New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-11
THE SANITARY ASSOCIATION
TREE PLANTING AND WHOLESOME COOKING.
CLOSING SESSION or THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
SANITARY AND RirRA. NIIROYFMrNrr

CLOSING SESSION or THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF SANITARY AND RURAL MPRovEMEST--
PAPERS READ-oFFICERs ELECTED.
lFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TRrBUygI
WARWICK WOODLANDS, GREENWOOD LAKE
July 10.-The third and last session OF the National A.
ISOLATION Of Sanitary and Rural Improvement held
here to-day. Erastus Brooks was made temporary
chairman for the day.
First in the discussions Of the morning was the subject
OF tree planting. Professor j. Madison Watson thought
tho rock.maple, American elm and Norway maple the
best for streets and parks, combining the largest
degree strength beauty and durability He thought tina
planting of the slver-eaf maple mistake. Premiums
for treeplanting should be based ultimate resuIts
ana not ON the number planted In ind erent manner
The black Austrian pine Is the greatest success as an
evergreen.
Dr. Bell OF Garden City. said that 100000 trees had
been panted-6o,oOO Of them in one year-oyer the
Hampstead Plains The first Of these was planted
thirteen years and the largest OF them now egh-
teen Inches In diameter among them being twenty va.
rieues OF maple The largest trees the poorest how
ever, because they were too large when planted.
Dr. Holbrook said the first human habi-
tauons were the woods, and II evolution
be.true the first probably lived in trees He
tho ght everyone should get into the woods few
weeks, or few days at least every year. In tree
planting we should study natures methods and follow
| them as closely possible.
William o. Mcdowell offered q resolution that the as
ISOLATION recommend to the people of the entire country
that the 10th OF April in each year be set aside tree
planting day The chairman thought that every en-
couragement should be given to treeplanting There
Is no element Of destruction the land which has
pished more disastrous results than the general de-
structon Of forests They not used for frewood,
nor for the Identification Of the SOIL but
in great wantonness The speaker had been told by
competent 10 form opinions the subject that in eleven
twelve years from there would no longer be in
the great forests OF Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa Pine
TO meet the demand for that kind OF lumber The
waste is going on In Florida and elsewhere In the
South. With q country OF 50,000.000 Of people,
with for 200 100000 MORE and an animal Increase
OF threequarters OF Million there vast areas abso
lutey OF This destruction Is productive Of
incalculable evils and everything possible should be-
done stay the and encourage the planting Of
trees
Mr. MoDowells resolution unanimously adopted.
and a committee permanent organization was sp-
pointed OF the New York Association for Improving the
Condition OF the Poor.
TENEMENT HOUSE REFORM
George c. Booth read a paper on "Tenement-Houss
Reform" He said there $4,000 tenementhousesia
New-York, with from to 40 families in each;
and 5000 more, not usually classified as tene.
ment-houses, with two or three families each.
The relations between landlord and tenant such
that the latter does dare insist his rights and
force hem II he knows what changes and repairs
needed
his family In conclusion the speaker urged that
itary science should be taught the schools. Dr. Raw
son. of South Orange, also spoke briefly on :" The
Necessity of Teaching Sanitary Science in tho
public schools DR. Bell thought children should not be
kept in schoolrOom three hours out OF each twen
ty-four hours one OF the first places TO reform tho
schoolhOuse is the cellar, whence rise foli gases.
know hotels in NewYork, some OF the largest ana hgh
esprced with cellars forty feet deep which breed pes
thence and diseSseefSdng maSnS more ra'ai 'nah
DR. Alfred L. Carroll OF New:Brghton, offered resolu;
Health declaring the proposed Congressional
limitation Of Its and functions an -advsed ana
rerOgrade measure fraught with injury to the Dest M
terests of the people. The resolution was Unanimously
adopted
Ex-Governor Fuller. Of Utah. read paper on SAINT
tary Cooking" in which he said:
believe there ia but article recognized az food
which is delivered 10 at the hands of nature in
life with no foreign admixture nvestiture. Nature
deals sparingy with us in resdymade when
we are babies-then she is bountifuL Mr. Beeeher Is
credited with saying that doubtless God might have
made better fruit than the steawoeryIout doubtless
with Mr.. Beecher: SO far as the seeds
CONCERNED differ with him Every P a
thoughts-tha from the annual strawberry period the
most serious of intestinal lesion date; Longcon.
tinued observation has taught that the sharp, III
sinuating, burrowng seed Of the strawberry induces
more injuries the mucous membrane, bores In the ter
m more eI de sac cavities progressing necss
openings than all other combined. Iapprehend
thar the time will when only the juice and pulp OF
will not consent swallow myriads OF insolube seeds
because they happen TO be associated with some paA
The rich mans pompous cher is as gifted in the
power TO render indgestibe the numerous costly yands
provided for him. the poor mans wife to make less
valuable the few simple foods lntruted 10 her care
Reform must first come through the most thirty Oy
dissemination OF knowledge wnch snail prove iha te
heahul methods oil preparing food are the most
economical from every point Of view. In public places
adjacent TO bodies of water, we paste up rules for
resscitating the drowned. suppose you draw up aud
give TO every woman WHO delves blindy over range
and thinks she cooks brief and simple tables OF
food values, and some plain instructions for cooking
suppose you tell her that five cents worth Of dried beans
contain as much nouTshment as nity cents worth .,
getting much noursnnen out OF the beans Is De
hy are HS as ae beef ~ that her ods
OF cooking them with insufficient huid and Inadequate
g prIstioR in the body You will do her noble
service ssod Sy ne Sa IL ss
aud of almost complete worbessness OF that food a.
that in preparing for human meal the maize,
only boiling fluid adequate to it's solution and that tso
sandy corn-Dread OF the household the hotel ana tne
restaurant simply useess-it is even perncious as
food. Then tell her about boiling oats and wheat In io
times their volume OF wafer Tor TWO hours,
or allowing them to simmer and macer.
s1 her the and show her IN
paatabe burned mush is and that burned mush npgr
s6e under the pops5 usS os OF be 1e se 80
coaguates It's albumen that no human gastric juice can
dissolve II. a.. 49,.
/ am not a vegetarian. but / believe that better
mental and moral condition would attend diet basel
largely upon the wholesome products OF good mother
arbthe fruit and vegetables the farnacea, properly
prepared AZ they rarely are-than upon the unsighy
product OF the shanbies.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
The Committee on Permanent Organization reported
tina the name should be the National Association fo
Sanitary and Rural Improvement" Its objects are:
ITO establish local societies for sanitary and rural i'm
provement; the issuing of tracts and other pubica-
tons as means OF popular enlightenment and the hold
ing Of annual conventions for discussion and confer
euce All persons interested in these objectsare elr
BILE for membership, II satisfactory to the executive COM