NEWS AND NOTES 



Annual The Twenty-Seventh 



Meeting of Annual Meeting of the 

 American For- . . -r^ 4. ,\ 



estry Asso- American Forestry As- 

 ciaticn sociation, at Washing- 



ton, D. C, January 

 29th, was memorable. Secretary of 

 Agriculture James Wilson presided. 

 A full report will be found on an- 

 other page of this magazine. 



Congressional The annual meeting of 

 Hearing on |.j^g Association was 

 Appalachian ^^^^^^^^ ^he next day 



by a notable hearing on 

 the Appalachian National Forest bill 

 before the House committee on Agri- 

 culture. It was attended by some 200 

 representatives, from twenty States. 

 These came as representatives of bus- 

 iness and professional associations and 

 citizens' organizations which recognize 

 the immense importance to the coun- 

 try of this proposition. They were 

 headed by Gov. Hoke Smith of 

 Georgia. Among them were, from 

 New England and the East : 



Philip W. Ayres, Forester, Society Protection 

 of New Hampshire Forests, Forester, Dartmouth 

 College Grant. Henry A. Barker, Department 

 Vice-President "Public Reservations" Commit- 

 tee American Civic Association, Representing 

 Mayor of Providence, Providence Board of Trade, 

 and League of Improvement Societies in Rhode 

 Island. Robert P. Bass, New Hampshire Fores- 

 try Commissioner. Thomas H. Dearborn, Con- 

 co'rd, N. H. ; State Entomologist. C. F. De For- 

 est, New Haven, Conn.; Representing Connecti- 

 cut Lumber Association. F. C. Dumaine, Treas- 

 urer, Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Bos- 

 ton. Chas. L. Elwell, Concord, N. H. ; recently 

 Speaker House of Representatives. R. E. Faulk- 

 ner, Keene, N. H. ; New Hampshire Forestry 

 Commissioner. G. W. Field, Chairman, Commis- 

 sion on Fisheries and Game, Boston. Chas. M. 

 Flovd, Manchester, N. H., Governor of New 

 Hampshire. C. C. Goodrich, Hartford, Conn., 

 Manager Hartford and New York Transportation 

 Company. H. S. Graves, Director, Yale For- 

 est School. James P. Gray, Boston. Hydro- 

 graphic Enquirer, President Boston Manufacturers' 

 Insurance Company. M. J. Hapgood, Peru, Vt.; 

 representing the Governor and State Forestry As- 

 sociation. William S. Harvey, Philadelphia. 

 Pennsylvania Forestry Association, National Board 

 of Trade. Henry R. Hayes, representing Stone & 

 Webster, Electrical Engineers. 147 Milk street, 

 Boston. E. F. Hitchins. Waterville, Maine. 

 State Entomologist. J. Blakeley Hoar, Brook- 

 line, Mass. Appointed by Governor of Mass. Mr. 

 John G. Jack, Forest Department, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. Lieut.-Governor Lake, Hartford, Conn. 

 Geo. P. Leighton, Vice-President American Civic 

 Ass'n., Monadnock Farms. Arthur Low, Fitch- 

 ijurg, Mass., Pres. Park Hill and Lancaster Manu- 

 facturing Companies. J. Horace McFarland, Har- 

 risburg. Pa., President American Civic Associa- 

 tion. Hon. John McLane, Governor of New 



Hampshire, Milford, N. H. Frank W. Rollins, ex- 

 Governor of New Hampshire, President Society- 

 Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock, Harrisburg, Pa., Member Pennsylvania^ 

 Forestry Commission. Harvey N. Shepard, Bos- 

 ton, representing Commonwealtti of Massachusetts,. 

 Mass. State Board of Trade, Appalachian Moun- 

 tain Club. Edwin A. Start, Secretary, Massa- 

 chusetts Forestry Association, representing that 

 Association and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

 Dr. Geo. F. Swain, Prof, of Civil Engineering, 

 Mass. Institute of Teclinology, Member Boston 

 Transit Commission, representing State of Massa- 

 chusetts. C. J. H. Woodbury, Boston, Sec'y Na- 

 tional Cotton Manufacturers' Association. Clin- 

 ton Rogers Woodruff, Philadelphia, Pa., Sec'y 

 .•\merican Civic Association. Chas. T. Woods, Di- 

 rector, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station,. 

 Orono, Maine. 



From the South came a distin- 

 guished delegation, including : 



Mr. E. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agricult- 

 ure, Commerce and Immigration, S. C. ; Prof. L. 

 C. Glenn, Vanderbilt University, Tenn.; W. S. 

 Lee, Jr., Electrical Engineer, Charlotte, N. C. ; 

 John Wallace, Jr., Secretary Alabama Forestry 

 Commission and State Game Commissioner; Ruth- 

 erford P. Hayes, President Appalachian Park 

 Association, Asheville, N. C. ; Mark Packard, large 

 owner of coal lands in Eastern Tennessee; Geo. 

 K. Smith, St. Louis, Secretary National Lumber 

 Manufacturers Association; S. B. Smith, lawyer, 

 Chattanooga, Tennessee; Allen M. Schoen, mem- 

 ber American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 

 and others. 



Appalachian The day was devoted 

 l^il^ largely to the hearing of 



Necessary expert testimony, chief- 

 ly on the relations of the forests tO' 

 wood, power and navigation. Mr. 

 Gififord Pinchot, forester, showed that 

 a wood famine is but twenty or thirty 

 years distant. Messrs. Lee, Schoen, 

 Swain, and others, showed the vast 

 significance of water and electric- 

 power, and the dependence of both 

 upon forests. The filling of the 

 streams, the loss to navigation, and the 

 cost to Government to remove the sed- 

 iment was brought out. 



Mr. Harvey N. Shepard, an emi- 

 nent attorney of Boston, gave a con- 

 vincing argument on the constitution- 

 ality of the bill. Governor Smith's 

 last speech also treated this question. 

 Both these addresses will be found in 

 full elsewhere in this issue. 



Governor Smith closed the presenta- 

 tion with a powerful argument and ap- 

 peal for the bill. Chairman Scott, of 

 Kansas, declared that not a single dull 

 moment had marred the entire day's- 



