has made 

 feasible for this country. The interests which the committee represents 

 are hardware, lumber, locomotives, agricultural implements, saws, street 

 ears and many others. The committee is proceeding with the utmost 

 caution and discrimination, and to facilitate matters sub-committees 

 have been appointed to consider nine essential subjects upon which they 

 will r-lH-,rt :it tli. Iinxt m.ctin- Tl^. .nl,1,,t. nr. ns follows: 



I. mill \ii.i:.:'i, I'.ii! .11' II,..': .11 r'.n i.i, !:.■ 1.1 a plan to attract 



.\il"i'ii.'ii . 1 . i._ 1. . .1 1 . uiirding business men 



from . ' 1 . :.: 1 ': ii, -i - M.. iniiiinse of Inducing thero 



tor 1 . ..; 1. ,1,1 .,1 1! i. .. 11 1,1 a Now York office or head- 



some of the largest 

 ■k of this bureau to 

 if importing houses- 

 italogues and other 



ica with a view to 

 turers of Philadelp] 

 America has to oil" 



siM. iol\.iiii,i: :in<l disadvantages. 



"ifiui iii.iii-iii of allied but noncombating manufacturers to push 



.\li..i 11. .loiiu.^oii, a member of the National Kxport Trade Association 

 and head of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, advised against hasty and 

 hysterical efforts to establish trade relations with South America. 



Director Norris of the Bureau of Docks. Wharves and Ferries, recom- 

 mended to the other members of the committee to co-operate with other 

 ritics in order that the movement may become national. 

 A Venerable Oak 



An oak log, said to be 1,000 years old, has reached Chicago and will 

 be made into pianos l)y the Cable Company. The oak was purchased 

 from the estate of the Duke of Portland, in Nottinghamshire, England, 

 by T. U. Williams of London, and was imported by I. T. Williams & Sons 

 of New York. The tree was long known as the Robin Hood oak, because 

 of a tradition handed down through the centuries that Robin Mood 

 hid some of his plunder in the tree. 



Theodore Brent Offered Position 



Theodore Brent of Chicago has been tendered the position of general 

 manager of the New Orleans Joint Traffic Bureau, which is supported 

 .jointly by the New Orleans Board of Trade. Association of Commerce, 

 Cotton Exchange and Steamship Association. It is understood that the 

 position carries with it a salary of $6,000 a year. 

 Charles H. Stotz Dies 



Charles H. Stotz. president of the Falls City Lumber Company, Louis- 

 ville, Ky.. died at Louisville on September 23. Mr. Stotz had been ill 

 for some time and his death was not unexpected. 



He had for years been prominently connected in hardwood circles, haying 

 been with the Louisville Lumber Company up to the time that concern 

 failed, and later with the A. Z. Haas Lumber Company. He later formed 

 the Falls City Lumber Company and had been operating that 



Death of Mrs. McLeod 



On Monday, September 26, Mrs. Katherine Langely McLeod. wife of 

 Murdock McLeod of the Oconto Company, died at her home m Chicago. 

 Funeral services and interment took place on the following day, interment 

 being at Oakwoods cemetery. Besides her husband, a son and daughter 

 survive. 



Mr. McLeod'.s loss is very keenly felt by all of the Chicago lumber- 

 men, as he is a popular and highly respected member of the Chicago trade. 

 He served two successive years as president of the Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion of Chicago, and while in office instituted a number of excellent 

 measures. 



To Push New Orleans as Seaport City 



Oak and other hardwoods have been booked by A. H. Clement & Co., 

 forwarding agents, for t\\e Luckenbach steamer "Pleiades," which is due 

 to dock at New Orleans November 7 from E. San Pedro, San Francisco 

 and Oakland. Cal., via the Panama canal. 



New Orleans will have to furnish a return cargo for the "Pleiades," 

 else the steamer cannot return direct to San Francisco, but will com- 

 plete her cargo at New York. The Peruvian Steamship Company has 

 also offered to send its ships through the canal to New Orleans with 

 the assurance of return cargoes. Therefore, the exporting and importing 

 interests of New Orleans are seeking an alliance with the big manufac- 

 turing and industrial centers of the Central West. A large delegation of 

 representative Orieanians has just returned from Chicago, which has 

 pledged her support to New Orleans for foreign trade expansion ; and a 

 conference of all Mississippi valley interests is to bo called by the New- 

 Orleans Association of Commerce, the Chicago Association of Commerce, 

 the Illinois Manufacturers' Associati<)n and the Illinois Bankers' Asso- 



Plans are now under way to form a large trading corporation, which 

 will repre.sent Mississippi valley banking, railway, steamship, exporting 

 and importing interests ; and sofme of the most prominent bankers and 

 business men of Chicago and New Orleans are behind the project. New 

 Orleans feels that she should be the warehouse for all freight moving out 

 of the Missi.sslppi valley to Spanish-America. She is not only nearer 

 most of the manufacvuring centers of the Central West than is New 

 York, but she is nearer to all of the Spanish-American countries bordering 

 the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean than is New I'ork — and is several 

 hundred miles nearer the Panama canal than is New York. But she must 

 have the freight In order to demand the rates, and this is the impelling 

 motive that sent her strongest men to Chicago to plead her cause. 



Pertinent Information 



Good Prospect for Favorable Settlement of Memphis Bates 



.1. U. Ti.wnslionil. ^■(.niT;il mauawi- ot tin- Southern HardwiMKl Traffic- 

 Association, is in receipt of advices from the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission at Washington announcing the suspension of the proposed ad- 

 vances of from 18% to 33% per cent in rates on hardwood lumhir, with 

 particular reii-n m-i, to eoltonwuod. gum and oak, from Momiihis ami 



points in MN-i :<u,\ l i,ui-i:ii,:i to Ohio river cros^iiu-. I h,.-,. v^.-i-e 



to have boroi . , . . , ,. ;.. i l to October 4. 1h,i i i '„,,ii 



held up until I ■ ■ - I'll , I iii^ w-ill give the "llii ' h-i in-rs 



of the asso. i:iM,,ii .i- «,ii n- il,,,r (,f other organi/.ni ion- inniiMinitin^' 

 in the opposition to the advances, time to make a strenuous light before 

 the commission and it is quite apparent that they are fully determined 

 to improve this opportunity to the utmost. 



One general meeting ot the membership ot the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association has already been held here, as reported in the last 

 issue of the Hardwood Rbcobd, and it is announced that there will be 

 another meeting of the board ot governors o^ this organization the 

 latter part of this week to take further action in connection with the 

 opposition to the advances in question. Members of the association an- 

 jubilant over the postponement of the proposed increase in rates be- 

 cause of the opportunity given them to get back at the railroads and 

 because of the tremendous saving that will be effected on business already 

 on their books. Lumber was sola some time ago to northern and eastern 

 markets. This has not all been delivered, and, if the rates had gone into 

 effect as per the original plan ot the carriers, every firm having such 

 business on its books would have suffered more or less loss in connection 

 with the higher rates, as such sales were all effected on the old instead 

 of the new tariffs. 



There is no denying that the hardwood market is in rather unsatis- 

 factory shape, especially from the standpoint ot demand, and lumber 

 interests are glad of an opportunity to seek to sell in the northern and 

 eastern markets on something like an equitable basis. The.v want all the 

 outlets they can command under present conditions and they realize fully 

 that they would have these outlets absolutely closed against them if the 

 higher rates were allowed. This is one of the strong arguments they 

 will make before the commission when the subject conu'S before that body 

 for a general airing. 



The association has had very little to say so far regarding what plans 

 will be adopted. It is known that these have been discussed in a general 

 way and it is known that the most vigorous opposition possible will be 

 undertaken. Data is already being prepared for use and in a few days 

 .1. H. Townshend will give out a list of those who will enter the fight. It 

 is known that the condition of the lumber market at present will be 

 emphasized as a reason for the inopportuneness ot any advance at the 

 present time, and it is further known that stress will be laid upon the 

 position in which gum will be placed in its competition with fibre and 

 other material. 



Lumber interests are disposed to resent the singling out of their com- 

 modity for such a radical advance and everything that can be legitimately 

 done to defeat the higher rates will be given careful attention at the 

 hands of the association. 



Suit to Be Instituted on Southern Rates 



A petition, filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission the latter 

 part of June, will come up for hearing at Memphis October 28. It is 

 styled the VandenBoom-Stimson Lumber Company et al. vs. the St. 

 Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad, and through it a reduction of 



