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Timber getters and their bullock teams are long gone. However, they played a major role in the development of early North Coast settlements. Bullock teams hauled logs to a waterway, or in the steep country to chutes, where the logs could be launched. Bullock teams hauled the timber out of the forests to the sawmills, the railway stations and also to the wharves for the journey to Brisbane. There were often several bullock teams in and around railway yards at one time. A bullock team consists of 12 to 24 desexed bulls (they can be of any breed) that are paired to perform heavy work. Bullocks were named and answered to their name. The pairs were generally named with alliteration – Ringer and Ranger, Tom and Tiger, or Sam and Sonny. The key to operating the team was creating a bond between the working pair and training an excellent pair as leaders. The bullocks who made up the team behind the leaders were called the polers. A good team could pull a load of up to ten tons of weight. With strong necks, they were then yoked together, which transferred their power through a pole or chain to pull the heavy load – either timber or other agricultural loads. Source; www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/ringer-and-ranger-tom-and-tiger-n...

possibly st the St Louis Skating club stlouisskatingclub.org/index.php/about-slsc/history

Pretty sure this is the ice carnival put on by the NY Dept. of Parks on 2/17/17 at Van Cortlandt Park lake and attended by 20,000. Lamb and Baptie put on "an exhibition of fancy and acrobatic skating." query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9902E5D81538EE...

Art Siegel: Thanks for the information about this festival and the skaters. We will add details to the record.