HARDWOOD RECORD 



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NeWs Miscellany 



Nashville Liunbemien's Association 

 to Reorganize 



Steps were taken a few days ago to reorganize 

 llie Nasliville Lumbermen's Association, tlais 

 time placing it on an individual ratlier tliau on 

 a firm basis. The move was inaugurated at a 

 gatliering ol: several prominent lumbermen two 

 or three da.vs before the banquet, at which time 

 the banquet was decided upon. 



A number of lumbermen were present at the 

 Duncan on Februar}- 17 and after enjoying a 

 bountiful repast the meeting was called to order 

 by M. F. Greene of the Davidson. Hicks & 

 Greene Company, who was vice-president of the 

 former organization : the president was the late 

 .lohn B. Ransom. Mr. Greene stated the purpose 

 (if the gathering. He then announced the fol- 

 lowing Committee on Organization : Arthur B. 

 Kansom, W. R. Binkley. and J. R. Mcllwaine. 

 While the committee was out formulating its 

 report a number of lumbermen made talks. J. 

 H. Baird spoke of the advantages of an organi- 

 zation based on individual membership rather 

 than on a firm basis. He mentioned as excellent 

 examples of the etficacy of such plan the organi- 

 zations of lumbermen in the cities of Cincinnati 

 and Mempuis. Hamilton Love said Nashville 

 was ready to prove that this city is the principal 

 hardwood market of the world. Harry Bond 

 told some old-time lumbermen's stories. John 

 Denton and A. Loveman spoke in favor of the 

 reorganization. 



The report of the Committee on Organization 

 was then received from Arthur B. Ransom, who 

 prefaced the report by declaring that the lum- 

 bermen of the city should certainly get together, 

 stand together and let the world know what 

 Nashville is in the hardwood industr.y. His 

 committee recommended the appointment of 

 committees on organization, nomination of offi- 

 cers, and membership. The committee recom- 

 mended two tickets to be run for the offices, a 

 "red" and a "blue" ticket, and the officers shall 

 be : president, vice-president and secretary and 

 treasurer. The committee recommended that the 

 membership should be placed on an individual 

 basis and that the annual dues be $5. Another 

 meeting was recommended for the third Satur- 

 day in March at 1 p. m., at which time officers 

 will be elected. The report was adopted 

 unanimously. 



An informal discussion on ways and means 

 followed. Talks along this line were made by 

 Arthur Kansom, A. H. Card, Olin White, W. T. 

 Smith, .T. H. Baird and others. The Nashville 

 "booster" spirit pervaded each talk. The value 

 of exchange information was dwelt upon and the 

 necessity of broadening the organization. The 

 necessity for securing a return of the full ro- 

 sbipping privilege for Nashville was urged. It 

 was shown that Nashville stocks amount to 

 about ten million feet. The need of an executive 

 committee to act between club meetings was 

 urged. 



It is probable that under the new regime the 

 local organization will be broad enough in scope 

 to include in membership all those who receive 

 or ship forest products. Lumbermen, wood- 

 working establishments, casket makers, cross tie 

 people, handlers of poles and posts, furniture 

 manufacturers, etc., will be admitted to mem- 

 bership. 



Vice-president Greene named the following 

 committees : Organization, Arthur B. Ransom, 

 Charles E. Hunt, Hamilton Love, J. S. Denton, 

 and A. M. Trice ; nominations, S. K. Cowan, 

 Henderson Baker, Olin White, H. B. Bond and 

 A. Loveman ; membership, A. II, Card. E. W. 

 Pearson, R. T. Wilson, W. A. Binkley and 

 Alfred Faris. The Nominations Committee will 

 report two full tickets to the members in the 

 next two weeks. The Membership Committee 

 was autliorized to act on the eligibility of all 

 applications for membership. The Committee 

 on Organization was instructed to draft a plan 

 for re-organization. All the committees ap- 



pointed will meet at the rooms of the Board of 

 Ti-ade on the first Saturday in March at 3 p. m. 



J. II. Baird, Olin White, A. Loveman and .1. 

 S. Denton wore appointed delegates to attend the 

 annual meeting of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association in Cincinnati March 1-,'.!. 



Those in attendance at the banquet Thursday 

 night were : 



M. F. Greene, 

 E. D. Ralston, 

 ,7. W. Britton. 

 •T. R. Mcllwaine. 

 E. W. I'earson. 

 L. D. I'attcrsou. 

 Richard T. Wilson, 

 S. B. Kansom, 

 E. M. Underbill, 

 W. T. Smith, 

 J. G. Mcllwaine, 

 C. E. Hunt, 

 J. S. Denton, 

 J. H. Wade, 

 II. M. Greene. 

 E. Bartholomew, 

 James Kerr, 

 C. E. Dews, 

 J. H. Baird, 

 A. N. Trice, 

 John Eckstein, 

 II. C. Card, 

 W. A. Binkley, 

 C. V. Bryant, 

 Henderson Baker, 



A. Loveman, 

 L. Frank, 



Itaymond Thrasher, 

 D. S. Hutchison, 

 II. 1*. I'atterson, 

 1'. J. Loevcnhart, 

 John B. Ransom, Jr., 

 Charles M. Morford, 

 Olin White, 

 A. H. Card, 

 T. A. Washington, 

 Hamilton Love, 

 C. L. McConnell, 

 Joseph G. Scbeffer, 

 II. K. Wharton, 

 H. B. Bond, 

 G. H. Cheekey, 

 Arthur B. Ransom, 

 William Dunlap, 

 T. E. Crittendeu. 

 George W. Gilliiand, 

 Al C. Faris, 

 C. T. Dews, 

 M. C. Ewing, 

 Samuel K. Cowan. 



Meeting St. Louis Lumbermen's Club 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis held its 

 regular monthly meeting and dinner at the 

 Mercantile Club, Tuesday evening, February 8. 

 Dinner was served at 6 :30 and a musical 

 programme was given while it was being en- 

 joyed. 



President R. J. O'Reilly called the business 

 meeting to order. He said that the regular 

 cider of business would be postponed while S. 

 W. Thompson, field secretary of the National 

 Kivcrs and Harbors Congress, addressed the 

 mi nibers on the deep waterway question. 



Mr. Thompson stated that his heart was in 

 the waterways movement and that he would 

 do anything honorable to secure deep water- 

 ways ; he said that there had been a great deal 

 of talk about the tariff bill but the waterways 

 subject was of greater importance. He gave a 

 groat many interesting and valuable statistics 

 and figures on the importance of it. He men- 

 tioned the fact that the citizens of the United 

 States paid out three times as much for trans- 

 portation as they did for tariffs and gave details 

 of the saving by waterway transportation over 

 that by railroad and said that waterway and 

 railroad competition increased tonnage ; that 

 Ihe profits by the railroads in this country were 

 about a third of those in Germany because 

 waterways improvements are better in that 

 country than in the United States ; further that 

 countries getting revenues from their railroads 

 are the countries spending the most money for 

 waterways improvements ; that the United States 

 would get left in disposing of its commodities 

 unless it improves its waterways ; that the 

 policies pursued by this country in the im- 

 provements on the Great Lakes are foolish : 

 that the day will come when it will be possible 

 to send freight in bulk from the headwaters of 

 the rivers emptying into tlie Mississippi Kiver 

 and to the Gulf: that legislation should be 

 cuacted to compel the railroads to cooperate 

 Willi the waterways ; that railroads should be 

 prevented from grabbing waterfronts, as the 

 waterways are the best creators of railroad 

 business. 



W. P. Kennett, one of the vice-presidents of 

 the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, then 

 spoke and indorsed what Mr. Thompson had said 

 and mentioned the fact that the congress should 

 have the moral, financial and political support 

 of the Lumbermen's Club. 



Paul Brown, an editorial writer on the St. 

 Louis Republic, spoke for a few minutes on 

 the importance of waterway development, 

 especially free waterway terminals. 



A resolution was then offered by Julius 

 Seidel, that a vote of thanks be given Mr. 

 Thompson. 



George H. Morgan, secretary of the Mer- 

 chants' Exchange of St. Louis, spoke on what 

 Mr. Thompson had said and mentioned the fact 

 that the import,ance of the lumber industry was 

 recognized by the Merchants' Exchange. 



The regular order of business was then taken 

 up. The minutes of the January meeting were 

 read and approved. 



R. F. Krebs, chairman of the Traffic Commit- 

 tee, read a communication from a hardwood 

 lumberman asking that an investigation be made 

 of the railroad rates on Cottonwood and gum 

 from points on the West side of the river w'hich 

 .'iro two cents higher than those from points 

 on the East side. Mr. Krebs said that he could 

 got no satisfaction from ihe railroads. He also 

 stated that he had received a circular letter 

 from a committee of shippers asking that the 

 lumber shippers indorse the bill now before the 

 city council, authorizing additional track con- 

 struction in certain sections of the city. 



R. B. McConnell then announced that a con- 

 catenation of the Order of Hoo-Hoo would be 

 held on March 12, and stated that he would 

 be glad to show any of the lumbermen, who 

 might wish to join the order, the "dark lights" 

 on that evening. 



New Sales Office 



Alf Bennett, president of the Alf Bennett 

 Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., with offices 

 on the thirteenth floor of the Wright (Lumber- 

 men's) building, has completed arrangements by 

 which his firm will open a selling office and 

 agency in Houston, Tex., in order to more ef- 

 fectively handle its rapidly increasing sales. 

 The company has recently made several new mill 

 connections, the most recent of which is the 

 acquirement of the mill of the Holliday-Shilkee 

 Lumber Company at Todd, Tex. 



The new office at Houston will be in charge of 

 Dwight L. Dickinson, treasurer of the Alf Ben- 

 nett company and a young lumberman of ability 

 and experience. His position will be an im- 

 portant one, as he will not only handle the 

 output of the newly acquired Todd mill, but 

 also that of the mill of the Dayton Lumber 

 Company at Dayton, Tex., and in addition, his 

 will be the sales office for the entire state of 

 'lexas, where he will be in charge of the sales. 



The deal for the Todd mill was closed with 

 the Holliday-Shilkee company following a recent 

 trip of Mr. Bennett to the South, in which he 

 conferred with officials of the company on the 

 matter. The details of the deal were later suc- 

 cessfully arranged, and the matter was finally 

 closed by wire and correspondence. 



Meeting Wagon Oak Plank Exporters' 



Association 



A meeting of the Wagon Oak Plank Ex- 

 porters' Association, somewhat preliminary in 

 character, was held February 16 in the office of 

 Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association. The gathering was 

 called to consider the report of a committee 

 named to draft inspection rules embodying the 

 views of the exporters and governing the busi- 

 ness in wagon oak planks. Owing to the brief 

 notice given of the meeting, the out-of-town 

 members were unable to attend, with the ex- 

 ception of H. D. Billmeyer, president of the 

 H. D. Billmeyer Lumber Company of Cumber- 

 land, who is acting secretary of the association. 

 President Harvey M. Dickson of the Dickson 

 Lumber Company of Norfolk, the president, was 

 kept away by illness. Among those on hand 

 were Richard W. Price of Price & Heald, who 

 acted as chairman ; .lohn L. Alcock of .John 

 L. Alcock & Co. ; R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & 

 Co. : Holger A. Koppel, W. O. Price, L. H. 

 Bowman of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, 

 and others. 



Telegrams were received from the W. M. 



