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ever, as they stood there so straight and 

 - r i i j ■ . I \ in the bleak winter air with the snow 

 bi ..Mill them, to the average man, who as a 

 rule knows very little of tree-lore, they looked 

 like elms. They had a very different aspect 

 in May. when each leaf seemed singing a 



TOPICAL ELM— THE BEAU BKUMMEL OF 

 THE PARK. 



pean of joy to the goddess of spring. Here, 

 under their branches, a number of little 

 maidens were playing mother, and the doll 

 carriage was placed in the foreground when 

 their pictures were taken. Here these children 

 went through that same strange gibberish 

 which the child of centuries ago had probably 

 articulated under some English oak when one 

 H : i a to be " counted out. ' ' Today they 

 counted for the honor of having a picture 

 taken beside the great trunk of one of the 

 cottonwoods — ' ' eenie, meenie, mynie, nioe. ' ' 

 We are told that the jingle is as old as the 

 English language, and it would not take 

 murk of a stretch of imagination to think that 

 the Cottonwood trees had heard it so many 

 times that the leaves laughed together far 

 above the children. 



"Now I will show you an elm," said the 

 woodsman, and he planted the camera in front 

 of a noble tree at one side of the driveway. 



Notwithstanding the- woodsman was so con- 

 tentious of the park trees, he was intensely 

 interested in the foreign tree growth in Wash- 

 ington Park. ' ' You will notice, ' ' he said, 

 "that the older parks are filled with Ameri- 

 can trees almost exclusively, but the later 

 ones vie with each other in the variety and 

 number of foreign woods. The tree lover 

 could spend days in any one of the parks 

 mentioned, comparing and studying the dif- 

 ferent kinds of trees that have been planted 

 or left from virgin growth. I wonder," he 

 imitmued, "why, on these many school pic- 

 nics, a teacher of forestry is not sent along 

 to impart some knowledge and implant some 

 real love of the tree in the breast of young 

 America. After we grow older and the 

 struggle of life comes to us. we have little 



time to absorb a love of Nature, but all 

 through life I shall retain the pleasure I 

 quired in my youthful days when I learned 

 to know intimately the trees of the American 

 woodland. The boy who makes the acquaint 

 anee of the trees that are in our parks, who 

 studies them carefully, will have a source of 

 enjoyment that neither age, poverty nor the 

 engrossing cares of life can take from him. 



' ' I have always felt, ' ' said the woodsman 

 as lie planted the camera at the bend of a 

 stream where a rustic bridge reached from 

 one sedgy bank to the other, "when I am in 

 the woods or in the parks, or any place where 

 royal oaks or lordly elms spread their 

 branches, where somber pines reach up to 

 heaven or where any tree rears its head to 

 greet the morning sun, 



"Were I, O God, in churchless lands remain- 

 ing. 

 Far from all voice of teachers or divines, 

 My soul would find, in flowers of thy ordain- 

 ing. 

 Priests, sermon's, shrines!" 



BOLE OF BIG COTTONWOOD. 



Outing of the National Wholesalers. 



A midsummer meeting of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association has been ar- 

 ranged to take place at Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 

 16, 17 and 18. This meeting was brought about 

 through the invitation of Gordon C. Edwards of 

 W. C. Edwards & Co., Ltd., of Ottawa, who ex- 

 tended it to the association at its Philadelphia 

 annual meeting in March. The invitation was 

 accepted, and the board of trustees finds thai 

 there are a great many American lumbermen 

 who are glad to avail themselves of the op 

 'unity to visit the great lumber center of the 

 Dominion. 



The meeting will also take up some Important 

 business metters which are ready for consi 

 tion, as well as indulging in considerable - 

 seeing. The first business meeting takes place 

 IC from 2 to 5 p. m. ; on that evening a 

 steamer ride will be taken en the river. The 

 second business meeting will be held on Au 

 from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. In the afternoon ; 

 i about Ottawa will be visited, 

 , i Ro kliffe, where a shanty lunch will 

 ,„. S ei . -i ii."' will be a banquel oi ether 



ntertainment tha ig, and on 



Aug. 18 a steamer trip will I..- Lake 



DescI .11: re the log sluices, sawmills and 



of lumber work will 

 be eac< 



entertainment features referred to will be 

 by the Ottawa Valley lumber manufac- 

 turers, and visiting ladies are Included in tbe 

 Qgements proposed by the hosts. Delegates 

 are invited and expected i<> attend from various 

 mil; wholesale and retail lumber as- 

 ■ 'i ions, to consider a plan for instil a 

 complaints before the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission in the interest el' various matters of 

 vital Import to the entire trade. Tbe allowance 

 Cor weight of car stakes, car equipment, etc., Is 

 "iie of the important matters to be taken up. 



It toes without saying that whether or not 

 the lumbermen who visit Ottawa accomplish very 

 much in the way of business, they will have a 

 most royal entertainment, and will come back 

 fully impressed that Canada and especially Ot- 

 tawa is far from being a "dead one." As a 

 matter of fact, that man Edwards up there is 

 capable of entertaining the whole crowd single- 

 handed, but it is anticipated that he has many 

 competent allies. 



Veneer Machinery. 



One of the handsomesl machinery catalogues 

 that has ever been issued has just been turned 

 out by the Coe Manufacturing Company of 

 Painesville, O. It covers the full line of veneer 

 mill equipment made by this foremost manufac- 

 turer of veneer cutting and drying machinery. 

 The book, which comprises upwards of one hun- 

 dred pages, includes divisions devoted to the 

 veneer industry and general descriptions of Coe 

 machinery — the Coe rotary cutter, Coe clipper, 

 machine foundations and vats, Coe automatic 

 roller drying machine, Coe automatic veneer 

 knife grinder, Coe veneer saw, Advance butter 

 dish machinery, Giant wringers, hollow die 

 stamping machine, wood fiber machine, drag 

 saws, veneer knives, veneer mill plants, and Coe 

 automatic box board sawing machines. 



The present and fast growing importance of 

 the veneer industry is a matter of special in- 

 terest to every hardwood lumberman, ami the 

 Cue catalogue is well worth a careful reading 



I'l.AI [NG UOTHEK IX THE PARK 



and analysis by hardwood men generally. A 

 copy of this ham 



i ting to the I i i.-tur- 

 Ing Company, I Painesville, 

 O., and our readers ai I to ask for cata- 

 logue No. " the ll.uu'w > Rec- 

 ord. 



