Conference on Uniform Legislation

The first conference called by the governors of the New England states for the purpose of uniform legislation will be held in the Tremont Theatre this afternoon and tomorrow. At this afternoon's session papers on tree planting will be read; tomorrow morning proceedings will relate to the protection and promotion of supplies of sea food, and tomorrow afternoon highways and their use will be considered. The afternoon meetings will begin at 2 and the morning session at 10 o'clock. All the meetings will be free and open to the public. Men of the highest authority on the subjects under discussion will read papers, which will afterwards be discussed by the delegates. All papers read and suggestions made at the meetings will be referred to the chiefs of the state departments covering forestry, shell-fish, and highways, with instructions to report to the incoming governors before January 1 their findings in regard to uniform laws for all New England.

Each governor has invited as delegates the senators, congressmen, lieutenant-governor, attorney-general, president of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives in his particular state. To this gathering will be added special delegates selected at large by the several governors. President Eliot is to attend as a special delegate from Massachusetts. Governor Curtis Guild '81 will act as chairman and F. L. Dean '88 as secretary of the conference.

The first session will be opened at 2 o'clock this afternoon with a prayer by Rev. G. A. Gordon '81, pastor of the Old South Church. Mr. Gifford Pinchot will read the first paper. His subject will be the future of forest trees in New England. He is generally regarded as the first authority on forestry in the United States. Professor John Craig, chief of the Department of Horticulture at Cornell, will read the second paper. His subject will be the opportunities in New England for the cultivation of orchards and the raising of fruit. The two papers will be followed by suggestions and discussion by the delegates. Tomorrow morning's session will be opened with a prayer by Most Reverend W. H. O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. The first paper will be read by F. H. Herrick, special investigator on the lobster for the United States Bureau of Fisheries. His subject will be the preservation and propagation of the lobster. Dr. G. W. Field, late instructor in biology at Johns Hopkins University, will speak on the cultivation of molluscs. Rabbi Phineas Isreali, of the congregation Adath Jeshurun, will open the afternoon session with a prayer. The construction of highways will be treated by Harold Parker, delegate to the international congress on road building at Paris. James M. MacDonald, president of the American Roadmakers Association, will speak on the necessity of co-operation between states in the construction of state roads, in order that trunk lines may be made between important cities. The final paper will be read by Hon N. J. Batchelder, ex-governor of New Hampshire, on automobiles and their regulation. He will consider especially other means of enforcing the necessary laws than by traps and similar methods now in use.