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Tlie Memphis Manufacturers" Association, a 

 short time ago. decided that it was necessary to 

 have a man to look after rate and other traffic 

 problems and empowered S>. B. Anderson and 

 J. M. Tuther to make the necessary arrange- 

 ments. This bureau is regarded as possibly 

 somewhat temporary in character, though this 

 will depend upon whether or not the Memphis 

 Freight Bureau, the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis and the Memphis Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion can' get together on the formation of a 

 permanent bureau to do this work. Negotia- 

 tions to this end have been under way for some 

 time among these three organizations. In the 

 meantime the bureau, which has already been 

 established, will look after rate and other sim- 

 ilar matters for the members of the Lumber- 

 men's Club and for those belonging to the Mem- 

 phis Manufacturers' Association. 



Ttis was the last meeting of the summer 



manufacturer of hemlock and hardwood, with 

 mills at Ohiotyle, Pa.. Kendall. Md.. Crellin. Md., 

 and Alexander, W. Va. 



Furniture Trade in Spain 



Valencia is one of the most important '.enters 

 of Spain for the manufacture of chairs and mis- 

 cellaneous furniture. The present prospects for 

 the importation into this district of opera chairs 

 and chairs for other places of amusement are 

 not particularly encouraging. With the excep- 

 tion of trial samples of office furniture and bar- 

 ber's chairs, no furniture of any kind has been 

 imported into Valencia for eight years. It is a 

 fact that the gre.iter part of the lumber used 

 by furniture factories is imported, as is the bulk 

 ot the modern machinery employed. High tariff 

 on imported furniture effectively excludes foreign 

 competition. 



A. LYNCH WARD. LYNCHBURG. VA., RE- 

 CENTLY ELECTED DIRECTOR OF 

 THE NATIONAL HARDWOOD 

 LUMBER ASSOCIATION. 



season. Adjournment was taken until some time 

 nest fall. In the meantime, if there is any spe- 

 cial business demanding attention, the president 

 is empowered to call the members together. 



A Deserved Promotion 



G. M. Chambers, formerly manager of the 

 I'hiladelphia offices ot the Kendall Lumber Com- 

 pany of Pittsburgh, has recently been made 

 secretary and general sales manager of that com- 

 pany with headquarters at the Pittsburgh office. 

 Mr. Chambers is succeeded by his former assist- 

 ant, who becomes eastern representative with 

 offices in the North American building, Philadel- 

 phia. W. M. Chambers, a brother of F. M. 

 Chambers, is now manager of the company's 

 offices at Fairmont. W, Va, 



G. M. Chambers, who by his affable manner 

 and keen business sense has won the reputation 

 of being one of the best salesmen in the East, 

 is from Maryland. He was born in 1885 in 

 Baltimore, and was educated in the public 

 schools of that city and in the McDonough Mili- 

 tary Academy. He began his business career 

 in the testing department of the Baltimore & 

 Ohio railroad of Baltimore, and in the course of 

 time became the lumber bu.ver for that company. 

 In 1905 he became associated with the Kendall 

 Lumber Company as assistant secretary and 

 when the company opened its Philadelphia office 

 October 1, 1910, he was made manager, in which 

 capacity he has served up to the present time. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is an extensive 



W. II. SILL. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.. RECENT- 

 LY ELECTED DIRECTOR OF THE 

 NATION.\L HARDWOOD LUM- 

 BER ASSOCIATION. 



American firms have introduced a few samples 

 of American styles into the Valencia district, but 

 instead of resulting in orders they simply gave 

 the local manutacturers an opportunity to acquire 

 American style, which they have done with 

 marked fidelity in form and appearance. 



There are no importing merchants or jobbers 

 in foreign furniture in Valencia. It seems to be 

 taken for granted by the local trade that there 

 is no possibility of successful competition from 

 abroad. 



Fire Protection Progressing 



That the general movement in Wisconsin and 

 the entire state of Michigan looking toward the 

 elimination of forest fires is not only successful 

 in operation, but is attracting a great deal of 

 public attention is evidenced in an article in a 

 daily paper of Muuising, Mich. The article ap- 

 pears on the first page and is intended to an- 

 alyze the situation in that territory regarding 

 forest fires, and to show the workings ot the 

 Northern Forest Protective Association. The 

 latest move made by this association is to mount 

 its rangers, by which they are enabled to cover 

 a much larger territory much more frequently. 



This association was the father of the forest 

 fire fighting movement in the North, and its ex- 

 cellent example has led to the formation of sim- 

 ilar organizations by the National Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, and also an asso- 

 ciation of the same character at Quebec. 



The primary object of these organizations is 

 to educate the public to the grave possibilities 



of forest fires, and to get their co-operation in 

 keeping fires to the absolute minimum. 



The question of fire prevention in forests is re- 

 sponsible tor a gathering of timber land owners 

 and sawmill operators of northern Wisconsin at 

 the Hotel Athern in Oshkosh on June 12. R. S. 

 Kellogg, secretary of the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, was di- 

 rected to investigate the sentiment of tile Wis- 

 consin timber land and sawmill owners by mail, 

 and to be ready to report at a subsequent meet- 

 ing. 



Discussion of the fire question brought out 

 the fact that ninety per cent of fires in Wiscon- 

 sin are due to either carelessness in handling 

 fires by settlers, or to sparks from locomotives. 

 There is a considerable diversity of opinion be- 

 tween lumbermen and the state forest depart- 

 ment. The canvass of the land owners present 



EARL PALMER, PADUCAH, KY., RECENTLY 

 ELECTED DIRECTOR OF THE 

 NATIONAL HARDWOOD LUM- 

 BER ASSOCIATION. 



showed that representatives of 450.000 acres of 

 timber land are willing to help- support the fire 

 fiatrol. It was agreed that the basis of assess- 

 ment should be the acreage held by each indi- 

 vidual of the compan.v. 



An Omission 



On account of not being able to secure photo- 

 graphs, Hakdwood Record was unable to print 

 in the last issue the three accompanying photo- 

 graphs of recently elected directors of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association. The three 

 gentlemen. A. Lynch Ward of Lynchburg. Va., 

 W. H. Sill of Minneapolis. Minn., and Earl Pal- 

 mer of Paducah, Ky., are too well known in asso- 

 ciation affairs and to the trade at large to need 

 an introduction. 



The Lumber La'w Review 



The National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion has just issued the fourth edition of volume 

 1 of the pamphlet under the above caption. This 

 information is published monthly by the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corpora- 

 tion, and reviews rulings of courts of last re- 

 sort of every state in the Union where the opin- 

 ions handed down deal with lumber or wood 

 products. It also reviews the opinions of the 

 United States Supreme court and of courts of 

 minor jurisdiction in New York state. 



The comment on a decision of the appellate 

 court ot Alabama referring to the sale of certain 

 timber is of Interest. It was held in the decision 

 that trees growing on land being a part of !he 



