Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03
FIND DIFFICULTY
GETTING MEN To
TRIM CITY TREES
Many Work for Day, but Quit,
Declaring Job Too
Hazardous.

In spite of the demand for en-
ployn mt a few weeks ago, the City
! Shade Tree Commission is having
M hard time to secure men to trim
the trees in the city streets and
parks. Trimmers need no special
training, but they must be civil ser
vice eligibles.
Carl Bannwart. secretary of the
commission, said today that more
than 200 notices had been sent by the
Civil Service Commission to secure
the eleven men he has trimming
trees. Many men have applied for
the job, but a large number of them
do not continue more than a day
They find 1t too hazardous, Mr.. Bann-
wart says, to climb a tree and saw
off the dead limbs. He declared that
light nimble men were hard to find.
The men work under the direction
of foremen who instruct them just
9 what trees are to be "manicured. "
Thus no special training is required
( Trimmers are paid twenty-five cents
an hour.
There are at present more than fifty
men employed by the commission en-
gagged in cleaning the parks and park
ing strips and proning the trees and
( shrubbery. The frost this year is
late in coming out of the ground.
This hampers the work of the shade
tree improvers.
Frost Delays Work.
Mr.. Bannwart said today that
enough of the frost would be out of
the ground by the first of next week
to start in setting out the trees.
Most of the trees to be set out will
come fro mthe citys nursery at Ivy
Hill, in lrVington avenue, South Or
ange. Red oaks, Norway NAPLES and
. Oriental planes are the principal
species set out
The parks and parking strips re-
quire lot of daily attention at this
time. The refuse and fertilizer must
be raked from the grass and the sod
cared for. The benches and refuse
cans are being reprinted, and every
thing is being done to put the parks
in spring attire.
The bulbs for the spring flowers
which were planted several months
ago, are now just beginning to show
statue, in Washington Park, the cro-
Gus bed, shaped to form the word
Spring" is just visible above the
sod.
An unusually large amount of trim
ming must be done this year. Mr.
Bannwart attributes this to the
storms, which did considerable dam
age to the city's trees. Many of the
trees were so badly damaged that
they will have to be cut down. In
many instances limbs are being held
in place by telegraph and telephone
wires.
Limbs Torn from Trees.
Where the wind has torn limbs from
trees and left large holes the commits
sion employees fill in the cavities with
cement and filler. This strengthens
the tree and prevents its rotting.
As soon as the flowers and bulbs
which We're planted last year blossom
out and die they will be replaced by
flowers which blossom later. These
in turn, will be replaced after they
.sha1e hlnsseaed and died. In this way
Mr.. Bannwart arranges to have bios
SONS in the various parks a greater
part of the spring and summer.
A large force Of men are engaged in
preparing the new parking strip In
Hawthorne avenue, between Clinton
place and the city line, for the new
sod and flower seed. The ground is
being subsoiled. The strip is about
1000 feet long and fifteen feet wide
Trees will be set out later, when the
flower beds have been marked out.