Wheel Company as expert in wood 

 utilization, but has not lost interest either 

 in forestry or the School and Club. 



Evans ('10) made the record in recon- 

 naissance in District Five. Good for 

 Evans and the best wishes of the Club! 



Duthie ('09) is getting settled on 

 the "Bow," has the model forest of the 

 District, and feels proud and anxious 

 to hold up its record. Improvements, 

 grazing, strict protection and well con- 

 ducted sales. Soon he will be into im- 

 provement cuttings, thinnings, and all 

 the rest. Best wishes, Duthie, and better 

 pay us a visit soon. 



Bravo ('12) being a classical man, and 

 from Amherst, pitched right in and 

 showed the lead. He went up to L'Anse, 

 helped in the building of a million dollar 

 enterprise, mill, logging, railway and 

 camps, and then was Commissary man 

 to the entire outfit. He knows the value 

 of organization, devised a store on 

 wheels, and enjoyed working with the 

 son of the inventor and first user of 

 the donkey logging engine in our coun- 

 try. 



Birch ('13) had a fine summer, and 

 then spoiled it all by trusting foothill 

 sanitation, and getting a dose of a most 

 virulent typhoid. He is O. K. again 

 and holds forth with Hill at Northfork, 

 California. 



Bedford ('10) on the Klamath is do- 

 ing things. Phones in that Lee Muck, 

 after a year's apprenticeship under right 

 masters, is promoted to Tulalip ; that 

 times are good and business plenty. 



Winegar ('10) is still holding things 

 down at Montreal ; was down at Wash- 

 ington, D. C. where we had a Michigan 

 Reunion with Leavitt presiding. He 

 raises his finger and says: "No more 

 temptation to be thrown at that man 

 Metcalf, for we need him." 



Herbert Knoch who is out for ex- 

 perience, sends cards from Hawaii, and 

 now from Tokio, Yokohama Park, Man- 

 ila, Guam and other nearby places. He 

 is evidently headed for Siberia or India. 

 The latter, Knoch, at least for winter. 



Reed ('12) reports from Bozeman, 



Montana. He is with seeds growers, 

 field work summers, warehouse winters ; 

 gets in touch now and then with the 

 Gallatin National Forest people, (West 

 ('12) is Assistant), and likes the West 

 "for keeps." A print with Reed on 

 the Piebald, shirt sleeves and snow 

 underfoot, makes a picture for which 

 the Rockies are famous and are loved 

 by all. 



The Club and the University were 

 represented at the Conservation Con- 

 gress at Washington, November 20, 1913. 

 Professors Roth and Lovejoy held up 

 the line in proper form. Clyde Leavitt, 

 Merrill Winegar, F. B. Moody, Prof- 

 essor Walter Mulford, E. H. Clapp, C. 

 W. Gould, E. H. Frothingham, J. C. 

 Nellis, E. J. Zavitz, and G. A. Gutches 

 were on hand, and there was a little 

 dinner party at Harvey's on the Avenue, 

 where Regent Hubbard helped to make 

 it a most enjoyable affair. 



The End of The Biltmore Forest School. 

 A circular from Doctor Schenck tells 

 of the closing of this school. Biltmore 

 School was unique; it was a one-man 

 school of the type of the old "Meister- 

 schule." According to Doctor Schenck: 

 "Today lumbering is supposed to be 

 taught in one way or another, at no 

 less than eighty-three schools. There 

 seems to be no more need, therefore, for 

 a unique school like the Biltmore For- 

 est School. As a matter of fact, the 

 enrolments at the Biltmore Forest 

 School have been so small recently, that 

 its continuance is not worth while." 

 Doctor Schenck also states: "At any 

 rate, not one of those young men who 

 were undoubtedly fine fellows, the elite 

 of hundreds that tried their luck at Bilt- 

 more, not one of "my boys" has be- 

 come a live advertisement for the Bilt- 

 more Forest School." Doctor Schenck 

 is a brilliant man of most extraordin- 

 ary energy and capacity ; he deserved to 

 succeed better. The fault seems to be 

 with the method. 



R. 



