MEMORIAL TREES-OUR HEROES' HALL OF FAME 



MEMORIAL tree planters are erecting their own 

 Hall of Fame for their heroes. The "Hall" will 

 be vaulted by that "inverted bowl we sail the 

 sky" and the memorial trees will be placed on "Roads 

 of Remembrance," in memorial groves and as the proper 

 setting for the various forms of memorials. The trees 

 being planted now will be famous fifty years from now 

 and even more famous in a hundred years. Communi- 

 ties throughout the land are planting trees and dedi- 

 cating them. 



The Dumont Kennedy Elm at Crawfordsville, Indi- 

 ana, is one of the best examples of famous trees with a 

 war association. American Forestry pictured this tree 

 last month. Mr. Kennedy is hearing from all over the 

 United States about that tree as a result of entering it 

 in the Hall of Fame. This tree stands on one of the 

 most famous little streets in the country. There are 

 five houses on the street Lincoln Street, by the way 

 and from those five houses went nine boys to the war 

 for humanity. Every one of these boys had played 

 beneath the shade of that tree. They all volunteered 

 when the Mexican trouble came up. They did the same 

 when their country called to enter the world war. A 

 monument was placed on the little street and Senator 

 James E. Watson, of Indiana made a speech. The 

 names of those boys who played beneath that tree are: 

 Ora Jolley, Ray Jolley, Forrest Jolley, John Hilliard, 

 Harry Hilliard, Howard Fisher, Louis Spilman, Harry 

 D. Michael, Clyde Suitor. Is there another Lincoln 

 Street? Are these trees on it? If not let us put trees 

 on such streets and on all streets. This tree dedication 

 is but an indication of what any community can do. 



In Baltimore tree planting has been started on a fine 

 scale. The American Forestry has received an account 

 of the tree planting there from Mrs. J. Barry Mahool. 

 Other organizations may learn from this statement what 

 can be done in tree planting. The account follows : 



The "Grove of Remembrance" in Druid Hill Park 

 was dedicated to the fallen heroes of the world war by 

 the visiting delegates to the convention of "War Mothers 

 of America." During the convention all visiting dele- 

 gates affiliated into one organization, now known as the 

 "Service Star Legion." The ceremony was deeply im- 

 pressive as well as very beautiful, in fact, so impressive 

 was the scene that Cardinal Gibbons, who had come 

 only to pronounce the benediction, made a brief address, 

 paying tribute not only to those who had made the 

 Supreme Sacrifice, but to the motherhood of the land 

 gathered at this shrine. At the head of the parade 

 marched 1,000 school children each carrying an Ameri- 

 can flag, and singing patriotic songs. Behind them came 

 twenty War Mothers, members of the Ohio delegation, 

 carrying the flags of the Allies. These formed an escort 

 of honor for the invited guests who followed on foot: 

 Ambassador Jusserand accompanied by Mrs. J. Barry 

 Mahool, Madame Jusserand with Colonel Wilcox, Gover- 



nor Harrington, of Maryland, with Mrs. T. Parkin Scott, 

 Mrs. Harrington with Judge Oscar Leser, and Mayor 

 Broening, of Baltimore. Delegates carrying their state 

 flags or banners followed. The following states were 

 represented: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Kentucky, 

 Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana, Mississippi, Ohio, 

 Oklahoma, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, New York, Nebraska, 

 Utah, Pennsylvania and Washington State. Commander 

 P. H. B. Weems had charge of the military division of 

 the parade, composed of a detachment of G. A. R. 

 veterans representing the Wilson and Dushane Posts 

 of the Department of Maryland; Red Cross Workers, 

 followed by soldiers, sailors and marines. At the end 

 of the procession were automobiles with twenty wounded 

 men from Fort McHenry. 



The French Ambassador threw a spade full of earth 

 upon the tree planted in memory of the dead of France. 

 Governor Harrington followed for Maryland, Mayor 

 Broening for Baltimore and the delegates for their 

 states. At the Michigan tree Mrs. Mary B. Westnedge, 

 of Kalamazoo, planted the tree not only for the slain of 

 Michigan, but also for her own son, Colonel Westnedge, 

 of the Twenty-Sixth Infantry. 



In the Iowa delegation Mrs. Lew McHenry, a con- 

 nection of the old Maryland family of McHenry, and 

 Mrs. Murdo McRea, planted the state tree in memory 

 of the brave sons of Iowa who had made the supreme 

 sacrifice as well as for her own sons, Captain Harry 

 McHenry, of the One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth In- 

 famy, and Corporal Donald H. McRea, who were killed 

 in a surprise attack of the Germans in the Luneville 

 sector. 



At the Massachusetts tree a Gold Star sister, Miss 

 Evelyn Harpell, threw on the spade full of earth on the 

 tree in memory of Massachusetts dead and her own 

 brother, Sergeant Carroll D. Harpell, of the One Hun- 

 dred and Third Machine Gun Battalion. 



At the Ohio tree stood Mrs. D. McPherson wearing a 

 Gold Star for her only son, John D. McPherson, Com- 

 pany C, Signal Corps, Forty-First Division. 



At the West Virginia tree stood Mrs. Eugene Cornell 

 and Mrs. J. M. Gribble. Mrs. Cordell wearing a Gold 

 Star for her son, Sergeant Littleton Tazewell Cordell, 

 Twenty-Ninth Division, One Hundred and Tenth 

 Machine Gun Battalion. 



With four sons in the war, Mrs. J. E. Linscott, of St. 

 Petersburg, Florida, planted the tree for her state. One 

 of these four boys, William Milton Hance, of the Twelfth 

 Machine Gun Battalion, of the First Division, lost his 

 life in the Argonne sector. 



Mrs. A. W. Funkhouse, of Indiana, cast the first spade 

 full of earth on the tree for her state. She wears two 

 Gold Stars for two sons, Lieutenant Albert Craig Funk- 

 house, Company H, One Hundred and Forty-Fourth 

 Infantry, Thirty-Sixth Division, and Second Lieutenant 

 Paul Taylor Funkhouse, Company B. Seventh Machine 



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