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HARDWOOD RECORD 



statement of Treasurer for Year Ending 



May 3, 1906. 



GENERAL FUND. 



RECEIPTS. 



From W. S. Dai-nell. treas- 

 urer $ 2,C24.84 



GARDNER I. JONES, BOSTON", DIRECTOR. 



Membership dues 



from secretary.. .$11,412.09 

 Inspection fees 



from secretary. 11.485.04 

 Inspection rules 



from secretary. 526.86 

 Relnspection fees 



from secretary. 321.89 23,745.88 



Total receipts $26,370.72 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Paid 175 Touchers $25,830.25 



Cash on hand (per bank cer- 

 tificate) 



$ 520.47 



CASH DEPOSIT FUND. 



RECEIPTS. 



From W. S. Dar- 

 nell, treasurer.. $ 1,399.86 



Amount from sec- 

 retary 675.00 



Interest accrued 

 to April 1, 

 1900 50.55 



Total $ 2,125.41 



REFUNDS. 



Paid thirteen Touchers $ 325.00 



Cash on hand (per bank 

 certificate) 



1,800.41 



I Total cash on hand $2,320.88 



O. E. YeageBj Treasurer. 



Mr. Thompson : I moTe that an auditing com- 

 mittee be appointed to audit the report. ^ 



President Palmer : I will state that no com- 

 mittee of that kind was appointed at the Buf- 

 falo meeting. Inasmuch as there is to be a 

 change of administration I requested Mr. Thomp- 

 son to make that motion. 



The motion was duly seconded and carried 

 and the president appointed the following audit- 

 ing committee : J. W. Thompson, A. K. Vin- 

 nedge, Walter S. Darnell. 



President Palmer : It occurs to me that A. R. 

 Vinnedge is a good man to check up the secre- 

 tary and Mr. Darnell is a good man to check 

 up the treasurer. 



On motion, duly seconded, recess was taken 

 for luncheon. 



THTTBSDAT AFTEBNOON SESSION. 



The afternoon session was called to order by 

 President Palmer at 2 :15 o'clock. 



B. F. McMillan : Mr. President, they tell 



me that Memphis furnishes the best whisky In 

 the world. Now, I would like to know about 

 what kind of water they furnish. 



J. W. Thompson : We neyer thought of that. 

 Colonel. 



W. H- Riisse : Does the gentleman from 

 Wisconsin wish to take a bath? That is all we 

 use it for. 



President Palmer : I would like to announce 

 that there is a standing committee on the San 

 Francisco relief fund. Possibly there are a 

 number of gentlemen in the room who did not 

 get their subscriptions down this morning, and 

 to those gentlemen I wish to say that the chair- 

 man of the committee is Ales. Lendrum. If you 

 will go to him and make your donations they 

 will be taken up later. We raised a considerable 

 amount this morning that we haye not yet 

 counted. We will not act on it until we get 

 cnougu to be worthy of this association. I also 

 wish to announce that the executive committee 

 will meet in this room directly after the ad- 

 journment of this meeting. It is necessary to 

 have the meeting of the executive committee 

 to pass upon the applications which we have 

 here, in order to install all the new members 

 that have applied. 



The first business this afternoon on the regu- 



W. A. BONSACK, ST. LOUIS, DIRECTOR. 



lar program is the report of standing commit- 

 tees. W. W. Knight is chairman of the inspec- 

 tion bureau committee, and he will now read his 

 report. 



Report of Inspection Bureau Committee. 



At the seventh annual convention of this asso- 

 ciation, held in Cincinnati, May, 1904, your 

 Inspection bureau passed a resolution to the 

 effect that the surveyor general and the in- 

 spectors in the large hardwood markets be 

 placed on a salary basis. 



During the years 1904 and 1905 there were 

 four inspectors appointed on a salary basis, 

 viz., New York City, Buffalo, Cincinnati and 

 Memphis. During the past year, dating from 

 June 1, 1005, we have not only maintained the 

 four inspectors above mentioned, but have ap- 

 pointed salaried men for Chicago, Philadelphia, 

 Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, St. Louis and New 

 Orleans, making at present a total of ten. 



During the time that these salaried inspec- 

 tors have been working for the association they 

 have inspected 21,258,184 feet of lumber, and 

 the records in the surveyor general's oflice show 

 that the tee inspectors have inspected 80.498.609 

 feet of lumber for a period of eleven months. 

 Adding to this the average amount for one 

 month gives a grand total of 97.634.84!^ feet, 

 a material increase over the work of last year. 

 This does not by any means cover the amount 

 inspected under the association rules, but simply 

 the total shown by records of the office for 

 which certificates have been issued. 



The expense of the inspection department of 

 this association for the past eleven months, 

 dating from June 1, 1905. to May 1, 1906, has 

 been as follows ; 



Salary and expense of salaried inspec- 

 tors $12,001.12 



Fees received and due from 



salaried inspectors $10,449.58 



Fees received and due from 



fee inspectors 2,948.13 



$13,397.71 



Salary and expense of sur- 

 veyor general, including 

 rent, telephone, travel- 

 ing expense, stationery, 

 etc ; . 4,294.36 



Less traveling expenses paid 



by members 423.20 3,871.16 



Total cost of inspection de- 

 partment $15,872.28 



Less fees 13,397.71 



Cost to association.... $ 2,474.57 



At present there is a demand for a second 

 deputy inspector in St. Louis. New England has 

 been asking for a salaried inspector, and like- 

 wise Baltimore, Norfolk and St. Paul. Expe- 

 rience has taught us that wherever we have 

 placed a salaried inspector that as soon as he 

 has become known to the trade the demand for 

 his services has materially increased. 



In order to illustrate to you the difficulty in 

 securing the right man for a position of this 

 kind I wish to quote to you the language used 

 by the former chairman of the Inspection Bureau 

 Committee regarding this matter : "A man who 

 can be hired on a salary as inspector, who is 

 capable of going out and practically arbitrating 

 between buyer and seller — as the surveyor gen- 

 eral proposes to do — I say such men are scarce 

 and hard to get. Men who are capable of taking 

 care of a position of this kind are well em- 

 ployed and do not care to make a change, nor 

 are their employers willing to give them up." 



I believe that the success of this association 

 depends greatly upon the salaried inspectors. 

 They are supposed to be men of good judgment 

 and even temper, and at all times to take into 

 consideration that they are arbitrating between 

 the two or more parties concerned in the trans- 

 action : therefore, it is necessary that these 

 men show no favoritism. I am confident that 

 as far as we have gone in securing salaried in- 

 spectors the present corps is as good as any 

 similar number of inspectors that could be em- 

 ployed. 



Referring to the certificates issued by the 

 inspectors of this association there are some 

 things that the committee would like to im- 

 press upon you. First, that the certificate of 

 inspection and measurement issued by the in- 

 spector shall be final hetween huiier and seller. 

 That is to say, if A sells a carload of lumber to 

 B, and the invoice is accompanied by a certifi- 

 cate of inspection, B should pay that invoice 

 according to the certificate attached. Then, 

 upon examination of the car by B. if he finds 

 that the lumber is not up to grade, he is entitled 

 to a relnspection, whether he is a member of 



M. M. WALL. BUFFALO. CHAIRMAN FOR- 

 ESTRY COMMITTEE. 



this association or not. Before calling upon the 

 surveyor general for a relnspection. It is the 

 duty of B to accept the result of the original 

 inspections as a basis of settlement with A, and 

 then upon relnspection of the shipment If It Is 

 found that the deputy inspector made an error, 



