Connecticut western news., 1911-04-20
SELECT TMAN WARNS.
MUST BE BETTER WORK
 AT PUBLIC DUMP

ing Given Against Misuse of Drive
 way-PossibIe Trouble For Those
 Who Cut Down Trees on Highway.
 The condition of things at the public dumping ground on the back road to Ashley Falls, of which complaint was made by correspondent in these col umns last week, is undergoing change, and different order will prevail in flu 1 ture.
 Selectman Peirce, who has inspected the situation, has put men at work reme- dying the evils complained of, and has taken an attitude that will be pretty apt to deter the transgressors, from continu- ing in their transyressions. He has ~ caused the road leading to the dumping ground to be cleared of the rubbish and the debris that has been deposited on either side by slovenly Jumpers, and is having the road running through the dumping-ground made navigable by the removal of rubbish to points at some dis tauce from the drive but still convenient for Jumpers who will have the decency to drive little out of the roadway and unload their stuff where it will not in-
 terfere with travel in the drive. The
 practice had become common, of halt ing 8 load in the roadway and unload ing it over either side and the hind-end
 of the wagon and making it necessary
 for the next load to drive over old wash
 boilers, barrel hoops, stoye-pipe, rotten
 mattresses and suoh.like bric brac.
 This, Selectman Peirce says, has got to
 stop, and he issues notice that strict
 watch will be kept for violations of the rule of decency, and the first violator- regardless of his position or social or
 basiness standing-will be prosecuted to
 the full extent of the law.
 The agitation of this matter of dump. a ing-ground and road defacement has brought to the front another matter
 which is likely to make serious trouble for somebody. It appears that some person
 has deliberately chopped down all the trees that served to conceal the unsightly portion of the dumping ground from
 the main road, and thrown the whole
 objectionable exhibition open to the gaze , the of passer-by.
 On the west side of same road. which was formerly bordered by shade trees that made it one of the most attractive drives in any outlying section of the town. it is said the trees along the road side have been removed, and that the ground has been ploughed and rye sowr up to the very edge of ths wagon road and almost ill the ruts of it, and this hal
 been done, it is asserted, without per
 mission from the tree warden, who, by the way, happens to be Selectman Peiroe The law relating to the removal oi trees on any highway is very drastic = aud it is proposed by persons who have
 been accustomed to drive over these shady roads, to see to it that some re spect is paid to the law. It will be vel F for persons who contemplate the remova of trees bordering any road. to take not' 3 of the law on the subject. The legisla
 ture of 1909 amended certain sections O
 the statute concerning the care and pro
 lection of trees in highways and public
 grounds in such way as to make it wortl while to take notice. For example, ,
 couple of amended sections of the ac are here quoted:
 Section 4445 of the general statutes i hereby amended to read as follows = "When any person, other than a tret warden or his deputy, desires the cuttin, or removal, in whole or in part, of all, t public shade tree, such person ma,
 apply i'll writing to the tree warden o. the town, who shall give public hear . ing at some suitable time and place, af ter giving reasonable notice of the hear
 ing to all persons interested therein, anC
 posting notice thereof upon tue said tree
 At the close of said hearing til,
 tree warden shall render his decision
 granting or denying the application 7 and the party aggrieved by sucn uecisiOl may appeal therefrom to the county com missioners, and said county commission , CTS shall have, concerning the declsiou s of tree wardens, power to review, con F firm, change, or sut aside, and their de cision shall be final"
 Section 4441 or the general statutes |
 hereby amended by striking out in tn,
 seventh line thereof the word 'one, Q and inserting iu lieu thereof the word two and by adding at the end of saic 6 section the words ''Or imprisoned in e jail not more than one year, or both, g 50 that said section as amended shal Q read as follows livery person who af V fixes to a tree Ill pubic way or place J playbill, picture, notice, advertisement E or other thing, whether ill writing o l. otherwise, or cuts, paints or marks sucl ! trees, except for the purpose of protect N ing 1t and under written permit from l. tt tree warden, shall be fined not more 7. than fifty dollars. Every persons whc e wilfully inJures or defaces an ornamenta o or shade tree within the limits of a pub
 llc way or place snail De fined not nor, LII %I, I,