HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Entertainment for National Visitors at Louisville 



Louisville has always beeu on the lumber 

 map, but it is perhaps true that it has never 

 been there in such big letters as it is today. 

 One of the principal reasons for this is that 

 the metropolis of Kentucky, dear old ' ' Looey- 

 ville, " is the place where the annual conven- 

 tion of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation will be pulled off June 9 and 10. 



The convention is to be important in the 

 way of business, according to the oflScers of 

 the association, and plethoric in point of at- 

 tendance. The members of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club, who are to be the hosts on 

 this occasion, believe that fully 7.50 and possi- 

 bly 1,000 lumbermen will be present at the 

 sessions which will be held in the roof garden 

 auditorium of the Seelbach hotel next month. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is under- 

 taking a big "stunt" in entertaining this 

 convention. The club and its "liveness" are 

 well known to the hardwood trade. When it 

 is considered that only last year the club 

 played the part of host to the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, and that it has not 

 yet reached its second birthday, some idea 

 can be formed of what sort of fellows belong 

 to the Hardwood Club. 



The club has ten firms enrolled on its mem- 

 bership list, and they have pitched into the 

 convention arrangements with the determina- 

 tion that the ancient reputation of Kentucky 

 for ho.spitaUty and good cheer is to be up- 

 held. 



The club had its weekly dinner at the Seel- 

 bach a few days ago, when plans were pro- 

 posed, discussed and adopted for entertaining 

 the hardwood lumbermen who get off at Louis- 

 ville in June. Finally it was decided to en- 

 trust the whole thing to a special committee 



composed of the heads of the concerns which 

 lire members of the club. These official wel- 

 comers will be kept busy, as well as the good 

 fellows who will be then- first lieutenants and 

 able assistants: 



A. E. Xorman, of the Norman Lumber 

 Company. 



Clarence E. Mengel, of C. C. Mcngel & 

 Bro. Co. 



Charles C. Mengel, of the Mengel Box 

 Company. 



Thomas Martin Brown, of W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Co. 



Edward L. Shippen, of the Louisville Point 

 Lumber Company. 



Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co. 



D. E. Kline, of the Louisville Veneer Mills. 



Edward L. Davis, of the Edw. L. Davis 

 Lumber Company. 



H. A. McCowen, of the Ohio Eiver Saw 

 Mill Company. 



Frank Platter, of the North Vernon Lum- 

 ber Company. 



The details of the entertainment have been 

 worked out by the entertainment committee, 

 composed of T. M. Brown, Barry Norman and 

 Claude Sears, and while formal announce- 

 ment of the program has not yet been made, 

 pending the official 0. k. of the association, 

 to which it has been submitted in order that 

 there may be no conflicts between duty and 

 pleasure, it is pretty well known what will be 

 provided. 



There will be a smoker on the first day for 

 the gentlemen of the convention, and on the 

 second a banquet the proportions of which 

 are known only to Louis Seelbach, the genial 

 host, whose fame is almost world-wide. 



In addition to the banquet and smoker, 

 plans are being made to visit all points of 



interest in the city, the parks, which are re- 

 garded as among the finest in the country, 

 the wholesale district, containing the famous 

 tobacco breaks, where more leaf tobacco is 

 sold than anywhere else in the world ; and the 

 whiskey district, where the stuff that made 

 Kentucky famous is bottled and barreled and 

 sent all over this terrestrial globe. 



Of course the ladies will be taken care 

 of, and the wives of members of the Hard- 

 wood Club have been unofficially designated in 

 connection with that end of the program. 

 Ladies who come to Louisville will have a 

 delightful time, for Kentucky women, like 

 other Kentuckians, know how to make visitors 

 feel at home and have a good time. Auto- 

 mobile rides, trips to the out-of-door resorts, 

 will be features of the entertainment provided 

 for the fair sex. It is possible that immedi- 

 ately following the convention an excursion 

 v.ill be arranged to Mammoth Cave, which is 

 only a short distance from Louisville. Of 

 course, the men will be " in " on this. 



The Seelbach hotel, in which the convention 

 will be held, is regarded as the finest in the 

 South. It is ten stories in height, absolutely 

 fireproof, and contains ample accommodations 

 for the lumbermen. The proprietors, Louis 

 and Otto Seelbach, are wizards of hotel keep- 

 ing, and have planned to turn their house 

 over to the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation during the two days of the convention. 

 One point which should be remembered is that 

 while most of the South is dry, and that while 

 nearly every county in Kentucky has voted 

 the demon rum out of its corporate limits, 

 Louisville is still an oasis in the desert. 



Louisville won the pennant in the American 

 Association of Baseball Clubs last year, and 

 in order to allow those who are so inclined to 



A (,l:iiLl- UF LOUISVILLE LU.MliLKMK.N WHO WILL WELCOME THE N. H. L. A. COXVENTIUX \. 



