St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-01-25
MADISONVILLE
DELEGATION
SUCCESSFUL
Secure Separate Hearing For Jahncke
Shipyards And Prove The Work To
Be OF Highest Quality and Ship
Builders OF Thorough Training
And Efficiency.

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delegates from this section of the
parish have just returned from two
weeks stay in Washington. D. c.,
where they have been attending the
convention held for the purpose OF
convincing the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration that it would be destructive
to this portion of our southern coun-
try to carry out their cancelling
schedule of wooden ships in the
measure they had intended from the
day of the singing of the armistice:
The four delegates from the Madi-
sonville shipyard are Messrs. E. T.
knight, Homer Perrin and w. Rich
ardson, who represented the Jahncke
Shipbuilding Corporation employees,
and Samuel j. Allison, who repre-
sented the town of Madisonville.
The delegates from the entire
South did assemble in Washington,
D. c., on the 10th of January and
did elect Mr. Andrew G. Saxon, of
Sliden, La, as chairman, and Mr..
Samuel j. Allison, of Madisonyille,
La, as secretary of the convention.
Mr. Allison accepted the office con-
ditionally, that is, that he would be
allowed the privilege of "an individu-
al fight for the town of Madison
Vile" This was granted him, and
he was then chosen as the speaker
for the South. The 14th day of the
same month was the day set aside
for the argument.
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their possession letters which Mr. AL
iison had obtained from Mayor Behr-
man and some OF the largest bust
ness men of New Orleans and also
the Mayor of Philadelphia and the
largest raw material men in the
North. This gave the Madisonville
yard strong prestige.
The Madisonville delegation work
ed very diligently every moment of
their time in the Capitol City getting
| the congressman and Senators to-
gether for the final fight.
On the 14th day of January, our
secretary had no sooner read the
resolution adopted, when General
Piez Immediately refused to hear the
entire South as body and put every
yard on it's own merits. Perhaps
the foxy old delegate from the
f1ourishing city of Madisonville had
had an inside tip that this would be
done and this was the reason he re-
| served his individual right to fight
for the Madisonville interests before
he accepted the office of secretary of
! the convention. We compliment him
on his good judgment if he was not
on the inside.
This individual fight of each south
ern shipYard showed the whole world
| the class of workmen the Madison
vile shipyard is using today for the
purpose of building ships as wood
and skill can possibly be knitted to-
gether.
The speaker, Mr.. Allison, brought
| out the fact that we have in the
Madisonville shipyard the best
wooden shipbuilders in the entire
country" For an illustration, he
named our general superintendent
Mr.. Ed T. ,Malloy, who has handled
some of the largest contracts in this
country that are advertised fefore
! the eyes of the public, and after our
worthy general superintendent, Mr..
E. V. Heughan, who is looked upon
today as the greatest authority on
the building of wooden ships in this
country, having under him such men
as Mr.. Arthur Oulliber, as 1oftsman
man whose equal would be hard
to find for laying out and assembl
ing wooden ships.
Let us go down and mention oul
general yard foremen, Mr.. Vic Chat
ellier, who is familiar with ship
building in every particular, who ha'
been wide awake on his feet from
day to day, parading from stem t
stern, from keel to hatch cover, ant
constantly advising his foremen a
to the way good ship should be con
structed. That is why We propose t.
argue with the entire country tha
we are in line on good shipbuilders,
t Our speaker, Mr. Allison, Yer
; cleverly called General Piez's atten
! ton to the fact that these men ha
instructed northern architects in tn
: art of wood shipbuilding sent b
! northern shipyards to Madisonvill
7 for the purpose of being taught some
) thing about our up-to-date woode
: ship co1struction.
4 The delegates from Madisonvill
2 were assured by General Piez an
/ Mr.. Donna1y, of the Emergency ShiE
building Fleet, that their yard woul
i get more work These gentleme
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