New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-10
Constitution Makers Vote
for Conservation, with
All Safeguards.
DEFEAT PROPOSALS
w. TO OPEN FORESTS
Deserves Under New Body
wv :, Nine Unpaid Men, APP
oointed by Governor.
~, Telegraph to The T1ounel

albany. Avs. e.-Ihe Iumoei inter-
~ their hopes Of swinging the
''@ = ~ ~, states forest preserves fade
~ !, the Constitutional Convention
ss'! :. After an all day de-
''I' ~. article relative to the eOA-
''" .;or Of natural resources was
'ef's ..s With all the safeguards con-
a'0p' s :, the present constitution.
an, nv scb, Of the lumbe- men was led
~ 800 NJ Angel, Of Glens Falls
N us J. Meigs, Of Upper Lake.
an. to,mer in. duced an amendment
in' - ,be Conservation Department
70 ;.A+ TO provide for the sale and
'n' ~, Of timber in the forest pre-,
REM rem. 'tha. is nature all trimen'ar
y accordance with the prin''P'e' VI
.ri.ptife forestry. ".
seIe"'' - other amendment by Mr..
III % hermit the state to use land
" =. forest preserve for highway pur-
:. ....,, to lease parts Of 1t for camp
',,.. and to permit the Conservation
~, 10 sell lands outside OF the
,sirondack and Catskill parks except
.rd about Lake George, were beaten
,,s after another.
a.. i important 20 observe who IS
.,;.d the measure" shouted Louis
v.r.bsu one Of the forest preserve
I,m,ioDs "They were introduced by
y, angell. who is counsel for one OF
=. Greatest syndicates of land owners
IA lumbernen in the state. and sec
,,dss bv Mr.. Meigs, president Of the
c.r,, Clara Lumber Company"
No Middle Course.
W Marshall declared that without
II. forest preserve the waterways ano
=. agricultural lands of the state
v,,s doomed. adding: There is no
-,35ls course. We must not merely
,,.,erve the lands we have. but ada
"a ,bem. in order that the Hudson
p;vsr shall not run dry and the Mo-
i,vk become even drier than II IS.
IN has been suggested that win
he term mature timber is meant trees
rbieb are diseased. I'm informed oy
,bs Dean of the College o. Forestry
80, pnder such term eighty. per
..-t NJ ali the trees in the Adlron-
S,,ts could be cut down. What WouIo
10 IN after YOU have adopted a pro
~.jo, 81 this character? Nothing put
LoUGng wilderness not wilderness
n -rees, wild forest trees put 0!
iumps. enough TO make ones heaf'
SEX 10 behold them" go, -.
Y Leroy Austin, Of CatskliI' VINO
z,s appointed Forest, Fish and Gsme
Commissioner by Governor Hughes' 1oI-
owing the resignation OF james .;
Wbipple. said that statistics showed
appalling results from detorestauon III
this state.
aWe had always thought there were
u OOO OOO GOO feet Of timber in the
,,a,s said Nr. Austin, but recent
,-vestigation shows there are only
900 600 900 feet. not enough to supply
he state thirteen months If every
sick OF timber were cut. Sixty years
sro the hudson River was fresh to
Peekskil. but to-day it is brackish at
TivoH. ffty-seven miles above. This
vas brought about by the decrease OF
he rivers flow. due TO deforestaton.'
Tilt Between Delegates.
Ex.Commissioner Whipple declared
hat the axe OF the lumberman should
never be permitted 10 swing in the
forest preserve. He got into a lively
N, with Patrick J. Tierney, who has
been an attorney for lumber companies.
NJ. Tierney told Mr.. Whipple that the
lumber companies took bette. care Of
The forests than the Conservation Com
mission did, and that opposition to the
Angel amendments came from "ignor-
snee and prejudice"
As finally adopted the conservation