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fault of this Vestry that no more has been done. The
Vestry having for the last twenty-five years been most
active in all ways to promote the public requirements
in this respect, it would be superfluous to refer to what
has occurred during the last few years in connection
with this duty that they have so energetically tried
to fulfil.
Having before referred to the wanton and foolish
damage, to give it no other name, that is persistently
inflicted on these structures, and which still continues,
there is but little to report further than that all possible
care is taken to preserve those that do exist, and make
the best of a most unthankful necessity.
Another important matter has been most carefully
considered, the Public Lighting of Streets, and this
requires and has received full consideration, both parsimony
and extravagance being excluded from the question.
That improvements in this direction have been made
involving ample consideration, cannot be denied. These
actual improvements will literally serve as beacons or
guides for the future.
The new lamps recently erected, somehow receive
damages that cannot be exactly the result of accident;
the ingenious contrivers only think of honest "wear
and tear," and if they did think of wilful injury, it
could not be guarded against, without rendering the
very object of their invention, if not useless, of very much
less use than they expect it to be.