Identifier: sierraclubbullet6108sier (find matches)
Title: Sierra Club bulletin
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sierra Club
Subjects: Sierra Club Outdoor life Environmental protection Conservation of natural resources
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Sierra Club
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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e for a people too slowof perception. Your kind suggestion of a change of name is not one that Ican accept. So many millions of better people have died forgottenthat to stencil ones own name on a benefaction seems to carrywith it an implication of mundane immortality, as being some-thing purchasable. I have five good, husky boys that I am trying to bring up toa knowledge of democracy and to a realizing sense of the rightsof the other fellow, doctrines which you, sir, have taughtwith more vigor and effect than any man in my time. If theseboys cannot keep the name of Kent alive, I am willing it shouldbe forgotten. I have this day sent you by mail a few photographs of MuirWoods, and trust that you will believe, before you see the realthing (which I hope will be soon), that our nation has acquiredsomething worth while. Yours truly, William Kent. The White House, Washington.My dear Mr. Kent: By George! you are right. It is enougrto do the deed and not to desire, as you say, to stencil ones
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Redzvoods. 289 own name on the benefaction. Good for you, and for the fiveboys who are to keep the name of Kent alive! I have four whoI hope will do the same thing by the name of Roosevelt. Thoseare awfully good photos. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. 290 Sierra Club Bulletin. THE MT. RITTER KNAPSACK TRIP. By Francis M. Fultz. Late in July seventy of the Sierra Club were camping-near Lake Merced, a mountain-hemmed stretch of theMerced River some ten or twelve miles beyond theYosemite and about three thousand feet higher. Theyhad hiked from the main camp at the TuolumneMeadows over snowfields lying on the ten-thousand-footpass of Vogelsang and down the canon of the cataracttorrent of McClures Fork. For all its altitude, they found the walled-in valleyaround Lake Merced was summer-land. But the summer-land was bordered by spring, for the mountain wallsstill wore their crowns of snow, from which everywheresilver streams dropped down in cascades and waterfalls.Beneath the line of sno

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