FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



encouragement for the future of the 

 great work in his charge. It is not 

 too much to say that forestry takes on 

 a new meaning to the American people 

 from the date of this Congress. 



As the daily proceedings of the Con- 

 gress have appeared in the newspapers 

 and the full text of its proceedings 

 will be published in book form about 

 March I, this account is limited to a 

 mere outline of what occurred at 

 the various sessions. The resolutions 

 adopted by the Congress and the list 

 of delegates attending are given in full. 



Beginning on Monday, January 

 2nd, the day set aside on the pro- 

 gram for the registration of delegates 

 and attendance at President Roose- 

 velt's New Year's reception at the 

 White House, the success of the Con- 

 gress was assured. As early as eight 

 o'clock in the morning, before the 

 doors of the National Rifles' Armory 

 were open many delegates were seek- 

 ing admission in order to register and 

 receive their delegates' cards. Dur- 

 ing the day about two hundred and 

 fifty delegates, coming from every sec- 

 tion of the United States, and some 

 from Canada, had called upon Mr. 

 William L. Hall, Secretary of the Con- 

 gress, and presented their credentials. 



At noon, according to program, the 

 delegates began to assemble at the 

 northeast entrance to the War, State, 

 and Navy building, in order to attend 

 President Roosevelt's reception in a 

 body. It was here that the photo- 

 graph was taken from which the fron- 

 tispiece of this number of FORESTRY 

 AND IRRIGATION was made. It shows 

 only those delegates who had arrived 

 up to noon on Monday, January 2. 

 Promptly at 12:45 the delegation, 

 headed by Mr. Gifford Pinchot, took 

 up the position in line reserved for it. 



Following the White House recep- 

 tion there were no further events 

 scheduled for the delegates, the com- 

 mittee on arrangements having felt 

 that the balance of Monday should be 

 open in order that all could get settled 

 in time for the regular sessions of the 

 Congress beginning Tuesday morning. 



THE OPENING SESSION. 



At 10 o'clock, Tuesday morning. 



promptly on the hour, President Wil- 

 son called the Congress to order. In 

 spite of unusually disagreeable weath- 

 er, the large assembly hall was crowd- 

 ed to the doors, more than one thous- 

 and persons being present. As Pres- 

 ident of the Congress and of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association, under 

 whose auspices it was being held, Hon. 

 James Wilson delivered the address of 

 welcome. President Wilson's address 

 was followed by the reading of the re- 

 port of the Directors of the American 

 Forestry Association on the "Progress 

 and Condition of Forestry in the Uni- 

 ted States." The report was presented 

 by Mr. Edward A. Bowers. 



Immediately following, the chair 

 appointed a committee on resolutions, 

 consisting of Mr. F. J. Hagenbarth, 

 president of the National Live Stock 

 Association; Mr. N. W. McLeod, 

 president, National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association ; Mr. Gifford Pin- 

 chot, Forester, L T nited States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture ; Mr. T. J. Grier, 

 superintendent, Homestake Mining 

 Company, of South Dakota; Mr, 

 Thomas Cooper, land commissioner, 

 Northern Pacific Railway; Dr. J. T. 

 Rothrock, of the Pennsylvania Reser- 

 vation Commission, and Mr. F. H. 

 Newell, chief engineer, United States 

 Reclamation Service. 



At this point, President Wilson 

 called on Hon. John Lacey, Member 

 of Congress from Iowa, and chairman 

 of the House Committee on Public 

 Lands, for a short address. Mr. Lacey 

 responded in excellent spirit, stating 

 his high appreciation of the needs of 

 conservative forest management in the 

 United States ; and he paid a glowing 

 tribute to the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and to Mr. Pinchot for their excellent 

 work in directing the Government for- 

 est service. He was followed by Mr. 

 Aubrey White, commissioner of Crown 

 lands of Canada, who described in an 

 interesting manner the forest re- 

 sources of Canada, and how his gov- 

 ernment is looking out for their pres- 

 ervation. 



Following Mr. White, Mr. W. S. 

 Harvey, president of the board of trus- 

 tees of the Philadelphia Commercial 

 Museum, and representative of the 



