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by the sanie club had a real miniature logging outfit ; an- 

 other the right and wrong way to build camp fires, etc. 

 After these came the Mountaineers with a large pack 

 train of mules, followed by the Fort Worden band ; then 

 the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, College of Forestry, 

 etc. Throughout the parade numerous signs were car- 

 ried bearing the slogans: "Keep the Forests Green," 

 "Help Prevent Forest Fires," etc. Many suggestions 

 along the line of fire protection of a comic nature wer^ 

 carried out throughout the ])arade, such as a Mountaineer 

 walking inside of a pasteboard match and cigarette, a 

 large pipe carried on the shoulders of two men ; four Boy 

 Scouts on bicycles carrying a stretcher containing the 



prostrate body of "Old Man Carelessness" and a band of 

 black, tattered and torn fire fighters returning from a 

 forest fire in a terribly dilapidated condition, accompanied 

 by two Red Cross nurses. 



The Boy Scouts came out 1200 strong and the Camp 

 Fire Girls were a close second. Several cash prizes were 

 offered for the best suggestion illustrating fire prevention. 

 The first prize of $20 was awarded the Forest Club of the 

 College of Forestry, University of Washington ; other 

 prizes amounting to $40, were awarded to the Boy Scouts, 

 Camp Fire Girls and Mountaineers. 



A moving picture was taken of the parade and shown 

 in a local theatre during the week following the parade. 



THE CUTTER PIONEER GROVE 



RB. MILLER, State Forester, Urbana, Illinois, 

 finds a growing interest even in the smaller towns 

 for areas which are suitable for parks and breathing 

 places. One very much out of the ordinary was found 

 at Princeville, Illinois, in Peoria County, a small town 

 not far from Peoria. The State Forester learned of this 

 through correspondence with Charles Forrest Cutter, 

 Yale University, class of 1875, now residing at Low Fell, 

 near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, and is able through 

 the kindness of Mr. Peter Auten, a banker of Prince- 

 ville, and a relative of Mr. Cutter.to secure the photo- 

 graph of Mr. Cutter's pioneer log cabin which is here re- 

 produced just as it stood a few years ago. 



This cabin was built by each of Mr. Cutter's friends 

 bringing in a log and was for two years used as a meet- 

 ing place for the Old Settler's Union of Peoria and vi- 

 cinity. Everything was made just as primitive as it was 

 in pioneer days, even to the eave troughs made out ol 

 round poles, hollowed out enough to carry off the water 

 to a primitive cistern. Here Mr. Cutter brought his books 

 and curios and used to spend hours there in reading and 

 receiving his friends. 



His idea in retaining this property for so many years 

 was to show a bit of virgin woods in a state where tim- 

 ber was being rapidly cut off, as well as honoring the 

 memory of his parents. His father was Dr. Charles 

 Cutter and the old Cutter homestead which stood in the 

 northwest corner of the town was one of the first frame 

 buildings in Princeville, lumber for its construction being 

 carted from Chicago. 



Mr. Cutter wishes to do something for forestry in the 

 disposal of this small tract but there are many difficulties, 

 as it is too small for forest school purposes or for making 

 into a forest preserve under the Illinois law. It is sub- 

 ject to damage at the hands of prowlers at the present 

 time as there is no regular caretaker who can look after 

 the property. It might go to Princeville as a memorial 

 park if the town would provide funds for its improve- 

 ment and upkeep, but Mr. Cutter is such an ardent con- 

 servationist that he has never allowed any cutting, so that 

 landscaping might not correspond with his ideas. The 

 tract is ideal for a small town park if these difficulties 

 could be properly adjusted. 



A FRIEND OF FORESTRY 



Mr. Charles F. Cutter (Yale 1875), and his pioneer log cabin at 

 Princeville, Illinois. 



Princeville is in Princeville township and until 1837 

 was called Prince's Grove, there being two other good 

 tracts of timber in Peoria County at that time, White's 

 Grove and French Grove. The general surface of the 

 township is rolling. It had considerable timber originally 

 and is well watered by small streams. Mr. S. S. Slane, 

 a pioneer resident of Princeville, 85 years of age, has a 

 tract of 160 acres on the edge of town along the Sante 

 Fe Railroad track, mostly white and black oak. He 

 states tnat m I648 the stand was mostly rock maple, the 

 oak having come in since that time. 



Another interesting township in Peoria is Jubilee, 

 which was once heavily timbered through the center, 

 and contains in the southeast corner a tributary of 

 Kickapoo Creek. In this part there was a tract of 

 several hundred acres belonging to Jubilee Episcopal 

 College, founded in 1839, by the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, and this tract is shown on some of the older maps. 



