. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. onin November, they tooapproved it,—by aEDGEwooi. liEACH ^otc of two to One. In only one large town inthe state was there an adverse majority. This vote allowed the nextlegislature to issue bonds and to provide proper machinery to bring theMetropolitan Park System into being, and thus, Rhode Island became thesecond state in the Union to institute a Metropolitan Park System. Upon the plan of this Metropolitan Park District, within an area of abouteleven m
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. onin November, they tooapproved it,—by aEDGEwooi. liEACH ^otc of two to One. In only one large town inthe state was there an adverse majority. This vote allowed the nextlegislature to issue bonds and to provide proper machinery to bring theMetropolitan Park System into being, and thus, Rhode Island became thesecond state in the Union to institute a Metropolitan Park System. Upon the plan of this Metropolitan Park District, within an area of abouteleven miles by seven, that is occupied in 1910 by about 405,000 peopleand has the State House as the geographical centre, are noted the valleys often rivers of assorted sizes, the shores of the bay, of which almost none isheld by the public,and something likeforty ponds and are precipitoushillsides from whichgorgeous views areobtained, andfragments of wood-land that still remainto be the joy andbenefit of their tres-passing neighbors. Such places areseldom fit for ordi-nary building pur-poses and if not falls at lixcoln woods 58. reserved for public lands, soon degenerate into slums. When we choosethe former alternative, we thereby add value to the surrounding lands, andto the city as a whole, that invariably repays all the outlay many let no one advocate that they be made into parks in the old-fashionedunderstanding of that word, for up to recent times city parks have furnisheda very bad and fantastic imitation of nature; and even though they haveafforded refreshing scenes of grass and flowers amid the walls of the city,they have generally been intended to be looked at with awe rather thanused with full delight. People were supposed to stroll decorously throughwonderful curving paths and among magic mazes of geometrical designs,with warnings on every hand to keep off the grass under threat of capitalpunishment. Nature was fantastically caricatured by unhappy he
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