Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-03-20

IL formed that makes the transportation OF the
timber matter of comparatively minor consider
alton.
However. many large logging crews are at work
in the pneries telling timber which will later on
find its way to the sorting skids. for q winter
wholly without snow freezing weather has no
place in the memory of the oldest lumberman or
operator in the pine forests.
The. days of the "lumberjack." as the pctur
esquely clad figure in brilliantly-hued mackinaws
is familiary known, are practically numbered,
far old~time numbering in the northern woods is
concerned No longer will the hardy woodsman
return in the spring time from winters sojourn
in the fastness of the pine timber, his pockets
lined with from 500 to $500 hard-earned money,
and proceed to cut wide swath in the midst Of
the clusters OF tall buildings which intercept his
progress southwark.
In few localities will the foremen of logging
crews assemble his men and teams and set out for
INDICATED camps in the pine woods of the north,
building wanegans and stables for the accommoda-
ton of man and beast during the terms of wrest-
ing building material from the bosom of the virgin
forests in the midst OF frigid winter season. In
few localities will the woods resound with the
sharp "spat" of the axmans implement as 1t bites
into tree after tree from the rising to the setting
of the sun, and in few camps will be heard the
familiar and always welcome call OF the COOK
"Chucks ready"
Things have undergone change in the pi-
neres
In the old days the were at the call OF
tha Camp foreman long before the opening of the
loppirg season and many remained in tentative
emplov-or at least had the refusal of position
the year round Competition was keen and spir-
tied for the ACQUISITION of axmen who had at
tanned regulations for skill in their particular
lire of work while teamsters, canthook men,
brushmen and cooks were also sought according
n their efficiency In their respective capacities.
And WAGES were pretty fair in those days. too.
Axmen received all the way from 500 TO $40
month and board, and were not unduly anxious TO
dispose Of their services even at those figures
The ordinary lacks" were paid from $50 to $50
and $40 a month and board while the cookie
xvas the foserunner of the baseball hodout star
of the present day. A good man who had the
yeputaton of being able to provide the most salts
wing lumber camp ration, at a minimum OF eX
nense to his employer able almost to name his
own fgures--S100 month. with one and some
times two assistants "slush cooks, being willingly
Maid TO many Of these food jugglers in Minnesota
WISCONSIN and northern Michigan.
Today the scene is changed. The is sup
PLANTED by the saw, and by this mode Of pro-
cedure the pine monarchs are felled in a fraction
of the time required formerly. The huge trunks
scaled and whisked to sorting skids where they
are loaded on freight trains and transported to the
mills in less time than was formerly necessary to
get them to the river where they were formed into
brais and made up into RATS to be transported in
tow of a steamer to the mills
The axman Is no longer lord of the realm. He
is succeeded by brawny-armed wielders OF the
saw, the work Of which is far from requiring