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Nashville Lumbermen's Club against tbe Louisville & Nashville. The lumber 

 shippers seek to be relieved of the burdensome ri-(iuirements of the railrua<ls 

 as to daily reports of tonnage of lumber handled under shipping in transit 

 regulations. A number of the Nashville dealers were witnesses. 



Jack Milne and others are reported to be planning a new chair factory at 

 Cleveland, Tenn. . -. . 



J. n. and Otway Yates and Albert Ethridge are having a heading plant 

 Installed at Springville, in Henry county. 



The Tennessee Railroad Commission has refused to grant a rehearing to 

 the Nashville Lumbermen's Club on the complaint as to local rates granted 

 on lumber to junction points on foe system. 



=■< BRISTOL >-= 



J. B. Sells of Johnson City, Tenn., and M. F. Miller of Plney Flats, Tenn., 

 have purchased a tract of hardwood timber in Washington county, Tennes- 

 see, and are preparing to install a mill and begin the development of the 

 property as early as possible. 



A number of the planing mills in this section are busy and report orders 

 to keep the plants running until spring. The Bristol Door and Lumber 

 Company and the Sells Manufacturing Company are operating full time. 

 The Standard Veneer Corporation at Johnson City is operating with one-half 

 force. 



The Dan River Lumber Company is preparing to erect a new plant at 

 Walnut Cove, N. C, for the manufacture of windows, doors, etc. The com- 

 pany is headed by D. L. Donnell and has a capital stock of $23,000. 



E. L. Warren, a local wholesaler, has just returned from a trip in Ken- 

 tucky and Virginia and he reports improvement in business over December. 

 He says that the volume is much larger, although it is still comparatively 

 small. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



The Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on the lumber rate 

 advances from tbe South occupied most of last week in Louisville, follow- 

 ing the Memphis hearing the week previous. A number of witnesses, in 

 addition to the Louisville hardwood men, representing the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club, were heard. The general line of the testimony was 

 that the business simply cannot stand an increase of the amount which 

 has been proposed ; that lumber prices at present are on such a basis that 

 no profits are being realized ; that competition is being experienced from 

 substitutes, Japanese oak and other sources which threaten the pros- 

 perity of the industry, and that competition is also already sharp and 

 keen, preventing an excessive margin of profit. The railroads sought to 

 show that they have been carrying lumber at rates that did not produce a 

 profit on the investment, and that as to gum, the differential rate originally 

 put into effect was made for the purpose of encouraging the gum busi- 

 ness, and that the experimental stage has now been passed, so that gum 

 can pay its way like other woods. The lumbermen and other visitors, 

 including J. II. Townshend, manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association at Memphis ; John R. Walker of the Lumbermen's Bureau 

 at Washington, and Luther M. Walter of Chicago, were entertained Janu- 

 ary 19 at dinner by the Louisville Hardwood Club. John Churchill of the 

 Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, was chairman of the entertainment 

 committee in charge of this feature. 



A contract including some hardwoods as well as yellow pine was given 

 by the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Company's Louisville plant to the Boyd- 

 Mehler I^umher Company of Louisville, for crating material which the 

 concern will use during the present year. The contract amounts to about 

 3,000,000 feet, it is said, and there was considerable competition for it. 



Lumbermen were much interested in the announcement that a modifi- 

 cation of the decision of the Kentucky court of appeals on the subject of 

 the workmen's compensation law is expected, by means of which a consti- 

 tutional law can be drawn and presented to the legislature next winter. 

 It had been thought that the subject would have to lie over until a 

 constitutional amendment could be adopted, which would make the 

 effective date of a compensation law about 1920. However, the majority of 

 the court decided that it was not impossible to draw a constitutional law, 

 and the modified opinion is intended to state just how this is to be done. 

 In this connection it is worth noting that rates for insurance under 

 compensation would have been much higher than most of the local con- 

 cerns had anticipated. A large veneer concern in Louisville reported that 

 its rate went up something like 400 per cent. It had made arrangements 

 for stock company insurance, preferring this to the state insurance fund, so 

 that the company was not at all displeased when it found that the law 

 was to be knocked out and the status quo retained. 



The Mengel Box Company has "started something" with a moving 

 picture show at its Mengclwood, Tenn., sanmill. The company decided 

 that some form of legitimate recreation was needed by its men, and that 

 a picture show filled the bill most exactly. A theater was constructed 

 next door to its general store, and arrangements were made with a fllni 

 exchange In Memphis to supply a "program" consisting of the Mutual 

 pictures. The theater is open three evenings a week, with a change of 

 program each time, and plays to crowded houses. In fact, the demand 

 for the entertainment was such that a gallery was recently constructed 

 for the exclusive use of negroes. W. M. Kerrick, purchasing agent at 

 Louisville, has been buying the supplies for the theater, and provided a 

 Powers 6-A machine. The company has its own electric light plant at 

 Mengclwood, and consequently has been able to furnish current without 



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