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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



eral thousand subscribers to our lists. 

 But that hrst list is remembered very 

 gratefully ; it seemed to us to be an au- 

 gury of the success of our plan, and 

 such it has proven. Mrs. Lydia Adams- 

 Williams is the member who so prompt- 

 ly answered our letter ; hers was the first 

 list we received. There are members 

 of the Association to whom the sending 

 of a list of a hundred or more names 

 would be a mere trifle ; there are others, 

 who, in sending in four names, have 

 made a real sacrifice — a sacrifice that 

 demonstrates more fully than many 

 words the deep interest the senders feel 

 in the Association and its work. It is 

 in this latter class that Mrs. Williams 

 belongs. And, somehow, we have won- 

 dered many times since that first morn- 

 ing after our letters went out just what 

 some of our wealthy influential and 

 prominent members would think if they 

 knew that the first answer to our ap- 

 peal came from a woman — -and from a 

 woman who could ill afford the re- 

 sponse. 



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Death of ex-'President Cleveland 



IN THE death of ex-President Grover 

 Cleveland, forestry, and conservation 

 in general, loses a friend. The policy of 

 extension of National Forests — or, as 

 they were called during his administra- 

 tions, forest reserves — was given, dur- 

 ing his tenure of office great impetus ; 

 in fact, to Mr. Cleveland is due much 

 of the credit for the foundation on a 

 lasting basis of our forest policy. Mr. 

 Cleveland was one of those whom Pres- 

 ident Roosevelt asked to attend the Con- 

 ference of Governors, at the White 

 House last May. as special guests of the 

 Executive, and it was with the deepest 

 regret that it was learned that the ex- 

 President would not, on account of im- 

 paired health, be able to attend the Con- 

 ference. An action that struck a popu- 

 lar chord with the members of the Con- 

 ference was the submission of a resolu- 

 tion of sympathy by Hon. William Jen- 

 nings Bryan, and this resolution was 

 adopted in a manner as heartily sympa- 

 thetic as that in which it was offered. 



It was Mr. Cleveland who, when 

 President, established the San Jacinto 

 National Forest and others, with an ag- 

 gregate area of more than 25,000,000 

 acres. Now it is a most graceful action 

 on the part of President Roosevelt to 

 change the name of the San Jacinto For- 

 est to the Cleveland National Forest, 

 thus making the forest a perpetual me- 

 morial to the man who, as President, 

 established it. 



Forestry, and the irlea of national 

 conservation of natural resources was 

 not a popular subject during Mr. Cleve- 

 land's occupancy of ofiice, and the fact 

 that he took such a deep interest, even 

 at that time, in the subject is an added 

 indication of the mental greatness and 

 deep understanding that characterized 

 him. Failing health, in his later years, 

 and other interests that overshadowed 

 much else in his life, prevented his giv- 

 ing much attention to forestry, in a pub- 

 lic way, but the work that he did as 

 President, toward the establishment and 

 extension of a National Forest system, 

 stands as a demonstration of his unfail- 

 ing grasp of great questions of national 

 importance. 



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Secretary Will's Chautauqua Lectures 



SINCE June 16 Secretary Will has 

 been engaged in Chautauqua lecture 

 work in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and 

 Iowa. He is working under the Redpath 

 Chautauqua System, speaking six nights 

 per week before aucliences averaging 

 nearly 1,000. His addresses are being 

 fully reported in the press. He carries 

 with him an excellent lantern and a set 

 of beautiful and instructive slides with 

 which his lectures are illustrated. He is 

 also accompanied by an operator to at- 

 tend to the mechanical features of the 

 work. To many of his hearers the 

 subject is almost new. It receives care- 

 ful attention, however, and its presen- 

 tation arouses much interest. 



Secretary Will's itinerary, up to July 

 13. covers the following points: Wino- 

 na, Minn. ; La Crosse, Wis. : West Lib- 

 erty, Iowa ; Cedar Rapids Iowa ; Du- 

 buque, Iowa ; Eau Claire, Wis. ; Tnde- 



