Daily camera., 1900-05-30
SHANTY BOYS OF NORTH WOOD
Some Interesting Features of the
Logging Business in the AdirOn-
dack Wilderness.

| The lumber camps, where the shan.
| ty boys" who heN cut the annual sup
| ply OF logs IN the AulrOnuavKs, live dur
| ing the long winter months, are large.
| low cabins, built OF round, unhewn
| logs, notched at the enus and laid to-
gether "cobhouse" style. At one end
| is a door hung on hinges cut from an
| old harness tug, at the opposite end d
| small window In this mems shanty'
the choppers, sawyers, skldders and
| teamSters lounge and sleep. Near by is
| the cook camp another log CABIN,
with long, rough table i'll the center,
| around which the men sit on wooden
| legged benches to eat their grub"
as they call four hearty meals of bean
swagger," saleratus biscuit, tried pork
| and potatoes, served to them at day
light, at ten o'clock q. m, at three p.
III. and again after the day work Is
| ended, about eight o'clock in the even
| ing. In the end of this cook camp
| the cook and his satellite, the cookie,
| sweat over huge range, preparing the
| rations for the hungry army of french
Canadians. In a large log barn at the
opposite side of the men S shanty' the
logging teams are kept, baled hay be-
| ing stored in loft overhead. Then
| there are a granary, blacksmith shop
| and an Office, where the foreman ana
scaler sleep, with an extra bed tor the
boss, or proprietor, when he visits the
camp, the whole forming quite back
woods village, says the New York Sun.
For an average camp of some 90
hands the mems shanty' and the
! cook camp" are each about 90 by 20
feet in size. The men sleep in rough
wooden hunks, ranged in double tiers
along the sides. In olden times they
| lay on spruce boughs, with single
blanket spread over them, but in these
degenerate days they have thin bed
| ticks, luxuriously stuffed with hay,
though they have not yet attained pill
lows and sheets.
With the big stove in the middle of
| the room kept roaring with four-foot
sticks of beech and maple, no one suf-
| fers from cold Along the lower row
! of hunks runs a wide seat, made of
pine slab, upheld by wooden legs, and
! called a deacon seat" Ranged along
these seats the jovial crew sit for an
hour or so after supper, smoking their
short "dhudeens" filed with cut plug
of the strongest variety, and gibe and
Jest go around and songs are sung and
stories told. The musician of the camp
| brings out his fiddle, accordion or
mouth organ, and the jig dancer cuts
pigeon wings or the boisterous stag
quadrlle' or spirited "French four
brings all hands out on the puncheon
floor, hoeing it down in moccasins,
shoe packs or "larrigans," the latter an
| offshoot of the moccasin with a top
| boot.
| Besides these lumber camps there
are many other little cabins scattered
throughout the woods, whose inmates,
the gum pickers' of the north woods.
make a livelihood from the Adiron-
dack spruce. A large percentage OF all
spruce trees are made almost valueless
for lumber by cracks. which extend up
| the trunks from the base to the lower
branches of the crown. in most cases
penetrating to the heart of the tree.
| This seam fills with resin, which eX-
udes and hardens, forming the spruce
| of