HARDWOOD RECORD 



35 



and rivers should have the most modern termiunl 

 systems for the vessels. We earnestly urge upon 

 the people of states and eities. where waterway 

 improvement is proceeding, the importance of 

 establishing puljlic terminals and landing places 

 with the most modern appliances and equipment 

 for loading and unloading freight, and of be- 

 ginning this work immediately. 



Actuated by the desire to see the United States 

 become the chief commercial country of the 

 world, we. the delegates to this National Kivers 

 & Harbors Congress, present this statement 

 of the transpiiftati<pn conditions now existing, 

 and tile remedy we propose, for the considera- 

 tion of the I'resident of the I'niteci States 

 and of the national Congress, and on behalf 

 of the people of our country we urge the adop- 

 tion of these reciimmi'Utlations. 



Officers Elected 



The following officers were elected; 



I*resident — Joseph K. Ransdell. 



Secretary and treasurer — J. K. Ellison. 



Special director — John A. Fox. 



Directors for the Atlantic seaboard — William 

 II. Lincoln, Boston. Mass. ; ulin J. Stephens, 

 New York ; George K. Bartol. I'hiladelpbia : J. 

 Hampton Moore. Philadelphia : H. C. Warren, 

 New Haven, L'onn. : John It. Sherwood, Balti- 

 more, Md., and Anthony Iliggins, Wilmington, 

 Del. 



,South Atlantic Seaboard — E. .T. Hale, Fayette- 

 ville, N. C. ; W. S. Reamer, Columbia, S. C. : 

 .John C. Freeman, Hichmond, Va. : IJ. U. Flet- 

 cher. Jacksonville, Fla. ; Howard Stafford, Au- 

 gusta, Ga., and K. Lommus. Columbus. Ga. 



Gulf seaboard — Martin Behrman. New (jrieans ; 

 S. Taliaferro. Houston. Tex. : H. I'illans. Mobile, 

 Ala. : Roy Miller, Corpus Christi. Tex., and 

 K. L. Simpson, Gulfport, Miss. 



Ix Mississippi Vallev 



Entire Mississippi valley district — Thomas Wil- 

 kinson. Burlington, Iowa. : W. P. Kennett. St. 

 Louis, Mo. ; Eli Warren. St. Paul. Minn. : W. K. 

 Kavanaugh, St. Louis, Mo. ; Charles Scott, Rose- 

 dale. Miss. 



The Great Lakes District — Edward H. Butler. 

 lUillalo, N. Y. : James H. Davidson. Oshkosh, Wis. ; 



-Lawrence M. Jones, 

 1'. Baker, Bismarck, 



E. W. Wickey, East Chicago. Ind. ; T. Edward 

 Wilder, Chicago, 111. ; II. I. Sephard, Toledo, 

 Ohio : Alex McDougal, Dulutb, Minn., and P. W. 

 <'allinan. ( iswego, N. Y. 



()hio Valley district — W. B. Rodgers, Pitts- 

 Inirg, Pa.: Albert Bettinger, Cincinnati. Ohio; 

 John L. Vance, t_'olumbus. Ohio ; Henry Itiesen- 

 berg. Indianapolis, Ind., and George II. Parsons, 

 Cairo. 



Other Distuicts 



Tennessee and Cumberland district — M. T. 

 Bryan. Nashville, Tenn., and J. A. Patten, Chat- 

 tanooga. Tenn. 



Arkansas Valley district — John A. Fox, Ar- 

 kansas. 



Missouri Valley district 

 Kansas City, Mo., and I. 

 N. D. 



Pacific Coast district — A. H. Devers. Portland. 

 Ore. ; George C. Pardee. Oakland. Cal., and Dr. 

 N. G. Blalcock, Walla Walla, Wash. 



L'nited Commercial Travelers of America — W. 

 A. Johnson. Covington. Ky. 



Travelers' Protective Association of America 

 — A. D. Brocket. 



Prominent Lumbermen in Attendance 



ICdward Ilincs. Cliicago. nines Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



W. B. Stillwell. Savannah. Ga., Southern I'ine 

 Lumber Company. 



Sam I'. Swinford. Houston. Tex., secretary 

 Texas Lumliermen's Association. 



Julius Seidel. St. Louis. Mo., president St. 

 Louis Lumliermen's Club. 



T. S. rnderbill, Philadelphia. X^a., Wistar, 

 Underbill & Co. 



W. I). Gill. Baltimore. Md.. W. D. Gill & Son. 



K. C. Blades. Elizabeth, N". C. 



W. G. Uuderhill. Hertford, N. C. 



F. C. Gillingham. Philadelphia, Pa., F. C. 

 (iillingham & Son. 



Tom Vrooman. Philadelphia. I'a.. Vrooman 

 i.'ompan.v. I.iraitetl. 



Victor Kugler. Philadelphia. Pa. 



F. Smedley, Philadelphia, Pa., Smedley Bros. 

 Company. 



James M. Reilly, New-ark, N. J., secretary New 

 Jersey Luml>ermen's Protective .\ssociation. 



Annual St. Louis Lumbermen's Club 



The annual meeting and banquet of the 

 Lumbermen 's Club of St. Louis was held on 

 Tuesday evening, December 14, at the Mer- 

 cantile Club. The attendance was large and 

 much enthusiasm was shown. 



At the conclusion of a most enjoyable din- 

 ner, President Julius Seidel, who presided, 

 called the meeting to order. He announced 

 that Earl Palmer of Paducah, Ky., O. O. 

 .\gler, president of the Xational Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, and F. F. Fish, secretary 

 of the same organization, both of Chicago, 

 were the guests of honor and the speakers of 

 the evening. 



Mr. Palmer, who was the first spealier, made 

 a short address. He said he would not talk 

 "shop," as it was not the time and place; 

 he also said he could not advise the St. Louis 

 lumbermen how to run their business, as they 

 are such good lumbermen themselves. He then 

 gave a short talk on "The Power of an 

 Idea." He sketched the gronih of some of 

 the greatest political, scientific and ethical 

 ideas, such as transportation and invention ; 

 the idea of the building of the Panama Canal, 

 the improvement of the inland waterways and 

 the idea that a man 's competitor is not his 

 enemy. He concluded by saying that we are 

 on the eve of a most prosperous era, and that 

 he hoped that the Lumbermen 's Club in the 

 future, as in the past, would do everything 

 to realize its highest ideals in placing the 

 himber business in the position to which it is 

 entitled. 



The next speaker was O. O. Agler of Chi- 

 cago. Mr. Agler stated that the St. Louis 



hardwood lumbermen had always been fore- 

 most in the support of the National Associa- 

 tion; that there are few cities in the country 

 where all branches were better organized than 

 in St. Louis ; that he believed the country was 

 on the verge of the best times it has ever 

 known. 



President Seidel then introduced Max Sjnd- 

 iieimer of Memphi.s. In his usual witty way 

 Mr. Sondheimer hail considerable fun with 

 President Seidel and others present. He said 

 while he did not propose to talk "shop," he 

 could not resist the temptation of telling of 

 tlie bright outlook for the coming year. He 

 stiid there never was a time in the history of 

 the hardwood trade when the supply of stock 

 was so low at the consuming centers as now. 

 He thought hardwood lumbermen should con- 

 sider this fact and iiut up prices to a paying 

 basis. 



F. F. Pish, wlio was the next speaker, men- 

 tioned that he had visited all the large mar- 

 kets of the country during the year, but did 

 not know of any place where the lumber trade 

 was better organized than at St. Louis, and 

 lie congratulated the Lumbermen 's Club on 

 that fact. 



At the conclusion of Mr. Fish's remaiks 

 the reports of officers and committees were 

 called for by the president. 



The membership committee reported eight 

 new applications. They were as follows, and 

 were unanimously elected to membership: 



p. F. Cook, St. Louis Lumberman. 

 S. W. Morton, \an Cleave Lumber Company. 

 E. S. CruU, Grays Harbor Commercial Com- 

 pany. 



H. M. Morriss, Van Cleave Lumber Company. 



G. H. Barnes. G. 11. Barnes Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company. 



A. W. Johanning. .lohanning Lumber Company. 



Carl H. Holekamp. Ilolekamp Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



J. W. Hankins. Robinson Lumber Company. 



Thos. C. Whitmarsh, chairman of tho com- 

 mittee appointed at the November meeting of ■ 

 the San Antonio classification conference, 

 made a report on whicli there was a general 

 discussion. 



A resolution of respect to the memory of 

 the late James K. Defebaugh, editor of the 

 American Lumberman, was introduced by W. 

 E. Barns and unanimously adopted. 



A resolution was introduced by Thos. E. 

 Powe asking the Lumbermen 's Club to put 

 itself on record as opposing the bridge arbi- 

 trary. There was considerable discussion, 

 and it was finally referred to the traffic com- 

 mittee. 



President Seidel then related the results of 

 his visit to Washington as a delegate to the 

 Bivers and Harbors Congress. He then read 

 his annual report, a brief outline of which fol- 

 lows: 



Following the usual custom. President Seidel 

 in his annual address made a comprehensive re- 

 port on the work the club has accomplished dur- 

 ing the past year. He stated that the club now 

 has 108 members, a gain of -11.' during the year. 

 The Publicity Committee, he said, has done some 

 very effective -work. It has distributed 28,000 

 tracts, advertising St. Louis as a lumber center. 

 One of the excellent suggestions made by Presi- 

 dent Seidel was the readjustment of the work 

 ot" the committees of the club. He suggested that 

 the board prepare for each committee a set of 

 working rules, so its duties will be more clearly 

 defined. 



Mr. Seidel reported that three cases of arbi- 

 tration had been submitted to the club's com- 

 mittee, and brought out the fact this means is 

 infinitely more satisfactory than a decision in the 

 law court, where controversies ,are decided by 

 law points only, while in this method of arbitra- 

 tion the decision is given, by men familiar with 

 the various intricacies of the business. 



The work of the club in opposing the attack 

 that was made to annul the lien law of the 

 state resulted in getting the co-operation of other 

 interests, and the law was not disturbed. He 

 dealt exhaustively with the suliject of forest con- 

 servation and suggested that the scope of the 

 Committee on Public Affairs be broadened to in- 

 clude legislation, to see that good legislation 

 prevails on this important subject. 



President Seidel. in conclusion, made an effort 

 to rouse lumbermen to the importance of taking 

 more interest in politics. He said that, consid- 

 ering that the lumber Industry is third in this 

 country, lumbermen ought to be more concerned 

 with politics generally as well as with laws 

 affecting matters concerning the lumber business 

 in all its phases. 



The treasurer's report was read and ac- 

 cepted and H. S. Price and Robert J. Fine 

 were appointed a committee to audit the ac- 

 counts. 



Election of Officers 

 The election of officers then took place. 

 The two nominating committees appointed at 

 the November meeting, having selected the 

 same ticket, these were elected as follows ; 

 President— Richard J. O'Reilly. 

 First \-iee-president — C. D. Johnson. 

 Second vice-president — H. A. Boeckeler. 

 Treasurer — E. C. Robinson. 

 Secretary — John B. Kessler. 

 However, Mr. Seidel was nominated for 

 the presidency by Thos. ('. Whitmarsh, from 

 the floor, and his nomination was seconded by 

 Mr. Knabel. Although the utmiinatiou of 

 Mr. Seidel was not withdrawn by Mr. Whit- 

 marsh, in spite of it having been seconded by 

 Mr. Knabel, Mr. O 'Reilly, who was the choice 

 of the two nominating committees, as well as 



