[Newspaper]
Publication: The Daily Dispatch
Cincinnati, OH, United States
vol. 5, no. 21, p. 2, col. 2
From the following article to the Hamilton Telegraph, yesterday, it would appear that one of the Telegraph Lines had been cutting it rather fat in the way of marring the fair proportions of some of the beautiful shade trees of that place.
We learn that suits have been brought to test the right of Telegraph Companies to indulge in unnecessary or wanton mutilations of this character.
O'REILLY'S TELEGRAPH. — The workmen on this line have done great damage to the Shade Trees through our town. The cutting was indiscriminate and unnecessary; and if there is a law for punishing a trespass of this kind, the Company should suffer its utmost penalty. We do not say this was done purposely and maliciously, but humbly suggests that if the citizens of our town had taken stock in this line, this mutilation of Shade Trees had never taken place. Our trees were not trimmed to give room for the wire to pass unobstructed through the branches, but the whole tops were cut off by the lazy hands who put up the line, and, as we understand, by order of this Superintendent.
Why was this line brought through our town, and along the principal streets, too, when it was known that no stock would be taken here? There is plenty of room for it to pass around us. We have one good line, the Agents of which are gentlemen; this is sufficient for all our wants.
