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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1923)
SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER-1C, 1923 2 ? ....... ,, ' . - TTTOnDPnnMCTATPCMAM SAT. HTlFfiftN v riEwiOHKWlliJIb tfi -.. ... ,.:,,;..,. ij For a Uniform System of Street Tree Planting In The City of Salem First of a Series of Articles Which Will Show Some of the Ad van ta ires, and Give the List of Trees Which are Best to be Used, and Will Point Out the Undesirable Features of Others; borne of Them in Common Use. rKdilor "St atesman ; - The! keen interest displayed at "the t Monday luncheon at the - Sa lem'. Chamber of Commerce when Arthur L. Peck, professor In land scape gardening at the Oregon Ag ricultural 1 cohere, spoke on. "UNIFORM: j RTREKT TREb' PLANTING FOR SALEM, dem onstrated the fact that our good people are desirous of still further beautifying onr city by 'the uni- ' form planting of shade trees along our streets.' It will, not bo the 'purpose In this ; series of articles to show how this may be accom- plished; Prof. : Peck pointed out how that could be. done. . That was done In Cotvallis by enacting nn ordinances which ; perhaps our city fathers will see fit, to pass. It Is rather bar, purpose here to discuss the merits of tho various . trees that hare 'been -used for street tree planting. ; Tho Qualities Xeeded First, a word as to the' qualities a street tree should possess. ' It ' should be hardy, as it is often , planted in ; poor soils; Is subject to droufch. smoke and dust. It . must be strong to resist winds and rncw. - It should ha vo a straight trunk and be symmetrical In limb srrowth. Its limbs must not droop and obstruct the traffic and. "view Trees that are very subject to', in- ; Price 51385 ' : 1 ' T. O. B. Salem -' . . 2, '-Disc Waeei Equipped , Don't take our word ior it Ask any 7GARDNER fowner 2lD "NCornmcrcial " 4 A . H 1 i sect or disease attack rhould not be planted. ; Thn - leaves shouIJ hang on through the-summer and change color In the autumn. There should be nn baundance cf shade, but not so dense as to prevent the grnwlh of grass under the tree. It nhould by a tlcan grower. The fj-.lHn of 1 leaves, bark, flowers and fruit and nuts keep the street in an unclean condition.' Tempting flowers, fruits and nuts cause peo ple to injure the . trees. The tree should be long lived.? The rapid growing 'trees are not long lived. With this list of qualifications, it may readily be seen that but few species of trees will fjll the bilL ; The kind of trees that are adap ted to street tree planting in west ern Oregon ,re but few, , consist ing, of 12 or 12. These are as follows, with perhaps one or two additions: Norway maple, pin oak, scarlet .oak. red oak, European linden. Oriental plane or syca more,, scarlet hawthorn, madrono, American white birch, horse chest nut and dogwood. . Norway Maple Best ' The Norway maple is without doubt the best maple for " street planting ' It ha3 proved to bo quite popular both in Washington, D. C, and Paris.' as well as in many other cities and-towns in this country and in Europe. It Is a'very hardy tree, does well under city conditions and is resistant to Insect s attack. It is not an ex tremely larger grower and is planted 40 feet apart. The Norway maple bursts Into profuse bloom early in April. The flowers are greenish yellow in col- ' NOW Is the time to have the car painted for Fall and Win ter use HERE is the place to have It done. Superb , workmanship plus defined, aristocratic, distinc tive color schemes and the fin est Quality paints and var nishes ' Insure . genuinely satis factory work. ... , . f RELIANCE AUTO PAINTING CO. 210 State. Corner Front. i phone 037 " or. Tho fruit or seed ripen In the fall. The leaves -are dark green. ; lias a round compact head. Is rich in appearance throurh the "summer and fall. - The leaves turn yellow before falling. : y "V ; . , The OakM ; Popular opinion has it that the oaks are slow growers. Some oaks are slow growers; all oaks are slow growing the first two years. "The three oaks to be dis crssed here are slow growing the first two years, but after that are fairly -rapid growers. The oaks are 5 very sturdy and resistent to insect attacks. They - are also very beautiful. The oaks of Wash ington, D." C. are famous. The pin oak has a pyramidal form with, a single trunk rising the full height of the tree. The Bbiny, ' light green leaves, ' which are deeply cut, give the foliage a massing which is fern Hge . in grace. The name pin ; oak comes about by the dense growth which causes the dying of the : small twigs, giving it a pin like appear ance. The acorns grow through two seasons r before they mature and fall. The leaves are of deep scarlet In the autumn and' fall late in the season. All things consid ered, this is an excellent street tree.' r --'m" f ' The red oak would fare well in any beauty contest. Its .beauty might be termed as gorgeous. The flowers of the catkins appear late in April. Like the(pin oak, ita acorns mature the second year. It has a round or oval shaped head. The large leathery leaves give it a rich appearance, and in the fall it takes on a bright col oring. It has a round or oval shaped head. Poes well on most soils. The red oak has been grown in Europe' for 200 years and is more prized there than any other American treel " - ;; ' The scarlet oak is coming to be recognized as a competitor of the other oaks. The Willamette uni versity planted ' a row of them along the State street side last year. This tree is hardy "and a rapid a grower as the other oaks. It has a round-dome like head, The leaves are bright shiny green borno on slender stems or petioles that cause them to move with the slightest breeze. Has the ' richest fall coloring of the oaks. The Orjier Trees ' The European linden Is hard to equal in grace, beauty and &ym metry. It grows a. straight trunk and the' main limbs are subdivided into a great many small 'twigs which form a compact oval head The small flowers are very frag rant and the borne ' in clusters along the branches- The leaves hang on late till a hard frost when ' ma MM II G-T-Co Don't Outwear and Outrun iAtiy Make Tire You Put Up Against ai:ear3Vcfll Give You a New. Tire Free kY-ACTUAIT experience and test C-T-C Tires are the best tires on the market, and the fac tory has authorized us to let YOU PROVE it for; yourself or get a hew tire FREE. ' Here is the most remarkable - guaranty any tire manufacturer has I ever offered the public. - -k ' ": ' " 7 Put a C-T-C tire on any wheel of your car, and , cny OTHER make tire of equal size opposite it ' Run them continuously, and if the C-T-C doesn't outwear and outrun the other make well GIVE YOU A NEW. TIRE FREE. I This' offer only hold's , good on C-T-Cs bought from ; authorized C-T-C dealers before January 15th, and as you', will need new tires by Spring anyway get in on this unheard offer NOW. - r i:. IV . it fy f 1 1 r i 4 1 mi C-T-C's are the longest wearing tires the best for non-skid, best t for traction in mud and sand, best for crushed rock roads, and have the toughest tread, strongest sldewalUy most expert hand- -workmanship and can be driven safely at low inflation. In spite of their GUARANTEED SUPERIORITY, OT-Cs cost NO MORE than ordinary tires. a m - i- 7 mm : rVr" H n r Q mm mm DJ5 Eni l AT-jq 7UDGG they fall at one time. There are two forms, the sliver leaved and the large leaved. The large leaved form is the one recommended for this section. The Oriental plane or sycamore has everything that makes it de sirable as a shade tree. It . Is .a rapid grower, hardy, has a straight trunk, and forms a symmetrical, compact and round head. It is one of the largest of the trees used for . street planting. - The syca more lef is large and the tree gives an abundance of shade. A sycamore tree stands on the north east cornervof State and Cottage. This is suck a fine tree that It has often been planted to the exclu sion of other good trees. One third or Paris 90,000 shade trees are1 sycamore trees. Prof. Peck recommended this trea for North Summer street. ' Hawthorn -Double scarlet ur Paul's thorn. This is a small arower with a rich foliage. When in bloom, it is a mass of flowers. The flowers are a bright scarlet, doublo and in heavy clusters and long sprays. A street lined on either side with scarlet haw thorns in full bloom will leave V pleasing and lasting Impression. Several streets in CorvaUis are planted to hawthorns. -! Madrone This is the only ever. green tree that Prof. Peck recom mended . for street planting. It belongs to the broad leaf : eve greens, that is the leaves stay on throughout the year. Thn leaves are three or four inehes long. smooth, and the under side f . laucy. Whits, flowers in the spring and bright orange red ber ries in, long clusters. Berries hang on through most of the winter. The bark on the older wood has a tendency to peel of in thin plates. The smaller branches are smooth; the bark is red. Three specimens of madrone are located On South Commercial from Myers to LIn coin. This tree should be planted along the route that the Pacific highway takes through the city, tat is beginning on the north at the Valley Packing company plant following the Fairground road, thence . through . Erikson's new highway addition and .Capital building and then starting again on South Liberty street to its; southern terminus (South Liberty is the route the highway will take in a few years.) , Such a' plant ing would make such a strong impression on the minds of the tourists that Salem would becomn famous for its madronea. ;i ' The whito birch Is too Well known to warrant comment hen further than that it Is. not the weeping sort, and that it Is adap ted, to planting along narrow streets. :' ; ' " vr , The horse chestnut is ' In i its glory in the spring when K Is in bloom. Then hundreds ' of i vjra mids of white flowers stand erect above the green leaves. On thp other hand the tree has some un desirable features, gamely r - the flowers, bud scales, busks : and nuts cause some litter. r ? f The dog wood, the native type, has been recommended for a spec ial purpose in the Fairmount Hill district to help maintain a woodsy effect. The name dogwood Comes from the fact that a decoction (of the bark of another variety lot dogwood was used in England (to wash mangy dogs. This tree will bloom both in the spring and fall under city conditions where they wllX receive some water.; The red fleshy covered sesd from the first bloom, in the spring win still ;be cm the tree when the second crop of blossoms appear in the fall. The blossoms are a familiar sight, being white and sometimes tan. They are four to six inches across. The dogwood In full bloom and growing in the foreground and having a background of dark green fir trees is a sight to be hold. ' CITY BEAUTIFUL. . MORE FACILITIES Transit Problem Is Never Solved in Metropolis Call Again Made ' Authorized C-T-C Dealers In Salem" Columbia Tire Corporation Factory Branch- V 447 Court Street, Salem. :lih S "SValkins, Vick Brothers, Federal Tire Service, , J-rrcjca, Other Dealers Throughout thtr Ccur.lry Horse Faces Extinction In Century Says Savant BERKELEY. Cal.. Dec. J5. Statistics recently circulated stat ed that horses, in large measure freed, because of motor i power, from the labors that made them beast3 of burden, were increasing rather than diminishing in num ber. But now comes Professor R. L. Fur Ion sr. curator of the ver tebrate collection at the Univer- ttitr of California, with the i pre? diction that the horse will be vlr tnally extinct on , the American continent in another century. , si Professor Furlong Is so eonnf dent ot his supposition that he has started for posterity a collection of all modern specimens of the equine family. His collection win rest in the museum of paloontol4 ogy, along with the bones of th three-toed horse and oiner pre historic kin. : I :- 'iU 'Recalling the-dominating poU itnn nf motor convevances In the cities. Trofessor Furlong- adds "Dilly the tractor and the automo biie are taking the place of th hnru in rural life. As the useful ness of the horse passes, so will the necessity for his S existence! Before many years the use of a ... -' . 11. V. f horse lor me purposes wnu nutw he has been Identified since time1 immemorial, will be a curiosity In another hundred years you may find horses . in soos. - I am sure! vou will not find they anywhere else." Don't leave your car alone with the motor running. . - Ikm't unnecessarily! race your motor. -, v.. , ';Don!t-nso emery paper . for tlcaalcj jnoybs 'xarts., .-- Completion of the huge Hudson river vehicular tunnel, to connect the island of Manhatton with New Jersey, will add the twenty-third underground artery to the great network of subaqueous passage ways that radiate from . teeming New York and which are as neces sary to its swarming life as are the arteries In a man's body. The underground tubes and tun nels, however, are only a part of the city's blood system, for - In addition there are 15 bridges. These tunnels and bridges cannot be equalled by any city in the world. . v , The bridges are of a total ap proximate length of 11 miles and the tunnels and tubes each aver age about three-fourths of a mile. Combined they carry 64 railroad, subway, elevated and surface car tracks, spreading in all directions from , Manhattan. In addition there are roadways for vehicular traffic on virtually all the bridges. Leading all other underground passageways in size will be the new Hudson river vehicular tun nel, which is expected to be ready for use in 1926 at a cost of more than 120,000.000. Each of its twin tubes will measure 30 feet In diameter. It will be 9250 feet long, and more than 3000 feet under the river. To carry off the poisonous gas from pleasure cars and trucks, a marvelous ventilat ing system is being installed. Sixteen of the tubes under the East river carry subway trains of the rapid transit system. With out them the numberless workers now employed in Manhattan would have to look elsewhere for a liv ing. ; Thousands of them daily pass under the river for distances as great as a mile without once looking up from their papers, or being impressed with the thought that they are actually speeding beneath a real river. Of the bridges', the Queensboro' bridge is the longest, with a total length of 7449 feet. Itv is built on the cantilever principle and its maximum span is 1182 feet. The Williamsburg bridge comes next, with a length of. 7 SO 8 feet and a record maximum span of 1600 feet ' The Manhattan bridge is 6855'feet long and the Brooklyn bridge, although more famous than the others, is only 6016 feet long, r The Manhattan bridge was the most expensive to build, cost ing 631,084.705. These four bridges cost a total of 697,959, 133.,' While these tunnels and bridges considered as a unit, are one of the wonders of the modern world, engineers say that it will be neces sary constantly to add to them If the city is to expand normally and Iliiiiiiiiiiii II It f m g! II Hi rm.'TT 1 1 1 ! (ill til i t 1 M 1 I It I i I . l i 1 'Mnii')MMIniHli!it!llll'mil!M!!!!!M!M!!ll!M'Mj!!I!IIM -" .: .. ' . - ZZil.' i i l!!hii'iiUi ii' Lower Priced Than Ever Before $685 F. O. B. DETROIT FULLY EQUIPPED 'T'HE many desirable qualities inherent ' J- in the Fordor Sedan commend this car to the consideration of every discrimi- - . natmg motorist. . When, in connection with these qualities, the low price of the car is considered, the value of the Fordor Sedan becomes unique. In it you obtain, at the lowest possible cost a car of snug comfort, good apearance, and high utility. Its convenient operation, dependable performance, and long life are well known. The style of its appearance, the attractive comfort of its interior, are m ime with present-day demand. Convenient, CoT.lnrtthle Seating Arrangement ' You emt buy this cwr through lit VALLEY MOTOR CO. Authorized Ford Dealers 2G0 N. High St. . . . Phone 1995 . - - 1 t ' ' " r : f - CARS TRUCKS - TRACTORS achieve a natural growths The taxpayers of New York no doubt often regret that thejr famous wonderland is entirely surrounded by water. Don't fail to inspect your car at definite intervals. M1XD YOtU OWN BUSINESS ; A women stopped ; here : the other morn In g and asked for per mission to', blow up , her tires. When slie had put In 110 pounds, I said: . ' "Lady, you are putting in too much air. You will blow out your tires." "Oh. no, I won't." she replied, "my husband-told me "to 'put in CO pounds a week, and we are go ing away for three wecks."Lit erary Digest. Don't ride the clutch keep your foot oft the pedals as much - T , "THE PRACTICAL GIFT is the one that always appeals to sensible people. When we can give something that is useful it gives just that much more satisfaction to the giver as well as the recipient. With practically every family owning a car these days, it puts auto accessories in the class of the Practical Gift. And the variety of articles in this class makes the selection of gifts easy. . ; Here is an opDortunitv. too. to show genuine appreciation to the fellow who takes you out riding often. . . . j.' ...'wi-4-sljuJ Jim" "Bill" .Smith:&sWaikms N. W. Corner Court and High Phone 44