The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1900, Page 5

Jhe Question of ' the *: W Superintendent of the University Grou Mr. J. D. Bunnell, ne of Berkeley's Most Prom- nent Citizens. THE SUNDAY CALL. the cheap one-st v cottages on Allston , nearly oppos Stiles Hall, to the v This was a mistake The old cot- - -4 3 tage would not sell for moving away for Day inlUniversity e N T o as soon as the improveme: ounds begin. cc Circles. ttages there was a winding lar g in from OODMAN, spare that tree! 1s street, lined o sides with much admired the Berkeley cry that echoes and down dale. The of thecollege grounds, month or so it under authority, is thinnin tenement district. The ecs. It is many a day since of trees, slender and v ” o grove, is also have been so ex- rateful s r and against the cutting g with each other and are neutral. It hat the trees need mooted question is cut, and further ’tis is wise to cut any new buildings are lo- It is claimed that the ax has ected chiefly against the pine tus ut the cypress, pro- and eucalyptus lovers, straightway give reasons for ences s Profsssor &. &. Filgard, Professor of Agriculture in the University of California y roundse out long ago, > struggle for are waging It s necessary to others may live. A cut Lo get “woody” and wordy war wage until the re- Wheeler. st has reached such a mark that a summary of v he does not esitate. t cértainly urgent that we ns to the cutting of the preserve some of trees by laying low others. If we want healthy, vigorous test < ary is given be- 0 nbar of interviews sted in the matter Cap tain .K eliner, t Keliner, e and CUT IN OAK TREES OR TELEYRAPH WIRED First—Numbers are being cut con- stantly in many parts of the grounds. Second—By the order of Captain XKellner on the authority of Presi- dent Wheeler. Third—Reasons given: (a) Thinning out of trees for the improvement of those remaining. (b) To admit sunlight to the uni- wersity cottages and observatory. (c) To afford an unobstructed view from the observatory. (d) For the placing of telephone poles and wires. Under heading A it must be said that most cases the wrong trees have t moved and the number far exe necessity. The groves and - scattered groups about the grounds consist mainly WHERE BEAUTIFUL | PINE TREE WAS CUT- BATK YARD NOwW, (1N PLAIN oLP PINE FOREST ORDERED T0 BE NiED, 214 by fudges to be “one of the very shapely trees they must be thinned. of higher authoritles. Since finest Epectmens In the whole grounds”™ The cutting of the trees Is in charge of President Wheeler's arrival he himaelf < beer Kellner apparently Captain Kellner, superintendent of the hes personally sanctioned the cutting of ; feet m one of university grounds, but the coptain acts the trees . 'would seem tnat, as the giass has Jhould Berkeley’s Jrees Be Cut? DESOLATION * NEAR OB- SERVATORY “ Data Furnished ’ ' by Jhose Who ¢ Profest. A Statemeznt of the Situatlon, Drawn by Those Who Object to the Cut- ting of Trees on the Unl- versity Grounds. They Have Submitted It to Tree Speclalists in and Out of Col- ¢ ) lege Who Have Verified A the Data. (/\ BT DTS @ DS D of the Monterey pine, cypress and the eucalyptus, planted in the earl: s, On the authority of a specialist on Call- fornia trees, the cypress transplanted in the interior is found to reach its prime »t about thirty years and from that time on the life of the tree is on the decHie. Though this is not altogether true of the Berkeley cypress, the fact remains that it is too late for oUr mature cypress 0 re- spond to added breathing room. They cannot possibly redeem themselves. In contrast to this our splendid pine has added size and beauty with added yen and space, and the eucalyptus, a aative of Australia, grows to giant size throngh «an endless number of years. In the ruthless destruction now goling on /n almost every instance the eucalyptus has been sacrificed; the decadent cypr s remains. The men employed to cut the trees are allowed to sell the wood. Dues *his perquisite influence the selection ot pine and eucalyptus for firewood, rather than the cypress, which nobody buras? « .o ( B—In the case of admitting sunlight the hulldings under consideration are witho: cxception one story, without basement. The superh glne tree on Allston way, the delight of the nelghborhood, needed but to be trimmed high to admit all avallahle sunlight. All that remains of it {s an un- sightly stump. flanked by the fami'y washing, which before was shielded from (I‘Uh]ll: Raze. President Wheeler himself admitted that the extensive clearing about the observa- tory was greater than was f{ntended. A row of pine stumps instead of splendid trees follows the eastern end of the ob- rvatory—a_wall unbroken by window ot lfl{ sort. Was this also to let in the (light? | e e ! C—~The observatory in the propose Iplans s located on a hill above Founders' ‘Rock and 1.8 splendld grove, against ,which the ax {s now directed. Tts presen{ location i therefors but temporary, and fi_\'r‘l. for the sake of galning a better tel iescopic sweep, dozens of fine trees ha heen sacrificed last month, i 00: | 'made to operate satisfactorily all them 'past dogen years, it could survive an other one or two for the sake of tht iprecious trees that are our college her. litage. \ D—Under this necessity the worst of Mr.George fansen, Landscape @Architect and Tres Specialist. i teel most keenly on this subject and would make my first point this: Grant- ing that the trees need thinning, it should not be done until the new build- ings have been located. With the cutting going on now, the very trees removed may be the ones that cowld be saved about the new buildings and the ones the beauty of the grounds. They are not a'forest tree, do fiot afford a background against the sky line and also obstruct all vistas. Moreover, they have obtained their mature size and will not respond to greater space as will either eucalyptus or Regent RemnstenGves His Idea About pine. We will not miss them nor mourn h A over them. { air, And finally may I present this point: If a person is ill he would not go for ad- Qo T T TSTTTS>TS @ vice to a lawyer—nor would one who O wished to bufld a house consult a physi- cian The Committee on Should t and cylture of laced in the hands of a land- a specialist on stones or a mastey e stars? Time only, and twenty-five yvears at that, will atone for a single mistake. A knowdedge and Insight deep enough to cope with this matter of the trees can only be the possession of a man who has made-it his life study. He alone will be safe from mistakes. Charles _;f._Kuler, The Celebrated California Orni- thologist. Trees melt before the woodman's ax Itke snow in the sun. The cutting of even a-single tree is a matter for serious con- sideration, for once laid low it is vears, if_ever, before another one can mark the spot. through the university grounds e care NY trees that are for rtainly felled sufficient and proper authori grounds does n intend the cutting of would be absurd to i thing. We have time that the trees res ot pers were sadly most every morning 1 see an 3 S e & S stump where & pine or pus stood. need of thinning. McLaren It is plain to any one versed in the a 2o Dok Dis & 1 o's .of Torestry that the trees on the @olden Gate Park has several grounds need thinrning. called my attention to the neces- But we feel justified In objecting to the selection of trees. In almost all case t sity. pine or eucalyptus has been cut while the - By S W (R cypress escapes the woodchopper’'s ax In thinning the trees sever We protest against the removal of a pir® have been cut w oD or cucalyptus for the benefit of a cypre: The cypress o cannot be compared with the pine or eucalyptus. The Monterey cy- press on the wind-swept, wave-washed coast is very picturesque, but planted in the Interfor it loses its beauty I think that a speclalist. a man thoroughly underetands the habits and “of some should hav ing. This ence of opi undertaking of t owth of our trees, should have chs number of peopl Thera are people so foolishly fond . trees that they would have tb main where they are deci sances. =\ =~ - mistakes made i - 2 trees to be feolled. of this personally that we have always the preservation of as many trees as reasonable sible. Frank ilson, The Well-Known Berkeley italist. The trees need thinning petent lett entirel suggestions from outs Jeohn ,:éinckel, A Wealthy Resident o Cyoon SROVE THAT 15 TQ BE SUT vandalism has been committed. A p of the electr felled to give plac posed line. It seemed to be done unneces sarily, for the line could have been aime( a few feet to either right or left withou interfering in the slightest with this a any other t The pine stump remaini to prove this fact. In ‘another instance two sacred oaky thought to be above desecration have beer violated by uaving a section of heavy fo liage removed—a pitiful hollow—that wire might have right of way through it. / higher pole would have lifted - the win above the tree, and, as the oak grows ou d of up, the pole would have a gool twenty ve years of security. At the Dana-street entrance an electri wire from the car line encircles a pim tree, and in consequence tue tree is chok ing to death. From the foregoing data it is clear th: the cutting and preserving of any and all trees on the grounds should be under. the direct and personal supervision of a trei specfalist, and not a man whose work along other botanical lines. OUT NEAR CTYPRESS 3 SROVE HAS BEEN DESTROYED HERE -EXPOSING VNSIGHETLY ENDS i OF BVILDINYS , X S now standing may be forced ' to come -of the matter. Tt should Das considered down. Every blow of the ax {s a menace : from ‘the standpoint of the beautiful as to the future beauty of the college. well as practical. Save the pine and eu- The cypress are the least valuable to calyptus though the cypress fall. belleve that In every be cut to save the other trees. Th ting seems untimely to me. W syatil the new bull are located? being cut on the university grounds are good and the times may There may have been one or two Cap- casa eypress should r cut- not wait