Unusual Man Heads Unusual Institution Louis C. Stewart Named Father of Family

i Cuts Down Treei for Living; Plants Them for Pastime

From the San Francisco Chronicle

An unusual man has just been named to head an unusual San Francisco institution.

The man is Louis C. Stewart, lumberman, and the institution is "The Family," that unique club which is just- a little difierent from anv other similar otganization in the world. Stewart will not be "president" of "The Family," but will be "Father," and among his "children" will be many of San Francisco's most important citizens'

It's an honor to be elected a member of "The Family," and a positive guarantee a man is a-regular fellow-so figur. out what liind of a lad Louis Stewart must be to be named to head the club.

Possesses Charm

An extraordinary chap, this Stewart. "Ivoe" his friends call him, for no godd reisott at all, and there are few'men i" the world who-have more friends than this "Ivoe" Stewart. He has that quality in him which makes men and *o-.tt lay down their money to see-a-nd hear Chevalier' It sounds "iittl. efieminate to call it "charm," but there's no other word for it.

Stewart makes his living by cutting down trees' He's vice president of one of llie !!gges.t lumber companies on the Pacific. Coast, and all his life he's been in that business' And what-do you think his hobbY is?

Planting trees !

Stewart plants trees like some men collect old masters or buY va.htt. He loves trees, and perhaps, in his innermost tnina, fie figu.es that somehow he's rep.ayinS nature. by planting the-things he destroys to make his bread and butter.

Designg Golf Courses

Stewart is a member of the board of directors of the Olympic Club, and he is really the father and guiding e.tt;r.ti of that club's Lakeside golf courses' Stewart -prac- licallv built those courses, designed them, ahd every day is striving to make the place more beautiful.

And he knows everv tree on that course by its first name ! Of course, he ought'to, as he supervised -the-planting of ..r.ty ott", and th-ere are literally thousands of 'em'

A little while ago one of the Olympic Club gardeners went to Stewart. A tig tree alongside one of the tees was devouring all the moislure and keeping the sun from the tee, and making it almost impossible to grow grass'

Tree Still Stands

"I think perhaps we'd better cut that tree down, Mr' Stewart," suggesfed the gardener. .stewart all but passed on to anothei world in an apoplectic fit.

The very idea of anyone even- suggesting .that one of his trees be cut down almost gave him heart failure' After the storm had subsided the gardener went back to the diffrcult task of trying to make-,gras grow in the shadow of that tree.

A round of golf with Stewart is like strolling througlt Golden Gate Pirk with "IJncle John" Mcl-aren' There is very little golf played. It's mostly gardening. He usually plays on S-undays-with his friend, Harold -Br-ayton, :!ock L.otet, whom Slewart is succeeding as head of "The Family."

Ruins Golf Swing

"He plays the whole course with a niblick," explained Brayton. "-He walks two steps and then digs out weeds with the;iblick. And after batting at weeds all day he wonders what's wrong with his golf swing !"

An extraoidinary chip? Yes. he's all of that. Get him to tell you about liis sister down in King City some time.

Although Stewart probably never gave it a serious thought, Le's building 1 colossal monument to himself out therJ at Lakeside. For long after other men are dust and bones those beautiful treeJ will be there to bring a stab of pleasure to men's hearts, and perh-aps recall the smile and voice of the man who put them there.

There's little chance that San Francisco and his friends will ever forget "Ivoe" Stewart.