HARDWOOD RECORD 



LOUISVILLE AS A H 



The City. 



Louisville, tlie chief city of Kentucky, lo- 

 cated at the falls of the Ohio on its northern 

 border, is one of the great hardwood markets 

 of the United States. It has a population 

 of about 275,000, but with its immediate 

 surrounding suburbs, including also the cities 

 of New Albany aud Jeffersonville, on the 

 Indiana side of the river, it contains well 

 toward 400,000 people. It is the third city 

 of the South in size and importance. Along 

 the magnificent Ohio river it has a wharfage 

 of more than three miles; it has 75,000 

 buildings; 105 schools of various kinds, with 

 an enrollment of about 45,000 students; 156 

 churches; 190 miles of paved streets; more 

 than 150 miles of street car tracks; thirteen 

 banks and five trust companies; forty-two 

 clubs ; a splendid sewerage system ; more 

 than 1,500 acres of parks with connectiug 

 boulevards; a free public library with five 

 branches, and several special libraries. 



Perhaps to the world at large Louisville 

 is best known as the largest exporting point 

 }u the world for whiskies and tobacco, but 

 far from least in importance is the fact that 

 during the last few years it has taken ad- 

 vantage of its natural geographical situa- 

 tion, midway between the splendid hardwood 

 forests of the South and the consuming 

 regions of the North, to become one of the 

 lardwoocl distributing centers of tlie 



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i-uuutry, drawing upon a wide range of terri- 

 tory in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. 

 It is an exceedingly catholic market, par- 

 ticularly in its lumber wares, and annually 

 manufactures from the round log many mil- 

 lions of feet of mahogany, oak, poplar, ash, 

 liickqry, chestnut and other woods; it is large- 

 ly engaged in the production of veneers and 

 panels, hardwood flooring and dimension 

 stock, and is the chief commercial center of 

 the hickory handle industry of the LTnited 

 States as well. 



The stalwart bronze figure of Daniel 

 Boone gazing down into the beautiful val- 

 ley of the Kentucky from the summit of 

 the Cumberlands comes upon one suddenly 

 at a turn of the road in Cherokee Park. 

 It IS typical of the old days and the old 

 quests It IS emblematic of the homeseeker 

 of the West The city of Louisville, which 

 IS a direct lesult of Boone's descent into 

 this \alle^, stands perhaps first among Amer- 

 1 iTi I liimmiiiities as a city of homes. Of 

 tli( III iii\ .,!( it and fair cities in the United 

 "stitis I rniis\ill(, with its beautiful detached 

 dwcllingb and thickly shaded streets, appeals 

 to the Msitoi as one of the chief and most 

 .lUuung lesidence places of the country. 

 A\ hen Boone stood at the summit of the 

 Cumbeilands and chose Kentucky, rather 

 than another land, for the course of empire, 

 he opened a trail toward the sandy shores 



JIE CITY OF LOUISVILLE, BETWEEN THE BIG FOUR AND P 



