PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT USES THE AXE.
Like Gladstone', President. Roosevelt is fond of wielding the axe, and recenfcly (says the San Franckco '"Argonaut.") he. liiiit-.luid an opportunity; to indulge- in tips pastime. A forest tit Teimallytovm, near Washington, D. C.. belongs to the Dutch iiefrirmed Church, which "ha attends, and the trees on the laud are so dose together
that they do not have a. chance to grow Therefore tlio trustees <k-to:mined to thin them out. They asked President Roosevelt to requsMb Gifford l'lnehot, Foretfer of tho Dep-Ktaent of Agriculture, to visit the land and mark the treey which should ba removed. The President replied that ho wou!d attend to tteo matter, and, morning after morning, with Mr Pine-hot, ho visited Tonallytown, much to the wonder of tho Washington newsjsaper corrcyjxindents. At last, ono followed, t'litem, and. observed that the President and the forester, after deei-d----ing that a. trea should bo removed, proceeded to remove it. Fifty largo treca have been felled by the President.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7536, 9 May 1903, Page 3
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