The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1909-05-22

That New Haven is fast losing the
bOsky glories for which she has been
renowned for two centuries, and
whence her title, Elm City, was de-
rived is bad news to thousands OF
Ellis graduate sons and to many 9th
ers who visit the university town to
be edited by football contests. The
trees are dying as the result of neg
lCCt and soon the picturesque streets
may be as bald as an aiumnus of the
class of SO. 1t is estimated that elm
beetles and other insects have de-
stroged half Of the city's 10000 trees,
and, figuring the value of a tree at
$780, there is a total loss of $1,20O,0OO.
But no monetary calculation can rep
resent the damage to beauty and the
replacement of the stately foliage can
not be accomplished in a few years, or
even generations.
An association of citizens, headed
by Prof. Henry Graves of the Yale
School of Forestry, has begun move
ment to save the trees which remain.
Last fall the trees were sprayed and
then hundreds of fine specimens were
killed. Prof. Graves and the citizens
behind him are trying 20 have the
care of the trees placed in the hands
OF a competent park commission.
Next to the university itself the
trees of New Haven have been the
ctty's chief glory since the town was
founded, in 1886. Trees were planted
around the central green at once, and
In 1860 Jared Elliott warned the colon
lists that the trees must be protected
from savage beasts" The elms which
have lined the green and the central
streets were planted in 1856, accord,
ing to the "Chronicles of New Haven
Green by Henry T. Blake.
Prof Franklin Bowditch Dexter Of
Yale points out in his paper, New
Haven in 1884," that Elm street took
It's name from the patriarchial trees
planted in front of the house of Rev
DR.. Pierpont, which remained till a
few years ago Rev DR. Leonard Ba-
con, one of the most famous pastors
IN the history of the Center church of
New Haven, thus told of the planting
OF the first tree in front of the Pier
pont residence:
AS the people were bringing in
their free.will offerings of one kind
and another to complete and furnish
the building, one man "a poor parish
Toner, William Cooper by name), de
string 70 do something for the object
and having nothing else to offer
brought on his shoulder from the
farms two elm saplings and planted
them before the door oil the ministers
house. some 40 years aftcrward
tt2fl Jonathan Edwards. then soon
to take rank in the intellectual world
with Locke and Liebnitz. spoke words
OF mingled love and piety IN the ear Of
sarah Pierpont under their shade"
Mr. Blake's Chronicles" show that
systematic planting of trees through.
out the city took place in 1859 Prof.
Dexter thinks that the large Sutton.
wood tree which has stood in Sort of
the First Methodist church in Elm
street is probably a relic Of that IA.
nous planting This tree has sue
cumbed to recent neglect and is now
dead Prot. Dexter says that $3.50
buttonwood and elm tres were set
out in l759 around the green
Rev Samuel Peters saws in his
General History Of Connecticut.
written in ISL In London, that New
Haven was the most beautiful town in
Ne" England, If not In America He
e-aoglzed the trees of the town. bat
descendants ot the dtsseuters who
founded Nev Haven record that New
Haven eas far less fayorably im-
Dressed Rith the old Tory parson than
Ker Nr Peters eas vith New ia.