Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-18
SERIOUS CONDITIONS WROUGHT
BY TREE LOSS.
STREAMS ARE DRYING UP
On One of the Islands Deer
Act as Destructive Force
forestry on a Hugh
Scale to be lnaugurated IL
Texas.

foresters, and eager to secure
of foresters, and eager to secuI,
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 spale.
The mountains are overrun by bod,
wild and tame cattle, which gIa :,
and trample on young trees and DC,
stroy the ferns that protect The
ground. When this ground cover a.
removed the soil rapidly loses its
moisture and the forest dies. Great
areas of Hawaiian forest have. bee i
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 are
freshets and floods now, followed By
long, dry seasons when the water
does not run. Since much of the
sugar crop depends entirely on irr
cation, and since the irrigatins
bitches must draw their water from
the mountain streams, the damay =
done the forest affects the prosperit.,
of the whole island
Forestry in Hawaii has never been
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 Molobai--the lepe;
island-still more remarkable con-
ditions prevail in the forest. Their,
the timber is grazed and trampled e.
death not by wild cattle alone but D.
herds of red deer, descended from a
few that were imported from England
to stock parks. The deer importer
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 wAo
undertakes the care of the timbe, of
Molokai will have a problem entirely
I novel to his experience-the protec.
ton of forests from wild animals.
Miss Annie Irish, who will Jointly
star with J. E. Dodson next season in
a new play, opening at the Biiou
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 a 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 Gilfillan in
Sweet Lavender at Terry's theater,
A season at the Lyceum with Sir
Henry Irving and Miss Terry, where
abe 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-
villes at the Fifth Avenue theater
She impersonated the widow with w.
Fl. Crane in A Virginia Courtshlp
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
ha aIg
Nerissa with N. G. Goodwin and
Maxine Elliott in the aIl-star cast pro
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 IL 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 sister of the earl OF
Rosslyn, who has just arrived in
America to act in There's Many a
Slip. and Of the countess OF Warwick
who startled London by opening a
tea-room in Bond street.
Quincy Adams Sawyer is a dram..
tization of Charles FELTON, Pidgin 3
novel of that name. It has opeae
the new season at the Academy 81
: Music, New York. Mr.. Pidgin, in his
{ travels as a commercial traveller
through the New England states. pre-
, sumably the smaller towns. where
such characters as he has introduc.
actually exist, has gathered the
material which has beer attractively
presented in dramatic form. Whether
Intentionally or otherwise. Mr. Pidgin
or his dramatist, Justin Adams. has
not given the lawyers, the villain and