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Sierra Club Bulletin 



The following telegrams were read at the Annual Reunion Dinner of the Sierra 

 Club in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel, December lO, 1920. Covers were 

 laid for three hundred persons and it was the most notable occasion of the 

 kind in the history of the club : 



Dr. Wm. F. Bade, Berkeley, Cal. 



It is a course of much regret to me that I cannot attend your annual dinner, 

 but important National Park problems make my presence here necessary just 

 at this time. However, kindly extend my heartiest greetings to my fellow Sierra 

 Club members present and wish them for me a very enjoyable evening. In the 

 critical fight now on for the preservation of the parks I feel confident that we 

 can depend on the Sierra Club as in similar past conflicts as a strong ally to 

 use every means to combat the efforts to desecrate our national playgrounds. 

 Secretary Payne has said that the Parks shall be kept inviolate and free from 

 commercialization. In this firm stand he will need your support. 



Stephen T. Mather 



Dr. Wm. F. Bade, Berkeley, Cal. 



Imperative duties keeping me from Sierra Club reunion dinner, I ask you to 

 read this telegram of admiration and congratulations to the club. It is worth 

 while for the United States to have such an organization exist, and its mem- 

 bers deserve congratulations on its achievements, and on the opportunity to 

 stand firm for those achievements in vigorous and determined opposition to 

 the present ominous assault on the integrity of our national parks by irriga- 

 tion and power interests who are unwilling that even one per cent of the public 

 lands shall be held sacred for the recreational use of all the people. In preser- 

 vation of great natural wonders the Sierra Club stands as the strongest western 

 bulwark against this aggression. j_ Horace McFarland, 



President American Civic Association 



Dear Mr. Colby : 



I feel it my duty as well as privilege to pass on to members of the Sierra Club 

 a bit of the pleasure that was given me last July by the Canadian Alpine Club. 



Early in June our train found a way into what had for some hours seemed 

 to us a great barrier of glistening white peaks, and, in company with my 

 mother and father, I had my first view of the beautiful little town of Banff. 



Snugly tucked away in my bag was your letter, which was my credential as a 

 Sierra Club member. 



I soon found my way to the beautiful home built by the Alpine Club on the 

 slopes of Sulphur Mountain, enjoyed the wonderful view from the veranda, 

 had the pleasure of being received by the secretary, Mr. Mitchell, and was as- 

 sured that I would be a very welcome guest at the annual gathering of the 

 club, which was to be held at the foot of Mount Assiniboine, the Canadian 

 Matterhorn. 



There were delays in opening camp, as mountaineers know is not unusual, 

 and July was well spent when our little company of twenty, under the leader- 

 ship of Colonel Foster, was away, going the first six miles by launch up the 

 beautiful and historic Bow River. 



