Our Sincere Desire-

And then there was the New Yorker who went to Florida to play goH in the winter. When he got back sorne friends were asking him about Florida- Was its boom as great as reported, its prices as high, its real estate so much in demand, etc.

'l'll give youan idear" he replied, "of the value of Florida real estate, when I tell you that the first eighteen holes of golf I played a real estate man offered me a thousand dollars FOR MY DIVOTS'"

Wooden Ships Long Lived

Oldest One of Record Sailed Seas More Than 300 Years (From Chicago Tribune)

While iron craft are fast supplanting them, there are still numbers of wooden vessels. Supporters of wooden boats claim for them that they are better than steel ones in the bays and channels of coast work. A hole knocked in a wooden hull has far less disastrous possibifities than a rent in steel casing.

Mo-de1n ships built of iron or steel are not so long-lived as the old timber-built vessels, and in the Baltic are quite a number of small wooden vessels still in use, of which the oldest, the Constance, was built in 1723, making it 202 years old,.

Sweden llad a ship, called the Emanuel, built in 1749, which began as a pirate, but now is engaged in carrying lumber. It his been owned by the same family for nearly a century.

In 1919 there was sold at Cardiff the fine old vessel Good Intent. It is a ketch of about twenty-five tons burden, and was built in Plymouth in 1790. In spite of its great age it fetched $1000. . An-other.old- ship that-was at work a few years,ago, and may stil be afloat, is the Seal, which was built atr Southampto_rr in 1810. In 1823 it was caught in a tremendous storm off Po6le and drivea ashore right _up into a -turnip field. It was launched again, and the last heard of it was of sailing from Bideford, Devon, -for'Durban; in South Africa, a voyage of six thousand miles.

But all the vessels mentioned are babies, compaied with the Italhn ship Anita, which was brok_en up in the present century at Genoa. It was built in the days of Queen Elizabeth, and for weli more than three centuries sailed the wortd's seas. It was not only the oldest but also the slowest ship in existence. No wonder. for lts hull was of oak. twelve inches thick.

HOO-HOO CLUB NO. 9 TOHOLDDINNER DANCE

Announcement has been made that Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 will hold their annual dinner dance on Thursday evening, February 25, in the Terrace Ball Room, Fairmont Hote-i, San Francisco. Dinner will be served at 7:00 P.M. sharp. Dinner tickets are $3.50 per plate.

The committee has arranged for an excellent entertainment to be given during the evening and music for dancing will be furnished by a seven-piece orchestra. The commit-tee has announced that all lumbermen and their friends are invited to attend the dinner dance. The committee in charge of the affair is: Chairman, Harry Gaetjen, C. C. Stibick, l. E. Peggs, A. J. Nolan, A. B. Johnson, Jr., John Stloud, Fred Roth and J. E. Martin. The committee are working hard to put the dinner dance over big and a large crowd have already sent in their reservations.

Reservations should be made through J. E. Martin, 900 Matson Building, San Francisco, or the other members of the committee.