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| Bernhard Fernow. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, Jan. 24, 1902.
ADIRONDACK FOREST.
Cornell Forestry School Cutting Too Much Wood.
HAS EXCEEDED ITS AUTHORITY.
Application Made to Have Sale of 40,000 Acres of Land in Franklin County Set Aside—Views of Lieutenant Governor Woodruff—Briefs to Be Submitted.
Albany, Jan. 24.—The state forest, fish and game commission gave a hearing on an application to have the purchase of 30,000 acres of land in Franklin county, near Upper Saranac and Tupper lakes, declared void.
This application was made by Eric P. Swenson, representing the association of residents on Upper Saranac
The applicants include former Governor Levi P. Morton, Jules S. Bache, Sidney M. Colgate, Charles Peabody, Isaac N. Seligman, F. S. Bangs, Alfred L. White and others of New York city. The association was represented by David Wilcox and John G. Agar of New York city and James F. Tracy of Albany.
Cornell university was represented by President J. G. Schurman, Dr. B. E. Fernow, director of the school of forestry and State Civil Service Commissioner Cuthbert Pound.
The association charges that the purchase of the 30,000 acres of land is unconstitutional and that the college of forestry has exceeded its authority, even though the act was constitutional, by cutting down and selling timber product of the land.
It is charged that the university entered into a contract for a period of 15 years with the Brooklyn Cooperage company for the annual sale of 10,000 cords of retort and fuel wood: that a stave factory and a wood alcohol manufacturing plant have been established near the school for the consumption of the wood cut and that a railroad has been constructed through the preserve.
The hearing developed that there has been a misunderstanding between the authorities of Cornell university to the establishment of the school, as to the manner in which it should be conducted.
Dr. Fernow, the director, stated that his conduct of the school has been to demonstrate that the forests can be reproduced with a view to future earnings. This scheme, he said, would give the state revenue from the sale of the surplus products. He admitted that a contract has been entered into with the Brooklyn Cooperage company for a period of 15 or 20 years to utilize the timber cut from the land.
The timber has been cut with a view of affording opportunity for scientific reproduction and that where about 300 acres have been cut 225 acres have been replanted. It was necessary, he said, to cut down crooked, old, decayed and decrepit trees and to the untrained eye, to practically denude parts of the tract, but it was the intention of the school authorities to replant and to reproduce the trees cut down.
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, who is chairman of the forest, fish and game commission and who was chairman of the forestry preserve board which in 1898 purchased the land for the school, said that Dr. Fernow had evidently labored under a misapprehension as to what was intended when the school was authorized. Governor Black and the legislature had no intention of permitting the establishment of any plan which would in the slightest degree denude any part of the forest. It was then believed that a school of this character would demonstrate what could be done to improve the forests by weeding out dead wood and weeds and bringing about a regrowth of spruce, pine and other soft woods which have rapidly disappeared in the Adirondacks.
Attorney Agar for the petitioners said that his clients had been compelled to resort to this proceeding to preserve their own property which is situated near the Cornell school.
At the close of the hearing it was decided that both sides would be given an opportunity to submit briefs.
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| John Hay. |
Restitution to China.
Washington, Jan. 24.—Secretary Hay handed to Minister Wu a draft on the United States treasury for $376,600, being the value of the silver bullion captured by the American marines at Tien Tsin. Inasmuch as Minister Wu is charged with the payment of salaries of the Chinese consuls in the United States and with defraying the expenses of the Chinese legation in Washington, in Lima and in Madrid, it is believed this money will be applied to such purposes.
TREATY IS SIGNED
Which will Transfer the Danish Islands to the United States.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24,—Tbe treaty between Denmark and the United States for the transfer of the Danish West Indies to this country was signed at 10:30 o'clock this morning by Secretary of State Hay, and Constantin Brun, minister from Denmark, in the reception room of the state department.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.
Mayor Brown's Report.
The report of Mayor Brown to the [Cortland] common council upon the affairs of the city which was submitted to that body Tuesday night and was published in full in these columns on Wednesday has brought out much favorable comment from all sides. As a report it was clear and explicit. It told exactly the particulars which every one interested in the city wanted to know—where the money had gone to, what the different departments had done and are now doing, what the expenses of each department have been and what the total indebtedness of the city is. Such a full and detailed report as this has never been given before. But it ought to be submitted every year, and it is a worthy precedent for Mayor Brown to establish, and it is to be hoped that it will be followed each year in the future.
It is also a source of gratification to know that the affairs of the city have been administered in such an economical and satisfactory manner. It is pleasing to know that we are paying up our debts and that we have cleared up about half of the longstanding deficit in a single year. If we do as well another year we shall be able to present a clean slate, so far as old accounts are concerned.
Taken altogether it is a record to be proud of. Mayor Brown has already had a number of requests for copies of it from cities and from would-be cities, and he has no occasion to blush in sending out such a year's record for the young city or such a definite and lucid statement from its mayor.
◘ Havana was as free from yellow fever during the months of December as in the preceding months of October and November. The regular season for the pest has now passed and the health authorities of the city feel justified in summing up the results accomplished, which in a word are the bringing down of the number of deaths from an average of 440 to only five. The assertion that this has been due to t he war waged against the mosquito is reiterated in the monthly report of Major W. C. Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer, and this explanation can no longer be doubted.
◘ John D. Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the endowment fund of Syracuse university. When the fund reaches $400,000 John D. Archbold will duplicate it. It looks as if the Standard oil crowd were trying to make it necessary for Mr. Archbold to give up about half a million dollars of his hard earned savings.—Binghamton Republican
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| General John B. Gordon. |
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON.
"The Last Days of the Confederacy" at Normal Hall, Feb. 3.
The fourth entertainment in the Normal [School] course will be given in Normal hall on Monday evening, Feb. 8, and will be a lecture by Gen. John B. Gordon upon "The Last Days of the Confederacy." This lecture became famous at its first delivery in the Tabernacle of Brooklyn, New York, before an audience of five thousand people. Its broad patriotism, its exquisite humor, its faithful portrayal of great leaders of both armies, its pathetic delineation of thrilling incidents, and the magical eloquence of the description of the closing scene at Appomattox and of Grant and Lee as they stood together in the little brick house in that last act of the great drama, and the mingling together of the soldiers of the hitherto hostile armies, combine to make this lecture one of great historical and patriotic interest to the young and old of both sections.
General Gordon, with one exception, is now the sole survivor who held high rank in either army and prominently participated at the close of the great struggle at Appomattox who is capable of giving to the people a vivid picture of these thrilling events. An orator, of the highest order, a soldier without previous training, whose rapid rise from the rank of captain to the command of one wing of Lee's army reads like a romance, who was designated in official reports as the "Chevalier Bayard" of the army, and who has devoted his time and talents to the reconciliation of the sections, General Gordon must necessarily accomplish great good by his lecture tour, as well as furnish to the young men of the country the only opportunity perhaps that will ever occur of learning of these great events from a living, capable and faithful witness.
REPAIRS IN COURTHOUSE
In Accordance with the Recent Orders of Judge Lyon.
The repairs at the courthouse, which were ordered by Judge Lyon on Jan. 10, were begun this morning. The repairs are for the purpose of securing better ventilation for the grand jury room and to cut a door through into the district attorney's room, in order that witnesses might not have to be taken through the grand jury room when going to the district attorney's room.
THE SODALITY SUPPER.
About Four Hundred Present—Musical and Literary Program Follows.
About four hundred suppers were served by the Young Ladies Sodality of St. Mary's church at Empire hall last night and a very pleasant evening was spent by all concerned. The supper itself was an excellent one. Kane's orchestra played most acceptably white it was being served, and afterward there were a number of selections sung by the Apollo quartet which was encored again and again. Miss Anna Lyons recited in a very effective manner "How St. Michael's Was Saved" and Mr. Augustus Dillon delighted every one by his character sketches. A very substantial sum was netted for the Sodality treasury.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements today are—A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; M. A. Case, Drygoods, page 6; Glann & Clark, Shoes, page 4.
—The school census of the village of Dryden is just completed and the place claims a population of 776, a gain of seventy-seven over the census of 1900.
—The Tompkins County Agricultural society has decided to hold its county fair the first week in September, the week after the State fair, and two weeks before the Dryden fair.
—The Bible reading at the Presbyterian chapel last night by Rev. Dr. Parsons was well attended and was remarkably interesting and profitable. A second reading will be held tonight at the same hour, 7:30, to which all are cordially invited.
—The Lehigh Valley is having a hotel suite fitted out of three of their passenger coaches at Sayre. The hotel will be used for employees and patrons in case of a wreck, a washout or the like. It is said that such an arrangement has long been demanded.
—Mrs. Ernest M. Hulbert yesterday afternoon gave the second in a series of very delightful progressive whist parties. Nearly a hundred ladies were invited. A profusion of roses and carnations added to the attractiveness of the beautiful parlors. The refreshments were elaborate and elegant. This evening Mr. and Mrs. Hulbert entertain both ladies and gentlemen.
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