The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-22
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

Haven't people any right to their
own property?
Or shall the man across the street or
down the block dictate what shall or
shall not be done on the formers pri-
yate demesne.
Locally it seems that the man over
the way can tell the property owner
opposite just "where TO get off"
So they say out Reeveston way.
People who have bought lots in the
Reeves addition state that the city
tells them they have no right whatev-
err to say what may be done with the
trees on their lots
One said that she had notice that
there would be a meeting to protest
against the action at ten o'clock one
morning.
At a quarter of ten she met some
one who had been at the appointed
place of meeting and that the latter
was all over and officialdom said that
since there was no one to protest &C
ton would be taken as indicated.
This has happened before here in
town when meetings for protest have
been arranged
People would reach there at the hour
appointed and be told that the meet
ing had been held-that they had mis-
taken the time-that it was all over
and done with now and too late.
This property owner stated that she
paid one hundred dollars more for the
lot in the Reeves addition in order to
get the trees.
That five of these trees would be cut
down to make the sidewalk uniform"
That what she wanted was the trees.
That she wouldn't have bought the
lot but for the trees.
That she didn't want to wait fifty
years for trees that they would plant
to grow to a place where the latter
would be enjoyable and decorative.
She stated that the city said they
had no right to say a word as to what
should be done about the street be-
lot.
But the people across the street
could have anything done they wanted
done with this woman's lot.
If all this is true it is outrageous
enough.
Talk not about Czarism
Don't denounce conditions in Rus
STA.
Why Iambast effete European gov
ern1pents?'
Why not cast an eye over Richmond,
Indiana, and see if Czarism isn't about
as rampant here as it is in the frozen
north or the Asiatic steppes.
BY the time the city and the neigh
bors have plated Reeveston the
thing that was supposed to make this
estate attractive for inclusion within
the municipal boundaries will have
been entirely destroyed
What matter if the trees, as said be-
fore, are soft naples?
They are trees that have attained
maturity and are a decorative asset
What if the street will not be uni
form?'
Why not deviate a little from the
mathematical line and make a decora-
tive detour.
There is no law or reason in heaven
or earth why these trees shouldn't be
pEoSoENSu.
1t is merely arbitrary action on the
part of city officials and the officious
meddling of people who don't own the
lots.
On a certain lot several fine trees
We're cut down in order to make a
straight line.
When the property owner, widow,
protested, she was told that she would
have to submit to improvements"
She asked why the factory which
projected beyond the line of her lot,
after it was cut down by the city,
wasn't made also to conform to the
city improvements and shave the end
of its building off to make a straight
line with her lot.
She was given the shrug of the
shoulder, the lift of the eye.