. The street railway review . ew York, in no wise want for a healthful,beautiful and diverting resort, where holidays and hotevenings may be spent and where the toilers of the weekmay find rest and pleasure on Sundays. Not only isopportunity of a resort opened, but the BinghamtonRailroad Company offers to the prospective pleasureseeker a cheap, rapid and comfortable means of gettingto it. Ross Park, which is the playground for all of Bing-hamton, and even of the surrounding towns, is situated of the city of Binghamton, with men and means at itscommand. The union and sequence of efforts of the
. The street railway review . ew York, in no wise want for a healthful,beautiful and diverting resort, where holidays and hotevenings may be spent and where the toilers of the weekmay find rest and pleasure on Sundays. Not only isopportunity of a resort opened, but the BinghamtonRailroad Company offers to the prospective pleasureseeker a cheap, rapid and comfortable means of gettingto it. Ross Park, which is the playground for all of Bing-hamton, and even of the surrounding towns, is situated of the city of Binghamton, with men and means at itscommand. The union and sequence of efforts of the originalworkers and the later commissioners have made RossPark a combination of lovely natural effects, chastenedand cultured by the hand and mind of man. The hillsand dales have been softened^ by landscape gardening,chasms and gullies have been bridged and filled, anddriveways have opened up the innermost recesses to thefancy of the thousands of daily visitors. The naturalforest, Pennsylvanian in character, has been properly. SCENES IN ROSS PARK. at the extreme south end of the city and covers 100acres of diversified land. The site was originally pre-sented to the city by Erastus Ross, after whom it wasnamed Ross Park. This was many years ago, beforeBinghamton became the thriving manufacturing centerof Southern New York and before wealth and moneyhad gathered at this bend of the Susquehannah first improvements, therefore, were not the result ofspecial taxation or of large gifts, but the free willoffering of personal efforts on the part of the citizens,each public-spirited man adding his own labor to that ofhis neighbor that posterity might enjoy the beauty andpleasure of which they were deprived. The institu-tion is now governed by a board of park commissioners thinned where necessity required, and rustic seats andbowers made from the felled timber. Around the crestsof hills, roads and paths have been driven and foot pas-sages made an endless labyrinth for the moonin
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