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Spanish War Veterans

Richard ]. Harden Camp will
meet Thursday at pm. in Pythian
Temple
Past Comdr. N. B. Durfee an
nounces in the exhibition hall of
the National Archives there are on
exhibit the records of the Spanish
War from the time of the Congress
recognizing the independence of
Cuba to the treaty of peace.
Comdr. Piper presided at the last
meeting of Harden Camp. A COM
mittee|was appointed to arrange a
social session at the meeting Mo-
vember 16. @. NJ Gen. Gallon, Senior
Vice Department Comdr. Lucas and
T. Simunoff of California spoke.
Auxiliaries.
Meetings this week are Wednes-
dey, department meeting, Pythian
Temple and Friday, Col. Henry w.
Lawton, Pythian Temple.
Department President Naomi Har-
riman invites all members to the
department meeting November l at
Pythian Temple.
The Military Order of the Lizard
celebrated its second anniversary
October IA. There were IS of the
Snax of the Grand Lair of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, including Past
Supreme Gu-Gu Charles Long, Past
Grand Gu-Gu James Freeland,
Grand Gu-Gu Elvin M. Luskey
Grand Datto William Stirk, Past
Slick and Shiny Keeper John Ham
burg, Sambowango Slave Smith
Other guests were Department
President Hartman and Past Gila
Monster Esther Erhardt. The ad-
dress Of welcome was made by Gila
Monster Louise Freeland. The lady
Lizards served supper. Delegates
Madge Ryce and Maude Wright
rendered reports of the supreme
conclave in Atlantic City. Ann
Thornberg was initiated.
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Medical Officers
Receive Transfers
To New Units
Finol Pistol Practice
For Reserves Will Be Held
At Camp Sims Today

Many medical officers Of this city
have been given new assignments to
the 364th Medical Regiment, the 73d
General Hospital. the 74th General
Hospital, the 86th General Hospital
and the 202d General Hospital. Dis
trict officers assigned to the 364th
Medical Regiment include Capt.
Luther w. Gray and First Its. Jacob
Ceppos, Max H. Cohen, Leo w. Du-
fault, Charles B. Hooker, Leon I.
Nathanson, John w. Nesbitt. Fran.
els j. O'Bryan, Henry S. Parker,
John B. Smith and Samuel J. Sugar.
Offlcers assigned to the 73d Gen.
eral Hospital include Capt William
S. Miller and First Its. James r.
Cullen, Louis M. Cuvillier, jr.: Her.
bert H. Diamond, Gypsie j. Dobyns,
Thomas A. Egan, Charles N. Fiore,
Eugene S. Gladsden, Armand B.
Gordon, John r. Grunwell, IT,:
Robert c. Hecker, Richard L. Jack
son, Benjamin j. Mundell and
Charles NJ Musso jr. New officers
assigned to the 74th General Hos.
pital include Capt. Howard Katz.
man and First Its. Clark P. Hal.
stead, Samuel A. Hillman. Jack c.
Horner, Benjamin D. jacobson,
Robert j. Kassan, Harry j. .Kearns,
William T. Lady, Grant v. Lund,
Herbert c. Mcclure, Sherrell D.
Patton, Samuel H. Shea, Joseph w.
Stein, and Sylvan A. Steiner,
Assigned to the 86th General Hos
pital are First Its. Charles L.
Mendel, Matthew Mendelsohn,
Maurice Mensh, Alfred L. Piser,
Lawrence A. Rapee, Harold E. Rat
clifte, Robert c. Rauscher, James r.
Scales, Frank j. Shaffer, Samuel j.
Sugar, Simon Weiner and Andrew
j. Welebir.
The single officer assigned to the
2o2d General Hospital is First 1t.
John C. Sullivan.
Final pistol practice will be held
today at the Camp Sims range.
Capt. Evans will be in charge of
one group of officers and Capt.
Hart the other. District field
artillery officers, meeting at Fort
Myer next Wednesday evening, will
take up wire communications The
cavalry conference. to be held in
the Munitions Building Thursday
evening, will be divided into two
periods. Beginning at pm. the
officers will assemble in room 1929 to
view mechanical cavalry training
film. A 9 the officers will 20 to
room 2530 to hear a lecture on the
First Army Maneuvers at Platts-
burg Two conferences are sched.
uled for Friday evening. Medical
officers, meeting in the Lee House,
will discuss the activities of the air
force in war and in peace. while the
School of Tactics and Technique. as
sembling in room 1880, Munitions
Building. will take up the general
principles OF combat-the defensive.
District cavalry officers will meet at
Fort Myer next Sunday at $40
m. for instruction in horseman-
ship.
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Y. IA. G. A. News

The Central Y. M. c. A. has sched
uled the following activities this
week:
Tomorrow, 8 pm, the Gypsy
Chorus
Tuesday, 7::30 pm, Bible class, the
Rev. A. P. Wilson. leader.
Wednesday, 7:l5 pm, Bible class
Prof. George S. Duncan, leader;
pm, Glee Club. j. Nelson Anderson
director. and public speaking group
Thursday. pm. close of member
ship campaign with dinner: pm
motion picture program, Cleveland
Park branch; $50 pm, Gypsy
Chorus; $50 pm, Town Hall of the
Air.
Friday. 7 pm, Troop 100, Boy
Scouts; 8 pm. Y. MY. w. dance
in the Central Y. M. c. A.
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Gold Stor Mothers

Members Of the Grace Darling
Chapter were entertained at the
home Of Mrs. Henry L. Hurley, 5729
Thirteenth street NV, on Friday
evening in honor Of Mrs. Horace B.
Blake, past national president.
Among the invited guests were
Mrs. Josephine Talks, Mrs. r. E.
Jacobs, Mrs. Edna Boardman, Mrs.
Alice Seeley, Mrs. Mary M. Gibbs,
Mrs. Margaret Lovelace. Mrs. Lottie
Davis, Mrs. Rose Conway Stetson.
Supper was served.
Mrs. Hurley was assisted in re-
ceiving by her daughter, Mrs. Mabel
Welsh, and her granddaughter, Miss
Elizabeth Thomas.
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Egypt; Maj. and
Mrs. Gist Blair,
Col. and Mrs.
Alva Breasted. l..
A. Clark and
son, NJ e h m e t
Munir Ertegun,
A m b a S S a dor
from T urk ",
and Nine. Erte-
gun; Mr., a n d
Mrs. William
COrcoran EustiS,
c a pit. org e
Godoy, naval at
tache from the
Argentine, and
Sonora Godoy,
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Senor DR.. Don Luis Fernando Guac-
halla, Minister from Bolivia. and
Sonora de Guachalla; Mrs. S. Stokes
Halkett. William j. Harper, Radu
Irimescu, Minister from Rumania,
and Nine. Irimescu: Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce John M. john
son and Mrs. johnson. Assistant
Secretary of War Louis Johnson,
John C. Kunkel. Col. Teh-Chuan
Kuo, military attache from China;
Col. Emmanuel Lombard. military
attache from France; Joseph A.
Lorsh. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen-
stierne, Minister from Norway. and
Nine. de Morgenstierne; Senator
Caroline O'Day, Malcolm Ross, Maj.
Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Foster Stearns and
j. R. Turney.
Box seats have been reserved by
many prominent citizens.
McKimmie Catterton Police Fire
Auxiliary No. 2979 met at Soldiers,
Sailors g. Marines Club. Senior Vice
President Mary Wetherall was in
stalled as president to fill the un-
expired term of President Verdi and
Junior Vice President Lilda Chris
tian was installed as senior vice
president. The following birthday
anniversaries were celebrated: Edith
Den Breeder, Mae Loveless. Violet
Catterton and Dorothy Wright.
The auxiliary held party at ST.
Elizabeth's Hospital. Games were
played and cigarettes and refresh
ments were served. Piano selections
were rendered by Mis- Beulah Waller
At the meeting on Wednesday
there will be Election of a junior
vice president.
Federal Auxiliary No. 824 met at
Thomas Circle Club with Carrie
Irving, president. presiding. Senior
Department Vice President Ethel
Sendlak and Department Chaplain
Catherine Lawson spoke.
Sister Welch was elected treasurer
to succeed Dorothy Lohman. A hos
pital visit will be held November II
with the Federal Juniors Unit tc
assist. Chief of Staff Lola Heise will
make her inspection November 10
Past President Buckingham enter
tanned the juniors at her farm or
Saturday. Awards were won by
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Coast Artillery Commander
Orders Small Arms Inspection
Guard Officers Ordered
Fineerprinted for F.B.I.

they will be studied at brigade head
quarters and correlated.
One of the problems which must
be considered Is the manner in
which the time is to be used, this,
whether to take the whole seven
days at once, or take day or two at
a time. The decision is said not to
be an easy one, especially in view
Of the fact that 1t is one that cannot
be decided arbitrarily by the Of
f1cers. They must take into consid-
Grafton the prospective number Of
men who can be expected to report
for and take part in the field ma
neuvers. and their civilian employ
ment must be taken into account.
Obviously, 1t was said. it would not
be desirable to order out a unit,
when only small percentage of the
members could be expected to at
tend, and it is not desired to jeop-
ardize the jobs of any one con-
nected with the Guard.
Local brigade officers are making
a survey of the sites which would
be available for the quartering of the
troops and for the necessary ma
neuvering ground While there are
barracks at Camp Simms, the area
available for maneuvers is quite lin
tied, and the Guard may have to
avail itself of some of the nearby
Army posts, such as Fort Washing
ton, Fort Myer, Fort Meade and Fort
Belvoir.
A detail of enlisted men and one
officer from the 26Oth Coast Artillery
left last week for Pontiac, Mich, to
drive here additional trucks which
have been assigned to Batteries G
and H of that regiment.
The composite company, made UP
of officers from various units, which
represented the local unit at the
Worlds Fair in New York on Dis
trict of Columbia day, has been
designated by Brig Gen. Albert L
Cox, commanding the local Guard
to act as the guard of honor and
escort for Queen Halloween on Tues
day evening Capt. Robert j. Mar
tin, Battery G. 260th Coast Artillery
will command the unit.
Plans are being made to signally
honor enlisted men of all the units
with high consecutive drill attend
ance. Company and detachment
commanders have been ordered to
submit to brigade headquarters each
month, not later than the third
Tuesday of each month. the names
OF the three enlisted men of their
| organization with the highest con-
secutive drill attendance.
The names of these men are to be
published on the honor roll to ap-
pear in the District Guardsman, the
new service paper.
Pvt. Joseph L. Thompson has beer
promoted to corporal in the Head
quarters Detachment. 29th Division
In the Headquarters and Service
Company, 12lst Engineers. Pvt. Ar
thur H. Ross has been promoted
to corporal
First 1t. Gerald NJ. Tierney, Medi-
cal Department Detachment. 26Oth
Coast Artillery. has been appointed
recruiting officer for the artillery
regiment.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the resignation of First 1t. Mervir
w. Glover, Medical Corps, Nationa
Guard inactive list.
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V.F.W. Armistice Day Ball
Will Be Most Elaborate
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
Head List of Patrons for Event

Chairman Thomas c. Kelleher of
the goth annual Armistice Day ball
OF the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to
be held at the Willard Hotel on the
evening of November II, announced
1t will be the most elaborate in the
history Of the organization.
The patrons list is headed by
President and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Other patrons are NAH
moud Hassan Bey, Minister from
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Woodmen Circle

Willow Grove WV meet November
3. Initiation was Neld on October
20. Mrs. Ruth King was in charge
of the program. Miss Margaret
Richards sang, the Pappalardo twins
rendered duet and Mrs. Barbara
Harper gave a reading. Refresh
ments were served. Fourteen men,
bers attended the District conven-
ton in Baltimore. The following
members received honors: Mrs.
Myrtle Webb, vice president, and
Mrs. Naomi Kidwell, assistant at
tendant.
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Catholic War Veterans

The Father Francis J. Hurney,
Post No. 112, participated in the
massing of the colors as the opening
feature Of ceremonies for the in
stallation Of the offlcers of the Ma
tional Cathedral Post, the American
Legion, last Tuesday evening.
The Ladies Auxiliary, under the
leadership Of Mrs. Mathew J. An
gevine, is in process of organization.
The post will take part in the
Holy Name Society parade today.
All members should report at Car
roll Hall, 924 q street NV, at
pm. today.
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LoyuI Order Of Moose

The executive board of Columbia
Lodge will meet Tuesday at 8 pm.
in the Moose Hall
A meeting Of the legion will be
held next Sunday at Sparrows
Point. Dundalk, Md. at 2 pm
John Lowe. great north moose OF
Baltimore Legion, who is a men,
ber of Columbia Lodge. will preside
at the business meeting which will
be followed by class initiation, fronc
and dinner.
The Entertainment Committee l.
completing plans for an Armistice
Day dance on November II at the
Moose Hail.
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Although concerned ! primarily
with keeping In the best of shape
for immediate field service, its big
guns and searchlights, which 1t has
put to considerable service recently
during the enlistment campaign
which it conducted With the other
units of the local National Guard,
the 260th Coast Artillery is to have
its small arms, mostly pistols, thor
oughly inspected.
? Col. Walter w. Burns, command
ing this unit, which, when all of It's
additional personnel is obtained,
will be the largest unit in the guard,
has just ordered a special inspection
Of all Of the small arms of that
branch Of the service, and has stipu-
lated that the inspection must be
completed and reports filed in his
headquarters no later than Tuesday.
The inspections will be conducted
by battalion commanders. Maj.
William F. Bulls has been in
structed to conduct the inspections
OF the units OF the I'd Battalion
and the Service Battery, and Mai.
William j. Heale, the units of the
1st Battalion and the Headquarters
Battery.
Ofacers and warrant officers of
the National Guard, who are ap-
pointed in the future, will be re-
quired to put the finger prints of
their right hands on a special mill
tary finger print card of the Bureau
Of Investigation of the Department
Of Justice, the local brigade head
quarters was informed last week by
the Adjutant General of the Army.
The special finger print card will be
sent direct to the Office of the Adju-
tant General of the Army.
Orders also have been issued that
all present officers and non-commis-
stoned omcers must flngerprint the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
cards and send them to local brigade
headquarters not later than Decem-
Der !.
1t. Col. Eugene v. Vnlaret. Coast
Artillery Corps. U. 8. A.. has re-
ported as instructor for the 26Oth
Coast Artillery Regiment. Col. Shep-
ard L. Pike, United States infantry,
senior instructor of the local Guard,
has just returned to duty here, after
leave OF absence during which he
went to Wyoming. it was said at
brigade headquarters.
There are two matters which are
holding up a final decision as to the
manner in which the local militia
men will take the additional seven
days of winter field training, which
has been ordered by the War De-
partment, in connection with the
program of providing intensive
training for the militia to put it in
tip-top shape for any field service
which it might be called upon to
render.
The War Department has allo-
Gated $35 900 for seven days Of field
training. However, the department
has not sent to the militiamen the
training program which it expects
the militiamen to perform, and
neither have reports been received
from the officers of the various units
recommending the manner in which
this service is to be performed.
When the two reports are received
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Meetings This Week.

Monday - Equality = Walter
Reed Post Junior Drum and
Bugle Corps, National Guard
Armory.
Wednesday - Overseas Mill
tary Band, National Guard
Armory.
Thursday - Equality-Walter
Reed Post, 1912 Ninth street
NV: H. L. Edmonds Post,
Hamilton Hotel.
Friday-Follow Me Post, l700
L street NV; Advance Post,
100 L street NV: United
States Treasury Post. 10l5 l.
street NV; Armistice Day Ball
Committee, 100 L street NV.
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Meetings This Week.

Tuesday-Fort Stevens Junior
and Senior Drum Corps, Roose-
welt High School.
Wednesday - Sergt. Jasper,
Pythian Temple; Columbia,
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Club.
Thursday-Jane A. Delano,
1746 K street NV; Fort
Stevens, Stansbury Hall: Labor,
200 Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Friday Agriculture. room
1899 South Building, Depart
ment of Agriculture; Victory,
414 Ninth street NV.
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pital. Refreshments were served.
The same evening Hospital Chair
man Bessie Haislip and her commit
tee visited "G" ward, distributing
cigarettes, stationery. 1asors. etc.,
and refreshments.
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William B. Slattery, department
commander, has returned to the city
after an absence of several months
on Government business.
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A detail of enlisted men and one
officer from the 260th Coast Artillery
left last week for Pontiac, Mich, to
drive here additional trucks which
have been assigned to Batteries G
and H of that regiment.
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The James Reese Europe Post met
Tuesday at the Elks' home, FIJI
teenth and @ streets NV. First
Vice Comdr. William H. Kelson. pre-
sided.
Arrangements have been CON-
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the bicycle industry in the United
States began soon afterWard.
AS early as 1843 the stationery
store of Robert Farnham was on the
northeast corner of D and Eleventh
streets. incidentally, there must
have been a good profit in the book
and stationery business years ago,
and maybe there is still. At any
rate, Mr.. Farnham when thus en-
gagged owned a whole square of
ground between Eleventh and
Twelfth and M and N streets. In
1869 the Farnham home was the only
dwelling in this square, for it was
during that year it was resubdi-
vided by Robert Farnham, jr,; Caro-
line Farnham, Jane Farnham, jr.,
and Mary Farnham Miller.
The old Farnham residence still
stands at 1103 NJ street NV. 1t is
a large. well-preserved brick. and
from the nature of its construction,
was evidently erected prior to 1910.
When Mr. Farnham resided here, he
formed a New England Society. with
David A. Hall as president. George
Bender and N. c. ToWles vice presi-
dents, George A. Abbott correspond
ing secretary and Jesse E. Dow re-
cording secretary. Mr.. Farnham was
treasurer.
Apparently he was an abolitionist,
for in December, 1850, we find Rob
ert Farnham e. Co." publishing the
Constitution, which, however, had
but a short life. Mr.. Farnhams
name appears for the last time in
the city directory for 1858, and his
wife, Jane, is referred to as widow
in 1860; therefore, he must have died
between these two dates.
In 1874, lots l to 6, facing M
street, between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, were assessed as follows:
Lots l and 2 in the name of Jane
Farnham. sr.:; and 4, Mary Farm
ham Miller; 5, Caroline Farnham,
and 6, at the northeast corner of
M and Twelfth streets, in the name
of Jane Farnham, jr. According to
the old numbering, the Farnham
house, in 1860, was 1876, and the
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tree has a marker at its foot which
carries the language of the deed, as
follows.
For and in consideration of the
great love / bear this tree and the
great desire I have for its protec-
ton for all time, convey entire
possession of itself and all land
within 8 feet of the tree on all sides"
Uncle Sam, who is doing so much
to preserve and upbuild the Nations
forest resources, proves himself a
sentimentalist at heart where trees
are concerned. Through the United
States Forest Service, he has made
a uniquely complete survey Of many
hundreds of famous individual trees
which, for one reason or another,
have gained some special distinction.
Thus one learns that many of the
Presidents were known for their
interest in trees, and living trees
planted by Washington at Mount
Vernon, include tuliptrees, buck
eyes, elms, pecans, hollies, lindens,
mulberries, and many others. There
are trees directly associated with
him in a dozen States, and they
number almost 100. For example,
there is the elm at Berkeley Springs,
w. Va, associated with Washington S
surveying days with Lord Halifax,
long before the Revolution.
John Quincy Adams was known
as "the tree-planting Mr.. Adams, "a
and Thomas Jefferson was famous
as a tree lover and planter. Best
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Bv Douplas Nelson Rhodes.

Did you know that an elm tree
under which George Washington
watched the building of the Capitol
still is standing in all its glory?
Did you know that there is an oak
tree in this country that literally
owns itself?
Did you know that the oldest and
largest tree in the United States
has been identified?
Among all the countries of the
world, the United States has been
most lavishly favored with wonder
full trees of many species, and no
people have a greater love for and
a closer association with trees than
our own.
This is true not only with respect
to trees in general but of in
dividual trees. There are hundreds
of trees in all parts of this country
toward which people have a very
special feeling of kinship, and many
thousands more which are closely
linked to great moments and events
in our history. These trees are real
personalities"
Poignantly expressive Of the love
Americans bear for trees is deed
recorded at Athens, Ga, in which
William H. Jackson gave possession
OF itself to a beautiful oak tree. This
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of Winchester. in the rich and beau
tiful Shenandoah Valley. During
the Revolution, Hessian. soldiers
planted an orchard there, and Is
of the trees have survived. Most
of them bear regularly.
There are many trees throughout
the country which have gained
fame because of freak or unusual
appearance, such as the Tyre tree at
Livingston, N. j.; the table tree" a
live oak which seems to rest on a
table of its own roots, in Ocala Ma
tional Forest, Florida; the mill wheel
tree of Owosso, Mich; the G-trees OF
Biloxi, Miss; the cannibal tree OF
oregon, which is Douglas fir EN-
tirely inclosing a white oak; the old
elephant tree of Bristol, Pa, the
stump of which looks exactly like a
giant pachyderm standing on its
hind legs; and the elm, oak and two
sycamores which grow from one
common trunk near Pineville, Mo.
These and many more are among
Americas famous trees. Every State,
city, village and crossroads hamlet
has its trees which are part of the
history and life of their environs-
trees which add a special richness
and beauty to the lives of successive
generations.
Thankfully, America is learning
to preserve these priceless memoir
ials of the past, and to plant mil
lions of new trees which will mean
so much to the citizens of the future.
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known of all conservationlsts was
Theodore Roosevelt, under whose
administration the Forest Service
was started. On the White House
grounds there is an elm planted by
Adams and another by Rutherford
B. Hayes. while beautiful mag
nolias, still stalwart, were planted
by Andrew jackson himself.
The largest tree in the world is
the General Sherman Bigtree in Sc
quota National Park, Calf, which
has a volume of 60O,12 board feet.
Other big trees If the same park
are the General Grant, with VOL
ume of 542,784 board feet; the
Boole Bigtree, 1896, 72s, and the Hart,
41O,952.
These giants also are the pa
triarchs of the forest. The General
Sherman is estimated to be be-
tween 5000 and 1000 years old-by
far the oldest living thing in the
world. 1t has a diameter of 36l2
feet, a circumference of nearly lis
feet and height of more than 272
feet.
In Knott County, KY, there is a
sycamore tree that has been given
very special protection "for and in
consideration of its shade, GOODNESS
and inspiration" To this grand old
tree was legally decided SO square
feet of land, sufficient to protect
it from interference so long as it
shall live. And in Massachusetts, is
the beautiful Whittier elm, near the