ARBORICULTURE 



A BI-MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Published in the Interest of the 

 International Society of Arboriculture 



Subscription $1.00 per annum John P. Brown, Editor and Publisher, Connersville, Indiana 



Entered as Second Class Matter April 16, 1906 



Volume V 



Connersville, Indiana, December, 1906 



Number 7 



Serious Accident to General William J. Palmer 



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The many friends of General William 

 J. Palmer, President of the International 

 Society of Arboriculture, will regret to 

 learn that he was thrown from a stumbling 

 horse as he was returning home on 

 October 27th, and so seriously injured 

 that for many days his life hung by a 

 slender thread. The spine was fractured, 

 causing paralysis of the limbs. Physi- 

 cians were hastily summoned from Colo- 

 rado Springs and Denver, and later Dr. 

 M. Allen Starr, one of the most eminent 

 nerve specialists of the world, was called 

 from New York City, and made a special 

 diagnosis. 



The bulletin issued by the physicians 

 at 7:30 P. M. Nov. 18th, was the most 

 favorable since the accident. It reads 

 as follows: 



"General Palmer shows a gain in the 

 power of using- all his muscles, and his 

 general condition continues good. He 

 is cheerful and attending to some business 

 affairs. While the improvement must 

 necessarily be slow, that made so far is 

 most satisfactory." 



General Palmer is now able to move 

 his arms and legs moro freely. His 

 general health continues good. He has 

 a good appetite and suffers no pain 



whatever, probably from the paralysis. 



General Palmer was born in Phila- 

 delphia on Sept. 18, 1836, and is of 

 English, German and Irish lineage. 

 During the Civil War he was an officer 

 of cavalr}', becoming colonel and then 

 brigadier general, serving in the Army 

 of the Cumberland with General George 

 H. Thomas. ' 



After the war he resumed the business 

 of railway construction and operation. 

 In 1865, as managing director of the 

 Kansas Pacific Railway, he constructed 

 the last division of that road from Kit 

 Carson to Denver, constructing one 

 hundred and fifty miles of road in as 

 many days, under most adverse circum- 

 stances. 



General Palmer has endeared himself 

 to the people of Colorado by his many 

 generous gifts to numerous educational 

 institutions and various worthy enter- 

 prises. 



His interest in forestry is large. He 

 is maintaining several estates in the 

 West, planting and perpetuating their 

 forests in a magnificent manner. 



To General Palmer belongs the credit 

 for whatever this society has accom- 

 plished or may do in the future. 



