The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-17
YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY
IS PICTURESQUELY SITUATED IN
 STATE or PENNSYLVANIA.
Where Men and Women study Togeth- CT in Natures Realm, Under the Blue Flag of Old Yale-Not Compelled to Live In CaInn

The Etght men in control-Professor
 Graves and Tourney; the right location the Pinchot estate at Milford, Pa, and a widely representative group of i tWenty-one interested and interesting
 men and women Ghere are seven wo-
 men)-here you have the best condi-
 tions for successul opening session of
 the Yale Summer School of Forestry.
 July was the opening day, and the session continues until the first of Sep tember The men are accommodated in
 a well-placed camp. It is on cleared knoll in the forest, where, around a maple flagstaff with the bark on," sur
 mounted by the blue flag of Yale, the tents stand-thme great dining tent,
 the kitchen-house and the single tents
 of the men-all with board floors.
 The long tables of the dining-tent are
 useful day and evening. The kitchen, adjoining, is provided with all applian
 ces for getting up the excellent meals
 
 tents are furnished, each with ean- fOrtabl bed, chair and washstand, and the disconforts of camp life are re- duced to the minimum.
 HEALTHFUL LIFE IN TENTS.
 The advantages of life in tents over that in the scattered hotels and board ing places in the village are many Aside from it's healthfulness, it is much to be surrounded by the friendly forest, whose closer acquaintance is the main object of the school. Again, it fosters that spirit, de corps out of which grows some of the best sentiment of life, IS every college man knows. One is net. 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 a quarter of a mile The walk through the woo Is between them is on the sixty acres whose use for forestry purposes is assured to the school for thirty-on years, by the gen. erous owner of the estate.
 This gentleman, MT. James w Pin chot, a native of Milford, and a sue cessful New York merchant, has not only endowed the Forestry School at Yale, but has made admirable arrange ments for the Summer school on his own estate which is very large. His fine residence. Grey Towers is of native stone, massive and picturesque, and it has a setting of forest, lava and ter race which brings out all it's beauty. WHERE NOTHING IS WANTING.
 IT. fo, 1a Jct1 q and it is an ideal place for those ''houso parties in which the southerner de- walled garden terraced vineyard, reenhouse-admirabl disposed The house is closed, for the family is in Flu rope, but the forestry students have certain privileges in the grounds, and are able to study the landscape garden ing and disposition of the groups oe trees-native and foreign. Everything here is on large scale and Nolth at tention.
 MT. Clifford Pinchot the soa of MT l. w. Pinchot, is chief of the bureau Of forestry at ashWington. He is entirely devoted in this important work, whit h the country in general is only beginning faintly to appreciate.
 1uel6 l6 d NlAlS dll6C III IsSC aiih N'- ject among the students of the forestry school. Here are young collegians to whom an door lifework of great in terest is open. They wish to test it. Here are men who desire to become forest rangers and wish better kroWl- | edge of forest botany and forest man. agement in new districts Here are professors who are again students in a | new field. Here are owners of forest | lands who wish to obtain practical | which will insure their more | intelligent management. Here are Wo- | men who are teachers, or who have po- sitions in one or another department of | the forestry bureau. or who simply | wish to broaden their outlook or add to their knowledge There is a quiet, ear nest purpose with all, and real enthu siasm.
 HOMES FOR THE WOMEN.
 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 thousand inhabitants, and | for some reason has been fashionable | summer resort. The answer Of resi- lent to the question, What is the prin- ,ipal business in Milford?" was: 1 Keeping boarders."
 This is evidently true. The roads are excellent, thanks to the shale rock, and there is a great deal of driving (and )ver- driVing.) There are beautiful falls in the neighborhood, and much wooded country. The town lies in the Delaware valley and at a height of 'our or five hundred feet above the sea
 The lectures at the forestry school in- dude courses on forest botany, silvicul- ,ure. forest measurements, introduction 70 forestry and forest protection. There are no examinations and no dl- ,lo1nas The botanical laboratory is veil equipped, and the best opportunity S given for microscope work. The li- lrary of works on forestry and kindred subjects is ample, and many periodicals Ire on the tables of the reading room. FOR QUIET STUDY.
 The tuition fee is twenty dollars, with 10 extras Altogether here is an op- ,ortunity for quiet, careful study in avoring atmosphere hardly to be uualed The practical lessons in forest thinning, forest measurement and for st botany include real ax work, the lse of many practical foresters' and instruments for estimates md measurements, and also long ,,nc fo knowledge of