Evening star., 1886-09-04
10 the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:

40 the EDITOR OF TIE EVENING STAR:
Wouldn't IL be the right time now for Col.
Wilson, ~ the proper authority, to instruct
thoss msn under hiIn who go every year about
this time around trimming the trees TO culti-
vate lf) their growth-to clean our beautiful
trees oi those 50 much talked-Of cateTpiIlarS?
II would be no more trouble for them To do th is
than 10 cut strong healthy limbs OFF ID pro-
tectioo tor the trees. Everybody notices every
season the reckless way that this trimming
business Ii carried on. Give, therefore, the clIi-
zens now ehanys, 10 see for themselves what
Is more destructive To the trees: The trimmers
or the caterpIlGars? Also, why is il that Col.
Wilson don'I open for the public that reservs-
ton west OF loth street aud north of Penn
syivania avenue. This is the only reservation
In this part OF the city which is still strongly
fnciosed. Even the " ashington Circle now
laid cut aud planted. p.
The Destruction OF Trees.
To the Editor of Thk EvESING STAR:
The worms are eating up our beautiful shade
trees; net On our streets only, but also in our
beautiful parks, and what Is worse, Is that the
trees in the White House grounds are being
destroyed Will you please tell Us what the
duties OF the park commissioners are, IL they
are not 70 care for trees, shrubbery and grass?
II the park com mmissioners have no knowedse
Of how 70 Keep the trees clean, can tney hot
learn from The commissioner OF agriculture? l
lnduiged In these thoughts, SO i went into his
GroSRdS, and 10! his trees too were attacked as
badly rs any, and no effort is being made 10
protect thsa1 Indeed. have not seen or heard
OF 80 much - . sugs estlon from either OF these
able o0cers- Why all this tU-do by Congress
about protesting the forests OF the public
domain. wnen the very men appointed to care
SOr the trees and sbruboery al the national
capital, surrounding the building OF agriculture
Essii, are permitting them To be destroyed? X.
Atmospheric COnditiOns and the Earth.
quake.
Ts The Editsr Of the THE EVENING STAR
2AviRS been Q subscriber and reader of TIE
srAR from 1858 up TO the present time, SHE
time Of the wave ~ often as possible, time and
place being favorable" have read The STAR
OF to-day. and. as l particularly noted the un-
settled condition of our old planet at near lO
O'Clock last night, hoped 10 see something
hoea TME STAR which would give some Iig
upon the matter. l read Carefully everything
On the subject IL Dtained, but iaiI To see auy.
thing near what / know to be the fact
stated so tar. ! have the Greenwich
time. which was s:54 p. IN. when the first shock
Iaisea the window in my bedroom, and Sat by
II, expecting 10 smell the substance OF sulphur
"whicn, as lar a. i have learned, generaiiy Iol
lows AL interior disturbance. bat such was not
the cAss." The sky WAS cloudiess the air was
stili, The stars were more bright than usual
All the ethereal world seemed To De grand and
sublime rspose. WAS thinking of New Zealand
and Then vi Greece when l ieil Old m ther earl b
heAve another soit sigh; time, 9:59. My idea
WAS then ~ look over the horizon and try to
nna " possible there was any connection ol
this earlAly throo with the ethereal world
serene a. before. looked to % See ia,m naw r.S aaa
Major and the North star were behaving.
1ound them calm and stately-elear and bright
a y their won't
There wa. nothing in the surrounding
heavens 70 indicate that there was something
wrong In this iIttle world of ours. 4 noticed
ShAt several astronomers OF mole said in youl
Issue VI to-day that astronomy had nothing Il
do with earthquakes / beg leave To di1ier oI
ehat point anu VIII cite as authority Tine Eve
AerSAeil9 "tycne Breshe," "kepler," '.Cor
penncu., Prof. DICK, OF England and Others o
EnSiAsd, France aud Germany, WHO h.v,
eurtances by the influence OF oIhe
pianeb In drawing or forcing away tnI
earth oy their position, in conjunction
or quadrant or opposition. do not propose l,
eet nay lille knowledge of astronomy agalns
ouch professors, but believe Inat astronomy il
one ol the tniugs which neither grows olu no
hns been much iinpros ed since the time OF Gal
Uieo. Suppose bs 1su have possessed oi ;
glass hke tus one In our national Observatory
Inc people uho have Lived SINCE has e,artun
would have learned why hss thus To u
orisf As possible, l will give one OF HersneiI'
Ideas OF earthquakes, here IL is-He assume
thai the inferior OF the earIn Is nioitel
matter, that II has waves ike the oeeai
and that the action OF such waves under
mines And loUsens great masses of solid earti
with which u oUIncs in contact, Causing ,rea
volumes vi solid inaIter 10 be displaced ifou
Its eternal foundation, falling Ia Io Tie sealhiu
enaIorUn below, causing a mighty wave 10 lIV
place " the solid contents SO suddenly iorce'
mo iD positlon that Toom must be made for -
vaSl = Quantity oI matter immediately; hence
The csust os earth being InIn comparatively
oust Yield 70 50 mighty ii force, ana In yieIdi M
bne suIIaoo must cOuIOrn IO the In error.
Ihe second shock ~as at lU:U0 lasted 30 Sc,
ono; the third shock Was lu.l4. lasted about =,
second. Mr.. Editor, these are IacIs as lar a
TINE ~ my Clock goes, and 1t has not varie,
one minute IN six months.
Very respectfully, &C.,
sept. ], 1885. Nm. G. HOFFMAN