Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-08-11
PUBLIC PRoMENAD ABE.

time immemOrlal, Deen tHOuSht Doth po-
litic and prudent, to set apart certain
portion OF the public property asa public
walk. When the mind of the industrious
citizen is ta,igued by business, and dead
sned by languor, itcontemplates with BE-
culiar delight, the return of every evening
during the summer season, where it can
6rd not only relaxation from tolls, and
renovation OF spirits by a change OF air and
scene, but il is particularly fitted to the
ENJOYMENT of a polite and social inter-
course, where the object OF all who ire
ourn, such places is to see and be seen
TO please and be pleased-by courteous
and respectful department towards each
other as friends and citizens.
In such an intercourse, we not only re-
cognise an establishment well calculated
to promote health and happiness, and to
turn The course of the dissipated from ia
yerns and gambling houses, to this most
innocent and healhful walk but at The
same time, afording avery convenient &C.
casion to gentlemen of business to see
each ether thereby combining public ntl-
lit with private convenience anu interest,
not emitting, that the presence OF the la
dies at such place, and upon such anoc-
casicn. tends directly 10 soften, improve
and refine, not only the mind, but the man
ners oil every gentleman, while al the
same time, this refinement by example,
being generally diffused, he's tendency
10 restrain and subdue the uuruy and tur-
buler, passions of men more unpublished,
and ultimately effecting that high respect
in alipelsons visiting the place, Tor deco
rum aud urbanity, which 50 particularly
DISTINGUISHED the citizens of Athens from
those OF Sparta-a distinction well calcu-
lated to engage the best feelings OF our
neighbors and contemporaries in other
cities. n
lis to female society alone, that MANS
indebted for all his happiness. beneVo-
lence, forbearance, and. suavity OF man
ners; diyest him OF this vir,uous and most
interesting intercourse, and he at once
sinks into his natural habits of moroseness
and tarbarity nor is it at all difficult to
accosnt fer the effect, when we reason Up
on the nature of evil or innocent associa-
tons, the deductions are readily drawn
by the most common understanding.
England, ever famed for her public an
situations. has never been unmiDdtul OF The
comforts OF her subjects, not only BY pub
lie walks, but in every other way winch
the good i tire wise thought conducive to
health and it is fact, that the extreme
hea, of he summer, in this country, is
often fatal to the health of infants, by des-
troyiuo the tone of the stomach and ALI
men,ary canal as well as producing MANY
diseases of junction in grown PERSONS
Il is equally notorious, that but iew oil The
inhabi;snts of this place, can leave their
homes to travel, or TO avail themselves OF
the country air.-Would not then this pub
lie walk tend, in material degree, to
check the ravages of summer diseases "a
Inoug children, and thereby save many
bitter pang to the tender and anxious pa
rent Who that ever felt the solicitude OF
i father OF mother for the health OF ITS IN
nocent offspring, that would not contribute
his mite to the attainment OF an object so
very desirable and how small would be
the contribution, when levied upon the
property AMI people ofthe town.
Vhy then should the good people OF
Alexandria be unmindfu OF these benefits
The commercial consequence OF TIE place
its contiguity TO the general govern
ment--and the ease and facility OF getting
q. ,.ground reauired-with the additional
advantage of mineral spring in the very
neighborhood ofthe spot, all combine not
only to-direct the public attention to this
object, but 10 induce them to come Tor
ward and literally patronize it.-No local
situation can be superior to that Oh the
East side of Washington, and North OF Pen
dle;on-street, and thence extending to the
Spa spring, embracing FROM to 6 acres OF
land, which might be purchased and paid
for in annual instalments, and consequent
y. ly it would bear very light upon the pub
tic purse and, believe ain warranted
{ in saying, that there are several gentle
men who would literally patronize IT out