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changes in rules that would be nearer just 

 to both buyers and sellers were carefully 

 threshed out, and in numerous cases the sug- 

 gestion of the buyer was incorporated in the 

 rules. 



If you would simply exercise your citizen- 

 ship in hardwood associations you could get 

 every reasonable concession that 3'ou ask for 

 in the way of grades, and you could be posi- 

 tively assured of a square deal on the lumber 

 bought. Why should you ask the members of 

 the hardwood associations to meet you at a 

 point remote from hardwood production to 

 thresh out matters of vital interest to you? 



Why, as an individual, did you not meet 

 them half way, and attend the conference at 

 Cincinnati. 



It strikes me that you have neglected the 

 opportunity presented and that you have no 

 kick coming. — Editor. 



Wants Back Numbers of Hardwood Record 



St. P.iUL, Minn., Feb. 28. — Editor IIardv.oop 

 Eecoed : We want copies of the following issues 

 of H.1RDW00D Record : October 2.3. 1907 ; No- 

 vember 10, 1907 ; November 25, 1907 ; Dcceiaber 

 10, 1907. and February 10 and November 25, 

 190S. How many of these can you furnish and 

 at what price? Could you "dig up" those num- 

 bers wbich you cannot furnish yourselves? 

 G. DONN & Co., 

 403 St. Peter street, St. Paul, Minn. 



We have supplied the November 2.5, 1908, 

 issue, but haven 't an extra copy of any of 

 the other numbers asked for. If any of 

 our readers are willing to sell such of the 

 above named Records as they may possess 

 G. Dunn & Co. wiU pay a premium for same. 

 —Editor. 



Have Had No Fire 



■JiiicAGo, March 7. — Kditor II.\i;DWoon Kec- 

 OKD : The trade paper called Venetrs, pablished 

 at Indianapolis, in its March issue announced 

 the destruction of the Bacon-Underwood Com- 

 pany's plant at Mobile by lire, and that it ^^■ould 

 be rebuilt at once. It is hardly possible that a 

 paper of your standing woiUd publish a report 

 such as this without verification, but at the 

 same time we take this opportunity of advising 

 you that the Bacon-Underwood Company has had 

 no flre whatsoever at its plant. — R. S. Bacon 



VlJXEEU COMTANV. 



Trouble in Business Men's Club of Cin- 

 cinnati 



Ever since "Lew" Doster, secretary of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States, moved to Cincinnati 

 there has been more or less trouble in that 

 town. Eight now, from sundrj' documents 

 that have reached the editor's table, there 

 are indications that his "sphere of influ- 

 ence" has reached the Business Men's 

 Club of Cincinnati. Just read the following. 

 — Editor. 



FIRST SPRING REPORT OF THE CHIEF GAME 

 WARDEN. 



We have resolutions to be presented to the 

 Stemwinders for their floral offering at our 

 opening. 



The Engineer's table wrote their autographs 

 on the menu card and sent it with their greet- 

 ings — we should return the compliments. 



The Stemwinders had the audacity to en- 

 deavor to place an injunction against us. We 

 liave a reply and defense tor the same which we 

 believe will keep us still in existence. 



I am informed that during the w'eek the mem- 

 bers have not been coming regularly to this 

 table, and should state tliat the eyes of the en- 

 tire universe were and are on the Woodpeckers 

 from the very beginning. Now we must keep it 



up. In the weekdays we must invite our friends, 

 our enemies, and everybody connected in the lum- 

 ber trade who are visitors, to come to this table. 

 By such concerted action it will become a regu- 

 lar down-town meeting place for everybody. 

 Lewis Doster. 

 March 5, 1910. Chief Game Warden. 



Bill of Complaint 

 Charles U. M. Atkins, Edward E. Shipley, James 



V. Taylor for themselves and others associated 



under the name and style of th'.' Stemwinders 



vs. Lewis Doster, Gregory S. Stewart, C. B. 



Stansbery, Clinton Crane, Thomas J. Moffett, 



Chester F. Korn and others associated under 



the name and style of the Woodpeckers. 

 To the Honorable the Directors of the Business 



Men's Club Company : 



This bill of complaint respectfully shows that 

 the complainants, Charles H. M. Atkins, Edward 

 E. Sliipley, James F. Taylor who sue for them- 

 selves and for others too numerous to set out 

 here respectfully shows : 



'I'hat these complainai'ts and others did here- 

 tofore, to-wit : about the year 1909 associate 

 themselves according to the rules and regulations 

 of the Business Men's Club Company as a table 

 club and that a distinctive and distinguishing 

 title for said club they did adopt as the name 

 thereof the word "Stemwinders," by which name 

 they and such others as have been regularly 

 adiuitted to membership have ever since been 

 known and called ; that said club further adopted 

 as an emblem a certain large clock which is sus- 

 pended over their table ; that by reason of the 

 fact that said name was first suggested and 

 proposed by j'our complainant, James F. Taylor, 

 the high standing of the members of said ciub, 

 their prominence in the Business Men's Club, 

 the fact that three or more of their members 

 became president of said Business Men's Club, 

 their victory over the table called the Knockers 

 in a certain contest called a "tug of war" at a 

 certain place called Laughery, the pleasing sound 

 and appropriate quality of the said name, it 

 came widely and favorably known as the title 

 or cognomen of your complainants so associated. 



And your complainants state that prior to the 

 infringement hereinafter complained of said name 

 has been generally known as the sole and ex- 

 clusive property of your complainants and their 

 exclusive right thereto has been acquiesced in 

 by all the world. Notwithstanding which the 

 defendants wickedly contriving and conspiring 

 unlawfully to acquire for themselves some part 

 of the fame and renown of your complainants 

 did form on to-wit : the 10th day of February, 

 1910. a certain similar club to which they have 

 given the name "Woodpeckers." 



Now your complainants show that the said 

 club of said defendants is greatly inferior to 

 that of the complainants in material composi- 

 tion and organization, but that nevertheless the 

 defendants are proceeding and will, unless re- 

 strained therefrom, proceed to palm off upon the 

 public the said inferior and spurious substitute 

 as being the same as your complainants, all to 

 your complainants' great and irremediable dam- 

 age, for which they have no adequate remedy at 

 law. 



Wherefore your complainants pray that they 

 and their associates may be decreed to have the 

 sole and exclusive right to said name and all 

 synonyms, equivalents or variations thereof, and 

 that defendants may be enjoined and restrained 

 from using the said name "Woodpockers" or any 

 synonym, equivalent or variation thereof, or in 

 any w^ay infringing upon said name of com- 

 plainants and for all other proper relief. 

 C. H. W. Atkins, 

 Edward E. Shipley, 

 James F. Tavloh, 



For themselves and associates, complainants. 

 Oris P. Cobb, 

 Oliver G. Bailet, 



Solicitors for complainants 



Bill of Exceptions 



Stemwinders vs. Woodpeckers. 



To the Honorable and Other Directors of the 



Business Men's Club Company: 



Affiants state to the honorable court that the 

 bill of complaint filed by the Stemwinders and 

 others has no basis in fact, or evidence, and is an 

 attempt to deprive the defendants of a popular, 

 honored and much sought name ; that such com- 

 plaint should in no sense be made by an asso- 

 ciation which has adopted so menial a device as 

 a clock, for "time was made for slaves alone." 



Furthermore, it does not behoove us to boast 

 of past deeds nor future iind 'rtakings. but the 

 filing of this suit compels us to say as did the 

 Irishman to the doctor. "You flatter us." 



The defendants further state that this asso- 

 ciation, if formed for the general improvement 

 of morals, and especially as relative to the use 

 of the English language, as per our constitution, 

 article 2.'i. section 11, to-wit : "No meml>ei- shall 

 work off any ancient or moss-grown jag. joke, 

 repartee, pun. allusion to or allusion of. or any 

 double entendre in connection (no joke intended) 

 with the honorable, true, tried and dependable 

 name of this organization, which has stood so 

 long, and may like "the Roman Catholic church 

 stand forever," and any other word. 



Furthermore, the defendants while partly ad- 

 mitting one statement of complaint that while 

 our organization may be inferior in "material 

 composition and organization." we possess that 

 which enabled Cajsar and Napoleon to overcome 

 the greatest odds : Brains. 



Now your defendants, coming into court with 

 clean hands, ask that the complaint be debarred 

 from further annoyance of the defendant and be 

 required to mark time while we stand erect on 

 our preserves, free from interference or compe- 

 tition in our rights to life, liberty and the pur- 

 suit of happiness. 



Wherefore the defendant prays your honorable 

 court that the case be dismissed, and if the in- 

 stigator of this accident or "the man higher 

 up" can be discovered that he be exiled to 

 the grill room and condemned to associate with 

 the Knockers for thirty days. 



B'urthermore, your defendants pray that the 

 brand of liquor which leaves 'a man in such a 

 condition that he cannot discriminate between 

 the Pacific Calm and the unpretentious word 

 Stemwinder and the expressive, dignified and 

 martial word Woodpecker be carried from the 

 B. M. C. 



Signed by defendants and by counsel for de- 

 fendants. 



Big Eastern Selling Merger 



One of the biggest deals in the eastern trade 

 was closed the latter part of February, when 

 after three days' conference among prominent 

 manufacturing and wholesale interests the Manu- 

 facturers' Lumber Company was organized with 

 headquareters at 27 William street, New York 

 City, with the following officers : Hon. W. C. 

 Edwards of Ottawa, Can., president ; Hugh Mc- 

 Lean of Bulfalo, first vice-president ; Gordon C. 

 Edwards of Ottawa, second vice-president ; 

 Maurice Preisch of Buffalo, secretary, and Van 

 W. T.vler, New York, treasurer and manager, 

 with Desmond N. Meighan, assistant treasurer, 

 and Christopher Cox, assistant secretary. This 

 company was formed for the purpose of handling 

 the lumber products of the following firms, rep- 

 resenting large outputs of white pine, spruce, 

 hardwoods, etc. : 



W. C. Edwards & Co., mills and yards at 

 Ottawa and Rockland, Out. 



Robinson-Edwards Lumber Company, mills and 

 j-ards at Burlington, Vt. 



Hugh McLean Lumber Company, mills and 

 jards at Buffalo, Cincinnati, Memphis, Chatta- 

 nooga and Birmingham. 



Haines Lumber Company, mills and yards at 

 North Tonawanda. 



Bathurst Lumber Company, mills and yards 

 at Bathurst, N. B. 



Cascapedia Manufacturing & Trading Company 

 of Bonaventure aud New Richmond, Quebec. 



This is practically a consolidation of the sell- 

 ing departments of these firms. The new com- 

 pany will also pay special attention to the ex- 

 port lumber trade. Van W. Tyler, sales manager 

 of the company, has been identified with the 

 New York trade for many years and is widely 

 known in export circles. He will be assisted 

 by a corps of five competent salesmen, and the 

 Manufacturers' Lumber Company will cater to 

 the trade of southern Connecticut, southern New 

 York, the state of New Jersey and the Metro- 

 politan district. 



Correcting an Error 



The Record regrets to announce that in the 

 last issue of February 25 appeared a very care- 

 lessly prepared statement in regard to the Un- 

 derwood Veneer Company of Wausau, Wis. This 

 item stated that the company had been incorpo- 

 rated with .$20,000 capital stock, when, as is 

 generally well known among the hardwood trade, 

 this concern has been in existence a good many 

 years. 



What should have been announced was the 

 amendment of the articles of incorporation of 

 the compan.v, increasing the capital stock from 

 $20,000 to $120,000. The company has the fol- 

 lowing officers : .T. A. Underwood, Wausau, Wis., 

 president ; A. W. Underwood, Chicago, vice- 

 president, and Otto C. Lemke, Wausau, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



