New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-21
TIE CENTRAL PARK.

The projected Central Park will be the finest in the
world within the limits CT city. The necessary mi
tia proceedings for the appointment of Commissioners
to assess and secure the land have been taken The
FIVE Commissioners nominated for the City Angus
tus schell, Luther Bradish, William Kent Michael u
shoeifer, and Edward c. West For the heirs of Da-
yid Wagstaf and others John Boyd Theodore Mar
tine Jeremiah Towle and Warren Brady. This looks
Ike business.
There is already disposition to abbreviate the pro-
posed limits of the Park which are Fify-ninth.st
Observation-Disclosures and Fifth and Eighth-aEs
This should not be suffered The minds Of people
must be educated up TO the standard of the hygenc
and esthetc necessities of NewYork Contracted pro-
vincia ideas must be combatted The wants of three
millions and upward of dense population must be con-
sdered The particular interests of this or that prop
erty.holder the technical obstacles which legal over
straning may raise here there must be overruled
Saus popu srprema Ter. Our municipal duties clear
We have great city already. few years will turn it
into the greatest in the world Ancient Rome in solid
wealth will be dwared before it, and even London will
be of the second rank. Any small conceptions for
prospective legislation any miniature cravings and Ill
liputan restrictions must be attacked and destroyed
and the whole Park secured to ourselves and posterty
The only difficulty which now lies in the way of lay
ing out Parks. or as a commencement, the Central
Park without the slightest diminution of the originally
named extent consists in the want OF broad ideas in
the public on the subject. The Press, therefore is
bound to illuminate to whatever required extent the
public mind on this head. Our citizens should look
not on what New-York simply is but what NewYork
is to be- We will tell them an anecdote in point
in
Baltimore given free to the good people OF that
place the munifcent donor, Colonel Howard, offered
at the same time one hundred acres of fine woodland
then surrounding it for the of thousand dollars
provided they were to be used as a Park Would it
be believed, the offer refused by the City Coun-
ellis Incredible as it may seem, ten thousand dollars,
which is little more than the annual rent of some ware
houses in NewYork were not forthcoming in 1916 for
one hundred acres of ready -made Park in Baltimore
which would be in the heart of that city Extra
ordinary this may seem, il is, all circumstances
present means and future prospects-cOnsdered quite
matched by any attempt to defeat or lessen even the
purchase of any of the quantity Of land necessary for
either Park, the Central Jones' in this City.
mere business spirit cannot compass the exgences OF
such a scheme. Observation-Disclosures
religion of ar-the perception of the dignity OF human
naure-all are required to enable man to Judge OF
tie immense interests involved in having these great
poems of God-these living breathing lovely Parks in
the heart of hustle and trafc-shedding and showerng
health joy and taste around and teaching by their undy
ing beauty the great lessons which the handwork OF the
Creator alone can convey Whatever may be the stern
requirements of business, the memorable demands OF
rents and values let it be borne in mind that Nature
cannot be set asde-that Man must commune with her
in the forest by the riverside in the buxom breeze,
and under the soaring and scntllating skies, if he
would enjoy the pulse of ecstacy and the sPlendor OF
absolutely developed being.