468 Hope Street, 
Providence, H.I. 
October 21, 1910 
Mr. E. H. Kirby, 
Providence,Journal Go, 
Providence, 1. I. 
My dear Mr. Kirby: - 
I have recently bad a communication from 
the principal of the Bourn St. school asking that a tree be 
placed in front of the school. She says she wrote the committee 
in the summer. I have also had a similar request -ion arotrer 
school. How, as I understand this matter, there is some 
prospect that the city will eventually take up this matter of 
schools, and possibly lake an appropriation for trees. If they 
do this your committee will probably prefer to place tBulletin 
trees elsewhere, except, perhaps, where x±slh a break would be 
made in an otherwise solid row of trees by so doing. 
I am wondering if it would not be wise to mane some little 
public announcement of the committee's policy in this respect, 
especially as barren school yards were so prominently mentioned • 
in the early part of the campaign.. You will know best whether . 
such action would be wise or not from the point of view of 
politics (or diplomacy). 
I noticed two trees on Gilmore 3t. (one in front of Lo. o, 
I think) which appear to be slightly under the contract caliper. 
I mention this so that you can put Johnson on his guard, and 
prevent many such getting into the ground, provided others are 
found. 
Very truly yours, 
One Enclosure. 
