ENGINEERING OPEN HOUSE 

 FRED MADIGAN, '16 



The College of Forestry was given the unanimous decision of the 

 Judges as having the best exhibit at the Engineers' Open House, given 

 on the campus on the evening of April 15th. The Judges were H. C. 

 Gill, Mayor of Seattle, President Henry Landes, of the University of 

 Washington, Kenneth C. Beaton, of the staff of the Seattle Post-In- 

 telligencer, and Almon H. Fuller, Dean of the College of Engineering. 



Mayor Gill based his decision on the difficulty of bringing the great 

 out doors within the compass of a small room, President Landes compli- 

 mented the foresters on the amount of work accomplished in so short a 

 time, Mr. Beaton gave the foresters his vote because their exhibit was 

 the most original, while Dean Fuller thought that the utilization of the 

 material at hand was very clever. 



The underclassmen were busy for the major portion of two days 

 decorating the exterior and interior of the Good Roads Building, where 

 the main portion of the Forestry exhibit was housed. The very first dis- 

 play, and a very attractive one, was the model camp, as conceived by 

 Vincent Evans. In front of his tent, which was pitched beneath the 

 sheltering branches of a recently erected virgin forest, blazed a cheerful 

 camp fire. Two of the boys were busy here preparing a camp meal. 

 Evans threw the diamond hitch a few times on a rotund mare for the 

 edification of the visitors during the course of the evening. 



The next exhibit consisted of a display of forest fire signs and liter- 

 ature loaned for the occasion by E. T. Allen, and a collection of fire 

 fighting tools under the supervision of Russel Watson. 



The feature exhibit of the entire Open House was the third in order, 

 a complete miniature Lidgerwood "Flying Machine" which yarded logs 

 out of a tiny mountain valley, loaded them on a miniature railway, which 

 in turn transported the logs to a small portable saw mill, where they 

 were cut up into rough lumber, stenciled "U. of W. Forest School" and 

 distributed among the visitors as souvenirs by R. Brindley. Harold 

 Browning was donkey engineer on the overhead system, Arthur Bevan 

 was "chaser," James Coyle was head loader and Fred Madigan acted as 

 head rigger. Of the mill crew, Charles Brady was head sawyer, and 

 Joshua Russel acted as carriage man. A marked feature of the logging 

 scene was the electrically controlled steam whistle. This phase rendered 

 the logging scene very realistic as it enabled the rigging crew to shoot 

 the required signals to the donkey engineer. This type of whistle is just 

 coming into general use in the woods, replacing the clumsy whistle wire 

 of the "whistle punk" of recent years. J. P. McBride was on hand dur- 

 ing the exhibit to explain the working principles of his product, which 

 now forms a part of the standard equipment of the Lidgerwood and 

 Willamette Logging Engines. The logging system and railroad were 

 loaned for the occasion by the Lidgerwood Company and the saw mill by 

 the Higgins Machinery Co. 



Another attractive display was the model forest on a 60-year rota- 

 tion under ideal conditions of forest management. This showed in ad- 

 dition to the various age classes of timber a selection forest on the top of 

 the ridge, ranger cabin and the system of protection with telephone lines 

 and lookout tower. Donald Clark was in charge here and rumor hath 



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