The Ordway new era., 1922-12-22


and works under infinitely better con
ditions than the old-timers. Thirty
years ago the logging camps were built
of logs; the buildings were not much
better than barns. Today there are
some log camps built, but most of
them are frame buildings sealed with
tar paper. They are comfortable in
summer and winter
In the model camps of Michigan, for
instance, The buildings are lighted with
electric light. there are bath rooms,
and every man has Il comfortable bed
instead Of hunks filed with pine
boughs or hay. Years ugo the lumber
men applied efficiency methods TO the
science Of numbering, and they saw
their best men would not slow up if
they got the best possible rest at night
The men are also furnished with
books and current magazines; their
meals are prepared by cooks who know
their business, of a sufficient variety
to tempt even the discriminating appe-
tite of the city dweler.
The jacks of Michigan are picked
men. They form most efficient body
Of workers, for no man gets a chance
unless he has proven in the hardest
possible school his ability to get 60
minutes Of unremitting toll into an
hour, to stand great extremes of tenn
perature, and to master the science of
failing" trees SO they will not dam
age other trees, block roads, crush
bark. or shoot down mountain sides.
He must have good health, be able to
live at peace with forty or more other
huskies, and be able and willing TO
find his place in the woods on dark
winter mornings when the thermome-
ter is down to 80 degrees below zero.
The man who bears the proud name
of "hick'' looks with scorn upon the
clumsy foreign laborers who follow
him in the woods and cut out the small
paper" wood left after he has dis
posed of the hemlock, birch, maple.
beech and poplar trees. The woods
"hunky' has been surveyed" The
nick does not need survey, because
he gets the pay he demands, does the
work expected of him. gets the best of
food. wears high-priced woolens the
year round, wears shoes which never
cost less than $40 pair and can get
Job in any lumber camp in the United
States for the asking.
The lumber camp Is a busy and in
teresting place three times day. Sum
mer and winter the men are called at
five in the morning, At 5 80 thew
nave breakfast, humping meal, pre-
pared by chief cook and assistants.
AT six the men start for their places
In the woods. working like mad until
the dinner gong sounds at IL 80. For
dinner they get an elaborate meal the
iumber-jacks then eating great auan-
uties OF meat. They are at work again
at Il 30, quitting at 8 30.
At dinner time, in heavy oolIsad
boots. tattered slacks, mackinaws or
sweaters of Siwash, the loggers pile
IN from the woods. red-faced, eager.
hungry as wolves from their work
In the crisp mountain air. They sling
their legs under the tables.
Now. watch 'em comet Flunkies !,
tAnd "fiunkies' they call EN-
Flunkies, whIte-suited, swift footed
never at rest! Flunkies, rustling food
Tor the gods. Great bowls of fragrant
cerise-colored soup, made from the
okanogan tomato, salmon, fresh from
the sea !-"hefty" big roasts of beef
and pork, succulent and shining with
cracking potatoes, fresh beans, corn
on the cob, carrots in butter!
salads crisp, cold and green, steaming
kettles of coffee and tea, puddings
of every description, pies. doughnuts,