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Barrington Y. C. 
Barrington, R. I., Aug. 17. —The knock¬ 
about Red Raven, owned by Fred B. and Wil¬ 
liam G. Thurber, won in a fleet of 10 boats of 
the Warwick Neck one-design class this after¬ 
noon, defeating Snap by 30s. It was a 7-mile 
course with a start off the Nicholson Pier, a 
beat of half a mile to the first turn, a run to 
Conanicut gas buoy and back to the start. Red 
Raven held the lead in a stiff soutlnvester from 
start to finish. The summary: 
Elapsed. 
Red Raven, Thmbcr Bros. 1 27 18 
Snap, K. Wood. 1 27 48 
Whizz, E. Bancroft. 1 27 51 
Marie, I. B. Merriman. 1 30 00 
Zuzu, S. Campbell. 1 30 10 
Ormeon. G. Smith. 1 30 30 
Arrow, C. M. Smith.1 31 00 
Ace, P. Nicholson.1 31 05 
Tane, H. D. Sharp. 1 31 40 
Elf, P. Richmond . 1 32 00 
Pleon Y. C. 
Marblehead, Mass., Aug. 17. —The Pleon 
Y. C. held its sixth championship race this 
afternoon. In the Pleon Club class Flash won. 
and in the dory class Freak crossed the line 
first. The summary: 
Pleon V. C. Class. 
Elapsed. Corrected. 
Flash, Horton Brown. 1 13 57 1 13 57 
Coot, C O’Hara. 1 17 20 1 15 07 
Gumkrak, W. Blanchard. 1 31 22 1 31 22 
Pigeon, W. Fawcett. 1 50 03 1 35 10 
Laddie, W. Guild . Did not finish. 
Red Wing, J. Perrin. Withdrew. 
Dory Class. 
Freak, A. Chapman . 1 13 43 1 13 43 
Snail III., Margaret Wood. 1 19 09 1 15 29 
Rheta, Miss Nason . 1 36 32 1 29 10 
Chid, A. Closson. 1 43 00 1 39 20 
Streak. H. Snelling . 1 57 30 1 50 08 
Skat, P. Eenson . Withdrew. 
Seawanhaka-Corinlhian Y. C. 
Oyster Bay, L. I., Aug. 17. —Six boats 
sailed in the second race of the third series of 
the Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. to-day. The 
winner was Flicker, owned by E. A. Hender¬ 
son. The summary: 
Sloops—Class S—Start, 3:10—Outside Course. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Flicker, A. E. Henderson. 5 07 05 1 57 05 
Bat, O. B. Jennings. 5 07 55 1 57 55 
Hen, G. Nichols. 5 08 22 1 58 22 
Thelema, C. McKenzie. 5 08 56 1 58 56 
Imp, S. L. Landon. 5 12 30 2 02 30 
Iris, E. Tuckerman. 5 18 50 2 08 50 
Caumoemg 
A. C. A. Membership. 
NEW MEMBERS ELECTED. 
Atlantic Division.—6159. J. Wilbur Hen¬ 
drickson, 321 Spring street, Trenton, N. J. 
Central Division.—6158, Robert Livingston 
Allen, care of Archbald-Brady Co., Syracuse, 
N. Y. 
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This is the age at which the average man 
begins to weigh carefully his experience, his 
capabilities and his financial resources. All these 
factors loom up before him as of large import¬ 
ance. They affect not only himself, but the 
future welfare of those dependent upon him. If 
he is a normal man, he understands that the age 
of forty is the age of opportunity, and that by 
an orderly application of his experience and 
knowledge, and by systematic saving and pru¬ 
dent investment, he has every reasonable chance 
to provide for the future. — Spencer Trask & Co. 
The boys as well as their elders in the homes 
where Forest and Stream goes read it They 
are great readers of advertisements and dream 
of what they will 'buy when they grow up. 
Make them acquainted with your name and when 
they are grown they will not forget it. 
American Forestry Association. 
One of the most important actions taken 
by the directors of the American Forestry Asso¬ 
ciation, who held their midsummer quarterly 
meeting in the White Mountains of July 17, 18 
and 19, was the passage of a resolution protest¬ 
ing vigorously against the proposed amendment 
to the Agricultural appropriation bill, soon to 
be acted upon by the Senate, which provides that 
all lands in the national forests, “suitable and 
fit’’ for agriculture, must be classified and listed 
for settlement whether it is wise or unwise to 
remove them from public control. This resolu¬ 
tion has been sent to each member of the Senate 
with a request for his careful attention. 
The directors, with a number of guests, in¬ 
cluding State foresters, forestry instructors, 
State officials, timberland owners, paper and pulp 
company officials and a number of other promi¬ 
nent men, gathered at Plymouth, N. H., on the 
morning of July 17, and through arrangements 
by Col. W. R. Brown, of the Berlin Mills Com¬ 
pany, journeyed to North Woodstock in auto¬ 
mobiles. The afternoon was spent in looking 
over the Lost River reserve, recently acquired 
by the society for the protection of New Hamp¬ 
shire forests, and the members of the party 
climbed down the course of the Lost River for 
some distance among the mammoth boulders, 
into the caves they form, and viewed the re¬ 
markable scenic effects caused by some remote 
convulsion of nature, with wonder and delight. 
Here is a spot, which, when the road to it is 
improved, will become the mecca of almost every 
sightseeing party going into the White Moun¬ 
tains. 
There followed in the evening, at the Deer 
Park Hotel, a meeting participated in by the 
directors of the association, and under the aus¬ 
pices of the Society for the Protection of the 
New Hampshire Forests. Some 300 deeply in¬ 
terested people attended, many of them of na¬ 
tional prominence. They included Mrs. Grover 
Cleveland, Governor Robert P. Bass, of New 
Hampshire, the president of the American For¬ 
estry Association, who opened the meeting with 
words of welcome; former Governor F. W. 
Rollins, who presided; former Governor Quim- 
by, of New Hampshire; former Governor Wood¬ 
ruff, of Connecticut; President John H. Finley, 
of the College of the City of New York; Presi¬ 
dent Henry S. Drinker, of Lehigh University, 
and—as ex-Governor Rollins said—“so many dis¬ 
tinguished people that you could not turn around 
without bumping into one of them.” 
W. R. Brown, president of the New Hamp¬ 
shire Forestry Commission, told about the pro¬ 
gress of forestry in New Hampshire during the 
year. A paper by Montgomery Rollins, on the 
acquisition of Lost River, was read. E. E. 
Woodbury, an orator of North Woodstock, told 
of the town’s interest in the Lost River, and 
there were talks by Dr. Finley, ex-Governors 
Quimby and Woodruff, Dr. Drinker, Dr. B. E. 
Fcrnow, of Toronto; P. S. Ridsdale, executive 
secretary of the American Forestry Association, 
and others. 
The following day the entire party journeyed 
by automobile to Bretton Woods, where Thurs¬ 
day and Friday were spent in viewing the Craw¬ 
ford Notch reserves, and at several important 
meetings discussing forest problems and condi¬ 
tions of the day. The directors of the American 
Forestry Association held their sessions at the 
Mount Pleasant and the Crawford House. 
Reports of the condition of the association 
were most satisfactory and showed that the 
membership is steadily growing, that the sphere 
of its influence is rapidly extending, and that it 
is now regarded as one of the most important 
organizations for the good of the general pub¬ 
lic in the country, and as such is receiving stead¬ 
ily increasing support and recognition. 
At the fifth annual forestry conference meet¬ 
ing on the afternoon of July 18 there were rep¬ 
resented the American Forestry Association, the 
Society for the Protection of New Plampshire 
Forests, the New Hampshire Timberland Own- 
ers’ Association and the Association of North¬ 
eastern Foresters. The fire protection problem 
was discussed at length, papers being read by 
Prof. J. H. Foster, of the New Hampshire State 
College; E. A. Ryder, Commissioner of the De¬ 
partment of Claims, Boston & Maine R. R.; 
State forester E. C. Hirst, of New Hampshire; 
F. H. Billard, forester of the New Hampshire 
Timberland Owners’ Association; F. G. Olm- 
stead, consulter forester of Boston ; F. W. Rane, 
State forester of Massachusetts; S. N. Spring, 
State forester of Connecticut; Austin F. Hawes, 
State forester of Vermont, and Dr. B. E. Fer- 
now, of Toronto. 
In the evening H. S. Bristol, Superintendent 
of Woodlands, for the Delaware and Hudson 
R. R. Co., spoke on problems of forestry as they 
relate to the railway; Prof. Walter Mulford, of 
Cornell, discussed the prospects of forestry as 
a profession; Prof. W. C. O’Kane, of the New 
Hampshire State College, spoke on the present 
status and prospects of the gypsy moth and the 
l rown tail moth in the State; George H. Wirt, 
chief forest inspector of Pennsylvania, gave an 
illustrated lecture on the management of State 
forests in Pennsylvania. 
At the annual meeting of the Society for 
the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, held 
on the morning of July 19, reports were made 
on the gratifying progress of the society’s work 
in the past year. In addition, Herbert Welsh, 
of Philadelphia, spoke about the progress upon 
the Sunapee Forest Reservation, and Harris A. 
Reynolds, secretary of the Massachusetts Fores¬ 
try Association, told how he is organizing 
branch associations in that State. 
The ever interesting and vital question of 
the taxation of forests was discussed at the con¬ 
cluding meeting of the conference on Friday 
afternoon. Dr. B. E. Fernow spoke on the prin¬ 
ciples underlying the taxation of forests; Prof. 
F. R. Fairchild, of Yale, discussed the taxation 
of forests in America and abroad, and Prof. 
Charles J. Bullock, of Harvard, gave his ideas 
on practical plans for taxation in New Hamp¬ 
shire and Massachusetts. The other foresters 
and lumbermen present joined in the discussion 
which, while it resulted in the enlightenment 
and instruction as to ways and means of all who 
were present, did not reach any definite con¬ 
clusion as to the best way to overcome existing 
difficulties. 
In the evening Philip W. Ayres, forester of 
the Society for the Protection of New Hamp¬ 
shire Forests, gave an illustrated address on the 
forests of the White Mountains. 
We don’t reach all of them, but a large pro¬ 
portion of the live ones read Forest and Stream. 
