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managing committee, and in other capacities, 

 and he has endeavored in every way to ad- 

 vance the interests of the trade. He is 

 progressive, and held in the highest esteem 

 as a man and as a himberman. Under his 

 presidency the exchange may lie expected to 



enter upon an even larger measure of use- 

 fulness than it has in the past. The choice 

 gives great satisfaction, and in the opinion 

 of the membership no better selection could 

 have been made to fill the place of president 

 of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange. 



Annual Louisville HardWood Club 



The Louisville Hardwood Club elected the 

 following oJScers for the coming year at its 

 annual meeting held on November 23 : 



President, A. E. Norman, Norman Lumber 

 Company. 



Vice-President, E. L. Davis, Edw. L. 

 Davis Lumber Company. 



Secretary, D. C. Harris, C. C. Jlengel & 

 Bro. Company. 



Treasurer, Claude Sears, Edw. L. Davis 

 Lumber Company. 



The meeting was an informal affair, and 

 like the usual weekly gatherings was marked 

 bv a dinner at the Seelbach Hotel. The 



A. E. XORMAN, ACAX.N CHOSEN PRESIDENT 

 LOUISVILLE HARDWOOD CLUB. 



only annual report other than that of the 

 treasurer, Mr. Sears, which showed that 

 financially the club is in excellent condition, 

 was that of President Norman. Mr. Nor- 

 man talked informally of the work that had 

 been done during the first year of the club 's 

 history and referred to the prospects for the 

 coming year. His talk was enthusiastically 

 received, and he was unanimously chosen to 

 direct affairs again. All the elections were 

 without opposition, and the meeting was 

 marked by harmony. 



In his annual rej)ort President Norman 

 said that the club had reason to be proud of 

 its work during its first year, since it had 

 not only made itself felt in increasing the 

 trade of this city and the importance of the 

 Louisville market, but also in entertaining 

 one convention of hardwood men, the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers of the United States, 

 and securing the convention of the Nations,' 



Hardwood Lumber Association. Referring 

 to the latter, he said that the club must soon 

 get busy and do everything in its power to 

 uphold the reputation of Kentucky for hospi- 

 tality and maintain the pace set by Detroit 

 at the convention last June. 



President Norman declared that even the 

 pessimists in the club had been convinced, 

 by the splendid work done, that the organiai- 

 tion can do valuable and efficient work, and 

 that now every man in it is for it heart and 

 soul, even to the extent of participating in 

 the vigorous advertising campaign which the 

 club has undertaken, and which he said has 

 brought many buyers to Louisville who have 

 heretofore gone to other markets; Another 

 thing that had been accomplished, he said, 

 was in the direction of modifying objection- 

 able railroad^ rates, the Transportation Com- 

 mittee having secured the elimination of the 

 iliscrimiuation which existed in favor of 

 other Ohio river gateways in connection with 

 shipments into Northwestern territory. Its 

 work in the demurrage . question was also 

 liighly commending. TTiis committee, he said, 

 deserved the thanks of the club, and was in 

 line to do equally effective work during the 

 coming year. 



The Louisville Veneer Mills, represented 

 at the meeting by D. E. Kline, was elected 

 to membership in the club and the Mengel 

 Box Company has applied for membership. 

 These two companies are both leaders in their 

 lines, and as they are large handlers of hard- 

 woods also they are certain to be valuable 

 additions to the club. The Hardwood Club 

 now has nine members, with more in pros- 

 pect. W. A. McLean, president of the 

 Wood-Mosaic Flooring & Lumber Company, 

 who was formerly a member of the club, was 

 present at the annual meeting, and it is hoped 

 that he will again become a member of the 

 organization. He was one of the most ef- 

 fective members, and both he and his concern 

 have found a gap since the Wood-Mosaic 

 resigned. 



Among those present at the annual meeting 

 were Messrs. Darding, of Blakeslee, Perring 

 & Darling of Bufl'alo ; Rubenstein of London, 

 England; Meyers of New Albany, Ind. ; 

 Charles Davis of the Mengel Box Company; 

 President Norman of the Norman Lumber 

 Co.; T. M. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Co. ; E. L. Davis and Claude Sears 

 of the Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company; 

 Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co.; S. 

 E. Booker of E. B. Norman & Co.; Van 

 Norman of the Norman Lumber Company; 

 C. E. Curtis and D. C. Harris of C. C. Mengel 

 & Bro. Co.; and H. J. Gates and Edw. L. 



Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company. 



At the meeting following the annual, the 

 members of the club paid a neat compliment 

 to the newly elected oflieers. When all had 

 gathered about the festal board, everyone 

 rose and drank the health of the men who had 

 been selected to guide the club during the 

 next year. 



President Norman stated that the standing 

 committees would be elected by the members 

 and not appointed by him, and that this 

 would be done in the next few weeks. The 

 committees which will have charge of the 

 arrangements for the convention of the na- 

 tional hardwood organization wiU also be 

 selected before the first of the new year. 

 The club begins its second year most 

 auspiciously. 



Open Chicago Office 



As before notc-d in Ibe c<tlumus of the Hard- 

 wood Record, the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company of St. Louis has opened a Chicago 

 office. W. W. Dings, secretary o£ the company, 

 has moved to the city and has charge of the 

 i^ales department here, with offices at 1416 

 Eisher building. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is a 

 wcll-linown manufacturer of oalt. gum and other 

 soutliei-n woods, with headquarters at St. Louis 

 nnd Willi several sawmilling plants in .\rkausas 



\\. W. DINGS OF THE GARETSON-GREASON 



LUMBER COMPANY'S CHICAGO 



OFFICE. 



and Missouri. The company specializes in oak 

 and also handles all varieties of southern hard- 

 woods. In this market Mr. Dings will make a 

 specialty of railroad and corporation trade and 

 Clncago yard ^business. 



Mr. Dings is very popular wherever he is 

 known and he is not a stranger to the whole- 

 sale trade of Chicago, as he has sold a large 

 portion of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany's output in this market for several years. 

 His removal to Chicago is a distinct addition to 

 the Chicago hardwood contingent. 



The Georgia Veneer & Package Company is a 

 new concern for Lumber City, Ga. 



