. Canadian forest industries January-June 1913. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 64 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Modern Conditions in Lumber Camp Life Civilizing the Bush—Old Time Hardships Disappear- ing Before the Railroad, Telephone, Gramaphone, Etc. By Horace A. Bell THE solitude and loneliness of the bush which (in spite of the many hardships and drawbacks they entailed) had for the old-time woodsman a certain fascination and romance, are fast disappearing into the limbo of the past. The railroad, the telegraph and the telepho
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1913. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 64 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER Modern Conditions in Lumber Camp Life Civilizing the Bush—Old Time Hardships Disappear- ing Before the Railroad, Telephone, Gramaphone, Etc. By Horace A. Bell THE solitude and loneliness of the bush which (in spite of the many hardships and drawbacks they entailed) had for the old-time woodsman a certain fascination and romance, are fast disappearing into the limbo of the past. The railroad, the telegraph and the telephone are year by year bringing the re- motest parts of our mighty forests into closer and closer touch with civilization. Spots which a decade ago were practically untrodden by the white man now resound with the shrill blast of the locomotive disturbing the haunts of the moose, the deer, the bear, the lynx, the marten and the mink and sending the timid creatures scurrying through the woods in dread alarm. The telephone is stretching out through the bush in all directions bringing many lonely points into intimate communication with civilization. The writer, a little more than a year ago whilst located in the bush in the far northland, more than thirty miles from the nearest settlement, was able to learn over the telephone on the night of the Dominion elections full par- ticulars of the upheaval which had that day overthrown the Laurier administration; of the ministers who had gone down to defeat; and of the fates of many of the rank and file of candidates who were seeking the suffrages of the electors on that occasion. In the same way he was able to follow the news of the sinking of the Titanic with as much excitement as those who stood before the bulletin boards outside the city newspaper offices. The Railroad and the Telephone To the shantyman the railroad and the telephone have indeed proved a boon. The railroad not only relieves him of such long and tedious journeys—which
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