The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13

I cayed to such an extent that only e thin she'll of wood and bark was sup- porting 1t. Any storm might destroy it. .
 At this juncture MT. James Wood ward. President of the Hanover Na- tional Bank. of New York City, came | to the rescue. He told the committee l that he would defray whatever ex- penses might be occasioned by the re- pairs to the tree. Mir Woodward was | . former resident of Maryland, fs a member of the Board ot Directors of St. John't College, and has before this earned the gratitude of the college by various benefactions. He sent down to Annapolis an expert tree doctor. who at once set to work to save the Liberty Tree.
 Tho method adopted has been to cut out all the decayed wood around the l cavity in the trunk, and carefully treat
 1t and clean 1t with chemicals. Then l1the entire hollow space win be filled with cement groutins. This will keep the air out, thus preventing further decay. and will give permanent supporr 1 and stability to the great tree
 Experience in other cases where this treatment was used has shown that the surrounding bark : eventually grows over and covers the cement filling. If
 the said filling does not project beyond 1 the edges of the cavity.
 The best known landscape architects of the country employ this method Of | tree preservation, among them Olmsted Brothers and Manning Brothers. It has been used successfully at Rhine- beck. the Levi P. Morton estate on the Hudson. at the James R Roosevelt place at Oyster Bay, and on the es- tates of the Rockefellers. Iseiins and many other prominent people.
 At first 1t was thought that twenty five tons of cement would be sufficient to patch up tile wound of the historic tree, but fifty tons have been used up to date on the work. The gigantic tree measures over thirty seven feet in cir conference at It's base. Besides the repairs to the main cavity. all decayed limbs will be removed and all wounds covered with paint and cement. In this way it is hoped that the old tree will survive several centuries more.
 Aside from the fact that 1t has stood
 on the site of Annapolis so many hum
 dred years, the Liberty Tree has ac-
 quired additional fame owing to inter esting happenings under the shade of
 its branches. In 1852 treaty of peace
 was signed there between the British
 colonists of Annapolis and the sachems
 of the susquehannock Indians, the or
 iginai inhabitants of the region.
 Washington is said to have danced be-
 meath it when he visited St Johr's
 College after the close of the Revolu-
 tionary War And later, in 1924. on
 the occasion of Lafayette's last visit 70
 the United States, grand reception
 was given, in his honor under the state-
 ly old poplar tree.
 inga at this historic spot was the cele-i
 brafion, a few months ago of tneE afst
 nifation of st Johns, College wttM the
 University of Maryland, on which oc-
 oasion large number of notablss as
 sembied. s
 st. yohf,s College, on whose campus
 the Liberty Tree stands. enjoys the dis
 function of heinz the third oldest in-
 stitution of learning in the United
 states. It Is the ofrspring of King
 Williams School, which was founded Tn
 1894, The first effort to found 1t was
 made in 1871, but there was legisia- tive delay of various kinds. Had t
 not been for this, the, school would have been the second to be established in the American Colonies. as 1t would have immediately followed Harvard College, But owing to the delay AVil- Ham and Mary College in virginia got ahead of it.
 Tn i7s4 the name of the instipntioh
 was changed to St. Johns College.
 The exercises under the tree on .s 18th of next month will have, as tneir main feature, the placing of tapiet with this inscription.
 .aThis tablet is placed upon the Lio- erty Tree by The Peggy stewart Tea Party Chapter Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution of Annapolis. Mary land, in commemoration or the lace that washington and Lafayette have i sat beneath its shade. and that the | first treaty with the susquehannock Tn. dIans was made here in A. D. lS52.
 Anoher feature of the exercises VIII he an address by Governor Warfield of Maryland. Afterward girls, dressed in | the costume of Tea Party days. VIII serve cups of the "detested beverage.