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HARDWOOD RECORD 



C. R. MEXGEL, C. C. MBNGEL & BRO. 

 COMPANY. 



A. H. Ruth : Mr. Chaiiman — I move that the 

 report be accepted : that the secretary be in- 

 structed to pass the entire vote for the gentle- 

 men named as directors of the association for the 

 terms stated. 



Motion seconded by Mr. Pritehard and 

 unanimously carried, after which the secre- 

 tary cast the ballot as instructed. 



President Diggins : I wish to remind the con- 

 vention that it has been customar.v to have the 

 candidates for lirst. second and third vice-presi- 

 dents appear before the convention. 



Mr. Ruth : I move that a committee be ap- 

 pointed to escort the gentlemen to the platform. 



Motion seconded and carried and the chair- 

 man appointed Messrs. Guenther, Pritehard 

 and XJnderhill as such committee. The three 

 vice-presidents were then escorted to tlie plat- 

 form by the committee. 



President Diggins : Oentlemcn, I want to 

 present to yon your now vice-president. Mr. 1''. S. 

 Underbill of Philadelphia. [Applause.] 



Mr. Underbill : Mr. President and Gentlemen — 

 Unfortunately I am not able to make a speech, 

 neither unexpectedly nor at any other time. I 

 was absent from the room when thil honor was 

 conferred upon me, and until I had returned to 

 the room I had not the slightest idea that this 

 honor would \ye placed upon me. I want to say 

 to you that, recognizing the merit of so many 

 men thoroughly and keenly interested in the 

 hardwood trade of the United States capable of 

 filling the office and ready to make any sac- 

 rifice that might be necessary in order to fill 

 any office that the association might confer upon 

 them, I do appreciate it as a great honor that 

 you have chosen me to be the first vice-president 

 of your association. I am interested in the wel- 

 fare of the association. I have in times past 

 endeavored to show that by every word and deed. 

 I believe in the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation. I wish that I had the capacity for 

 making a magnificent speech, such as that which 

 you have just heard from the president of the 

 association, but there is only one man in the 

 United States that could make a speech like 

 that [applause] and we all recognize that fact. 

 It means a great deal to me to be identified with 

 such a man during his adminlstranon. I shall 

 feel that I am following in the steps of a leadei' 

 of men and a great leader for this association. 



I am sure that the year upon which we are 

 entering will be a great year, will be a successful 



D. C. HARRIS, t'. ('. MENGEL & BRO. 

 COMPANY. 



year, for the association, from every point of 

 view. [Applause.] I believe the hardwood trade 

 of the United States, for whose benefit the work 

 of the association is carried on, will receive con- 

 tinuously many advantages from the work of the 

 association during the administration of its pres- 

 ent president and its other officers. I shall do 

 all in my power to support Mr. Diggins as the 

 president of this association, and I stand for 

 everything he has said. [Applause.] I do not 

 know that I need say any more. If I had sim- 

 ply come before you and said, "I stand for all 

 that Mr. Diggins has said," it would have been a 

 splendid speech, the best that I could have made. 

 But I assure you of my heartfelt interest in the 

 welfare of this association and the hardwood 

 trade of the United States. [Applause.] 



A number of the members then called for 

 Mr. Stimson. 



Mr. Stimson : Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen — 

 1 have been informed that I have been nominated 

 and elected to this office, and 1 will say that I 

 will take hold of the third spoke in the wheel 

 and support, in every way I can, the interests of 

 the National Association and the hardwood trade 

 in general. I thank you. [.\pplause. ] 



Mr. Yeager ; I thank you, gentlemen, from the 

 bottom of my heart for this honor. I am in 

 sympathy with everything that the president has 

 said, and I will give you the best that is in me 

 during the year. [.Applause.] 



Next Meeting Place 



President Diggins : Gentlemen — The next order 

 of business is the location of tue next annual 

 meeting. 



Thomas E. Powe of St. Louis tendered an 

 invitation from St. Louis for the next con- 

 vention to be held in that city, and lie said 

 in part : 



Gentlemen, I have .iust heard that there are 

 G80 members of this association and that at least 

 GS5 of them are orators. But 1 am here repre- 

 senting the St. Louis Lumbermen's Club, an 

 organization of all the different branches of the 

 lumber industr.v in St. Louis, and I also repre- 

 sent the ordinary, every-day lumbermen of the 

 city of St. Louis. St. Louis is the nearest point 

 of any city of 200.000 or more to the geographical 

 center of the United States. St. Louis has always 

 been a good and substantial supporter of this 

 association — in fact, through the hard work of 

 its early members in St. L(uiis it became a suc- 

 cess. Our secretary yesterday stated that Chi- 



E. M. I'LA'rrEU. NOKTil VERNON LUMBER 

 COMPANY, NORTH VERNON, IND. 



cago inspected last year about 9,600,000 feet of 

 lumber. Chicago has sixty members. St. Louis 

 inspected last year 7.800,000 feet with twenty- 

 nine members. Memphis inspected 5,000,000 feet 

 with thirty-three members. Therefore, you will 

 see the financial support of the membership of 

 St. Louis was something like 75 per cent greater 

 than the support of the membership of Chicago 

 and Memphis also. The Hardwood Lumber Ex- 

 change of St. Louis measured in hardwood lum- 

 ber 3,600,000 feet last year, making a total of 

 lumber inspected under the rules of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association about 14,100,000 

 feet. St. Louis is the meeting ground for the 

 business men of this country, and I think if you 

 will come to St. Louis and partake of our hos- 

 pitality, even Colonel Barksdale will say, "My 

 God, I feel at home." [Applause.] 



Colonel W. R. Barksdale then invited the 

 association to hold the next annual conven- 

 tion in Memphis, and spoke in part as fol- 

 lows : 



Gentlemen, Memphis invites you to be her 

 guests in 1911, and we can show you that it will 

 be to the interest of the association to go there. 

 This is an association of business men. Wo 

 think the interest of this association will be best 

 subserved by going to Memphis next year. Mem- 

 phis has eighty-three hardwood lumbermen who 

 are eligible to membership. She has thirty-three 

 members. We think the holding of the conven- 

 tion there will be the means of bringing into the 

 association at least half of those who are not 

 members now. If you will go to Memphis you 

 will find there 500 sawmill men who will be sure 

 to want their hardwood measured by the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association. We want 

 to increase the membership to 1,000 during Mr. 

 Diggins' administr.Ttion. [.\pplause.] We do 

 not ask you to go to Memphis through any sen- 

 timent, but to get in toucli with the men who 

 make hardwood lumber. Go to Memphis in 1911 

 and in 1S12 your president will tell you, "We 

 number 1.200 men on account of our visit to 

 Memphis. The mayor of our town invites you 

 there. One hundred and sixty-flve hardwood 

 lumbermen, members of the Memphis Luml>er- 

 men's Club, invite you to Memphis. Every lum- 

 berman in Memphis invites you to go there. The 

 Business Men's Club, with 1,500 members, in- 

 vites you ; the president of the Cotton Exchange 

 asks you to come : the Merchants" Exchange asks 

 you to come, and every citizen of our town will 

 smile a welcome upon yon and bo glad to see 

 \ou. [.\pplause.] 



