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warden has done a great deal to protect the pubHc interests, 

 and the corporations have been careful not to mutilate the 

 trees any more than was absolutely necessary to carry on their 

 work. For this reason I believe when trees are set out. it 

 would be better to remove them from the highway inside of 

 the lot, so as not to interfere with the sewer pipes and the 

 electric light wires. We all want electric lights, and if the trees 

 are too near the highway, the lights will be covered by the 

 limbs, and the effect will be loss of light. But the spirit in 

 which I think this meeting was largely called for was to 

 impress on our people, and especially the younger people, the 

 necessity of taking care of trees, and I hope the sentiment that 

 will go out from this meeting will help to embellish our road- 

 sides, and embellish our homes. The state has done a great 

 deal in this respect by passing the Arbor day law. Now I 

 know many schools in this state where J:his law is respected 

 and upheld, and I know of hundreds of trees set out on our 

 public school grounds and parks owing to the Arbor day law, 

 and I hope this movement will continue. There is nothing 

 more beautiful than to see a fine row of shade trees along our 

 highways. It is a blessing to man and beast, and I can speak 

 from experience, when I say that trees that have been planted 

 along macadam roads and have been in existence for over 

 twenty years, have done a great deal to protect the life of those 

 roads. I have noticed that by comparison. Right near my 

 residence there is a long row of trees, fifty or more, and a 

 macadam road running aside of them, and I think those trees 

 have protected that road, for the road is very seldom dusty, 

 and I think the trees do a great deal to lay the dust. I hope 

 the time will come, and very rapidly, when trees will be planted 

 alongside of all our highways. The tree warden has plenty 

 of power; I don't believe all these lawyers tell you. I would 

 go ahead and use my power to the best of my ability, and I 

 tell the corporations they must do so and so, and I tell the 

 owners they must do so and so, and in any public-spirited 

 community the public will uphold you, and that is the best 

 backer of any law, if you have the right spirit in any town; 

 and if you all believe in public improvement and beautifying 

 vour streets, whv. then, von can make the law whatever you 



