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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Photo 112 

 A Substitute for Awnings. 



partment for some political service rendered. I have not even 

 the power to discharge them ; all I can do is send them back to 

 the department that sent them to me, and prefer complaint 

 against them. That is how I am situated ; I am utterly power- 

 less to do what I would gladly do, and what should be done for 

 the good of the city." I may add that in Claremont Park, and 

 also in the Bronx Park, there are some large, rare, and valuable 

 trees, specimens that Xew York City cannot afford to lose, but 

 they are dying because the curse of politics renders it impossible 

 to save them. 



I am not aware that Commissioner Walgrove intended the 

 foregoing as "private conversation." Indeed, I take it for grant- 

 ed that he will be heartily glad for me to put it in print. "Why 

 should such a hustling, energetic man. a man with good taste 

 and sound judgment, have his hands tied thus by the petty poli- 

 ticians of New York City? A man is not supposed to be ap- 



