Dear Readers: 



THE NORTH WOODS is latefour months late! 

 We make the statement with regret, but without 

 apology. The reasons why it is late are too numerous 

 and diverse to explain in detail. Among the minor 

 ones might be mentioned the fires in the North, the 

 absence of the editor from the city, and the rush of 

 business in the treasurer's office making out receipts 

 for subscriptions. 



We are not going to try to make up these lost 

 months; we are going to use them to catch up with 

 ourselves. For the forester or anyone interested in the 

 forests it is impossible to attempt to ignore, even tem- 

 porarily, the fires of last month. They come across our 

 memory like a colored glass and change the hue of all 

 that occurred before them. We cannot forget those 

 fires even long enough to write up the lost issues as 

 though they had not been. Therefore this enlarged 

 issue is intended to put us square with the world and 

 with our readers. 



The Editor. 



JAY COOK PARK 



HOW many people are there in Minnesota who 

 know where Jay Cook Park is, what it is, or 

 even that such a place exists? You could not quite 

 count them on your fingers, but it would not require 

 much of a mathematician to sum them up. Ask the 

 same question about Como Park, and all St. Paul would 



