REPORT. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 31, 1908. To the Legislature of the State of New York: Pursuant to chapter 166 of the Laws of 1895, and laws amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, the Trustees of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society have the honor to present this, its thirteenth, annual report. OFFICERS, TRUSTEES AND COMMITTEES. The Officers, Trustees, and Standing Committees of the Society are as follows: Honorary President. J. PIERPONT MORGAN.......... 23 Wall street, New York. Secretary. EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL... Tribune Building, New York. Landscape Architect. Hon. SAMUEL PARSONS.......1133 Broadway, New York. 8. HON. CHARLES SPENCER FRANCIS.....Troy, N. Y. 9. HON. ROBERT LIVINGSTON FRYER...Buffalo, N. Y. 10. HENRY ELLSWORTH GREGORY. 11. ROCELLUS S. GUERNSEY... 12. FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY. 13. HON. HUGH HASTINGS.... . . . . New York. New York. New York. New York. ..New York. Oswego, N. Y. 14. SAMUEL VERPLANCK HOFFMAN. 15. HON. THOMAS P. KINGSFORD.. 16. GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, PH. D... ... New York. 17. FREDERICK STYMETZ LAMB. 18. HON. THOMAS H. LEE.... 19. HENRY M. LEIPZIGER, PH. D... 20. OGDEN P. LETCHWORTH. 21. HIRAM J. MESSENGER... 22. HON. HERMAN A. METZ.. 25. JOHN DEWITT MOWRIS.. New York. Stony Point, N. Y. .New York. Buffalo, N. Y. Hartford, Conn. New York. New York. . Staten Island, N. Y. New York. West Haverstraw, N. Y. 31. COL. HENRY WOODWARD SACKETT..... New York. 34. PROF. CHARLES DELAMATER VAIL.... Geneva, N. Y. 35. FRANK SPENCER WITHERBEE. Executive Committee. New York. GEORGE FREDERICK KUNZ, PH. D., CHAIRMAN. New York. Stony Point Reservation Committee. GORDON H. PECK, CHAIRMAN......West Haverstraw, N. Y. HENRY K. BUSH-BROWN.. HON. THOMAS H. LEE... Newburgh, N. Y. Stony Point, N. Y. FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY. THE SECRETARY .New York. Watkins Glen Reservation Committee. COL. HENRY W. SACKETT, CHAIRMAN.. PROF. L. H. BAILEY, Cornell University. JAMES B. RATHBONE.... ... PROF. CHARLES D. VAIL, Hobart College. GEORGE C. WAIT... New York. Ithaca, N. Y. Watkins, N. Y. . Elmira, N. Y. C. M. WOODWARD.. Watkins, N. Y. Letchworth Park Committee. HON. CHARLES M. DOW, CHAIRMAN......Jamestown, N. Y. PROF. L. H. BAILEY, Cornell University. HON. ROBERT L. FRYER... FRANCIS WHITING HALSEY.. HON. THOMAS P. KINGSFORD. . Ithaca, N. Y. Buffalo, N. Y. .New York. Oswego, N. Y. New York. .Buffalo, N. Y. Fort Brewerton Reservation Committee. New York. New York. Yonkers Manor Hall Committee. [This committee, as originally appointed in 1907 upon receipt of the offer of Mrs. William F. Cochran to give $50,000 for the purchase of the Manor Hall, referred to on page 36, consisted of Col. Henry W. Sackett, Chairman, Reginald P. Bolton, Henry E. Gregory, Samuel V. Hoffman, Hon. George W. Perkins, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, and those mentioned below. After the passage of the Manor Hall bill the smaller committee named below was appointed.] HON. STEPHEN H. THAYER, CHAIRMAN....Yonkers, N. Y. MISS MARY MARSHALL BUTLER... MISS HELEN R. CROES.. HAMPTON D. EWING.. COL. RALPH E. PRIME. HON. D. McN. K. STAUFFER... CHARTER. .Yonkers, N. Y Yonkers, N. Y. Yonkers, N. Y. . Yonkers, N. Y. . Yonkers, N. Y. An account of the founding of the Society by the IIon. Andrew H. Green in 1895 and its subsequent development will be found on pages sixteen to twenty-four of our Twelfth Annual Report. The Society was originally incorporated by a special act of the Legislature of the State of New York (chapter 166 of the Laws of 1895), under the title of " The Trustees of Scenic and Historic Places and Objects," which title was changed by chapter 302 of the Laws of 1898 to "The Society for the Preservation of Scenic and Historic Places and Objects," and by chapter 385 of the Laws of 1901 to "The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society." It had on January 1, 1908, a total membership of 578, an increase of 25 over the preceding year. Its charter reads as follows: The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The following persons: William H. Webb,* Samuel D. Babcock,* John M. Francis,* Andrew H. Green,* Charles A. |