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Show MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT , OP WASHINGTON UST TREE. HARTFORD, March U It was recently re-cently decided that what was left of the "Washington Elm." so known because of the story that Washington stopped under It when he visited Capt Jeremiah Wads-worth Wads-worth on the occasion of the conference with Rochambeau, must come down, and many persons went to get pieces of the elm. When asked if he believed the story which gave the tree Its name. Superintendent Superin-tendent of 6ffeets Hausilng replied: "Why, if that .e could speak it would prove It." A moment later "Tie picked np a limb some four Inches through and at the cross-section - was a perfect profile of Washington, like a miniature in sepia. It was made by the brown heart of the limb. Officer of the Connecticut Historical so- ototy pronounce It a marvel |