JAMESTOWN'S HUNDRED ACRE LOT 



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A price of $8,250 ($6,250 for the land 

 and $2,000 to satisfy the claims of those 

 who had purchased the timber) was 

 secured on a portion of the area and 

 with splendid courage the Association 

 undertook the purchase. In order to 

 stop the cutting and to make the first 

 payment on the land it was necessary 

 to raise $3,000 in two weeks' time and 

 this was done by means of a demand 

 note. The signatures of forty or fifty 

 interested citizens were secured and 

 these people agreed to be responsible 

 for the payment of the note. During 

 the summer vacation the sum of the 

 note was raised. After school started 

 in the fall, a city- wide canvass was 

 organized through the schools whereby 

 something over $4,000 was raised toward 

 paying for the property. Early in 

 1914 the committee of the Association 

 having in charge the raising of the funds 

 to cancel the entire indebtedness, sug- 

 gested a plan which is now being fol- 

 lowed. The balance, it was agreed, 



should be paid off on Arbor Day, 1916, 

 at the latest. The balance should be 

 apportioned definitely among the var- 

 ious schools, Citizens Committee and 

 Foreign Alumni. A definite amount 

 was suggested for each group to raise 

 and no uniformity in method of raising 

 the money was recommended except 

 that no further personal solicitation be 

 resorted to. The ingenuity of the 

 pupils of the school has done much 

 toward making the raising of the final 

 amount an assured thing. Entertain- 

 ments, candy sales, collection and sale 

 of old rubbers and bottles, and a dozen 

 other methods have been used and on 

 November 1, 1914, the debt had been 

 reduced to $2,300. 



During the Spring of 1914 a Forester 

 from the New York State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse University 

 was called on for a lecture before the 

 schools, and from time to time advice 

 has been given on the handling of the 



Mobilization of Boy Scouts, 

 the troop has volunteered to take charge of a brush-burning bee on the hundred-acre lot. 



