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PARK AND 
A STREET IN FRAMINGHAM, MASS. 
Showing- some fine old elms, the broad turf border to sidewalk, 
and well-kept roadway 
abroad. The handful of seed scattered in one New 
England village may thus be carried afar and cause 
some distant spot to “blossom as the rose." 
It would far exceed the limits of this story to re- 
cord anything like a complete mention of things accom- 
plished; that is, the springing into being of beauty 
spots all over the village. The awakening of what is 
called the civic impulse. The creating of that intan- 
gible something that is “in the air” so that all inhale 
it, and there comes to life a general desire to recog- 
nize Beauty as a universal right, so that all are ready 
to not only protect Nature but to, if possible, contrib- 
ute something to the charm of “God’s great out-of- 
doors.” 
This story must therefore be restricted to the recital 
of the more important happenings, as evidencing the 
power of good of every well conducted improvement 
association. 
Briefly, then : — When the Framingham Gas Com- 
pany decided to extend its pipes from the south 
end to the Centre Village, it admitted the influence 
IN EDGELL GROVE CEMETERY, FRAMINGHAM 
A brook has been well used to make an island and a water- 
garden 
CEMETERY. 
GUIDE-POST COVERED WITH WOODBINE, 
FRAMINGHAM, MASS. 
The triangle of lawn on which it stands is cared for by. the 
Improvement Association 
of the work of the editorial committee in its fre- 
quent criticism of the injury to shade trees along 
the roadside, by asking the association to dictate how 
and where the pipes should be laid, in order to avoid 
further harm. 
This committee has no distrust of newspapers. It 
has no distrust of anything which will bring about 
desired results, and it agrees with President Eliot that 
the main thing is the result, not the praise for the re- 
sult. Not with neat little folders which reach only a 
few persons, but through the newspapers, it has been 
tireless in its preachments against the injury to trees 
caused by leaking gas pipes, below, electric wiring 
above and pruning by persons with the one desire to 
make a clear path for the wires. The town of Fram- 
ingham has not yet gone so far as Winchester, which 
recently authorized the spending of an extra $3,000 in 
order to spare an old tree, but there is no telling how 
far it won’t go in the right direction once the improve- 
ment association brings its 13-inch guns to bear. 
It was in recognition of the work done by the im- 
CHURCPI AT HEAD OF COMMON, FRAMINGHAM, MASS. 
A young people’s society keeps the lawn mowed about the 
church and in spaces between forking roads 
