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allowed at all? If only hotels and other public affairs are allowed, how 

 far back or away should private buildings be located? 



Naturally, different lake shores differ. At one the bluffs come close ; 

 at another lots of easy ground exists, etc. But the fundamental ques- 

 tions stay. To my mind, one-half mile from lake, or river, or shore, or 

 park is not very much. These people are not busy city-dwellers ; they 

 are benefited by walking; and if the shore is ivee to all, the "hog" spirit 

 goes, and we can all sit together on "inspiration point," if we choose. 



There is a further consideration. The number who can have lots at 

 the lake is limited, anyway. Then why not limit on larger lines ? Make 

 lots 300 feet along the shore, set houses back 300 feet, and thus utilize, 

 but limit, before crowding. That there w'ould go up a shout of hog, and 

 pets, and preference, and pull is a matter of course ; we have the same 

 shout when we try to stop shanty towns in cities. 



Coming, now, to the Grand Canyon village. I want to agree with 

 Waugh in saying that it is not necessary to keep all buildings away 

 from the rim, and also that it is useless to limit structures in size and 

 form and try to make them invisible. Things are big here ; the ordi- 

 nary man standing at the rim does not see the camps in the park below. 

 Then, why shout about a few hotels and other buildings which give so 

 much pleasure, especially to old people and invalids and children, when 

 they can sit on the veranda and enjoy the sights? Briefly. I feel that 

 private "hogging" of rim and pushing back of people ought never to be 

 allowed. The rim is sacred and belongs to all. Any village aft'air 

 should be large, not on pigmy city lines, and plenty of the open pine 

 woods to give the air of comfort and seclusion. The politics can well 

 be left out; if Washington can be run by a three-head Commission, this 

 village certainly can, and, in view of its transient character, should so 

 be run. 



I must find fault with the estimates. Let us do things in keeping 

 with their importance. Put in $10,000 and send down a commission 

 made up of the foremost authorities on forestry landscape work and 

 sanitary engineering and then ask for a real appropriation, and perhaps 

 the transfer of lands from National Forests to National Parks will go 

 at a slower pace. 



F. Roth. 



