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tal number of those in business today. 1 

 think that it pays a business man to be 

 well insured. 1 know 1 have never carried 

 anywhere near the insurance I should have. 

 For the future at least I am going to be 

 pretty well insured; I have made up my 

 mind to that. 



Another thing occurs to me: Every busi- 

 ness man should have an exact inventory 

 of his entire plant in his safe at all times, 

 sc that he can get at it the morning after 

 a fire — where he can show to the under- 

 writers exactly what his loss has been — 

 rot what it cost him, because they care 

 very little about that, but exactly what the 

 component parts of that plant were — how 

 much lumber — how much hardware — ma- 

 chinery, shafting, etc. If a man has sucli 

 an inventory now he will find out there is 

 a vast difference in its value today and 

 what it cost several years ago. 



In rebuilding at Marshfield we are put- 

 ting in a sprinkler plant. The cost of sprink- 

 ling a plant will be repaid to the man who 

 pays the insurance in about two ami one 

 half years. There are companies who go 

 around and offer to install sprinkler plants 

 anywhere, an<l they will take the saving in 

 insurance. You can continue to pay your 

 insurance to them, and they will re-insure 

 you. They will put in a plant and ask you 

 til pay just what you have been paying. 

 They will start in by asking you a pay- 

 ment for seven years. Even then they make 

 nearly one hundred percent on their money. 

 There is no way a manufacturer can save 

 money as well as by jnitting in a sprinkler 

 plant. 



In regard to rebuilding, I can only say 

 . that it is an enormous amount of work. AVe 

 arc putting up a much larger plant tlnui wc 

 had before the fire, and everything is on 

 a diffejent scale. A great deal of the ap- 

 paratus we had formerly would be useless 

 to us now. Therefore, every item has to be' 

 considered, gone over, and talked u]j. It 

 makes an immense amount of work; I am 

 heartily sick and tired of it, and if I burn 

 out again I want to assure my competitors 

 I shall not rebuild. I ho]ie this is the 

 last time. 



I can wind uji only by saying ''keep in- 

 sured!" You can't have too much insur- 

 ance! It is indeed money well spent. 



Mr. Kline: We will now hear the report 

 of the Auditing Committee on the treas- 

 urer's accounts. 



Mr. Grofifman: Y'our committee has care- 

 fully perused the bills and statements and 

 find same correct. We recommemi th:it tlie 

 report of the treasurer be adopted. 



The recommendation was acted upon fa 

 vorabl.y and the report spread upon the 

 records. 



Mr. Kline: The matter of forestry will 

 now be taken up, and the secretary will 

 read our letter to Chief Forester Pinchot, 

 and the reply received thereto. 



Hon. (iilTord Pinchot, t'nlted States Department 



of Agriculture. Forest Service, ^^'asIliugtou. 



l>ear Sir: At tlic last meeting of this asso- 



( iation the following resolution was adopted : 

 •■Kesolved. that previous to the next meeting of 

 this association, president is requested and an- 

 tliorized to write to the Hon. (JiCford Pinchot. 

 head of the Forestry Department. Washington, 

 stating that this association would be pleased 

 lo adopt resolutions in support of his work and 

 appreciation of its service, and asking him for 

 his suggestions along these lines." This resolu- 

 tion explains my letter to you. and as the next 

 meeting of the association will take place in 

 I'liicagn on .lune "JO. 1 will he pleased to hear 

 from you at the above address at your earliest 

 <onveiiience. Yours truly, 



I). E. Ki.iXE. President. 



The reply received was from K. S. Kel- 

 logg, assistant forester, acting in the ab- 

 sence of Mr. Pinchot, who stated that the 

 association 's desire to endorse the work of 

 the Forest Service was very much appre- 

 ciated, and that his chief would heartily 

 approve of any resolutions that might be 

 passed in its behalf, calling attention to 

 those recently adopted by the National As- 

 sociation of Box Manufacturers and the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 



Mr. Koddis: I move that the secretary be 

 instructed to draw up resolutions in line 

 with those suggested, and that the officers 

 of this association be authorized to sign 



E, F. SAWYER. CADILLAC VENEEU CO.. 

 CADILLAC. MICH. 



and forward same to the Hon. (iift'ord Pin- 

 chot. 1 want to say right here that I had 

 the pleasure of hearing him in Chicago about 

 a year ago, and he is a first-class gentleman 

 in every respect. He is not devoting his 

 time to this work merely for money. I un- 

 derstand that even his salary is little, and 

 does not enter in any way into considera- 

 tion. He is a man of wealth and position, 

 and is giving his whole life to this work 

 purely for the love of it. Any support we 

 can give him either as an association or as 

 individiuils is certainly the correct and 

 proper thing for us to do. 



The motion was seconded and carried, and 

 the secretary introduced the following reso- 

 lutions for the signatures of the otlicers, to 

 be forwarded to Washington. 



Kesolved. That the National Veneer and Panel 

 .Manufacturers' Association as a body herewith 

 expresses its earnest approbation of the policy 

 of I he federal government in setting .-iside large 

 tracts of timber land in various parts of t'le 



United States for forest reserves, and desires 

 that congress carefully consider and support 

 such measures. 



Kesolved. That since it is of vast importance 

 that the kind and (piantity of timber now 

 standing in our covuitry be accurately known, 

 because of the rapidly decreasing forests and 

 The necessity of immediately adopting plans for 

 conservation and regrowing, we earnestly request 

 the Forest Ser-vice and the Bureau of the Cen- 

 sus to commence work along these lines as soon 

 as possible, at the same time assuring them of 

 our intention to assist in every way possible to 

 secure any information which may I>e used to 

 the benefit of the lumber and veneer industries. 



D. E. Kline, President. 



.1. A. I'.NDEitwoOD. First Vice President. 

 W. S. Walker. Second Vice President. 

 W. II. RoDDi.s. Third Vice President. 



E. II. Defeb.vigh. Secretary-Treasurer. 



On the Subject of 'Waste. 



.Mr. Kline: It has been suggested that the 

 matter of waste be brought up again. The 

 question has been asked whether there is a 

 larger proportion of waste now than twelve 

 months ago. We would like to have you 

 state your experience. 



Mr. Dow: I do not know as I can speak 

 upon that subject very freely. I am in- 

 clined to think that the waste is no greater 

 than it was, that the machinery, etc., now 

 being brought out tends to make it less so 

 far as the panel busiiiess is concerned, and 

 I cannot speak upon any other subject. 



Mr. Kline: As for us we find that we use 

 more inferior timber than we did a year 

 ago. It costs us just as much and we have 

 more waste. We have to figure against that 

 proposition all the time. We cut logs now 

 that we wouM not think of doing years ago. 

 I would like to be advised what kinds of 

 machinery in use now make it possible for 

 you to use stuff that otherwise would be 

 waste. 



Mr. How: I notice that the people who are 

 buying veneers now are buying smaller sizes 

 than the}' used to because they can buy 

 them for less money — that is, people who 

 make panels from veneers which they pur- 

 chase. They can make a perfect protluct 

 out of them by splicing them. Wherever 

 there is a splicer they are able to use up 

 more waste than otherwise. 



Mechanical Drying of 'Veneer. 



Mr. Kline here introduced W. M. Schwartz 

 of the Philadelphia Textile Machinery Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia, who delivered the fol- 

 lowing interesting address: 



It is with the deepest feeling of gratitude, 

 gentlemen, that we accepted the invitation of 

 your secretary. Mr. Defebaugh. to come here to 

 talk to you on the subject of drying veneers by 

 mechanical process. 



My tirst thought was to commence with the 

 old system of drying by air and to take you step 

 by step through the various stages in the evolu- 

 tion toward perfection, going more or less into 

 the detail of the dry kiln, the roller dryer, the 

 platin system, the apron dryer and lastly to 

 wind up by a discussion of the timil achieve- 

 ment of perfection, the I'roctoi; automatic dry- 

 ing machine. 



(tn further consideration I concluded that it 

 would be better to confine myself to a discussion 

 of the merits of my own machine, rather than 

 to H criticism of other processes, with which 

 your able asso<'iation is more familiar than I. 



The Pliiladelphia Textile Machinery t'ompany 

 was incorporated over twenty-five years ago. and 

 lias put forth its efforts ever since that time 

 toward the perfection of dryers for the various 

 industries. We have been building machines for 

 drying cotton, wool, hosiery and other mate- 

 rials. " One of our greatest achievements was 

 in the designing and perfecting of a machine 

 for drying toliacco. The delicate nature of to- 

 biicco was tlie cause of much skepticism as to 

 our ability to dry it in an automatic machine. 



