April 9, 1910.] 
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1 THE DEFACEMENT OF HUDSON RIVER 
SCENERY. 
While the public is still aroused to a realiza¬ 
tion of the bearing of Hudson’s and Fulton’s 
achievements on our country’s civilization, at- 
| tention should once more be drawn to the de¬ 
facement of Hudson Rivery scenery. Perhaps 
f the most satisfying feature of the recent cele¬ 
bration was the dedication of the Palisades 
Interstate Park, insuring these remarkable and 
romantic cliffs from further harm. In 1894 the 
Interstate Park plan to save the Palisades was 
checked by the action of New York and New 
Jersey in urging upon the Federal Government 
j the purchase of the entire Palisades plateau for 
a military reservation. The scheme failed. 
Most of the Palisades lie in Bergen county, 
New Jersey. The dominant political powers of 
; that county and certain commercial interests 
looked upon the region as more than ever their 
legitimate prey, while throughout the State 
little concern was felt at a destruction threaten¬ 
ing the immense retaining wall on its north¬ 
eastern boundary. But patriotic women finally 
obtained from Governor Voorhees. of New 
Jersey, the appointment of a Commission of 
Inquiry. Theodore Roosevelt was then Gov¬ 
ernor of New York. He had already expressed 
his sympathy with the cause. After the New 
Jersey Commissioners were appointed, he wrote 
to the president of.the Scenic and Historic So¬ 
ciety of New York, asking him to appoint a 
committee, as this society has authority under 
its charter to treat with the authorities of other 
jStates. 
The New York committee’s influence changed 
the commercially inclined character of the New 
! Jersey Committee, and in joint convention a 
report was approved favoring the protection 
of the Palisades and inclosing bills embodying 
1 its terms to be presented to the Legislatures, 
i As a result, lovers of the beautiful now breathe 
a sigh of satisfaction as they realize that the 
operations of the quarryman are no longer per¬ 
mitted on the Palisades. The task of rescuing 
| the rest of the river from him should be 
simpler, since the endeavor is intra-State and 
not inter-State. As the Palisades were really 
| saved by the women of New Jersey, an oppor¬ 
tunity of contributing to the success of the 
Hudson-Fulton Committee’s bill, known as the 
Bennett Bill, in the next Legislature of New 
York State is thus open to the Federation of 
| Women’s Clubs. It has for its object a con- 
' tinuation of the methods employed to protect 
the region known as the Highlands of the 
Hudson. 
It is true that a bill was recently passed, and 
is now law, providing for the preservation of 
| the wooded slopes of the Highlands, extending 
| over an area of seventy T five square miles, under 
i the care of the New York State forestry com¬ 
missioner. But the public demands the pre¬ 
servation from defacement of the whole region 
at least from the Palisades to Newburgh, and 
why not from the Palisades to Albany? The 
j iovers of the beautiful are reinforced by those 
| who see in our Hudson River scenery a suitable 
! tribute to the achievements of Hudson and 
| Fulton. The river’s natural monuments are 
permanent memorials testifying to the historic 
j /alue of events full of influence for the destiny 
af North America.—The Outlook. 
SWALLOWS IN MEXICO. 
At Vera Cruz, Mexico, I once witnessed an 
nteresting sight, says Madame Tetrazzini, in the 
j Travel Magazine. It was in the early autumn, 
September, if I am not mistaken, and for three 
lays the city was overclouded with swallows on 
heir way south for the winter. It appears that 
| ;very year at the same time these birds pass over 
he city and rest there for a few days. There 
| were millions of them without exaggerating at 
; ill. They were perched so closely together along 
) he telegraph wires that a number of the wires 
mapped from the weight. All over the city one 
leard the twittering, so continuously, and made 
j )y so many little throats, that it actually sug- 
1 rested, soft-pedalled thunder. I shall never for- 
S ret this as a decidedly unique experience in my 
:areer. 
A bent pin, a 
bit of string and 
a stick don’t ap¬ 
peal as they did 
in our boyhood 
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Sporting Goods 
Headquarters 
for catalog “ F ” if'you’re going fish¬ 
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