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MARK DANIELS,
of national parks.

divisions. First of these is d modern,
intelligent. scientific Office of infor-
nation, operated by the department,
designed to bring the attractions of
the national parks to the attention of
the travelling public. Most people in
America do not even know that we
have national parks, and a greater
number still have only the vaguest
notion of what the national scenery
resources are.
This Office every spring should di-
rect a publicity campaign of education.
1t has the most magnificent material
most wonderful stories to tell.
Next, there should be a transporta-
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TrogIodytes.

GA J. DRENEL. one of the American
\ volunteers in the British service,
dined with me in London while on fur
lough," said Cincinnati correspond
ent.
Mr.. DreNel told me that he habit.
ually slept in France eight feet under
ground in ii clay cave. His bed was
a door. His roof was another door
hole.
VERY 1uNurious-what YOU might
call-diSSings, laughed Mr.. Drexel."
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year for all the parks. If they would
let US divert $4,000 of that for cen
trail directing system, economies could
be worked that would obtain larger
results
Under the present system each park
has superintendent, who is usually d
political appointce. He is doing the
best he knows, only generally he never
saw any other national park in his
life. Here is a superintendent who has
specialized i'll trail building and who
has discovered a method which results
i'll saving of money. No other park
gets the benefit of his discovery and
his method. Another superintendent
will have worked out ideas in fire
fighting, but they are applied only to
his park.
There is not enough work now in
any one park for an engineer. Still we
have i'll one park a resident engineer
who is more or less idle six months in
the year.
Further. no ono superintendent or
other park employc knows can find
out from the law his exact powers aud
jurisdiction. He has to blunder along
as best he can.
wi hen the Secretary wants to find
out something about any park he has
to ask the particular superintendent
Naturally he is going to get u biased
report. Most of the troubles in ma
tional park administrat ton are due en-
tirely to this lack of coordination of
effort. 1t is this we want to cure
Nv hat are your ideas for organic
ing"
primarily to make real national
park service. Consider that there are
three distinct types of revenue that
may be received from national parks
They are, first from the natural re-
sources. second from the public utili-
ties operated there and third from
leases and concessions. None of these
has been given serious study as
source of revenue. We do nothing
whatever with the natural resources.
such as the timber; are just be-
ginning to do something with water
power.
Now. there are only two possible
ways of deriving public revenue, by di-
rect and by indirect taxation. Both are
assessed according to the benefits re-
ceived and the ability to pay. We
want to work to the idea of getting
our revenues for the parks by indirect
taxation. OF course, there may be some
direct. in charging an admission
fee for automobiles as we do now, but
the general idea toward which we are
working is to eliminate all direct tax
alton and secure all of our revenue
from u proper of the natural re-
sources and collections from the con-
cessions and public service utilities.
''Of these three, two. the concessions
and the public service utilities, like
hotels and transportation lines and
permanent camps. are dependent for
the amount they pay to the govern
ment on the attendance. Therefore we
should go after the attendance and
make it as large possible. To get
the public into the parks is what we
after.
"A national park service organiza-
tion naturally falls into four distinct
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selling of wool. OF late years how
ever, we have been growing so fast
that we are turning from farming TO
manufacturing.
AS is is now, we can hardly supply
meat for ourselves, and we will soon
have to cease the exporting of wheat
The most of our land is already in cul-
tiyation, and in the future we may have
to look to the Argentine to fill our
bread baskets This country already
stands sixth among the wheat pro-
ducers of the world. Its annual crop is
16o, 900, 900 bushels. but this comes from
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,Copyrish,cd 1914. by Frank C. Carpcnte-.,
p1-E,NoS AIRES Argentina
J-RINC tho mast twentyfour
I'm -, .o.., ~
III Hou's nave '"e ->'
III III Eentine republic l started in
~ the foothills of the Andes and
spent all night and oil aay moy;,r
ms
over 'he p""ipas- MY 'raln was a
fast express. and it carried me throug h
the best settled part of this mighty
,oun+ry
went TO bed IN the sleeper sur
rounded by vineyards. There were
and they extended az far ou, 90 NV
.,,as -, " % "'
.o"'u iedch' lhat region mas
more thah l,ooo.ooO acres in grapes.
and 1t yields SO much wine every year
that if il were trsnsnorted to o1,r
countrv ,b.r. ,,.o,,,d H., Ne Co.
-, .'.>,' 'e a 7"'l' ~
MAN. "oiiiah ana chilo' ana SUN
some 10 spare.
Leaving the vineyards. we came into
Il region of scrub and brush and then
entered a short strip of desert We
oros,o, ,h;, a,,x,, 49,, 80,
,"'' u"' ''s '"' ''S"'' ""u
"heh iooked out OF my WINDOW at
daybreak we were travelling through
the greenest of green. The vast plains
on each side of Tho cars uor. co,orod
,,-;.,, ,,t,,fa a., 60, e
S.a1s .aI f iia, anu t,h' IN iieiuS OF nun
aIfaIf, ., ss aeres ,in, in many places tne
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and mutton for the markets of New
York. The country is beginning to ship
butter abroad, and in the future it will
probably be sending us both -four and
corn. Indeed, the food lands of the Ar
gentine are beyond conception enor-
nous and they already compare fa
vorably with ours in their agricul-
tural production. The country is much
smaller than the United States. but
there are fewer waste lands and the
farming conditions are better. The eli
mate is such that cattle and horses
can feed out of doors all the year
round and the summers are hot enough
to raise corn. One of the great posi-
bilities of the future is in corn and
hogs. AS to the grain lands, they are
now producing exports to the value Of
d quarter of a billion dollars and are
only at the edge of their beginning.
But first let us take d look at the
Argentine Republic. You have seen it
on the map, but maps are a barren
ideality and it takes j geographer to
know what they mean. Let me COM
pare Argentina with our country. In
the first place. it is just about
one-third as large as the United
States proper, but it has no great
la ndS, and its deserts are small in
comparison with ours. If you could cut
the Argentine into patchwork and fit
the pieces upon our territory the
patchW ork would cover every inch Of
land east of the Mississippi and the
remnants would be larger than a num-
ber of the states west of that river
This country is twelve times as big as
Great Britain and five times as large
as either Germany or France 1t is
lana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Cali
fornia, Utah, Colorado and Kansas COM
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valleys are now settling. and the gov
ernment is starting colonies here and
there in them. This is especially so in
the valleys of the Rio Colorado and the
Rio Negro.
Everywhere there is more or less pas
ture and sheep are now reared all the
way from Buenos Aires to the Straits
of Magellan. | have already written
of the great sheep farms in the Chilean
half of TERRA del Fuego. The eastern
side of the island belongs to Argen-
tina and it is equally valua BILE with the
Chilean section. 1t is now supporting
100000 sheep. and, in addition, it has
more than 10000 cattle and horses.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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ton office. The function of that office
should be to see that the means of
transportation are provided to take the
people to the parks. AS concrete eX-
ample: Last year 5000 people visited
the Yosemite National Park in Cali
fornia. Twenty-seven hundred appli-
cations for tickets were turned away
because there were not accommoda-
tions for them.
I'VE have reason to believe that dur
ing the season of 1915 the number of
people who will apply for admission
to the Yosemite will be at least $4,000.
Right now / am laboring with the
transportation lines to insure that
there are train facilities to handle the
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as the United States proper. 1t is the
draining of this territory that has
made fat the Argentine pampaS.
The best lands lie along the rivers,
but the soil is rich all the way to the
Andes and it is so free from rocks that
,here are tracts over which you can
travel for hundred miles without
finding pebbles enough for game of
jack stones.
:: x
If you will imagine yourself in the
heart of our corn belt your surround
inSs will be those OF the basin of
the Rio de Ia Plata. You must, how
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Describes Which FuurA
Alfalfa With Fields of Thousands Ach Millions of Live the
Wheat FamsIhe Sheep Industry Wonderful Pastures
the Republic Loks Mighty Extent and How Compares With the United
Sates-A Graphic Description the Andes the Atlantic
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n.@ WITZERLAND sells to the
SNS world $3.50. 900 worth of
M scenery a year. AS per-
~ manent national resource her
scenery has our coal beds discounted
2 to l. Eliminate her scenery and she
would be hard pressed for revenues.
Americans spend in Europe several
hundred million dollars a year for
scenery. 1t is net loss to America
Moreover, it is an unnecessary az
penditure in so far as ii is spent for
scenery. In exchange for their money
the Americans receive an inferior ar
ticle of scenery, one not nearly SO good
as the home product
< ::
1t is in terms such as these that
Mark Daniels, the new superintendent
OF national parks. delights to talk
about the twelve national parks, with
their four and u half million acres of
scenery. under his control.
fortnight, direct young person is
this superintendent. He looks and
talks like a college student, which he
Is. for his particular fad is going to
college Every year for the past four
teen years he has been enrolled as a
L.
version from this constant study he
has whilcd away his leisure by build
ing up AN immense business.
The annual income from that busi-
hess ior humhcr OF years past has
been just about Sl2. 900 more than his
salary as superintendent of national
parks. and the business is still grow
ing.
But that Mr.. Daniels regards as
merely Incidental. While he looks and
talks like a college student his hank
account and list of self-acquircd assets
as submitted TO the income tax man
make him look like ii captain of in
dustry. And he is only thirty-thrc.
years old
Scenery is his business He calls
hiihseIi landscape engineer. He does
clty planning, he lays out residential
parhs ana Things of that sort. But all
that he has put behind him for the
present He is now at work on making
the national parks real national PLAY
grounds. ~
10 MS notion. now is the time to do
'his work The war in Europe has
closed the continent to American tour
ISIS ana mas gwen impetus TO the see
america first" movement,
In a careless, haphazard sort of
fashion. Congress in the years past ha :
west. When Congress creates some
new government activity and does not
know where else TO place the RESPONSE
ullity for administration il dumps it
on the Department of the Interior, the
governmental catch-all So the nation
al parks are nominally under the Sec
rotary of the Interior, with the War
Department having :: measure of re-
sponslbility here and there and the
forest service OF the Department of
agriculture having to be consulted
elsewhere.
Several succeeding Secretaries of the
Interior have complained to Congress
OF the division OF responsibility. the
lack OF economy III regarding each ua =
tional park as separate unit and
have urged the creation of i real ma
uonal park system.
Secretary Lane this year took the
bull by tue horns and proceeded to
s"stenatize the business of the ma
tional parks. anyhow. He knew OF
Mark Daniels and Mark Daniels work
for both men come from san Francis
~ They also have another thing in
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work. They stood beside stacks which
We're often several hunderd feet long,
and which looked like mighty wind
rows of light yellow. The grain is
bageed as it comes from the thra shing
machine. and at the stations there
were long teams of oxen bringing the
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parent. The fields have thousands of
acres, and you can often look on and
on to the horizon over nothing but
ripe yellow grain. Here and there We're
great piles of yellow straw spotting
the landscape. and in many places
stacks of wheat awaiting the thrasher.
| saw many American thrasherS at
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common: they are both practical ideal
lists But while the Secretary knew of
Mark Daniels he never had met him
and did not know his politics. He sent
for Mr.. Daniels. told what he wanted
and pointed out the chance there was
to do large public service. Politics
played no part in the talk.
The thing appealed to the success
tional parks. or some of them. \
fondness for the high places Of the
world the woods and the hills. had
always been with him. There. quite
colleges had he cultivated his love for
beauty and his powers of imagination.
Recently he returned from months
spent in a survey and examination OF
the national parks, with plans laid for
building an effective and complete ma
tional park system. And now he is
getting these in shape for presenta
tion to Congress, for some little legis-
lation is needed. Unlike most public
officials he is not demanding slathers
of money. What he chiefly asks is
legal authority for more economical
and business-like expenditure of the
FUNDS which Congress. as "a matter of
course has been regularly providing.
lete: boyish, energetic. he looks like Il
man at the very beginning of his
career. rather than one who has
achieved large success. But catch the
look in those cool. appraising eyes and
you see the man who has been accus
toned 20 handling men, to directing,
to commanding.
He was getting ready for q confer
ence with Secretary Lane. the other
day, when some one got him to talking
about the parks and the problem they
present He is man who talks read
lily, easily, as one who has thought
subject. He talks idiomatic American,
not cumbering his conversation with
ofty-sounding phrases or the patter
of the professional uplifter
tional parks" he began. "One is eco
nomical and the other esthetic. The
trouble with Congress is that it has
considered the esthetic side only
The economical justification for the
parks is this: BY turning the atten-
tion of American tourists to the fact
that there Is grander and more beauti-
full scenery in this country than else
where we will keep at home some of
the hundreds of millions of dollars of
tourist money that is now annually
spent abroad.
THE travelling public follows the
lines of least resistance. Comfort in
travel and comfort in accommodat tions
are essential to diverting the trend
of tourist travel to our own beauty
spots. Systematic organization is a
means to that end Until we have u
real national park system no large use
of the national parks may be ex-
pected.
at is complained that Congress has
appropriated stingily for the parks 1
don't blame Congress Under existing
conditions. were | Congress | would
not appropriate 4 nickel. In maintain
ing these parks we spend several hun
dred thousand dollars year more
than we get back in revenues. What
l would like to do is to put the parks
on paying basis. The only question
now is whether Congress will let US
do it
If Congress will even let us spend
the present total national parks ap-
preparations as they ought to be spent
! can guarantee at least to double the
revenues. Say. for example, Congress
appropriates all told only 100000 n
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spoon. and it is now reaching out to
the other side of the Atlantic and be-
ginning to feed Uncle Sam. The Eng
lish eat their Argentine steaks and
chops every morning, and until the
war began there was a line of steam
ers whose vessels started out from
here every fortnight loaded with beef
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bags to the train. In some places there
were warehouses of galvanized iron
for storing the grain, and in others
the warehouses had been filled and
mountains of bags built up near the
tracks. The mountains We're covered
with canvas to keep off the rains.
AS we came into eastern Argentina
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Vener ghCas Mark Superintendent
Beauty
Bushes of aIandscap Engneer
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did they go" No man knows the an
swers. The pyramids of Egypt are no
more impressive, no more awesome
The grand canyon of the Colorado,
in Arizona, is not a national park,
though il should be. Part of it is "A
national monument, which is hardly
the proper classification.
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,.~ WITZERLAND sells to the
SNS world s25O.000,o00 worth of
M scenery a year. AS per-
~ manent national resource her
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-12

Plans arc being made ny the Famous
PLAYERS Film COMPANY. of which Daniel
Frohman Is managing director. n per-
petuate the famous stage successes NJ
Charles Frohman in motion pictures.
In accordance with plans for the Glohe
Theatre summer school for the training
and accepting NJ chorus members for
Charles DnT!ncham's productions ar
rangements are under way 10 place the
selection Of OUT Of town applicants n
the hands ~ a theatre manager and
the dramatic editors Of the daily papers
Margaret Anglln will terminate her
engagement In "Beverly's Balance At
the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday night
and will start for the University of
California. whore she will give Ave
Greek plays in August
IA Wynn, comedian. and Mae Muir
ray, dancer have hcor addcd 10 the
cast Of the "T'esfold FolIIes of 1918"
The Follies bail which took place YES
terday morning atop the New Amster-
dam Theatre. with tho Midnight
Frolic" company ana Ziegfeld's 1914
Follles company. was a success
The Strand Theatre win begin a ser,cs
~ special performances for children d
Saturday, June s.
Frederick Mckay will present FLORENCE
Tempest in tabloid musical comedH
zone OF the Roys" al the Palace Tha-
atre next week.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-12
COULD WOMEN BELT THE EARTH
War Would Cease. Mrs. Bleakie>
Tell. daughters 81 the Revolution.

The $50 delegates to the twenty
fourth convention Of the Daughters of
the Revolution held their first business
meeting OF the present session yesterday
in the Hotel 81. George. Brooklyn. Bor-
ough President Lewis II Pounds. Mrs
Cara Rogers BIeakley. presden,-general
of In. society. Mrs. Don e Seitz, regent
of Long Island. and pr william H..
Tolman, director OF the American Mu-
scum OF safety. Manhattan, addressed
the delegates, In plea for peace among
nations Mrs Blcakley said
at is idle to presume that we can do
much toward the settlement OF this
great war, for there is nothing much left
except TO check the armament OF the
nations The war IL forcing civilization
backward. while the whole world is call
ing for peace II the women of the
world could Join hands everywhere we
could stretch out around the world Then
We would have peace
The following committee on nomina-
tons was chosen: Mrs. Lucy Thompson
OF New York, Mrs Fannie Ludngton
Onion OF Maryland, Mrs, Elizabeth q
Goldbrook Of Massachusetts. Mrs w. ID
Scrugham OF Minnesota. Mrs Nellie
Bond Osborne OF New Jersey, Mrs Cor
della W. Raynor of New York and Mrs
Nathaniel w Keay OF Pennsylvania
The election Of ten managers for the
ensuing year will take place to-day
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-12
SHARP LEASES HOUSE.
American Amba ssRdor Gets One Of
Finest Homes In Paris.
Special Ca,r Despatch 10 THr ST,

Special Tdhle DespGfch 10 THE sUN.
PANS. May 1l.-Amhassador sharp
has leasei the residence AT - Avenue
d'Eylau. just of the Place Trocsdoro
II is about ten minutes walk from the
Chauccllery and IS IN the centre Of the
American residential quarter.
The house IL Of enormous proportions
II was built in 1900 for r. Btrtholoni.
a prominent capitalist of Italian origin
and the son ~ the constructor ~ the
Northern Railway system Of France.
The building has hfty rooms and Is
most modern In every respect. II Is
surrounded by two acres of private gar
dens and is one of the finest residences
in Paris There is large ground for
tennis and other lawn sports, The fur
uiture Is chiefly OF the eighteenth cen-
fury designs. There are many family
heirlooms and an excellent collection
Of paintings and tapestries.
ono oi the paintings j. Lawrence 3
portrait Of kCwhle the actor. There
are mauN valuable rugs. Tho house
cost 1000, ou0 francs $500 o00) Ee-
cause Of the war Ambassador Sharp
has been able 10 choose from among
numerous modern houses which other
wise would not have been on tho mar
ket The house will make one ~ the
largcs' and the only modern emha say
In Paris Ambassador sharp will take
possession on May 20
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-12
HEIRS OF ANNEKE
IN JERSEY NOW SUE
Seek 10 Gust Trinity From a
Few Million Dollars Worth
Of Property.

Harvey r. Brewer, Jacob l.. Brewer.
John A Gemherling and other residents
OF New Jersey who say they are lIneal
descendants Of Anneke jams Rogardus
began suit in the United states District
Court yesterday 20 recover from Trinity
the lower West side which was the
land and howery" ~ Annekc jams
Bogardus and her husband when wouter
van Twiler was Governor Of New
York.
II IL the contention Of Vsndervoort
H. Downes. attorney for the plain
inns, that Frau Bogardus had the prop
erty decided TO her on January 90. 1893.
has never lef, the Bogardus family.
Therefore ne holds that Trinity Church
Corporation occupies the grounds un-
lawfully.
4 number of similar suits have been
brought in various courts from time
10 time. but according to jay 4 Cand-
Ter. attorneys for Trinity Church. all
have been dropped or dismissed for lack
of evidence, So extensive was the at
tempt To interest lineal descendants vi
Anneke JAMS Bsgardus that Elmer Il
Good Buffalo lawyer. and John II
Fonda. president OF tho Union Associ a
ton Of Heirs OF Anneke Jams Boga rdus
we're indicted on the charge OF using the
mails to defraud. They were tried he
fore Judge Learned Hand In the United
States District Court and were acquitted
The JAMS farm included property
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MISS MARY NAMMACK IS
BRIDE OF JOHN N. BOYLE
Ceremony by Cardinal Farley
in the Cathedral Followed
by a Nuptial Mass.

Miss Mary Nammack. daughter of Or
Charles f.. Nammack, was married TO
John Neville Boyle of this city in the
Lady Chapel of 81. Patrick's Cathedral
yesterday morning In the presence OF a
small company of relatives and friends
The ceremony was performed by Car
dinal Farley and 1t was followed by
nuptial mass celebrated by the Rev. Ed
ward NJ Sinnott of St stephens Church.
The chancel was decorated with apple
bios, oms. lilacs and smilax,
The bride, who entered tie church
with her father, had Mrs, Joshua Tobin
of Plandome. l.. l.. as her only attend
ant. and Floyd Yates Keller was best
man The ushers were Or. Charles III
Nsmmack. brother of the bride. Or.
Walter t. Hall of Newburgt. Addison
\ Van Tine and Arthur Aigeltinger,
After the ceremony there was small
reception ma wedding breakfast at the
home OF the brides father. AZ East
Twenty-ninth street On their wedding
tourney Mr.. and Mrs Boyle will visit
California and the Canadian Rockies
They will make their home In this city