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Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 14
o learn what can be done to make Cambridge a fitting home for the life toward which many men look as toward that which is strong and good in our civilization? Only after a city reaches that stage of existence when some parts at least have become crowded, does the realization of the need for open spaces make itself convincingly apparent. Indeed, it is only in the great European cities that we find the ideal development of lands given over to the use of the people, —in such vast centres as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, and London. Elizur Wright has even said, in a description of London's magnificent parks, London would go crazy without them. That Cambridge itself is becoming crowded is proved by the fact that an entire ward might be laid out with a population of one hundred people to the acre, while smaller districts are still more densely populated. Such being the condition, we cannot but ask ourselves what efforts we have made to give to every man, especially to those who are living
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
rk, as President Eliot has well said, is the most permanent of all the works of men. They have known what breathing-space means to the people, to hard-working men, to weary mothers, to little children. They have not forgotten what Rev. D. N. Beach, whose loss as a citizen of Cambridge we so deeply regret, would call the transcendental aspects of the park system. Neither have they lost sight of the fact that parks are a good municipal investment for Cambridge. They have remembered that Baltimore, that Buffalo, that Boston, have all been able to show that their great parks, through the increased valuation of the surrounding territory, have already begun to pay for themselves. Though the sum to be expended by Cambridge during the next fifteen years will probably be about $2,000,000, they feel sure that, in time, through financial returns alone, the city will be the gainer from this improvement. From the report of 1892 it was easy to see where work was most urgently needed. That
Hamburg, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
realization of the need for open spaces make itself convincingly apparent. Indeed, it is only in the great European cities that we find the ideal development of lands given over to the use of the people, —in such vast centres as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, and London. Elizur Wright has even said, in a description of London's magnificent parks, London would go crazy without them. That Cambridge itself is becoming crowded is proved by the fact that an entire ward might be laid out with a populatie ebb is kept back at half tide. Such a treatment would give us a salt-water basin of 646 acres between Craigie Bridge and the Cambridge Hospital. The best illustration of such a basin, as has again and again been pointed out, is the Alster at Hamburg. Picture to yourselves this sheet of water between Cambridge and Boston, never below half tide, with drives on both banks. Consider how launches may run from city to city, how men may start after a long day's work from many points near Beacon
Charles (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
et the years slip by, and with how little we had been satisfied. In Ward One, we had Cambridge Common, Winthrop Square, Arsenal Square; in Ward Two, Broadway Common; in Ward Three, no open spaces; in Ward Four, Washington Square, Hastings Square, and River Street Square; in Ward Five, again, there was no open space. Fresh Pond Park, begun by the wise foresight of Chester W. Kingsley and his fellow-workers on the Water Board, had already been somewhat developed, and the esplanade of the Charles River Embankment Company, near Harvard Bridge, was in process of construction. The inadequacy of these grounds was most evident. East Cambridge, for instance, with its fifty-five people to each inhabited acre, had not a single breathing-space. Consequently, so strongly was the need of persistent and lasting effort for the development of the park system felt by the city government, urged by Mayor Bancroft in his inaugural address, that in August of the following year, 1893, Rev. John O'Bri
Lowell (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
our beautiful pond, set in the midst of surrounding hills, which Mr. Olmsted has been free to call one of the finest natural features about Boston, a statement with which we, who know the spot, fully agree. In Fresh Pond Park, with its broad outlooks, improved as it will be by the able efforts of the Water Board, we have a goal where our drive may satisfactorily end. On that day in the future toward which we look when, in reality, we shall have taken this drive, we may perhaps call to mind Lowell's words: I remembered people who must call upon the Berkshire hills to teach them what a painter autumn was, while close at hand, the Fresh Pond meadows made all oriels cheap with hues that showed as if a sunset cloud had been wrecked among the maples. When all is done, the entrances to Cambridge will, at last, be beautiful. The city that holds within itself treasures with which few can be compared will have border lands worthy of its riches. On that day, when all our plans have been ma
Europe (search for this): chapter 14
ood government. If such be the truth, is it not worth our while to dwell for a time upon the outward form of our city, to learn what can be done to make Cambridge a fitting home for the life toward which many men look as toward that which is strong and good in our civilization? Only after a city reaches that stage of existence when some parts at least have become crowded, does the realization of the need for open spaces make itself convincingly apparent. Indeed, it is only in the great European cities that we find the ideal development of lands given over to the use of the people, —in such vast centres as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, and London. Elizur Wright has even said, in a description of London's magnificent parks, London would go crazy without them. That Cambridge itself is becoming crowded is proved by the fact that an entire ward might be laid out with a population of one hundred people to the acre, while smaller districts are still more densely populated. Such being the co
Brighton Hills (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
department of the city. From River Street onwards, the drives and walks will occupy all the open space until near Boylston Street, a congested locality, where the reservation will again make it possible to offer more open spaces, and unusual conditions in the way of locations for boathouses, and for the encouragement of water sports. Continuing along the river bank, we shall soon catch glimpses of the Blue Hills of Milton, and, across the Soldier's Field, of the nearer Brookline and Brighton hills. Places crowded with historic associations will come to view,—the Lowell Willows; across the Longfellow Garden, Craigie House; then Elmwood, Lowell's house, in the distance. Now we shall pass the spot where Professor Horsford firmly believed the Norsemen had landed. Soon we may turn in one direction and enter the Boston parks, or, in another, crossing Brattle Street and driving through what is now Fresh Pond Lane, reach our beautiful pond, set in the midst of surrounding hills, which
Milton (search for this): chapter 14
portunity for boating, provisions for which will be furnished by the park department of the city. From River Street onwards, the drives and walks will occupy all the open space until near Boylston Street, a congested locality, where the reservation will again make it possible to offer more open spaces, and unusual conditions in the way of locations for boathouses, and for the encouragement of water sports. Continuing along the river bank, we shall soon catch glimpses of the Blue Hills of Milton, and, across the Soldier's Field, of the nearer Brookline and Brighton hills. Places crowded with historic associations will come to view,—the Lowell Willows; across the Longfellow Garden, Craigie House; then Elmwood, Lowell's house, in the distance. Now we shall pass the spot where Professor Horsford firmly believed the Norsemen had landed. Soon we may turn in one direction and enter the Boston parks, or, in another, crossing Brattle Street and driving through what is now Fresh Pond Lane
Elizur Wright (search for this): chapter 14
e a fitting home for the life toward which many men look as toward that which is strong and good in our civilization? Only after a city reaches that stage of existence when some parts at least have become crowded, does the realization of the need for open spaces make itself convincingly apparent. Indeed, it is only in the great European cities that we find the ideal development of lands given over to the use of the people, —in such vast centres as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, and London. Elizur Wright has even said, in a description of London's magnificent parks, London would go crazy without them. That Cambridge itself is becoming crowded is proved by the fact that an entire ward might be laid out with a population of one hundred people to the acre, while smaller districts are still more densely populated. Such being the condition, we cannot but ask ourselves what efforts we have made to give to every man, especially to those who are living under the least favorable circumstances,
Henry D. Yerxa (search for this): chapter 14
Cambridge parks. Henry D. Yerxa, President of the Park Commission. This year we celebrate the anniversary of the incorporation of Cambridge as a city; we consider what Cambridge is, what Cambridge shall be. In the strength of the intellectual life of the seat of Harvard University we have great faith. We believe, too, that the political life of our city stands as an example of the success of a steady struggle for good government. If such be the truth, is it not worth our while to dwellneed of persistent and lasting effort for the development of the park system felt by the city government, urged by Mayor Bancroft in his inaugural address, that in August of the following year, 1893, Rev. John O'Brien, George Howland Cox, and Henry D. Yerxa were appointed park commissioners, and since that time they have labored diligently to make Cambridge what all wish the city to be. Of course, the commission has been obliged to struggle with the difficulties of a city well on the road to a p
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