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appears in the Secretary’s report, that one-sixth of the 
entire area of the State could be advantageously de- 
voted to forests, will show what a large field is open 
for those interested in preserving these natural and 
useful features.” 
The General Secretary’s report stated that the State 
is in possession of 325,000 acres of forest land, and 
that two promising starts toward the rational treat- 
ment of woodlands had been made in Luzerne coun- 
ty. He considered education in forestry, and the pre- 
vention of forest fires as the two most important lines 
of work for the future. His plan for a systematic ed- 
ucation of foresters by the States is given as follows ; 
“Select, by competitive examination, twenty young 
men who have a fair English education at least, then 
submit them to a physicial examination. Once accepted 
these men shall receive three days’ instruction each 
week, their boarding and clothing, on condition that 
they work faithfully under the direction of the for- 
ester three days out of each week on the improvement 
of the State lands; and on condition, also, that they 
furnish acceptable bonds for two years. During this 
period the young men shall be instructed in book- 
keeping, forest laws, road making, surveying (includ- 
ing leveling), etc. During this time they would have 
done improvement work in opening fire lanes, and 
also fighting fires, repairing, laying out and making 
roads, preparing nurseries, raising seedling forest 
trees and transplanting them, and thinning out super- 
abundant or undesirable saplings and matured or de- 
clining trees. At the expiration of two years the bond 
is to be renewed, and those who have passed their 
examinations are to be promoted from forestry ap- 
prentices to the rank of forestry cadets. Their stud- 
ies will be making estimates of annual production 
of timbers, relations of light and shade in forest cul- 
ture, preparing working plans for the State grounds, 
and aiding to direct the labor of the underclass men 
and working gangs. Their instructions will also em- 
brace botany, zoology, and especially entomology, and 
some chemistry and geology. But every aspect of 
every study is, like the work, to be as practical as 
possible, and they are to have the powers of peace of- 
ficers to enforce the forest and game laws. Those 
who successfully pass their examination at the end 
of the fourth year should be ranked as assistant for- 
esters.” 
The association elected the following officers for 
the ensuing year: President, John Birkinbine; Gen- 
eral Secretary, Dr. J. T. Rothrock; Corresponding 
Secretary, Mrs. John P. Lundy; Recording Secretary, 
F. L. Bitler; Treasurer, C. E. Pancoast. 
The association will devote much of its energies 
during the coming year to the promotion of forestry 
legislation, especially along the line of the plan of edu- 
cation outlined above. 
LANDON FOUNTAIN, WINONA, MINN. 
Mr. W. J. Landon, Winona, Minn., has presented 
that city with a fountain, suggestive of the early his- 
tory of the city, and the Indians who lived there. The 
central figure of the design, shown in our illustration, 
represents a Sioux Indian girl, Weenonah, after whom 
Winona was named. The figure was modeled by Miss 
Isabel Moore Kimball, who also designed the foun- 
tain, assisted by 
Architect Vincent 
Griffith, of New 
York. The sculp- 
tor, who is a pupil 
of Herbert Adams, 
has used every op- 
portunity to attain 
fidelity to the In- 
dian type, and has 
succeeded in giv- 
ing to the features 
the marked charac- 
teristics of the 
race. She made 
use of studies of a 
number of Indian 
faces, and a model 
who is a full-blood- 
ed Abeniki Indian 
girl, completing 
the work in about 
a year. 
A romantic le- 
gend is connected 
with the Indian 
maiden who, the 
“WEENONAH.”— ISABEL MOORE tells, SOUght 
KIMBALL, sc. death by throw- 
ing herself from a cliff rather than be parted from her 
lover, a white hunter. The statue represents her as 
standing on the edge of the cliff gazing down the 
stream, watching for his canoe. 
The central figure is of heroic size in bronze, and 
is placed on a pedestal in a basin forty feet in diam- 
eter. Symmetrically arranged around the pedestal are 
bronze groups of pelicans and turtles, spouting water. 
The figures are designed to be as typical of the state 
as possible. The pelicans are native of the upper 
Mississippi region, the turtles were modeled from life 
from the Mississippi “Mossbacks,” and native Minne- 
sota stone was used for the pedestal and basin. 
The bronze casting was done by the Henry-Bon- 
nard Company, New York. 
