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Show TTITTTTtTIT tX fV V "X" 'A XP A 1 X COMMON INJURIES TO USEFUL ORNAMENTAL TREES X" AT From the Hand of Life By Clinton New Yorks Fashionable YORK Northward the course NEW New York's promenade stead To-d::ilv takes Its course a brilliant ribbon of color is thrown as far north as Fifty ninth street, which establishes a new boundary Throughout Its his tory the city has neter been without this parade. At the beginning of the last century the parade marched and counterman bed along the sea wall of the battery The fashionable rest dence section of town then faced this park and reached away along the di verging streets to the north and east And judging from the old prints and the abundant description of the day this early parade compared favorably In Its color and variety, if not In size, with the throng of later days Twenty years later the parade had found Its way to Hanover square The narrow triangle, which now ties between towering skyscrapers, was then the shopping center of town. The streets, lined with shop windows, attracted crowds Just as does upper Fifth avenue Here In the afternoons, the weather permitting, the fashion of the day passed in review. The fashionable sections for rest denees had moved but little In two decades and still remained within easy distance. It seems almost Incredible that the little narrow street below the noisy elevated structure of was once the correct end of town. Lower broad way attracted the next and for many years continued to hold them. As the great modern city began to take shape the residence as well as the business sections followed the line of the great to-da- a It opyritftn. Dangerfield by J. is. Lpptncou To-da- h h the world for money to buy enjoyment and for the people who have wealth to obtain social recognition, she Is surrounded by a swarm of parasites. True, these leeches bear resounding names and titles. They talk fluently and Intimately of royalties and nobilities, but they have no stand lng whatever except among the army of boulevardiers who live by their wits. The facile flattery of such as these has palled at dast on Mabelle Gilman Corey. Only a fortnight ago In Paris she confessed all this to an American woman who Just has returned to New York. To this woman, an old friend, Mrs. Corey poured out her tale of dls She had to tell some appointment. She one, and she craved sympathy. told how It was long before she fully and finally understood that her social ambitious never could be realized. At first she thought that there might be a little difficulty In getting an en trance Into society, but that the Corey millions would be the magic key to all that she desired. She told of her dls ducer, but New York Is about to have one which not only will be unique In this respect, but will yield its owner the handsome revenue of $1,80!) a year. There have been many instances of spite fences, erected to exclude unde-si- ! able neighbors or to force the sale of property, and some of these have been of unusual dimensions, but this Is the first case on record of a fence of such proportions built purely as an investment. Its erection comes about through the fact that in building the Williamsburg bridge across the East river between Manhattan and Brooklyn. the city took all of a certain piece of property on the Manhattan side facing the bridge except a narrow ribbon of lano 3 Vs feet wide and 67 feet long. It was obviously Impossible to erect any kind of an ordinary structure or this remarkable lot, and there wen no adjoining property owners to whon it could bo sold. The landholder wa. rescued from his dilemma by an archt tect friend who proposed the erection of a huge fence 65 feet high to extend the whole length of the lot. This plan has been adopted and the surface of the fence will be rented for the dta play of advertisements. It occupies an advantageous post tlon for the purpose, since It faces tlu bridge over which hundreds of thou sands of persons pass Thus from his diminutive holding the owner of the lot will get a surface area of some of an acre thing less than which he can rent, and from which he will receive an income of $150 mouth or as much as a good sized city brings. one-tent- h when story block j w; TO BE SAFE FROM ACCIDENT I I; H " I I arm-cha- He Took Home a Wife. would meet i f-V-f 'yty "' "S "Vi m Fig. 1 Horse Injury. I gales. And when he went abroad dally his car was drawn by horses bred In the desert; coats of silk had they and feet swifter- than the swallow's wing when he turns southward. Also this man gat unto himself friends, or those he called such, and the world named his palace the Garden cf Delight. Hut Happiness, the maiden, dwelt not there, neither hoard she the honeyed voices of the slaves from those shining walls. Now the younger brother, who had also health and good understanding, went to fertile lands and built him a cottage and sowed and harvested and hereby got his bread. To the neighbors around him he seemed an ordinary man. Only the little children, who, in part, shared his gift, only they and the goddess of Life knew that his life was an exquisite seriee of delicious surprises. For this mans eyes were opened because his sense of wonder was and not defiled by the recur railway ance companies. A man may undertake a Journey around the world with a comparatively light heart But extieme care and vigilance are needed should he venture to hang his pictures or walk down his own stairs. The perils of the streets in our b'g cities are, of course, so well known that there Is no need to comment thereon. Most people Imagine that they must be fairly safe in bed. Yet accidents harpen even there. Not long ago a wealthy man was seriously r Injured by being burned by a bottle after he had retired to rest. The moral is. of course, that whether a man lie sit. walk, drive or e in any occupation or sport, he is always exposed to the risk of accident, and should take hts nrecautions World's Work. accordingly STOCKINGS BRING LARGE SUM Weaver. Stockings that cost $210 a pair are not an unknown luxury. The price is not exorbitant when the worth of the fabric is taken into consideration, says an authority on dress. One pair represents the labor of one man for one w hole year, and there are few men who know how to produce by means of the hand loom a pair of stockings so fine, so accurately woven and so exquisitely shaped as those for which the sum of $210 is charged. A hand loom weaver near Paris is the maker of stocklngc such as these, and more exquisite specimens the world has never seen. Tbe way in which the $210 stockings are decorated is by means of a Bane! of lace inset from within an Inch and a halt of the toes o a distance of ten to twelve inches ibore the ankle. Almost the whole f the front of the stocking la, there hand-mad- e kinds used for delicate daintiness of this type are needlepoint and Chantilly. The lace Is patterned In various devices. One exquisite pair shows a flight of butterflies raised from the and yet not detached background from It, with a filling of various stitches, all executed by the needle. But some of the most valuable stockings are not even inset with lace Their merit lies in the fineness ol their weaving. Suburban Troubles. How does Wrigley like his new home in the country? Pretty well. He has to get up it the dark to catch the tram, and iti after dark when be gets home. And he sleeps all day Sunday. Last week he begged a day off at the office. What for? "So he could get a good look at hit home by sunlight Bark D sease. the southwestern states. Trees that are worth the care are best protected by wrapping the parts liable to this sort of injury with straw or paper. Often merely shading the part liable to this injury with a board or shingles is sufficient to prevent it Another winter injury often confused with freezing is actual drying out. This may occur anywhere, but most typically in the higher altitudes of the west, where the dry and rarefied air and bright sun favor evaporation from the tree surface of more water than the roots can obtain from the cold and frequently sandy or gravelly soil. Evergreens are especially subject to this difficulty, since their leaves transpire to some extent throughout the winter. Whatever conserves the moisture of the soil tends to decrease this injury; for exampv, mulching and fall or winter irrigating. Trees normally hardy v in often winterkill if unable to r 1 their wood comj happens as a result pletely; this of defoliation in late summer. ir carriage is also an exceptionally safe place. This is so clearly recognized that accident insurance companies can afford to double the compensation when accidents occur on railways or tramcars. Certain companies will insure commercial travelers at premiums appreciably lower than those charged by general accident Insur- Fig. 2 larger branches injured on the southwest side by the freezing and consequent death of patches of bark. During the warmer winter days there is sufficient heat at noon to stimulate portions of the growing layer into premature growth; such tissue is killed if cold weather follows immediately. The injury often does not beuntil well into the come manifest The dead tissue forms a summer. favorable place for the growth of parasitic organisms and such a tree usually dies from rotting in a few years This trouble must not be confused with that type of sun scald which is due simply to extreme heat in summer, when the growing layer may be literally cooked. Such cases occur most typically in the arid sections of Ornamental trees are subject t6 mechanical injuries in a thousand ways. Street and lawn trees that are situated where horses can get at them are practically certain to have their bark gnawed off unless protected with some sort of guard. This is perhaps the commonest injury to trees. The injury shown in figure 1 is an extreme case, but can be duplicated on almost any city street. The exposed wood in this tree will soon rot, if not painted or otherwise protected, and the death of the tree is only a question of time. Mutilation iu curb laying is usually necessary and unavoidable, but the wound can and should be treated; otherwise, fungi find lodgment and in a few years the base of the tree will be rotted out, as shown in figure 62. Fire Is another frequent cause of injury at the base of the trunk, and so also, in the case of lawn trees, is collision with lawn mowers. Mutilation by stringing wires may or may not bs avoidable in a given case, but it is certain that in the country at large telephone companies are responsible for an enormous amount of sheer vandalism in the unnecessary mutilation and destruction of trees. Remedies for this lie only in Increased public interest and legal restriction. Finally, unskillful pruning and deliberate neglect of wounds are responsible for half of all the harm. Injuries from wind, hall, ice, storms. first-clas- A first-clas- s yi IS hazardous undertaking exercises special care, thus escaping Injury, but while at home or taking exercise vigilance is relaxed, familiarity with common dangers breeding contempt. Probably the safest place on land s or sea Is the deck or cabin of a ocen liner. that name and facing a bridge 415 V Probably the majority of people, If asked what they considered to be the safest spot for them to be In, would by reply: In bed or in an the side of the fire." But they are quite mistaken. The risk of injury is much greater than if one was traveling Jy ship or rail. The curious fact is mentioned that, according to statistics, 60 per cent, of accidents happen while the victims are at home or In the street, the explanation being that a man when going a Journey or entering upon a On . ? . i yJ-J- i a Hand Loom, They Reprefore, a film of lace. Every thread of Crowds Gather Daily to Gaze on Morgan Wovensenton One Year's Work for the lace Is hand wrought, and the two chine painted red. with a limousine body, backs up to the curb and await Mr. Morgan's coming. Instantly the vehicle ts identified by some Idler, who pauses, lights cigarette and starts In to wait and t get a glimpse of the noted financier He is Joined by another, then and then a few in the financial district have other, stenographers, who have escaped from their offices IDLERS a new interest in life. early, also stop and chew They exhibit it every afternoon about while they wait. A few their gum messenger four o'clock. It Is to stand In front out with rush telegrams add of the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. and boys their to presence the rapidly growing wait for the financier to come out, enand soon there is a group ter bis steel clad automobile and be crowd, that almost attains to the dignity of driven away. mob. Mr. Morgan resumed his dally visAt length the crowd is rewarded. its to his office recently. Since then It has been bis babit to reach the Mr. Morgan appears st the door, gazes banking bouse of which he is the In a surprised sort of a way over the bead early every afternoon and re- crowd, then hurries to his machine main until about four oclock. A few and is rapidly carried away. Then moments before his departing time the crowd disperses to meet again bis automobile, which is a large ma the following day. - frf?i li ft KVa'tl 4a I But when the ten years were over the man remembered his tryst and presented himself at the temple of Life and called affectionately "Art thou here, oh my brother? Out from among the pillars came a harsh voice, Nay, not he, but I who represent him, and forth came a fig ure terrible to see. so gaunt were its features, so haunting Its heavily circled eyes. The younger was displeased and said curtly: "I do not accept thee In my brothers place. Why is he not here? He could not come. "Why not?" "He is dead. Dead! "Aye I slew him. "Thou hast dared! Who art thou?" And the other, turning away, said of kings. .. th. P:. just at the bend of the boulevart Statistics Show That Traveler Take Fewer Risks Than He Who Stays at Home. in the temple of Life and appointments and her despair. I can't stand this life much long compare their fortunes. er," she said. "I am going back to to Immediately the elder brother set and from Parian marble he the stage. That Is the place for me, builtwork a palace of astounding splendor after all. I love It and I have never and filled it with ail manner of loveceased to love It. I ought never to liness and carpeted it with rare east1 have left it. care for It more than ern carpets and over the carpets ever now. It Is the one thing that glided slaves bought with his money seems worth while." who sang like Gods own nightin- City Makes Profit on Billboard Ads the general This he stood In a kind of maze or delicate colors in rapture as the shell-lik- e creased and then faded into tbe blue of the perfect day And then ht went gladly to his fields, knowing that fresh loveliness would greet him on every side. For his ears caught each intonation from the thrushs notes as greedily as though the bird were but newly formed from Eden's clay, and he marveled over the commonest flowers on the wayside as be had not dene since the days of his early childhood. The strength of the great horses that drew his plow smote him with its grandeur and as he followed the furrow and thought how the Creator was daily calling fresh wonders intc being for the eyes of man he shouted aloud for tbe beauty and fascination of the world. And tne next year he took home a wife and the wonder he first felt that so sweet and peifect a woman should love him remained vith him always and the two were never weary o' gazing on each other. Therefore it is clear that this man was indeed a sovereign among men. for tbe com monplace krew him not, though fools thought he dwelt in the ir.idbt of it and routine left unharmed his thrill lag soul. The very ferns at the wa terslde were to him an unfailing mir acle ard It Is no strange thing that the maiden, Happiness, entered in the cottage and abode contentedly with the man and his wife. Indifferently: 1 am the companion am Ennui. Paris The secret of the beauty of Paris lies not citys prodigality ln niakiJ V squares and Parks and avenue, also in ihe disposition to however small which is adornment, Not only the itseif, but buildings, private as public utiuf Co the east lesolved to grant them any favor they might ask. and so advised them. Now the two men were brothers and above all things in the universe they desired happiness, and so determined they would ask a gift which should render Happiness forevermore, enamored of their ccmpaij. Therefore together they wended their way to the temple of Life, the godiiebg, and unto her they cried Oh Life, we ore resolved to ask vou the gift that delights Happiness '1 et she may be willing to remain with us And the goddess answered Many have thought ao to hold her. He it as yon will." Then the elder brother said confidently: As I have already health and many talents, only one thing more is necessary to keep happiness with me. Give me gold, and in such quantities that If I live a hundred years I cannot spend it all. Smiling a little, the goddess said, Thou hast It Then name the younger brother, and his voice was low and troubled, for he knew the thing he was about to say would bring on him the ridicule of his elder, but finally he said "Thou, the give me the undlmmed sense of wonder. And as the goddess answered, "It Is thine," the elder brother fell into exceeding mirth and cried Thou fool! But I will have pity on thee and thou shalt share my gold Hut the younger said "Nay, buy the maiden, Happtn-.ss- , with it. And the two went their separate ways, agreeing that in ten years they kiitct I.r.uiauil the business interit steadily est followed, pushing northward, as It continues to do to this day. The parade very gradually extended its northern turning point further and further northward More than half a century was nteded to draw it aa far north aa the southern boundary of Washington square, but here It was once aud for all definitely d (lei led westward, by the close of the civil war It had commenced its stiady progress up Fifth avenue It has been carefully estimated that the social center of town moves northward at exactly the rate of two blocks per year t tie line of march is taken up without interruption from Twenty-thirstreet on the south to the park entrance When the shopping center took up Its position definitely between Thirty-fourtstreet and Forty-- I who second street the promenadera had been drawn to broadway deserted It fur the older avenue There seems to he no reason to believe that It will he again deflected In many years to con.e. years to come The progress of the street is a parade above Fifty-nintvery interesting subject of speculation. It Is believed that the social renter will follow the line of the avenue at about its present rate of travel for a mile or two further at least. The day will come, however, when the growth of the fashionable section will be definitely checked by Harlem on the north and by the congested cation to the eastward. The line ol least resistance would seem to be toward the west, in the direction of Riverside Drive. It Is estimated that this mythical point will Jump Central park at about Elghfy-slxtstreet, cross to Riverside Drive and then follow along the line of the river indefinitely northward. Fifty years from now it seems very probable the fashionable parado will be found on the broad pavements of the drive. future holds no promise of a change In Paris, usually tbe easiest city In FENCE is usually a source of ex A pense rather thaw an income pro- Ways-Hor- ses Once there were two men who had rence cf things Promenade rendered Therefore whenevei such service to life that she the dawn bluthed in Mrs. Corey Going Back to the Stage would be ALMOST to any woman cry her eyes out with sheer envy If she could see Mabelle Gilman Corey's gowns. Jewels and the thousands of luxuries with which her husband, the steel king, has surrounded her. Even the moat serious-mindeof women, those who usually re not carried away by the follies and extravagances of the rich, would feel their hearts beat quicker If they could wander at will through the great French palace where the former actress now lives and see 'how her husband's wealth has poured out the sack of the whole world at her feet She has money untold; she emulates royalty In the magnificence of her surroundings; an army of servants wait on her. There la not a single wish that money can gratify that she need let pass unsatisfied. Yet Mabelle Gilman Corey is unhappy. She has been unable to buy social recognition. Tbe people she wants to know do not call. Mrs. Corey's years of life on the stage have made applause as the breath of life In her nostrils, and she misses It now. Surrounded by every magnlficance, she finds the days dull and heavy. She la now sure that the Different Subject to Mechanical Harm In Thousand Protected Unless Bark Off Gnaw With Covering. Along This Line. 1 INSECT EATING BIRDS KILLED Robin Destroys Many Bugs Injurious to CropsBein Course of Protected. Year Should Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee have the undesirable distinction of being the only states In the union in which the slaughter of robins is permitted by law, and recent in vestigations show that not less than 9,000,000 robins are killed by some 20,000 pothunters in these three states Patient during the winter months. investigation by ornithologists has proved that a robin in a year earns Slime Flux. one dollar in the destruction of insects to crops. The pothunters lightning and other natural causes are injurious sell them for five cents a dozen. This but the largely unavoidable, resulting wanton waste of millions of dollars is wounds can sometimes be treated. which should appeal to the Sometimes, when an unprotected something wound exudes sap In the spring, vari- hard common sense of every southern ous apparently nonparasltic organ- farmer. In an investigation of this deplor isms yeasts, bacteria and fungi will able bird slaughter, a writer in begin growing on the wound and soon form a slimy, dripping mass over its Recreation brings a sweeping indictsurface and runn'ng down from the ment against the sportsmen of Virwound. The cambium beneath dies ginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, rapidly and the acids and other by- declaring that they are responsible for the lack of legislation for protec products of the action of the fermenta-intion of the robin. It is asserted that organisms appear to poison the wood, so that the wound cannot pos- as a class they have for years opsibly heal naturally. Such a case Is posed the enactment of laws putting shown in figure 3. This disease na- robins on the forbidden list, on the turally affects the general health of ground that if the shooting of these the injured tree, and its death is often birds were made unlawful the pothunters would soon wipe out the only a question of time. Death results from girdling, the flux quail it is a flimsy argument at the spreading from the wound until it be'' and will not stand the test ol completely surrounds the trunk or analysis. limb that it is en. Poultry Destroy Insects. Within three years the bark disease A bulletin of the Ohio has proved very destructive to chestexperiment nut trees in New York and is spread- station publishes the following interfacts esting the relation ol regarding ing rapidly. If it continues to spread as it has begun it will become one of poultry and insects. Chickens and turkeys devour many 'he most serious tree diseases in the It already actively threat- caterpillars and other insect forms. country. ens the existence of the chestnut for- They will often save the plum and ests and orchards of the eastern reach crop from ruin hv the curculio if they have free access to the orstates. The disease is caused by a fungus. chard. On the other hand, they are The spores of this fungus enter the liable to scatter scale insects over an tree through wounds, insect punctures, orchard if they are allowed to roost dead twigs, or dead wood anywhere; in trees that are infested with scales. Chickens and turkeys may be possibly also in other ways. From taught the point of Infection the fungus to follow the plow in flocks and will white pick up grubs, all in cutworms, etc., directions through the grows The guinea fowl grow ing layer and inner bark until the fin great numbers. a is most persistent and voracious growth meets on the opposite side of the trunk or limb, which in this way sect hunter, and if allowed freedom a much wider ranger than other is girdled. Fountain of St. Michel, in Pj, Erected to Hide Unsightly Buildmj, the Seine. The location, adjoining aa open space of considerable dimensioni, offered an excellent opportunity tor the work of an artist, but the front of the building, while presentable, a severely plain. So, in the course of time, the municipality took the necessary steps and proceeded to conceal the entire wall with a fountain 85 feet high and O feqt wide, which was dedicated to 8t Michel. The monument, which was designed by Duret, consists of a triumphal arch in the Renaissance style, showing the saint and the dragon, in bronze, placed on an artificial rock, from which the water falls into three basins flanked with griffins. At the sides are columns of red marble bean ing allegorical bronze figures. In this way the Place St Michel was beautified and the owner of tbe building lost nothing, for its appear ance was vastuy improved and Its rental value increased. new Illuminating shell French Projectile That Clearly R veals Position of a Hostile Fleet or Army. New The York. inventive mind seems lately to have been paying particular attention to the art of war, as if ln Intelligent anticipation of a coming Armageddon, and new weaor improvements on old ones are constantly being anounced. The most remarkable novelty of the kind is that illustrated a new Illuminating shell which bursts into flame in tbe air and acts as a temporary searchlight, revealing the position of the army. The projectile is a French invention, and was first tested on th Mediterranean coast with the fortress artillery, the results proving that it night the vessels of sd enemy's fleet could be discovered at a distance of several miles, the light burning long enough for the gunners to get the range. The authorities were so well satisfied with these experiments that pons Warship- Illuminating Shell Reveals adapt the Illuminating shell was then ed to the field artillery and subjects nov to tests on land. Here too the an usefulness, projectile proved its In Qnan it is now being manufactured titles Another novelty, of which KrupP Essen has acquired all the pateM invented rights, Is the air torpedoThis is repo Col. Unge of Sweden. Instrw ed to be one of the deadliest and devised, menu of warfare yet Germ is to be introduced into the menrecent army and navy. Other gun, tions are the use for adapted shrapnel grenade automatic the service rifle, and a new sai gun mounted on a motor truck, be capable of conveying a supply me ammunition and a crew of ten roM miles an hour along ordinar a shells and to fire three-pountance of three and a half mile rate of 250 shots a minute. anti-airshi- p Fish Makes Good Candle. In parts of Alaska is found cand of fish that make a capita! when it is dried. The tail of of a mestic fowls. Pigeons devour some Is stuck into a crack its It upright, and insects and many weed seeds. Pigeons table to hold a crops sometimes contain many of the It lighted. It gives Pwpr light of pupae of the sheep tick which fo ohoU( have picked from the wool of they siderahle heat, and wIU burn three hours. animals. Ducks and geese devourliving considerable numbers of Insects. The disease is very conspicuous and easy of diagonsis. On limbs with smooth bark the areas attacked by the fungus show dead, discolored, sunken patches of bark, covered more er less thickly with yellow, orange or brown postules of the fruiting fungus. (See Fig. 2.) Good Way to Spread Pest. Many trees, especially smooth-barkeDuring the recent epidemic ones, have their trunks and California. d 6L three-candl- ol e |