Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...this, England is now the greatest manufacturing country in the world, and wages have risen instead of being lowered by competition with pauper labor. The working men are just beginning to find out who pays the import taxes; they know that their house rent is increased to enrich the lumber merchants of Maine, and that the limitation of the market by protection strengthens the "trusts" which have closed factories and thrown the workmen out of employment. One of the greatest dangers of our times is the growing tendency of the laborers to look to the State for aid, as they...
...Poughkeepsie. One of the greatest advances which has been made in the work is the substitution of iron and mild steel for brick. The spans of the Poughkeepsie bridge are built by means of a massive staging supported on large piles. This staging contains over one million feet of lumber and is within thirty feet as high as Trinity Church steeple, New York. Mr. Clarke then illustrated his remarks by a series of stereopticon views, which showed the manner in which the spans were constructed. At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. Clarke was greeted with loud applause...
...fire in the lumber pile behind the Physical Laboratory yesterday, caused some excitement among the men who were at work there...
...extraordinary quality of the horses and vehicles in the possession of the college and employed in various services about the buildings and grounds. Occasionally in the pleasant season one catches sight of a melancholy Rozinante painfully dragging a curious cart of delicate years about the grounds, engaged in carrying lumber or removing rubbish of some sort. But it is with the first snow-fall that this steed prances forth, shedding about him the last feeble rays of his departing glory. Bravely assuming his heavy task, he urges on his faltering steps in an almost vain endeavor to drag a cumbersome...