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HARDWOOD RECORD 



plant will be one o£ the most up-to-date hard- 

 wood mills in the South and will be fitted up 

 with modern machinery and labor-saving devices 

 of all descriptions. It is equipped with a Filer 

 & Stowell 14-inch bank mill and a 6-foot resaw 

 will be put in shortly. It will have a capacity 

 of 50,000 feet a day. Later the company ex- 

 pects to install a hardwood dimension mill at 

 this plant. The company owns 30,000 acres of 

 timber land and the property on which the mill 

 is located comprises 235 acres, situated on 

 Bayou Bartholomew. 



The starting of operations at Dermott has 

 necessitated several changes in the active force 

 of the Leavitt Lumber Company of Chicago. E. 

 J. Petteys, who has been connected with the 

 Leavitt operations for six years and who re- 

 cently has been in charge of the office and 

 yards in Chicago, will be located at Dermott as 

 manager of the mill. Mr. Petteys has had 

 abundant experience in this line and is in every 

 way competent for his new duties. He will be 

 succeeded at Chicago by W. G. Ramshaw of this 

 city, who has been connected with the trade 

 here and in the South for some years. The 

 superintendent of the mill at Dermott will be 

 Fred Emory, who has been associated with the 

 company at Hollywood, Miss., for several years, 

 and T. P. Dawkins, an expert woodsman, will 

 have charge of the logging operations. 



The company has already gathered a large 

 quantity of logs at the new mill and has every- 

 thing in excellent shape to* begin business as 

 soon as the mill is ready. 



The officers of the company are : President, 

 Jerome G. Leavitt, general manager of the 

 Twin Tree Lumber Company, Maplesville, Ala. ; 

 vice-president, William H. Morris, treasurer of 

 the William Morris & Sans Company, Chicago ; 

 treasurer, H. B. Leavitt, president of the Leavitt 

 Lumber Company, Chicago ; secretary, B. J. 

 Petteys, for some time manager of the Leavitt 

 Lumber Company's Chicago yard. 



Lumber Mayor Celebrates Seventieth Birth- 

 day 



John M. Woods, the well-known mayor of 

 Somerville, Mass., and head of the firm of John 

 M. Woods & Co. of Boston, celebrated his sev- 

 entieth birthday on October 22 by a large recep- 

 tion at his home, to which were invited all of 

 the people cf Somerville. Mr. Woods is a man 

 of broad appreciation and this general invitation 

 was very characteristic of him. He knew most 

 of the guests by name, and there were a large 

 number of them, and none received a formal 

 invitation. Many out-of-town guests of promi- 

 nence also attended the reception, and there were 

 many congratulations and regrets from those who 

 ivere unable to attend. 



The Woods' home was beautifully decorated 

 with roses, chrysanthemums and carnations, the 

 upper rooms being draped profusely with autumn 

 leaves. An orchestra provided music throughout 

 the evening, and his two daughters, Mrs. Charles 

 U. Sherburne and Mrs. Walter K. Godfrey, as- 

 sisted their parents in receiving. The garden of 

 the Woods' home was brilliantly lighted with 

 strings of electric lights, and the guests roamed 

 about through the trees and enjoyed the evening 

 immensely. 



It was a typical neighborhood gathering, and 

 its lack of formality and the general good spirit 

 which prevailed showed the popularity of this 

 man, who was celebrating a milestone in a long 

 and useful Itte. 



fairly large and the occasion was highly enjoy- 

 able. The usual luncheon was served. 



James E. Stark, chairman of the River and 

 Rail Committee, brought to the attention of the 

 club the obstinacy of the agents of the Southern 

 and Western inspection bureaus in accepting 

 estimated weights on carload shipments of lum- 

 ber and, on motion of W. R. Barksdale, the fol- 

 lowing rather strong resolutions on the subject 

 were adopted ; 



Whereas, It is reported by a number of mem- 

 bers of the Lumbermen's Club that the South- 

 ern M'eighing & Inspection Bureau and the 

 Western Weighing & Inspection Bureau decline 

 to accept reasonable proof of the estimated 

 weights of lumber in adjusting overcharges in 

 weights of carload shipments, but on the con- 

 trary are arbitrary and very unreasonable in 

 their rulings. Therefore be it 



Resolved by the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., That we condemn the present prac- 

 tices as enforced by said bureaus as being un- 

 reasonable, unfair and unjust, and recommend 

 that our River and Rail Committee take this 

 matter up with said bureaus with a view of 

 protecting our members against these unjust 

 practices. 



Secretary Thompson read a letter from the 

 Illinois Manufacturers' Association, asking the 

 club to take some action against the proposed 

 increase by the Western Union and Postal Tele- 

 graph companies in charges on code messages 

 which becomes effective in December and which 

 will hit the lumbermen rather hard. Members 

 of the club had not received notice of the pro- 

 posed increase in cost of sending codified mes- 

 sages, and a committee, consisting of A. L. 

 Foster, James R. Blair and George W. Fooshe, 

 was appointed to investigate the matter and 

 icport back to the club at its next meeting. 



On motion of W. R. Barksdale, it was unani- 

 mously voted to amend the by-laws of the club 

 so as to throw the election of officers on the 

 first Saturday after the second Monday in De- 

 cember. This will make it possible to elect 

 officers before the end of the year and also for 

 ilic officers elected to be installed at the first 

 meeting of the new year. 



Frank R. Gadd of the Wisconsin Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, but with offices at Deer- 

 ing. Mo., was elected an associate member of 

 the club and the names of two other lumbermen 

 were brought to the attention of the meeting. 

 Votes on their applications will be taken at the 

 next meeting two weeks hence. 



Meeting Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The regular Sfmimonthly meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis was held at the 

 Gayoso Hotel, November 6. C. M. Kellogg, first 

 vice-president, was in the chair in the absence 

 of I'resident Crenshaw. The attendance was 



Death of a Prominent Detroit Lumberman 



Alden O. Carter, well known to the hardwood 

 lumber trade as secretary of the Dwight Lumber 

 Company, Detroit, Mich., died Wednesday, No- 

 vember 3, after au illness of over a year's dura- 

 tion, although he was not confined to his house 

 except at intervals until the last few weeks of 

 his life. 



Mr. Carter was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 

 ] 848 ; he came of old New England stock. His 

 father, Horace Carter, was one of the first 

 Massachusetts volunteers in the Civil war, and 

 gave his life for the Union. After a grammar 

 school education Mr. Carter entered commercial 

 life in Boston. In 1872 he went to Detroit and 

 entered the employ of William M. Dwight & Co., 

 and on the organization of the Dwight Lumber 

 Company he became its secretary, which posi- 

 tion he held until his decease. 



Mr. Carter was a man of strict integrity, 

 affable and courteous in bis manner, wise and 

 cautious in judgment, and faithful to all his 

 duties. Mr. Carter's business life of nearly forty 

 years gave him a large acquaintance in the lum- 

 ber trade in New York state and through New 

 England and among the hardwood manufacturers 

 of Michigan and the South. His knowledge of 

 the business and his courteous manner won him 

 the esteem and regard of all with whom he came 

 in contact. 



Mr. Carter is survived by his widow, a son, 

 Horace E. Carter, cashier of the Dwight Lumber 

 Company, and a daughter, Mrs. S. J. Young. 



Meeting Philadelphia Exchange 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of I'hiladelphia 

 held its regular monthly meeting, preceded by 

 the usual luncheon, November 4, President Her- 

 bert P. Robinson in the chair. 



At this meeting the Cummer Lumber Company, 

 N. B. Gaskill, manager, and the Whiting Lumber 

 Company were elected members of the exchange. 



A letter was received from the Philadelphia 

 Car Demurrage Bureau, stating that 1,687 cars 

 of lumber were reported to the department by 

 the various stations of all lines of railroads 

 within the city during the month of Septem- 

 ber, 1909, which contained 25,305,000 feet of 

 lumber. For the same month of 1908 the total 

 was 1,049 cars, or 15,735,000 feet of lumber, 

 showing an Increase over last year of 9,570,000 

 feet. The receipts for September, 1909, showed 

 the largest amount received during any month 

 since August, 1907. 



A communication was received from the Na- 

 tional River and Harbor Congress calling the at- 

 tention of the exchange to the fact that the 

 sixth annual convention of this body will be 

 held at Washington, D. C, on December 8, 9 

 and 10, and requesting that the exchange send 

 delegates to same. 



A resolution was passed authorizing the presi- 

 dent to appoint five delegates to represent the 

 exchange at this meeting. 



November Meeting Cincinnati Lumbermen's 

 Club 



The November meeting of the Cincinnati Lum- 

 bermen's Club was held in the parlors of the 

 Gibson House on November 2. A most delightful 

 dinner was the opening feature of the meeting, 

 after which, the members enjoying their cigars, 

 I'resident Clitt S. Walker called the attendants 

 to order and Secretary Sterrett read the minutes 

 01 the previous meeting, which were approved. 



A letter from the secretary of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association was read, 

 setting forth the intention of that body to meet 

 elsewhere than at the city of Waslhngton. On 

 motion the club decided to extend an invitation 

 to the association to hold its next annual meet- 

 ing in Cincinnati. The president was authorized 

 to appoint a committee to pat forth its best 

 endeavors to bring this convention to the Queen 

 City, and W. A. Bennett, Lewis Doster and B. F. 

 Dulweber were named. 



Chester F. Korn, the energetic member of the 

 Farrin-Korn Lumber Company, is a candidate for 

 election to the Board of Directors of the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club, and the attendants decided to 

 take up his candidacy and do everything possible 

 to elect him in order that the lumbermen may 

 have a representative in the governing body of 

 that organization. Mr. Korn is endorsed by 

 Messrs. Bennett and Mollett. 



A letter from the Anti-Tuberculosis League 

 was read in regard to raising funds for outdoor 

 hospitals. During the talk on this subject Clin- 

 ton Crane remarked that he would be willing to 

 give $10,000 to see this dread disease driven 

 from the country. 



After disposing of these special matters, the 

 regular business of the meeting was taken up. 

 The most important subject which was to be 

 decided was the adoption of the new constitu- 

 tion and by-laws, proof sheets of which were 

 distributed among the members present. 



All went fairly well until section 5, article 1, 

 was reached, and the floodgates of oratory were 

 opened. Every word and sentence was carefully 

 scrutinized and analyzed according to the vary- 

 ing lights of the speakers. After the original 

 section 5 was disposed of as not worthy, the 

 section embodied below was adopted. The con- 

 stitution was then adopted as a whole, as fol- 

 lows : 



CONSTITUTION. 

 Peeamble. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati is organ- 

 ized and incorporated, not for profit, but for the 



