HARDWOOD RECORD 



21 



NeWs Miscellany. 



Meeting Executive Board Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association. 



A meetinfr of tlip cxi'ciuivf board of the Hard- 

 wood Maniifacturei-s' Association of the I'nited 

 States was lield at tlie Grand Hotel, Cincinnati. 

 Saturdaj'. May 11. Present at the meeting 

 were : J. B. Ransom, president : W. M. Ritter. 

 K. M. Carrier, C. M. Crawford. Clinton Crane. 

 R. IT. Vansant. Frank F. Fee and Secretary 

 Lewis Dostcr. 



Page proofs of the new bool; covering grad- 

 ing rules, with the changes authorized at the 

 last annual meeting, were submitted. The sec- 

 retary supplied information covering the changes 

 in the matter of lengths and uniformity of 

 wording. On motion it was decided that the 

 revised proofs should be submitted to the com- 

 mittee before tinal approval. 



The secretary made a report covering the loca- 

 tion and work of the inspectors since the last 

 meeting, which report was carefully gone over 

 and approved. It was decided that a permanent 

 inspector should be located in Philadelphia to 

 take care of the work in the eastern section of 

 the country. This decision was reached after 

 the secretary had explained that all sections of 

 the country were covered by traveling inspec- 

 tors, but those who did the work in the East 

 had their headquarters in the central West. 

 The location of an inspector at Philadelphia 

 was decided upon to enable the association to 

 give prompt service to members located in Atlan- 

 tic coast cities. 



Tlie secretary suggested the publication of a 

 new report on market conditions and changes in 

 values on wide poplar, poplar saps, wide cotton- 

 wood and ash. A reduction was recommended 

 on No. 3 common white oak and on Xo. 2 com- 

 mon red oak. The secretary was instructed to 

 issue a new list within the next few weeks, if 

 conditions warranted 



The report ot the secretary showed that the 

 hardwood buyers' guide authorized at the last 

 annual meeting would be received from the 

 printers in from two to three weeks. He sub- 

 mitted specimen pages showing final corrections, 

 which were approved. 



A telegram was received from A. F. Specht. 

 secretary of the Lumber Manufacturers' Joint 

 Committee of Seattle. Wash., asking the associa- 

 tion to join the lumber associations of the 

 Pacific Northwest in filing a complaint before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission to deter- 

 mine the reasonableness of the proposed advance 

 in the lumber tarift from Chicago to points in 

 the trunk line territory, effective .Tune 1 next, 

 and in a Federal Court injunction to stay the 

 proposed changes until the reasonableness of 

 the tariff was legally determined : and to bear 

 the proportionate expense with the other asso- 

 ciations. 



Owing to the fact that the territory involved 

 was not covered by the association, the execu- 

 tive Ixiard did not deem it wise to join in the 

 movement, although expressing entire sympathy 

 with it. 



A letter from T. Jas. Fernly, secTretary of the 

 Affiliated Presidents & Secretaries' Association, 

 was read, asking that the president and secre- 

 tary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion join that organization to assist in further- 

 ing the advancement of a one-cent postage 

 propaganda throughout the United States. This 

 letter was referred to the president and secre- 

 tary for action. 



A further portion of the secretary's report 

 showed that the membership of the association 

 during the first lour months ot its fiscal year 

 showed an increase of twenty-nine manufactur- 

 ing members, and that he had received many 

 applications for membership under the consum- 

 ers' list, as authorized at the last annual meet- 

 ing, and that he was making arrangements to 



take care of that division of the organization. 



On invitation ot President Ransom, the mem- 

 bers of the board adjourned for lunch as his 

 guests, at which time representatives of the city 

 of Nashville were introduced and urged that the 

 secretary's office be moved to that city. 



The secretary reported that reservations had 

 been made for some of the delegates and others 

 had arranged for their own accommodations at 

 the Norfolk meeting of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association. He advised that 

 S. B. Anderson had been substituted for W. A. 

 Gilchrist as Memphis delegate. 



Resolutions were adopted authorizing the as- 

 sistance in the work of unifying methods of 

 measurement both in this country and in for- 

 eign markets in harmony with the work of the 

 New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Association and 

 the National Lumber Exporters' Association. 



The secretary was authorized to notify the 

 National Association of Box Manufacturers that 

 the association was entirely in sympathy with 

 it in the movement to work with the Census 

 Bureau of the government for the purpose of 

 obtaining statistics as to the annual timber 

 supply. 



After careful consideration it was decided to 

 move the association's headquarters to Nashville 

 at such time as the secretary could arrange to 

 do so. 



The Exploiter of Memphis. 



Tliere are newspaper correspondents and news- 

 paper correspondents. There are some men who 

 write for the press that have "a nose for news. " 

 and there are others who fail to recognize news 

 value in very important happenings. There are 

 some correspondents who depend on rewriting 

 the usually somewhat unreliable information of 

 the daily press for technical trade journals, and 

 others who go and dig out the facts accurately 



GEORGE W. FOOSHE, MEMPHIS, TENN. 



and state them succinctly for the papers they 

 represent. There are some correspondents who 

 impress the public with the get-up-and-get quali- 

 ties of the city they represent, while other 

 writers leave the impression that their town is 

 more dead than alive. 



Probably as thoroughly alive a correspondent 

 as there is in the country is George W. Fooshe 

 of Memphis, whose portrait adorns this page. 

 Mr. Fooshe represents not only the Record, but 

 many other trade newspapers throughout the 

 country. If one is in Boston he finds Memphis 

 exploited : if in New York, there arc columns 



about Memphis in the leading commercial news- 

 paper ; the trade press is pregnant with infor- 

 mation supplied by George W. Fooshe. Perhaps 

 his chief value as a newspaper correspondent 

 lies not only in his accuracy of statement hut 

 in his ability to know what to keep out of a 

 newspaper. He never forwards scandal or hard- 

 luck stories ; his news is always clean, forceful 

 and convincing. 



Mr. Fooshe represents the leading lumber 

 papers, as well as the cotton trade press of the 

 country at Memphis. lie has recently become 

 allied with the new Robertson-Fooshe Lumber 

 Company of that city, and while he will take 

 no active part in this enterprise at present, he 

 will come in closer touch with the hardwood 

 trade and be able to cover the news of the lum- 

 ber interests of Memphis with still greater ac- 

 curacy. 



The city ot Memphis owes Mr. Fooshe more 

 than a debt of gratitude lor the splendid work 

 he has accomplished for years in exploiting the 

 business interests of that energetic and great 

 commercial center, and if the business public ot 

 .Memphis did its entire duty by him it would 

 acknowledge his services in a substantial way. 



A Novel Sawmill. 



A novelty in the sawmill line ma.v be seen 

 at Oshkosh, Wis., on the property ot Buck- 

 staft-Edwards Company; it is an electric saw- 

 mill, the second of the kind to be put in op- 

 ei-ation in that city. The other is used by the 

 Oshkosh Logging Tool Company, and both 

 mills have been proven successful. The former 

 company is a manufacturer of caskets, chairs, 

 etc., and during the two weeks or more that 

 the mill has been operated, it has "eaten up" 

 a good-sized pile of hardwood logs, and has 

 fulfilled expectations in its rapid disposal of 

 timber, and in its ease of operation. Many 

 outside millmen have visited the plant, as it is 

 unique to see a mill running in which not a 

 particle of steam power is employed, and 

 where the familiar sounds of the ordinary saw- 

 mill are missing. 



The birch, maple and elm used by the Buok- 

 staff-Edwards Company are brought from the 

 northern part of the state by rail, unloaded 

 from the switch track in the mill yard and 

 piled up to a height ot perhaps twenty feet 

 by t'ne aid of electric power applied through a 

 windlass. A car holding three or four logs is 

 pulled up the slip, which is graded at about 

 forty-five degrees, to a platform. The power 

 for the car comes from an electric winch. 

 From the platform the logs are rolled oft to an- 

 other platform next the carriage, on which. 

 one at a time they are carried back and forth 

 past the big band saw. which takes oft a 

 plank or long slab at every trip. The rolls and 

 the conveyor, as well as the slasher and other 

 mechanical appliances about the mill are run 

 l>y a 75-horsepower electric motor. Eight men 

 are required to operate the plant. Its capa- 

 city is 15.000 feet of lumber daily. The power 

 is generated in the boiler engine room of tile 

 factory, whei'e a steam engine runs the neces- 

 sary dynamo. At the mill no attention is re- 

 (;uired by the motor except to start and stop 

 it. Two men handle the logs on the slip, two 

 I'ide the carriage, one acts as head sawyer, 

 one takes the boards away from the saw. one 

 runs the slasher and one takes the boards 

 from the conveyor. The outfit cost about 

 $7,000. and is expected to effect considerable 

 economy to the users. 



New Memphis Hardwood House. 



There has just been organized at Memphis, 

 Tenu.. the Neal-Dolph Lumber Company, with 

 a paid-up capital of $75,000. The principals of 

 this new house are : W. H. Neal. formerly of 

 Greenville, Miss., now residing at Memphis, 

 president and treasurer ; J. T. Strickland. 

 Greenville, Miss., vice-president and manager 

 Greenville plant : Wm. A. Dolpb of Memphis, 



