NoveiubiT 2."i. UU7 



GENERAL VIEW OF THE BABCOCK MILL INDICATING ITS rXUSlAL PROPORTIONS AND SUBSTANTIAL CHARACTER. 

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drive in spite of the smoke. 



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JM^ountain Loggers ^eet 



Due to the recent enlistment of former secretary Henry W. Grin- 

 nell, the members of the Appalachian Logging Congress approached 

 their third annual meeting last week, dependent entirely upon their 

 own efforts and resources of energy and organizing ability to get 

 by. They met the issue splendidly and came away from the congress 

 with a more definite aim and a greater unity of spirit than ever. 



About seventy-five men directly connected with logging in the 

 Appalachian and Big Smokey 

 ranges gathered for a three 

 days' session at the Hotel At- 

 kin in Knoxville on Wednesday, 

 Thursday and Friday, Novem- 

 ber 21, 22 and 2.S. It sometimes 

 takes considerable time to cover 

 a short distance in that country 

 of steep grades and sharp curves 

 and the result was that the at- 

 tendance at the first meeting 

 was rather straggling. The first 

 day's session was given over to 

 arrangement of the program for 

 the two following days, and the 

 afternoon to general talks on a 

 variety of subjects. The feature 

 of the Wednesda.v session was a 

 spirited appeal by Lieut. R. H. 

 Kaulkner of the 20th Engineers. 

 This is the second forestry regi- 

 ment to be organized for service 

 in France. Lieut Faulkner 's ap- 

 peal was for more practical 



woodsmen to enter government service in this regiment so that its 

 ranks, which will ultimately hold 17,000 men, may be speedily filled. 

 His talk was very im|)ressivc and undoubtedly will bear very real 

 fruits. He asked for co-operation by the loggers in directing enlist- 

 ments from among their workers. 



President W. B. Townsend also delivered an excellent address in 

 which he laid stress upon the necessity for country-wide support 

 of the administration and for the conservation of materials and 

 ■energy and their consecration to war work. 



Watson Ford, of the Babcock Lumber & Land Company, gave a 

 brief description of a remarkable locomotive crane of which the com- 



TOWNSEND, RETIRING 

 THE NEW 



pany uses several in transporting the lumber from its big new mill at 

 Maryville near Knoxville to the mill yard. The operation of this crane 

 was witnes.sed by the loggers on a trip to the company's mill on Friday. 

 E. A. Gaskill, who is with the Turkeyfoot Lumber Company at 

 its Cressmont, Ky., operations, emphasized the real need for im- 

 proving living conditions at the log and sawmill industries. He 

 emphasized the growing seriousness of labor and the increasing 



difficult.v in holding it at opera- 

 tions. He stated that as a 

 j)anacea for these troubles noth- 

 ing is more effective than the 

 maintenance of such living 

 conditions as will make it an in- 

 ducement for labor to stick. 



The Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company was the host 

 at a theatre party on Wednesda.v 

 evening, the visitors en.joying a 

 performance bv an excellent 

 (•omi>any in a leading theatre of 

 Knoxville. 



Thursday Morning Session 

 Beginning the Thursday morn- 

 ing session President Townsend 

 appointed a committee on resolu- 

 tions and calleil for reports on 

 stauiling committees. The com- 

 mittees on finance, legislation 

 and membership had no reports 

 to make. H. F. Holt, reporting 

 for the committee on arrangements, stated that the plans of the 

 congress hail been greatl.v upset by the sudden resignation of Secre- 

 tary (irinncll, and it was necessar.v to work hard and fast in order 

 to get things in sha|ie for the meeting. The jiresident then called 

 for a re|i(irt from acting secretary Williams, Mr. Williams having 

 consented to fill in in Mr. Grinnell's ..osence. [Secretary Williams 

 read the minutes of the preceding meeting and stated that the as- 

 sociation at its last session had sixty active members and twelve 

 associate members ami this list was materially increased before the 

 thir<I meeting was concluded. The report was adopted. 



The nominating committee then reporteil recommendations for the 

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PRESIDENT. .\ND E. A. (!.\.«KILL 

 PRESIDENT. 



