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nearly three hundred arrests for hitching horses to trees. The 

 courts have fined these offenders from one to five dollars, many 

 of whom caused almost irreparable injury to trees which could 

 not be replaced for from twenty-five to one hundred dollars. 

 Some recent decisions, however, indicate that judges and jurors 

 begin to realize that the value of a fine shade tree does not con- 

 sist in its market value for firewood, and the vandals who have 

 been butchering whole rows of fine trees in order to make 

 stringing of telephone and telegraph wires more easy will find 

 that the owners of trees have more right to consideration than 

 has heretofore been conceded. 



In the circuit court at Kansas City, a lady was awarded 

 judgment for $200 agains-t the Kansas City Home Telephone 



Moving large shade trees. 



Company, whose employes had cut the top out of a shade tree 

 six inches in diameter which interfered with the wires. 



Another interesting decision is that recently rendered by the 

 supreme court of North Carolina. The Ashville Electric Light- 

 ing Company, even after it had provided itself with the per- 

 mission of the superintendent of streets, afterward approved by 

 the board of aldermen, ignored the protest of the owner and cut 

 a tree standing on the outer edge of his sidewalk. The owner 



