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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Tree Wardens and Park Officials of Connecticut Meet 
The state of Connecticut has taken a long step 
forward in the work of systematic tree protection 
by the formation of the Connectitcut Association 
of Tree Wardens and Park Officials, which held its 
first meeting in the State Capitol at Hartford, 
March 7. The objects of the organization as ex- 
pressed in the constitution are to secure co-opera- 
tion in all interests concerned with the trees, and 
to collect and disseminate throughout the state all 
available information concerning trees and their 
care and protection. Finance, publication, and leg- 
islative committees are maintained and vice-presi- 
dents elected for each county in the state who pre- 
side over their county organizations. An annual 
meeting is to be held in the state capitol within 
one month after the election of tree wardens, and 
four other meetings during the year as arranged by 
the president and secretary. 
The publication committee is to engage in an 
active campaign for sq^reading news of trees and in- 
formation about the tree laws of the state. Several 
of the speakers called attention to the lack of gen- 
eral information about the laws the tree wardens 
are expected to enforce. 
The following officers were elected; President, 
A. C. Sternberg, West Hartford; secretary, L. W. 
Ripley, Glastonbury; ist vice-president, J. H. Hale, 
Glastonbury; 2d vice-president, J. N. Brooks, Far- 
rington ; 2d vice-president, Prof. A. G. Gulley, Mans- 
field. County vice-presidents ; Dr. F. T. Murlless, 
Suffield; G. C. Ham, of Naugatuck; N. C. Barker, of 
Lebanon; Edwin Hoyt, New Canaan; H. G. Carver, 
of Putnam ; Hermann Lawrentz, of Litchfield ; Ros- 
coe Gardner, of Cromwell; J. C. Hammond, Jr., of 
Vernon. Finance committee: R. O. Cheney, of 
Manchester; M. L. Reynolds, of Bridgeport; G. X. 
Amrhyn, New Haven; G. A. Fairfield, Hartford; 
W. M. Shepardson, Middlebury. 
The morning session opened with about 50 pres- 
ent, of whom 32 were enrolled as members. There 
are about two hundred tree wardens in the state. 
A. C.- Sternberg, who presided, spoke briefly of 
the pioneer work in establishing experiment sta- 
tions and promoting the good roads movement. He 
was followed by Governor Roberts, who called' at- 
tention to the fact that the rights of corporations in 
the highways and the legal right of tree wardens 
sometimes conflicted, and hoped that the association 
would succeed in harmonizing the two interests. 
James Draper, secretary of the Park Board of 
Worcester, Mass., told of the care of trees in that 
city. He thought the trees should be under the 
care of the park board rather than the street depart- 
ment. J. H. Hale, of Glastonbury, the next speaker, 
introduced the first tree warden bill in the legisla- 
ture. He told how it came about through indig- 
nation at the destruction of a row of fine elms, and 
recommended a new law that would give tree war- 
dens more definite and extensive powers. 
At the afternoon meeting Norman McD. Craw- 
ford, of Hartford, spoke on the relation of the pub- 
lic service corporations to the tree wardens, and 
explained the law for the protection of the trees, 
which authorizes local officials to designate and 
mark certain trees on the highways which must be 
preserved for ornamental purposes. J. L. Adams, 
of the Consolidated Railway, and Highway Com- 
missioner J. H. MacDonald also made addresses. 
The following tree wardens spoke briefly: John B. 
Noble, East Windsor; Chester E. Brainard, Enfield; 
Henry Mason, Earmington; Lewis W. Ripley, 
Glastonbury ; R. O. Cheney, Manchester ; S. W. 
Eddy, Simsbury ; Elbert L. Eord, Milford ; Joseph 
Hammond, Jr., Vernon; John C. Stoughton, South 
Windsor. The following were elected associate 
members: A. R. Wadsworth and Allen B. Cook, 
Farmington ; Samuel Keller, Ridgefield ; Carl U. 
Fohn, Hartford; E. S. Greer, Hartford; Chas. E. 
Keith, Bridgeport. 
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