The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-01

old clothes are TO yOU."
about his picturesqueEy trashy studio on
Montgomery street and digging into piles of
photographs for graphic illustrations Of
what he described
He mas q little over 5000 photographs
taken in and about Yosemite Valley, and
when be displays some of them he grows
fiery with Indignation or sarcasticaly con-
temptuous.
II expect that something will be done by
Congress about Yosemite Valley this win
ter" be said. II have been in favor of
placing the park in the hands of the Gov
eminent ever since 1884. when j. NJ. Hutch
ings was retired as guardian Of the valley
and it began to be run in private Interests,
Us has been done ever since.
eff that were dOue the entire park would
be in the hands of absolute experts who
have taste. Judgment and discretion in mat
tiers Of that kind.
Now, there is not a square rod OF the
Yosemite region for thirty miles about that
is not as familiar to me as your old clothes
are 70 you
"Why. the place has been nay home for
fourteen years or more. have spent most
Of my time there every summer This last
summer I was there during July and
September. returning 10 she cityin October
yes. | know what has been done in the
valley during the past summer About all
the Improvement that has been effected has
been to destroy the timber. They have
cleared out what they called q Jungle at
the upper end of the valley, and now it
locks like a man with the hair shaved off one
side of his face. Here are some of the
jungles' they have cleared out"
In Illustration Mr.. Robinson produced a
series of photographs Of magn ifcent clumps
of ferns, great masses Of wild azaleas and
picturesque groups of trees and shFubbery,
all of striking beauty. and with grand can
yon walls, rocks and forests in the back
ground.
Then he displayed some pictures Of
plowed land and hay-felds.
THAT is the way they improve the Jun
gles,'" he went on. THAT snruhbery is the
beauty of the valley floor. Natures land
seape gardening there has always been con-
eeded to be unique and perfect. That un-
derbrpsh is asserted by botanists to contain
some of the finest shrubbery on the,face Of
the earth, and years ago one botanist found
in it 400 species absolutely new to the SCI
ence.
This year the commissioners let a con-
tract for $1,000 for clearing underbrush at
the upper end Of the valley Washbnrn,
one of the prOprietors of the Stoneman
House, superintended the job, and every
dollar Of the money was expended on
ground leased by the Stoneman House and
j. J. Cook.
e Buildings have this year been taken
down in one part of the valley and put up
where they would benefit the ring. The
settlement has all been moved up close 70
the Stoneman house at the expense Of the
State.
IAN unsightly fence of poles, boards and
barbed wire has been moved back three
rods along one of the drives, but it ought to
be removed entirely. 1t was done at The
desire Of Fiske, the photogrs cher. For
years it has been impossible for photog-
Tapher or a painter 20 get view OF the
grandeur CT the Yosemite Valley without
finding an Internal fence or telegraph or
telephone wires in front OF him somewhere.
This was good move as far as it went
Il saw it stated recently in praise of the
present commissioners that they were max
ing the valley look less like aramshackle
rance.
In 1889 was denounced up hill and
down for saying that that was just what the