State of New York, Church Temperance Society, Columbia University, City Club, Executive Committee of General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Equitable Life Assurance Society, Grolier Club, International Mercantile Marine Company, Lying-In Hospital, Metropolitan Club, Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. P. Morgan & Company, New England Society, New York Clearing House Association, New York Historical Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York Public Library, New York Stock Exchange, New York Yacht Club, New York Zoological Society, Pilgrims of the United States, Scions. of Colonial Cavaliers, Southern Railway Company, School of Applied Design for Women, Trinity College, Union Club, Union League Club, Union Society of the Civil Wars, and United States Steel Corporation.

The delegates from this Society were Dr. George Frederick Kunz, President; Col. Henry W. Sackett, First Vice President; Messrs. J. Adams Brown, Henry E. Gregory and Albert Ulmann, also of the Board of Trustees; and Gen. James Grant Wilson, Honorary Member of the Society.

The pall-bearers were Hon. Robert Bacon, Mr. George F. Baker, Mr. George Sullivan Bowdoin, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Hon. Elbert H. Gary, Hon. Robert W. de Forest, Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard, Hon. Seth Low, Dr. James W. Markoe, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sc. D., LL. D., Mr. Morton S. Paton and Hon. Elihu Root.

The officiating clergymen were Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D. D., Bishop of Massachusetts; Rt. Rev. Chauncey D. Brewster, D. D., Bishop of Connecticut; Rt. Rev. David H. Greer, D. D., Bishop of New York; Rev. Karl Reiland, D. D., Rector of St. George's Church; Rev. John F. Hamaker, Rev. John F. Scott, and Rev. Thomas E. Calvert.

The interment took place on Monday afternoon in the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.

TITANIC DISASTER.

The Titanic disaster, in which Messrs. Millet, Astor and Straus and many others lost their lives, requires brief mention here, both

because of the loss which it caused to this Society and because it was one of the greatest marine disasters in history.

The Titanic was a new ship of the White Star Line. She was 88212 feet long, 9212 feet beam and 64 feet depth of hold. She was on her maiden trip from Liverpool to New York and had on board 1,662 men, 439 women and 105 children a total of 2,206 souls, including the crew. On Sunday night, April 14, 1912, about 10:30 o'clock, when in north latitude 41° 46′ and west longitude 50° 14' and while proceeding at full speed, she struck an iceberg. She began to call for help by wireless telegraph and to burn signals of distress. The Leyland Line steamship Californian saw the signals and could have reached the Titanic in time to save all (according to the official reports of both the British Board of Trade and the Committee of the United States Senate), but paid no attention to them and continued on her way. At 2:20 a. m., on Monday, April 15, the Titanic sank. Meanwhile she had launched her small boats, and at daybreak, the Cunard Line steamship Carpathia, which had received the wireless call for help, appeared upon the scene and picked up 703 survivors, classified as follows:

Those who perished numbered 1,503, classified as follows:

the visible evidences that are an essential aid to preserve them for coming generations are fast disappearing.

Turning to more peaceful scenes, we find within the boundaries of the State a remarkably varied topography, comprehending landscapes of world-wide celebrity, as well as localities of deep interest and of peculiar beauty.

"There readily recur the catalogue of its majestic rivers and its incomparable lake areas, its mountain surfaces, its unparalleled water spectacles, its picturesque islands, and its extensive ocean shores alternating with beetling cliffs, beaches where the billows rise and sink, and shifting dunes whirled about with every gust of rugged winds.

"Areas of primitive natural beauty are being seized upon for private uses and for profitable enterprises that are not unlikely to exclude the public from their enjoyment, and especially is this the case in the vicinity of the large cities.

"It would seem a fitting time that conservative methods be devised by means of which objects of historic value, localities where patriotic struggles have taken place, where peculiar attraetive natural scenery obtains, or made interesting by association. with illustrious personages, should be rescued from the grasp of private speculation and preserved for public enjoyment, subject only to such restrictions as make for the public pleasure.

The State has already entered upon a somewhat similar policy in the acquirement of the Niagara Reservation and the Adirondack forests.

"To this end I would respectfully suggest a continuing organization of substantial, respected, and well-known citizens, selected without reference to political predilections, upon whom should be conferred adequate power and authority

"1. To acquire, hold, maintain, improve, and administer historic places and objects and picturesque areas of natural scenery. "2. To receive by devise or other conveyance such places, areas, and objects in fee, or upon such trusts as may be agreed upon by the donors and the Association.

"3. To accept, hold, and administer such lands and other property as may from time to time be entrusted to its care by the State.

"4. To act, jointly or otherwise, with such persons as may be appointed by other States for the attainment of like purposes or objects for which this Association was designed, whenever those purposes and objects can only be secured by the joint action of two States, or when the subject of such action lies within the jurisdiction of two States.

"5. From time to time to report to the Legislature, by bill or otherwise, such recommendations and suggestions as are pertinent to the objects of the Association.

"All property acquired otherwise than from the State to be the property of the Association, but no dividend to be made or any pecuniary profit to accrue to its members. The title and ownership of whatever property belonging to the State or hereafter acquired by the moneys of the State, that comes under the management of the Association, to remain forever the property of the State and subject to the control of the Legislature.

"It not infrequently occurs that an individual or a number of persons desire to establish a memorial of a friend or a relative or of some especially worthy example or event. What more fitting than the conveyance to an organization especially created to take charge of it, of some area of land or common of striking characteristics for public use and enjoyment, accompanied with sufficient pecuniary means to insure its proper care?"

At that time, earnest efforts were being made to save the Palisades of the Hudson from mutilation by quarrymen - efforts which, with our aid, were crowned with success a few years later. Here and there, in the State and the country at large, stood buildings closely associated with the history of the Nation, neglected and falling into decay. Of the extraordinary natural landscape features and prehistoric relics in our natural domain, only six — the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas (1832), the Yellowstone National Park (1872), the Sequoia National Park (1890), the General Grant National Park (1890), the Yosemite National Park (1890), and the Casa Grande Ruin (1892)—had been taken under the special protection of the Federal Government.* This neglect was not due to lack of sentiment in regard to these things but rather to the lack of organized help and leadership;; for events have since proved that legislators have been quick to appreciate the value of landmark and landscape conservation, and men and women of means have given most generously of their private resources to promote these desirable ends. There were,

to be sure, many historical societies, some of venerable age, but they did not quite meet the situation with respect to the preservation of natural scenery and landmarks, and owing to the intimate

* There are now 42 National Parks and National Monuments for the preservation of scenery and landmarks, not counting National Forests and National Cemeteries.

relation existing between topography and history* it was unavoi able that the two ideas should be united.

The Society was therefore incorporated along the lines su gested by Mr. Green, and was the first of its kind, so far as w are aware, in the United States. On account of its unique pos tion and the opportunities of the situation outside of the State a well as inside, it became inevitable that it should extend the scop of its view and influence to other parts of the Nation, and thi enlargement of its field was authorized by the Legislature when in 1901, it changed the title of the Society to its present form and extended its authority to "acquire by purchase, gift, grant devise, or bequest, historic objects or memorable or picturesque places in the State or elsewhere in the United States," etc.

To show that the Society manifests its faith by its works and teaches by its example as well as by precept, it may be mentioned in passing that during the past twelve years men and women wh are or were members of the Society have made personal gifts of money or property aggregating in value more than $3,500,000 for public parks, statues, tables, and the preservation and restoration of historic buildings. Part of this largesse has been given through the Society, but all has been given to the public and is the outward evidence of the spirit which the Society represents.

The response which public-spirited legislators have made to our overtures is equally gratifying, and is reflected in the creation of seven or eight State parks and the appropriation of about $100,000 for such purposes. The Society has been a minor influence in helping to secure appropriations amounting to $2,950,000 more for similar objects. It was one of the two leading advocates for the establishment of one of the New York City parks, which was created at a cost of $235,000; and it has secured a Federal appropriation of $7,500 for similar purposes.

It is impossible to measure the extent of the Society's influence, for much of it is indirect, and impulses which it stimulates often express themselves in accomplishments which are distant from their origin and under auspices entirely disassociated from us.

* This relation between the picturesque and the historic is explained at length in the introduction to our book entitled "Philipse Manor Hall."