Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-10
ADVISES WOMEN
TO GUARD TREES
SPEAKER SAYS Drawn SHOULD
BE USED
Miss Belle Sumner Angler Famous
horticultural Expert, Addresses
Wide-Awake Meeting at
Highland Park EbelI

Women who want to save their shade
trees must be able to use Drawn as
well as brain, according to Miss Belle
| sumner Angler, leading horticultural
writer who spoke yesterday at a wide
awake meeting of the Highland Park
Ebel
= The fight TO save beautiful trees on
Avenue 81 has aroused the women in
That neighborhood to such a pitch of
| excitement they were ready to re.
ceive any suggestion with thankful
ness.
Residents of Highland Park have
purchased and planted trees which, if
they are allowed to grow unmolested,
should make il one of the most beau
tiful parts of the city" said Miss An
gier.
when you think there Is fear of
these trees being molested of course
YOU are alarmed. But ii Is not sufficient
that you are alarmed--you must sound
the alarm in no uncertain way.
Tell 1t not abroad, dear women, but
with the multiplicity of city depart
ments and the unthinkingness of a
large number of leading citizens you
will have to take advantage of as many
strategic points and defend them with
as much braWn as brain and very
y
batants in stratagem."
Recommends a Bluff
Miss Angler said the only way to
solve the problem is to have a city for
ester who viii look after trees, advise
about removal, pruning, planting and
selection. She told of a visit she paid
to the park superintendent and Mayor
McAleer a few days ago in the interest
of those who are trying to save trees.
Il asked Mr.. Morley, the park super
intendant, how we can defend the
trees in front of our homes
With bluff. he answered laconi.
cally. Then I broached the question of
Il city forester to him. He agreed with
me that it would be an excellent thing,
but then he said it would cost money.
Then Mr.. Morley hurried on to the
parks, possibly to superintend the
planting of five hundred cedrus deo-
daras, which, in all probability, judg
ing by past experience, some other
park superintendent in future years
will either dig up or cut away! That is,
he will. unless Los Angeles profits, and
that before very long, by the expert
ence of other large municipalities ana
makes the Office of park superintendent
more than Il matter of prefcrment and
appointment by the political party i'll
control OF municipal affairs.
Appeals to Mayor McAeer
"I went on my way and into the
mayors Office, where l put the same
questions / had to Mr.. Morley.
The mayor informed me, The trees
on the street do not belong to the
property owner in front of whose es-
tate they may be, but to the city-and
the city must protect them.
Now, | liked the sound of that and
fl,., iii
would do it. The mayor shook his head
gravely when | suggested a city fores-
ter and he also talked about the eX-
pense.
I'm reply to my assertion that the
city and county of Los Angeles had
cut down and mutilated more trees
during 1905 than they had planted he
demurred, but when pressed the point
of protection he said that by an or
dinance now operative it was in the
power of the board of public works to
adjust any difficulties of this sort that
arose between property owners and the
officers and employees of the municipal
ity, and that when the people were
sufficiently interested TO follow the
matter up he was sure their protests
would receive attention and the trees
be protected.
Would Guard Trees
"And do you know" she continued,
IL think the mayorNis more than half
right?
THE enforcement of the law is very
decidedly up to the people just nov
in Los Angeles and by more than one
incident the club women of our city
have amply demonstrated their ability
to insist upon the enforcement of laws
made by our masculine representa-
tives.
Just between you and and the door
jamb of our mayors Office I am in
clined to think that the members of
that board of public works are very
likely to forget the Importance of main
tanning those trees out on Avenue 81
or in the South park and there are
good many times when they. are apt to
be too busy, or too sick, or too indif-
ferent to interest themselves very per-
sonally in your block of improvements
undess you take it upon yourselves to
keep them reminded.
"Our wasted efforts at municipal inn
proVements in Los Angeles are costing
the mass of our property owners more
than their taxes.
"Were L q property owner and line
man came along TO cut the trees on my
estate or a detachment of city em-
ployes came along to cut down the
city's trees abutting on the curbstone,
| should assert myself and my asplra-
lions TO citizenship to the extent that
[ should guard those trees against mu'
tilation or removal
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