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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NeWs Miscellany 



Meeting of Liunbermen's Club of Cincinnati 



Evidently Joe Bolser, cUaiiman of tlie Enter- 

 tainment Committee of tUe Lumbermen's Club of 

 Cincinnati, believes tbat the vfay to the heart 

 is through the stomach, and carries his doctrine 

 Into practical life by always providing an ex- 

 cellent dinner as the attraction to bring a goodly 

 number to the meetings. At the March meeting 

 on jMarch S at the Gibson House, a beefsteak 

 dinner was provided, with good old Cincinnati 

 lager as a side issue. While the palate was 

 being tickled with the viands the ear was de- 

 lighted with melodious strains from the cele- 

 brated Pork Chops Band. Coffee and cigars 

 being passed, President Clif S. Walker drew 

 forth from his pocket, not the familiar old jack- 

 knife, but his brand new gavel and rapping for 

 silence, said : "Gentlemen, you have the privi- 

 lege of opening business or listening once more 

 to the melodious strains of "Rings on My 

 Fingers, Bells on My Toes." 



The song was unanimously decided upon. 



President Walker then called the meeting to 

 order and asked the secretary to read the min- 

 utes of the last meeting. 



The minutes were approved as read. 



Under the constitution the naming of nomi- 

 nating committees to arrange tickets for the 

 annual election in May is in order. Eor the 

 regular ticket the chair will name A. B. Jack- 

 son, George Morgan and Sam Richie. The inde- 

 pendent committee named from the floor was 

 George Littleford, Chas. F. Shiels and B. A. 

 Kipp. 



The special order of business is on the report 

 of th.; Committee ou Advertising. 



Mr. McCracken, chairman of the committee, 

 stated that the discussion was held over from 

 the last meeting. The matter of advertising the 

 city as a hardwood market by the club had 

 often been discussed, but no definite action 

 has been taken. We should do something, 

 either as a club or as individuals. I am in favor 

 of the club advertising. We ought to spend 

 something. Other cities are .in the field claim- 

 ing to be the greatest hardwood market, and 

 we should bo recognized. It is now up to the 

 club to say 'whether we spend money on adver- 

 tising as a body. 



The chair called upon various members to 

 express their views, and opened up a general 

 discussion in which every phase of the situa- 

 tion was touched upon. 



Several newspaper representatives were pres- 

 ent, and a number of the members took occasion 

 to sa.7 that the lumber trade press bad always 

 treated Cincinnati fairly, and were of the opin- 

 ion that all should be treated alike on the ad- 

 vertising problem when it came to a distribution 

 of the loaves and fishes. 



As the main topic of discussion was on the 

 hardwood market, some of the members of the 

 club who do not handle hardwoods objected to 

 advertising Cincinnati as a hardwood market, 

 but Insisted that it he the "greatest lumber 

 market," owing to the fact that they were 

 selling yellow pine. 



After a discussion which lasted over an hour, 

 the whole matter was referred back to the Ad- 

 vertising Committee to report a plan with cost 

 at the April meeting. 



The resignations of the Galloway-Pease Com- 

 pany and the Queen City Box Company were 

 presented, and referred to the Executive Com- 

 ■mittce for action and report. 



A letter from the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association extending invitations 

 to their banquet to the president and two mem- 

 bers was read. The chair explained that the 

 additional invitation was given to S. Richey 

 and li'rcd Mowbray. Action was concurred in. 



A letter from the Trade Expansion Commit- 

 tee of the Business Men's Club was read, Invit- 



ing the club to send a committee to confer. The 

 object is to arrange for a large excursion of 

 business men of Cincinnati to visit various cities 

 and "boost" Cincinnati. 



Mr. Bolser moved to refer to a special com- 

 mittee of five. Carried. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, who was present, 

 heartily indorsed the movement, being a firm be- 

 liever in boosting, and relating Incidents of his 

 experience in the "boosting" game at other cities 

 where he has been located. 



The president appointed on this committee 

 Joseph Bolser, chairman ; Lewis Doster, C. M. 

 Clark, Mr. HoUowell and Frank E. Scott. 



Lewis Doster was given the privilege of the 

 fioor, and said that he was unable to attend the 

 l-'ebruary meeting owing to absence from the 

 city, but that he had been delegated by the 

 Executive Board of the Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association of the United States to express 

 to the club their most grateful appreciation of 

 the manner in which they had been entertained 

 by the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati on the 

 occasion of their recent annual convention in 

 this city. He said further that on recent trips 

 the praise of the hospitality of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati was on every lip, and the 

 club bad reason to be proud of its success. On 

 behalf of his association he extended their most 

 sincere thanks. 



He said that the man, who as chairman of 

 the Entertainment Committe, worked night and 

 day and neglected his own business to bring 

 about this magnificent success should not be over- 

 looked and moved that a vote of thanks be ex- 

 tended to Joseph Bolser. 



The vote of thanks was unanimous and 

 amounted to an ovation, during which Mr. Bolser 

 was flailed upon for a speech. He declined, how- 

 ever, by stating that he appreciated their good 

 will, but tbat be had never made a speech in his 

 life, but was willing at all times to do his share 

 of the work. 



E. J. Thoman, manager of the club bowling 

 team, stated that the club possessed a team of 

 bowlers which was the equal of any team of 

 lumbermen bowlers in the country, and were 

 open to challenges to defend their contention. 

 Cincinnati is not alone the greatest hardwood 

 market, but now boasts of possessing the best 

 team of lumbermen bowlers. Let the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club bowlers hear from the pin 

 knights of other centers. 



Chester V. Korn of the Committee on Per- 

 manent Quarters, on being called upon by the 

 chair, reported that the committee would be in 

 shape to report something definite at the next 

 meeting. He said that the committee was not 

 asleep on its job, but owing to the absence of 

 the chairman from the city a definite report was 

 not ready. 



John Long, of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Journal, was present and was called upon by 

 the chair for a few remarks. He excused him- 

 self on the ground that he was not efljective as 

 a speechmaker. The meeting then adjourned. 



very successful in the lumber business for a 

 number of years. The C. L. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany was located at Avoca, W. Va., for a number 

 of years and only recently completed cutting its 

 timber at that place, when it moved its mills to 

 newly acquired property. Just recently the com- 

 pany closed a deal for a large boundary of vir- 

 gin timber on which it will l>egin operating at 

 once. 



Large Lumber Companies Merge 



The Tug River Lumber Company and the 

 C. L. Ritter Lumber Company have been merged 

 into one compan.v and will hereafter operate 

 under the title of Rock Castle Lumber Com- 

 pany, with headquarters in the Frederick build- 

 ing, Huntington, W. Va. The companies are 

 both well known, and have extensive lumber and 

 timber possessions in Kentucky and Virginia, 

 operating several mills on their several tracts 

 of timber. The entire operations of the com- 

 pany will be controlled from the Huntington 

 office. C. L. Ritter, one of the large stockhold- 

 ers, Is a resident of Huntington and has been 



A Dangerous 'Wood 



A suit now pending in the Blackburn county 

 court, England, in which a sawyer sues a firm of 

 t-huttle-makers for one hundred pounds damages 

 for Injuries sustained while at his work Is un- 

 usual in the cause of the action. 



In recent years the scarcity of Persian boxwood 

 has led manufacturers of shuttles to substitute 

 the African product. Shortly after its introduc- 

 tion a rumor was circulated that investigation 

 had revealed the presence of a certain poison of 

 cai'diac nature in this wood. 



The plaintiff in this case maintains that the 

 sawdust which he has Inhaled has so poisoned 

 Ills system as to render him incapable of con- 

 tinuing his work. The subject has been a source 

 of general discussion between labor bodies and 

 employers, and the former have forbidden their 

 members to work on the African species more 

 than a certain number of consecutive hours. 



Forest Service Encourages Manufacture of 

 Odd Lengths 



The last annual meeting of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association at Seattle, 

 "Wash., in July, recommended that odd lengths 

 be made standard in flooring, ceiling, partition, 

 finish, moulding, drop and bevel siding, and 

 urged its affiliated associations to adopt odd 

 lengths as standard in these forms, several as- 

 sociations responding favorably immediately. 

 The Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation immediately adopted the recommen- 

 dation and began an active campaign for the 

 universal manufacture of odd as well as even 

 lengths In several forms of planing mill 

 products. At the present time practically all 

 of the largest mills operating in the Pacific 

 Northwest have begun to manufacture odd 

 lengths In flooring, celling, siding, finish and 

 rustic, and are placing such lengths on the 

 market. 



An investigation was made by the United 

 States Forest Service at a number of mills in 

 the states of Oregon and Washington before 

 the manufacture of odd lengths was put Into 

 practice. The figures compiled as a result of 

 this Investigation were obtained by keeping a 

 record of the amount of clear material of each 

 form whicli was wasted, because of the custom 

 of manufacturing even lengths only. 



In the manufacture of flooring. It was found 

 that the waste amounted to 1.67 per cent of 

 the total amount manufactured; In rustic, 1.66 

 per cent; In ceiling, 2. SI per cent, and In sid- 

 ing, 2.7 per cent. The average waste In all 

 forms investigated amounted to 2.07 per cent 

 of the material run through the machines. This 

 percentage, while seemingly small, assumes 

 large proportions when it is considered that 

 approximately 750,000,000 feet of lumber is 

 manufactured into planing-mlU products annu- 

 ally, In the states of Oregon and Washington, 

 the yearly waste amounting to 15,000,000 feet, 

 an amount equivalent to the annual growth of 

 wood on approximately 30,000 acres of good 

 timberland in that region. 



While Pacific Coast manufacturers are doing 

 their best to save this waste the retailer, in 

 certain instances. Is strongly opposing the 

 manufacture of odd lengths. It is his conten- 

 tion that the present building practice is 

 founded upon even lengths and that the saving 

 of the manufacturer, by the new practice, is 

 merely transferred as a loss to the consumer, 



