The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-15
THREATEN DEATH
FOR VANDALISM
People Around Lyndale and Sixth
Avenue North Are
Aroused.
Coroner Kistler and His House
mover Fire Wrath Of Neigh
bors ana Park Folk.

BN threatening uouSelnoVei Win
property owners in the vicinity Of l1yn
dale and Sixth avenues n have saved
their fine shade trees temporarily and
created an aggravated condition OF al
fairs. There is talk of shooting. and
everybody directly interested is great
The trouble started when. DR.. NJ.
Kistler coroner of Hennepin county,
started to move two-story double
store from it's location at Sixth and
Lvndale, one block further north on
Lyndale. to make room for more mod
ern improvements. The building is
nearly fly feet wide, and could not
icing uss a row W. of Splendid Gins. Dr.. Kist-
Ter consulted with Superintendent
Theodore Wirth and Secretary J.: A:
Ridgway of the park board, and both
entered a decided protest against &C.
stroylng the trees, aitho- DE. h1stier
agreed to bear the expense of planting
new trees. :. ,-s:y -s@.,l,. -.,..... -. +.
2 : = Ordered Trees Felled. - ST
y. =. TIL park officials saw that the only
moved was BY. cutting. i in tMoS and
moving one section at time. They 50
informed DIR. Kistler, who instructed
the HORSEPOWER, G.. A. Anderson, to cut
the house in two. Mr.. Anderson had
the house sawed in two and instructed
boy to begin telling trees.
Before anyone else knew what WI
going on, one section of the store wa
we'll out in the street. Then trouble be-
terfered. The progress Of the building
was stopped by force. and the boy who
cut down the tree was taken before q
police Judge, who fined him So.
The dividing of the building does not
solve the tree problem. Instead of cut
ting lit lengthwise, as the park officials
contemplated, the horsepower cut 1t
crosswise, which did not help matters at
ALL DR.. Kistlcr says he left the matter
entirely with Mr.. Anderson, assuming
ha he knew how to cut the building.
At present the neighborhood is dead
locked. The old building has not been
moved for week, and is serious i'm
pediment to traffic. The neighbors are
up i'll arms, as was shown last night
when a report was circulated to the eff
feet that an attempt would be made to
steal a march and move the house under
the cover of night.
On Guard All Night.
Park Patrolman Morris was hurried
to the place and with some determined
men kept watch all night, but there was
no sign of any work on the building.
DR.. Kistler says there is no occasion
for any excitement. He intends to com
ply with the orders Of the park board
had always done so, and insists that
every step he has taken thus far has
been with the sanction of park officials
except that Mr.. Anderson did not cut
the house the right way. He attribute:
the entire trouble to the enmity of ont
of his neighbors.
known. Park Commissioner G. NJ. Lor
ing is greatly stirred up over the mat
ter. He classes the cutting of the tre
as vandalism and is greatly disap
pointed because the fine was fixed a
such a trifing sum as So.
49,. Mr.. Loring Aroused. e..
; els it not about time,'' asked MI
Loring, "for Minneapolis police jus
tees to learn that there is a none.
value in shade trees, even tho they can
not appreciate their value. as an embell
ishment to our streets and as sanltar,
agents9 -.
among tree lovers as being the bes
planted city in the northwest, and W
have many citizens who appreciat
their beauty as is evidenced by TIL
light.
- ."The man who cut down the tire
was arrested and the judge fined him 5
three dollars for destroying a ire
that was seven or eight inches in di
ameter! +E
For injuring tree by cutting on
limbs Kansas judge fined telephon
company 5000. A South Carolina cour
awarded $4se damages against anothe
company for destroying a poplar tree
The Judges Of Minneapolis courts il
fict a fine Of from 81 to S. for inju1
ing trees.
tEWhat the outcome of this matte
will be no one can tell, but it is SAT
to guess that the building will b
moved, the fine trees destroyed, tn
man arrested and fined So each for tree
worth several hundred dollars.
lis it not about time for our cit
Zens to demand that they shall have on
of the greatest attractions of our cit
protected by the courts?''
CHARITIES CONVENTION.
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