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An unusually difficult problem con fronted the house-movers to whom was assigned the task of moving the old homestead of Charles M. Schwab, the steel manufacturer, from its site near Loretto, Pennsylvania, without cutting down or in any way harming the cluster of trees surrounding it. Neither were the house-movers per mitted to demolish the bautiful frame house, known as the “Immergrun; it being the explicit wish of the own er that ‘the house was to be removed in its entirety to another site, so that a new million-dollar summer home could be built in the center of the belt of trees. When Mr. Schwab first brought the matter of removing his Loretto homestead to the attention of the engineers, they studied the prob lem with great care, and later submit ted a plan calling for the sacrifice of three trees. To this proposal Mr. Schwab is said to have replied: “Woodman, spare the axe. I would no more think of cutting down those trees than I would of killing the old cow to get oe steak. All you have to do is to jack the house over the trees. It is only 30 feet. ° . No alternative being offered, the en gineers saitlel down to the lask—at tacking the iramé houss over the tress. ‘By the route that bag bee -selected, it will be nescesam for the building to jess over 22 trons before it reaches the road where it can be moved in the conventional mannes. The maxirauvin
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Marshall Herald
Marshall, Illinois, US
Wed, Dec 15, 1915
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