Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — Transplanting a Big Tree. [ARTICLE]

Transplanting a Big Tree.

Lowell (Mass.) Mail ‘ Just bef6're ; rifidnight" one night in' themiddle of February last a cherry thee with earth attachfed.weighing twelve and three-quarters tons, began the passage from the Jefferson Fletcher streets, to the grounds of* ex-Mayor Field’s residence in Middlesex street. The tree was on a sled, and the way it got off there is an interesting stoty. During the cold snap a trench was dug around the tree, which is an old one and grown on the grounds. The trench described a circle six feet from the tree. It was several feet deep.. The tree was up so that it could not fall, and then the earth was dug from under the roots until the tree stood free except that a platformofear th two feet deep and twelve feet in diameter clung to it. The roots and the frost held the earth in tact. Then the tree was tipped over gently with jacks to measure its length on the ground, so that the twelve-foot circle of horizontal earth was made perpendicular. More jackscrews were used to raise the circle of frozen earth so that the sled wa's slipped under it, and then it was lowered, and the horses pulled the combination out of the. orchard. Wooden shears braced the reeling tfeee on the sled. All this was done a couple of weeks ago. The earth cracked during the work, and the cracks were plastered with mud and allowed to freeze tight. An English journalist says that President Faure, of France, is showing much more tact than CasimirPerier displayed. The latter expected more from his office than the French people were willing to grant him. He thought the Presidency meant power when it really meant posing. *‘M. Faure,” however, says the English writer, “may live in peace so long as he confines himself to the' role of master of ceremonies of the French Republic.’’ An inmate of the House of Refuge for Women at Rondout, N. Y.,had an instiable thirst for red ink and drank it on all possible occasions. She wasted until sfavbecame almost a skeleton and thendied.