Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-12
FOREST-MAOE FURNITURE
ADIRONDACK GUIDES WHO ARE
wooDwoRKERs.
Furniture Well Designed and Durable
Turned Out by Them for Use
in Camps.


FROM tue New 1otk sun.
When an Adirondack guide is really mas
| ter of his craft he is also a great deal
more. In particular he is a skilled. quick
and ingenious carpenter and joiner. with
| an expert knowledge of local woods and
dettness in making articles OF furniture
| from cedar and pine in the round tbat few
urban craftsmen can equal
! Such men can furnish camp through
| out with articles of these materials made
| in the rustic fashion, and there is no more
| appropri ate furnishing for camp that is
/ really such and not mere palace in the
wilderness
For the bedrooms they make bedsteads,
/ usually of pine in the round with the bark
removed Tor the sake of greater cleanliness.
! sometimes of planned planks. The wash
| stand is made of tongucd and grooved
wood and shaped to go into corner of a
room or a tent. 1t is usually provided
with ample shelves for storage.
Wood Boxes
Every bedroom or tent has its two wood
boxes. one of large size to hold the billets
| OF hardwood which are to keep the hearth
! fire or the tent stove going another of
| small size to hold the light dry pine used
for"4iinding. These boxes are made In sew
erai forms and are always charming and
| appropriate.
! Sometimes the larger box is a crib of
| carefully chosen cedar sticks in the round
| l1rn1iy Jointed ard provided with a tight
! i'ottor The smaller box is often of pine
! boards covered with birch bark carefully
chosen for color and marking, and bound
| with narrow strips of birch or some other
| native wood with the bark on.
Sometimes the kindling box is completely
| covered with small strips of some wood
| that tenaciously retains Its bark. In such
| case The coioring of the bark is carefully
| considered. and the box with it's hinged
| lid is beautiful. Structurally also it is ex-
! cellent. for 1t is nicely Joined in every part.
! IL Is the pride of the carpenter guide to
| make use of simple materials ready to hand
and accordingly the hinges of such a box
| are often contrived of wrought nails clever
~ twisted and turned that they serve
| their purpose to perfection, and give a
| permanent and easy working hinge.
Chairs.
! Chairs for the bedroom porch and living
room are made in great variety of shapes
| from cedar with the bark on All the pa TT
| are fitted together that the chair is at
| once strong. comfortable. neat in appear
| ance and stable on it's legs. Great arm
| chairs are made thus with seats of cedar
| In the round like miniature corduroy
| read. The braces of the back are made
with decorative intent but structural quail
tiles are rarely sacrificed for decoration.
| In some parts of these big chairs the
| cedar is bent. with the result of decoration
lana structural excellence. Smaller chairs
| are made on the same plan and some are
i OF simpler design.
Tables are made of all sizes and for many
4 purposes. A dining table seating a dozen
| persons and made of cedar in the round
| with planned pine top. has been used in one
Adirondack camp for fifteen years. 1t is in
| every way admirably suited to its purpose
| ana the bark remains on the cedar lust as
1 when the table was made
Decorative Tables.
Smaller tables on the same plan are
| used for many purposes. More decorative
| tables are made of cedar some In hex
agonal FORM others round. with three legs,
very tippy but not impracticabie
Still Others are made entirely of wood In
the round with the bark on. The face of
the table in such is made of small
pieces wrought into pattern orrayed from
| the center.
| 1t is in ambitious efforts like these that
the carpenter-guide is apt to be betrayed
! into bad taste. AS often as not though
ms esthetic mistakes come from his effort
| TO comply with the taste of his EMPLOYERS
Benches. settees, sewing tables, sofas
and even sideboards are made of such
| rustic rustic materials and upon simple lines.
and serviceabie cups and pitchers a re made
| of that material.
| Excellent linen chests are made entirely
OF cedar in the round save for an interior
ilnlng OF pine. Indeed. it would be ha rd
| to name any article of household furniture
when can be made Of wood that the guides
Will not undertake to make from the native
| ma teTial.
Cedar Is the favorite wood with the car
penter guides. because it is durable and
| easily worked. Every camp should have
some seasoned cedar in the round stored
against need
for small decorative articles, and with good
effect. White and yellow birch are. also
used. and less often beech. Alder is also
used for small articles.