The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-22
PINcHo7 TO SPEAK
Chief of the Forestry Depart ment Will Appear in
 Music Hall.
AT COMING s. A. R. BANQUET
Annual Event to Be Held on Wash ington's Birthday With Program
 Arranged

Arrangements have been complet- ed for the annual banquet of the con necticut Society of the Sons Of the American Revolution. The affairs Will be held in Music hall on Washington birthday, Feb. p. The speaker or the evening will be Clifford Pinchot' chief of the United States Forest ser vice
 MT. Pinchot is a Connecticut man, having been born in Simsbury. where his mothers family have lived for gen. erations. It is natural, therefore, that he should take particular interest m forestry in Connecticut, and he will ad- dress his remarks to that particular phase of the question in the hope that owners of woodland and waste land throughout the State will take up the subject of practical forestry. If this were done the aspect of the State would be transformed in generation or two; the increase in valuation would be enormous. Mir. Pinchot. 1t is under stood, will recommend the establish ment of small model forests through out every portion of the State where they can be readily reached and ex- amined by wood lot owners. He will also recommend the planting of suit able trees on every mile of the new highways which Connecticut is now preparing to build Mir. Pinchot is member of President Roosevelt's ten his cabinet and is frequently spoken of as the most useful man in the Unit ed States. Be that as it may there are few harder working men in the coiin- | try,
 Mir Pinchot received his prepara- ory education at Phillips Exeter Acad- emy, and was graduated from Yale University in 1889 He studied forestry in France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and in January, 1892, inaug- urated the the first example in the United States of practical forest man agement on large scale, at Bltmore. North Carolina. Later Mr. Pinchot pre- pared the Biltmore and North Carolina exhibits for the Worlds Fair at Chi cago In December, 1892 he opened an office in New York, as consulting for ester.
 He was a member of the National Forest Commission, appointed by the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. at the request of the Secretary of the Interior. to investigate and report upon the inauguration of a rational forest policy for the forested lands of the United States. This commission drew the boundaries of the forest reserves proclaimed by President Cleveland in February, 1891 MT. Pinchot after wards served as Special Agent of the Secretary of the Interior 10 examine and report upon all forest reserves. In 1898 he was appointed Chief of the Division of Forestry in the Depart ment of Agriculture, which later be- came the Bureau of Forestry, and is now the Forest Service.
 In 1902 Mir Pinchot made tour of inspection in the Philippines, at the request of the President and the Sec retary of War, to report .pon forest policy for the Islands.
 In February 1905, the Governments forest work, which had been divided between the Department of the Interi- or and the Department of Agriculture, was consolidated and put under the administration of the Forest Service
 Mir. Pinchot received the honorary i degree of NJ. A. from Yale University in 1901 and from Princeton in 1904, and the honorary degree of Doctor of ] Science from the Michigan Agricultur- al College in 1907. Tn the spring of l 1903 he was elected Professor of For cstry in Yale University.
 Mir. Pinchot Is a. member of the committee on organization of govern ment scientific work, appointed by the President March 13, 1903; the commis- sion on the public lads, appointed october 22, 1903 the committee on department methods, appointed June ?, 1905, and the inland waterways commission. appointed March 14, 1907. He is the author of The Adirondack Spruce" ''The White Pine" Gin col laboration with Professor Henry S. Graves), and "A Primer of Forestry and has made number of other con tributions to American Forest litera- ture.
 He is member of the Society of American Foresters, Washington Academy of Sciences, American Mu- scum of Natural History, National Academy of Design, Century, City, Quill, Yale and University Clubs of New York, Cosmos and Metropolitan Clubs of Washington, D. C., and Graduates Club of New Haven.