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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25, 1917 



men's Chil) and took a great interest In its welfare. At one time Mr. 

 Male.v was treasurer of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. He 

 was also a member of several other associations and was a firm believer 

 in as.sociation work. He belonged to several clubs in Evansville and was 

 a thirty-.socond degree Mason and Shriuer. He was a clean-out, honor- 

 able, genial, affable man and his death was a shock to his many friends. 



The funeral of Mr. Maley took place at his birthplace and former home 

 at Edinburg, Ind., on September IS. and the services were largely attended. 

 The lumbermen's club sent a handsome floral design. Mr. Maley is sur- 

 vived by his widow, one son, Heni-y, who is attending the Culver military 

 school at Culver, Ind., and one daughter, Margaret. He is also survived 

 by one brother, Charles Maley, who is engaged in the lumber business at 

 Jackson, Miss., and by two sisters, Mrs. Frank M. Cutsinger, Evansville, 

 and Mrs. John Graham of Edinburg, Ind. 



William Reinhart Chivvis 



William Keinhart Chivvis, one of the best-known and liked lumliermen 

 in St. Louis, died recently. He was fifty-nine years old, and was the 

 general manager of the Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company. 

 His death was due to a complication of diseases. 



Mr. Chivvis was born in Memphis, Tenn., on June 3, 1858. He came 

 to St. Louis in 1876 and began his lumber career on October 1, 1883, as a 

 bookkeeper for Liebke & Sohrage, lumber manufacturers. Later he was 

 made secretary of the Arm. In 1901 he entered the lumber business for 

 himself, making a specialty of hardwood. 



He was a member of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis and a mem- 

 ber of the First Congregational Church. 



He leaves a widow, Mrs. W. R. Chivvis, former state president of the 

 Federated Women's Clubs of Missouri, now a director in the national organ- 

 ization ; a daughter, Miss Ruth Chivvis and two sons, Leland and Nor- 

 man. 



The funeral took place from the family residence to Bellefontalne ceme- 

 tery. 



Otto B. Joerns 



Otto B. Joerns, secretary and treasurer of the Joerns Kros. .Manufac- 

 turing Company, Stevens Point, Wis., and almost a lifelong resident of 

 Sheboygan. Wis., died at Denver, Colo., on September 15, after a long 

 illness from heart trouble, which wa.s accentuated in February last by the 

 total destruction of the Joerns furniture factory In Sheboygan by fire, 

 entailing a loss of .flOO.OOO. The Joerns company concentrated its ac- 

 tivities at Stevens Point following the fire, and only a short time ago 

 Mr. Joerns and bis family moved to that city, ills condition became 

 serious in July and he went to Denver to recuperate, lie returned in 

 August much improved, but suffered a relapse and again went to Colorado, 

 in company with his son, Oliver, liut two days after reaching Denver his 

 death ensued. Mr. Joerns was one of the most iiromlnent citizens of 

 Sheboygan and sened as mayor in 191.'i-1916. He was a past master of 

 Sheboygan Lodge, K. & .\. M.. wliicb condiicled I hi' funeral on Sept. 20. 



More Handles for Fly Swatters 



The Hoagland Manufacturing Company. Waupaca. Wis., maker of wood 

 working novelties is erecting an addition tt\ its plant in that city, which 

 will practically double its capacity, and eualih' it to fill all orders promptly 

 and to increase the number of its specialties. The buihling will be 20x6*1 

 feet besides a new sawmill shed and much new machinery will be added 

 and a new engine which will greatly increase the power. The company 

 has been making handles for fly swatters, and the orders for these are 

 large now, thougii the outbreak of the war last .\pril, affected the demand 

 for a time. It is expected to have the ni'W buildings ready for operatbui 

 hy the first nf tlie year. 



Ask for Reopening Buffalo Transit Case 



A second amended petition for the tlivision of through rates tui transit 

 lumber has been filed with tlie Interstate Commerce Commission by D. P. 

 Connell, T. H. lUirgess and II. I>. Palmer, attorneys for eastern and 

 northern railroads, in the case of the Buffalo Lundier Exchange et al. 

 against the .Mahima Central Railway t'ompany et al. 



The petition states that following the commission's decision in the Ituf- 

 falo lumber transit case tariffs were filed and rates put into effect as 

 ordere<l by the commissijui. which involve the application of the through 

 rate from point of origin of hardwood lund>er to the point of destination, 

 but in doing so, according to the petition, the southern and western 

 railroad lines declined to assume any portion of the cost of transit service 

 at Buffalo. 



The petition says that the western and southern lines refuse to accept as 

 their divisions of the rates any less than tlieir divisions on lumber ship- 

 ment to the transit points, which include, besides Buffalo, North Tona- 

 wanda and Black Rock and East Buffalo, although those divisions are 

 much greater than the southern and western lines except on the name 

 kind of lumber consigned through from the same points of origin to the 

 same destinations without the transit privilege. 



This attitude of the southern and western carriers. It is said In the 

 petition, causes a loss of revenue to the petitioners, who ask the commiw- 

 sion to reopen the case and fix the divisions of the southeru and western 



lines, since the latter decline absolutely to reach an agreement with the 

 northern and eastern lines, which have sought to negotiate with them 

 through the chairmen of the respective associations of southern and 

 western carriers. 



New Bill on Eight-Hour Law 



Senator .Tones and Representative Iladley of Washington will this week 

 introduce in Congress a bill to force an eight-hour day In the lumber 

 business of the entire country by forbidding the transportation or ship- 

 ment in interstate commerce or foreign commerce of lumber and other 

 products of lumber mills and similar establishments which do not practice 

 the eight-hour day as affecting their employes. 



These Washington statesmen take the view that Senator Poindexter's 

 bill recently introduced, which provides that all lumber mills, logging 

 camps and woodworking establishments which send their products into 

 interstate and foreign commerce shall not work their employes over eight 

 hours per day, is not constitutional. 



The Jones-Hadley method Is the indirect method of reaching the same 

 result. Their bill Is modeled after the child labor bill that became a law 

 a year or two ago, and also after several other bills pending in Congress 

 advocated by organized labor and sociological workers. 



Both the Jones-Hadley and the Polndexter bills were the outgrowth of 

 the agitation among lumber workers, especially in the West, for an eight- 

 hour day. Western lumbermen agreed to the propo-sltlon If It were made 

 * nationwide, so that competing lumbermen of other sections would be put on 

 the same basis. The eight-hour proposition has not been received with 

 favor in the South. 



Export Lumber at Baltimore Finally Released 



.\fter months of effort, Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of thi; National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, working in conjunction with other officers 

 of the organization, has succeeded in getting the consent of the British 

 government to send forward the fifty-seven cars of hardwoods which have 

 been held up at .\tlantlc ports ever since March, 1916, by the British 

 order in council Issued at that time. The final arrangements for the 

 releasing of these shipments were completed Sept. 11. The car.s in question 

 were started on orders placed prior to the issuance of the British order in 

 council, which became effective March 25, 1916. Some of the cars were 

 started on through bills of lading and others on local bills of lading "for 

 export," which made them virtually through shipments. .\s they happened 

 to arrive at the seaboard a day or two later than the date when the order 

 took effect, the steamship companies refused to receive them, and they have 

 been held up in port ever since, accumulating charges. For a long time 

 the Britlsli authorities refused to consider any proijosltion to release the 

 shipments, standing on the strbt letter of the order. Last June It was 

 reported tliat permission to ship the cars In question ndght be obtained if 

 the •hippers would send documents showing conclusively that the ship- 

 ments were sent on their way prior to the time the order in council took 

 effect and that the shipments were made on orders, submitting full data 

 of the transactions. This has since been done, with the result stated. 

 Mr. Dickson and the others who interest -d themselves in the matter are 

 cimsequently mu<-l) gratified, and the shippers in question are relieved of 

 a source of heavy expense. The quantity of iund>er llius released Is almost 

 1,000,0011 feet, a very Imiiortant Item these days, when the forwardings 

 have dwindled to wholly Insignificant proportions. 



Of importance In connection with the subject of exp<irts is a movement 

 inaugurated among the exporters of Baltimore to secure the location in 

 this city of a branch office of the Exports Administrative Board. At 

 present. If an exporter wants to obtain a license to make a shipment, he 

 must go to Washington, wldch Is not a port at all, thus being put to ex- 

 pense and loss of time which would hi' avoided if Baltimore hail a branch 

 office. .All of tlie < xport»'rs nuiy I)e expected to unite in tile effort to have 

 Baltimore placinl on equality with such ports as New Yiu-k, Philadelphia, 

 and (Jalveston, which have already obtained branch offices, and with Nor- 

 folk, Savannah, New Orleans and the Western coast, where offices arc to 

 be established. 



Lumbermen Do Not Favor Storage of Government Lumber 



The establishment of a bin (luartermasters' depot .-it Mol>llc. Ala., to 

 contain hir;.'e stocks of materials necessary for army uses. Including from 

 .jO.000,000 to .100,000,0(10 feet of timber, has been pro|iosed by officers of 

 the war department. It is learned. .\t the same time It Is learned that the 

 committee on lumber of the Council of National Defense, being asked 

 about the matter, has decided against the proposition and so recommended 

 to the government. It Is thought that this recommendation will prevail, 

 but the matter has not been finally decided. 



Practical lumliermen are opposed to the plan of the war department 

 because they say that timber Is generally not cut until ordered, and that 

 orders are for many different sizes. It Is said that it would be Impractic- 

 able to keep a stock of all probable sizes that would be needed on hand 

 constantly ami that it would be Impossible to tell In advance how much 

 and what kind of tlmiier the army In France will need. 



FurthcniMire. it is argued, the accumulatUm of large supplies of timber 

 by the war department would tend to Interfere with the efforts of the 

 mills to gel nut the timber required for wooden ships. Lumbermen also 

 say that tinilur readily deteriorates when stacked and that the government 

 would sooTi have on hand in its proposed depot a lot nf worthless stuff and 



