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Show " --T'- - " - "... -..rff ..,. . J p-,-,-. - "-- " - a WHO 5 wIIOhKj By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. MaMMHO'S Who" In the I t 1 Trees: An interest- I y I '"K proposition, Isn't I ft 1 It? For surely there I Is a "Who's Who" fc q of tho trees, Just as I ft I there Is one of men IUiftWfflKsQl IU"' w)luen- I,or ono ItSwiiiSSIF "IWK. they arc quite as Individual as men jund women. Again, like men, "some are bom great, others achieve great-mess great-mess nnd others have greatness thrust upon them." A nation which lias no memory of Its departed great Is In a bad way. So also Is that nation which ' 'has no thought of Its historic landmarks. land-marks. And how often is that historic landmark n tree I , Anyway, the American Forestry association as-sociation of Washington Is compiling a "Who's Who" of trees In America nnd peoplo nil over tho country are nominating worth-while trees for a Hall of Fame for Trees. The movement move-ment Is popular. It should be. Many o tree lias associations worth preserving preserv-ing for posterity. If a tree can lie said to he born ( grout, here la one. It Is the Stratford- on-Avon oak lu Central pnrk, New (York city, nominated for the Hall of Fame by Miss Viola Overman. This .treellng wns sent to Walter lltnvn 1'nge, when he was ambassador to tho Court of .St. James, by the mayor of historic Stratford, it was forwarded to the Shakespeare Garden committee of Central park and planted, with appropriate ceremonies. Of course, tlio finest example of nchleved greatness Is the Gen. Sherman Sher-man sequoia In Sequoia National park, California. It Is the biggest nnd old-est old-est living thing on earth. It Is 30.5 feet In diameter and 270.0 feet high. It Is more than -1.000 years old. A tree that lias nchleved greatness of a different kind Is the Carhondnlo (Pa.) elm, nominated by E. M. Peck; it is believed to ho the moit perfectly proportioned pro-portioned elm tree In the United States. A tree that had greatness tl.rust upon It or at least notoriety was tlio giant Cottonwood that stood In the middle of tho street In Pueblo, Colp., until It was cut down In 18S3. Its age was estimated at 3S0 years; Its circumference was liS feet. Beneath this tree the tlrst white womnn who died In Colorado was hurled. Thirty-six Thirty-six people were massacred by Indians under It. Fourteen men were hanged on Its branches. Many of our historic trees are dead; moi't'd the pity. For the Old Mulberry tree at St. Mary's, Md., the claim Is made that It was tho most famous tree In the colonies. The claim will 'be disputed by many, particularly by the friends of the great trees on Boston common, which saw so much history written. Both trees fell In 1870, ono hundred years after the Declaration of Independence. All the history of Maryland Is written around the Old Mulberry, for it was thero Lord Col-vert Col-vert landed nnd It was for years the site of the capital of Maryland. The old Mulberry tree Ib nominated by Mrs. Delia Harris Moddox, who has written a poem nhout the famous tree. Of the liMnMe Utrn common It linn been written: "Probnbly no other oth-er spot In tho United Stntes has seen fo many thousands of m$n recruited for mllltnry service ... or so many millions of dollars contrlbut-d for the cause of human liberty." V'tio of the trees on tho common tndm is of primeval pri-meval origin. All have hen planted, nnd rwtge between one hundred nnd H &&HH-HPf 'W T sfft iB-ifl gC& wEsJPTSAT'StVt J 9M (fas c- vy55av'vp,; TMWmZrjjf oah&j. two ltundred years of age. The two greatest wero Liberty tree and tlier Great elm. The former was destroyed in 1775 and its place is now marked by a memorial table. Tho Plrcat elm was the native king of the common nnd wns full-grown nbout 1722. It wns destroyed In n gnlo In 1870. It was only last May that the famous fa-mous Morse elm at the corner of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania avenue nnd Fourteenth street, ono of the oldest landmarks In the national na-tional capital, wns removed, after n long, hut losing light for Its life, which began when Fourteenth street was widened. Tills tree had looked down upon every ev-ery Inaugural parade held In Washington. Wash-ington. It wns nuiiied for Samuel F. B. Morse. Inventor of the telegraph. Under the Lafayette elm at Kenne-bunk, Kenne-bunk, Me., General Lafayette lunched while touring the United States. The tree Is nominated by Miss Ellen Dar-raeh Dar-raeh of West Philadelphia. Soldiers of five wars have been drilled beneath the John Pemberton oak, nominated by Mrs, II. F. Lewis, secretary of Virginia for the D. A. It. Under this tree Col. John Pemberton mustered his troops for the battle of King's mountain In 1781. A marker has been placed on the tree by the Sycamore Shoals chapter. The DeSoto oak at Tampa was nominated nom-inated by J. E. Worthlngtnn of the Tampa Times. It lias a spread of 120 feet with a height of 80 feet. In 1530 Ferdinand DeSoto was appointed governor gov-ernor of tho provinces of Florida and Cuba, nnd with nbout 1,000 of Spain's most wealthy and adventurous young men set out for the conquest of the New World. "The Corner oaks nt the foot of Marlln's mountain at Marllnton, W. Va., nro nominated by Andrew Price. These onks wero marked "General Andrew An-drew Lewis, October 0. 1751." Gen. Lewis was tho hero of Point Pleasant nnd was tho military trainer and patron pa-tron of George Washington, who tried to get I-wls appointed commander In chief In the Kovolutlon. Other candidates announced as liav-i liav-i Ing been given n place in tlio ns- soclatlon's records nro ns follows: The Battle Ground oak, marking tho battle of Guildford (N. C.) courthouso in the Revolutionary war. The Sycamore tree, shading tho hendqunrters of Gen. Washington at White Plains. The Cornwallis-Aaron Burr ouk at Charlotte, N. C. Tho Lewis Cass tree in tlio City park of Elyrio, O. The McDonough oak at New Orleans, Or-leans, named for the man whoso fortune for-tune helped to found the public school systems lu New Orleans nnd Baltimore. Balti-more. The Crosswlcks oak In New Jersey, marking the site of n Revolutionary war hospital and hendqunrters of the Hessian troops. The Live oak at Pomona, Cal., marking mark-ing the spot where In 1S37 the first white settlers camped In Pomona valley. val-ley. The White oak that marks the site, of the bnttles on Keith's hill In King Phillip's wars and "IInHsanlinlsco,n now Grafton, lass. The Vaulting Polo Cottonwood. Ilosen Pierce returned from tlio War of 1812 to his home, near Norrls City. III. It was In the spring of 1815, nnd on January 8 of that year ho hurt helped Gen. Jackson whip the British In the battle or New Orleans. He left n vaulting polo sticking In tho soft ground; It lived nnd grew. The Gen. Johnston onk on the Shlloh battlefield. Under this tree Gen. Albert Al-bert Sidney Johnston was killed. Tho Washington- onk near Santee, S. O. The San Diego mission palm. Tills Is the only ono remaining of the four planted In 1700. The Blunston oak, Just over tho Philadelphia line. This tree was mentioned men-tioned In n deed In 1083 and from beneath be-neath it In 1777 General Washington watched his nrmy march from Philadelphia Phila-delphia to Chndd's ford. Tlio Snssafrns tree nt nnrrlsburg, now 208 yenra old. It wns 15 yenrs old when John Ilnrrls, Jr., son of tho mirh who founded the Pennsylvania capital, was born. |