Feb. 8, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
163 
1913 
Nineteenth Annual 
SPORTSMEN’S SHOW 
Third Annual Indoor 
TRAP SHOOT 
Annual 
ANGLERS’ CASTING TOURNAMENT 
February 27th to March 5 th, inclusive 
Madison Square Garden 
Exhibits: —Everything the Sportsman Wants. 
Features: —Outdoor Sports and Life Acted and Pictured. Camp Exhibits and 
Activities of Campers, old and young. 
STEPHEN N. VAN ALLEN 
Gen’l Manager 
ADMISSION 50 CENTS 
CHILDREN 25 CENTS 
WILLIAM J. POTH 
Business Manager 
ALLEN S. WILLIAMS 
Publicity 
Telephone Madison Square 5100 
Office: The Tower, Madison Square Garden 
Copyright Jndgo 
AFTER THE BIG STORM 
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hearts of every real lover of camp life. You have doubtless 
had a similar experience. It is a remarkable set of pictures 
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An East Brewster Fox Hunt. 
BY MICHAEL FITZGERALD. 
This is the season when the sporting blood 
of the Cape Codder is at full tide. The hunt¬ 
ing cry of the foxhound is heard in the woods 
as wily reynard is trailed through copse and 
glade. From Spring Rock to Sheep Pond the 
gallant dog pursues the quarry and there finds 
that the foe has doubled on his tracks. Back 
again for some distance and nosing around for 
another clue, with a full-throated cry the hound 
renews the ruthless quest in the direction of 
Long Pond. Swerving to South Orleans, rey¬ 
nard increases his lope, for old "Spotty'’ is 
getting dangerously close and he must be 
shaken off on this long stretch. The music of 
the chase now comes faintly to the silent but 
alert watcher at Spring Rock. No need to 
follow the dog. The man with the gun knows 
that when reynard reaches the South Orleans 
road he will turn once more and skirt the north 
shore of Baker’s pond on the last leg of his 
journey to earth. Half an hour goes by. The 
hound’s cry increases in volume to the east¬ 
ward and each moment it becomes louder. The 
last round cf the struggle has been reached and 
the end is near. The man with the gun hears 
the dog crashing through the underbrush, and 
almost under the muzzle of the weapon the 
jaded fox emerges from the tangled growth. 
Bang! Old Spotty shakes the fallen foe a few 
times and is rewarded by “Good dog!’’ from 
his master. Quickly poor reynard is triced up 
to a limb and skinned. The man with the gun 
goes home richer by nine dollars, old Spotty 
at heel, and both well content with the day’s 
work. The eye-filling spectacle of a gay, red- 
coated cavalcade had no part in the run and 
some may think that without it fox-hunting is 
tame work; but the man with the gun, who 
waited so patiently under the shadow of Spring 
Rock, followed the varying notes of the dog’s 
music intently, and with the mind’s eye every 
phase of the hunt was distinctly visible to him. 
No curve or swing of the course escaped him. 
His blood tingled with excitement as he read 
the messages which the gallant hound sent ring¬ 
ing through the clear air. It was well to make 
a few extra dollars these hard times, but this 
man had the instincts of a true sportsman, and 
only the week before he declined to “dig out’’ 
a fox because there was “no fun in that kind 
of thing,’’ and old Spotty would be sure to get 
even with reynard later. And, says Yarmouth 
(Mass.) Register, if any city man likes a full 
day’s sport, he cannot do better than to have 
it with dog and gun in our East Brewster 
woods. There’s-lots of varmint around. 
Greenheart. 
A WOOD which, according to the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, outlasts iron and steel 
when placed in water is British Guiana green- 
heart. It is used in ship and dock building, 
trestles, bridges, shipping platforms, flooring, 
and for all purposes involving great wear and 
tear. The woods of two species of 'West 
African trees have been introduced into English 
markets as substitutes for greenheart under 
the name of African greenheart, but both are 
inferior to the South American tree. 
All the gates, piers and jetties of the Liver¬ 
pool docks and practically all the lock gates 
of the Bridgewater Canal in England are of 
greenheart. It furnished the material also for 
the fifty pairs of lock gates in the Manchester, 
England, Ship Canal. When the greenheart 
dock gates in the Mersey Harbor at Liverpool 
were removed in order that the channel might 
he deepened and widened, the same wood was 
again employed in building the enlarged gates, 
and wood placed in the gates of the Canada 
dock in 1856 was used again in its reconstruc¬ 
tion in 1894. The use of greenheart has been 
specified for sills and fenders in the lock gates 
of the Panama Canal. Nansen’s ship, the 
“Fram.,” and the Antarctic ship “Discovery” 
were built of greenheart. In addition to its 
use as timber, great quantities of the wood are 
made into charcoal. 
Though it grows _ in parts of British, 
Trench, and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil, 
Colombia, Peru, Trinidad, Jamaica, and Santo 
Domingo, it is being cut only in British Guiana, 
where it is found along the sea coast and water 
courses, seldom extending more than fifty miles 
inland. Greenheart used to bring $1.00 per 
cubic foot at the point of shipment, but the 
]iresent price is considerably less. Constant 
drain for more than 100 years upon the most 
accessible stands of greenheart _ in British 
Guiana has stripped the forest of its material, 
and the wood now obtained is of inferior qual¬ 
ity. Tracts are now being cut over in some 
places for the third time. Only the heartwood 
of the tree possesses the peculiar durability 
desired, and the best wood is found in old trees. 
The wood of three other species of the 
same botanical family is occasionally cut and 
sold with the genuine greenheart. These are 
the white cirouballi or sirauballi, the yellow 
cirouballi, sometimes called “black cedar.” and 
Idle keritee or ketti. Circular 211 of the Forest 
Service, which describes greenheart and its 
various uses, tells how to distinguish between 
it and these substitutes. While they closely re¬ 
semble greenheart, they are inferior to it in 
durability. 
Fore.st Axn Stream gives more than twice 
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trifling cost of less than six cents per week. In 
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