HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Thirteenth Annual Convention 

 of the National HardWood Lumber Association 



V. S. UNDERBILL. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



FIEST SESSION, JUNE 9 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association was 

 held at the Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, Ky., 

 June 9 and 10. 



The convention was called to order by 

 President Agler at 11 o'clock a. m. The at- 

 tendants were welcomed to Louisville by 

 Mayor Head, who delivered a happy speech 

 giving the association the freedom of the 

 city. Response to Mayor Head 's welcome 

 was made by Hon. John M. Woods, mayor 

 of Somerville, Mass., who talked briefly but 

 in his usual entertaining and enthusiastic 

 manner. A. E. Norman, president of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club, then gave the mem- 



bers a cordial welcome on behalf of his or- 

 ganization, in response to which Colonel W. 

 E. Barksdale, of Memphis, was called upon 

 for a few words. 



After these welcoming addresses, the roll 

 call of members having been dispensed with 

 upon motion, President Agler presented his 

 annual address, which was as follows: 



President's Address 



In submitting to the members assembled at 

 this the thirteenth annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association the address 

 expected, if not required, from the president of 

 this orsanization, I shall not confine myself to 

 the events that have come within the limited 

 purview of my administration but shall en- 

 deavor to present in concise form a brief review 

 of what has been accomplished by this associa- 

 tion since it was originally organized. I am 

 impelled to this course of procedure by two 

 reasons. In the first place, the coming together 

 of this membership at annual meetings is in 

 the nature of a renewal of the covenant that 

 has existed between them for many years. There 

 are those in attendance at this meeting who 

 were present at every meeting of the organiza- 

 tion that has since been held. To those members, 



J. V. STIMSOX, THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT, 

 HUNTINGBURG, IND. 



F. A. DIGGINS, PRESIDENT, CADILLAC, 

 MICH. 



I believe it will be a source of gratification to 

 have recounted in open meeting the progress 

 that has been made as a result of their untiring 

 efforts. In addition to those who have so con- 

 sistently borne the burdens of the association 

 through the heat of the day, there are those 

 who have more recently connected themselves 

 with the organization, and I believe that they 

 will also be interested to learn of the benefits 

 that have been conferred upon the hardwood 

 trade through the mediumship of the associa- 

 tion of which they have lately become integral 

 parts. 



The crucible of time affords the only satis- 

 factory agency for a competent test of men and 

 measures. By means of its patient processes the 

 rtsuits of sham, pretense and misdirection are 

 eliminated, leaving only as pure metal such con- 

 tributions as may have been made to the sum 

 of human progress : and whether these contribu- 

 tions be much or little candid posterity, as a 

 rule, gives credit for them at their full value. 

 As the years pass by they leave in their wake a 

 record of men and of their achievements, and 

 from that record alone, uninfluenced by predilec- 

 tion, passion or prejudice, a just and final verdict 

 is ultimately rendered. What is true of the 

 individual in this connection is equally true of 

 any combination of individuals having for their 

 purpose the attainment of a common object. 



Thirteen years of the existence, of the work 

 and of the achievements of the National Hard- 



O. E. YEAGER. SECOND VICE PRESIDENT, 

 BUFFALO, N. Y. 



wood Lumber Association have passed into his- 

 tory. The record for that period is made up. 

 It is an open record, and it is written so largely 

 across the annals of the hardwood trade that 

 •"he who runs ma.v read." 



The primary object, for the accomplishment of 

 which this organization was originallv effected, 

 as announced in its constitution, is to promote 

 the mterests and protect the welfare of the 

 hardwood trade. This statement of its purpose 

 is sufiSciently comprehensive to include all those 

 having for their vocation the production and 

 distribution of hardwood lumber ; and this lib- 

 eral attitude has been strictly adhered to at all 

 times. No attempt has ever been made, within 

 the lines of this organization, to forward the 

 interests of one branch of the trade at the ex- 

 pense of another branch. The fundamental prin- 

 ciple upon which the worli of this association 

 has ever been maintained is that the interests 

 of the entire trade may best be promoted b.v 

 serving the interests of each member of that 

 trade as a whole, rather than encouraging support 

 to any particular branch thereof, to the neglect 

 and detriment of the remainder. That there is 

 common ground which all members of the hard- 

 wood trade may occupy is amply evidenced by 

 the harmony prevailing in the affairs of this asso- 



F. F. FISH, SECRETARY, CHICAGO, ILL. 



