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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The meeting then adjourned. 

 There were present: 



Arthur H. Barnard. A. H. Barnard, Minne- 

 apolis. 



W. C. Stanton, Stanton-DeLong Lumljer Com- 

 pany, St. I'aiil. 



D. F. Clark. Osborne & Clark. Minneapolis. 



C. F. Osborne, Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis. 



VV. C. Bailey, Minneapolis. 



W. H. Sill, Minneapolis Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



P. R. Hamilton. Minneapolis Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



H. Levine, Levine Timber & Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



A. E. Peterson, Peterson-Moore Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. Paul. 



F. A. Nolan, St. Paul. 



F. H. Lewis, Minneapolis. 



H. Booraem, Halsted & Booraem, Minneapolis. 



A. S. Bliss, Payson-Smitb Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



N. C. Bennett, N. C, Bennett Lumber Com- 

 pany, Minneapolis. 



T. R. Jones, G. W. Jones Lumber Company, 

 Appleton, Wis. 



T. T. Bartelme. F. M. Bartelme. Minneapolis. 



CJ. S. Agnew, G. S. Agncw Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



F. M. Bartelme, Minneapolis. 



Charles Oliver, Minneapolis. 



A. B. Leasure, Charles Oliver, Minneapolis. 



J. F. Hayden, Mississippi Valley Lumberman, 

 Minneapolis. 



George DeLong, Stanton-DeLong Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. Paul. 



Meeting Chicago HardWood Lumber Exchange 



The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Exchange 

 held its regular monthly meeting at the La 

 Salle hotel, November 27, preceded by a de- 

 lightful luncheon at 12:30. It was in many 

 ways one of the best meetings the exchange 

 has held of late. There were forty-three pres- 

 ent. President F. L. Brown presided, and 

 Secretary J. H. Dion recorded. 



The chief business to come before the ex- 

 change was the report of the Publicity Com- 

 mittee, which has had under consideration for 

 several weeks the question of designing a 

 sticker for use on mail in advertising Chicago 

 as a hardwood market. 



After the roll call and reading of the 



man of the Trade Committee, no report from 

 this committee was presented. 



The Entertainment Committee made no 

 formal report, but Chairman J. L. Lane re- 

 ferred to the fact that the interest in the 

 exchange is manifested by the disposition of 

 the members. Mr. Lane also advanced the 

 proposition that it would be a good thing 

 for the exchange to meet every two weeks in- 

 stead of once a month, but President Brown, 

 without putting the matter to a vote, decided 

 that the exchange was fully committed to the 

 present arrangement, and it would not be 

 wise to reopen the matter. 



H. S. Hayden, chairman of the Publicity 



The sticker proposition, as an advertising 

 medium, was discussed at some length by the 

 exchange. Mr. Hayden emphasized the fact 

 that the exchanges of Memphis, Cincinnati 

 and elsewhere are using different forms of 

 advertising, and that if Chicago desired to 

 keep pace it would be necessary that some 

 advertising features be adopted. There was, 

 however, not the slightest hesitancy upon the 

 part of the members to adopt the sticker as 

 one of the best of such means. 



P. B. McMullen moved that the secretary 

 call the roll and receive subscriptions for the 

 sticker in order that it might be determined 

 how many to order. The responses were lib- 



F. L. BROWN, PRESIDENT. 



minutes of the previous meeting, which was 

 held October 16, the reports of standing com- 

 mittees were heard. 



Chairman Schreiber of the Labor Commit- 

 tee reported things running smoothly in labor 

 affairs, and suggested that all members label 

 their wagons. 



Chairman Trainer of the Market Conditions 

 Committee advised that his committee had 

 no report to make, and said that none was 

 required at this time. 



At this juncture application for member- 

 ship for W. W. Dings, secretary and Chicago 

 manager of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company of St. Louis, was presented by 

 Charles WestcQtt, chairman of the Member- 

 ship Committee, and accepted. 



Owing to the absence of 0. O. Agler, chair- 



II. DION, SECRETARY 



Committee, who has labored as-siduously in 

 the exploitation proposition, followed with 

 the report of his committee. Mr. Hayden pre- 

 sented a proof of an embossed sticker which, 

 he said, the committee deemed most suitable 

 for use in advertising Chicago's hardwood 

 interests. This is an artistic design showing 

 the famous Y, indicative of the Chicago river 

 and its North and South branches, in the cen- 

 ter, and the inscription ' ' Member Chicago 

 Hardwood Lumber Exchange — Chicago the 

 Greatest Hardwood Market ' ' surrounding it. 

 The color scheme is gold, red and blue, and 

 will attract attention anywhere. These stick- 

 ers may be had at $3 per thousand in lots of 

 100,000 or more. Tbe cost of the original 

 die was estimated at $6 to $7, while the set 

 of electros was figured at 75 cents. 



H. S. HAYDEN. CHAIRMAN PUBLICITY 

 COMMITTEE. 



eral, and 100,000 were subscribed with a num- 

 ber of members absent. The secretary was 

 instructed to write these concerns and get 

 their subscriptions by mail. 



Henry H. Gibson, editor of Hardwood 

 Eecord, in order to aid in the distribution of 

 the stickers and to make them yield the best 

 lesults. proposed that if the exchange would 

 order for the Eecohd 50,000, he would see 

 that every letter and circular leaving the 

 oifice, amounting to apj^roximately 1,000 

 pieces a day, bore a sticker. This proposition 

 appealed to the members, and in order to 

 facilitate it the Publicity Committee was 

 given full power to act as it deemed best. 

 The exchange voted that the number of stick- 

 ers to be ordered be increased to 200,000. 



