The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-09-09
FOR SHADE TREES.
rrfu iyrEgEsT TAKSc IN THE AKD0R
ASSOCIATION.
u~.,ceIy . Doubt that Actual Plant
- viii Commence ON the First
~ Nert Month-where the rablie
Nay sub-eribe-List Of centsf-
r.tors 70 the Fund

The interest IN the Arbor association
- already become 20 general that
,ho.e Who have already subsrribed
- those who intend to subscribe
ri he interested 10 know how far the
,.die4 have progressed in their under
taking.
A. their last meeting committee
ras appointed 10 find the cost OF dif-
$500 kinds of shade trees. and the
s;,.ds a trees which viii grow best.
hi committee viii report az the
.,se.ir,g Of the association this week,
:. vhieh meeting a general plan OF
- g-iTI be laid out and the park
-, ,,,issi0pers viii report back TO the
~ council. and VIII find out hos
..,',,, assistance that body can giTe.
The urelinIinaries viii al he ar
-..,.-ed - that the actual planting OF
Nc trees VIII begin in earnest by 0eto-
ss,f whieh Is the time 70 plant 10 the
hest advantage
,.ssi ier subscriptions, and the extent
e thsir work viii only be limited by
~ eytef,t OF their means. They will
laramie that the trees will be prop
sr n selected and carefully set out,
M Il 4 their hope that this autumn
iii - at least thousand trees set
All With these to start with. they
nj feel that their efforts have not
,,een +, vain. and that the enterprise
s.r,,ecessfuily started viii By its own
xir4ses he bound to sueeeed.
IA one who has lived among trees,
sbruhz and flowers can fail TO see
what a crying need this is in Seattle.
ono becOmes az fond OF trees as OF
npot,ie and looks on them as friends.
when the 'sOld Elm" on the Boston
common was blown down in the Sep
tember gale some - years ago its
deatlt was considered a public loss,
lust as the death OF public man
would have been, who belonged TO and
sas loved by the people. BY kind
proyision OF nature a little sapiing
sprung up from the root Of the de-
sfroyed tree and bids fair to keep mp
the old inheritance. When the Pad
dock elms in Boston. most respected
OF old moDarchs, were cut down in
order 30 widen street, most petty
excuse for such a crime, howl OF in
dignation went up all over town.
Whoever has driven under trees
whose branches meet overhead, who
ever has been through the beauties Of
Central park, whoever has been in
most OF our large cities, the useful
ness OF the little public sqtares, filled
With trees, little GASES In the city
desert, and whoever has walked or
driven about some of the parched,
neglected looking streets
Of Seattle, that man, woman or child
even II a stranger and only Interested
ID the cause in general, cannot fail TO
zee the good Of this cause, and can do
NOTHING less than give gladly whatever
be or she Il able.
The s;uaiiest subscriptions, no mat
er how small, are the ones that are
wanted the most, for they show how
,eneral the interest IS, and those sub
Icriptions are always the best kind to
can upon.
There are very few people who can
lot spare q cents, and yet II every
,ody In Seattle would give this sum,
he fondest dreams OF the Arbor Assoc
.iatiOn would be realized. Too much
.annot be subscribed,
II viii be eE-iiy Appreciated how diff
icult task IL IL Tor the committee
m raising finds to see everybody,
md TO facilitate the collection of the
unds, subscription papers viii be
'cady en- Monday the 10th, at A. Il.
'tewart's drug store, Iowman 4 Han
ord's stationary store and Harness
lrug store in North Seattle. The COM
nittee particularly urge the people not
o wait to be asked for their Sahscrip-
ion, but 10 subscribe voluntarily at
he above mentioned stores. Much
inc and labor will be saved the COM
nittee II the money Is paid at The time
he subscription Is made. The Posi-
INrELLiGENcER viii publish every Sun
lay the list of subscribers and the to
al amount subscribed. In order to
work tn the best advantage the COM
nittee ought 10 know by September
18th what amout OF money they will
have 10 work with. To those who will
not subscribe while the COWS are al
owed to roam about the strects-sa
custom only In vogue in country vii
ages lit can Toe said that the COW Orii-
nance would have been passed last
Friday, only the draft of the ordi-
nance was not completed. The pas
sage OF this ordinance IL promised
surely at the next council meeting.
The total amount subscribed to date
is little more than 500. Following
IS the list OF contributors To the fund !.
! a IL