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great interest here. There is not a nail in it. The logs, 

 which are of larch, are fastened with wooden pins. The 

 roof is of bark, the floor logs were hewn by Corporal 

 Mount Ford, a French-Canadian who used only an ax, 

 and did the work so skillfully that a six-pence cannot 

 be dropped between them. The floor logs rest on pillars. 

 No plane was used on any part of the building. The 

 larch, or what is called in Canada and the United States, 

 tamarack, was the only tree that could be found straight 

 and large enough for the cabin. 



The Canadian foresters in the great park at Windsor 



made the acquaintance of another extraordinary tree. 

 This was a huge beech. Its branches extend in a radius 

 of sixty-eight feet from the centre of the trunk. Be- 

 neath its leafy roof on one occasion 2,500 Canadian 

 officers and men assembled for religious services. 



There is a pang of regret in artistic circles, but it is 

 remembered that England has sacrificed without mur- 

 mur the beautiful trees in the Royal Park of Windsor, 

 and it is believed that unless lumber can be obtained 

 elsewhere under as favorable conditions Fontainebleu 

 is doomed. 



A LETTER FROM THE CHAPLAIN OF THE TENTH 



THOSE who have given so generously to the Fund 

 for the Welfare of Lumbermen and Foresters in 

 War Service, in response to the appeals made by the 

 committee and to the advertisements published in this 

 and other magazines, will be happy to read the following 

 letter received from Lieut. Howard Y. Williams, the 

 Chaplain of the Tenth Engineers (Forest). This testi- 

 fies to the grateful appreciation of the men of the lum- 

 ber and forest regiments, and should bring a warm 

 glow of satisfaction to the heart of every person man, 

 woman or child who has sent his dollar to swell the 

 fund. 



France, June 10, 1918. 



"Dear Mr. Ridsdale: 



"The Welfare Fund is surely helping out a 

 great deal. Have been able to buy athletic 

 equipment, etc., for the men, make short loans 



p 



for men going on leaves, and help in many 

 little ways. Now that packages do not come 

 over from the States such a fund is even more 

 necessary and we thank you very, very much 

 for your energies in our behalf. 



"I am enclosing a letter telling of some of 

 my activities in the Tenth Engineers. 



"Trusting that you will pass our apprecia- 

 tion on to the many givers, I am with kindest 

 regards, 



"Very sincerely yours, 



"Howard Y. Williams, Chaplain." 

 It is a pleasure to our Committee to receive such a 

 letter, and doubly a pleasure to here reproduce it for 

 the benefit of the readers of American Forestry. 

 The report of his "doings" to which Chaplain Williams 

 refers is printed elsewhere in the magazine. 



DONATIONS TO THE WELFARE/ FUND FOR LUMBERMEN AND 



FORESTERS IN WAR SERVICE 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will publish each month the list of those making donations to this fund. Many of the donations 

 from members of the American Forestry Association so far received were made without solicitation and were inspired by 

 reading in the magazine that a relief and comfort fund for men of the forest regiments was being collected. Many substan- 

 tial contributions are being received from the Forest Service and from lumber companies and lumbermen following requests sent 

 to them by the Secretary of the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in War Service, by the lumber organizations of 

 which they are members, and by the, committees of lumbermen which had charge in various sections of the United States of 

 securing enlistments for the forest regiments. 



Contributions to the Welfare Fund to July 29, 1918, are as follows: 



Previously acknowledged $19,544.06 Mr. D. Blakely Hoar. 



Carey, Arthur E. 

 Delafield, Jr., Marturin L . . . 

 Finch, Pruyn & Company. . . 

 From one of the Amexforce. 

 Gunnison National Forest. . . 



Mrs. C. S. Haight 



Haskell, Rev. Joseph N 



5.00 

 5.00 

 100.00 

 2.00 

 18.50 

 5.00 

 2.00 



In Memory of S. G. B 



Kidder, Nathaniel T 



Morse, Miss Frances R 



Nelson, Jr., John M. (district No. 3). 



Vickers, Mrs. J. V 



Wollweber, Otis 



$5.00 



10.00 



100.00 



2.00 



10.00 



2.00 



2.00 



Total $19,812.06 



BELGIAN FORESTS WANTONLY SACRIFICED BY HUNS 



A CCORDING to official reports, says the Christian 

 ** Science Monitor, information has been received at 

 the Belgian Legation from all parts of occupied Belgium 

 which tell of the reckless destruction of public and 

 private woodlands. Whole forests have been destroyed 

 in the Ardennes region, while in the less luxuriant 

 northern provinces, even the roadside shade trees and 

 those bordering the canals have been cut down. This 

 damage is distinct from that inflicted by shell fire, in- 

 cendiarism, and for reasons of military strategy. 



It is part of Germany's systematic raid on the 

 economic resources of the nation, with the object in 

 view of eliminating industrial competition after the 

 war. 



The forest industry is an important factor in Belgian 

 activity. Statistics furnished by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture estimated the total wooded 

 surface of this, the most densely populated European 

 country, at 17 per cent of the entire territorial area, or 

 1,300,000 acres (1910). 



