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Thus Mr. Pack's ticket contained five professionally trained for- 

 esters, while the opposition slate contained six, two being on both 

 slates. Two of Mr. Pack's forester* represented interests dealing ir 

 forest lands and lumber, two of the opposition foresters representee 

 respectively an association of land owners for fire protection, and i 

 consulting forester dealing in technical forest products. As against 

 the remaining forester, Mr. Gaskill, in State forestry, the two opposi- 

 tion foresters were the heads of leading institutions teaching forestry. 

 In what lies the effort to control ? Comparing the remaining ten Pack 

 directors with the nine opposition candidates we find on the Pack sla;e 

 two large land holders, one of them a lumberman, one a paper mani- 

 facturer, two corporation lawyers, one banker, the Commissioner 3f 

 Education in Washington, D. C, one dealer in railroad supplies, aid 

 Dr. H. S. Drinker, who is honored with the presidency of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Forestry Association. On the opposition slate were one lumber- 

 man, Henry Hardtner, known through the South for his prac:ical 

 achievements in conservation both publicly and on his own lands ■ the 

 former treasurer who had for six years, served the Association as 

 a director but was dropped; a life member, Mr. Newell, anc one 

 of the founders of the Association ; the heads of the conservation 

 departments of two States, neither of them foresters ; a nan of 

 national reputation as a conserver of wild life, and a banker who has 

 been conspicuously interested in forestry in Massachusetts. 7he real 

 difference in these tv^o slates lay in the fact that one contaned the 

 names of eleven former directors all supposed to be favorable to Mr. 

 Pack's regime, and of four new men selected by him, while the oppo- 

 sition slate retained but four of these old directors, and proposed 

 eleven new names of whom but four were foresters. 



Since February 25 efforts have been made by Secretary Ridsdale to 

 personally discredit Director Chapman, and the statemeit has been 

 made that he was the only inharmonious element on the joard. This 

 is possibly true at present, though I cannot speak for Director McMillin 

 nor for the two newly elected men, Mr. Baldwin or Mr. Hammond, 

 but in spite of the success of the President's slate, in whch it would be 

 supposed he could have secured a board which would give him united 

 support, Director Gaskill as shown refused to accept lis election, and 

 Director Greeley on March 5 of this year resigned tom the board, 

 in a letter which he requested be published in Amerian Forestry but 



