New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-31
CLIFFORD P|NCHOT HOME
Ready to Talk on Anything but
Meeting with Roosevelt.
SAYS COLONEL LOOKED WELL
Promised to Talk to Conserva
ton Association in Septem-
ber-Forestry Abroad.

Clifford Pfnchot former Chief Forester or
the Department of Agriculture. who went
away quietly on the Hamburg American
liner President Grant early in March to
have talk with Colonel Roosevelt in italy,
returned Yesterday on the White Star liner
Arabic from Liverpool. The foe of Score
tary Bal1inzer, who was in excellent health
and spirits announced at the start of an
interview which began down the bay that
he would neither discuss his talk with the
ex-President nor any matter relating to mis-
controversy with Mr. BallInger-
Although he promised to discuss nothing
that transpired in the talk with Colonei
Roosevelt at Porto Maurizfo- Mr. Pincnot
declared with smile of confidence that the
ex-President had accepted an invitation 10
speak in September at the congress Oh tne
National Conservation Association OF
which Mr. Pinchot is president
Asked how he happened to get away
from New York without his departure be-
coming known until he was two days out
at sea. Mr.. Pinchot explained that he had
received a cable message from Coionei
Roosevelt In Khartoum. and that MS
steamship reservation was made by Gay
lord Smith AS Mr. Smith had arranged
for the booking the name Of P1nchot QUO
M. annear The former Chief Forester said
he was two days on the ocean before IL
was known aboard ship that he was pas
senger He explained that he had no inteh-
ton of leaving this port incognito, out thal
the circumstance was not unpleasant
Mr. Pinchot said Colonel Roosevelt was
in splendid physical condition when ne Sd"
him. Then some one in the crowd re1erreu
TO the conference with the ex-President ~s
the walk in the forest" MI P1ncho'
laughed
well. it is certainly beautiful country
there but there wasn't any forest ne SAID
The scenery is mostly olive trees
The thought of the olive branch or peace
did not occur to a reporter who at TINS parl
of the interview blurted out the question:
Were there any lemon trees, MI Pm
chot?'
There might have BEEN" was the reply
Mr. Pinchot said he had not been aoie
to keep in touch with the Ballinger inquiry
as the European papers have given only
brief space to it. Some newspapers were
brought aboard the Arabic at Quarantine
and Mr. Pfnchot glanced over them
II read about Vertrees summing up ne
said II see he says I'm a small 'possum
I'D a big tree. oh, we'll
Concerning the conservation Of forests
2 M
are NOT So enthusiastically agitated over
conservstion as we are here because con-
servation has been a settled thing Win
them for many years We are younger III
the problem, but we are up to them IN
methods"
Mr. Pfuchot was asked IL any means nao
been taken to prevent the conservation
congress from assuming a political aspect
and he replied that he did not know what
plans had been made by the organization
since his departure
Thomas Shipp, secretary Of the Natloiidi
Conservation Association, who met MT.
Pfnchot at Quarantine, said that political
speeches had not been barred I'VE want
TO agree on the best way of getting some
thing done for conservation" he said, and
as Colonel Roosevelt called the first I'M
portant meeting for discussion in 1908, we
are particularly anxious to have him ad-
dress the congress in September.
On his arrival in Hamburg Mr.. Pinchot
went direct TO Denmark to visit his sister,
the wife of Sir Alan tombstone, the British
Minister He attended the School of For
estry in Paris, and gave a little time 70 the
study of economic conditions in Ireland
and England. He will remain in this city
several days and then go to Washington