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will, after a while, perform for us. We remem- 

 ber these men as being of a high order of in- 

 tesrity and intelligence, men of clean lives, men 

 of usefulness in the communities in which they 

 lived. We knew them as good fellows here, and 

 I believe they will be good fellows there. Gentle- 

 men. I thank you. 



President Swain : Gentlemen, we have with 

 OS here today a man whose experience will 

 qualify him to make us an interesting talk. We 

 would, I am sure, be glad to hear from Mr. 

 Doster. 



Mr. Doster : Mr. President and Gentlemen — 

 Bearing Mr. Stimson's remarks has brought up- 

 on me such a feeling that I do not believe I 

 can talk. I had the painful duty to perform of 

 attending the funeral .of Mr. Itansom last week, 

 representing the association and experiencing 

 as well a strong feeling of personal loss. 



Now I am glad to be with you at your In- 

 diana meeting. I was asked today why I came 

 here. I'll tell you frankly, gentlemen, I came 

 here to get tips on how to run an association 

 meeting. We always move our meeting back 

 until after the Indiana meeting has been held, 

 6o that we will know what to do and how to do 

 it. Your organization can not he compared with 

 any other state lumbermen's association in this 

 country, that I know of. You have visitors here 

 from the far West, from the East, from the 

 North and from the South, and I think you 

 should be proud, indeed, that you have such a 

 drawing card in this association. I not only 

 meet Indiana men when I come to these gather- 

 ings, but men from Michigan, New Orleans, and 

 all over the country. But I want to tell you, 

 gentlemen, look out for those Louisville men. 

 They're great pluggers and boosters, and if you 

 aren't very careful they'll be having your meet- 

 ing over in Louisville next year! [Laughter 

 and applause] I want to say, for myself, that 

 1 am from Cincinnati, and am here to extend to 

 your organization an invitation from the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association to .attend our 

 next meeting in that city on February 1, 2, and 

 3. In extending this invitation I do so as an 

 official and as a friend of the lumber industry. 

 Now, if by some mishap you should not receive a 

 personal invitation, just consider this one and 

 come and be with us. 



I think I have consumed about as much of 

 your time as I should, and I again repeat that 

 I am glad to be here and would appreciate re- 

 ceiving another invitation next year. [Laugh- 

 ter and applause.] 



The President : If there is no further busi- 

 ness to come before the meeting a motion to ad- 

 journ is in order. 



On motion, duly seconded, the convention 

 adjourned sine die. 



The Banquet 



At 7 :30 members and guests reassembled in 

 the main dining room of the Denison for the 

 banquet. The tables were arranged in the form 

 of a large T, running the entire length of the 

 room, three smaller tables being necessary to 

 seat everybody. While dinner was being served 

 the orchestra and quartet offered various pleas- 

 ing selections. 



The Menu. 



Celery Olives Radishes 



Martini Cocktails 



Cream of Chicken 



Salted Almonds 



Fillets of Halibut, Vin Blanc 



Potatoes Duchess 



Sauterne 



Tenderloin of Beef with Mushrooms 



Green Peas in Cases 



Punch 



Fried Y'oung Chicken. Cream Gravy 



Lettuce and Tomato Salad 



Fancy Ice Cream Assorted Cake 



Roquefort Cheese Coffee Cigars 



After the coffee Charles Barnaby arose 

 and in a characteristic speech introduced 

 the new president, E. A. Swain, who was 

 welcomed with cheers and applause. After 

 a short speech in which he expressed his 



appreciation of the honor which he had 

 received, the chairman called on F. A. 

 Diggins of Cadillac, whose talk was replete 

 with amusing stories and was well received. 

 He expressed his surprise at the size and 

 spirit of the Indiana organization, ranking 

 it as the most important state association 

 in this country, and then went on to tell 

 of the way they run things at Cadillac. 

 There the lumbermen are like one big firm, 

 always working together for the general 

 good of all. They meet once a month and 

 have a general, open discussion of business 

 questions, nothing being secret and nobody 

 being barred. An invitation to these meet- 

 ings was extended to any who could avail 

 themselves of it, the speaker saying that 

 he believed it would be for the good of 

 state and national organizations to follow 

 the Cadillac policy. 



At the close of this speech the president 

 expressed a wish that the speaker be made 

 a member of the Indiana association. A 

 motion to that effect was made, seconded 

 and duly carried, the vote being unanimous. 

 The chair next called on Edward Buckley 

 of Manistee, Mich., who in a few words ex- 

 pressed his pleasure at being present. He 

 was followed by E. B. Norman, the jovial 

 Louisville lumberman, who told of the work 

 the lumbermen's club is trying to do in that 

 city. He extended an invitation to the 

 Indiana lumbermen to attend the national 

 convention, which will be at Louisville next 

 June. 



Edward L. Davis, also of Louisville, was 

 the next speaker, and he repeated the in- 

 vitation to the June convention and prom 

 ised that inasmuch as this was the first 

 time the South had been honored in this 

 way and it was up to Louisville to make 

 good, nobody would regret the trip. 



After the quartet performed the chairman 

 called on Frank Fish, secretary of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, who, 

 in behalf of the organization, seconded the 

 invitation to Louisville, expressing his be- 

 lief that getting together is the one thing 

 of most benefit to the lumber trade. The 

 Indiana association was_highly compliment- 

 ed by the speaker, who said that he had 

 never before seen a meeting where all the 

 lumber states were represented. 



The next speaker was Lewis Doster, sec- 

 retary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation, who, after a few appreciative re- 

 marks, told what lumber organizations 

 should stand for. . The two points he touched 

 on most were, first, the necessity for an ac- 

 curate working knowledge of conservation 

 from a practical point of view, and, sec- 

 ond, that the legality of organization must 

 be established before the people who are 

 now very ready to believe that any getting 

 together of lumbermen means the existence 

 of a trust. It is due to this feeling that 

 the trade has had to stand a great deal of 

 injustice and it is up to the lumbermen to 

 counteract it. 



According to Secretary Doster the point 



toward which lumbermen should strive in 

 their operations is to get every possible 

 foot of lumber from an acre of land and by 

 encouraging the use of veneers and thin 

 lumber and minimizing in waste, to do all 

 in their power to perpetuate the present 

 supply of timber and the lumber industry. 

 The popular belief in an approaching lum- 

 ber famine was ridiculed by the speaker, 

 who pointed out that the many substitutes 

 for wood which are more extensively used 

 every day, together with the increasing in- 

 terest in conservation will do wonders in 

 lengthening the life of the forests. The 

 speaker believes that efforts should be 

 made, not so much with the idea of repro- 

 ducing the trees for this generation or even 

 for the next as of saving what now stand. 

 Further, relative to the existence of a 

 trust, it was pointed out that during the 

 recent panic prices on some kinds of lum- 

 ber advanced, while others went down. It 

 is not reasonable to suppose that this would 

 have occurred if there was a trust. 



Secretary Doster announced the coming 

 meeting of his association at Cincinnati, 

 February 1, 2 and 3, stating that there will 

 be additional features of attraction this 

 year which will make it well worth attend- 

 ing. It is intended to make a study of the 

 mechanical end of the lumber business, 

 from the log up, and to illustrate there will 

 lie a series of stereopticon and moving pic- 

 tures taken from the actual work and snow- 

 ing all the stages of operation. 



The speaker closed with a general "bid" 

 to the convention and gave way to "The 

 Lumberman Poet, ' ' Douglas Malloch of the 

 American Lumbermau, who kept his audi- 

 ence in a constant howl with his volley of 

 stories and his clever knocks at the expense 

 of some of the men present. 



Ex-President Pritchard, who recently 

 moved to Memphis, praised the men he 

 found there and to show that he had good 

 cause called on Captain Barksdale, a "real 

 Memphis man." Captain Barksdale got off 

 a string of stories in the real old southern 

 style and also gave an interesting account 

 of his own start and rise in the lumber 

 business and concluded with some amusing 

 reminiscences of his initiation into Hoo-Hoo. 

 A. H. Barnard, president of the North- 

 western Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion, told of the work and spirit of that 

 organization, stating that its watchword is 

 "Get Together." 



F. S. Underhill of Philadelphia was the 

 last speaker of the evening and his Irish 

 jokes were a good panacea for indigestion. 

 His efforts were rewarded by a motion, 

 which was seconded and carried, to admit 

 him as a member of the association. 



The program was concluded with a solo 

 effectively rendered by E. V. Stewart, fol- 

 lowed by a selection by the quartet. 



List of Attendants 



C. J. Roach, Walnut Lumber Company, Indian- 

 apolis. 



M. .T. Barnard, Central Veneer Company, In- 

 dianapolis. 



M. B. Taylor, Taylor & Mason, Buffalo. 



