Jan. 2, 1909.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS. 
It was good news to the whole country that 
the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission had 
resolved to take active measures toward the per¬ 
manent defense of the scenery of the Hudson 
River against such injuries as are to be feared 
from forest destruction and blasting and. let us 
hope, from vulgar advertising and all the other 
forms of desecration by which beauty is sacri¬ 
ficed to commercialism, says the Century. Gen. 
Stewart L. Woodford, president of the commis¬ 
sion, has shown this purpose, initially, in the 
appointment of a special committee on the sub¬ 
ject under the chairmanship of Judge Alton B. 
Parker, whose distinguished legal ability will be 
of signal service in drafting such legislation as 
may be desirable. Hon. Frederick W. Seward, 
chairman of the plan and scope committee, has 
also expressed himself favorably to the idea. 
There could be no worthier form of memorial 
to the famous first navigators of the Hudson 
by sail and steam than to place its noble beauty 
once and for all beyond the power of private 
parties to impair what should continue to be part 
of the heritage of humanity. 
In arriving at what is the best method of legal 
procedure, the committee, which is acting for 
the whole country, would have the support of 
the press and the public in voicing the general 
desire that the action should not be tentative but 
in its ultimate purpose final. There must be an 
exploratory operation, but the decisive one, to 
follow, must be planned for. There should not 
be any delay in framing a complete and work¬ 
able plan. The public interest and good as re¬ 
lated to our forests, our navigable rivers and 
our great scenery are immediate and paramount, 
and public opinion has been sufficiently educated 
to come to the support of the commission just 
as it did in the matter of the saving of the 
Palisades. The State of New York is a trustee 
of the Highlands for the nation and must see 
that they do not suffer injury. 
If there is one false notion which more than 
another has masqueraded under the narne of 
liberty it is that of “private rights.” Owners of 
property which is being used to the detriment of 
the public health and welfare, cry out against 
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that other being in these instances the general 
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York will see their opportunity this winter to 
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