PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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through the co-operation of the 
mayor and the common council, the 
department was given an ordinance 
by which it was enabled better than 
at any time in the history of the city 
to control the trimming, planting and 
removing of trees in the public lawn 
spaces. Under the terms of this ordi- 
nance it is made illegal for any one 
to trim, remove or plant a tree in a 
street lawn without first obtaining 
permission from the Board of Park 
Commissioners. 
The public gradually became aware 
of the new condition of affairs, and 
by fall little difficulty was encoun- 
tered in persuading property owners 
to plant the proper kinds of trees, 
to trim those trees that were in need 
of it, and to remove some hundreds 
of dead trees that had been a menace 
to. life and limb. 
Under the rules adopted by the 
board within the terms of the for- 
estry ordinance, the public service 
corporations were required, before 
trimming any trees, to submit a re- 
quest to the Park Department for per- 
mission to do the trimming. In each 
case, upon receipt of such request, 
an inspector from the department 
went over the ground covered by 
the corporation’s request and recom- 
mended either that the permis- 
sion be given or that it be not 
granted. If trimming were done 
under permit then issued, the work 
had to be performed under the di- 
rection of an inspector of the Park 
Department, whose time was paid for 
by the corporation whose work he in- 
spected. As a result of these precau- 
tions and these new conditions, very 
little complaint was made through 
the entire year of the ruthless de- 
struction of trees. Hardwood trees 
were trimmed only when the last 
year’s growth of green wood could 
be cut in such a way as not to dam- 
age the tree’s life or hurt its sym- 
metry. The public service corpora- 
tions were compelled to trim all trees 
that were touched, not only at the 
point where the branches of the trees 
interfered with the wires, but 
throughout the entire tree, so that 
the result would be symmetrical. If 
a dead tree stood in the line of the 
corporation’s work, the company was 
compelled to cut it down and remove 
the stump. In a number of cases, as 
a result of these restrictions, the tele- 
phone companies put their wires in 
cables, or raised the whole lead of 
wires to get them above the trees. 
During the larger part of the work- 
ing year, two gangs of men were 
kept busy at what has come to be 
known as "tree surgery.” Cavities 
that shortened the lives of trees oth- 
erwise sound were cleaned out and 
Idled with cement. This work was 
e.xceptionally well done with the re- 
sult that scores of fine old trees that 
would otherwise have died within a 
few years will be saved for many 
years to come. This work was done 
in the Ellenberger woods, the Fall 
creek parkway, Garfield park and 
Noble place. 
A statement of the number of trees 
and shrubs planted in the different 
parks, together with certain facts in 
relation to the work done in the 
nursery in Riverside park is given in 
the annual report. 
EAST SIDE OF CENTRAL AVENUE ONE YEAR LATER; PARKWAY BEGUN 
AND ROADWAY EMBANKMENT BUILT. 
During the summer, 12,000 young 
shrubs, 10,000 seedling trees and 2,000 
vines and perennials were grown in 
beds to be lined out in nursery rows 
in the spring. With the addition of 
stock ordered of evergreens and de- 
ciduous trees, the department planted 
in the nursery about 28,000 ever- 
greens, 30,000 trees and 18,000 shrubs. 
During the fall and winter 30,000 
hardwood cuttings were made and put 
in storage. 
The receipts for the year amounted 
to $338,572 and expenditures to $233,- 
217. 
The following compose the per- 
sonnel of the board and its officers; 
Henry Jameson, president; John J. 
.Vppel, vice-president; Charles E. Cof- 
fin; Ferdinand L. Mayer; George E. 
Kessler, landscape architect; and 
Leroy E. Snyder, secretary and ex- 
ecutive officer. 
