The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-06-22
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SAVE TnE SHADE TREES.

There has been no more constant or
persistent advocate for electric lights
for Newberry than The Herald and
News. We wore delighted when we
saw the realization Of our hopes and
labnrs IN the voting Of the bonds and
the letting Of the contracts for a. svs.
tenn OF water works and electric lights.
What we say now then can be said as II
friend OF Z ectric lights.
We arc partial to trees. Wcdcliyht
TO sec beautiful shade trees In any
town. The long rows of trees is what.
makes Columbia the bcuulitrl city j.
Is. The same may he said of the r., 81
d'nce streets OF Charlotte and Auy,sta
ana numbers Of other cities. All y.
pie who love II beau iful city take rs-
peclal care of the shade trees. and IN
most, If not all. Of them there is an or
d'nance forbiddin% cutting trees or
hi'chinG horses to thrm, or ia any WAY
lnJuring them. There Is such an ordi-
nance in Newburry.
We have said nothing about the cut.
Ting Of the trees on Main ,trrrt. b,.
cause many Nf our progressive citiZrus
say IT gives it Il "city appearance, and
II those people who do business thrrr
prefer y "city appearance" to the COM
Tort OF good shade these hot DAVIS. il is
ho concern ol ours, and brSurS that.
'"eSe trees ar down and were down
"'I"rr we had opportunity to protest,
ANA no amount Of protesting would re-
place them. 1t will take - years Of
good growing. But We are not liickjun
on these
" hat W" want To plead with lhr
commissioners and city fathers lur il
10 say" the trees ON the other streets
ana save them before they are, en-,
GOWN. TO make Il row after they ur.
chopped down will ito no GOOD. Il
LOOKS |" lis from the way in which some
ct the poles are placed that they were
put there with the intention and NM.
pose "i cutting down some Of the b.s,
ana pcttt est trees. We ar,. Sn,i,ti,l
lhat nlnc-trnths Of our pr ole. if ,,,,
were '"nsnlt"f, would oppose cutting
'ht trees, hut i, wilt do no yuo,. for
'heh I" Il" consulted ur for them to-
protest alter the trees are down.
AS long and rs rrrsi~lrnt!v and os |
earnestly as we have inuyh, fol. electric
'S"'S' u 'h"E haV" 10 come ~ the sac |
rune" "l our trees, We SAY let oar town !
remain IA da'kne :. We luu i, thu, |
strongly To show how We valur the
trees.
But there is no reason or nr,,,.s;,v
''' t"'linE down the trees. Other
towns with more : rr; than We h,y,
put IN electric lights ami did no, emf
the trees II the r"mmi>>ionnol;l.l W
let the people who vs., is Will
plant ura.."s Old mGGtH' putting in the
l|,ctcf ..Gcrstund that the irrc4 are to |
,e spared, the plant will, hr installed |
and the trees saved. They have no in-
tcrcst in the town rNrrp; the money |
they arc to get ont OF it, and if it saves |
them little trouble orr little cost to !
cut tree, why OF course they will! cut
it instead of trying to wire around it,
The Herald and News pleads again
with the commissioners to ScctO il that
the trees are spared. The way some
OF the poles are placed some Of our
choicest trees will have to go. Let
these poles he moved and the trees
saved. We believe that is the desire
OF ninc-'cnths Of our people. The pco-
pie who are putting up the plant and
even tn" engineer in charge may tell
you 1t is necessary. 1t is not. The tclc-
phonc wires were put up without cut
ting trees. Other cities have electric
lights without cutting trees. The pru-
Pic who are installing the plant and
the engineer are here only for short
time. This is our home and we rNrrr,
TO live here. Save the trees. 1t can
be done. If You do your duty. com
missioncrs, it will hc dunH. Wrrxprci
YOU to do your duty.