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Letter Attacking
Roosevelt Provokes
Denunciation.
ASKED TO AID IN CAMPAIGN
Says He Collected $200,000
to Help Carry
New York.
ROOSEVELT SAYS IT'S FALSE
Denies He Ever Discussed
Money With Harriman.
SCORES MAGNATE AWFULLY
Classes Illm With Demagogues and
Corrupt ionints Harriman Says
Letter Was Stolen and Mean
ing Is Misinterpreted.
('HK'AiiO, April 2. A sensation was
rroated today by the publication of
a letter written In December, 1905,
addressed to Sidney Webster of New
York and signed "E. H. Harriman,"
Sidney Webster is a, lawyer and
writer on political subjects. Ills wife
Is a sister of Stuyvesant Fish, who
lost the presidency of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad a few months ago after
ant agon izlng Mr. Harriman. This
Is the letter:
I am triad to see that you are In town and
i soon to have an opportunity of talking
matter over with you. I had printed eoplea
of the testimony sent you. In hope that you
would, after reading them, give me some
Idea of where I stand, for I confoss that
1 feel somewhat at sea In the whole Insur
ance matter. The trouble originated in al
lowing myself to be drawn Into other peo
ple's affairs and partly from a desire to
help them and at their raquest. I seem
to be like the fellow who got In between
the man and his wife In their quarrel.
Says He's Roosevelt's Victim.
As to my political Instincts, to which you
refer In your letter of December 13, I
am quite sure I have none and my being
made at all prominent In the political situa
tion Is entirely due to President Roosevelt
end because of my taking an active part
In the Autumn of 1904, at his request, and
his taking advantage of conditions then
created to further his own Interests. If it
had b'en a premeditated plot, it could not
have been hotter started or carried out.
About a week before the election In the
Autumn of 1904, when it looked certain
that the state ticket would go Democratic,
and was doubtful as to Roosevelt himself,
he. the President, sent me a request to go
to Washington to confer upon the political
conditions In New York State. I complied
and he told me he understood the campaign
rou Id not be successfully carried on with
out sufficient money and asked if I would
help them In raising the necessary funds, as
the National committee had utterly failed
of obtaining them and there was a large
mount due from them to the New York
state committee.
Promised Dt-peu Embassy.
I explained to htm that 1 understood the
flllTtculty here was mainly caused by the
jp-state leaders being unwilling to support
Depew for re-election as United States Sen
ator; that. If he. Depew, could be taken
rare of In some other way. 1 thought mat
ters could be adjusted and the different
contending elements In the partv brought
Into alliance again. We talked over what
could be done for Depew and finally he
agreed. If found necessary, he would ap
point him as Ambassador to Paris.
llnrrliunii liaised $200,000.
With full belief that he, the President,
would keep this agreement. I came back
to New York, sent for Treasurer Bliss,
who told me that 1 was their last hope and
that th7 had exhausted every other re
source. Tn his presence I called up an in
timate friend of Senator Depew, told him
that it was necessary in order to carrv New
York State that SL'OO.OQO should be raised
at once, and. If he would help, I would
subscribe 900.00. After a few words over
the telephone, the gentleman said he would
let me know, which he did In three or four
hours, w th the result that the whole
amount. Including my subscription had
bee si raised. "
Tha checks were plen to Treasurer Bliss,
mho took them to Chairman Cortelyou If
tilers were any among them of life' Insur
ance companies, of course Oortelyou must
have Informed the President. I do not know
who the subscribers were other than the
friend of Depew. who was an Individual.
This amount enabled the New York State
committee to continue Its work with the
result that at least .ift.00o votes were turned
In the City of New York alone, making a
difference of tOO.OOO vote In the general
result. There are between 230O and SMQ dis
tricts in Greater New York and In w cam
paign such as that, the expenditure of, say
rt In each district for campaign purposes
would make more than ftOn.iHtfV
Not Necessary to Name Depew.
Some time in December. 1904. on my way
from Pennsylvania to New Yrrk 1 stopped
and had a short talk with the I -.-. n.
leld me that he dirt not 'think It necessary
i pfwjun L'' je w as Ainwissartor to Paris,
as agreed, in fa-t. favored him for the
Saswate. 1 had not expected that he was
th one stc to what would be neces
sary, hnt he arrogated that himself and L
ef course, could say nothing further. After
that I us-d what Influence I could to have
Depew returned to tha Senate, as I con
aidered there had been an Implied, obliga
tion which should be lived 1p to.
This ii the way I wan brought to tha
surface tn the political matters, as I had
never before taken any active part and had
only done what I could as any private citi
zen might, so you see I was brought for
ward by Roosevelt in an attempt to help
him. at his request, the same as I was In
the Insurance matter by Hyde and Ryan
by their request for my help, and In the
case of Ryan I probably would have dropped
the matter after our first interview, had It
not been for my desire to save Belmont
from taking a position for which he could
have been criticised by the public press.
As he was the one Ryan desired me to In
fluence from opposing Morton for election as
chairman of the Equitable board and Bel
mont afterward thanked me for taking his
part, as If he had voted against Morton,
in view of his local traction contentions
with Mr. Ryan, it would have been miscon
strued. Ryan's success In all his manipulations,
t raction sale, tobacco combinations, manipu
lation of the Tate Trust Company into the
Morton Trust Company, the Shoe & Leather
Bank into the National Bank of Commerce,
thus covering up his tracks, has been done
by the adroit mind of Ellhu Root, and this
Is the situation that has been brought about
by a combination of circumstances which
has brought together the Ryan-Root-Roosevelt
element.
Where do I stand?
BAYS STATEMENT IS FALSE.
Roosevelt Quotes Iiettera to Prove
Truth of His Denial.
WASHINGTON, April 2. President
President Thfodor Roosevelt, Who
Arcum Harriman of Falsehood.
Rousevolt today emphatically denied
the statements contained in a letter
published this morning purporting to
have been written by E. H. Harrl
maii to Sidney Webster, of New Vork,
in the latter part of December. 1905.
In Mr. Harriman's letter the statement
is made that at the request of Presi
dent RooBevelt, he, Harriman. assisted
in raising a fund of $250,000 to be
used In carrying New York for the
Republican party at the election.
This statement the President char
acterized as a "deliberate and willful
untruth by right it should be char
acterized by an even shorter and more
Jgly word. I never requested Mr. Har
riman to raise a dollar for the Presi
dency campaign of 1904." The Presi
dent's denial was contained in a brief
statement, and accompanied by copies of
letters written to Representative Sher
man, of New York. The letters are
dated October 8 and October 12, 1908, re
spectively. Illiterates Former Denial.
The President, after furnishing the let
ters to the Press, dictated the following
statement:
"After writing these letters to Mr. Sher
man, the President was assured that Mr.
Harriman had not made the statements
which Mr. Sherman credited him with
making. Inasmuch as the same state
ments appear in the major part in the
letter of Mr. Harriman now published,
the President deems it proper that the
letters he sent to Congressman Sherman
last October shall now be made public."
"I feel particularly fortunate that I
have been attacked within the last few
days by both ex-Senator Burton and Mr.
Harriman," said the President in a con
versation with representatives of the
press following the giving out of letters
to Representative Sherman regarding
statements made In Mr. Harriman's let
ter to Mr. Webster.
In the first letter reference Is made to
a conversation between Mr. Harriman
and Mr. Sherman which was repeated to
the President, in which Mr. Harriman is
said to have given as a reason for his
personal dislike of the President, partly
the Iatter's determination to have the
railroads supervised and partly the al
leged fact that after promising Mr. Har
riman to appoint Senator Depew ambas
sador to France, the President failed to
do it. It appears from the conversation
repeated to the President that Mr. Sher
man had gone to Mr. Harriman and
asked him for a contribution for the cam
paign. claims of Depew and Hyde.
The President says that Mr. Harriman
also urged him to promise to make Mr.
Iepew Ambassador because this would
help Governor Odell by pleasing certain big
financial interests. The President said
he Informed Mr. Harriman that he did
not believe It would be possible to appoint
Mr. Depew. and expressed his surprise at
his (Harriman's) saying that the men
representing the big financial interests of
New York wished the appointment made.
Inasmuch as a number of them had writ
ten asking that the place be given to Mr
Hyde.
Mr. Harriman. on learning Mr. Hyde
was a candidate, said that he did not
wish to be understood as antagonizing
him.
The President. It appears, was unwilling
to appoint either Depew or Hyde as Am
bassador, and also left unchanged his
recommendations to Congress concerning
the Interstate commerce law, notwith
standing suggestions and criticisms by
Mr. Harriman of the President's course fn
that regard as expressed tn certain letters
which Mr. Harriman wrote to the Presi
dent. Harriman's Dislike of Roosevelt.
The text of the first letter to Mr.
Sherman is as follows:
October S. 10. My dear Sherman Sines
you left this morning- I succeeded In retting;
hold of the letters to which I referred, and
1 eml you a copy of Governor Odell's let
ter to me of December 10, lfto-4.
As I am entirely willing; that you should
show this letter to Mr. Harriman, 1 shall
begtn by repeating what you told me he
said to you on the occasion last week when
you went to ask him for a contribution to
the campaign. Tou Informed me that he
then expressed great dissatisfaction with me
end said tn effect that, so long as I was at
the head of the Republican party or as It
is dominated by the policies- which I advo
cate and represent, he would not support it.
and was quite indifferent wheth-r Hearst
bat Hughes cr not: whether the Democrats
carried f oasress or not. He gave as a rea
son for his personal dislike of me partly re
determination to have the railroads super-
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TRANSFERS REINS
TO RIS SON LOUIS
Hill Retires as Presi
dent of Railroad.
M'GUIGAN VICE-PRESIDENT
Empire-Builder Ends Career
as Active Head.
WILL NOT GO ON SHELF
Founder of Great Northern System
Remains as Chairman or Di
rectors Story of His Ad
ranee to First Rank.
ST. PAUL, April 2. James J. Hill has
resigned the presidency of the Great
Northern Railway and will be chairman
of the board of directors. His son, L.
W. Hill, succeeds him as the president
of the Great Northern.
The following statement was given
to the Associated Press from Mr. Hill's
office:
"At a meeting- of the board of direc
tors held hero this afternoon, the or
ganization of the company was en
larged by the election of a chairman
of the board of directors. J. J. Hill
was elected chairman.
"L. W. Hill was elected president and
Frank H. McGuigan first vice-president.
Mr. McGuigan will have direct
charge of the operating department,
the other officers of the board remain
ing as at present.
"The company's business has doubled
In the past five or six years, which
renders the increase of the operating
staff necessary."
James Jerome Hill was born near
Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Sep
tember 16, 1838. Prom his seventh to his
fifteenth year he attended Rockwood
Academy, a Quaker school, where he was
carefully Instructed In mathematics and
Latin. The death of hili father In 1853
prevented his studying lor the medical
profession, as he had Intended, and he
secured employment In a country store.
Early In 1856 he made a tour of the coun
try from Maine to Minnesota and decided
to settle In St. Paul. Here he engaged
as shipping clerk with J. W. Bass & Co.,
agents for the Dubuque & St. Paul
Packet Company, and he took the oppor
tunity to make a careful study of all
subjects relating to river transportation,
especially that of fuel. In 1865 he became
the agent of the Northwestern Packet
Company and, when this line was merged
with the Davidson line In 167, he en
gaged In the general transportation and
fuel business. In 1869 he formed the
warehouse firm of Hill, Griggs & Co. and
In 1ST0 the Red River Transportation
Company.
Mr. Hill was the first to take' coal Into
St. Paul and he opened the first com
munication between St. Paul and "Winni
peg, then Fort Garry, Manitoba, In 1872.
In 1S75, with E. N. Saunders, C. W.
Griggs and William Rhodes, he estab
lished the Northwestern Fuel Company,
but three years later sold all his inter
est in the fuel and steamboat companies,
having acquired meanwhile the capital
stock and defaulted bonds of the St. Paul
& Pacific Railway, with Sir Donald A.
Smith, George Stephen and Lord Mount
Stephen and Norman W. Kittson. This
road consisted of SO miles from St. Paul
to St. Cloud, 316 miles from St. Paul to
Breckenrldge, about 100 miles of track
not connected with either of these lines,
and besides betng $33,000,000 in debt, the
road was utterly discredited on both
A STACK OF AMENDMENTS
af M0NST RkJq
OF
HARRIMAN AND ROOSEVELT.
WHAT HARRIMAN SAYS About a
v.eek before election of 1904,
Roosevelt asked If I would help
In raising funds, as National
'Committee had utterly failed.
1 explained that I understood
up-state leaders unwilling to
support Depew for re-election as
United States Senator; If tepew
could b. taken care of, some
other way, matters could be ad
justed. We agreed. If found nec
essary, he would appoint Depew
Ambassador to Paris.
With full belief he would keep
agreement, I sent for Treasurer
Bliss, who told me I was their
last hope, I raised $200,000,
subscribing $50,000. If there were
any checks of life Insurance com
panies, of course Cortelyou must
have told the President.
This amount enabled the New
Tork State Committee to turn at
least 60.000 votes la New York
City alone.
In December, 1004, the Presi
dent told me that he did not
think It necessary to appoint De
pew Ambassador to Paris.
Ryan's success in all his ma
nipulations has been done by the
adroit mind of Elihu Root, and
this is the situation which has
been brought about by a combi
nation of circumstances, which
has brought together the Ryan-Root-Roosevelt
element.
WHAT ROOSEVKIT SAYS In letters
to Chairman Sherman, of the Repub
lican Congressional committee, to
whom Harriman first made the state
ments contained lu his letter:
Any such statement Is a de
liberate and willful untruth. I
never requested Mr. Harriman to
raise a dollar for the Presiden
tial campaign of 1904. Our com
munications as regards the cam
paign related exclusively to the
fight being made against Hig
gins, Harriman being Immensely
Interested in the success of Hlg
gins. He also urged me to promise to
make Depew Ambassador to
France, giving reasons why this
would help Odell by pleasing big
financial interests. I informed
him I did not believe It possible
to appoint Depew and expressed
surprise at his saying big finan
cial interests wished that ap
pointment made, as a number of
them had written me asking
that same place be given Hyde
and that I doubted whether I
could appoint either Depew or
Hyde.
Harriman said he did not wish
to be understood as antagonizing
Hyde, and left me strongly un
der impression he would be al
most as well satisfied with
Hyde, and was much discontent
ed at my informing him repeat
edly that I did not think I
should be able to appoint either.
Mr. Roosevelt supports his state
mT'i' by quoting tVova hi corre
spondence with Mr. Harriman la the
Fall of 1904.
He finally refers to Mr. Harri
man's statement to Mr. Sherman that
lie did not care in the least If Hearst
Ism should be triumphant over the
Republican party and denounces his
statement that he "could buy these
people" . in etrong terms.
HARRIMAN'S REJOINDER Copy of
letter to Webster was stolen by
discharged stenographer, who
sold It to newspaper. He pro
tested In vain against publica
tion. He quotes letters between
himself and Mr. Roosevelt to
show that It was the President
who sought interviews with him
. by repeated invitations.
His aid was sought by the
President to carry through the
state ticket and he did so by
raising the $200,000 fund for the
state committee, which helped to
carry through the Presidential
ticket.
He denies that he ever ex
pressed the opinions attributed
to him by Mr. Sherman as to
Hearstism.
continents. It was reorganized in 1S79 as
the St. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railway Company, with Afr. Hill as Its
f Concluded on Page 2.)
AND ORDINANCES FOR THE PORTLAND VOTER TO TACKLE
UHIc.lfm. duMt'V ""-RRY To a,400.
' ,Tyi "TO
0.OUV.
RGRINS7 T mJq, Exrminew
E HAS GONE
TO EFEAT
Chicago Elects Repub
lican Mayor.
SETTLES TRACTION PROBLEM
Carlines to Be Rebuilt and City
May Buy Them.
WCIOuS CAMPAIGN ENDS
Immediate Municipal Ownership Is
Defeated by Decisive Vote and
Compromise Ordinances Ap
provedMuddy Klection.
!DATA OF CHICAGO ELECTION.
Total vote cast S3r.901
Total registered vote 391.305
f Total for Dunne 151,718
I Total for Busse 1A4.83S
I Busse's plurality 13.121
j Traction ordinances (majority) 38.000
-- --4
CHICAGO, April 2. SpeciaI.) The
Republicans, headed by Frederick A.
Busse for Mayor, carried Chicago to
day. Perhaps no one was more Bur
prised at the result than the Repub
licans themselves. It marked the cli
max of the most mystifying and the
filthiest campaign ever waged in the
city.
Chicago will now speedily settle Its
Btreetcar problem, which has been
handed back and forth for 11 years as
a political asset, the service growing
more wretched and antiquated every
year. Within 90 days the traction com
panies must accept the ordinances, re
habilitate the lines entirely, provide
sufficient cars, abolish straps, repave
the streets, sprinkle and keep the
streets In order, build such extensions
as the city shall order and turn over,
a-. 'rvn "'"cbrusry t of ".'bis j-jar. "5 per
etit cA t.'ie net profits. The city may
invest this sum against the time it
will buy the lines for 30,000,000 plus
the amount spent, or it may be used to
lower fares.
Fines for Bad Service.
Universal transfers are to be pro
vided and the service and equipment
must at all times be kept up to the
highest point of efficiency. This is
made imperative by a system of fines
and reprisals and policing of the cars
by the city. Dally" returns of the re
ceipts must be made to the city and
no expense may be entered Into with
out the approval of this board. Am
ple provision Is made for the city to
take over the systems at any time It
is able financially.
The vote today showed a decided re
versal of public opinion on the question
of municipal ownership compared with
the last Mayoralty campaign two years
ago. At that time Dunne received 163,189
votes against 138,671 for John M. Harlan,
the Republican leader: the Prohibition
ticket received 2294 votes and the Socialist
23,034. This year the Republican vote
was close to 165,000 and that of the Demo
crats close to 152.000. The Prohibition
vote runs slightly above that of two years
ago, while the Socialist vote fell off
heavily, being more than 12.000 less than
that of the last city election.
The campaign has been one of the most
"una
DUNN
DOWN
vicious the city has ever known. Charges
and counter-charges have been hurled
back and forth, the personal lives of the
candidates have been held up to the pub
lic and throughout the entire campaign
speakers on both sides have indulged
night after night in tirades filled with In
vective and abuse.
When Mud Began to Fly.
The disagreeable feature of the cam
paign, which became so pronounced in
Ka latter part, commenced when Mayor
Dunne circulated petition for a referen
dum vote on the traction proposition at
the present election. He and Ills follow
ers announced that they had secured 151.
000 signatures to this petition, 80,000 being
necessary to place the matter before the
voters. Charges were made by the Re
publicans that thousands of these names
had been forged and that the list had
been padded In every conceivable fashion.
These assertions were vehemently denied
by the Democrats and the followers of
Mayor Dunne, who were In favor of Im
mediate municipal ownership. From this
time until the end of the campaign feel
ing became more bitter and more intense.
Voting machines were used in 37 pre-
E. H. Harriroan, Who Accueee Pres
ident Roonevelt of Begfring Htm
for Campaign Funds and Then
Breaking Promises.
cincts and the result was most satis
factory. Hearst a Campaign Issue.
W. R. Hearst came personally from
New York to take part in the campaign,
and brought with him his ablest cartoon
ist and editorial writers. His papers are
the only publications In the city support
ing Mayor Dunne, all the others being for
Busse. and the ordinances. The- fight be
tween the editorial departments became
so energetic that the actual issues of the
campaigns were for nme time completely
lost sight of. The papers favoring Busse
made much of the party cry that Chi
cago was able to manage its own inter
ests without Instruction from New York.
The Hearst papers claimed throughout
the campaign that Mayor Dunne was act
ing for the best interests of Chicago and
that it was therefore their duty to sup
port him.
City Council Is Tied.
The Prohibition candidate polled j,S75
votes and the Socialists 13,439. Two
years ago. when Mayor Dune was elect
ed to office he polled 163,109 votes and
John M. Harlan, the Republican candi
date, 138,671. The Socialist vote the
same year was over 40,000 and today's
vote was a great disappointment to the
leaders of that party.
The new Mayor will have the City
Council with him but It is very close, as
the mnke-up of this body shows 35 Re
publicans. 314 Democrats and one Inde
pendent Democrat.
The ordinances settling the streetcar
question were carried by a good major
ity. The total vote on this question
was 165.846 for and 132.720 against.
According to the latest returns at
midnight, the only Democrat outside of
(Concluded on Page 2.)
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. AO
degrees; minimum. 41.
TODAY'S Showers and warmer; south
westerly winds.
XationaJ .
Letter from Harriman to a friend a'-ouslng
Roosevelt of asking; him to raise cam
paign fund in 1904 calls forth Indignant
denial and denunciation and Harriman
makes rejoinder. I'ajre 1.
Roosevelt tries Senator Bourne as pedestrian
Page J.
Pollti. H.
Chicago elects Busse Mayor and adopts
traction settlement. Page 1.
Municipal elections In several states. Page 1.
Dontest ic.
Ha skin on historic trees. Page 1.
J. J. Hill retires as pre-rident of Great
Northern Railroad. Page 1.
Mr. Eddy adopts device to defeat lawsuit.
Page 3.
.Hermann turns attack on Hitchcock. Page 4.
Mediators will make last effort to prevent
railroad strike. Page 3.
Conflict between alienists on Thaw's sanity.
Page 4.
Pacific Coast.
San FranHsco light plant destroyed; city
dark : loss 2,5O0,0O0 ; flremen injured
Page 3.
Rainier man deserts wlf and Infant child
to elope with 16-year-old sister of
spouse. Page 6.
Republicans win in Boise City election.
Page 6.
Oregon mill men romplaln at advance in
lumber rates by railroads. Page 6.
San Francisco grand Jury learns of )i la-h
finance In Home Telephone Comuanv
Page 2. '
Trial of Uuef begins. Page 2.
Sport.
Trout fishermen have poor luck. Page 18
Astoria Joins Tri-City League. Page 2.
. Portland and Vicinity.
Board of Trade has plan for protection of
shipping industry. Page UL
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. will build on
Alnsworth half -block. Page 16.
Consumers' Lcagu takes up early-closlnsr
movement. Page 33.
Railroads tak steps to relieve congestion tn
terminal yards. Page 16.
Councilman Dan Kellaher enters Mayoralty
race; .Iyhn B. Coffey WW do so today
fage u.
H. W. Good will be hurled today. Page 1
Newlands building collapses at First
Columbia streets. Page 18.
HISTORIC TREES
OP UNITED STATES
Associated With Every
Epoch of History.
FIRST SERVICE IN VIRGINIA
Washington Took Command
Under Great Elm.
WHERE PENN MADE TREATY
t sed for Gallows in Puritan Days of
Xew Knftrland Apple Trees
Planted in AYest by a
Benevolent Liunatic.
BY FRBDKRIC J. IIASKIN.
WASHINGTON, March 28. (Special
Correspondence.) Ever lnce a flff
tree Pet up as haberdasher to Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Kden, trees have
played a more or less important part in
the world's history. The first Protes
tant Church service was under the
tres at Jamestown, and the first church
hell rung; in the West was one thr.t
frood Father Juntpero Serra tied to an
arching oak bough at San Diego. The
first agricultural fair in America was
held under the giant elm at Pittsfleld,
Mass., the same tree under which the
men of that section formed when they
marched away to the War of 1812.
When Connecticut's charter was in
great danger of seizure, it was hidden
by faithful citizens In n hollow oak.
Because the Scotch had "dool trees"
or "grief trees" on which they hung
their enemies in reality or In effigy,
early colonists here must needs have
something of the sort. So they chose
to set up Liberty trees in New Eng
land. The Scotch had sycamores, the
New England colonists chose elms, and
they were made to serve many pur
poses. Under them meetings were
held, from their boughs the bodies of
offenders dangled and In their shade
drunkards, liars and thieves sat in the
stocks to be jibed at by passers-by.
One tree on Boston Common had a most
dark history. Jt stood .nur the "Long
path" that Dr. H.im-s Ininiyrtalized in
his "Autocrat of the Brt-.akfaBt TH
ble," and on it .were hanged Margaret
Jones and Anne Hibbins. two witches
of early days, and Mary Dyer, the
Quakeress. Under it Mrs. Oliver was
flogged for "reproaching magistrates."
In lft"6 this old tree feIl in a wind
storm and a detachment of police had
to be called to keep the souvenir col
lectors from cutting It to pieces. An
off -shoot of this tree, about 40 years
old. has been elected to take its place.
Washington Elm at Cambridge.
The dean of America's historic trees
is the Washington elm of Cambridge, a
venerable landmark now in its dotage.
"Under this tree Washington first took
command of the American Army, July
3, 1775," reads the inscription compiled
by Longfellow and engraved on a tab
let. Some say that the first evangelist
in America, George Whitefield. preached
under the same tree. Twice has the
lightning struck it. both times in the
same place, and no doubt its days are
now numbered, though jealous towns
people are guarding it carefully.
One of the famous "peace oaks" that
stood In front of John Eliot's old meet
Ing-house at Natick Is said to be still
in existence. It was brought to the
missionary by the Indians he had
taught, and planted by them as an ex
pression of peace. At Dedham another
oak is pointed out as the pulpit once
used by George Fox, the Quaker, when
a meetingr-house was denied him.
Penn's Treaty Tree.
Penn's famous treaty tree fell in a gale
nearly a hundred j'ears ago, its promi
nence being so marked in its early days
that the English soldiers placed a special
guard around it during the Revolution.
After It was felled by a gale in 1810 a
great part of the tree was sent to the
old Penu family seat at Stoke, near
Windsor, England, where it is still pre
served. "Jane McCrea. 1777," is an Inscription
that was seen for a long while on a large
pine tree near Fort Edward, on the Hud
son. This tree was the silent witness of
the death of the brave girl whose scalp
was taken by an Indian to Burgoyne's
camp and sold, whereat her lover, who
recognized it. deserted the army that
would allow such practices.
In New York the megaphone men on
the tourist cars will point out a group
of two or t h ree sou r gu m trees in the
neighborhood Of One Hundred and Forty
fifth street and Fifth avenue and tell
you that these are all that is left of the
13 trees that Alexander Hamilton planted
In honor of the original colonies. Near
One Hundred and Fity-nlnth street there
are said to be some of the famous cypress
trees of the old Jumel estate still stand
ing, they having been a present to Dr.
Jumel from Napoleon, who brought them
from Egypt. The growth of the. met
ropolis has spared the elm? In the yard
of the Little Churcht Around the Corner.
New Haven's Ijnnui.. Klin.
New Haven has been k iown for many
generations as the CIt of Elms, the first
having been breusrbt Ther from Hamn-
den by William 'Vjoner an.; siven to th
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