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the hiinian mine] all appreciation of the beauties of nature and 

 of art. Where this manufacturing ardor is not rampant, 

 you will find a controlling delight in wide avenues decorated 

 with living objects that arouse pleasant recollections and tend 

 to the promotion of health and comfort. Look at the broad 

 highway, with great noble trees and grassy plots on both 

 sides, constituting the main street in the old agricultural com- 

 munity ! You see it in some towns in every county in the 

 State, and the mere imagination of it causes a thrill of 

 pleasure. 



The laws relating to tree wardens are now so crude and 

 incoherent that great results cannot be expected. Further 

 legislation is needed to increase the number of trees in the 

 highways and to thoroughly protect them, but I think it a 

 fair inference that all trees w^ithin the limits of the highway, 

 bounty trees, protected and designated trees, public shade 

 trees, and all other trees are within the jurisdiction of the 

 tree warden, to a limited extent, and that he should consider 

 it his duty to look after them and see that offenses concern- 

 ing them are punished. I believe that I have made an 

 exhaustive examination of our laws relating to the subject 

 and have placed the results before you. If my feeble efforts 

 shall aid the great movement for the preservation of trees, 

 my reward will be sufficient. 



Mr. Hale: Well, you have heard about "laying down 

 the law," and you have certainly had enough of it to-night, 

 and I think we all appreciate the eft'orts of Judge Root in 

 bringing this matter before us, and I wish we had time to 

 ask him some questions, and stir him up in a good many 

 ways, but there does not seem to be any opportunity just at 

 present. Now we come to the tree wardens, and I am going to 

 call on Air. John N. Brooks of Torrington, as I saw he was 

 kicking at something Mr. Root said. 



A New Man at the Work. 



By John N. Brooks, Tree Warden. Torrington. 

 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: My appearing here 

 to-night is rather of a joke. Out in Torrington I do con- 



