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OXAL IIAKDWOOli LrMIiKIi ASSOl'I ATIOX. HELD AT I.< ^UISVILLE. Jl'M-: 1) AND 10. 



extreme appreciation on the part of ali guests 

 present at this meeting : therefore be it 



Resolved. That it is the sense vf this meeting 

 that our hosts have discharged in overflowing 

 measure every obligation assumed by them at 

 the time wh»''n Louisville was selected as the 

 place for this, meeting: and be it further 



Resolved, That the members here present ex- 

 press their hearty gratitude for the many forms 

 of entertainment which have been afforded to 

 them during their visit to this city, and that 

 they congratulate the members of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Lumber Club upon Ihi' eminent suc- 

 cess that has attended their untiring efforts to 

 make this one of the greatest and one of the 

 most enjoyable meetings that has ever been held 

 by this association. 



On the Death of Three Members 



Whereas. The passage of the years is bound 

 to leave here and there a vacancy in the ranks 

 of this association, and during the past year this 

 fact has been brought forcibly to our attention 

 by the loss that this association has sustained 

 through the departure for the great unknown of 

 three of its most beloved and loyal members, 

 George W. Stoneman. Foreman .S.' Hendrickson 

 and VVilliam A. Honsack ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That the members present at this 

 meeting avail themselves of this method of ex- 

 pressing their deepest regret for the loss that 

 this association has sustained. 



"As life runs on, the road grows strange 

 With faces new. — and near the end 



The milestones into headstones change — 

 "Neath every one a friend." 



Earl Palmer, Chairman. 

 John* W. Dicksox. 

 Fred W. Mowbray. 



A. K. Vl.NNEDGE. 



Orson E. Yeager. 

 Invitation for 1915 Annual 



Mr. Palmer: We have here a resolution that 

 was submitted to us by a New Orleans commit- 

 tee, handed to us by Mr. C. W. Robinson of New 

 Orleans, who wishes the privilege of the floor to 

 make a few remarks on the subject. 



President Agler : If there is no objection we 

 will listen to Mr. Robinson. 



Mr. Robinson : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen 

 — I take it that it is unnecessary to appeal to 

 the Intelligence of such a body of men for the 

 adoption of this resolution. There is a personal 

 matter of interest to the association, however, 

 connected with this movement that I desire to 

 refer to briefly. Some three months since a lusty 

 Infant was born in the city of New Orleans. His 

 sire was a New Orleans member of this associa- 

 tion and his mother was Miss Columbia. With 

 such parentage he knows no South, no North, 

 no East, no West, but a common country ; a 

 country whose equal has not yet been produced 

 in the onward march of civilization ; a country 



whose progress along all lines of human en- 

 deavor has been and will forever remain un- 

 equaled. This infant, after due consideration 

 upon the part of its parents, was named The 

 Lumbermen's Club of New Orleans. Now, on 

 behalf of this infant, the New Orleans delegation 

 is here to invite this association to meet with 

 them in New Orleans in 1915. the Panama Ex- 

 position year. There are many reasons why 

 New Orleans should have the exposition, and 

 there are some reasons why this association 

 should meet there in 1915. We are just expend- 

 ing $17,000,000 for a waterworks storage and 

 drainage system. We have just completed a 

 $5,000,000 sugar refinery ; Wf have exterminated 

 yellow jack. Louisiana is first in the production 

 of yellow pine in the United States, Washington 

 being first in the production of pine. We pro- 

 duce 75 per cent of the cypress of the world. The 

 time will come, before some of the younger mem- 

 bers have passed away, when we will be first in 

 the production of hardwood. We have excellent 

 hotel facilities, and we can promise you, if you 

 come to us in 1015, as good a time as you have 

 ever had anywhere. We will have the mocking 

 birds sing for you. not only in the daytime but 

 in the night time. [Laughter.] The exposition 

 will be held, I think , peradventure at New 

 Orleans, because it is the "logical point." There 

 are a thousand reasons why you should go to 

 New Orleans, and I do not know any reason why 

 you should not. 



We do not make this as a motion, because it 

 is a little too soon probably, but we want you to 

 go home and think about this. In 1014 we will 

 come to your meeting about 500 strong and carry 

 the convention down there. [Applause.] 



A resolution read by Mr. Palmer, approving 

 the idea of holding a World 's Panama Expo- 

 sition to celebrate the completion of the 

 Panama Canal, endorsing New Orleans as the 

 logical point for holding this exposition and 

 pledging aid and assistance in making the 

 undertaking a success, was unanimously 

 adopted, 



Mr. Palmer : Mr. Chairman — I have here a 

 resolution oflfered by Mr. W. R. Morgan of the 

 National Classification Committee of the Lumber 

 and Wooden Bo.x Industry, and I will say that a 

 request came to us for a donation of ?1,000, but 

 your committee feit that it would hardly be 



wise for the association to expend that amount 

 of money upon this proposition, and we do 

 not believe our money would do as much good 

 as our moral support. 



Mr. Palmer then read and moved the adop- 

 tion of the resolution, w^hich was as follows: 



National Classification Resolution 



Whereas, It is purely apparent from a com- 

 munication submitted to this committee by the 

 National Classification Committee of the Lum- 

 ber and Wooden Bos Industry of the iTJnited 

 States that a condition unfavorable to the lum- 

 ber interests of this country exists in the box- 

 making industry through the introduction of 

 straw or fiber board packages, and that the 

 above namnd Classification Committee is seek- 

 ing by honorable methods to remedy the condi- 

 tion by a reasonable change in the classification 

 of commodities contained in straw or fiber 

 board packages : therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association extend Its moral support to this 

 movement, and be It further 



Resolved. That the officers of this associa- 

 tion are hereby authorized and directed to do- 

 nate the sum "of five hundred dollars from the 

 treasury of this association toward the main- 

 tenance of said Classification Committee during 

 the next twelve months, and be it further 



Resolved. That the president of this associa- 

 tion is directed to appoint a committee of five 

 members to represent this association before the 

 Western Classification Committee at Its semi- 

 annual meeting at Glenwood Springs, Colo., July 

 19. next. 



John W. Dickson seconded the motion to 

 adopt the resolution. 



Mr. Morgan : Mr. Chairman — As chairman of 

 the Classification Committee. I had the pleasure 

 of presenting this resolution to the committee. 

 I hardly think it is necessary for me to make an 

 elaborate talk as to the work the committee has 

 In hand, for the reason that we have supplied the 

 members of the association with literature on 

 the subject of what we are doing. There seems 

 to be an impression in tlw* minds of some of the 

 members that we are trying to crush an industry, 

 which is probably here to stay, by securing from 

 the railroads a false classification of goods in 

 straw-board and fiber-board boxes as against 

 goods in wooden boxes. We simply want the 

 railroads to place the proper classification on the 

 fiber-board boxes, and place them on the same 

 basis as wooden boxes. We think the railroads 

 are discriminating against the wooden box, and 

 we want them to give us the classification that 

 we are entitled to. We think they would be war- 

 ranted in raising the classification on goods 



