Archive image from page 16 of Curios and relics Plants (1888). Curios and relics. Plants curiosrelicsplanlinc_3 Year: 1888 ( Washington - Mass Society niant Memorial urees in liugiu ncFtrvauioa GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS AND 39 MAYORS FROM STATE TO WITNESS CEREMONIAL HERE Local Society to Plant Memorial Trees in Lin- coln Reservation. 3-DAY EXERCISES MANAGERS9 PLAN Elaborate Program Map ped Out for Next May 3, 4 and 5. Massachusetts, represented by Gov. Channing H. Cox, mayors of thirty- nine cities of the Bay State and hun- dreds of its citizens, will be in Wash- ington May 3„ 4, and 5 to wit
Archive image from page 16 of Curios and relics Plants (1888). Curios and relics. Plants curiosrelicsplanlinc_3 Year: 1888 ( Washington - Mass Society niant Memorial urees in liugiu ncFtrvauioa GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS AND 39 MAYORS FROM STATE TO WITNESS CEREMONIAL HERE Local Society to Plant Memorial Trees in Lin- coln Reservation. 3-DAY EXERCISES MANAGERS9 PLAN Elaborate Program Map ped Out for Next May 3, 4 and 5. Massachusetts, represented by Gov. Channing H. Cox, mayors of thirty- nine cities of the Bay State and hun- dreds of its citizens, will be in Wash- ington May 3„ 4, and 5 to witness the consummation, of a plan 'long con- templated by the Massachusetts So- ciety of Washington, D. C, the plant- ing of a' row of forty trees on the Lincoln Memorial reservation, which will, from that time, be known as the Massachusetts Avenue of Memorial trees. The eoeiety is a pioneer in the move- ment of having state societies here sponsor the idea of creating tree his- tory on the Lincoln Memorial reserva- tion, through its state officials. Al- though 'he season will be too far ad- vanced for other states to follow the plan laid dow n by the Bay Staters, the coming spring next year ie expected to witness several states preparing to establish similar avenues of memorial trees. Inaugurated Fifteen Months Ago. About fifteen months ago, George L. Cain, vice president of the society and chairman of the general enter- tainment committee, which is arrang- ing the historic event, broached the plan of having Massachusetts repre- sented on the reservation by trees from that state. Mrs. Warren G. Hard- ing previously had planted what is known as the 'Armistice Elm' and locations had been assigned to for- eign governments who will plant trees over a stretch of ground to be known as the 'Allied Governments Avenue of Memorial Trees.' Action on the plan, which was unanimously indorsed, was deferred at that time, however, because the Lincoln Memorial had not been com- pleted and had
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