The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25


 moderate n cost IS to beEery lightly felt. shAt is if the united action of the citizens
 of both places can be secured.
 Tic best material for such path, on
 the score of economy and durability is
 undoubtedly pure pit gravel such as is
 wholly free from any loamy matter, aud
 strata, a foot or so ill thickness of stone,
 wnicl, might be gathered from the high
 ways, or obtained Iron, tlse useless cross ! walls that are to be seen disfiguring the meadows that stretch along tho route I These occupy q considerable space of land
 from which hay could be cut, and the
 owners might be glad to donate theIa to
 the public usc as they would be subjected
 to no expense ill the removal
 Laid in this manner, with occasional
 outlets for the escape of such water as
 may have permeatcd-throHgh the gravel, and you will have hard and smooth foot-path that will be free from mud at all seasons of the year.
 A further improvement might he made by planting q line of elm trees on that side of the highway (but better if planted on both) the entire distance, which in twenty years time would become stately trees, ornamental in themselves and q noble feature in the landscape, as viewed from the hill indeed, if dH the roads that radiate from the Centre were planted in fbic ,l,on hot n if would be. May we not hope that. before many years, this work will be undertaken also
 The writer of this well remembers wher there wore but very few shade trees on either side of the main street, and most of these were Lombardy poplars that were tco slender to cast e shado,r they | were sickly specimens of tree imported from Europe, that had found favor in the sight of Frederick the Great (the old sol Iier) for their military appearance (as he thought. Happily, the species has be- come nearly, if not quite extinct in this country, which with so many varieties of | superb trees of native growth, never ought to have imported it.
 There were however at that time sev- eral weeping willows, which were fully grown; one of the largest of these stood in the yard now belonging to the Episco- pal parsonage, and was uprooted by the great huFr cane of September, 1921, which swept over the Now England states with a destructive force that has never since, by any gale, been equalled. Many years after, a spirit for planting shade trees along this wide thoroughfaro was mani tested on tho part of 2 few individuals who saw the actual necessity for 1t as a protection from the fierce rays of the sun, and we have now it's gratifying results. With it's double row of noble elms, the wide Street is the admiration of every stranger; and as long as these splendid specimens of the finest of all trees re- main to protect the pedestrian by their grateful shade, so long will Newtown con .inue popular place of resort during the ] summer months for families who winter n the great cities.
 Let us suppose. MT. Editor, that these ' tately trees were all leveled to the 1 ground by the woodlands axe; what a l orlorn aspect the street would then pre- ent; the birds that now every year make I heir nests in the dense foliage and greet tine early morn" with thelr tune :, ul notes would be heard there no more T except, however, that audacious little I ocl1ney, the English sparrow, who pre- E CTS for his dom:cile the diIapidated, un- ! peDed window-blind, or some jutty about he caves that has bare space for his lit- Q le neat. He ie naf-II9 vr- taxing care of A lmself, and is not often chary about the A ights of his fcathered brethren, either. 1 or course these improvements ought 4 ot to be undertaken except by voluntary A although ii the owners of I cal estate generally in the town were IT wake to their own interests they would 4 ct in harmonious concert with the sole I few of carrying them out, and thus add A 9 much beauty to the place, which for ealth Is unsurpassed by any other equi- ', istant from the seashore, while it's posi- we exemption from that detestable and nnoying pest, the mosquito, is of itself 4 recommendation that cannot be ques- IT Oned. The foregoing suggestions are prompt O d solely by the desire on the part of the ., riter to make Newtown before many V ears one of the most popular places for immer resort among the many others land that are now striving for suprema- '. ". P. c. -,