SUNDAY HERALD. BOSTON, FEBRUARY IT. 1918. 



Snow-bound Patriotic Lumberjack 

 Buy War Savings Stamps Worth 



Brpwn Company's Woods Department War Savings Stamp Concert Company. 



Conceit Pving at Poontook Storehouse. 



Three Canvassers with Me- . 

 lodeon and Violin Make 

 Novel Concert Tour 



[Spatial Dispatch to the Herald. 1 



BERLIN". X. H.. Feb. 15— There are 

 patriotic hearts beating under the 

 rough mackinaws of the "lumberjacks'' 

 of New Hampshire. Herbert H. Greg- 

 ory. Harry T. Jtaeburn, K. Ward 

 Steady and Gardner I.. Taine of the 

 Brown Company, who recently pene- 

 trated the snow-bound fastnesses of 

 the lumber camps and sold war sav- 

 ings stamps worth $41S3 in five days 

 I came back thoroughly convinced of 

 that. 



Equipped with a raeloSeon. which 

 made up in voliuBVOt music for what 

 ip lacked in size, a violin, and hun- 

 dreds of leaflets on which ware printed 

 [the words of patriotic songs, these 

 four men chartered a stout pung, paint- 

 ed a vivid blue, and started off on the 

 oddest concert tour New England has 



No famous symphony orchestra can j 

 boast a warmer welcome than they re- • 

 ceived from the lumberjacks ■ whose 1 

 camps they visited. To begin With, so- 

 cial events are rare in WentwortVs 

 Location, Magalloway Plantation, and 

 the other settlements they visited. 

 I Then, too, the patriotic songs, to which 

 | they listened at first and which late: 1 

 | they sang for themselves, were a new ! 

 and thrilling experience. 



In Largest Log House 



The concerts in each instance were I 

 held in the largest log house which the 

 camp afforded, but the place was always 

 packed long before the melodeon started 

 up the first tune. By the time the audi- j 



shook with tho echoes of "Over There," j 

 "Good-oy Broadway, Hello France," j 



Home Fires Burning"" with" a tremolo 1 

 note of yearning worthy of John McCor- 

 ma (, k himself, and when it came to "The 

 Long, Long Trail" they fairly outdid 

 themselves. ( 

 I At Wcntworth's Location, the first stop 

 on the "outward voyage" of the concert 

 tour, an audience of 73 bought KM of tho ; 

 to war savings stamps. 

 I At Dead Diamond camp three clog 1 

 I dancers and a fiddler materialized out 

 of the audience and the fun waxed riot- 

 ous. Wagers went up among the specta- 

 tors as to who could clog the longest, 

 with war stamps as tho stakes. When 

 I the excitement was over the crowd dug 

 I out Hs capacious leather wallets and 

 bought stamps worth nearly *SflO. 



At Hell Gate camp the indomitable 

 concert singers encountered a tempera- 

 ture Of 52 below zero. The person who 

 gave that camp Its name must have 

 had an ingrowing sense of humor, the 

 musicians decided. The c&mp, however, 

 las though to retrieve its good - name, 

 I turned out to a man in the frosty weath- 

 er and broke all previous records by 

 purchasing 153 stamps. One stalwart 

 woodsman walked three miles to get 20 

 stamps Which he had sold in his camp 

 after the company departed the night 

 before. 



Went on Snowshoes 



In order not to neglect the lumbermen 

 in tho camp on the Middle branch, the 

 concert company abandoned Its blue 

 pultg and took to snowshoes. With the 

 melodoon Rnd the violin strapped to 

 their backs, they tramped two miles to 

 a little settlement at the foot of a moun- 

 tain. The cabins were burled 111 snow, 

 the men had been tut off for a good 

 part of the winter. The self-appointed 

 entertainers received the warmest wcl- 

 i come of their trip and the enthusiasm 

 of the audience was boundless. Anyone 

 who vlKits that particular camp this 

 spring will find the men' cutting wood 

 to the strains of "Over, There." and 

 even taking an occasional try at "The 

 Star Spangled Banner." 



In all, the concert tour covered K!6 

 miles of snowbound country. They re- 

 turned with stamps worth $4185 ac- 

 credited to the "lumberjacks" of the 

 North Country and the firm conviction 

 that tho "up river" folk havo as warm 

 hearts, as lusty voices find as wide- 

 open pocket books as any to be found in 

 the country. 



