Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . erville, the reservation covering 290 acres. Below thatpoint the borders of the river have been claimed, as Charlesforesaw, by railroads, factories, and wharves. He thought itdesirable that the shores of Maiden River and the valley andmouth of Island End Creek should be secured; but thesewere subordinate proposals. Nothing has as yet been doneabout Maiden River, and the Island End tract is now occu-pied by huge commercial stru
Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good . erville, the reservation covering 290 acres. Below thatpoint the borders of the river have been claimed, as Charlesforesaw, by railroads, factories, and wharves. He thought itdesirable that the shores of Maiden River and the valley andmouth of Island End Creek should be secured; but thesewere subordinate proposals. Nothing has as yet been doneabout Maiden River, and the Island End tract is now occu-pied by huge commercial structures. Two salt creeks in thisneighborhood, — Snake Creek and a branch of Belle IsleCreek, — which Charles proposed should be rescued for publicuse, have been saved by the construction of the Revere BeachParkway. Only the eastern shores of the two Mystic pondshave become public property; the western shores, the posses-sion of which Charles thought essential to the preservationof the beauty of these ponds, still remain in private hands. The banks of Charles River have been resumed by thepublic to an extent which Charles did not venture to propose BOSTON. 1892. BOSTON, 1902
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