Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-09

ley. the field marshal Of the granite cFass
about it, will be one of the Yosemite
views, while others will show the Grizzly
Giant, one of the great sequoias of the
Yosemite, and some of the MaripOsaS.
where "a bear ascending would look like
a squirrel ascending an ordinary big
tree
One of the natural bridge pictures will
be of the Augusta Natural Bridge in Utah,
so high of span that it would overspan
the Capitol at Washington and clear the
top of the dome by fifty-one feet Its
buttresses are lis feet further apart than
those of the celebrated Cabin John
bridge near this city. It's height is more
than twice. and its span more than three
times as great as that of the famous Nat
ural Bridge of Virginia.
Bureau of Parks.
Effort will be made to secure the pas
sage of a bill at this session of Congress
providing for the creation of a bureau of
national parks. This work the American
Civic Association will push. Both Presi-
dent Taft and Secretary Fisher have
promised their cooperation in the project.
Mr.. Mcfarland also is in favor of such
a bureau.
At the present time the national parks
are managed. ii is pointed out, In
helterskelter way. Some of them are
under one official or department of the
absolutely without uniformity of treat
ment and administration. This condition
should be improved, it is believed, by
placing them all under the supervision OF
one bureau AT the instance of the Civic
Association Senator Smoot of Utah is
preparing a bill providing for the crea-
ton of such bureau, which he viii in
trOduce within the next few weeks. The
bill which is now in rough form, viii be
discussed at the coming convention
Helter-Skelter Management.
President Mcfarland of the Civic Asso
citation in talking OF the subject few
DAYS ago said No official i'll any de
partnent is definitely charged with the
control and mana cement of the nearly
six million acres set aside either fol
plea ASSURE or scientific interest. No uni
form policy of Improvement or of contro
of concessions exists, and funds for main
tehance and improvement are incidenta
and pitifully meager. No skilled land
scape engineering advice, such as thai
almost universally availed of by a city
of even hundred thousand population
for the logical development of its parks
has ever been used for the good Of the
nations parks, which, as Secretary Fisher
expressed it. had, Topsy-like, JUS
growed.'
Under shifting army superintendent
engineering and policing there is no Sc
cure continuity of administration, and II
the case of the monuments particularly
those under the forest service, very little
supervision or administration of any kind
Although we have thirteen national PAL X:
and some tWenty-eight national 'monu
mentS'-the latter including, for instance
the Grand Canyon OF the Colorado-au
thority over them is somewhat vaguely
exercised by the War, Agriculture ant
Interior departments, sometimes in con
fiict. The absolute and immediate neces
sity for the creation OF a federal pari
bureau. to be placed In control of al
parks. monuments and public grounds be
! longing TO the federal government, is con
coded by all who have given any serious
thought to the subject
| Secretary Fisher became a firm CONVEX
to the idea of a park bureau when ne
attended the recent national park super
/ intendents' conference, held in Yellow
| stone Park, and where he discovered tina
/ there We're about as many systems OF
park administration as there were parks