The Sieur de Monts National Monument constitutes the first 

 national park to be established by the Government, war me- 

 morials apart, to the east of Colorado or the Hot Springs of Ar- 

 kansas. 



With our eastern mountains represented in extensive national 

 and state forests, this park, which embodies the most splendid 

 scenery on our Atlantic coast, will probably remain the single 

 member of our national park system to the north of Washington 

 and the east of Indiana, an area that contains according to sta- 

 tistics compiled by the Agricultural Department close on to 

 thirty million people and is the most densely occupied in the 

 United States. It will be visited by multitudes of people always, 

 once it has been developed by the Government to receive them, 

 and it is emphatically a park for the people, offering them the 

 beauty and refreshment of the ocean upon a coast every other 

 portion of which is rapidly being taken up in private occupation. 



It is a tract also capable of an intensive development, both in 

 a recreational and a wild life sense, that will unite with the wide 

 freedom of the islanded and navigable waters that surround it 

 to extend its area. 



With its refreshing, ocean-tempered climate, its walks and 

 climbs and opportunities for invigorating life upon the sea, it is 

 a place moreover peculiarly fitted for restoring the vitality of 

 those whom the strain of work or war may leave exhausted or 

 nervously impaired. 



LIST OF WRITERS 



Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior 

 Theodore Roosevelt 

 ^ ^ David B. Ogden 



Hon. George W. Wickersham 

 Rev. a. W. Halsey, D.D. 

 Rev. William T. Manning, D.D. 

 Felix W. Warburg 



T. Gilbert Pearson, National Association of 



Audubon Societies 

 Professor W. B. Scott, Princeton University 

 Hon. George L. Ingraham 

 Jacob H. Schiff 



Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., Bishop of 



Massachusetts 

 Hon. Thomas Ewing 

 Lincoln Cromwell 



Hon. Carl E. Milliken, Governor of Maine 



