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Show TREES IN BUSINESS STREET Writer Comoatt the More or Less Accepted Ac-cepted Idea That They Are Somehow Out of Place. One of the characters In an early-day early-day American romance of the tlrai when the Stamp act was causing all kinds of trouble, Is recorded as declaring de-claring that New York never would be a real business city because Broadway and Maiden lane were lined with trees, remarks the Indianapolis Star. The VanVrooms, the Stuyvesant?, the Artaveltsi and other early settlers' 6i" the country saved One trees about their homes, on the village greens, along the country roads, and in the fields. But one will see no trees nowadays now-adays on Broadway, and Maiden lane has been transformed froji the pleasant, pleas-ant, tree-bordered region of Dutch homes with flower gardens Into the busiest wholesale Jewelry district In America, If not In the world. Beauty and comfort gave way to the inroads of commerce, not only In New York, but In most of America's great cities, so that today trees in a business busi-ness street are a rare sight There are elm-shuded villages In New Eng land, maple-shaded towns In New York and the Ohio valley, and there are oak-tree streets to be seen In the southeastern states, but for the most part this refers only to small towns or cities never to the congested centers of population wliere they should have been preserved. |