. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . Fairmount Park, new though it is, has already attained a reputation second only to thatof Central Park, New York, and only second to that because Fairmount is not yet old enoughto be as widely known. Fairmount needs no eulogist. It speaks for itself; and the stranger who, with this book forhis guide, will spend a summer day—or, better still, a week—in leisurely and appreciativeexploration of its hills and dales, its leafy woodlands and sunny slopes, its rippling streamsand placid river, its dewy sunrise and dreamy suns
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . Fairmount Park, new though it is, has already attained a reputation second only to thatof Central Park, New York, and only second to that because Fairmount is not yet old enoughto be as widely known. Fairmount needs no eulogist. It speaks for itself; and the stranger who, with this book forhis guide, will spend a summer day—or, better still, a week—in leisurely and appreciativeexploration of its hills and dales, its leafy woodlands and sunny slopes, its rippling streamsand placid river, its dewy sunrise and dreamy sunset, and the glory of its moonlight vistas,will permit no tongue to sound its praises louder than his own. We preface our description of it with a few dry facts and figures which it will be well to bearin mind. Fairmount Park arose from the necessity for a supply of pure water, the deterioration of PHILADELPHIA AND ITS MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF FREDERICK GRAFF. which threatened to become not only an evil but a grievous calamity. The mills and manufactories on the banks of theSchuylkill were multiplying rapidly,and there was great danger that inthe course of a very few years theriver-banks for miles above the citywould be lined with factories andworkshops, to the utter ruin of thestream on which the citizens de-pended for their supply of purewater. Just in time to prevent this catas-trophe, Fairmount Park was con-ceived, and by degrees executed,until now five miles of the river andsix of its beautiful and importanttributary the Wissahickon, togetherwith the high lands bounding theirimmediate valleys, are inclosed andpreserved forever from all pollutionand profanation. The Park now contains nearlythree thousand acres, being morethan three times as large as the NewYork Central Park. It is dedicatedto be a public pleasure-ground for-ever, and, under the managementof a Board of Commissioners, isr
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