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TREES ON KIRKLAND STREET FELLED FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS

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With the erection of traffic lights at the corner of Kirkland and Oxford streets, it became necessary to cut down two large trees, situated one on either side of the southernmost light, in order to make the light more readily visible to approaching motorists.

The removal of the trees yesterday, an ash and an elm, was quite a large job for the Park department, one of whose duties is to take care of all trees on the city streets. Both trees, estimated by the foreman on the job to be 75 years of age, had huge roots extending under the street, which had to be severed.

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