The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-08-12

Aside from its healthLulneSS, IL is much
to be surrounded by the friendly for
est whose closer acquaintance is the
main object of the school. Again, it
fosters that esprit de corps out of
which grows some of the best senti-
ment of life, as every college man
knows. One is not, however, compelled
to live in camp-it is only privilege
of the school.
From camp to the building used for
lectures and library, in the grounds Of
Grey Towers, is quarter of mile.
| The walk through the woods between
them Is on the sixty acres whose use
for forestry purposes is assured to the
school for thirty-one years, by the gen.
erous owner of the estate. This gen
teman, Mr.. James w. Pinchot, ma
tive of Milford, and a successful New
York merchant, has not only endowed
the forestry school at Yale, but has
made admirable arrangements for the
summer school on his own estate,
which is very large His fine resi-
dence. Grey Towers, is of native stone,
massive and picturesque, and 1t has a
setting of forest lawn and terrace
which brings out all it's beauty.
1t seems built for lavish hospitality
and 1t is an ideal place for those
"house parties" in which the southern
err delights. Nothing is wanting
stables, walled garden, terraced vine
yard, Observation-Disclosures disposed.
The house is closed, for the family is
| In Europe, but the forestry student
have certain privileges in the grounds
and are able to study the landscape
gardening and disposition of the groups
of trees-native and foreign. Every
thing here IL on a large scale and worth
attention.
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, the son of Mr..
J. w. Pinchot is chief of the bureau
of forestry ct Washington He is en-
tirely devoted to this important work,
which the country in general is only be"
ginning family to appreciate.
There Is a wide range in age and OBJ
ject among the students of the fores-
try school. Here are young collegians
to whom an out-of-door lifeWork OF
great interest is open They wish to
test it. Here are men who desire to be-
come forest rangers and wish better
knowledge of forest botany and forest
management in new districts Here
are professors who are again students
in a new field. Here are owners of
forest lands who wish to obtain practi-
cal knowledge which Will insure their
more intelligent management. Here are
women who are teachers or who have
positions in one or smother department
of the forestry bureau, or who simply
wish to broaden their outlook or add
to their knowledge. There is quiet,
earnest purpose with all, and real
enthusiasm
The women find homes in the many
hotels and boarding houses with which
Milford abounds.
Milford, which is seven or eight miles
from Port Jervis, on the Erie railroad,
has about a thousand inhabitants and
for some reason has been fashion
able summer resort The answer of
resident to the question, what is the
principal business in Milford?" was:
Keeping boarders Y This is evidently
true The roads are excellent, thanks
to the shale rock, and there is a great
deal Of driving land over-driving)
There are beautiful falls in the neigh
borhood, and much wooded country.
The town lies in the Delaware Valley
and at a height Of four or five hundred
feet above the sea.
The lectures atSthe forestry school
include courses oi1s4forest botany sill
vicuture, forest measurement, intro
duction to forestry and forest protec-
ton. There are no examinations and
no diplomas The botanical laboratory
is well equipped, and the best oppor-
tunity is given for miscroscope work.
The library of works on forestry and
kindred subjects IS ample and many
periodicals are on the tables of the
reading room The tuition fee Is $40.
with no extras. Altogether here is an
for quiet careful study in
a favoring atmosphere hardly to be
equaled. The practical lessons in for
est timing forest measurement and
forest botany, include real ak work,
the use of many practical foresters'
and lumbermen's instruments for esti-
mates and measurements, and also long
tramps for face to-face knowledge of
the conditions in swamp and coppice
virgin forest and clearing. These, with
masters whose enthusiasm Is kindling
and whose knowledge is both practi-
cal and profund, open the eyes of the
mind and enforce Agassiz's injunction
to his pupils Remember, 1t is one
thing to see another to observe. Cor |
respondence of Boston Transcript.