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rAGE K1GHT (13) THE MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE: SUNDAY MARCH 10 1935 A Cable Tale By Julian Street All Picture! Courte Ntlonl Prk Bervlc. "LAKESHORE CLEAN-UP" IN ITASCA STATE PARK. REFORESTATION OPERATIONS IN ITASCA STATE PARK. JUNE 15, CABLEGRAM. FROM SIEGELMAN, PORTERHOUSE NEW YORK, TO DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, HO-TKL R1TZ, PARIS! SORRY YOUR ACCOUNT WILL NOT STAND IT.

SIEGELMAN, PORTERHOUSE CO. JUNE 16, CABLEGRAM FROM DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER. PARIS. TO DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, NEW YORK. CAN YOU CONVENIENT.

LY BOLSTER MY BROKERAGE ACCOUNT VIOLET BUY. ING CLOTHES. JUNIOR. JUNE CABLEGRAM ROM DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER. NEW YORK FULLHAM CUL- LENDER PARIS.

SORRY HAVING HARD TIME BOLSTERING OWN ACCOUNT TRY YOUR ST1LL PAYING HER Moi-xir thousa -DAD. JUNE 17, CABLEGRAM UIHA CULLENDER, PARIS, TO MRS. RODERICK PURDY THOUSAND D0 I ROM BOTH ANSWER R1TZ. -DWIGHT JUNIOR. JUNE 20.

CABLEGRAM nffM BWIGHT FULLHAM MRS. PURDY TATNEI I vn YOU JUNE ILL. ANSWEK ARE YOU DWIGHT JUNIOR. iJDfvf' 22, "CABLEGRAM ROM MRS. RODERICK PURDY TATNELL m' CCC Program Spurs Work in State Forest Parks Beauty Spots Fitted Out for Recreation at No Cost to Minnesota t'f I 1 This it the eighth in a teriee of stories dealing with the of the CCC in Minnesota-, I By HARRY REMINGTON.

Tribune Staff Writer. UNTIL emergency conservation work began, the improvement, development and maintenance of state parks in Minnesota was largely a matter of hit or miss. Administration of state parks was left to the division of forestry, already busy with a multiplicity of other duties. Public consideration for the development and protection of Minnesota's manifold outdoor attractions was allowed to lag. Even after the creation of a state department of conservation the legislature neglected to provide adequate appropriation for a definite state park administrative set-up.

Minnesota was in a rather awkward position in 1933 when the United States national park service was asked, by conservation officials and sportsmen's organizations, to establish state park ECW camps in Minnesota. The Minnesota department of conservation wat on the defensive. For it was apparent the state had failed to manifest enough interest in its parks to exercise a careful general supervision over them. The majority of the 33 parks in the state were being maintained, in makeshift fashion, by forest rangers in their spare time, or else by interested local organizations. Finally the national park service, a bureau of the department of the interior, consented to employ on its payroll a trained director of state parks.

The position of supervisor of Minnesota state parks went to Harold W. Lathrop, formerly associated with the Minneapolis park board and a park engineer of considerable technical and practical experience. CLEARING OUT THE DEADHEADS. Re-moving deadhead logs from the tource of the Mitsisiippi river was one of the first projects of the state park ECW camp near Lake Itasca. JUNE 5, SOCIETY NOTE FROM A NEW YORK NEWSPAPER.

MRS, Violet Hickey Jamie-Bon Boltwood di Forelli McCoon, formerly of this city but for several years past a resident of Reno, daughter of Mr. Dalham Backwater Hickey of New York and thi Countess Igor Peltz-Zadik of Cannes, France, was married yesterday to Mr. Uwight Full-ham Cullender, of 777 14 Park avenue, son of Mr. Dwight Fullham Cullender of Newport, R. and Mrs.

Roderick Purdy Tatnell of Santa Barbara, Calif. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Phoebus Wyn koop, head of the Cult Eclectic, and only relatives were present. The bride, a descendant of the Kev. Abijah Hickey, famous in connection with witch burnings at Salem, was first married in 1927 to Mr.

Richardson Oglethorpe Jamieson of Virginia; in 1928 she married Major Percival de Greux Boltwood of the Royal Shetland guards; in 1929, Prince Antoine Barolo di Fiorelli of Rome, and in 1931, Mr. Joshua Bunce McCoon of Pittsburgh, whom she divorced last year. The groom is also descended from colonial families. His first wife was the former Miss Millicent van Rennssllaaer Pinkus. Later he married Miss Freddie O'Doyle, then known on Broadway as the "It's Raining" Girl.

They were divorced last April. JUNE 6, SOCIETY NOTE, FROM A NEW YORK NEWSPAPER. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Fullham Cullender, who were married last Thursday, are sailing today for Europe aboard the lie dc France.

Mrs. Cullender is the former Mrs. Violet Hickey Jamieson Boltwood di Fiorelli McCoon. Mr. and Mrs.

Cullender will spend their honeymoon in Paris and at Cannes where they will visit Mrs. Cul-lender'a mother, the Countess Igor Peltz-Zadik. They plan to return in six weeks. JUNE 7, WIRELESS TO MRS. DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, JR.

S. S. ILE DE FRANCE. GERALD AND I THRILLED AT NEWS YOUR MARRIAGE EAGER TO MEET YOUR HUSBAND CAN YOU COMB TO US AT THE STRAND FOR HOUSKPARTY FIRST WEEKEND AFTER YOUR RETURN. MIMI SLOATE.

JUNE TO MRS. GERALD SLOATE, THE STRAND, PENTATEUCH, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. THANKS MIMI DARLING DWIGHT AM) I DELIGHTED TO ACCEPT WEEK-END JULY 20 AM DIVINELY HAPPY. -VIOLET CULLENDER.

june 14, i.b:tter from mrs. dwight fullham cullender, paris, to the countess igor peltz-zadik, CANNES. Dearest Mumsy: Here we are after a lovely voyage and I have already got a lot of clothes started. Dwight has charming taste and I know you will like my new wardrobe. In fact it is quite the nicest of all my trousseaux, in spite of the fact that the rate of exchange is so unfavorable.

I was so delighted, dearest Mumsy, to receive your letter just before sailing, saying you are getting rid of Igor at last. How you have stood the woolly creature so long I cannot imagine. But look out about Rumanian divorces. They may not hold in the United States, and I'd hate to have Igor pouncing down on us soma day claiming a big chunk of your estate. Needless to say, darling, I hope it will be a long, long time befor your property becomes an estate, but of course that day must ultimately come to one and all, and it is just as well to look ahead and have things watertight.

The smart thing for you to do, Mumsy dear, would be to resume your American citizenship and keep a technical residence in Reno, as I do. All you have to do is leave an old suitcase there. I've been a resident of Reno ever sinoe I divorced Boltwood, and it has saved me endless time and trouble. But we can talk it all over when Dwight and I come to Cannes about the end of the month, and you have no Idea how nica it will seem to be seeing you without that tedious, stupid Igor always hanging about. Now that you're getting rid of him I can tell you frankly that I hava always thought it was he who got away with your big ruby ring and my diamond and emerald bracelet.

Otherwise where did he get the money to pay for his speed boat? The insurance company settled for my bracelet, so it really didn't matter to me except that it's such a bother to have to lock things up, Dwight isn't as well off as I thought he was. He has to pay two alimonies and business isn't very good just now. But your little girl is the same incurable optimist she always was, and she never gives up the hope of ultimately finding happiness, I shall be interested to know what you think of Dwight. All men have their faults, I suppose, but so far he seems very nice. Your affectionate daughter, VIOLET.

JUNE 15, CABLEGRAM FROM DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, PARIS, TO SIEGELMAN. PORTERHOUSE WALL STREET. NEW YORK. SELL SHORT ONE THOUSAND SHARES CONSOLIDATED FRUIT FOR MY ACCOUNT. DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, JE.

torical pageants, as shelters by picnickers and visitors. Camden state park, in southwestern Minnesota, is a 450-acre tract recently acquired and dedicated as a scenic park and recreational area. An ECW camp established there last August has got well started on a definite plan of improvement, which calls for extensive reforestation, picnic shelters, a refectory building, a bath house for swimmers and two complete water systems. The total cost of improvements in these nine state parks has been about $1,500,000. Of that, considerably more than $1,000,000 has been spent for wages of the CCC enrollees who performed the work.

They have laid the foundation, and a really impressive foundation, for a great system of scenic and recreational parks in the state. They have done more than that, in the opinion of Grover M. Conzet, state for-ester, whose division still is nominally in charge of state parks. "These improvements," he "have thrown upon the state the responsibility of maintaining and operating the parks for the use and enjoyment of the public, have arrived at the cross-roads in our state park policy. Our attitude of permftting parks to drift without providing funds for their improvement and supervision must be changed to an attitude of interest and intensive supervision.

"It has become increasingly apparent in recent years that our state parks are not meeting the recreational needs of all of the people, a vast majority of whom are not getting the proper outdoor recreation. Many of our parks even lark a supply of pure drinking water and proper sanitation. "Those of our present parks which have received some degree of development are frequented in the main by families of comfortable means. In none of our parks have facilities been provided for mass play or adequate areas set aside for group camping on a large scale. The problem confronting the department of conservation in planning for the future is to extend facilities to the under-privileged as well as to those of more comfortable means so that our parks maintained at public expense can truly be used by all of the people." (Continned Monday.) BARBARA, CALIF Lf.NI)r.R, piPi vfri IF BROKE WHY WTZ.

MOTHER. JUNE 28, PICTURE POSTCARD FROM DWIGHT fLLLHAM CULLENDER JR -ftKfr TO MRS. RODERICZ, PURDY TATNELL, SANTA BARBARA, Dear Mother-Answering cable, topped at the Rita threegk force of habit. LWt f0rgt that it was yo whe first brought me here when jo jere establtshing a p.rii resi-oenct before divorcing Did. Violet has stopped here on three of her honeymoons, and by an odd coincidence they gave us the same suit I cupied with Millie on or wed- ding trip.

It mada me quite at home. Considering what Da4 pays'' vou it seems to me you might have loosened up. Haen't Tat- nell any money! If not, what has he got? i Yr. aff. son, DWIGHT.

P. S. marks our bedroom window. We gave up the sit after getting your lousy cable. D.

JUNE 2. TELEGRAK FROM MRS. DvTlGJIT FULLHAM CULLENDER, JJL. PARIS, TO THE COUNTIS. IGOR PELTZ-ZADIK.

CANNES. DWIGHT AND I ARRIVIH, FRIDAY MORNING LOVE. VIOLEf JULY 10. FROM MRS. DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, CANNES, TOMRS.

GERALD' SIX) ATE, THE STRAND, PENTATEUCH, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. HOPE YOU MADE ELABORATE PLANA FOR WEEK.END OF TWENTIETH. VIOLET CULLENDEJL JULY 10, "CABLEGRAM" FROM MRS, GERALD SLOATE. THE STRAND, PENTATEUCH, LONG ISLAND, TO MRS.

DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER. CANNES. ALL THE OLD GANG COMING FOR WEEK-END TWENTIETH DON'T DISAPPOINT" US. -MIMI SLOATE. JULY 11, "CABLEGRAM1.

FROM MRS. DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, PARIS, TO MRS. GERALD, SLOATE, THJfl STRAND, PENTATEUCH, LONG ISLAND, N. Y. SAILING TOMORROW WILL' BE THERE PARTICULARS LATER.

VIOLET CULLENDER. JULY nTwiRELESS. FROM MRS. DWIGHT FULLHAM CULLENDER, JR-S. S.

BREMEN, TO HEN- DRICK P. BELCHER, ATTOR- NEY, ELKUS BUILDING, RENO. NEVADA. KINDLY ARRANGE MY IMMEDIATE DIVORCE FROM DWIGHT FULLHAM CUL-" LENDER, JR, WITH TO RESUME TITLE PRINCESS BAROLO DI FIORELLI STOP GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE MENTAL CRUELTY STOP HUSBAND PERSISTENTLY LEAVES CAP OFF TOOTH PASTE TUBE IN SPITE OF MY REPEATED -PROTESTS. -VIOLET HICKEY proved" in the sense that a Coney Island is improved.

They merely are being equipped with the facilities they have lacked for years. Pure drinking water and proper sanitation are being provided. Camping grounds are being cleared. Shelter cabins, foot and horse bridges, roads and trails are being built. Unsightly areas are being landscaped with due regard for the preservation of natural beauty and shelter for bird and animal life.

Scraggly growths of underbrush are being removed from lakeshores. River and creek channels are being cleaned and straightened. Without cost to the state. Improvements aggregating thousands of dollars have been added to state parks by the civilian conservation corps since April, 1933. All of them were designed to add to and enrich the manifold attractions which Minnesota possesses in such abundance as a summer playground.

The first CCC state park camps 'were established and set to work in June, 1933. Since then they have completed a variety of tasks. They have built 21 miles of telephone lines; constructed 23 miles of fire breaks in wooded sections; reduced fire hazards over 2,075 acres; cleaned off dead and down timber along 30 miles of highway and 56 miles of park trails; constructed 1 fire lookout house and one lookout tower; spent 4,690 man-days fighting forest fires; cleaned up acres of land within state parks; improved the forest stand over 1,664 acres; constructed 18 miles of truck trails and 5.5 miles of minor truck trails, 9.3 miles of bridal paths and 56.5 miles of foot paths. They have cleared 163 acres of public campgrounds, provided many new wells and new water systems and hundreds of such facilities as picnic tables, fireplaces and rustic benches and seats, all harmonizing with park surroundings. They have built numerous latrines and waste disposal conveniences, constructed 24 such miscellaneous structures as cabins, garages, picnic "flowed unvexed" to the sea.

The project has created a view of grand, unparalleled splendor at the source of the Mississippi. Through the efforts of the CCC, Itasca, the "jewel of the state park system" will be able next summer to accommodate thousands of additional visitors, no matter what their means. They will find good roads, an abundance of well-equipped camping grounds, handy water supply and sanitation facilities. Everything that has been done has been done in the interest of mass recreation. By the time the 1935 tourist season opens, Scenic state park, 1,600 acres of r611ing forest land southeast of Bigfork, also will be well equipped to provide camp ground in a setting of beauty and grandeur.

It is contemplated here to leave the CCC camp buildings on the ground for possible use in years to come as a camp for underprivileged children, The improvement program at Scenic park is further advanced than in any other park in the state. PRUCE CREEK, the most northerly ECW state park development project, is des ignated primarily as a wayside scenic park. Trails have been constructed along the rugged gorge of the Cascade river in order that passing tourists may view the beauty and magnitude of this virgin forest area along the north shore of Lake Superior. The CCC camp barracks here also may be left on the ground as tourist cabins, operated by tha stale highway department, which planned the Spruce Creek development. In a setting of native, rapidly maturing second growth tim ber lies Gooseberry Falls state park, named for the sparkling waterfalls and rapids that mark the Gooseberry river's descent into Lake Superior.

This park has been developed by the CCC as a scenic game preserve of 640 acres. Development plans rail for a tourist camp and picnic area along the shore of Lake Superior for the use of short stop visitors. An ECW camp has been located here since May, 1934, clearing trails and camp grounds, building fences, shelters and cabins. V. and trail shelters, bath houses and boat houses.

They have built 22.5 miles of decorative rustic fence and protected danger points on park roads with 760 linear feet of guard rail. They have built 10 foot, horse and vehicular bridges. A total of 28.5 acres of lake-shore have been cleaned up and 5.6 miles of streams have been improved and beautified. Thousands of square yards of roadside and trailside banks have been protected against erosion. And 574 acres of barren lands within state parks have been reforested.

To beautify surroundings of park buildings and to create vistas within the parks, landscaping has been done over 113 acres. To protect standing timber tree and plant disease control has been practised over 7.553 acres. Poison ivy and other detrimental weed growth has been eliminated over 22 acres. These are the principal accomplishments of CCC enrollees during the 806,543 man-days -thev have been at work in state parks. ITASCA PARK, largest and most famous public recreational area in the state, formed the basis of the present state park system.

With its 32,000 acres of lake and virgin forest, its renown as the place where the Mississippi river begins at Lake Itasca it has been the scene of the most extensive and most varied program of conservation work in state parks. One of the first work projects started was the restoration of the outlet of Lake Itasca, source of the Mississippi river. For all its renown the Mississippi here didn't look like a river at all. It resembled a floating swamp. Tourists saw it as merely a sluggish morass, its green surface dented with hundreds of unsightly deadhead logs, remnants of lumbering operations 30 years ago.

Under direction of R. Smith, Itasca park camp superintendent, CCC enrollees set out to restore the virgin, untouched splendor of the Mississippi's source. First they removed all deadhead logs from the channel. Then they moved about 50,000 cubic yards of earth to build up the river banks for half a mile from the lake outlet, confining the irregular channel to well-defined shore lines. Sod was placed along the banks and trees were planted.

And once more the Mississippi 4 A 'J 'A i ECW CAMP, LAKE ITASCA. Jay Cooke state park, between Carlton and Duluth, is being developed as a scenic park. Its rugged topography and natural beauty provides sightseeing of a sort found nowhere else in the state. Existing roads have been improved to enable motorists to drive easily to ail points of interest. Several miles of bridal paths and foot trails also have been built.

Newest of the state park ECW camps is that along the St. Croix river valley, about 25 miles east of Hinckley. Here it is planned to acquire about 2,500 acres of cut-over, burned-over forest land, much of which still is covered with a healthy second growth of timber, much of which is tax-delinquent St. Croix park is being planned as an extensive recreational area for under-privileged classes. The ECW camp buildings constructed here at a cost of $40,000 will be left on the ground after the park improvement program is completed.

Whitewater state park, established in 1919, lies in the green valley of the Whitewater river, in Winona county. Vertical limestone bluffs, crowned by hardwoods, surround its 668 acres. The ECW camp has replaced several bridges, dug two wells, built two small park buildings to accommodate picnickers and performed a great deal of erosion control work and landscaping. The area, which has been used for recreational purposes by neighboring communities for many years, includes a golf course. This will be improved, together with camping and picnic facilities, to give southern Minnesota its largest scenic state park.

BECAUSE of its wooded hills and historical associations Fort Ridgely state park, six miles south of Fairfax, is being developed as a wayside historical park, equipped also with complete recreational and picnic facilities. Near the ruins of the old fort, where beleaguered pioneers withstood the seige of Little Crow's Sioux army in 1862, the ECW is building structures to harmonize with the original Fort Ridge-ly buildings. These new structures will be used as dressing rooms by participants in his i 7 A ft ii A This arrangement still is temporary. It was made by the national park service with the understanding that the state would provide for the continuation of state park supervision, with state funds and state employes to maintain and supervise improvements made by the CCC in the state park system. The Minnesota department of conservation has asked the legislature for funds to set up a complete permanent state park service.

Meanwhile the emergency conservation work in nine state park camps is being directed from headquarters in the St. Paul federal building by Mr. Lathrop and H. L. Staves and E.

P. Lacey, inspectors for the national park service. The nine camps are located in Itasca state park, north of Park Rapids; Jay Cooke state park, near Carlton; Scenic state park, near Big Fork; Gooseberry Falls state park, north of Two Harbors; Spruce Creek state park, north of Lutsen, in the Arrowhead country; Camden state park, near Lynd; Fort Ridgeley state park, south of Fairfax; Whitewater state park, west of Winona; and St. Croix state park, rear Hinckley. CCC enrollees In these camps are working over a total acreage of about 45,000.

All but one of the parks, the St. Croix, are located on state-owned land. The state has taken options on 2,500 acres of sub-marginal lands along the St. Croix valley in order to establish there a scenic recreational area, close to the Twin Cities, for underprivileged classes from Minneapolis and St. Paul.

THE state park camps comprise the moEt aesthetic and probably the most Interesting and immediately valuable branch of emergency conservation work in Minnesota. The aim of ECW in Minnesota state parks is to fit them for mass recreation and preserve at the same time their natural wild grandeur. The parks are not being "im "'4 '4' ifciii rjint it. LANDSCAPING BY, CCC lMfr Vr'TAi sWsMMsWMWrfl JULY 18. FROM BAROLO DI FIORELLI, S.

TO MRS. GERALD I SLOATE, THE PENTATEUCH, LONG IS-. LAND, N. Y. WONDERFUL THING HAS HAPPENED AM ENGAGED TO CHARMING SCANDINAVIAN DIPLOMATIST MET ON SHIP SHALL BRING HIM-FOR WEEK-END TWENTIETH AM DIVINELY HAPPY, VIOLET BAROLO DI FIOR-.

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