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Sims-not the Rear Admiral whose likenesses adorn the cover of this magazine, nor the Seattle lumberman whose name may be remembered*-but Charles Sims, R. A., portrait painter of smart repute in England, exhibited last week at the Knoedler Galleries, Manhattan...
Foresters and the press began to denounce U. S. woodcutters, asserting that Americans have bought many French forests and are cutting them down. The U. S. lumberman is so described: "With an ear-to-ear grin on his face and his hands overflowing with dollars milked from the rate of exchange, he scours the forest of Creuse and Correze, demolishing the beautiful chestnut trees. The forests of several French provinces are soon to fall under...
Married. Mrs. Matilda R. Dodge, widow of John F. Dodge (automobiles) to Alfred G. Wilson, lumberman; at Detroit...
...bought it and took it to his home. He showed some very ludicrous snapshots of the bear in its youthful days. One of these was taken while the bear was playing football with a fex-terrier. Many of the lecturer's pictures illustrated the exciting life of the Maine lumberman. In the log jams the men balance themselves on the logs as they shoot the rapids. One of the pictures showed a lumberman smoking his pipe on the end of a log while he guided it down the stream...
...distinct and technical the training of a real forester must be very few people seem to understand. Even your editorial betrays a common misconception by speaking of the "esthetic side of the profession." A forester may have an esthetic side just as a lumberman may, but forestry itself is no more concerned with esthetic questions than is the lumber business. In fact in the east forestry is nothing but scientific lumbering. Its object is commercial. Its problems are expressed in terms of board feet, rate of reproduction, access to a market--terms which a landscape architect has nothing...