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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT. Trees Dying on the Public Parks Beeause of Neglect. Some one is neglecting a public duty. A few years ago the city had a nuniber of trees set out on Hanover square, through which Packard street runs. And these trees have been properly cared for until this year, and have made a fine start. This summer these trees have been neglected, and the resnlt is that two or three of them are dead, and every one of them will be dead if not given water at once. At the council meeting the other night, the Water Company, through its attorney, Aid. Butterfield, announced that they were willing that sufficient water should be used to sprinkle tliis park to keep alive the grass and trees, but did not want the fire hydrants touched without some member of the fire department was present to see that the hydrants were properly used. At that an order was given to have the square sprinkled, under the supervisión of some member of the fire department, yet nothing has been done, and it is a shame. We are told the Board of Public Works refuses to do it beeause they object to the restriction imposed by the Water Company, and that the Committee of the Council on public parks are waiting for the board to act. So betweeu the two, you see, the water cometh not and the trees must die. The chairman of the committee on public parks, Aid. Shadford, is an energetic young man, and is not given to neglecting any duty that falls upon him. The public would applaud him if he would take this thing into bis own hands and see that it is done before any greater damage is done.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier