HARDWOOD RECORD 



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TIic; spoi'etaiy road a tPlogram from II. 11. Gib- 

 sou, advising tlie mombers that a package of 100 

 copies of tlie last edition of tbe P.iiLV Hardtvoou 

 Record liad been sent to t!io Rnsinoss Men's Clnb 

 for distribution. 



•| lir chair announced tliat a speod.v adjustment 

 Iiad been made of tlie tii-st case presented to tlie 

 new arbitration committee, to tbe satisfaction of 

 tbe contending parties. 



Tbe secretary i)reseijted tlie resignations of tbe 

 I'nitcd Building ^laterial Company and tbe Cin- 

 cinnati Hardwood Lumber Company, both oC 

 wbicb were accepted. 



Tlie application of tbe Xew Uiyer Lumber Com- 

 pany for membersbip was reported upon favora- 

 bly by the membership c^nnmittee and tbe execu- 

 tive board. Tbe chair ordered the ballot spread 

 and the Xew River Lumber Company was unani- 

 iiionsly elected to membership. 



'I'lie club then took up a discussion of adver- 

 lisiuK Cincinnati as a linrdwood market. This 

 matter was gone into at length, and it was 

 finally decided to make the rpiestiou of advertis- 

 ing tbe special order of business at the next 

 meeting. 



W. A. Bennett then spok*^ in regard to enter- 

 taining the convention of the National Whole- 

 sale I^iimber Dealers' Association, which will be 

 held in Cincinnati March 2 and 3. He stated 

 that tbe association will have a banquet for tbe 

 attendants the first evening, and thatbe thought 

 the t/incinnati lunibermen should furnish some 

 sort of entertainment for the second evening. lie 

 moved that a committee of five be ajipointed to 

 look after tbe matter, and stated that he wished 

 .losepli Bolser might be one member, as he bad 

 already been selected by tbe executive board to 

 arrange the details of the banquet at the Sinton 

 Mr. Bennett suggested that the entire alfair be 

 placed in the bands of tbe committee, with full 

 Iiower, and that Mr. Bolser be made chairman. 



The president then appointed the following 

 committee to look after the enlertainment for the 

 Natbmal Wholesale Lurabi'r Dealers' Association : 

 I'red Mowbray. W. E. Delaney. Joseph Bolser, 

 Chester F. Korn and B. F. Dulweber. 



Thomas C. Powell, vice-president of tbe Cin- 

 <-lnnati, Xew Orleans & Texas Pacitic Railw'ay 

 then addressed tbe club on railroad rates and 

 ether interesting matters. After some di.scussion 

 on this subject the meeting adjourned. 



There w-ere present : A. Schmidt, W. T. .lohn- 

 son, R. L. Gilbert, *i. M. Morgan, IC. Stemmelin, 

 C. Groves, J. II. Baird. .1. II. Wbaley. J. L. 

 Strickland, F. H. Duling. W. A. Bennett. S. E. 

 GilTcn. R. C. Hook. 1;. W. Hand. H. R. Welling. 

 .1. \'an Orsdel. J. E. Dulwelter. Kerd Brenner. C. 

 J. Allen, C. F. Sbiels. 1 1. Hinckley. K. .1. Wil- 

 liams, C. S. Walker, W. S. Sterrett, W. I. Roes. 



i'im; I'lii'i.Ai: I. lies bi;i,ii.m;i.\i; in ,). \'. sri.Msnx. 



I), C. Gritlnian. .1. Watt Graham. A. U. liei.eon. 

 II. U. Browne. .7. X. Powers, W. II. Flinn. F. !•:. 

 Radina. E. .T. Tboman, G. C. Ault. T. B. Stone, 

 S. G. Boyd. S. W. Richey, A E. Hart, Geo. Fred- 

 cricks, T. C. I'owell. M. R. Williani.s. N. L. Heat- 

 on. R. McCracken. .7. A. Bolser. L. S. .MurilocU. 

 I'. 1". Korn. F. E. I.inz. J. D. Serena. -M. R. 

 Short. .1. II. Wrbry. W. E. Del.aney. 



Some Poplar in Kentucky 



The Hkciikii is indebleil to .1. \'. Stimson of 

 Huntingburg. Iiid.. and (Iwensboro. Ky.. for pho- 

 tograijhs from v\'hicli the poplar pictures ou this 

 page were reproduced. Big poplars in tbe 

 Owensboro. Ky., section are scarcer than they 

 were in the days of old, but they have not ail 

 been cut out by any means. 



The logs pictnriMl w-ere ten-foot logs nieasur- 

 iiig from forty-seven to fifty-two Indies in diam- 

 eter. They were all loaded on one car. 'J'lie 

 tree cut ninety-two lineal feet out of the trunk 

 and a ten-foot log above the fork, making one 

 hundred and two lineal feet of logs cut from llie 

 tree, wbicb is one of the largest poplars that 

 has been cut in tlie state of Kentucky for a long 

 time. 



STlMSnX'S BIG KENTUCKY POPLAR Lm..- 



Mr. Stini.son advises that Ibis is only a speci- 

 men of a good deal of high-class poplar that he 

 is getting out of the Kentucky country at the 

 present time. 



Annual Meeting Pennsylvania Lumber- 

 men's Mutual Fire Insurance Company 



.\t the annual meeting of tlie stockholders o£ 

 tbe" Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company. .lanuary 2T>. a forty per cent 

 cash dividend was declared on all policies that 

 expire or terminate from and including February 

 l.-i, 1010, to February l.j, 1011. so long as the 

 condition of the company in its judgment war- 

 rants such payment. This is an increase of live 

 per cent over the dividend that was declared 

 last year. Insurance in force as at December 

 Ml. 1000, amounted to ,$12,40.S,0.j6, as against 

 $10,3.33..860 December 31. IOCS, an increase of 

 $1,874,195, Net cash assets as of December 31, 

 1000. were .$431.27.j, an increase of $72.6.j7. and 

 surplus (fifty per cent, basis) amounted to 

 .•«200..S80. an incrrase of $.";2..";30. 



("ifficers of compan.v were elected as follows : 



Edward F. Henson. president. 



Richard Torpin. first vice-president. 



W. Z. Sener, second vice-president. 



ICdwin H. Coane. treasurer. 



Harry Humphreys, secretar.v. 



.Tustin Peters, manager. 



Tbe directors include ; 



Edwin H. Coane. of Henry C. Patterson Com- 

 pany. Philadelphia; William O. Curtis, of Wm. 

 Curtis' Sons Co.. Boston. Mass. : R. R. Griswold, 

 of A. Roberson & Son. Bingbamton. N. Y. ; Ed- 

 ward F. Henson. of Edward F. Henson & Co.. 

 Philadelphia; Harry Humphreys, of H. lluni- 

 pbreys & Co.. Camden. X. .1. ; Louis A. Mansfield. 

 New Haven, Conn. : T. .\tkins Muipbey. of Mur- 

 phe.v-IIardy Lumber Compan.v. Newark. N. .7. ; 

 Hugh McLean, of Hugh McLean Lumber Com- 

 pan.v. Buffalo, N. Y. ; Albro .T. Newton, of Albro 

 .7. Xew'ton Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; T. F. Ry- 

 II. an. of A. R.vman & Sons. Wilkes-Barre. Pa.; 

 W. T. Sener. of G. Sener & Sons, liancasler. Pa. ; 

 William Henry Smedley. of Smedley Bros. Com- 

 pany. Frankford. Pa. ; Richard Torpin, of Rich- 

 ard Torpin & Co.. Philadelphia. 



The finance (ommittee is composed of Edward 

 F. Henson. chairman ; Richard Torpin. Edwin H. 

 Coane. W. 7.. Sener, William Henry Smedley. 



The auditors are : Emit (Juenther. Philadel- 

 phia ; Myron J. Kimball, Kimball & Prince Lum- 



