. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. ackle rookeries, and the massiveState House rears its classic portico and its magnificent marble dome againstthe sky. A happy harmonizing of dignified lines and exquisite detail, isthis building of the State;—one of the most noble buildings of America andan everlasting joy to all who look upon it. Above this plaza, upon the east, is the attractively varied sky line ofCollege Hill, its richness of summer foliage obscuring all but the highestroofs and the
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. ackle rookeries, and the massiveState House rears its classic portico and its magnificent marble dome againstthe sky. A happy harmonizing of dignified lines and exquisite detail, isthis building of the State;—one of the most noble buildings of America andan everlasting joy to all who look upon it. Above this plaza, upon the east, is the attractively varied sky line ofCollege Hill, its richness of summer foliage obscuring all but the highestroofs and the graceful spires of the aristocratic section, and crowned bythe Christian Science Dome and the interesting buildings of the old Univer- sity. Toward the west the channel of the Woonasquatucket River, withbroad streets on either side, gives opportunity for a boulevard to Davis Park,and onward by means of the new Pleasant Valley Parkway to the ratherundeveloped northwest corner of the city. In the conception of the Metropolitan Park System, it was realized thata serious obstacle would be encountered in the artificial division of Greater. Providence into neady a dozen independent cities and towns, but althoughthe conditions were unusual the promoters of the enterprise found a precedentin Massachusetts, in accordance with which the Metropolitan Park Districtin Rhode Island was constituted. This provides an official name for acommunity that should be in fact, as it is in appearance, a single city, andthe means by which, so far as the park system is concerned, it may indeed,act as a single city. .5() Of course, this park,district as such, wouldhave no revenue ofits own and no bor-rowing power, but itwas proposed, as in
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