New-York tribune., 1903-02-15
TRANSPORTING BIG TREES.
wow THE NEW COUNTRY HOME OF C.
IEDYARD BLAIR IS BEING ADORNED.

Recause the site selected by him for Blalrs-
Ten his beautiful S25O0ooo summer nome heai
Gladstone. N. J., was devoid of suitable snaoe
&c n Iedvard Blair banker of this city,
hos resorted to the novel expedient OF Trans
,,antine over seyenty-fiye full grown dees
from Chester n J., eight miles distant Al
Tho selection of a location for his country hoie'
Mr. Blair wanted quiet, 3 beanlllu We" ~
plenty of shade. The spot setecteo ohei a.
but the shade. Out IN the heius pe
little town of Chester, where one "onio ieAS'
expect to find them, Mr. Blair found the 'eis
trees he wanted: tall straight, clean cut ihafies
But how to unite residence and trees ooNaous
~ he could moi give up the advantages Oh 'he
location chosen for his house Tor the Sane VI
the one advantage Of shade TO plant sonne
+raas a,. wait for them to grow would mean
years in perfecting the beauties OF Blairsoeh-
There was only way out OF the oleIhfia'
the trees must come to Blairsden eoh'rae'oi
was called in and the task OF taxing up over
seventy-fye full grown NAPLES, Transporting
them eight miles and replanting them was
begun a few weeks ago.
II was not an easy task nor economical
task The work has gone forward Slowly, Out
the contractor says surely, and although only
some of the big trees have been transplah'eu eu
thus far they are confident that with suitable
weather they will be able to get the remainder
of the trees in place before the sap begins TO
flow There is no choice about this part OF the
fob; the work must be done before the sap ruhs'
for all familiar with tree culture kno" II is
sure death to a maple to attempt It's uahspofta-
ton with the sap running Inc sap IN the
sugar NAPLES usually begins to run IN Inc latter
part of March or the hrst OIL APRIL oepehoihs oh
the weather and LATITUDE
At first it was awkward work moving the big
a
larlv big maple was being tugged up the last
stretch of the steep, winding road leading to
Blairsden, something gave way, and the tree
rolled over off the dray, smashed the roadside
fence and went crashing down through the
ravine below until at last it snapped like a
pipe stem against big stump in its path Now
the work is going forward more smoothly, but it
is a big days work when two of the trees have
been slung upon trucks drawn by eight and
sometimes fourteen horses and safely trans
planted in the big court before Blarsden-
H. A Jaeger, the Newark contractor who has
the work in hand, is earnestly hoping the cold
weather will last, for it not only makes the
transplanting safer for the trees themselves but
insures a good, hard, frozen roadbed which
the great loads may be safely hauled. AS they
are rugged for transportation the trees weigh,
according to size, from ten TO fifteen tons each.
and all bridges alorg the road have been rein
forced.
The trees which have trunks from sixteen TO
twenty inches in diameter and are from fifty to
sixty feet taIl are coming into something of
the glory originally Intended for them. In the
olden days when the town Of Chester first
laid out it was confidently expected it would
one day become a great city. Many of the
large property holders could see how the greater
Chester would look, and they conceived plans to