Show NATURE BOWS TO PROGRESS Spread of Business District Causes Sacrifice of Many Shade Trees on Main Street Down below Fourth South street on Main street for a of a block a transformation has been wrought during the past two days No longer are the boulevards lined with stately poplars and the magnificent heirlooms of a generation which Is fading away lie In the gutters The picturesque St Pauls church looks lonesome without Its pro protecting protecting shade and so do the dwellings on either side The sky line la is now wide and the sun beats down where It has not held sway for many a summer Commercialism has wrought this change It Is but an incident in the growth ot of the city When Main street was ordered paved the city engineer did not overlook the artistic side and his specifications narrowed the street to sixty feet begin beginning beginning ning at this poll point t This plan It If It had been carrIed out would have saved the trees But the property owners seeing the thc rapid development of t lower Main street nd ind hoping that another Newhouse would extend the commercial district Into theIr territory protested The They asked for tor a regulation street be between between tween Fourth and FIfth South streets They were willing to pay par the 1000 differ difference difference ence In cost because they believed that their property would be enhanced in value by such a course Their wIshes ish s prevailed and as a result the trees have gone In Instead Instead stead of at trees and shaded lawns In years to come this block will be a busy center of at commerce The peele know It and for this they have sacrificed their trees |