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Lifting wires higher by using taller poles.

4. Giving a competent committee power to act for the community to prevent the defacing of roadside trees by corporations owning franchises, and ignoring the law and the rights of property owners along their rights of way.

5. Forcing corporations to put necessary pruning in the hands of competent men.

6. Forcing trolley and electric light companies to preserve the beauty of the highway, even at a sacrifice of short cuts and conveniences they customarily exact without payment from a long-suffering public.

7. Organising in every community in the interests of civic beauty, with a strong, fearless committee to defend the trees against the vandalism of pole-setting, wire-stringing corporations. Let them be well informed on the legal side of their cause, and vigilant to have the law enforced.

8. Emphasising in and out of season the fact that the beautifying of grounds adds to the market value of real estate. Ordering their rights of way well planted and well kept is not mere philanthropy on the part of railway corporations. It is paying business. Trolley companies may eventually learn to count avenues of trees as valuable assets.