February llo. 1918 



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THEO. FATHAUER CO. 



1428 CHERRY AVENUE 

 Telephone Diversey 1 824 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



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 CHICAGO. ILL. 



Direct Shipments in 



CAR AND CARGO LOTS 



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MILL 



HELENA, ARK 



I Address Correspondence to Chicago [Office 



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cm February I'J. fiillowinsr » meetiug of the Southern Hnrihvood Traffic 

 Assoeiation. was well atteuih-il and several matters of interest eaiiie up. 

 Chief of these was discussiou of a proposed eight-hour law in Kentucky, 

 this measure now being before the state legislature. Three bills have 

 been introduced, namely the .1. T. Thornton bill. II. H. IS ; the Robert Bays 

 bill. il. 1!. 172 ; and the J. A. Leach bill, senate bill. 227. No action has 

 been taken on the latter two hills, although the Leach bill is a sister 

 measure of the Thornton hill, a dangerous measure which proposes an 

 eight-hour law for all classes of labor, exempting agricultural and ilo- 

 mestic workers. The Hays bill is along the same line as the Thornton 

 tneasnre, e.xcept that it is dire<'ted at manufacturei-s, contractors, miners 

 and railroads, but eould be construed to take in all lines. The Thornton 

 bill was favorably reported by the committee on immigiation and labor, 

 read and placed on the calendar, and later read a second time and placed 

 on orders of the day. where it stands a strong <'hauee of passage. 



The mend)ers of the ehib directed the secretary to write to the district 

 members of the legislature, and to endeavor to keep the bill from being 

 passed. It is claimed that labor is now very scarce, and it would be 

 liMposslble to obtain double shifts it the working hours were cut from 

 ten to eight hours a day. while on the other haml government work alone 

 needs all of tin* labor that cjin be had. 



Edward S. Shippen. presidc'ut of the Louisville I'oint Lumbc>r (.'onipany. 

 has gone into eastern Kentucky in the Hazard district, in an effort to 

 loiate some hardwood logs lor the local mills. 



W. A. Ma<Lean. presldi'nt <d' the Wood-.Mosaic Company, has Just re- 

 turned from a trip to New York anil Washington. The company is giving 

 practically its entire attention at the New .\lbany plant to getting out 

 government orders. 



A recent visitor to Louisville was in tin* persiui of John Churchill of 

 the Churcbill-.Miltiui Lumber Ct)mpany. tireenwood. Miss., wlm came up 

 tn l(M(k after some of the company's local business. 



.\fter spending two weeks at the mills at Holly Kldge. Monroe and 

 Meiki'r, La.. K. H. Norman, president of the Holly Kldge Lumber Com- 

 |iany. is back at his olliee. 



Immediately ffdiowing a trip of lnspe<'tIon to the company's Arkansas 

 mills. .1. (J. lirown of thi' W. r. Hrown & Sons Lumber Company, Louis- 

 ville, left for a visit to the mills at Fayette. 



\V. it. Wlllett of the \V. R. Willett Lumber Company has gone to 

 New Orleans on a short business trip. Harry Koy of the same concern 

 has been In the South for several days looking for lumber. 



Shippers of lumber in transit were hit hard in some eases by the em- 

 bargoes and heavy snowfalls, which resulted in a lot of transit lumber 

 lielng dispo.seil of to Jobbers and consumers at low prices In order to 



would be the case it full supplies of logs were on hand. The car supply 

 in the South is much better than it has been for some months, and load- 

 ing is fairly heavy. lOmbargoes have been lifted in man.v sections, and 

 lumber is now moving freely to the South and West, and much better to 

 the North. However, very little lundier is moving into the eastern sec- 

 tion, inside of the liuffalo-ritlsliurgh district. 



Dawson lirothers of Louis\-ilIe. who recentl.v organized the Dawson 

 HrothtTs Lumber Company, and anninincetl that a poplar beveling idant 

 woubi be located in South Louisville, have decided to pass up operations for 

 the present, as conditions are not satisfactory. Obtaining poplar from 

 the South and making shipments into consuming territory are hard 

 tasks. K. L. Dawson for the present has gone back with the .North A'cnion 

 Lumljer Company. 



J. Crepps WicklifTe, secretary of the C. ('. Jlengel & ISro. Company, has 

 resigned his position to enter the government service, lie has gone to 

 Washington, where he will be connected with the Signal Corps in tlu' 

 army service. Mr. Wickllffe will aid in purchasing and handling stipplies 

 for manufacturing aeroplanes, and will be Ihe assistant of H. K. S. Wil- 

 liams, a retired New York lnnd)eri]uin. who Is now head tA' the material 

 section of the chief signal *)I!ices of the arm.v equipment division. 



Fire damage of approximately $."111.11(1(1 was done to the plants of three 

 woodwiirking concerns on February r.». Flames broke out in the plant 

 of the Voss Talile Company, destroying a portion of the veneer rooms, 

 the boiler room, and spreading to an adjacent building used by the Kmbry 

 Bo.t Company for manufacturing bo.xes. A carload of boxes on a siding 

 was also destroyed, but Ihe blaze was prevented from spreading to the 

 big Inmher jards of the Kmbry Lumlier Company and Kmbry Hox Com- 

 pany. The loss to the Kinbry companies was about .$1(1, (KMi, and to the 

 table company about .'?2.'>,0(KI. The latter concern Is closely identified 

 with the Fiiiliry interests, as several officers and directors of the Kmbi'\- 

 companies are also connected with the Voss company. The other fire 

 ilestroyed Ihe i>ox factory of the Sunny lirook Distilling Company mi 

 West llroadway at an estiiiiateil loss of JIO.OOO. 



KlM-rmen in the lower Ohio valley have been Iiiisy for several weeks 

 in fishing out logs which broke away from mill concerns on the upper 

 Ohio and In'eastern Kentucky during the recent flood stages and ice Jams. 

 Very few logs were salvaged in the Louisville district due to high water 

 and heavy running Ice, which made It Impossible to reach them. Log- 

 ging concerns have been offering very high prices for .salvage, but It Is 

 said that there Is so much Ice In the Mississippi and lower Ohio that 

 nmny logs will not be caught until far South. No damage of moment was 

 done In the Louisville section. 



The second February meeting of the Ixiulsvllle Ilaiclwood Chib. Iicbl 



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