Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-14

SSullG-lOOhlHS savage anu SI6uuS Oh a
pedestal as high as himself. He holds
out bunch Of cigars, as though entreat-
ing passers-by to have one. He seems a
very hospitable chap. His war paint is
well worn off and he has a shabby aspect,
as though suffering from wampum strin-
gency.
street near Central High School. He is
a tall, fancy-looking redskin and Is dress
ed more like Moorish sultan or Mulai
Hafld than like the last Of the Mohicans.
Alexandria is true to the wooden In
dian. Two Of them guard one of the big
cigar stores on King street. They are To-
cally known as Teoumseh and Pocahon-
taS.
Few Pine Trees.
THE plain American pine tree that has
given cool shade in summer, holds
his green in winter, and divides honors
with the oak as a useful member of the
forest, is not conspicuous in the capital
of the land that owes SO much to it. The
landscape architect has given the pine
tree scant consideration. Nearly all the
pines of Washington are found in the
Smithsonian and the Agricultural
grounds. In the grounds Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture they seem to have
been set out as one OF the exhibits in
that large arboretum of conifers. In the
Smithsonian grounds it is not certain
whether they were set out, or just
'growed." Probably the latter. Give the
pine tree half a chance and 1t will grow.
1t is not used to being set out for orna-
mental effect. and such attention would
probably embarrass It.
Along the north front of the old Ma
uonal Museum building and extending
westward toward the Smithsonian build
ing are ten old pines. They are rather
scraggy in appearance. many of the
lower branches having been Topped OF.
No dendrologist was around when The
Star man strolled that way. and what
kind Of pines they are was not learned.
But probably they are the Virginia white
pine-a pine that grows as we'll In Mary
land as across the river. A breeze was
swaying their tops and those trees were
saying something that sounded like this:
When 1t came to building up TINS
country no tree gave more freely OF its
sap, its fiber, its life. than the pine tree.
When it comes to getting soft and orna~
mental positions in the park system we
are given a turn-down and a freeze-out,
and many of the easy jobs go to foreign
treeS-pauper treasures that never d1d
a blamed thing toward developing the
United States or toward housing ana
warming the citizens of this ungratefui
republic"
In the Smithsonian grounds few YARDS
northeast Of the Joseph Henry statue are
four gaunt pines. to the southwest OF the
statue Is another pine. and In tho nortn-
west corner of the grounds Is g. group OF
five, while a lone pine tree stands near
the Downing urn
In the agricultural grounds are repre-
sentatives of the white pine. the sugar
pine of California, the bull pine OF the
western states, the loblolly pine OF the
southern states, long leaf southern pine.
pitch pine and others.
The Treasury Department is trying to
show some honor to the pine by having
two of these trees set out, one In the
middle Of the southeast garden and the
other in the middle Of the southwest
garden.
There is a gaunt, unhappy looking pine
tree in Lafayette Square. and group
of youngish pines in Armory square
PROBABLY a few other. pines are scattered
around in the public reservations. but
they are only a few.
Two SURVIVOR.