THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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left their teams found no positions await- 

 ing thorn. 



The different interests affected by tliis 

 strilie were hardwood lumber, retail lum- 

 ber, planing mills, box factories, lime and 

 cement, cooperage, sawdust and shavings 

 and team owners, involving, as stated 

 above, 135 firms. The strike was called 

 suddenly, without warning, and the differ- 

 ent interests immediately organized a cen- 

 tral strike committee, which was composed 

 of W. A. Bonsack, chairman, representing 

 hardwood lumber; W. F. Goessling, planing 

 mills and box factories; C. W. S. Cobb, 

 lime and cement; Chas. Wonderlich, coop- 

 erage; Adam Oswald, sawdust and shav- 

 ings, and Mr. Stevenmeyer, team owners. 

 This general committee met daily at noon 

 at the Lumbermen's Exchange and main- 

 tained an organization so perfect that all 

 of the concerns interested acted in thor- 

 ough harmony and the strike was thus 

 brought to a finish at an earlier date than 

 many expected. The main fight was on 

 the recognition of the union, the agreement 

 to employ none but union teamsters and 

 to discharge no one without first consulting 

 with the union, and it was these points 

 that the employers refused to consider. At 

 no time would the general committee treat 

 with the representatives of the union and. 

 as the men are back at work as individuals 

 on the old basis, it is a complete victory 

 for the employers. As a number of the 

 planing mills and wholesale lumber yards 

 have switches at their establishments and 

 were thus in a position to make country 

 shipments without the use of teams, an 

 agi-eement was entered into for the first 

 week of the strike whereby no shipments 

 were made fi-om St. Louis, and the time 

 was devoted to securing new men to re- 

 place the strikers. 



-Master Builders' team triumphed by the 

 score of eleven to four. More than $300 

 was realized from the sale of admission 

 tickets to the game. The money was 

 eiiually divided between the Children's 

 Country Week Association and the Chil- 

 dren's Sanitarium at Red Bank, N. J. 

 * * * 

 The Pennsylvania Railroad, it is said, in 

 order to provide for the future in the mat- 

 ter of railroad ties, is about to engage ex- 

 tensively in growing locust trees, and all 

 its valuable farm land along the lines of 

 the system adapted to such purposes is to 

 be planted with the trees. The company 

 has for several years been experimenting 

 with locust tree planting at different 

 points. It has gone about it in a syste- 

 matic and scientific manner, and the re- 

 sults so far obtained waiTant undertaking 

 the project on a broader and more ex- 

 tensive scale. Professor J. T. Rothrock. 

 state commissioner of forestry, is reported 

 to have been given complete supervision of 

 the work. He has made a careful stiidj' 

 of the matter, and no place is selected by 

 him for planting the tree until after thor- 



ough investigation as to its adaptability, 

 lioth as to climatic conditions and freedom 

 from insects, which in certain sections are 

 said to be a serious menace to these 

 trees. The company has numerous farms 

 throughout the state, secured in connec- 

 tion with right of way, either for new 

 trees or changes in the alignment of ex- 

 isting lines. Many of these farms are 

 tenanted, and the tenants have been or 

 will be notified to vacate from time to 

 time. The question of the future railroad 

 supply is one that is being given serious 

 attention by not only the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad officials, but by those of other 

 roads, as the great number annually re- 

 quired is rapidly depleting the timber of 

 the country available for such inn-poses. 

 Various experiments with metals and other 

 ties have been conducted by the Pennsyl- 

 vania and other roads in the past, but 

 nothing has so far been found that gives 

 the same satisfaction as the wooden tie. 

 It is roughly estimated that it will require 

 fully twenty years for these trees to suf- 

 ficiently mature to permit of their use for 

 railroad ties. 



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