Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
PUPILS OF FORESTRY
Students of BiItmore Institu-
ton Visit Capital.
TO LISTEN TO ADDRESSES
Young Men Will Spend Some Time
at Bureau Here.
LEAVE WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Party Has Just Been at Topper Lake,
N. T., Following Trip
to Europe.


Members of the Biltmore School OF
Forestry with headquarters in North
carolina, who have been journeying in
europe during the winter. and have just
spent two weeks at Upper Lake, in the
Adirondack mountains of New York
state, arrived in Washington Yesterday
The bureau of forestry will receive
their serious attention while in the Ma
tional Capital for a three-day stay. De-
yelopments of the science of forestry, as
applied by the government experts, will
be closely studied under the direction of
DIR. c. A. Schenck, founder of the school,
who has guided the travels at home and
abroad
DIR. Raphael Zon of the bureau of for
estry will deliver lecture to the stu
dents this afternoon, and DR.. H D. How
ard will address the visitors tomorrow.
To Travel in West.
The party will leave Washington We'd
nesday for Sunburst, n. c., the home
camp, near Biltmore Later the school
members will resume their travels, going
to Cadillac, Mich. where the greater part
of the summer will be passed. The early
fall will find the party moving on toward
Oregon, stopping the way at many
places. After a session in the coast lum-
bering district the school will come back
east by way of Texas and Louisiana.
In the party are DR.. Schenck, Carl
Henmiller, Cleveland; Fred l. Emerson.
Lockport, n. Y; I. A. Schenck. Sun
burst. n. c.. E. l.. Claassen, Brooklyn.
W. A. Peterson. Lynn. Mass: James W.
Lewis, Naples. n. y; G. S. Lyman,
Cleveland; John w. Heck. Huntington.
Long Island; Richard Foote, Boston. H.
Paige. Randolph, VT; H. P. Howes. To-
peka, Kan; A. R. Ines, Stamford, Conn; ;
William Fl. McGrath, Holyoke, Mass
w. B. Bunty, jr., Salem, Mass; H. C.
Chadbown, Minneapolis, Mimi: NJ. A.
Slipper, Boston; Ray Littlefield Fitch
burg, Mass: Sterl Zimmerman, Steelton,
Pa: Charles Shaw, Sag Harbor, n. Y;
Lansing Shumway, Cooperstown. n. Y;
I. r. Littlefield, Ogden Utah; T. A. Bull,
Monticello. Me-; Thomas w. Haywood,
Indianapolis, Ind; r. II. Brown, Rhine
lander, Wis: F. B. Gentzmer, Pittsfield,
Mass; F. NJ. Schwartzmeir, Buffalo. N.
y; r. A. Swift, Boston. and w. c. Full
lenwider, Waveland. Ind.
Experiences In Europe.
The young men and boys of the school
are studying to be foresters and lumber
to almost thirty. One is forester in the
government service. They left. the United
States on the Nieuw Amsterdam October
5. and from Rotterdam went direct to
Bensheim in a special car to get a gen.
eral knowledge of what they were to
study in more detail. Bensheim Is a viii
lage In the Odenwald. near Heppenheim
and Weinheim, in the Rhine country The
next day field work began, with a ten
mile tramp to Lindenfels, the baggage 60
ing by wagon.
After two weeks at Lindenfels the
school moved bodily to Darmstadt, some
walking the twenty-five miles and others
taking the baggage by train, and settled
down with that city headquarters.
There was a regular routine of work,
usually three hours of lectures in the
morning and the afternoons given up to
field work. All took a course In mapping
and microscopic work in the Technical
High School of Darmstadt where there
are 1900 students. which required one
lesson a week, and another course in the
same institution was the study of tree
Identification. In the environs of the city
the youngsters made surveys and visited
furniture factories, cooperage works and
wooden ware works and took up tree
planting.
In German Woods.
After several weeks at Darmstadt the
whole school was taken to the Spessart
mountains. where are primeval white oak
trees, said to be the most valuable of
their kind in the world The pupils had
10 go up into the mountains by auto
mobile from Schaffenburg and stayed for
time on the edge of the wild boar
preserve owned by the King of Bavaria.
After five days in these mountains they
went on TO Saxony. spending three days
In Dresden and visiting Leipzig and other
cities From Dresden they went to
Tharandt to see the oldest forestry
school in the world. and spent day as
guests of the school. The professor de-
Evered special lectures for their benefit
which DIR. Schenck translated. About
seventeen days were spent in Saxony,
the school getting back to Darmstadt a
week before Christmas.
Scatter for Holidays.
Some of the pupils went as far away
as London and Paris to spend the holi-
days, only ten being left at Darmstad1
These had a Christmas dinner all TO
themselves in one of the hotels and then,
awed by the funereal obseryances of the
holiday that was characteristic of the
town, most got away the next morning
to visit Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Nuremberg
and Munich. 1t was in Munich that the
school was to have reassembled after the
holidays, but many youngsters had
gone broke over Christmas that Darn
stadt had to be their meeting place. Here
they remained with the usual lectures and
field trips until the middle of February,
when they started to the Black Forest,
making their headquarters at Buhl, near
Baden Baden.
There they worked out plans of the
woods Whereabouts, making side trips and
studying methods of logging, venturins
into Wurttemberg on two excursions and
getting back to Darmstadt for a week
of examinations before leaving there for
Rotterdam. When they got to the Dutch
city there were four days to spare before
sailing. so most of them took in Brussels
The Hague and Amsterdam. One Of the
youngsters thought it worthy of comment
that four of them chartered a taxicab
in Brussels and spent the whole after
noon driving about and seeing the sights
1t q total cost of So