The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-11
LUMBERMEN'S LARK
MAKE MERRY AT MIDNIGHT AF-
 TER DAYS BUSINESS.
Annual Gathering Marked With Hearty Good Cheer Over Good Things Furnished st New Ex-
 change Hotel.

With much of merriment and stimu- l lation, the scores of lumbermen treked last night across the hot sands of the Exchange Hotel dining hall. Youths
 were there and veterans of yellow pine trade were there. The entertainment of the lumbermen which comes once a year and then comes heavy is no re-
 specter of persons.
 The business assemblage of the Ala | bama-W West Florida Lumber Manufac- turers' Association may have been a | ering yesterday afternoon in one end of the hall much was said of low prices and and the it, resinous pulp. q3ing to the the was for serious discussion. Last night no one recalled what was said two hours before of stagnant de-
 mand for long-leaf or short-leaf yellow the pines and hemlock to the glorious draught of vintage after all. The man.
 ufacturers of those splintery things of saving the saplings below cost.
 F. J. Hughes of Sumter gave the first spark to the proceedings at the acknowledged most gracefully the honor of being named President of tho Association. He pledged his best ef- from impending disaster to their old position of prosperity.
 H. H. Shell. the loudest optimist of the Association. whose. spirits were as at the banquet, followed the Presi- dent. He bowed to his fraternal friends for the honor of Vice President fore. He was accorded the greatest ovation of all speakers because it was he who inveigled the crowd to hold their next annual convention at Bir- tnc afa Mia FNh nd new prohibition law was called to the attention of the memberS by represen- tatives of cities who tried to stampede the convention away from the Magic City. This was one of the silent trib- utes to the steering ability of Mir. She'll He Is now looked upon more than ever as practical lumberman of the first
 James IT. Eddy. the general secre.
 tary of the Association. had to uncork
 his swollen gratitude at being named
 for the third term.
 S. D. Dantzler, the patriarch of Au-
 taugaville, said the banquet with his fellows was astounding. He had heard of and had seen negroes eherishing the promise of a "nlgger funeral" but he had never seen such good feeling" at a lumberman's gathering during these
 times. However. he would not be a
 straggler and proceeded to make &C., tions speak louder than words.
 Then L F. Rollins answered the call of his anxious fellows. He dug up some Exchange hotel history and re- minded his hearers of halcyon days
 when he knew of the first lumbermen's s association ever held to his knowledge in the South. It was in the old EX- change Hotel when such pioneers of the trade as J. J. Flowers. W. w Wads- worth, J. NJ. Bivings and others made
 up a party who assembled in the cor riders of the old hOstelry supplanted by the present magnificent quarters The limit of the banquet was reached when responses were heard from the press representatives present. They were: James A. Kirby of The South . ern Lumberman; Ed. O. Wild of The | American Lumberman; George Guild of The Lumber Trade Journal and Chas. L. Harold of The Montgomery Adver- tises After hearing these sulphites followed by a special entertainment of l the mud man" and others of a local vaudeville combination, the banquet ' session dissolved at the midnisht hour.