H ARD W OOD RECORD 



fortunate in securing places at tlie first table. In order to expedite 

 service, several of the more diguified members of the trade offered 

 their assistance and appeared with aprons and trays, carrying orders, 

 serving ice cream, washing dishes and performing various other more 

 or less menial tasks. 



The first event of the afternoon was a peanut race for girls under 

 seven. They finished in the following order — Elsie Dion, Margery 

 Hansen, Dorothy Trainer. 



The hundred yard dash for men brought out the fact that the local 

 trade has among its members some mighty good athletes. A. O. Eat- 

 eliff, the winner, ran away from the field, and it was learned after- 

 ward that he is a sprinter of considerably renown, having ' ' done the 

 hundred in ten flat." G. E. Attley and J. H. Dion finished second 

 and third respectively. 



The fifty yard race for single ladies was won by Nettie Buchser, 

 with Laura Miller second. This and the race for married ladies, 

 while rather good from an athletic point of view, was particularly 

 striking in its demonstration of the practicability of the modern 

 skirt, especially inasmuch as it amply demonstrated its ability to 

 adjust itself automatically, without particular effort on the part of 

 the. wearer, to the necessary position in an event of this kind. 



The race for married ladies was won by Mrs. Fletcher Marsh, Mrs. 

 B. J. Atley being second and Mrs. Cone third. 



The race for boys under seven did not show a very extensive field. 

 This race was won by Tom Darlington, with Jack Hansen second and 

 Tom Cross third. 



Mrs. Fletcher Marsh also won the ladies' ball throwing contest, prov- 



ing herself the star performer of the day in the ladies' class. Miss 

 Miller was second. 



The last two events proved to be the most interesting of all, being 

 called the tie race and the derby race. The provisions of the tie 

 j-ace were that the men should choose tlieir partners of the opposite 

 sex, presumably their wives if they had any. The race consisted of 

 a run from the line to the ladies who tied the men's ties, the men then 

 running back to the goal line. Mr. and Mrs. Kemper were first and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Trainer second. Considerable consternation was noted 

 in the faces of the winning men when the prizes were presented to 

 their partners. 



The derby race, the last feature of the events, was a strenuous 

 affair, in which each man carried his partner to the changing point, 

 at which place they reversed and the man doing the riding during the 

 first lap of the course had to do the heavy work for the last. The 

 Ratcliff- Jennings team ran away from the field in this event. 



After the athletic events on the grass the spectators were treated 

 to a similar series of events occurring in the so-called ball room of 

 the park, the events this time being accompanied by music and the 

 actors performing various Stunts going under different popular names, 

 such as "tango" and its numerous variations, the "Boston" and 

 similar events of athletic though humorous aspect. There were usually 

 more watchers than performers, but it can be safely said that if the 

 performers derived as much real enjoyment from the occasion as did 

 the watchers, they were fairly bubbling over with this sensation after 

 each event. 



The program of the indoor events was concluded at G:30, at which 

 time the special train to Chicago departed from Northwestern park. 



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Transportation of Lumber 



SECOND ARTICLE 

 SOME OF THE SHIPPING ITEMS 



The transportation of forest products is one of the largest it^ms 

 in the business of railroads and other public carriers in this country. 

 The tonnage is enormous, is widely distributed, and the average length 

 of the haul is long. 



Those who are accustomed to think of forest products as consisting 

 almost wholly of sawed lumber are a long way from an understanding 

 of the real situation. It is true that lumber is the most important 

 item in money value and as a revenue producer for the transportation 

 companies ; but, surprising though the statement may be, lumber is 

 not the largest item in this country's list of commodities commonly 

 classed as forest prpducts. It never has been the largest and it 

 probably never will be. 



As the term is usually understood, lumber is the product of the 

 sawmill, and consists of planks, boards, beams, and other dimension 

 stock of that kind. There &Te a number of other products, some of 

 which never see a sawmill. The government, acting chiefly through 

 the Census Bureau and the Forest Service, collects statistics from 

 time to time, for the purpose of keeping tally on the output of the 

 forests and to assist in its proper utilization. Some of the statistics 

 are collected yearly, others every ten years, and still others a,t no 

 stated time, but whenever it is thought desirable to do it. The figures 

 become more complete every year, because the work is more thoroughly 

 done. Up to 1S20 no one seems to have thought of collecting data 

 on lumber or anything else relating to the forests, and it was not 

 until 18S0 that anything approaching a satisfactory report was made; 

 and it was twenty years later when a system was evolved for doing 

 the work. Forest product statistics are quite fragmentary before 

 1899, and it was some years after that period before the present 

 standard of collection and compilation was attained. 



It is now possible to state with fairly close approximation what 

 the annual drain is upon the forests of the country, to supply the 

 people with the various commodities of wood which enter into their 

 daily lives. This can be done without going outside of figures con- 

 tained in government reports; and with the assurance that the figures 



are in the main correct, though absolute correctness is not claimed 

 in any particular. 



The accepted measurement of some forest products is in board feet, 

 but all are not so measured in ordinary business transactions. Below 

 is a list of forest products, taken from the latest available government 

 reports, reduced to board feet by using the customary processes. The 

 statement that all are from government reports should be modified 

 in the case of fence posts, which will be more fully explained in a 

 succeeding paragraph. The annual output of all forest products in 

 the United States, as far as available reports show, is presented as 

 follows : 



CoMMODiTr Board Feet 



Firewood 51,600,000,000 



Lumber 40,000,000,000 



Hewed crossties .- . , . 3,532,000,000 



Pulpwood 2,456.000,000 



Fence posts 2,000,000,000 



Shingles 1,622,000,000 



Distillation 870,000,000 



Tanbark 647,000,000 



Tight cooperage 600,000,000 



Slack cooperage 535,000,000 



Veneers 478,000,000 



Lath 436,000,000 



Poles 227,000,000 



Unsawed exports •. 165,000,000 



Excelsior 85,000,000 



Total 105,293,000,000 



This is an enormous quantity of material to be taken from the 

 forests of the country, yet it is less than some eminent statisticians 

 have estimated. Eaphael Zon in his ' ' Forest Resources of the World ' ' 

 places the annual consumption of wood in the United States at 

 23,000,000,000 cubic feet, which, according to the usual reducing 

 factor, is equivalent to 138,000,000,000 board feet. It is preferable, 

 however, to use the more conservative figures contained in the above 

 itemized list of commodities which total 105,293,000,000 feet, board 



