Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-18
FOUR MILLION TREES CHANCES CUT TO III
Big Job Ahead for Santa Claus Two of IA Opportunities
This Year. Have Been 0versllbscribed.
new YORK GETS 100000 TWO OTHERS NEARING END
Steamer Docks Are Forest Charitable Washington Responding
Pines and FRS. to Appeals for Help.
POPULARITY ON INCREASE NAMES MADE PUBLIC
Carefully
Guards Identity of
day School Kind. Appeal to It for Assistance
Jew YORK GETS 100000
POPULARITY Is ON INCREASE
Prices Range From Ten Cents a Tree
to Four Dollars for the Sum
day School Kind.

NEW YORK, December 1S.-New York
city wi. use LearIy half million
Christmas trees this year, and the ..ulti-
mate consumer will pay for them $780,
600, or an average. Of 80 cents a tree.
West street, where the steamers from
New England dock, smells like balsam
forest these days, for the Christmas tree
season is at its height and thousands
of small frs are piled up beside the
boat landings, waiting for distribution to
the retail trade.
There appears to be no falling off in
the demand for trees, said dealer,
who handles thirty or forty thousand of
them here every winter. ION the con-
trary. their popularity is increasing so
that already there Is a shortage in the
supply. 1t takes from ten to fifteen
years to raise a tree big enough for use,
and those in the more accessible forests
are fast being cut out.
Four Millions in Whole Country.
Tho whole country, 1 understand,
uses about 100000 trees every year.
said this dealer. New York and New
England alone account for about 1,5O0-
OOO The supply for this corner of the
country comes principally from the hills
of Maine and New Hampshire and from
the Adironacks, Berks. .lres and CATS
kills. The middle west gets its trees
mainly from Minnesota, Michigan and
Wisconsin.
1.-The chief item in the retail cost of
Christmas tree is handling and
transportation. They take a lot OF
room, even when packed close. For
the small trees you buy on the street
for rs cents the farmer who cuts it
gets only about cents, or less ii he
sells the trees standing. The larger
trees used by Sunday schools and IN
situations come as high as So or 81.
For a tree above the average size,
costing at retail 81, the farmer prob
ably receives 10 cents"
Roast Camel Christmas Dinner.
Roast camel is the Christmas sun-
nary novelty in the fashionable res
taurants of Paris this year, according
to advices received here. Paris chefs.
in search of the customary eccentric
delicacy for their annual festival,
found the bear cotelets which were
served last year rather tame, and
missed the elephants foot, which
figured prominently on the menus of
The opportunity for presenting the
jewellers with real camel this year was
afforded by a Hamburg animal train
er, who turned over to the Paris
butchers three animals whose. artistic
capacity had proved a disappointment
to him.
Santa Weighs 562 Pounds.
BROCKTON, Mass, December 1S.-A
group Of Brockton children will have
the heaviest Santa Claus in the coun-
try to officiate at their Christmas fes-
tivities. The entertainer is Charles. II.
Jackson, who weighs $50 pounds. and
has waist measure of 108 inches.
Gift for Every Child.
BINGHAMTON. N. Y, December 49,
Mrs. George j. Gould has arranged to
give Christmas present to every
child in her home town. Drybrook.
Delaware county. The superintendent
Of her estate is now in Kew York as
sisting Mrs. Gould in selecting the
gifts. She will be present at the dis
tribution.