August 10, 1917 



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Hardwoods for the War 



H. C. HaUam. 



The hardwood lumber industry of America is "doing its bit" 

 for Uncle Sam and for the cause of world democracy in a manner 

 befitting the size of the industry and the importance of the task 

 it is called upon to perform in this crisis in the affairs of all the 

 nations. 



Representatives of the industry are in touch with and said to be 

 co-operating loyally with the Committee on Lumber of the Advisory 

 Commission, Council of National Defense, and other branches of 

 that war machine, with the United States shipping board and the 

 Emergency Fleet Corporation, with the war and navy departments, 

 the Forest Service, and other executive departments of the govern- 

 ment which are concerned in preparing the nation for a death 

 grapple with Germany. 



Members of the industry are furnishing millions of feet of 

 hardwoods to the government directly, and to contractors who have 

 government jobs on hand, and still more millions of hardwoods are 

 to be supplied to Uncle Sam directly or indirectly at reasonable 

 prices for the countless purposes to which the hardwoods of America 

 lend themselves. 



Among these may be mentioned the construction of merchant 

 ships, warships, and boats, buildings of many kinds, wagons, motor 

 trucks and automobiles, artillery, rifles and guustocks, saddles, tents 

 and camps, railroad ties, tracks and cars, airplanes, bridges, trenches 

 and tunnels, boxes, crates and cooperage, cots, furniture, interior 

 trim, shipyards, tools and handles, chemical distillation, and various 

 other purposes. 



W. M. Eittcr, the well-known hardwood lumberman, is a member 

 of the executive committee of the committee on lumber under the 

 Council of National Defense, and he with other hardwood lumber- 

 men have been in touch with the situation. Not long ago a com- 

 mittee representing the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association was 

 in Washington conferring with government people about the public 

 requirements of hardwoods. This committee included B. B. Burns, 

 president of the association; F. W. Mowbray, of Cincinnati; W. E. 

 DeLaney, Lexington, Ky. ; K. H. Vansant, W. M. Stark of Memphis; 

 Leon Isaacsen, Coal Grove, O. ; and Mr. Hutchinson, of Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va. 



More recently there have been conferences held at Washington 

 between government officials, F. R. Gadd of Cincinnati, represent- 

 ing the Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau which was organ- 

 ized to facilitate the supplying of hardwoods for government 

 purposes. Mr. Gadd secured orders for the prompf delivery of hard- 

 wood parts for a number of ships. Through his emergency bureau 

 a number of hardwood mills have been directed to furnish materials 



for so-called schedules of hardwoods for ships to contractors and 

 shipbuilders who are constructing the vessels as follows: 



No. of 

 . ' Schedules 



Union Bridge and Construction Company, Morgan Cit}-, La. . . . 2 

 Foundation Company, New York City; Yard, Newark, N. J...1U 

 Gildersleeve Ship Construction Company, Gildersleevc, Conn . . 2 



Groton Iron Works, New York City; Yard, Novak, Conn V2 



Traylor Sliipbuilding Corporation, Comwells, Pa lu 



Jalincke Shipbuilding Corporation, New Orleans; Yard, Madi- 

 sonville. La 6 



The price agVecd upon is on the basis of $100 per 1,000 feet. 

 Inspection is to be made at the mills under the association standard 

 grades of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States. 



This is only a small beginning to a big business in ship stock 

 alone that the hardwood people are doing with the government 

 and witii government contractors, and which will be one of the 

 chief items of the materials which the liardw-ood interests of the 

 country will supply from their resources to aid in winning the 

 war. 



From l.j,00u to 20,000 feet of hardwoods are requii-ed for each 

 wooden ship, it is estimated, and Genei-al Goethals, general mana- 

 ger of the L^nited States Shipping Board 's Emergencj' Fleet Cor- 

 poration, has announced that he has awarded or is negotiating 

 contracts for the construction of 450 wooden ships. The total 

 requirements of hardwoods for this purpose alone therefore will be 

 from 6,750,000 to 9,000,000 feet. This makes no allowance for addi- 

 tional wooden ships which will no doubt be built by the government 

 or for it in an effort to meet the menace of the submarine blockade 

 witli its destruction of shipping. 



Students of the situation believe that hundreds of wooden ships 

 in addition to the above will be required. Eventually, it is believed, 

 many will doubtless be of a quick construction type more or less 

 similar to the design submitted by Mr. Hough, a Pacific coast 

 genius whose ideas have not yet received the official sanction of 

 the government authorities, especially Gen. Goethals, although the 

 shipping board is strong for the Hough type ships or any other 

 tj'pe that can be built rapidly. Pending approval of the Hough 

 design by the government, it is perhaps useless to speculate on 

 the possible demands for hardwoods for the production of vessels 

 tt that type. 



For the present it is enough to consider the details of the ma- 

 terials which the hardwood people are called upon to furnish for 

 use in the construction of wooden vessels for the government's 

 merchant fleets, and which will aid in bringing America to the 



Item 

 145 



146 

 147 

 148 

 149 

 150 

 151 



158 



153 



1.54 

 155 

 156 

 157 



35 



Part 



Rudder stock 



Rudder post 



Stern post 



Shaft log 



Horn timbers 



Forecastle and poop deck chock rails. . 

 Keel shoe 



Knees, bridge house hanging. 



Knees, deadwood 



Do 



Knees, hull lodging. . . 

 Knees, hull stanchions. 

 Knees, bridge poop, 

 hanging 



♦Inches thick. 

 •16 



and forecastle 



•12 



•9 

 •8 



•6 



Flitch timber frames 12x24 & up 12i-ix24 



Number Gross 

 Length, of footagi 

 Linear feet 



ISO 



5 & up 



40 

 300 



45,938 



Note: Above items, IJ/S to 151 inclusUc, will be funiiahcd if satisfactory by the mills hcicn and sawed. 



S2S Do 



S2S Yellow pine, tlcnse merchant- 



able: Douglas tir. cypress, or 

 crookcil white or live oak 



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