The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-25
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+. II. AULL, EDITOR.
ONE wORD MORE

WORKS tclIS us they nave nothing TO do
with the cutting of the trees. The
members OF the town council tell us
they have nothing To do with it. They
all say that no more arc to be cut on
the residence portion. When the cleo
trio people came here the line OF the
wires had not been located. The en-
gineer in charge took map Of the
town aud down in his office located
the wire without regard to the trees or
ny 0ther'considcrat,o except to make
the wire by the shortest route and To he
put MP with the least trouble. That Is
alright il there were no other considc-
ratiOns.
TAX" Calhoun street. There Is not "A
more beautiful street in the city and
made 80 largely 10y the beautiful shade
trees on IT.. The poles have already
been put up there and the way they
are placed nearly all these trees will
have to come down or br cut SO as to
ruin them. This could have h.ru
avoided by bringing the line in Il side
street and taking Il little more labor
ana trouble and Il few feet more of
wire. Are the people on Calhoun
street going to quietly submit to huv-
ing those beautiful trees cut down or SO
chopped TO pieces as to ruin the street
when 1t could be 80 easily avoided. One
alderman and one commissioner live uD
there. Right here on Caldwell street
In front of the residence of DR.. i y,
Thompson the way the poles are plac-
ed the large trees will have 10 be cut
10 pieces In order to get the wires in.
Inc commissioners say they have no
authority and the members of council
say they have none. The electric light
people claim to be working under the
charge and direction OF the engineer
IN charge and have run the wires and
placed tho poles according to his drec-
lions. Then he mu,; be responsible
ana we suppose he is above the council
ana the commissioners. lie is here
for only short time and il is not to hc
supposed that he has any special inter
est IN the town or its shade trees. The
locating OF the wires and prlrs, we un-
derstand, was done in the office with
out knowing where the trees were. If
Ice engineer in charge is the response
bic party then we appeal to him
to save the trees and chanrr his
poles 50 rs to do it. This will have to
be done this week or the trees will b"
down. 1t will be too late TO make Il
row after our trees alc cut to pieces.
We arc told that the way in which |
the poles are located in front of Mr.. |
Boyd Epting's the young trees lust
planted out there will have to come |
down.
And several of those trees on Bound |
ary street along by DR. Gildcrs will
also come under the cxccutioncrs axe.
IL seems to us this is Il mrttcr the
town council could rcgulutr. We sup
posed the commissioners Of public |
works had employed the engineer and |
that he was subject to their orders and |
directions.
We know this town can he lighted |
ana the wires put up and the shade |
trees saved. We are no cnyiurrr ar
electrician but we know this much.
we KNOW there is an ordinances against
figuring ahadc trees with penalty at.
tached for it's violation. We krow il
VIII he too late to talk about it. after
the trees are cut We have been told
that when something was said to the
people who are putting up the poles
about cutting the trees on Cu,houn
street they simply laughed and said
the trees would have to >onr down.
I'VE know that somebody who has
been pnt IN authority should see to il
that the beauty and comfort of the
town Is not married on the property
desecrnted.
We feel that il would be an act of
vandalism to cut down trees when they
could be saved 1t looks silly to us to
labor for years to plant trees and try
to get them to grow and then sit down
and see them cut to pieces in less time
than it takes to tell it.
We are not finding fault with anv
one. We want the trees saved We
know they can be saved. Win any
body who has the authority see to it?
ly In the hands of the town council and
no one has any right to cut any trees
without authority from the council and
any one who does, whether commits
sioner, engineer, electric light people
or private citizen, is in violation of
law.
Since writing the above and putting
1T In type we have been assured by the
commissioners that no trees on the res
idence streets are to be cut, but as the
above is simply u protest against cut
tirg the trees and plea to save them
we will let 1t go. 1t will be too late to
protest after the trees arc down and in
behalf of the people who love a pretty
town and value our beautiful shade
trees we have begged that they be
spared. Our duty has been discharged
and we leave the subject by begging
thQt tho hnprfy nf |