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volume of water piled up and the extent of the damage wrought, was 

 surpassed but slightly by the record flood of 1SS4. Lumbermen cannot 

 remember having had to contend with two floods in one year, and conse- 

 quently the second trouble of this kind coming in 1013 seemed to vindicate 

 the ill omen of the date. The river's rise was rapid as the waters of 

 the swollen streams of Ohio and Indiana as well as those of Kentucky 

 poured into the overburdened channel. The Toint was flooded again, and 

 many industries along Beargrass creek were put out of commission by 

 the backwaters of the river. Though the river is now rapidly receding 

 and will be at normal stage in a few days, much remains to be done 

 before the situation can be pronounced normal. Lumber concerns at 

 Maysville and Paducah on the Ohio river, Hickman on the Mississippi. 

 and at many points on the Kentucky river, were damaged by the flood, 

 which invaded plants supposed to be immune. As the result of the 

 widespread devastation, greater attention is now being given to plans 

 tor building a dike around the Point in Louisville, and the municipal 

 authorities are arranging for a survey of the situation to be made by 

 Federal engineers. 



The worst feature of the situation, from the standpoint of lumbermen 

 not directly affected by the flood, was the paralysis of mail and freight 

 services. The former was the first to recover, though much Chicago. 

 Indianapolis and other northern mail arrived in Louisville ten days 

 overdue. Freight traific was completely demoralized, and even now* few 

 of the roads are able to handle cars with any satisfaction to themselves 

 or their customers. The prospect is for a great tie-up of freight through- 

 out the Middle West, as shippers from all sections are now pu.shing 

 •overdue consignments into that territory, where the railroads are utterly 

 unable to cope with the situation. They have put embargoes on as much 

 as possible, but the moment one is lifted a veritable flood of freight pours 

 in. Hence lumbermen may expect to worry chiefly with this phase of the 

 situation during the next few weeks. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has arranged to resume the series of 

 business papers which were such a pleasant feature of its work last 

 year. Assignments were made by firms, and two representatives of 

 -each concern will make talks. G. D. Crain, Jr., secretary of the club, 

 started the series Apr. 8, and the following will appear on the dates 

 named : D. K. Kline. Louisville Veneer Mills, Apr. 15 ; C. M. Sears, 

 Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, Apr. 22 ; T. M. Brown, W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company, Apr. 29 : A. E. Norman, Norman Lumber 

 Company, May 6 ; Stuart R. Cecil, Booker-Cecil Company, May 13 ; P. G. 

 Booker, Booker-Cecil Company, May 20 ; R. F. Smith, Ohio River Saw 

 Mill Company, May 27 ; Berry Norman, Norman Lumber Company, Juu. 

 3 ; Edward S. Shippen, Louisville Point Lumber Company, Jun. 10 ; H. 

 E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills, Jun. 17 ; Edward L. Davis, Edw. L. 

 Davis Lumber Company, Jun. 24 ; Ohio River Saw Mill Company, Jul. 1 ; 

 W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Jul. 8, and Smith Milton, Louis- 

 ville Point Lumber Company. Jul. 1.5. 



P. G. Booker has been elected president of the Booker-Cecil Company. 

 which was recently incorporated with $50,000 capital stock. John 

 Churchill is vice-president and Stuart R. Cecil secretary and treasurer. 



VT. V. Shepardson, secretary and treasurer of the Anderson Veneer 

 & Saw Mill Company, recently resigned in order to take up the study of 

 osteopathy. He was succeeded by August Kahler, who has been with the 

 company for some time. 



A state forestry association will be formed in Louisville during the 

 meeting of the Kentucky Educational Association, which meets Apr. 30. 



Local hardwood men are much interested in the announcement that 

 printed copies of the proposed amendments of the rules of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association will be Issued shortly, so as to enable 

 them to be considered prior to the annual meeting of the association in 

 Chicago. The amendments will be thoroughly discussed in advance of the 

 meeting, so as to enable them to be disposed of at the convention with a 

 minimum amount of trouble. 



The Chesapeake & Ohio has contracted for the immediate construction 

 of its 22-mile extension up Beaver creek, and work on it will be begun 

 at once. The cost of the extension will total .$300,000. It will open 

 up an important section of timber country which at present is not 

 equipped with transportation facilities. 



Louisville lumbermen are taking a prominent part in the work of the 

 commercial club, which, with the co-operation of other organizations, is 

 raising a fund of $500,000 for the purpose of assisting new industries (•; 

 start here. The plan is to take stock in deserving enterprises, this 

 stock to be retired as the companies get on their feet financially. 



The American Creosoting Company, which has ofiices in Louisville, has 

 let contracts for the equipment of two new plants which it is building, 

 one at Indianapolis and the other in Canada. The Louisville & Nashville 

 has also let contracts for the equipmont of its $40,000 creosoting station 

 at Guthrie, Ky. 



.-< ST. LOUIS y 



The receipts of lumber by rail at this center, during the month of- 

 March this year, as reported by the St. Louis Merchants Exchange, were 

 11,746 cars. During March last year the receipts were 13,769 cars, 

 thus showing a loss in receipts this March of 2,023 cars. This falling 

 off was due to the weather conditions. Shipments of lumber by rail 

 last month were 12,650 cars while a year ago the shipments were 

 9.879 cars, a gain over the corresponding month last year of 2,771 cars. 



There were no receipts or shipments made by river cither this year or last. 



P. H. Smith, president of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis and 

 also president of the Smith-Sueme Lumber Company, was the principal 

 speaker at the monthly banquet and business meeting of the St. Louis 

 Furniture Board of Trade, held a couple of weeks ago. The topic of 

 his talks was Lumber Inspection. 



The most radical measure ever introduced in the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 was adopted at its last meeting. Tiiis was the enlargement of the character 

 and scope of the exchange by making it the nucleus of a national 

 inspection organization for concerns not affiliated with the Yellow" Pine 

 Manufacturers' Association, by taking into the organization and giving 

 them the benefit of inspection, a number of wholesale yellow pine 

 concerns who were excluded from membership in the Yellow Pine Manu- 

 facturers' Association recently. The idea was conceived by President 

 Smith of the exchange. A committee is at work formulating plans, 

 which will be announced later. Already a number of out-of-town yellow 

 pine wliolesalers and hardwood manufacturers have Joined or have 

 signified their intention to do so at the proper time. It is the intention 

 of the exchange to furnish these firms with an inspector, not only in 

 St. Louis, but an inspector who will be subject to their requests to do 

 out-of-town work. 



The inspector of the Lumbermen's Exchange, E. L. Watkins. whose 

 family still resides in Anderson, Ind., received a wire from them a few 

 days ago that the household effects which had been packed, preparatory 

 to being moved to St. Louis, where Mr. Watkins intends to reside in the 

 future, had all been swept away by the flood. He is now over there 

 looking after them. 



Advices have been received here that the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission has further suspended advances in hardwood rates from Memphis 

 to New Orleans until Sept. 30. 



R. F. Krebs of fhe Krebs-Scheve Lumber Company and Miss Gertrude 

 Nepper were married here on Mar. 29. They will be at home after Apr. 14. 



President T. C. Whitmarsh of the Lumbermen's Club has named W. E. 

 Grayson, president of the Grayson-McLeod Lumber Company, as vice- 

 chairman of the traffic committee of the club to assist Thos. E. Powe of 

 the Thos. E. Powe Lumber Company in his duties. These two gentlemen, 

 with E. E. Eversull, traffic manager of the W. T. Ferguson Lumber 

 Company, and George Reeves, traffic manager of the Chicago Lumber 

 & Coal Company, two well known traffic experts, as the two other 

 members of the committee. These appointments were made because the 

 traffic matters of the club are growing since this has been made one 

 of the features of the organization and it promises to grow more in 

 importance before the year ends. All traffic matters which may come 

 before the club from time to time will be handled by this committee. 

 The personnel of the committee is a very strong one, probably the 

 strongest on traffic matters of any lumber club in the country. 



The lumber fraternity of this city did their share in subscribing to 

 the Ohio and Indiana flood fund. The Lumbermen's Club and the 

 Lumber Dealers' Association joined forces and sent out an appeal to 

 their members who responded liberally and quickly. The committees 

 were made up of J. A. Rebels, Julius Seidel and Stephen H. Gavin of 

 the Lumber Dealers' Association, and W. E. Barns, C. M. Jennings and 

 T. C. Whitmarsh of the Lumbermen's Club. The subscriptions amounted 

 to nearly $700, in spite of the tact that many of the members of the 

 two organizations sent in subscriptions direct to the Red Cross Society 

 before the joint appeal was received. The Lumbermen's Exchange did 

 likewise and responses came in quickly from them. 



.-< MILWAUKEE y 



The Burdick Cabinet Company, recently noted as having incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $150,000 at Milton, has purchased a factory site 

 and building operations will begin at once. At a recent stockholders' 

 meeting, the following directors were elected : Fred F. Burdick, presi- 

 dent ; Dr. A. S. Maxson, vice-president ; Allan B. West, secretary ; B. H. 

 Wells, treasnrer ; Dr. G. E. Crosby and George W. Coon. 



Among the new manufacturing plants to begin operations in Tomahawk 

 during the past two weeks is the Tomahawk Stave and Heading Com- 

 pany. The plant has been equipped and work has been started. 



An annex 108 feet long and 64 feet wide has been completed at the 

 plant of the Marinette & Menominee Box Company, at Marinette. It has 

 been equipped with three bolting machines and a sawdust and bark con- 

 veyor. Twenty additional men are given employment In the new depart- 

 ment of the factory. 



The Haslam Lake Timber and Logging Company has been incorporated 

 at Janesvile, with a capital stock of $300,000. O. E. Oestrelch, L. A. 

 Avery and L. Westlake are named as incorporators. The same princi- 

 pals have also incorporated the Gordon-Pasha Timber Company of Janes- 

 ville, with a capital stock of $100,000. 



An amendment of the incorporation articles of the Oscar A. Anderson 

 Lumber Company of Janesville, has been filed. The capital stock Is in- 

 creased from $30,000 to $50,000. 



The Superior Lumber Company has been Incorporated at Superior by 

 Harris W. Erlanson, C. L. Erlanson, G. M. McFarlin and Eva G. Erlan- 

 son. The capital stock of the concern Is placed at $10,000. 



The Bradley Estate Company has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $26,000, divided in 200 shares of $100 each. Miss Alice Bradley, 



