. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. per proportionby the individualcities and towns withinthe district. Upon the petition ^^ =-^—^ ™ of the Public Park Association, the Legislature in 1905 appointed a Metro-politan Park Commission to make a preliminary report, and the commissionwas so constituted as to represent the extent of the proposed park district aswell as its varied interests, educational, artistic and commercial. The workwas a labor of love on the part of all those who promoted it.
. Providence : the sovthern gateway of New England, provd of its honorable history, happy in its present prosperity, confident of its fvtvre. per proportionby the individualcities and towns withinthe district. Upon the petition ^^ =-^—^ ™ of the Public Park Association, the Legislature in 1905 appointed a Metro-politan Park Commission to make a preliminary report, and the commissionwas so constituted as to represent the extent of the proposed park district aswell as its varied interests, educational, artistic and commercial. The workwas a labor of love on the part of all those who promoted it. The first Commission outlined a plan—of comprehensive character, butsubstantially along the lines already advocated by the Public Park Asso-ciation,—and the unqualified support that it received from the newspapers and from leading or-ganizations of everysort, gave strikingtestimony indicatingin how many veryvital ways such a pro-ject touches all classesof the people. TheCommission was con-tinued, and in 1906 amuch more elaboratereport was presentedto the Legislaturetogether with a requestthat the people of thestate be given an. .?:^:«safiBEa8iKBa»HiBRa^t^^ HOUSE AT LINfOL 57
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