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Appalachian National Park Association Newspaper Clippings, 1899-1902

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  • -Thursday-THE ASHEVILLE GAZE1 ," —APRIL 10, 1902. anhHTo' mam moody CHAIRMAN WADSWORTH DIRECTS HIM TO SUBMIT THE ! PARK BILL REPORT. | This Honor Conies to Him as Champion of Forest Reserve Bill on House Side. INAUGURATION DATE MAY BE. CHANGED NATIONAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO DISCUSS CHANGE OF DATE DECIDES UPON LAST THURSDAY IN APRIL AS BEST ISTITUTE FOR MARCH 4. Special to the Gazette. Washington, April 9.—Chairman Wadsworth of the house committee on agriculture conferred a distinguished honor on Congressman Moody today when he requested and1 ordered that Major Moody submit to congress tho favorialble report of the committee on the Appalachian park bill. Judge Wads- worth y from the city when the committee voted to report the park bill favorably, hut be had directed that his vole be recorded im favor of the meas- (ure. It was then Major IMoody moved that Chairman Wadsworth should re- ' pint the bill on his return. In consideration of this courtesy, and the fact 'that Major Moody has been the "ding champion of the reserve project mi the house side, Judge Wadsworth thinks that the maijor should have the honor of formally presenting the measure to congress. Major Moody has been busily at work 11 day formulating the report which le expects to present to the house on Friday. Presidential inaugurations probalbly will be held the last Thursday in. April hereafiter. At the meeting yesterday afternoon of the national committee, appointed by the commissioner of the district of Columbia, to discuss a. change in the time of inaugurations, this date was selected as the best substitute for the present one, March 4. The national committee consists of the 'governors of forty-three states and fifteen residents of the District of Columbia, lit was named by the commissioners of the District, at the sugg< of a committee of cltizems from all parts of the United States, which favored a change in the date of inauguraiti'ons. Gov. Aycock was represented at the meeting yesterday by his chief of staff, Col. Geo. L. Morton. The governor is quoted tas saying: "I am in full sym- ipathy with this movement to change the date of inaugurations." Mr. C. P. Smoot of North Carolina was here today purchasing tents fur the shelter of the convicts that will lie used to construct a turn-pike road from Wilkesboro to Jefferson. Mr. Srnoot says the road means much to the people benefitted. I Mr. Frank Linney, a messenger to he committee on patents, has returned from his home in Taylorsville, where he I was called to attend the bedside of his sick child, a boy of eighteen months, who passed over the river of death. J Col. F. A. Lincoln1, formerly proprietor of the Swanmanoa hotel at Asheville was here a few days this week, and last night left for Waynesville, where he will hereafiter reside. Ool. Lincoln has large timber interests in that section. iMr. Geo. H. Buekroan has been recommended by SenaUs*- Pritehard ljr postmaster at Washington, N. C. The Appalachian Park. 1 THE Atlanta Constitution has an editorial rehearsing the well known and important arguments in favor of the Appalachian Park and calling on "southern senators and entatives" to support the meas- ! ure. The Constitution does not, how- | cvi-i-, refer in the remotest way to the | splendid work done by the one rermbli- | can senator from the south and his re- i publican colleagues in the house, to i whom ibelong the whole credit of the j fact that the measure has been favorably reported by the committees and | will without doubt be favorably acted , tipon by congress at an early date. The ; i 'onstitution, after noting that the meas- , ure has received the approval of the ' committees to both branches of con- ! gress, says, ■ \ "And now it would seem, nothing remains of the preliminaries other than ; fur our southern senators and congress- i men to get 'behind the measure and j push it through. "It Is sincerely to be hoped that congress will not delay longer the enactment of the bill to buy and set apart for preservation, recreation and fruitful service to men and lesser tribes of creatures the superb domain in nura. tlnn. We urge the measure as one not wholly sentimental. It involves most practical issues. and we hope our southern members of congress will unite their voices and In- fluence to bring this laudable and beneficent project to full fruition." Senator Pritehard "got behind the measure" in the beginning and to him will belong the credit of pushing it. through, whatever else other southern senators and representatives may or may not do now that it is at the point I where its passage seems certain. lit j is a spirit which omits to give honor where honor is due, and this is not by any means the only example of such pettiness shown by the press toward our republics i democratic in senator. THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. THURSDAY, APillL 24, 1902. elf Sa.ve the Forests ^ ■i IXe, r 1 of 'I For Posterity From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. A bill has been, favorably reported in Congress authorizing the purchase of 4,000,000 acres of land in. the southern Appalachians for a national park or reserve. The reserve will lie partly In the States of Virginia. West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, and will embrace some of the most picturesque scenery of the Appalachian regions. Few people whose pleasure it has been to travel through the Appalachians will be disposed to oppose this proposed purchase. It would be a national shame to leave the splendid Appalachian forest to the woo Iman's and to lose to posterity the most magnificent playground on the continent We have had a land always so full the wild beauty of the great i, stretches, broad rivers and towering mountains that we have been forgetfu that the time must some d when the combination of the three that jives the indescribable panorama the Southern Appalachians will b longer possible, unless something is dune to stop the destruction of the forests. If Congress does not step in, the grandchildren of this generation would have nowhere a splendid bit of the face of nature left undesecrated by the hand of man. If you have ever seen the sunrises and sunsets of the Ai achlans, the silver threads of the streams wir.ding afar through the green cf the valleys and the crimson and gold of autumn come upon the miles on mi.es of majestic forests that sweep up to the limit of the spruce upon the higher peaks, you will understand how the grandchildren of this' generation would have a right to resent the prodigal indifference that permitted them ti> 'be robbed of so priceless a heritage. WL What shall it profit this gener.- to build institutions for the children of the next and rob them, of their playgrounds? By the time three quarters of this century is gone, the States jacent to this Appalachian region will be populous commonwealths full of cities teeming with millions of people and bumming with industry. The strides cf science, and the genius of invention, by cheapening the cost of transportation, and the increment of wealth that will come in increasing ratio to all our people, from the development of our marvelous resources, vill make the yearly outing a pleasure (vithin the means of a larger and larger percentage of the population, as the terrific pace of our civilization will make such an outing more and more necessary. Are .we to leave the millions who shall come after us nothing better than to journey up and look at the bare bones of the mountains that are clothed for us in the grandeur of forests that once destroyed cannot be replaced? Surely not. No compensation could be made for such a loss; no atonement for such a sin against posterity. ^L We trust that the Appalachian re- '. serve bill will be passed by Congress ' at this session. The longer it is delayed the greater will be the chance that Shrewd speculators will buy up these lands, now so cheap, or that lun men will destroy some of the fiic the forests. h
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