Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-01-10
GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB.
Annual Meeting Of Burlington Section
Held Monday Evening.

Held Monday Evening.
The Burlington section Of the Green
Mountain club held their annual meeting
and election of officers in Y. NJ. c. A. hall
Monday evening. The reports of the sew
eral committee we're presented. the mem
bership committee reported that the menu
bership has doubled within the last year.
giving Burlington 1870 members.
A report of the New England Trail
conference was submitted by James p.
Taylor, delegate to the conference. The
report follows:
The New England Trail conference is
an Informal organization of New England
mountain and walking clubs which are
cooperating in making New England n
pedestrians paradise through the con-
struction OF a system of connecting trails
which will reach eventually from the
Highlands Of the Hudson to Mount Kha-
tadin on the east and to Quebec on the
north. Since the Long Trail and the
trails across Vermont will form the con-
Meeting links. the heart Of the whole sys-
tenn, 1t is natural that the suggestion
should come from Vermont. Although the
,lan for such a system was described In
1914, 1t was not until late in 1916 that an
organization was effected to carry on the
work.
On Friday, December Is. 1916. there was
meeting at the rooms of the Appala-
chan club in Boston at which the men,
bers of mountain clubs in New England
discussed the feasibility of carrying out
such a scheme. The proposition met with
general enthusiastic approval and COM
mittee Of five was appointed to make ar
rangements for permanent New Eng
land Trail conference.
On Friday, March 16. 1917, this commit
tee submitted to the representatives of
the New England clubs gathered in the
rooms Of the Appalachian club a very in
formal and simple scheme Of organization
for the trail conference. This was adopt
ed and steering committee was appoint
ed to have in charge the affairs of the
conference. A committee was appointed
to cooperate with the New England
Mems association making a map Of New
Of New England trails. This was dis
tributed during the last season.
The third meeting of the trail conference
was held in Boston Friday, December IA
and Is. Four representatives Of the
Green Mountain club were present. De-
cided interest In the projects of the con-
ference was shown by representatives
from five New England States and by w.
A. WEIGH chief engineer of the Palisades
Interstate Park. There were reports of
progress from all the clubs represented.
Detailed problems involved in trail maxi
ing. the erection of shelters, the marking
of trails were discussed. The following
newspaper clipping gives the story of the
conference.
OF special interest were the addresses
of Mr.. WEIGH who described the develop
ment Of the interstate park. and of Pro-
fessor Waugh. who showed how the scenic
trail should interpret the mountain land
scape by leading the mountaineer from
one vision of beauty to another, from
picturesque notch to far-reaching view,
, through routes laid out with such skill
that the eye and mind are prepared in a
special way for each experience. For him
trail making in the mountains is the grand
and sublime in landscape-gardening.
After the report was read these Of
fcers were elected: President. Mrs. c.
p. Cowles; vice. president, Walter c.
Isham; secretary, Miss Caroline Hunt
ington: treasurer, Lucius T. Wells;
chairman outing committee. Miss Mabel
Balch: chairman entertainment commit
tee Miss Mabel Brownell; chairman
publicity committee, Mrs. Edward Read;
chairman trails and shelters commit
tee. T. S. Dean; chairman membership
committee, DR.. l.. J. Paris; auditors.
Harvey T. Rutter and C. p. Cowles.
After the election of officers the
members rendered a vote of thanks to
the retiring president. Mrs. Edward
| Read, in appreciation of her faithful
work throughout the past year.