Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-18
FORESTERS WAN TED
SERIOUS CONDITIONS WROUGHT
BY TREE LOSS.
STREAMS ARE DRYING UP
On One of the Islands Deer
Act as a Destructive Force
Forestry on Huaf,
Scale to be lnauaurated 81
Texas.

Washington, September 13.-The
Hawaiian islands are in need of
foresters, and eager to secure
Of foresters, and eager to secuIe
immediate necessity of caring for the
island forests, has applied to he
bureau of forestry for expert men, to
be sent as soon as they can be spalGa
The mountains are overrun by ooJL
wild and tame cattle, which gra
and trample on young trees and dc,
stroy the ferns that protect The
ground. When this ground cover IS
removed the soil rapidly loses its
moisture and the forest dies. Great
areas of Hawaiian forest have beel
| utterly destroyed in this way.
The disappearance of SO mucn
| forest on the island of Hawaii has
! caused remarkable changes in the
| flow of the streams. There arc
freshets and floods now, followed b.
long, dry seasons when the water
does not run. Since much of Che
sugar crop depends entirely on irT-,
: cation, and since the irrigatins
bitches must draw their water from
the mountain streams, the damas
done the forest affects the prosperity
of the whole island
| Fproctrv n poro, J,oo,
attempted by the government, AMI
the field will be an entirely new one
1t will have the support and con
fidence of the people, who are eager
for relief from the harm done then
by the failure of their irrigating
bitches to supply the sugar crops.
On the island of Molokai-the lepe,
island-still more remarkable con
ditions prevail in the forest. Their
the timber is grazed> and trampled Z,
death not by wild cattle alone but J..
herds of red deer, descended from q
few that were imported from England
| to stock parks. The deer imported
propagated beyond the calculations
of the inhabitants, escaped to the
woods, and, since, have increased as
there are no animals to prey upon
They have increased to many thou
sands. The American forester We
undertakes the care of the timbei Of
Molokai will have a problem entireI;
novel to his eXperience-the protec
ton Of forests from wild animals.
Miss Annie Irish, who will Jointly
star with ]. E. Dodson next season in
a new play, opening at the Bijor
theater in New York, October IS
came to America with the Kendais
in September, 1898, to play the
juvenile role of Ellean in The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray. Before that she had
received wide schooling in the
English provinces, had played a sea-
son of comedy at the Vaudeville
theater in London, and was selected
by Pinero to play Mirnie Gillian in
Sweet Lavender at Terry's theater
A season at the Lyceum with Sill
Henry Irving and Miss Terry, where
she played all the parts second to the
latter, and season in light comedy
with Charles Hawtrey at the Comedy
theater, had also given her valuable
experience. In 1894 she created the
leading womans role in The District
| Attorney in New York, then played a
season with both the Lyceum and
Empire theater stock companies, and
followed these engagements by Great
ing Marion in Tess of the D'Urber-
| villas OF
She impersonated the widow with w
H. Crane in A Virginia Courtship,
| played a season with John Drew and
the leading role in Because She
| Loved Him So with Mr. Dodson.
! Then followed two seasons in The
Climbers. She also appeared as
/ Nerissa with n. c.. Goodwin and
! Maxine Elliott in the all-star cast rro
duction of The Merchant of Venice.
| Bruce McRae, who was Julia Mar
loves leading man for two seasons,
has been engaged for a conspicuous
part in A Country Mouse when it is
seen for the first time in this country
in October. At least three of the
leading roles will be played by young
branches of famous theatrical
families. Mr.. McRae is a nephew of
Sir Charles Wyndham and of Mrs.
Bronson Howard. Harry Davenport
is son Of the famous E. l.. Daven-
port, brother of the actor of the pres
ent day of that name, and had Fanny
Davenport for a sister. The ancestry
both on the Drew and BARRYMORE
sides of Ethel Barrymore, the star of
A Country Mouse, is widely known.
1t is said that the duchess of Suther-
land is writing play for Miss Barry
more's use next season Lady
Sutherland is a sister of the earl of
Rosslyn, who has just arrived in
America to act in There's Many
Slip, and of the countess of Warwick.
who startled London by opening
tea-room in Bond street
Quincy Adams Sawyer is dram.-
tization OF Charles FELTON, Pidgin 6
novel of that name. 1t has Ope1:o
the new season at the Academy If
Music, New York. Mr.. Pidgin, in bis
travels as a commercial traveller
the New England states, PEE
the smaller towns, where !
such characters as he has Introduce !