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J. HORACE McFARLAND, President, Harrisburg, Pa. CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, First Vice-President, Philadelphia WILLIAM B. HOWLAND.
Treasurer, New York RICHARD B. WATROUS, Secretary, Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents: JAMES R. GARFIELD, Cleveland, Ohio
JOHN WESLEY HILL, D. D., New York W. W. HANNAN. Detroit, Mich. GEORGE W. MARSTON, San Diego, Cal. MRS. EDWARD W. BIDDLE,
Carlisle, Pa. American Civic Association MAIN OFFICE: WASHINGTON, D. C. Executive Board DR. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, New
York HENRY A. BARKER, Providence, R. I. FRANK CHAPIN BRAY, New York MISS MARY MARSHALL BUTLER, Yonkers, N. Y. DR. KENYON
L. BUTTERFIELD, Amherst, Mass. MRS. CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE, Kalamazoo, Mich. Executive Board GEORGE OTIS DRAPER, New
York FREDERICK L. FORD. Hartford. Conn. EDWARD HATCH, JR., New York J. L. HUDSON, Detroit, Mich. MRS. MELVILLE F. JOHNSTON,
Richmond, Ind. HARLAN P. KELSEY, Salem, Mass. Executive Board WARREN H. MANNING, Boston. Mass. MRS. A. E. McCREA, Chicago,
III. MRS. EDWIN F. MOULTON, Warren, Ohio JOHN NOLEN, Cambridge, Mass. GRAHAM ROMEYN TAYLOR, Chicago, III. BRAINARD H.
WARNER, Washington, D. C. OFFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 913-914 UNION TRUST BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. August 29, 1910.
Dr. William Frederic Bade, Vice-President, Society for the Preservation of National Parks, Mills Building, San Francisco,
Cal. Dear Dr. Bade: I am glad to receive your letter even though it comes from far away California and tells me that I
can not hope to see you again in the near future unless, of course you happen to be coming east again. I have read with interest
your late editorial in the Independent which I did not see in the original publication and I note that you have felt called
upon to reprint the letters written by Mr. Pinchot some years ago. I imagine that it has been due to these letters that Mr.
Pinchot has been somewhat noncommittal, as you know he has from your correspondence with Mr. McFarland, on the subject of
the conservation of the beautiful. How fine it would be if with all his splendid enthusiasm he might throw himself into the
recognition of this kind of conservation as some of the rest of us have been doing. I certainly word? wish that you might
be at the St. Paul meeting. I shall be there the first two days but those are to be so taken up with the addresses of President
Taft and Mr. Roosevelt that I imagine there will not be much detail business. We are hoping, however, that some formal recog-
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