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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



native species. Forty differ- 

 ent kinds of trees have been 

 noted, over 100 different wild 

 flowers, twenty-five shrubs, 

 and twenty-five different ferns. 

 And besides, there are over 

 100 kinds of birds. What a 

 wealth of wild things! "So 

 accessible and so secluded," 

 as one teacher has expressed 

 it. The free and unques- 

 tioned use of a place of this 

 sort over a long period of time, 

 and the resulting love for 

 its charms, will instill into 

 any community a sense of 

 ownership of some of the real 

 things of nature. And so it 

 was with a good deal of con- 

 sternation that the people 

 learned in the fall of 1912 that 

 the heirs who controlled the 

 tract, and who did not at that 

 time live in Jamestown, had 

 sold off all the timber. All 

 the larger trees were to be cut 

 into lumber and everything 

 above 4 inches in diameter 

 was to be worked up into 

 crating. 



Today the people own this 

 place and within a short time 

 a Board of Trustees will 

 hold it, clear of debt, in trust 

 for the children of Jamestown. 

 Here is how it happened : 



In order to save a part of the woodland 

 for the town, it was necessary to act 

 quickly and the response to the appeal 

 made to the people is a great monument 

 to their love of the wild things and their 

 public spirit. During the winter and 

 the following spring the matter of pur- 

 chase was agitated by the local press 

 and the teachers in the public schools. 

 The idea of retaining a portion of the 

 tract for park purposes was talked of 

 in homes, shops, stores and on the 

 streets. The immediate outcome of the 

 agitation was the organization, by the 

 local teachers, of the School Park 

 Association of Jamestown. 



This association was organized in 

 July, 1913, and all citizens, whether 

 connected with the school or not, 

 invited to join. In fact, any person 

 interested, who is over sixteen years of 



A Woodland Stream. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF MAKING THIS CORNER OF THE HUNDRED- 

 ACRE LOT A MOST ATTRACTIVE PLACE MAY READILY BE SEEN. 



age, is eligible to membership and may 

 join by signing the constitution and 

 paying the annual due of 10 cents. 

 The representative nature of the list of 

 officers is interesting. The President, 

 Mr. M. J. Fletcher, Principal of the 

 High School; Vice President, Mr. Clare 

 A. Pickard, a lawyer of the city; 

 Treasurer, Mr. Arthur W. Swan, Cashier 

 of the National Chautauqua County 

 Bank of the city; Secretary, Miss 

 Mildred R. Falconer, Secretary of the 

 Board of Education. The trustees are 

 Mr. A. A. Amidon, a lumberman, Mr. 

 Fred Curtis, a manufacturer, and four 

 members of the teaching force who have 

 worked hard to secure the purchase of 

 the tract, Miss Clara Ross, Miss Ella 

 Schildmacher, Miss Elsie E. Leet and 

 Miss Augusta Hornden. 



