. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. PARKS INSTEAD OF SLUMS On the map of the Metropolitan District opposite, only a few of theprincipal thoroughfares are shown. Blue indicates water area; LightGreen shows city parks and grounds of several public institutions; DarkGreen shows reservations acquired by the Metropolitan Park Commissionduring 1909 and 1910 and Yellow or Buff indicates proposed extensionof the park system. We find that the rock hills, the stream banks and bay and pondshores, are
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. PARKS INSTEAD OF SLUMS On the map of the Metropolitan District opposite, only a few of theprincipal thoroughfares are shown. Blue indicates water area; LightGreen shows city parks and grounds of several public institutions; DarkGreen shows reservations acquired by the Metropolitan Park Commissionduring 1909 and 1910 and Yellow or Buff indicates proposed extensionof the park system. We find that the rock hills, the stream banks and bay and pondshores, are the available and valuable sites for public open spaces; avail-able, because they are generally unoccupied and cheap ; valuable, becausethey present the grandest and the fairest scenery. Private ownership isthoroughly bad as a matter of public financial policy. Public ownershipwill so enhance land values that the whole community will profit in theend.—Charles Eliot. mc, SQ IB, ^y. WRITTEN AND COPYRIGHTED ,910, BY HENRY A. BARKER, PROVIDENCE, , PROVIDENCE REMINGTON PRII One copy del. to Cat. Div. ^.,., LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0 014 110 188 2 M
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