461 
PARK 
AND CEMETERY. 
cal impression, but are not allowed 
to take the place of shade trees, nor 
be placed too conspicuously in the 
foreground. 
The commission is appointed by 
the mayor and consists of five mem- 
bers. Following are some interesting 
extracts from the ordinance govern- 
ing its operations : 
in a public highway; or place any wire, rope, 
sign, poster or other fixtures on a tree or 
guard in a public highway; or injure, misuse 
or remove any device placed to protect such 
tree on a public highway. 
No shade or ornamental tree or shrub shall 
be planted in any of the public highways of 
the city by any individual or corporation 
until such tree or shrub shall have first been 
approved and the place where it is to be 
planted designated by the Parking Commis- 
sion. and a permit granted therefor. 
No person shall fasten any animal to a tree 
any trees grow’ing in a public highway, 
within twenty-four hours after the service 
upon the owner of said wire or wires, or his 
agent, of a written notice to remove said 
wire or wires or the electricity therefrom, 
upon the order of such Commission. 
At the annual meeting of the Park- 
ing Commission, its president, Dr. Joseph 
Holt, presented a statement of the posi- 
tion of the commission in its field of 
activity, the purposes of its' creation. 
IN ST. CHARGES AVE.; GOOD SIDE PLANTING SPOILED BY MISPLACED CENTER GROWTH. 
A Fine Bilateral Treatment with Ylsta Destroyed by Inferior Red Oaks Xe.ar Double Car Traoks. 
Whenever such Commission shall propose 
to make any such improvements as planting 
trees, .shrubs or other plants on any highway, 
they shall call upon the Commission in 
charge of .said highway, if such a Commis- 
sion exists, to present a plan for the im- 
provement, which plan shall not be executed 
until it has received the approval of the 
Parking Commission. 
Tf any Street Commission shall fail to sub- 
mit the plan called for within sixty days, it 
shall be the duty of the Parking Commis- 
sion to provide such a plan; and no Street 
Commission shall plant,, prune or remove 
any trees, shrubs or other plants upon any 
highway of this city except in accordance 
■with a plan approved and adopted hy the 
Parking Commission, 
It shall be the duty of each Street Com- 
mission to execute as rapidlj" as practicable 
the plan approved by the Parking Commis- 
sion and to care for and maintain the trees, 
shrubs and other plants in public highways 
in their charge; and this duty shall be per- 
formed by the Parking Commission on those 
highways for which no Street Commission 
exists. 
No person or corporation shall, without the 
written permit of the Parking Commission, 
cut, prune, break, climb, injure or remove 
any living tree in a public highway; or cut, 
disturb or interfere in any way with the roots 
^ t R public highway; or spray 
■with any chemicals or insecticides any tree 
in a public highwaj' in the citj* nor cause 
any animal to stand so that said animal can 
injure such a tree. 
No person shall, without the written per- 
mit of the Parking Commission, place or 
hereafter maintain upon the ground in a 
public highway, stone, cement, or other sub- 
stance which shall impede the. free passage 
of water and air to the roots of any tree in 
such highway. 
In the erection or repair of any building 
or structure the owner thereof shall place 
such guards around all the nearby tree.s on 
the public highway as shall effectually pre- 
vent injury to them. 
No person or corporation shall, without the 
written, permit of the Parking Commission, 
attach any electric wire, insulator or any 
device for the holding of an electric wire to 
any tree growing upon any public highway 
of the city. 
Every person or corporation having any 
wire or wires charged with electricity run- 
ning through a public highway, shall se- 
curely fasten such wire or wires so that they 
shall not come in contact with any tree 
therein. 
Every person or corporation having any 
wir3 or wires charged with electricity, run- 
ning through a public highway shall tem- 
porarily remove any such wire or wires or 
ihe electricity therefrom when it shall be 
necessary, in order to take down or prune 
its functions and their relation to the 
efforts of individual citizens and to the 
street or avenue commissions in help- 
ing forward essential works of public 
improvement. In summarizing the 
work of the commission Dr. Holt said; 
"With equal zeal and pertinacit}', each 
member has contributed a full share of 
counsel and energetic effort in estab- 
lishing a ground-work of sound, fun- 
damental principles, art formulae and 
rules of practice, collocated as an elas- 
tic constitution, derived from the liter- 
ature of the world’s best experience 
and distributed in pamphlet, for the 
advising of the administration and 
guidance of the public in the great un- 
dertaking of municipal shading and 
emliellishment.” The other officer.s 
of the commission are: .\llison Owen, 
vice-president: J. Creighton Mathews, 
treasurer; Edward Raker,, superin- 
tendent and secretar3v 
