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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Amalgamation of Western and Eastern HardWood 



Inspection Codes 



Last week in New York was consummated 

 an agreement between the officers and man- 

 agers of the Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation of the United States, with head- 

 quarters at Cincinnati, Ohio; the New York 

 Lumber Trade Association of New York, and 

 the Eastern States Eetail Lumber Dealers' 

 Association, involving a detailed and specific 

 understanding of every feature of the pur- 

 chase and sale of hardwood lumber, and a 

 contract was executed by which the several 

 organizations work in harmony on inspection 

 and re-inspection for a period of live years. 



This agreement promises to guarantee the 

 most important results that have ever tran- 

 spired in hardwood lumber histoi-y, and un- 

 deniably marks the beginning of the end of 

 a system of universal hardwood inspection 

 between sellers and buyers in this country and 

 in every part of the world where American 

 hardwoods find distribution. 



To revert to hardwood history : for niany 

 years the old and closely allied New York 

 Lumber Trade Association has had in effect 

 local rules governing the measurement and 

 inspection of hardwood lumber. This organi- 

 zation, made up of both wholesalers and re- 

 tailers, reflected its system of inspection over 

 the entire eastern country, but the use of its 

 rules was by no means universal, as for years 

 some of the purchases of hardwoods were 

 made in the eastern section on the rules of 

 the New York Lumber Trade Association; 

 on the rules of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association ; on the rules of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States, and other transactions were 

 carried on by mutual agreement and inspec- 

 tion. 



Some two years ago leading hardwood 

 wholesalers of the East issued an amended 

 set of inspection rules called the North- 

 eastern Hardwood Inspection Bules, which 

 were afterwards amended and called the 

 United States Hardwood Inspection Rules. 

 These rules were never very generally ac- 

 cepted by sellers. 



Hence it has happened that the various 

 methods in use covering the purchase and sale 

 of the hardwoods in the East have led to such 

 a manifest confusion and general dissatisfac- 

 tion among manufacturers, merchants and 

 consumers that the majority of hardwood men 

 became convinced that it was to the best in- 

 terest of all concerned that an understanding 

 between all elements of the hardwood trade 

 should be had, and an agreement be reached 

 that would simplify and clarify hardwood 

 transactions. 



Local conferences in the East, and general 

 conferences between hardwood manufacturers 

 and eastern buyers ha\e been held for several 

 years, but nothing definite has been consum- 

 mated until a comparatively recent date. 



The first step of a practical nature was an 



informal meeting held October 19, 1909, in 

 New York between Bichard S. White, E. J. 

 Perrine, James Sherlock Davis, Waldron Will- 

 iams, Patrick Moore, C. 0. Shepherd and Jas. 

 D. Crary, all variously interested in the oast- 



R. M. CARRIER, CARRIER LUMBER & MANL'- 

 FACTURI^'G COMPANY, SARDIS, MISS. 



ItlCIIARD S. WHITE. JOHN C. ORR & COM- 

 I'AXY, NEW YORK. 



ern situation, and B. M. Carrier and Lewis 

 Doster, respectively president and secretary 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States. This meeting took the 

 form of an informal dinner, at which were 

 discussed in a general way the necessities of 

 an understanding between the hardwood manu- 

 facturers of the South and West and buyers 

 of the East. It resulted to a large extent 

 from the fact that the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association had opened a branch office 



in New York, equipped with an assistant to 

 Secretary Doster, and with a corps of in- 

 spectors to handle out reinspection matters in 

 that market. 



This meeting brought about mutual ac- 

 quaintances and confidence, and impressed 

 upon those present the fact that all parties 

 were sincere in their desires to not only work 

 with absolute fairness with each other, but 

 to accomplish a result that would absolutely 

 harmonize the ethics involving the purchase 

 and sale of hardwoods throughout the 

 country. 



After interesting other men prominent in 

 liardwood affairs, in both the East and West, 

 agreeable to instructions from the several 

 organizations named, a meeting was called 

 for Tuesday, May 31, at the Hotel Aster, 

 New York City, at which were present: 



R. M. Carrier, Carrier Llir. & Mfg. Co., Sardis, 

 Miss., president Hardwood Mfrs.' Association of 

 the U. S. 



Richard S. White, Jno. C. Orr & Co., New York 

 City, president Eastern States Retail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association. 



R. J. Perrine, Johnson Brothers, Brooklyn, N. 

 Y.. president New York Lumber Trade Associa- 

 1 iun. 



W. A. Bennett, Bennett & Witte, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. 



Patrick Aloore, Moore Brothers, New York, 

 chairman Committee on Rules, New Y'ork Lum- 

 ber Trade Association. 



R. H. Vansant, Vansant, Kitchen & Co., Ash- 

 land. Ky., chairman Inspection Rules Committee, 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 U. S. 



Jas. Sherlock Davis, Cross, Austin & Ireland, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Waldron Williams, I. T. Williams & Sons, New 

 York City. 



C. O. Shepherd, Davidson Lumber Co.. New 

 York City. 



W. H. Judd, Getman & Judd Company, Stam- 

 ford, Conn. 



Hugh Mcllvain, J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., 

 Philadelphia. Pa. 



J. W. Difenderfer, Difenderfer Lumber Co., 

 I'hiladelphia, Pa. 



.7. D. Crary, secretary. New York Lumber 

 Trade Association. New York. 



W. M. Ritter, W. M. Bitter Lumber Company, 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



C. M. Crawford, secretary-treasurer Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Co., Coal Grove, O. 



Leon Isp.acsen. vice president Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Co.. Coal Grove, O. 



Jno. W. Love, Love, Boyd & Co., Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



J. II. Himmelberger, Himmelberger-Harrison 

 I^umber Co., Cape Girardeau. Mo. 



G. E. W. Luehrmann, C. F. Luehrmann Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, St. Louis. Mo. 



W. B. Townsend. general manager Little River 

 Lumber Co.. Townsend, Tenn. 



W. E. Delancy. general manager Kentucky 

 Lumber Co.. Cincinnati. O. 



F. A. Kirby, sales manager Cherry River Boom 

 & Lumber Co., Scranton, Pa. 



Lewis Doster. secretary Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, Cincinnati, O. 



As will be noted by the list of attendants 

 the eastern delegates represented either the 

 New Y'ork Lumber Trade Association, the 

 Eastern States Betail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, or both these organizations; the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers ' Association of the 

 United States, and in the case of W. A. Ben- 

 nett, hardwood interests entirely outside of 

 any organization. 



The Eastern States Eetail Lumber Dea.lers' 

 Association represents the element of retail 

 buyers comprised in the sundry state hard- 

 wood associations covering seven eastern 

 states. It must be recalled that unlike the 



