Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-03-27 | Page 3 | Criticises Utah Light for Trimming Shade Trees

C UTAH liGHT fOR TRIMMING t SHADE TREES Y park S lent Says Say Artistic Ar Temperaments Governed Governed Gov Gov- by Height of l Wires Ares l Cau Caustic tic criticism m of tho the manner in which employees of tho Utah Light and company trim trees th that t are arc i in the path of their wire wiro lines was as wasby made by tw Nicholas t of of city parks park in an address atthe tit nt the thc meeting of the Teachers Parent as as- at tho high hi h school l r Mr Byhower r 14 address was on l' l Tho rhe Cit City Beautiful and and aDd ho called atton- atton nOD sharply to tho the work done dono on tho the I trees by the employees of that company compan Their Their tree exports ha said evidently believe that the symmetry of all nil trees conforms to u II horizontal lino Iino just below bolow bo- bo low Jow the level le of ot their wires Ho cased clard sharply this thin ruination of tho the trees and said taid that a civic mister should have tup supervision l ision of the trl of ot trees r Mr V. B honer expressed d the opinion that sanitation and beauty y should 1 go o hand i in il hand lie JIo said that he could I eco co in the thc clean up week movement 1 a R. similarity to the tho man who expects pra lo when he bathes that being only laD an annual a event lie IIo as that the city should be bl kept so o clean all th the time that a cleanup clean week neck would be unnecessary While there is a municipal p pal l 1 ordinance requiring iri n r residents to weeds from their civic sec property pride should be so o great as to make the he enforcement ment of the Jaw Tarr needless Air Mr r. r Byhower recommended that forr for tor r shade white ash green ren ash soft maple and Oriental sycamore be bc planted and nna that for or ornamental purposes catalpa kite birch hirch fl flowering apple and anal cherry trees be used mcd The Thc park superintendent urged ur that children be made mado familiar with the thc forms of plant life about them and that they should be br tau taught ht the care of trees and plants plant The greatest opportunities I of of th tha future will HI b. b bf bp found on tho the farms farm he said and the tho minds of the tho children should boul b be turned in that direction H HI He said air that too loo much writer water is il used on the lawns in Salt Lake Cit City and aud that the best results can an be hp obtained b by watering UJ the lawns every C two tt or three rIa lays ins diving them a thorough h soaking Dr Samuel G. G Paul will address the tho association at its next meeting