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The Washington times., 1922-04-09

nNE OF the most popu-
~ lar views of the
cherry blossoms, with the
Monument in the back
ground.
TalSsmine, Instrumental In donAt-
ing them for the city Of Tokyo.
was in washington in April. 1910.
While driving about the city,
the story goes. DR.. Takamine in
company with Mr.. J. Midzuna.
Japanese consul general in New
York. was taken through Rock
Creek park by a negro cabby.
quite popular In those days.
PLEASANTLY SUPPRESSED.
"You g'men are from Japan"
the cabby inquired, with a vague
idea of tip from his passenger.
1--WE are" DIR. Takamine.
curtly told him. with az innuendo
air, for the cabby to mind his
own knitting. DIR. Takamine re-
turned to his conversation with
Mr.. Midzuno. Hardly had he
resumed, however. when the
cabby again interrupted.
Would you g'men like to see
something pretty from you ais
country" the cabby asked.
The way to silence a woman Il
to admit her accusations, a Jap
ense proverb goes. so DIR. Takam-
inc applied the axiom and said:
YES"
Without further ado the cabby
turned his brougham about and
headed for the Polo field.
Sitting low in the vehicle the
view Of approach was cut off
from the cabby's two passengers
and they had arrived near the
eighty cherry trees first planted
by Mrs. Taft. then in bloom,
before they were aware Of It.
''Mukojimaw exclaimed DR..
Takamfne as he sprang from the
carriage. "Is this the sight1" he
asked the cabby.
'I thought you all g'men would
like this" the cabby smiled, II
bring lots of Japanese g'men here
to see these and they like IT," the
cabby said, as he pocketed a tip
pressed into his hand by the doc
tor.
PLANTED QUITE CLOSELY.
The park planter set the little
trees around the Basin as closely
as currant bushes. although some
of the varieties will attain the
size of ,elms II given room for
their roots and chance to spread
their branches.
In March. 1918. the cherry trees
were thinned out almost half. and
these. with the reserve 1.600 trees
in the nursery garden. were set
out in the new land beyond the
The Washington times., 1922-04-09
POTOMAC
ORCHARD
I'M CC0I.O OR
Capital Only City I'm
Country Boosting
Unique Floral ExHii-
bitiors---First Trees
Planted by Mrs.
Taft.
BY HARVEY L. COBB.


nHE be&uties of Washington.
uniQue In a hundred ways
and surpasaing I'm dozens Of
sthcrs all cities and parks In the
United States. ara now enhanced
many fold by sight found I'm
America only in the Capital city.
The cherry trees of Potomac
Park and Tidal Basin are now
abioom with their biliowy clouds
of pale and pink blossoms. 90 be
rivaied only by the land OF Mikado.
The history Of the advent of
cherry blossoms to Washington is
coupled with the name of Mrs.
William Howard Taft shortly after
abe became the First Lady OF the
Land.
II was through her initial pur-
chase OF eighty Japanese cherry
trees. which she had planted be.
tween polo field and the river
bank. that washington today is.
unique in that II is TIE oaly city
OF the country where cherry bios
SONS can be found in profusion In
The spring.
springtinie in Washington, like
Japan, Is therefore blossom time
when the cherry trees, with their
cloud OF blooms, lure the lovers Of
beauty TO parks and gardens.
Because OF this novel character
istic which singles out Washing
ton from other cities. coupled with
the fact that the trees are now in
fun splendor. a short history of
their appearance in the Capital
City is of interest.
The first cherry trees were plant
cd In Washington by Mrs. Tafts
request on April 4. 1sos--just a
month after she made her home in
the White House.
GIFT OF 1000 TREES.
Word Of Mrs. Taft's love for the
cherry blossom reached wealthy
Japanese resident OF New York
DIR. Jokich Taxamine--who imme-
diately offered, as a gift from ia
pan. 1000 cherry trees
The gift was promptly accepted
by Mrs. Taft in. the behalf Of the
Government and DR.. Takarnine
cabled TO Japan for the trees which
arrived in this country the follow
ing January. On arrival the trees
were found to be infected and were
ordered condemned by the Depart
msnt of Agriculture
DIR. Talkamine immediate cabled
to the city officials at Tokyo,
In whose name the gift was made,
and 1920 more trees were immedi-
ately shipped and reached Wash.
ington the latter part of 1911.
The trees were planted around
the Tidal Basin and along the Po-
tomac Park drive and gave forth
their first fragrant blossoms the
following spring, to the delight OF
Mrs. Taft and hundreds OF thou
sands OF visitors to Washington
each year to view their beauty.
Probably few Washingtonians
TOURISTS FLOCK HERE.
know that in their midst is this
attraction, Of such note, that the
Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylya-
mia railroads have for years ad-
vertised the blooming Of the trees,
and brought thousands Of visitors
to Washington.
The cherry trees bear no fruit.
Had they been of the fruit bear
ing variety 1t would have been
necessary to have maintained a
park full Of policemen to have
kept small boys-and adults. too
out OF their branches. to the detri-
ment of the foliage.
How the. offer of the 5000
cherry trees was made to Mrs
Taft. is quite interesting. DIR.
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4INGTONS GORGEOUS DISPLAY OF TINTED CHERRY BLOSSOM
low I'm FULL SPLENDOR ANNUAL REMINDER OF JAPANS GIF
ORIENTAL
FLOWERS
ALI. .IJRING
Japanese Visitor, De-
lighted by Amer
ica's Homage to His
Native Blossoms,
Prese c N { c d 5000
Trees to II. S.

spring-time debut of the flower.
In Japan Il is the emblem OF
chivairy and knightiy honor. the
symbol OF purity. and by these
tokens has come to be the
national flower Of the Empirs.
The cherry blossom of Japan Is
strictly Japanese and is one Of
the few things that ala not come
from hated" China. as dsd 90
many of the arts snd crafts and
religions. The cherry blossom of
Japan lis small. insignificant
flower that is unhonored and un-
sung In China. but in Japan.
the luxurious blossoms are I'm
royal favor.
ORIGINAL TO JAPAN.
AS early as the fifth century.
the Imperial Court Of Japan made
boating excursions along cherry.
bondered lakes and the Emperor
held court at the Palace of the
Young Cherry Tree" 1t was in
these glad poetic days that the
Imperial garden parties were
begun. when princes, priests,
knights. mobiles and poets. waxed
poetic in brief and sentimental
odes which they wrote ON strips
of paper and tied to the branches
OF blooming trees.
The custom of poetry writing
has survived 1000 years and is
stiil practiced today in Japan.
The happy practice is most pre-
vatent on the sloping hillsides at
Yoshino. long regarded the great
est graveyard OF poetry in the
world. Nearly every Japanese
who visits the place is inspired TO
write his thoughts in poetic form
and leave the paper nuttering
among the blossoms. 1t was
never considered unmanly TO
admire and do homage 10 the
loveliness of the delicate blooms
and every warrior considered II
an accomplishment to compose a
stanza in honor Of the vernai
event.
CHERRY BLOSSOM PARKS.
Every city, community and
village OF Japan has it's cherry
blossom park. but one city OF
Japan, Kyoto. has signal honors
bestowed upon It each year, in
that It has the oldest and most
celebrated tree in all Japan"
The tree known as the Gion-Yo-
Sakura, stands on a knoll, over
looking the city. with a huge
thick trunk and branches spread
ing a hundred feet in each
direction. So great. and so old
is the tree. that its branches are
supported by a network OF posts
and props. II is OF the weeping
variety and blooms to the very
top, Its blossoms descend In a
shower OF color from every twig.
The tree is an institution in
Kyto and it's condition each year
is heralded in the puNs'c print
with as much prominence as the
weather itself. Details Of when
the first buds are seen and when
II comes to full glory are eagerly
read. and shops, stores and fac
tories close on certain days dur
ing the time II is in bloom, that
all employees may go and enjoy
the wondrous sight
While Washington cannot enjoy
the sights of the on-Yo-Sakura.
estimated TO be $50 years old.
the Capital City can enjoy the
same fragrance, the same beauty
and the same appreciation of the
cherry blossom, thanks TO the
energy and interest OF Mrs. Taft
and tie generosity Of the City OF
The Washington times., 1922-04-09
EGEUR-DE-LIs path by
bAIC UtUltEobOs
These pictures were
were taken by DR.. A. ],
olmstead, official photog-
rapher of the Smithsonian
Institute.

ing backward from the carriage"
BY mid-April the species OF Joke
cherry blossoms, variety OF pale
pink and very fragrant flowers.
and the Fukorokujin c'God OF luck
and longeyity'D with outer Grim
son petals about the large pink
flowers, all compact I'm solid balls.
Each separate flower is a little
rose by itself. with fifteen and
twenty ethereal petals. one on top
Of another.
LITTLE WATER FALL"
Following the blossoming Of the
God of Luck" blossom viii come
he Hito-ha variety of russet brown
saf. tips off setting the pink buds
hat spread out into double white
rosettes OF twenty and thirty pet
ais each. Then, also bloom the
Kwanzan trees, with deep pink
flowers. unfolding from darker and
deeper pink buds into the largest
flowers Of the cherry family. and
the TaI1i-ko c'Llttle Water Fall'0
trees producing small white sin
gle flowers of exquisite fragrance.
In the third week OF April comes
the Pearl. the treasure OF all col
lections Of the Gyoi-ko cherry flow-
er, the real pale, lemon-yeIlow
blossom. once the petted rarity OF
the palace gardens only, but now
to be bought from slillful florists.
II bears a double blossom OF fif-
teen or twenty petals of fruity
fragrance. Three varities frown
in Japan-the pale greenish yel-
low, the green-strtped and the
pink-striped flowers
BLOOM TIME vARIEs.
There were twenty Ukleon SAX
uras sent TO Washington, but their
planting was not marked and
there is no way OF discerning them
from the thousands OF other bill
lowy blooms.
Varying with the seasons. these
thousands Of gift trees may be
earlier or later in their blooming
that these approximate dates.
but already signs OF their budding
appear.
No other flower in all the
world is so beloved, so exalted,
SO worshiped, as the cherry
blossom of Japan. For more than
two THOUSAND years 1t has been
the crest OF a cult, which has
expressed its veneration by an
annual festival honoring the
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
Day's Euents in Washington

Associate Justice Pitney of the supreme court sent his resignation, effective January 1, to President Harding
 Amendments to the naval supply bill reducing the enlisted force to 75,00O was rejected by the house.
 Motion in the senate to lay aside the shipping bill and take up the Morris agricultural relief measure went over until Monday.
 Administration officials continued uncommunicative on steps toward finding way for the United States to help France in the separations crisis.
 Governors of states, most of them at the White Sulphur Springs meet ing accepted President Harding's ia- vitation to discuss prohibition en- forcement with him at a luncheon Monday. @
 Secretary Davis of the labor de partment announced plans to modify the system of handling immigrants at Ellis island after conferences woth Ambassado Geddes of Great
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
TESTIFY UNDER
 FARMERS WING
Organization Is Reported to Have Been F formed to Pro-
 tect Killing Witnesses

MARION, Ills. Dec. 16.-(By the Associated Press)-Sworn to protect the lives of their members who have testified for the prosecution at the trial of five men charged with mur- der in connection with the Herrin mine riots, a secret organization of farmers today was reported to have been formed in Williamson and John son counties, according to investiga- tors from the office of Attorney Gen. eral Edward Brundage.
 For the life of every farmer taken as tn @ result of his testimony in the trial, we will exact a toll of 10 lives of his attackers" was said to have been the words spread broadcast over the countryside.
 One of the witnesses heard yester day just before the adjournment over Saturday and Sunday, was said by one aof the states lawyers to have broken down and wept just before taking the stand and to have pleaded that he be excused.
 ''I don't mind for myself" he was quoted as having said, but have 2 wife and family to consider"
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
HOUSE WRANGLE
 OVER NAVY BILL
Fight Develops Over Amend ment to Cut Strength From
 86,000 to 75,000 Men

WASHINGTON, Dec: 16.-Working today on the new navy budget the house failed to reach the section un- der which the president would be re- quested to negotiate with foreign pow CTS in an effort to limit the building of war craft under 10000 tons, but the section itself was protected against elimination on technicality.
 The vote by which the disarma- ment proposal was made a "legiti- mate" provision of the bill, not sub ject to a point of order, was 251 to g, the leaders declared it would stand up when the measure is presented to the house for final vote Monday Chairman Porter and four members of the foreign affairs commission were among the nine voting in oppo- sition.
 Taking up the bill for consideration item for item, the house made slow progress, due to constant wrangles. A fight developed over an amend ment by Representative Hull, Repub- lican of Iowa, to cut the navy's enlist. ed personnel from S6,000, as fixed by Chairman Kellys subcommittee, to 75,000 but it was defeated, S1 to 25.
 Representatives Towner of Iowa and Tincher of Kansas, Republicans backed the Hull attempt for smaller navy.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
.4OO RESCUED BY
 U. $. DESTROYER
Fifteen Persons Are Reported Missing on Burning Ship
 in Sea of Marmora

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 16.-(By the Associated Press)-The American destroyer Bainbridge today rescued four hundred persons from the burn ing French hospital ship Vinhlong, in the Sea of Marmora. The vessel took fire opposite San Stefano on the western outskirt of Constantinople. Fifteen of those who were aboard the Vinh-Long are missing. Five of the missing are believed to have been killed by explosions.
 The hospital ship was proceeding to Constantinople from Bizert when the fire was discovered in the maga- zine. Several explosions followed rapidly. enveloping the ship in flames
 S. O. S. calls were answered i'm mediately by the Bainbridge, Lieuten ant Commander w A. Edwards bring ing his vessel alongside and taking off the passengers. the majority of them French soldiers and their fami- lies returning from leave. United States submarine chaser 96, in com. mand of Lieutenant A H. Addons also assisted in rescuing those who jumped overheard.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
MANY |NJUERD
 IN N. '. CRASH
Presence of Mind of Station Master Saves Many From
 Being Eelectrocuted

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Twenty-nine persons were injured and hundreds were thrown into a panic tonight when a swiftly moving train on an elevated shuttle" branch of the h. .terborough Transit Company's Lex ington avenue subway crashed into the rear of a stalled train.
 Seven women and children were among the victims. The motorman of the moving section, Patrick Keogh is believed to have been fatally in- jured.
 The collision involved two south bound electric trains crowded with passengers, which were running only a few minutes apart on the rush hour schedules. AS they came together in the semi-darkness, the concussion was heard for blocks, and the screams of the injured and imprisoned passen gers brought thousands of spectators
 Pandemonium followed the crash, with men, women and children strug- gling to escape the cars through the tightly closed vestibules and thence across tracks and live third rails to the streets below the elevated struc ture. Many are believed by officials to have been saved from electrocution by the station master at Hunts Point who saw the collision and immediate ly threw the switch, cutting off power along the system.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
WHITE HOUSE SILENT UPON PREPARATIONS Report Poincare Sounded Out With View to American Aid in Allied Deadlock NO DECISION MADE YET Preliminary Stage of Negotia-
 tions Are Declared to Be
 Now in Progress

WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.-A stone wall of official silence still surrounds administration purposes with regard to American aid in the German repar- ations deadlock.
 The one hint allowed to escape from the lips of responsible officials today was negative at least. He i'm piled that decisions as to the govern ment's course still were to be made and was coupled with warning that most of the published conjectures as to that course had gone wide of the mark.
 Paris dispatches saying that Premi- CT Poincare had been sounded out in formally with a view to Washington intervention toward unsnarling the reparations knot afforded glimpse of the method Secretary Hughes is employing to bring American influ- ence to bear. This informal meth cd of approaching the problem, White House spokesman said yester- day, cannot be conducted Ion the
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Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
K. X. X. DOOMED
 SAYS GOVERNOR
State Executives Discuss klan During Final Session
 of Conference

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. Va, Dec. 16.-The fourteenth annual conference of governors ended today with a spirited discussion of the Ku Klux Klan. Many of the ex- ecutives then prepared to leave for Washington to accept President Harding's invitation to discuss pro- hibition enforcement with him at luncheon Monday.
 An executive committee consist ing of Governors Cox of Massachu- setts Hardee of Florida and Me Cray of Indiana, was elected. For mer Governor Townsend of Delaware was reelected treasurer. and Miles c. Riley of Madison. Wis. secretary. Governor McCray invited the govern ors to confer next year in Indiana, suggesting French Lick Springs. Se- lection of the next meeting place was left to the executive committee.
 The Ku Klux Klan discussion de- veloped after an address in which Governor Alen of Kansas declared the organization was doomed to die and expressed hope that efforts of the attorney general of Kansas to oust the klan from the state on the the ground that it was operating without a charter would be a success.
 Governor Morrison of North Caro- lima said that although the organiza- ton aroused religious feeling. he did not believe it was responsible for violence in his state.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17

Britain.
 A protest and challenge" against the election of Senator Lodge was filed with Vice President Coolidge by representatives of the Liberal Re publican league of Massachusetts here on freight rates on grain, grain products and hay until February 13 at Kansas City after western states seeking reductions continued theil direct evidence
 Navy board which investigated the incident at the midshipmen's ball at Philadelphia after the army navy football game recommended that in future naval academy officers be detailed to supervise conduct of the ball.
 Representative Keller, Republican of Minnesota, formally notified the house judiciary committee he would refuse to respond to a subpoena to testify under oath on his impeach ment charges against Attorney Gen eral Daugherty. The committee de ferred decision on his action until {! Monday.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
A|NUNDSEN SETS
 OATEFO OR DASH
Makes Journey Into Nome by Dog Sled to Visit Civili-
 zation; Locates Ship

NOME, Alaska. Dec. 16.-(By the Associated Press)- Captain Roald Amundsen, head of an arctic explor- ing expedition which left the states in June. who arrived here Thursday by dog team from Wainwright, said today that he expected to start in May in attempt to fly over the north pole. He explained that he had come here to visit civilization and to communicate with persons in the United States and Europe.
 Captain Amundsen expressed cheer fulness over a message received at the wireless station at Noorvik stat ing that the schooner Maud in which he started on the expedition was about 300 miles northwest of Wrangell island. This, he declared was an ideal place from which to begin drift over the pole and he predicted that the Maud would make the drift in four years instead oi the five planned.
 His plane, Captain Amudsen report ed was almost entirely assembled under cover at Wainwright. His av iators Lieutenant Oskar Omdahl in spects it daily for rust. The ma chine is to be equipped with skii' like skids. The plane is to tak' ] off from the ice in Wainwright inle or from the snow.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
FIRST EXECUTIVE OF REPUBLIC IS SHOT BY
 ASSAuANT IN BACK
Cowardy Assassin Maneuvers Into Position Where he Had No Chance to Miss Victim; Fires Thrice Into Executives
 Back; Naruowicz Collapses, Dying in Few Minutes
Staying Continuation of Anti Jewish Riotng and Demonstra tions Throughout Past Week; Dead Executive Had
 Held Office But One Week Before Meeting Death

WARSAW, Dec. 16-(By the Asso- ciated Press)-Gabriel NarutowicZ, first president of the Polish republic fell before an assassin's bullet at noon today.
 The tragedy occurred at an exhi- bition of paintings and the assassin was an artist, one Neiwadomski, long regarded by his associates as mentally deranged.
 The president had just. concluded a brief address and, accompanied by his aide de camp and two other mem
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
KELLER FAILS
 ONCE MORE ID
 MEET SUMMONS Second Order to Representa- tive to Testify Before
 Committee Disregarded WILL CONSIDER ACTION Matter Held Over Week-End Consider Citing Keller
 on Contempt Charge

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-What ac- tion should be taken as a result of the refusal of Representative Keller, Republican of Minnesota to appear and testify as to his impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty will be considered Monday by the house judiciary committee.
 For a second time, MT. Keller fail ed today personally to respond to a formal supoena served on him after his dramatic withdrawal Thursday from further participation in the pro. ceedings by the committee. Some members wanted to certify the case to the house immediately with a view to. contempt proceedings there, but others were not so certain that the committee had authority to do so since MT. Keller had served formal notice through his counsel that he stood on his right as a member of the house. It was his position that the committee clearly had exceeded it's constitutional powers in issuing
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Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
]. U.S.PR0TESTS
 DEPORTATION
Declare Expelling of Greek Patriarch Would Be Act of :
 'Intolerable Injustice

LAUSANNE, Dec. 16.-(By the As sociated Press)-Voicing the senti- ment widespread through the United States, the American delegation today entered protest at the Lausanne con ference against the Turkish plan to expel the Greek patriarch from Con stantinople No decision on this i'm portant matter was reached by the delegates.
 The dispute over the Mosul oil fields suddenly brought to the front again by the British memorandum in- sisting on. Great Britain's mandatory rights, has likewise made no progress toward settlement
 Risa Nur Bey, the second Turkish plenipotentiary, informed the Asso- ciated Press tonight Turkey would yield on neither of these questions the patriarch must go and Mosul must be recognized as Turkish. We have done nothing except make concessions since our arrival" he asserted.
 The American delegation declared in it's statement that an "intolerable injustice would be done" if Turkey insisted on expelling the Greek pat riarch.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-12-17
Ex-Bank President Stars in Role as
 Santa Claus

CHICAGO, Dec. 16.-(By the As sociated s)-Residents of Pull man, who lost money in the fail ure of the Fernwood Trust and Say ings Bank in June, 1914, received unexpected Christmas presents to- day when their mail brought checks for the amount due them.
 c. J. Holland, former president of the bank, mailed the checks totalling 6,90S.14-from funds he had saved since the liquidating com mittee completed it's work in De cember, 1917.
 When the bank, private insti- tuition, failed in 1914, it had liabil- ities of about S3O,0OO. The assets finally realized approximately $23,- 900. MT. Holland told the liquidat- ing committee that he would make good the difference no matter how many years it took.
 Today the debt was wiped out.