FOREST SERVICE: IN THE FIELD 

 First Assignment 



After taking the Civil Service examination in 

 March, 1907, I completed my final college year and, 

 temporarily, went to work again as a &quot;gardener&quot; on 

 Belle Isle, Detroit s largest park. I had worked 

 there the summer before with a college friend who 

 also entered the Forest Service a year later. V e 

 did all kinds of jobs. The best one was driving a 

 horse and wagon out Grand Boulevard each day to 

 remove tent caterpillars from the roadside trees 

 The job gradually took us so far from headquarters 

 that much of the day was spent driving back and forth! 

 This, coupled with lunch-time and five-cent , king-size 

 schupers of beer obtained at Polish bars on near-by 

 streets made the day very relaxing! 



Then one day came a telegram from the Forest 

 Service that I had been appointed a technical assis 

 tant and should report in Washington on July 1. 

 Naturally I was happy about this and in July I 

 reported as ordered. My boss on Belle Isle 



