The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-09
sY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

What's the use OF property owners
setting out trees In front of their
houses only to have them chopped and
mutilated and made more hideous
than If they were not by the wire peo-
pie?
This is what the residents along
Richmond avenue are saying. And
the trees are sorry sight. 1t seems
the latter interfered with the tele-
phone wires.
Comes along a wire manor his rep
trees into fancy shapes to suit the
aesthetic ideas of the chOpee.
When property owners portested he
informed them with becoming hauteur
that the city had authorized him to
do so. That he had taken a men,
Der of the board of public works, or
someone had invited this official, over
to point out the depredatiOns the
shade trees were committing on tel
ephone wires and that the represen-
tative of the municipal government
has given full permission to cut the
trees fatty off at the top wherever
they were in the way Of the wires.
What's the matter with having the
wires elevated or placed somewhere
else--say underground-whe they
wouldn't interfere with the trees.
1t has been said thousand times,
but it's just as true if said a million,
that the shade trees OF this town are
one of it's chiefest assets, not only
from an aesthetic standpoint, but in
an indirect way, from a commercial
point of view.
What makes Paris the mecca Of the
sightseers and buyers of the world?
Because of it's constant attention to
the aesthetic aspects of its civic &C
tivities.
1t is the most beautiful city in the
critics make this dominant. Later it
turns golden coin into its citizens
Golfers through the clever manipula-
ton of this fact in the publications of
the world.
Public service corporations don't
give a hang for anything but a right
of way--that is their particular right
of way, wherever or however they
want to operate. And they generally
get it because municipalities, for ex-
ample, make them any concession for
a complexity-or at times simplicity
of reasons.
Richmond is small town. There
Is no reason why it should be at the
mercy of the wire people. There's
plenty of room to shove the wires up or
bury them or retire them to the al.
leys.
That the appearance of the town is
being seriously impaired through the
reckless operations of the wire people
on the one haid, and the assinity of
the sidewalk and curb cementing peo-
pie on the other-which between them
have squeezed almost all the life out
of the trees-One only need to observe
by walking round town.
The beheading of the trees along
Richmond avenue has caused much in
dignation among the residents along
that street, and justifiably so. They
say that some trees that weren't in
the way of the wires were slashed into.
BY the way why not let Mr.. John
F. Thompson, the recently named city
forester, whose appointment was fit
ting one which did an honor to the
town as Mr.. Thompson is one of the
best known tree authorities in the
state, have some jurisdiction in mat
ter of this sort?
What was he appointed for?
It's easy enough to hack and chop
trees. But is not is not so easy to
make tree grow.
Is it the trees along Richmond av-
enue, or any other street. or the sys-
tenn that makes all the trouble.
The piano-player, once despised Of
the musician, has become one of his
most invaluable allies.
Through the use of this interesting
musical adjunct to a household and
through. also, the presence of innum-
cradle machines which reproduce the
actual vocal performances of singers,
orchestras, bands and other musical
aggregations. the general public is be-
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