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plements, not longer than three days at one time. The cost 
of equipping each station was $9. Every Saturday since the 
association was formed the members have assembled at the 
residence of the president on Oakland avenue and started 
out in quest of nests. During these fields days millions of 
nests have been destroyed and some of the worst infected 
sections of the Heights cleared. To all appearances not a 
nest remains in the section gone over, so thorough was the 
work. At a recent town meeting $6,oco was appropriated 
for the work, which is being vigorously carried on under 
the direction of President Thomas A. Smith of the East 
Arlington Improvement Association, President William D. 
Higgins of the Arlington Tree Protective Association, Presi- 
dent Cyrus E. Dallin of the Arlington Heights Tree pro- 
tective Association, the Board of Public Works, Tree War- 
den A. Foster Brooks, and the Park Commissioners. 
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The Woodlawn Improvement Society, Pawtucket, R. I., is 
carrying on a vigorous tree-planting and street beautifying 
campaign, and the committee in charge of this work has 
formulated some practical suggestions which have been given 
publicity in the press and in other ways for the benefit of 
members and others desiring to make improvements. Some 
of the suggestions offered are as follows: “In planting trees, 
we recommend that they be placed 40 feet apart (this is 
close enough when the tree is full grown), and two feet 
back from the edge of the curbstone. The tree planted, it 
should be guarded, and a wire guard is cheap and effective. 
On new streets, or streets on which trees are not already 
set, they should be planted the entire length of the street 
at the same time, and all of the trees should be of the 
same kind. To complete the ideal picture of a street, some- 
thing more is necessary than the mere planting of trees. The 
houses should be set back far enough to give the street an 
appearance of good width, and to permit of embellishment 
at the front of the house ; that is, more Queen Anne front, 
and less Mary Ann back, if you please. Under no consid- 
eration should fences on the front be permitted. They are 
relics of a past age. If you must have a substitute for a 
fence as a guard to your back yard, plant a low' hedge of 
Japan barberry, Japan plum, Pyrus Japonica or California 
privet. The latter has come into disfavor somewhat on 
account of the effects of frost on it during the past few 
winters, but, nevertheless, it makes a pretty hedge when kept 
properly trimmed. In building a house on streets having 
lots 80 feet deep, we would recommend that they be set 
back from the lot line, at the sidewalk, 15 feet, and on 
streets with lots 90 feet, 100 feet and over, deep, the house 
should be set back 20 feet.” 
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The Woodlawn Park Improvement Association, of Chi- 
cago, devoted to the improvement of that section of the 
city known as Woodlawn Park, is the oldest improvement 
organization in Chicago. For eighteen years it has been- 
struggling for the betterment of this district, raising a few 
hundred dollars a year, which has been used principally 
for snow cleaning in the winter, and the surplus, if any, 
used in cutting weeds and cleaning the streets, but the amount 
raised has been so small that the association has decided to 
reorganize on broader lines and more business-like princi- 
ples. It has divided Woodlawn into six districts and made 
each district responsible for raising the funds necessary for 
the work to be done in that district, and only such work as 
is paid for by the district is to be done. In these several 
districts the association proposes to furnish the following 
service: Do all the street sprinkling; furnish a snow plow 
in each district for cleaning sidewalks in the winter, thus 
having the sidewalks in all the districts cleaned simultane- 
ously ; to furnish a laborer in each district to clean the streets 
and crossings daily, remove weeds, paper and refuse from 
the streets, alleys and vacant lots, and assist in removing 
snow, cleaning crossings, etc., in the winter, and keeping 
the sidewalks drained ; to furnish one competent superintend- 
ent to oversee the work in all of the districts ; to use its 
best efforts to get the owners of property to agree on 
uniform street paving and improvements, and expedite the 
completion of the improvements favored by the owners, and 
prevent, if possible, protracted delays by contractors for self 
profit at the cost of the people. The association publishes 
and distributes to its members an interesting ‘‘Blue Book 
and Directory of Woodlawn,” giving a history, plan of organ- 
ization and operation, by-laws, and other information, a list 
of officers and committees, a list of schools, churches, clubs 
and societies, names and address of members, etc. 
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