. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ouldbe to the people. I cannot quote themany speakers before the commissionat length, but here are snatches of ar-gument presented by the men namedabove. The Committee on the Charles RiverDam, the members of which were HenryS. Pritchett, Samuel M. Mansfield andRichard H. Dana, said: How much this basin will be used as a pleasurepark, and particularly by the poorer inhabitants ofthe city, your committee feels itself unable to . The committee feels that under reason
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. ouldbe to the people. I cannot quote themany speakers before the commissionat length, but here are snatches of ar-gument presented by the men namedabove. The Committee on the Charles RiverDam, the members of which were HenryS. Pritchett, Samuel M. Mansfield andRichard H. Dana, said: How much this basin will be used as a pleasurepark, and particularly by the poorer inhabitants ofthe city, your committee feels itself unable to . The committee feels that under reasonableconditions it ought to become the scene, for atleast four or five months of the year, of a greatpopular playground. Henry Lee Higginson pointed it outas a place for bath houses and for skating,and said: There is not half so much fun walking up anddown on the seashore and looking at the wateras there would be for people to go out on the waterand enjoy it, as they would do if we should givethem a beautiful water park where they could goboating, rowing and improving themselves physi- THE CHARLES RIVER LOWER HASIX 163. HE ALSTER BASIN, HAMBURG cally and in every other way. At any rate there isa place where they can be refreshed and amused,and boats going up and down as they would be onany other great water park. And here is an extract from a briefdrawn up by a committee of citizensheaded by Mr. Higginson: There is no reason why every able-bodied boyshould not have a chance, every fine winters after-noon, to put on his skates at Charles Street, inpractically the center of the city, and skate in thefresh air and sunshine to his hearts content. Thereis no reason why, on a hot summers evening, hun-dreds or even thousands of people condemned toa summer in the crowded, unhealthy parts of thecity, should not obtain the recreation and healthto be derived from a row or sail on a large body ofwater situated in immediate proximity to theirhomes. Samuel F. Hubbard spoke of the pro-posed wa
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