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Show STWAj or tms rinous "gotnc arch." the one of 1 792. This came in response re-sponse to an order of the common council, and James Hillhouse, after whom Hillhouse avenue was named, was the chief promoter. Atwater's history says of this planting: "The great planting of the elms had its inception in the order issued from the common council, September 22, 1784, and approved in city council June 5, 1787, for the laying out of Temple street to Grove street. The avenue, through the Hillhouse farm, 105 feet wide, now Hillhouse avenue, was surveyed sur-veyed and laid out and the elms planted in 1792. Among the boys who assisted were Ogden Edwards, born in 1781, afterward a New York city judge, and Henry Baldwin, born in 1779, afterward a judge of the supreme su-preme court of the United States. The latter once said in the presence of Mi-s. Worthington Hooker, then a young woman, and a daughter of Gov. Edwards: 'I held many an elm while Hillhouse shoveled in the earth.' Even the girls caught the enthusiasm. There was, for instance, Caroline Shipman, who became Mrs. Garnet Duncan of Louisville, Ky. She was a daughter of Elias Shipman, a leading merchant, who lived in the house now occupied by the Quinnipiac club. She watered the trees which Hillhouse had planted along Chapel street in front of her house, and with her own hands set out an elm." There was another large planting in 1839 by order of the common council, when 150 maples were set out. The trees which were started on these two dates were at the height of their glory about 1865, when the picture of the famous Gothic arch in Temple street was taken. The heavy storm of 1893 damaged them' badly, and in 1900 a commission was appointed to replace those destroyed. J hat New Haven is fast losing the Dosky glories for which she has been renowned for two centuries, and whence her title, Elm City, was derived, de-rived, is bad news to thousands of Eli's graduate sons and to many others oth-ers who visit the university town to be edified by football contests. The trees are dying as the result of neglect, neg-lect, and soon the picturesque streets may be as bald as an alumnus of the class of '63. It is estimated that elm beetles and other insects have destroyed de-stroyed half of the city's 16,000 trees, and, figuring the value of a tree at $150, there is a total loss of $1,200,000. But no monetary calculation can represent rep-resent the damage to beauty, and the replacement of the stately foliage cannot can-not be accomplished in a few years, or even generations. An association of citizens, headed by Prof. Henry Graves of the Yale School of Forestry, has begun a movement move-ment to save the trees which remain. Last fall the trees were sprayed, and then hundreds of fine specimens were killed. Prof. Graves and the citizens behind him are trying to have the care of the trees placed in the hands of a competent park commission. Next to the university itself the trees of New Haven have been the city's chief glory since the town was founded, in 1636. Trees were planted around the central green at once, and in 1760 Jared Elliott warned the colonists colon-ists that the trees "must be protected from savage beasts." The elms which have lined the green and the central streets were planted in 1686, according accord-ing to the "Chronicles of New Haven Green," by Henry T. Blake. Prof. Franklin Bowditch Dexter of Yale points out in his paper, "New Haven in 1784," that Elm street took its name from the patriarchial trees planted in front of the house of Rev. Dr. Pierpont, which remained till a few years ago. Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, Ba-con, one of the most famous pastors in the history of the Center church of New Haven, thus told of the planting of the first tree in front of the Pierpont Pier-pont residence: "As the people were bringing in their free-will offerings of one kind and another to complete and furnish the building, one man (a poor parishioner, parish-ioner, William Cooper by name), desiring de-siring to do something for the object, and having nothing else to offer, brought on his shoulder from the farms two elm saplings and planted them before the door of the minister's house. Some 40 years afterward (1726) Jonathan Edwards, then soon to take rank in the intellectual world with Locke and Liebnitz, spoke words of mingled love and piety in the ear of Sarah Pierpont under their shade." Mr. Blake's "Chronicles" show that a systematic planting of trees throughout through-out the city took place in 1759. Prof. Dexter thinks that the large button-wood button-wood tree which has stood in front of the First Methodist church in Elm street is probably a relic of that famous fa-mous planting. This tree has succumbed suc-cumbed to recent neglect and is now-dead. now-dead. Prof. Dexter says that "250 buttonwood and elm trees were set out in 1759 around the green." Rev. Samuel Peters says in his "General History of Connecticut," written in 1781 in London, that New Haven was the most beautiful town in New England, if not in America. He eulogized the trees of the town, but descendants of the dissenters who founded New Haven record that New Haven was far less favorably impressed im-pressed with the old Tory parson than Rev. Mr. Peters was with New Haven. Ha-ven. Rev. Manasseh Cutler wrote in a similar vein of his visit to New Haven Ha-ven In 17S7. He said that the trees "were large, and added much to the town's beauty." He made special mention men-tion of the long rows across the center cen-ter of the green. The incorporation of the city in 178d gave impetus to a planting movement move-ment in connection with the beautifying beautify-ing of the city, although when the British invaded it in 1779 their general. gen-eral. Garth, looked at the trees and wrote home that "the town is too pretty to burn." The great planting of New Haven trees, however, was |