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 The World's Largest Flagstaff

����Unloading the largest flagstaff in the world. This huge timber was brought to London from British Columbia, and is shown being towed up the Thames to Kew, where it will be erected in Kew Gardens

A HUGE log, two hundred and fit- teen feet long, and weighing eighteen tons, was recently trans- ported from British Columbia to Lon- don, to be erected as a flagstaff in Kew Gardens.

The transportation of this great tim- l)er across the ocean presented unusual difficulties. The pole was finally secured to the deck of a steamer, close to the rail, nuich to the discomfort of the ship's passengers.

Upon its arrival in London, a number of cranes, operating simultaneously, slid the timber free from stanchions and deck houses, and dropped it into the water, where a line was secured to its butt to tow it up the Thames River to Kew, wiiere it will be erected.

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