HARDWOOD RECORD 



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employed by the Edgffiekl & Nasliville Manufacturing Company. The 

 strikers demand a "closed shop" and eight-hour work days. 



The Nashville liuilders' Exchange had a successful outing at Priestly 

 Springs, on the Cumberland river, with about 500 in attendance. The 

 exchange is gaining rapidly in strength under the administration of 

 President R. T. Creighton. 



The North Kork Lumber & Timber Company of Jackson, Ky.. has started 

 a mill at Yerkes, Ky., and is turning out oak and poplar. S. J. Young 

 is at the head of the company. 



The New River Lumber Company has filed a bill against the Tennessee 

 Railroad Company, having the latter placed in the hands of a receiver. 

 Byrd M. Roliinsou of New York is receiver. The liabilities are about 

 .$31,000. 



Local building operations during .Tune showed a material increase over 

 last year, the city building inspector issuing permits for improvements to 

 cost $272,859, against .f92.027 for the corresponding month of 1912. 



A. B. Ransom and family have gone to Europe for a stay of several 

 months. 



"With bis family. S. I^ieberman of Lieberman. Lovemaii & O'Brien, has 

 gone to Babylon, L. I., for an extended stay. 



W. J. Loveless, .Jr.. secretary of the Southwestern Veneer Company. 

 Cotton Plant, Ark., which is developing about 5.000 acres of timherland 

 near Cotton Plant, was in Nashville recently and reported that his com- 

 pany is in prosperous condition. 



The Nashville Lumberman's Club Is having its annual outing, the 

 members being the guests of Charles M. Morford. president of the club, 

 at his country place near McMinnville. The lumbermen left on .Inly ". 

 for that place, and will remain about ten days. Mr. Morford's place 

 I Camp Lively, is located on Collins river. About twelve or fifteen member* 

 of the eliib will enjoy the outin?. 



■< LOUISVILLE y- 



Memphis lumbernion bavo oomplaiiiorl to hardwomi men in Louisville 

 that the Louisville & Nashville is not living: up to some of the reqiiiro- 

 ments of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Tennessee city wilh 

 regard to miUin^-in-transit. The matter is beina; investigated witli a 

 view to co-operation. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission will have a hearing in Louisville 

 July IS for the purpose of taking evidence in the case of local hardwood 

 concerns asainst railroads running into Louisville from the South and out 

 of Louisville to the North. The question involved is chiefly the application 

 of a bridge toll on inbound lumber. 



The Magnolia fJarden. a handsome resort on Third avenue, has been 

 used for a recent outing of the Louisville Hardwood Club, which has a 

 decided leaning for the chicken dinners of the Eight-Mile House, appar- 

 ently, as it has mot there twice cf late. 



P. G. P.ooker of the Booker-Cecil Company is ill with typhoid fever at 

 his home at Harrod's Creek. His physician does not regard his condi- 

 tion as serious, however. 



Colgan Norman, son of Barry Norman, vice-president of the Norman 

 Lumber Company, has been in New York, where he submitted to an 

 operation to relieve a muscular defect of the eye. The operation was a 

 success. 



Edward S. ?ihippen. president of the Louisville Point Lumber Company, 

 recently returned from a short vacation at French Lick Springs, .Ind. 

 He was accompanied by Mrs. Shippen and his daughter. Olive. 



While the vacation season and thr- heat always interpose to prevent 

 business from b.^ing as good in midsummer as it is at other seasons of 

 the year, local lumbermen insist that they have no complaint to make, 

 and that business is well up to standard ; in fact, better than it usually 

 is at this season of the year. Quartered oak has been especially good. 



The complaint of local hardwood concerns against the increase in rates 

 by the Louisville & Nashville, recently put into effect from points north 

 of Decatur. Ala., to Louisville, will be filed with the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission shortly, arrangements to that effect having been completed- 

 From the number of letters received by lumbermen north of the river liy 

 local hardwood men. the raise will be opposed by nearly every lumber 

 interest. 



Horatio Fullenlove, who had been connected with various lumber con- 

 cerns in this section, died recently at his home in Louisville at the age of 

 forty-eight. He is survived by his widow and three children. 



Plans are being discussed by Louisville lumbermen for an investiga- 

 tion of the cost-of-doing-business problem. The Louisville Hardwood Club 

 has taken the matter up at recent meetings, and plans to have a set of 

 questions drafted upon which to concentrate investigation. Members of 

 the club will submit reports, taken from their books, and in this way it is 

 hoped that some general conclusions may he reached which will be of 

 considerable value. Loroy Olcott of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, who is an expert accountant, is given credit for having 

 suggested the idea. 



The local mill of the C. C. Meugrl & Brother Company has been run- 

 ning at night recently, indicating that the demand for mahogany is hold- 

 ing up in spite of the midsummer lethargy. The company has recently 

 received a good many logs from its Central American producing stations, 

 and is in good shape for a long siege of manufacturing. 



The 'W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company is now shipping gum, as 

 well as other woods, from its new mill at Fayette, Ala. The company is 

 makintr its first venture in gum. and is much pleased with flie results it 



has been able to get thus far. the qu'iliiy of the wood cut up at Fayette 

 being exceptionally high. 



Will McLean, president of thr Wo<«l-Mosaic Company, announced 

 recently the purchase of new sawmill equipment for the plant which is to 

 replace that recently d.'stroyed at Highland I'ark. Ky.. from the Filer & 

 Stowell Company of Milwaukee. The new plant will be largely fireproof. 

 and will be double the capacity of the old. It will be ready for use by 

 September. 



=-< ST. LOUIS >.= 



Building operations during tlit- moiiib uf .luno were- satisfactory and 

 SOT building permits were issued for new buildings and repairs to cost 

 $2,206,415, which indicates a gain of about 14 per cent over the building 

 operations of Juue, 1912. In the corresponding month last year 855 per- 

 mits were issued for buildings costing §1,931,076. 



The Garetson-Greasou Lumber Company reports a fair volume of busi- 

 ness, with a pa^rtieularly good demand for oak. The company's mills are 

 working full time. 



The Liebke Company reports a good seasonable demand for every item 

 on the list. Its mill, which was out of commission for some time owing 

 to the breakdown of some of the machinery, is now working full time and 

 is cutting up the logs which accumulated during the rnfiircpd idleness. It 



Kentucky Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS 



POPLAR, PLAIN" AND QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, RED AND SAP 

 GUM, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS- 

 WOOD, HEMLOCK, WHITE PINE 



Mills at 



Bumside, Ky. Williamsburg, Kj . 



Isola, Miss. 



Sales' Office 

 Cincinnati, O. 



iC I N C I N N ATI 



iHardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers! 



I DAY LUMBER & COAL CO. 



Mfrs. YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 

 (;knkrai. oi'FKK — ci.ay city. k\ . 



RIEMEIER LUMBER CO. 



OAK, POPLAR, CHESTNUT 



SCMMERS AND GEST STREETS 



SHAWNEE LUMBER CO. 



HARDWOODS, WHITE PINE and HEMLOCK 



Sales Office — South Side Station — C. H. & D. R. R. 



JAMES KENNEDY & CO., Ltd. 



OAK, POPLAR AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



WALNUT, OAK, AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



103-4-5 CAREW BUILDING 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 



Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



2624-34 COLERAIN AVENUE 



I CHARLES F. SHIELS & CO. 



g SPECIALISTS IN WIDE STOCK 



iPOPLAR, OAK, CHERRY. BIRCH ^ 



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