Evening star., 1925-05-14
SKYLAND IS READY
FOR PARK EXPERTS.
National Conference to Be
Held in Heart of Proposed
Virginia Reserve.

SkYLAND, SHENANDOAH Ma
TlONAL PARK, Va, May 1.-THE
program for the fifth national con.
ference on State parks, which is to
convene at Skyland May %, was an
nounced here today and indicates that
this meeting will be the most impor-
tant in the history of the conference.
Three hundred persons. including
Secretary of the Interior Work, Gov.
l.. Lee Trinkle. John Barton Payne,
stephen T. Mather, director of the
National Park Service: Gilbert H.
Grosvenor, president of the National
Geographic Society, and leaders in
virtually every branch of outdoor rec
reation organizations, have accepted
invitations to attend, and reserved
quarters here for the duration of the
conference.
Although the last conference was
held at Gettysburg, and it was gen.
orally accepted that this year was
the Vests turn" for the meeting,
perhaps the most important in the
country next to the Presidents con-
ference on outdoor recreation, Sky
land was selected for the sessions this
year because of its situation in the
very heart of the area that has been
recommended as the logical site for
the East's first great national park.
Will Be Object Lesson.
The fifth conference on State parks
will remain in session from May 25 to
May %, inclusive, and during that
period the host of nationally promi-
nent guests will not only discuss mat
ters of pressing moment to the project
for creating State park every hun
dred miles" but they will be taken on
tour of this untouched natural Won
derland, one of the few large areas in
the East living on in its Drimordial
Wildness, which is confidently expect
ed to be formally created the Shenan-
doaf National Park when Congress
meets again next Winter
Having already been recommended
to Congress by Secretary Works Off.
cial committee as 1.-The outstanding
site in the East it is now being sur
Veyed TO determine the exact expense
the Government would have to bear
to add it to the country's gallery of
national reservations so that Con-
Eress may be in position to pass the
necessary legislation early in the next
session. 1t was to furnish the park
experts of the country with an ad-
vance view of the site that Skyland
was selected for this conference.
John Barton Payne, chairman of the
conference, will preside at the opening
session, Monday two weeks, and Gov.
Irinkle will welcome the prominent
delegates in the name of Virginia
Other speakers at the initial meeting
will be Representative r. Walton
Moore, Stephen t. Mather and DR.
John j. Tigert, United States COM
missioner of educatoin. Appointment
of committees will occupy the re-
mainder of the morning.
Work to O.,..ie Plan.
Secretary Wo"h will address the
afternoon Se,slon on Proposed Ma
tional Pa t., in the Appalachians."
il" Ill b. followed by DIR. Grosvenor
oi ,he National Geographic Society,
vh :" i'll speak on THE Value of
,...-5 to the People" E. n. Smith of
the American Automobile Association
and Thomas Liggett of the Cook For
est Association of Pennsylvania will
complete the list of speakers for
Monday.
Tuesday morning Chauncey J. Ham
lin, chairman of the National Confer
ence on Outdoor Recreation, will pre-
side. Speakers will include DR.. l.. L.
Lumsden of the United States Public
Health Service, Albert NJ. Turner of
Connecticut, James L. Greenleaf,
president of the American Society of
Landscape Architects: Harlan P. Kel-