The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-08-19
TINE Tragedy off,.
= A Tree.

When furious wind comes raging
along and blows down a giant oak that
has been a comfort and a delight for
generations of men, who can stand be-
side the exposed roots without feeling
the shudder excited by a waiting grave?
Last fall there was a wind storm in
Marietta that broke off limbs and blew
down trees to a sad extent. Two of
the tallest oaks in town were uprooted
and If they had fallen toward the houses
they shaded the destruction might
have been terrible. One of those trees
fell on Powder Springs Street, iujuring
a few flowers and opening tremen-
dous grave of red clay. The owner of
that tree was thankful it did not crush
her home and allowed it to rest as it
fell, only having the roots and limbs
cut away and planting vines to bury
the fallen giant, explaining to her
neighbors that she did not need any
wood for fires now.
The other tree stood almost at the
front steps of great brick mansion far
out on Kennesaw Avenue and when it
went down in the storm many smalle r
trees lost their heads and limbs and
stood like wounded survivors of a bat
tie. The mistress of that mansion is
over eighty years old. She danced
at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt's
mother in Roswell about sixty years
ago, and her life is now like placid
stream, but she has daughter, a smil-
ing, blue-eyed, compact little dynamo
of enthusiasm and sincerity, who could
not bear to see that beloved oak lie
PROSTATE waiting for the funereal fires
She summoned surgeons from the
carpenters shop, with sharp cross.cut
saws. and marshalled all the help need
ed to dispose OF the tree in ways to
soften the desolation of its absence.
The trunk was first cut smoothly off
about ten feet from the roots and this
former upright position, so, when the
eyes of the lady lifted their chances
from her reading on the porch, they
could rest on the tree as they had done
all the days of her life and there was
not the shock as of a vacant chair be-
side the hearth
Next the saw cut great block from
} the trunk to be used as a sacrihcial altar
sacred to luscious watermelons anC
erected on the lawn beside the western
/ steps of side porch. Then the rest o.
the great trunk was sawn into section,
= about three feet high and placed il
rows under the arbOr across one side O
the back yard beside the flower garden
, This would be called 'pergola" now
, but the stately old southerners befor
the war who planted vines for shade ant
beauty always called them "arbors"
THIS one has vine of wistaria AM
one of banksia roses whose foliage i
thick enough to form the coolest shad
to be desired. When the vines ar
blooming, the purple clusters of wis
: taria and the dainty yellow roses max
splendor of beauty, thrilling beyond
expression. A dense cluster of fig tree
e joins this arbor and beyond it stands
I. solid wall of beautiful trees-oaks
: poplars and other natives of our forest
: making a lovely background for tn
s picture. Just now there is new not
of interest in the trees on this place
because they are under the care of
forest physician What do you thinl
of having trees doctored and prune,
and restored to symmetry by the use o
t cements and stains 2
o You know the proneness of appl
= trees and poplars to have cavities il
!, which blue-birds and squirrels nest
e Well, there was an apple tree, showing
ravages of age, and a tall beautiful
poplar with hollow trunk both YER
n near this old mansion and very pathet
O to their friends The tree surgeon
have rejuvenated that apple-tree ant
filled the cavity of the poplar so as t.
add years to their benefcent lives
Many of the injured oaks are also bein,
I treated and restored to degree of thei
former beauty. A. l.. c.