The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-12
Large and Representative
Gathering Convened
At FlOrala.
DELEGATES AND VISITORS Wis,
TIED PRINCIPAL PLANTS AND
VICINITY AND WERE ELARO-
CAL LUMBERMEN AND CITIZENS
MANY KITTENS HAD THEIR
EYES OPENED.
Special to The Journal.

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bama-E7lorida Lumber Manufacturers
Association met here yesterday with
lumbeTmen from all over the yellow
pine sections of both states in attend
ance- Many representatives of the
humber press were also on hand.
President ]. G. Williams, of Eleanor,
Fla, presided over the meeting, and
welcomed them with a timely address
on lumber topics. Secretary j. H.
Eddy, of Birmingham, was also pres
ent, and read an encouraging report
After a brief open session the lum
bermen went into executive session,
no action of which was given out for
publication. Today the entire visit
ing party was taken on q special
train to Lakewood, where the BrittOn
Lumber Company's plant. capacity
10000 feet of yellow pine lumber per
day was inspected. The Florala
SawmiH Company's plant at Paxton
was the next point visited and much
interest was shown in the turpentine
plant run in connection Herewith;
extracting pure turpentine from saw
dust and Hghtwood knots.
Visited Lockhart.
After dinner at the Colonial hotel
the party visited by special train the
mill at Lockhart, where 10000 feet
of lumber is cut ever week day,
working eleven hours. The logging
camp, six miles from Lockhart,
whence arose charges of peonase
which made the place quite famous
for little while, was inspected. By
a second turn of misfortune the camp
was nearly wiped off the earth by a
cyclone about week ago, and several
construction cars were wrecked,
though no one was killed. The
wild, fierce dogs" spoken of in his
tory. were looked into. They have
evidently shrunk some since the peon-
age story was told.
Growing Feature.
The browning feature of the meet
ing was a conCatenatiOn of Hoo HOos
which was held Tuesday night at the
pera house, with forty-three kittens
waiting TO receive their sight
The grand scrivonoter of the order
was present and acted as SOnark OF
Universe. The officers were: J. H.
Beard, sonark; w. S. Wilson, senior
Hoo Hoo; J. F. Davis. Junior Hoo
Hoo; Charles H. Adams, Bojum;
Henry Stanley, ScrivonOter; Thomas
j. Scott, Jabberwock; c. T. Strauss,
Custocation; E. L. Moore, Arcanoper
anu E1u GdAASSr
The Candidates.
Those initiated into the mysteries
of Hoo Hoo were: Charles c. McRae,
FIorala; Frank Stollenwerk, Durham
Ala; George G. Egge, Montgomery;
John w. LeMaistre, LOckhart; Rich
ard Williams, Paxton; Robert T. Gal
Iagher, Lockhart; John l. Ensign.
Maplesville, Ala; Ben. ]. Austin.
Coffee Springs, Ala: Albert c. Kelly,
SIocum, Ala: L. +. Harris, Coffee
Springs: W. c. DandOlph, Fail River.
Ala; Charles H. Gordon, Lakewood,
Fla; Henry G. White, LOckhart;
Erastus Marvin Seasons, MiIligan,
Fla; Ezekiel E. Reese. Pensacola;
Arthur L. Kelley, SlOcum; c. V. Rose
nau. Mobile; William Stuart Harlan.
LOckhart; Rowland Mercer Brown,
Haconda, Ala; Levy COxOn, Lock
hart: Andrew n Breakey, Bagdad
Fla; W. b. Archer Caryville, Fla;
w. z. Grace, LOckhart; VIM. H.
Clark. Slocum; F. J. Hughes, Semp-
ter. Ala; T S. LAM, Fforala; o.
NJ. Rifles, Lockhart; J. P. Burton.
Georgiana, Ala: John K. Matthews,
Lcckhart; J. d. Henderson Sanford,
Ala; R G. Pratt, Maplesville; John
c. Porter. Pensacola: }. Z. Hughes,
Paxton: Major P. Phillips, Birming-
ham: w. J. jarrett. Richmond. Va;
Geo. w Ward. ,.HI,neld. Fla; A. S
Williams Atlanta: r b Baldwin. At
Ianta: Thomas Jones. Lakewood; E
O. Wild, New Orleans, and James &.
Williams, of Cleaner, Fla.
After the confederation a Dutch
lunch was served at the Colonial
hotel. which consisted of beer. CONVEX.
sation. lunch, speeches and more
beer.
The lum bermen's banquet was
served for the delegates and their
wives on Tuesday afternoon and was
an elaborate repast-
All OF the visitors voted the Flor
ala convention great success and
applauded the idea OF the association
TO meet every two months at some
milling centre in one or the other