Northern Counties and Sacramento Valley Clubs Meet

Meetings of the recently organized Northern Counties Lumbermen's Club and the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club were held at the Hotel Senator. Sacrarnento, on Saturday, October 19.

Northern Counties Club Meeting

The Northern Counties Club held an execirtive meeting at 10 a.m., at which the following officers were elected: President, E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn; vice-president, I. E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co., Chico; Secretary, C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento; Treasurer, James Tully, General Supply Co., Fair Oaks.

The executive committee consists of the president. vicepresident and treasurer and the following members: Rayqond Spencer, Spencer Lumber Co., Walnut Creek; J. B. Hazelton, Ifazelton Lumber Co., Orland; Isador Cheim, Union Lumber Co., Marysville; E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis; Noah Adams, Noah Adams Lumber Co., Oakland, and Frank Duttle, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland.

At the members' meeting of tl-re club held after the'adjournment of the Sacramento Valley Club, there was much discussion of routine business. President Rob:e presided.

The following chairmen of committees were appointed and instructed to appoint on their committees a member from each district: Legislative. A. E. Courtney, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Roofing, E. T. Robie; Doors and Windows, Noah Adams; Ifardwood Flooring. F. G. Duttle; Millwork, E. S. McBride; Brick and Tile, T. F. Holmes; Inter-Club Relations, Ira E. Brink; ResearcL, Jas. Tully; Membership, C. D. LeN[aster; Conciliation, E. T. Robie.

Sacramento Valley Club Meeting

President Ira E. Brink presided, and in his opening remarks referred to the clult's last meeting on the campus of the University Farm at Davis. which he saicl was in effect a short university course for lumbermen, and expressed the hope that this was the forerunner of a lnore comprehensive short course later on. The president also referied to the coming convention of the State Association at San Francisco on November 7,8, and 9, and urged all members to attend.

E. S. McBRIDE FLIES TO GAME

E. S. McBride, of the Davis Lumber Co., Davis, made a fast trip to San Jose Octob er 12 to see the football game between California Aggies and San Jose State Teachers' College. The trip to Oakland rvas made in a Boeing air mail plane which made a special trip to Davis on that day, and the journey from Okland to San Jose was made in the regular mail plane. Mr. McBride likes to travel that way and is quite sold on the advantages of air transportation.

After a short busin€ss session short talks were given by Victor De Marais, Yosemite Portland Cement Co., Sacramento; A. N. Lofgren, MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco; R. M. Beede, Antioch Lumber Co., Antioch; E. T. Robie, Auburn; Joe H. Shepard, Sacramento, and Robert R. Leishman, Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburg.

Raymond Spencer, Spencer Lumber Co., Walnut Creek, gave a snappy five rninute talk on modern merchandising.

L. B. Baisden, assistant superintendent of public schools, Sacramento, addressed the meeting on the subject of "What Is The Object of Education", and also gave an interesting account of his work in connection with establishing a model school system in the city of Longview, Wash.

Harry S. Stronach, of the Stronach Nail Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., inventor of the famous Stronach Non-Splitting Nail, and himself a lumberman, was the next speaker. Mr. Stronach stressed the imDortance of the retail dealer "keeping up with the parade", by handling every line necessary to make his place an up-to-date building material store, ancl making the point that it is logical that nails and other builders' hardware should be sold through the retail lumberman. He stated that the Stronach Nail is being distributed and sold entirely through lumbermen all over the country.

Members and guests present at the luncheon in addition to those already mentioned rvere: J. P. Brewer, Redwood Manufacturers Co., Pittsburgh; Homer Derr, J. M. Derr I-umber Co., Elk Grove; H. M. Isenhower, Holmes-Eureka I-umber Co., Sacramento; W. B. Dearborn, Loomis Lumber Co., Loomis; A. NL Larsen ancl J. P. Sullivan, Sullivan-Lars;en I-umber Co., Rio Vista; Newton E. Isaac, Corrring Lumber Co.. CorninC; O. I{. Miller, Knox Lumber Co., Sacramento; 1\I. 1\{. Daul>in, Sterling Lumber Co., Roseville; I\{. E. Coulter, Henry Cor,vell l.ime & Cement Co., Sacraurento; Harry Terrell, Hill & Morton, Inc,, Sacramento; D. J. Drummond. Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Co.. San liranci-qco; S. J. Hague, Lumbermen's Credit Bureau, Sacramento: Walter N. Baker, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, and W. T. Black, "The California Lumber NIerchant". San Francisco.

San Francisco Has Many Tall Buildings

San Francisco has 105 buildings of 10 to 20 stories, 19 of which are from 15 to 20 stories, and there are eight other buildings 21 stories or more in height, according to Charles W. Smith, executive secretary of the Building Owners' and l\fanagers' Association, who recently sent this information to the Literary Digest and other Eastern magazines which printed a story giving the number of San Francisco's buildings 10 stories or more in height as only 53.