NEWS AND NOTES 



783 



Conservation Doing in My State?" In this 

 symposium the Hon. John Barrett spoke for 

 North and South America, the Hon. D. W. 

 Baker for Maryland, Hon. S. D. Redding 

 for Arkansas, Hon. W. P. Lay for Alabama, 

 Dr. J. Hyde Pratt for North Carolina, Com- 

 missioner E. J. Watson for South Carolina, 

 the Hon. P. St. Julian Wilson for Virginia, 

 Hon. Hugh Maxwell for West Virginia, 

 Hon. W. H. Milton for Florida, Gov. E. F. 

 Noel for Mississippi, Hon. H. P. Gamble 

 for Louisiana, Hon. J. Pope Cowan for Ken- 

 tucky, Dr. H. Von Schrenck for Missouri, 

 Hon. W. Fleming Jones for New Mexico, 

 and Hon. R. F. Burgess for Texas. 



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Republican Club for Conservation 



The Republican Club of New York City — 

 the largest club of its kind in the country — 

 has unanimously declared for the conserva- 

 tion of natural resources and the Weeks- 

 Lever bill. 



At its regular meeting on Monday even- 

 ing, November 15, the national committee — 

 Hon. Warren Higlej^ chairman — made an 

 extended and able report on the conservation 

 of our natural resources, which report was 

 read and received by the club with en- 

 thusiasm, and the proposed resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted, as follows : 



"Resolved, That the Republican Club of 

 the City of New York declares in favor of 

 the policy of the conservation of our natural 

 resources as inaugurated by President Roose- 

 velt and unanimously indorsed by the gov- 

 ernors and representative citizens of the sev- 

 eral states at the noted White House Con- 

 ference in the spring of 1908, and approved 

 by President Taft. And be it further 



"Resolved, That this club urge upon Con- 

 gress such legislation as will secure na- 

 tional control of the Appalachian and White 

 Mountain watersheds, substantially as set 

 forth in the 'Appalachian-White Mountain 

 Bill,' as introduced into the last Congress." 



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Forestry Chairman, Federation of Women's 

 Clubs 



The present chairman of the Forestry 

 Committee of the National Federation of 

 Women's Clubs is Mrs. F. W. Girard, 44 

 Bay View Avenue, Soifth Norwalk. Conn. 

 About a year ago Mrs. Girard succeeded 

 in that office Mrs. P. S. Peterson, of Chi- 

 cago, who was inadvertently referred to in 

 the October number of this magazine as 

 the present chairman of the committee. Mrs. 

 Girard is deeply interested in forestry, and 

 is continuing with enthusiasm the work in- 

 augurated and developed among the clubs 

 of the federation by her predecessors. 



The Corpus Christi Inland Waterways 

 Meeting 



The Inland Waterways Meeting at Corpus 

 Christi, Tex., opened on October 21. One 

 of the chief objects sought by the convention 

 is the inter-coastal canal from the Rio 

 Grande to the Mississippi, an important func- 

 tion of which is held to be the reg^iiation of 

 railway rates. 



As an example of the effectiveness of water 

 competition in regulating rates, Congressman 

 Rufus Hardy mentioned a case in which 

 cotton charges of $2.75 were levied from Cor- 

 sicana to Galveston, a distance of 261 miles, 

 against a rate of 85 cents from Memphis 

 to New Orleans, a distance of 451 miles. 



Congressman James L. Slayden described 

 this project as an effort on the part of the 

 people to become independent. He pointed 

 to the example of New York, the Empire 

 State, now expending $100,000,000 on the 

 Erie Canal, which has already cost her fifty 

 millions, which canal she expects to make 

 available even for ocean-going vessels. Such 

 work, he claims, asserts the dignity and right 

 of a state in an impressive way that might 

 well command the attention of other com- 

 munities that talk a great deal more about 

 state sovereignty. 



Congressman Slayden referred to a steamer 

 trading between Galveston and Liverpool, 

 which took out a cargo of 26,000 bales of 

 cotton requiring 486 cars to deliver the cargo 

 to the ship. "That," he declared, "indicates 

 why it is so much cheaper to send your pro- 

 duce to market by water." 



President Taft attended the meeting, and 

 urged that the country's waterways be im- 

 proved, and at the earliest possible date, by 

 the issuance of bonds, if necessary. 



Governor Campbell of Texas expressed his 

 belief that the canal would return to the 

 pockets of the people of the state $3,500,000 

 annually. 



Meeting of American Mechanical Engineers 



The thirtieth annual meeting of the 

 American Society of Mechanical Engineers 

 will l)e held in the Engineering Societies 

 Building, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New 

 York, iDecember 7 to 10. 



A number of interesting professional pa- 

 pers will be read, to be followed by several 

 valuable reports. 



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The Wonder of It All 



Speaking of the Ballinger-Pinchot con- 

 troversy, the Minnesota Forester, for Octo- 

 ber, says : 



The wonder of it all is the vast wave 

 of interest which has swept the entire coun- 

 try from sea to sea. This clash of officials 

 which would ten years ago have had but an 

 inch of space in the official news of a Wash- 



