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Arrangement OF Trees That Makes
Our Streets, Parks, and Squares
"a Delight 10 the Eye Of the Artist
Ond a Source of New Pleasure TO
HE; Weary MISUNDERSTANDING
dIcd ArChWayS Of Nature x y *

silver naples. This is still the
dominant tree of the city, but thous-
ands of them are looking scraggy and
ing of hardy hardwoods has been go
| ing on, and these woods, besides be-
! ing handsomer than the soft naples, are
more enduring and compact in foliage.
and thus generally more serviceable as
street trees. Their branches being stout
er. they Withstand wind and sleet bet
ter than soft naples. Among the trees
| that are finding favor are oaks, princi-
| pally red and post oaks, rock naples,
buckeyes, and honey locusts. Large
numbers of American lindens and east
ern and western planes are coming to
maturity in the city ways.
Some of the features of tree life in
Washington are the splendid arcades
which are growing in some streets.
Many of these are worthy of note One
of the very interesting of these is the
Gingko Way along the north drive of
the Agricultural Grounds. II is a Gu
rious tree of the confer kind Although
always pointed out by guides as a Jap
dueSe tree, II Is not native OF tnat
country. but transplant. having been
taken to Japan from the continent of
Asia by Buddhist priests, who hold the
gingko in especial reverence. 1t does
not grow wild in Japan, and it is now
only in remote parts Of Mongolia that
wild individuals of the species are to
be found. 1t is largely planted about
the Buddhist temples in Japan, and 1t
grows commonly to a height of 100 feet
Those in the Agricultural Grounds are
young and about fifty feet high. One of
the strange things about this tree is that
male and female flowers do not grow
on the same tree. The fruit has
fieshy covering and rancid taste. The
kernel of the almond-like pit is es-
teemed delicacy in China and Japan,
and is generously displayed in the mar
kets Of those countries.
Two rows of gingkos grow in Pierce
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state House-or the big electric equip
ment employed on large Office buildings.
The mechanism that makes the flash IS
very simple, is automatic, and can be
connected easily and without interfer-
ence with the regular lighting system.
One other point is that the human eye is
so slow to notice motion at n distance
that the ball may fall half the length
OF its staff before the observer sees that
II has started; and as the time is in
dicated at the instant on which the hall
is released, there is likely to arise an
appreciable error, Of some consequence
in the regulation of instruments that re-
quire great accuracy. The effect OF light
is. of course. practically instantaneous.
Three kinds of night time signals are
proposed. The first and simplest is a
single signal at preconcerted hour. say
o'clock Fifteen seconds before that
time the lights would be shut off and ex-
actly On the hour the automatic mechan-
ism would be released by telegraph from
an astronomical observatory and the
lights fash on again. The relighting
would mark the exact moment OF time.
This would require an attendant. Of
course, Just as the time ball does. and 1t
would be necessary for the observer to
be watching for the signal at the pre-
arranged hour. An extension of the idea
includes auxiliary clock work located at
the building on which the lights are dis
played. The mechanism is made to run
exactly four minutes and forty-five sec
onds, and then TO shut off the lights and
connect the telegraph apparatus with
them so that when the signal from the
observatory comes they will be turned
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Approach 10 the Capitol,
SOffCned and BeOutfIed as Sum-
mGr Brings Out the Leaves Of the
Oriental PIdne-ThC Picturesque
GingRO Trees Of the Agricultural
Department Grounds - X ~ II

The arboreal arcade nearest perfect In
Washington is on New York Avenue,
between Ninth and Thirteenth Streets.
The parking in the middle of the thor
oughfare and through which the trac-
tion cars run, is arched over by ma
ture elms and at the curbs grow old
silver naples. which with the elms COM
pletely shade the carriageway outside
the parking. There are parts of New
York Avenue on which the summer sun
never falls.
The walk from the Peace Monument
to the Capitol, which is shaded by
oriental planes. is one Of the show
trees was brought from the Vale of
Cashmere and propagated In the Bo-
tanic Garden. Western planes grow on
both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue west,
but conditions are adverse to trees on
that great street. The best display Of
Western planes in the city is on Elev-
enth Street, from Pennsylvania Avenue
to the boundary. the trees being pros
porous and distinguished looking north
or street.
The honey locusts that shade Thir-
teenth- -and-a-half Street from D to the
Agricultural Grounds ought not to be
overlooked. They are very handsome
and stalwart trees.
Eighteenth Street from E Street south
to the Monument Lot is one Of the heav-
lily timbered streets of the town. the
shade being furnished by poplars.
The tulip trees that border Rhode
Island Avenue promise to form fine
wooded way, and New Hampshire Ave-
nue., from Iowa Circle to U Street is be-
ing slowly and steadily overreached by
magnificent elms.
Old residents of Capitol Hill remem-
ber the rows of catalpas that grew along
the parking in Pennsylvania Avenue
east. This tree has been abandoned as
street tree. but many specimens of this
curious tree with pendent "cigars" may
be seen in the Capitol Grounds. Agricul-
tural Grounds, and the private gardens
of old residences.
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the house hundred years before for his
eldest son, her grandfather, upon his
coming of age.
trees, level as a floor. as it is to this
Cay. out into the well travelled bride
path leading TO the banks of the Paw
tuxet, through the fields that gave to
the home of the Greenes its name in
the Indian tongue. Occupasnetuxet:
The meadows through which-the-river-
flows" and so up to Providence town
they went.
Tradition fails to tell us what they
talked about. Perhaps it was the glories
OF the French court. Perhaps it was
the fate Of her handsome and gallant
brother. Col Christopher Greene, the
future hero of Red Bank. who. when
last heard from. was toiling through the
Maine woods with Arnold's expedition,
bound TO capture Quebec, and of whom
no news had been gained for many
anxious months. The outcome of tho
war too might have been their theme.
But there must have been some other
topic of conversation. We are sure OF
that, and possibly We can imagine Esaat
it was.
At least we know the good old Doctors
conversation was not entirely fatherly
in its tone. for when they reached home.
at the close of the day, Mistress Betty
informed her honored father OF the re-
suit of the days outing in these words:
Don't you ever ssk me to ride with
that old fcol again"
Which shows that the American girl
of 1875 was not less free to express her
MIND. regardless of the considerations
of age and high station, than her sisters
of 1907
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| In the stormy times of 1775 and 1916
Benjamin Franklin returned from
France to America crowned with laurcls
as the greatest scientist and diplomat Of
the age. At that time there sat upon
the bench OF the court of common pleas
of Kent county OF Rhode Island, as chief
justice. man of the same age as DR..
Franklin. of commanding presence, OF
stern rectitude. whose word was law.
and whose opinions were sought upon all
subjects and regarded with Difference
This was Phillip Greene, whose beauti-
full home on the shore of Narragansett
Bay lay just below the famous Gaspee
Point.
1t was natural that DR.. Franklin, when
visiting Governor William Greene, at
East Greenwich. should become firm
friend Of Judge Phillip Greene. who
rode frequently from his home at Oc-
cupasnetuxet to the statehouse in East
Greenwich to hold his court. and that
the ancestral house beneath the elms
OF Occupasnetuxct should receive the
distinguished guest beneath its roof.
1t was natural. too, was 1t not, that
the distinguished DR.. Franklin. being a
widower of sufficiently long standing to
begin to take notice. should be attract
ed by the brilliant mind and piquant
wit OF the youngest daughter of the
house, Betty. thon at an age when fas-
cinating women are said to be most
dangerously fascinating. when an eHper-
ience of .he world has added dignity and
grace to the charms OF beauty and of
mind.
Perhaps 1t was natural. too, that Mis-
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that it should be confined to the use of
Harvard Observatory, but that it may
be employed wherever the service OF
an astronomical station to furnish ac-
Curate time signal. Is available. He has
suggested that il the Statue of Liberty
in New York harbor were equipped fer
the display of time flashes at night, it
might be made more useful than it has
ever been before. A service similar to
that in Cambridge is being furnished
by private enterprise in Boston. the
time being taken from the Harvard OBJ
servatory.
A special usefulness OF time signals is
to the masters of vessels in the rat
ing" of their chronometers-that is. in
determining the rate of gain or loss
which the instruments show each day.
In this connection Mr.. Gerrish makes a
very interesting suggestion OF the pos
sible use OF lighthouses not only as
warning beacons but as time signals for
mariners Most OF the big lanterns are
what are called fixed white" lights
that is to say. they are merely powerful
points OF illumination marking either
spots OF danger or entrances to harbors.
II would seem perfectly feasible - at
tach time signal apparatus to them. US
ing some form OF electro mechanical
shutter instead of electric lights. and
thus giving the passing sailor the bene-
fit of the same service that ship in
the harbor would have. The operation
OF the light would then not be very diff
ferant from the system, which has been
experimental with more or less on our
Atlantic coast. by which the lighthouse
flashes out its government number. Just
as the number of i fire alarm box is
struck on the gong IA an engine house.
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on again automatically exactly on the
fifth minute. The same signal which re-
leases the lights will give the clockwork
another start, which will in turn insure
the lights being turned OF again in four
minutes and forty-five seconds ready for
the next signal. In this way signals will
be given every five minutes as long as
in a timepiece can be corrected by them
accurately.
The third plan Is much more com
plete; in fact. 1t reproduces. by means
OF a telegraphic relay, or repeating in
strument, all OF the signals of a great
observatory clock. At tho Harvard Oh
servatory the relay connected directly
with the clock beats every two seconds.
emitting one beat before each minute
mark is reached, so that the exact min
ute may be easily noted, and twelve
beats before each fve-minute mark.
Applied to a big bank OF lights, this
method will cause momentary interrupt
tions at two-second intervals with a
pause at the end OF each minute and a
longer interval at the end of each FIVE
minutes, during which time the lights
would burn steadily. In other words. it
repeats exactly. on q tremendous scale.
the working Of the big clock at the OBJ
servatory.
1t is this third pInn that has been
adopted for the signals at Cambridge.
The bank OF lights Is not particularly
large here, but 1t Is intended to serve
a comparatively small territory, and to
be a practical example of how the new
method can be applied. The whole de-
vice is Mr.. Gerrish's. and his idea is not
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= HE arboreal population OF Wash
|. ington-if that phrase may pass
l is approximately 100000 which


ington-if that phrase may pass
! is approximately 100000 which
is a greater number than may
be counted in any other American city.
even though one municipality up by
the Great Lakes is called the For
the number of trees growing in
Washington exceeds the number in any
other city in the world, with the pos
sible exception of Paris. where, ac-
co-ding TO a recent census, there are
95, GOO trees of public character-that
is. trees that are under the care of city
officers.
In the streets and reservations of the
National Capitol there flourish speci-
mems o. the sylvia of the world, but more
strikingly of that of the temperate zones
of North and South America and north
ern Asia Almost every family of tree
is represented here, from the smallest
barberry japanese arbor vitae and the
daintiest little maple OF Japan to the
loftiest plane tree. the broadest elm,
and the sturdiest oak. The local sylvia is
undergoing a change which tree lovers
note with satisfaction.
When the municipal authorities at
first gave attention to beautifying the
city they planted quick growing trees,
mostly poplars of Lombardy. Columbia
and silver varieties. They did the best
they could with the light they had. be-
cause it is only in late years that the
question of the relative merit of trees
as street trees has been studied by ar
boriculturists in careful and methodical
way. Only a few of the early poplars
survive, and these mainly on Thirteenth
Street. between Pennsylvania Avenue
and the grounds of the Department OF
Agriculture, and on Street, between
Ninth and Eighteenth Streets.
The planting of the poplars was fol-
lowed by the setting out of the
fast growing soft naples. mostly
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frequently met with there and in Ger
many and France. it being almost ar
ideal park tree.
The Twelfth Street red oaks are young.
appearing to be not quite twenty years
old but they are among the healthiest
looking trees in the District. and will
doubtless grow to be the biggest street
trees in the city, though they will have
competitors for this honor in the oaks
that grow in the driveways on the east
and west of the White House, and in the
tulip poplars that grow in Sixteenth
Street and Rhode Island Avenue.
The double row of American lindens
that line Massachusetts Avenue from
Ninth Street to Dupont Circle is one Of
the very attractive features of Washing
ton. The sidewalks are already embow-
cred under these trees. and not many
years will pass before Massachusetts
Avenue. broad Though it is. will be
arched By these trees. They are we'll
nourished and their foliage is dense.
r Street from Thirteenth Street west
is one OF the prettiest linden ways in
the city. and though the trees are young
whole squares OF this street are arched
over.
One OF the goodly sights for the tree
lover is the long line of buckeyes that
border Thirteenth Street from Iowa Cir
Gle to U Street. There are about thirty
four OF these trees to the square with
out a break south OF T Street, north Of
which few hard naples are mixed in.
The street was especially beautiful dur
ing the first fortnight In May. when
these buckeyes were in flower.
Sixteenth Street is second to none as
a wooded highway. iom H Street to the
Boundary the trees at the curb are
sugar naples and between the building
line and the footwalk tulip poplars grow
and apparently are growing well. X
Street. between Ninth Street and Wash
ington Circle. can show many beautiful
arcades of silver naples. branches Of
this tree are interlocked over NJ Street,
between Twelfth and Thirteenth.
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asst night the Harvard Observ

put into operation a system of
IL giving time signals by electric
lights which will serve the same
purpose as the daily noon time ball. but
will be much more efficient in many
ways. There seems every reason TO be-
lieve. in fact. that it Will, for many pur-
poses. eventually entirely replace the
time ball. The system was devised by
Mr.. Willard p. Gerrish. who has. for a
number OF years. had charge of the time
reckOnings Of the observatory and its
great clock and telegraphic time service
He made his first experiments in 1889
and practically perfected his present
method of operation last year. but the
signals at the Harvard Observatory to-
night are the first that have ever been
officially and regularly brought into use.
Mr.. Gerrish says that ths advantages
over the time ball ia employing the cleo
trio fash TO indicate an exact amount Of
time are several. An ordinary three-foot
time ball is visible to the naked eye at
distance of perhaps two miles; large
bank OF incandescent electric lights can
be seen at least ten miles away and so
Is visible to fully twenty-five times as
many people. The operation of the time
ball. moreover involves such expense
that IT IS impracticable TO use it more
than once a day, for an attendant has
TO hoist II by machinery to the top OF its
mole so that It may be ready TO drop
when Il is released by telegraph.
MIR. Gerr!sh's plan is TO employ lights
which arc already in use, such as the
Examinations on some conspicuous pab-
lie building-like the circles of lamps
outlining the dome OF the Massachusetts
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PIV 110D VFcI "VIVH i" D 'I'LI VI
giving time signals by electric
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Quebec and Ontario, but is scattered
through the Appalachians as far south
as northern Georgia. 1t sometimes at
tains height of $50 feet. 1t is near
relative of the Texas oak. 1t was intro
duced into England in 1892, and may be
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Place. but they do not appear to te
thrifty. The street is very narrow, and
that side OF the trees nearest the build
ing line Is undeveloped for want of
sunlight.
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trees in Washington are the red oaks of
Twelfth Street from Ohio Avenue south.
The red oak. or the quercus rubra, is one
of the largest and stanchest of American
best in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
The Monticellonian., 1902-07-11
Luna was a Filipino leader whom Aguinaldo caused to be killed in 1899.
PRESIDENT AT OYSTER BAY.
Only Most Immediate Public Busi- ness to He Trsnsacted-intend to
 Have a Holiday in Fact.

Oyster Bay, x. r., July 6.-In dis cussing the presidents stay at Oys- ter Bay, Secretary Cortelyou to-day said that there seemed to be con siderable misapprehension as to some features of it. He stated that there would be no elaborate office estab- lished and that the only clerical force maintained would consist of two stenographers. Arrangements have about been concluded for its use of two rooms in the Bank building for office purposes, and it will be there that the president will transact most of his business when he comes into town. Both the president and his sec retary have planned to make their brief holiday as restful as possible, and 10 that end willtransact in Oyster Bay only the most immediate public business. Everything else will be transmitted to Washington for at tention there, either by the regular White House force, ot in cases where other action is required, by the yari- ous departments. This is in accord ance with the practice which has been followed successfully during previous summers. The president will not re- ceiye delegations, and hopes to have all matters intended for him not of the most pressing importance submit ted by correspondence.
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TRAIN OVERTURNED AT BEND.
One Woman Killed and Twenty Per sons Injured in an Electric
 Car Wreck in Colorado.

Denver, Col, July "A special to the News from Boulder, Col says: Tn an aeeident on the Chantauqua street car line Mrs. Jennie Richards was killed and 20 persons injured. The ears were heavily loaded, and the chain brakes used on the tra,lers failed to hold the train. |. rushed down the hill with tremendous ,eloci- ty, the train oTerturning Tt a bend in the track at the Sisters oi St. Ger trude's academy. This is distance of about four city blocks from the Chautauqua grounds. Tha motor car was badly wrecked, and it was in tbis and upon the platforms of other ears that most of the serious accidents oc- cured. Of the 200 passengers on the train 20 were badly injured, one fatal ly, others escaping with scratches The academy was turned into d hos pital, the seriously injured being talk en there"
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THEN AND NOW.

A crumbling fort o'erlooks the plain Where iron hail and leaden rain, With thunder of artillery, Once wrought wars work of misery; Yet over me while musirg there Such calm was brooGing. and the air From breath of roses was so sweet, l thought of swords to plowshares beat Kline were seen grazing without fear Over the sloping green-sward near And resting when the noon had come Meath oaks that faced the cannon's boom Which crimsoned many trampIee eieo' Now daisies Heck with snow that sod, While white doves coo unharmed within Redoubts reared for the battles $ dln. Grim parapets no longer frown Upon q pent. beleaguered town; The greater city in its might
 And pride guards the dire conflict ste Sweet homes with comely lawns are seen Browning historic heights serene
 In grace and beauty safe apart
 From tumult of the busy mart
 Nor is the fane forgotten here
 Unto the heart Gevout more oear
 Than grandest mansion wealth rears nigh,
 But shrining poor mortality
 While on that day of all the best
 Thrilled strangely once by the behest
 To arms, the scene is of release,
 Old foes now friends in vows of peace.
 In this slow-crumbllng fort see
 Type of a fray waged bitterly, Yet whose remembered cup of woe Is yielding 10 times tidal flow; Though its dead heroes borne away Whether in blue. or in the gray. | Claim their due share of votive bloom | Often as doth the Maytme come. | w. E. Boies, in Springfield (Mass.) Re- publican.
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IN TURBULENT HAITI.
An Ater-Efection Battle in Which Many Persons Are Re-
 ported Injured.

Port au Prince, Hayti, Friday July 4.-M. Delinois has been elected first deputy for Port au Prince by plur- ality of 500 out of 12,0o0 votes east. After M. Delinois' election had been announced in the customary manner, an attack, which was repulsed, was made on the arsenal by the party hos tile to the deputy. Many persons were wounded on both sides.
 In many of the towns of Hayti no elections have been held, owing to disorder and bloodshed. and it is now believed that no quorum will be ob- tained. and that it will be impossible to organize the chamber of deputies and elect q new president.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
"wil you take me 'roundif I come

"Will you take me 'roun6if 1 come down to see you?" Certainly; Pn take you to the roundhouse." "I'm not moving in railroad circles this year."- Indianapolis News.
 A Give Away.-"No, George" said the girl, regretfully. I'll not sit in the hammock with you this evening. Papa has attached patent device to 1t that registers the ht.o-Chicago Post.
 First Office Boy-"What's Johnny hurryin' fer? Looks like he heard fire alarm" Second Office Boy-eHe did. De boss said if he wasn't back from dat errand in ten minutes he'd lose his job! !"-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
 Wise Doctor.-Mrs. Fondma-"S Sorry to disturb you at this hour. doctor, but we can't imagine what ails the child. :" Doctor-"Cold, perhaps. Did you have him out to-day?" Mrs. Fondma -"Yes, but only to his grandmother's." Doc tor-"Ahl overfed, that's all."-Pbil- adelphia Press.
 Mrs. Able-"How Mrs. Cuttle did run on about the Perkinses! l have no pa tience with a woman who talks so about other folks.' Mrs. Cain-"Neith- CT have l; it's perfectly disgustingl But what Mrs. Cuttle said about the Perkinses was awfully interesting. - Boston Transcript.
 A Let Down.-Prof. Blinkers-'T hope you did not find my lecture too technical, Miss Baynes?" Miss Baynes fwith pride)-"Oh, no, professor was able to follow it all" Prof Blinkers-'I am glad of that, as tried to make it intelligible to the meanest comprehension" Punch.
 Cause and Effect.-Dr. Piller-"Your husbands stomach is in a very bad condition" Mrs. Newlvwed-"Oh my, Do you think my cooking is responsible for it?" Dr. Piller-''Wel, it's se- were case of gastritis, and" Mrs Newlywed-.Gastritis? Gracious! it's that gas range he made me use this summer!"-Philadelphia Press.