1913 Conservation Exposition
September 1, 1913 Opening Day
"You can not have a country worth
living in without forests and the proof of it is the history of the
whole world. You cannot have your water running in even flow from
the uplands without forests. You are talking about conserving
forests, New York City is spending $150 000,000 to build a reservoir
at Kingston to get water for the 4,000,000 people in the city of New
York. If New York City does not protect the trees upon those
historic hills the Catskills that reservoir will not do all that is
expected of it and they will have to go somewhere else for part of
their water supply. Why? Because when you destroy God's
reservoir under the trees man can never build one as good. It takes
that natural reservoir to keep and hold the water and you can only
maintain that on the hillsides by keeping the trees there. Therefore
their money will be spent in vain unless the trees are kept there."
James S Whipple, Commissioner of the State of New York. p. 26
Schedule Of Special Events
Sept 1 Opening Day Address by Governor Ben W Hooper, Tennessee
Sept 6 Address by Speaker Champ Clark
Sept 11 Home Maker's Day Maryville and Blount County Day
Sept 12 Woman's Club Day Address by Mrs. Percy Pennybacker, President- General Federation of Woman's Clubs
Sept 13 Farmer's Conservation Conference Gifford Pinchot, Chairman, presiding TPA Day
Sept 16 GAR Day
Sept 17 GAR Day
Sept 18 GAR and Hoo Hoo Day
Sept 19 Red Cross Day Address by Miss Mabel Boardman, President American Red Cross Society, Convention of State Geologists
Sept 20 Miner's Field Day
Sept 22 Confederate Veteran's Day
Sept 23 Poultry Show Opened, Real Estate Day
Sept 25 American Museum of Safety Day, Alabama Day
Sept 26 Children's Day
Sept 27 U. C. T. Day
Sept 30 Helen Keller Day
Oct 2 Moose Day
Oct 4 DAR Day: Address by Mrs William Cummings Story, President General, Opening American Day address by John Barrett, Director Pan-American Union and by Senator Duncan U Fletcher, PreSo Commercial Congress
Oct 5 Elks Day, Edward Leach, Grand Exalted Ruler, B.P.O.E and other prominent members of the fraternity present
Oct 6 Live Stock Show Opened, Corn Show
Oct 7 Atlanta and Georgia Day, Night Horse Show opened
Oct 8 Kentucky Day, Needlework Guild of America Day
Oct 10 Bird Day, Temperance Day
Oct 11 Sunday School and Mother's Day Address by Hon. William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State
Oct 13 Knights of Columbus Day Address by Cardinal Gibbons
Oct 14 Nashville Day
Oct 15 National
Civic Federation Day
Oct 16 Chattanooga Day
Oct 17 Shriner's
Day Address by William W Irwin, Imperial Potentate
Oct 18
Tennessee Manufacturers' Day
Oct 20 Mountain Work Day Address by
Booker T Washington, Exposition Grounds
Oct 21 Railroad Day
Oct 21 Ben Hur Day
Oct 22 North Carolina Day
Oct 24 Odd
Fellow's Day
Oct 25 Public Health Day, Address by Dr Harvey W
Wiley
Oct 28 Knoxville Day Press and Writer's Day
1913 Conservation Exposition Postcards
