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club, and that changes which might be neces- 

 sary later could easily be made after experience 

 had demonstrated just what was advisable. 



Treasurer Hoshall submitted a report on 

 receipts and disbursements, which on motion was 

 accepted. 



The next business of the meeting was the 

 election of chairmen for the various standing 

 committees, and President W. E. Watson ap- 

 pointed a nominating committee composed of 

 Farley Price, W. E. Hoshall and C. H. Rice. 

 This committee recommended the following nomi- 

 nations, which were accepted and the gentlemen 

 duly elected : Membership Committee, James 

 Boyd. Lumber Trade Journal ; Transportation 

 Committee, Frank B. O'Leary, American Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company ; Entertainment Com- 

 mittee, E. G. Westmoreland, Chalmette Cypress 

 Company ; Law and Insurance Committee, C. H. 

 Rice. 



The following names were then presented for 

 membership and duly elected : 



C. E. LeCrone and J. G. Rainwater, Robin- 

 son Lumber, Veneer & Box Company ; Will- 

 iam M. Lynch, Hoshall & McDonald Bros. ; H. B. 

 Hewes. Jeanerette Lumber & Shingle Company ; 

 J. F. Wigginton, Bowie Lumber Company; P. F. 

 Dunn, Ruddock-Orleans Cypress Company ; A. T. 

 Gerrans. St. Louis Cypress Company ; S. T. 

 AIcus, S. T. Alcus & Co. : Horace Brownell, 

 Berwick Lumber Company ; L. W. Gilbert, 

 Dibert, Stark & Brown Cypress Company ; M. L. 

 Rhodes and J. C. Rives, J. C. Rives Cypress 

 Company ; George W. Dodge. Napoleon Cypress 

 Company ; E. G. Swartz, Burton-Swartz Cy- 

 press Company : J. I. Sutherland, S. J. Sutherland 

 and T. O. Foxley, of S. J. Sutherland Company : 

 W. H. Sullivan, Great Southern Lumber Com- 

 pany : Fritz Salmen, Salmen Brick & Lumber 

 Company ; H. M. Gotten and Albert SL Gotten, 

 Gotten Bros. Cypress Company : W. E. Stewart, 

 Southwestern Lumber & Box Company ; W. Hey- 

 man, Friedlaender & Oliven Company ; H. B. 

 Turner, Phil I. Adam; E. C. Roehl, E. C. Roehl 

 & Co. ; E. Sundberg, Napoleon Cypress Company. 



Mr. Hoshall then offered a resolution, which 

 was adopted, stating that those eligible for 

 membership in the club are Individuals in New 

 Orleans or vicinity who are directly connected 

 with the lumber, stave or woodworking indus- 

 tries ; that no formal invitation to prospective 

 members will be issued and that anyone desirous 

 of joining should notify the chairman of the 

 Membership Committee. 



Mr. Watson, calling Vice-president Robinson 

 to the chair, offered the following resolution, 

 which was adopted : 



Wheeeas, There is a statute in effect in South 

 Carolina which provides a penalty of $50 to be 

 paid in each case where a railroad does not 

 adjust an intrastate claim within 40 days, and 

 an interstate claim within 90 days, and, 



Wheeeas, The supreme court of the United 

 States has decided that this law is valid and 

 constitutional, even though it applies to inter- 

 state business, be it 



Resolved, by the Lumbermen's Club of New 

 Orleans, That this matter in all its phases be 

 investigated by the Committee on Transportation 

 of this club, with a view of reporting at its 

 next meeting the advisability of securing a sim- 

 ilar enactment in Louisiana. 



Mr. Watson expressed the view that while 

 the South Carolina statute referred to only loss 

 and damage claims, and so far as interstate 

 traflBc is concerned applied only on shipments 

 from without to points within the state, the 

 decision was equally applicable to overcharge 

 claims and to shipments from within the state 

 to points without, and suggested that the com- 

 mittee consider also those features. Mr. Hoshall 

 suggested the matter should properly be referred 

 to the Law and Insurance Committee, and Mr. 

 Watson explained this would be done after the 

 Transportation Committee had made its report. 



Mr. Watson brought up the question of 

 weights, applicable when cars are rcwelghed, 

 referring to the position of certain roads who 

 hold that a greater weight should govern. The 

 matter was discussed at some length, Mr. Watson 

 calling attention to a recent decision of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, to the effect 



that a rule for the application of the second 

 weight was inequitable in the absence of a 

 showing that such weight was more desirable, it 

 being stated that this question as well as that 

 of time limit for payment of claims was to be 

 taken up at a meeting of (he Freight Claims' 

 Conference in Chicago during May, action was 

 deferred pending further developments. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



New Credit Rating Book 



The April, 1910. edition, which is the thir- 

 teenth volume of Credit Rating Book issued by 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Cor- 

 poration of St. Louis. Mo., is now being sent out 

 to subscribers to this excellent bureau. The 

 book contains all its regular features and has 

 been revised and added to, making it thoroughly 

 up-to-date. The greatest care is exercised by 

 the corporation, under Superintendent W. F. 

 Biederman, to make the list as complete and 

 accurate as possible, and it is certainly as 

 reliable as such facts could possibly be. 



The corporation issues a Weekly Correction 

 Sheet covering corrections, business changes, 

 new firms starting, failures, fires, etc. ; a weekly 

 trade report ; conducts a special collection 

 department and is in fact rendering most val- 

 uable service to its members. 



Monthly Meeting St. Iiouis Liunbermen's 

 Club 



The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of St. Louis was held at the Mer- 

 cantile Club. Tuesday evening, April 12, with a 

 large attendance. A delightful dinner was served 

 previous to the business meeting, after which 

 President R. J. O'Reilly called the gathering to 

 order. President O'Reilly then introduced Dr. 

 Hermann Von Schrenk, who addressed the club 

 on "Railway Lumber, Its Specification, Inspec- 

 tion, and Use." Dr. Von Schrenk's talk was 

 illustrated with stereopticon views and contained 

 a great deal of Interesting and valuable infor- 

 mation. 



Following Dr. Von Schrenk's address the 

 regular order of business was taken up. the 

 first matter being the reading of the minutes of 

 the previous meeting, which were approved as 

 read. Julius Seidel then offered suggestions in 

 relation to Dr. Von Schrenk's address, and he 

 was given a rising vote of thanks. 



Mr. Seidel, as chairman of the Entertainment 

 Committee, announced future plans for the 

 pleasure of the club. He stated that Gifford 

 Pinchot would probably be the guest of the club 

 at the May meeting. He also gave information 

 in regard to the proposed lumbermen's picnic 

 and river excursion, which will be held about 

 the middle of June, and suggested that the 

 invitation of E. G. Lewis of the Lewis Publish- 

 ing Company at University City to visit that 

 concern's plant be accepted for the near future. 



C. C. Hinds of the Bland & Fisher Company 

 was unanimously elected to membership. 



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

 mittee, then presented a report of the com- 

 mittee's work during the past month and called 

 attention to the difficulty which besets lumber- 

 men in the interpretation of the tariff now being 

 used by the railroads entering St. Louis. 



John A. Fox, general director of the National 

 Rivers & Harbors Congress, addressed the club 

 and made a plea for the extension of the water- 

 ways of the country. He reviewed what has 

 been done by Congress, and urged the lumbermen 

 to give their support to this matter. 



J. L. Scheve made a motion, which was car- 

 ried, that an invitation be extended to the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, which 

 will convene in annual session at Louisville in 

 June, to make St. Louis its meeting place for 

 the annual of 1911. 



A resolution was then presented by Julius 

 Seidel on the death of A. H. Schnelle, which 

 was unanimously adopted. A resolution on the 



death of Wm. A. Bonsack, expressing the deepest 

 sorrow and sincere regrets of the members on 

 the sad and sudden death of Wm. A. Bonsack, 

 was presented and unanimously adopted. Me- 

 morials were also offered on the death of N. H. 

 Clapp, Jr., of Warren, Ark., and Wm. Grayson, 

 one of the foremost men in the furthering of 

 the yellow pine industry of the South. 



Julius Seidel then introduced the following 

 resolution, which was adopted : 



In view of the fact that a great many saw 

 mills of our state have discontinued the manu- 

 facture of lumber owing to the timber having 

 been cut away, and in view of the fact that the 

 remainder of the forests are being rapidly de- 

 pleted, and believing that the matter of refor- 

 estation is of utmost importance, be it 



Resolved, By the Lumbermen's Club of St. 

 Louis, that we urge upon our governor to use 

 his best efforts to give this subject his earnest 

 and careful attention, with a view that the 

 lands which now can be obtained at a very 

 small cost be secured by the state for the pur- 

 pose of applied forestry. That a permanent 

 sum be set aside by the state for the purpose 

 of commencing this work in the near future. 

 That the Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis stands 

 ready and does hereby offer Its best assistance 

 in every direction for this undertaking. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Plans of the Biltmore Forest School 



A letter from Dr. C. A. Schenck, director of 

 the Biltmore Forest School, calls attention to a 

 number of changes in the plans for the coming 

 year's work as previously outlined. 



Following arrival at New York, the school 

 will journey to Franklin county. New York, 

 where It will be located until May 5. The head- 

 quarters are Hiawatha Lodge, Corey's postofflce, 

 where the students were invited by the forestry 

 officials of New York State, to study the forest 

 and lumbering conditions in the heart of the 

 Adirondacks. An excellent opportunity to ob- 

 serve New York State conditions and to get 

 hold of the forest policy of that state will be 

 afforded the students. 



Dr. Schenck has made arrangements with the 

 Champion Fibre Company, wbich operates the 

 largest pulp mill in the south, at Canton, N. C, 

 whereby the student body will be provided with 

 suitable quarters in a little village originally 

 built by the company for their loggers. The 

 entire village Is placed at the disposal of the 

 school, and suitable storehouses and commis- 

 saries will be provided. This settlement is lo- 

 cated at the head of Pigeon river, close to the 

 logging operations of this company, and an un- 

 usual opportunity will be afforded to study mod- 

 em logging operations, conducted on a large scale 

 with steam apparatus, railroads, etc. The Cham- 

 pion Fibre Company produces 200 tons of pulp 

 and fibre per day. It Is located on the Murphy 

 branch of the Southern railroad. The limits 

 adjoin Pisgah Forest, the George W. Vanderbilt 

 estate, on the east, and Highland Forest on the 

 south. 



Arrangements have partially been completed 

 to take the school to the property of the Little 

 River Lumber Company at Townsend, Tenn., 

 following the excursion to the Champion Fibre 

 Company's tract. Other arrangements are not 

 definitely decided on. 



The following monthly announcement of Bilt- 

 more doings for March has been received by the 

 Recokd, from the class president of the Bilt- 

 more Forest School, which has been studying 

 in the forests of Europe for several months: 

 "The first visit of the Biltmore Forest School 

 to the forests of Germany is practically over, 

 and we believe all will vote it a grand success. 

 Here not only have we been able to study condi- 

 tions which some day must be at least ap- 

 proached In the United States, but, though It 

 may seem strange, we have had an opportunity 

 to study American tree species, especially coni- 

 fers, which we could never find In as limited an 

 area in America. Such opportunities have been 

 made possible for us only through the kindness 

 of the foresters of the various states where we 

 have visited; to them all we give our hearty 

 thanks. 



