New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-28
TIL TWO PARKS.

We peak wifb tie Almost universal voice Of NeE-
York vten We say-Let US have two parks both the
siles, Jones' and the Central
What bet'er evieIce do We require of the necessity
lace where cro.d. may resort, especially Infants
ard Children, than the frighuul mortality which last
week exhibited Our people are sFetered and With
cred under the olo'eooDfned atmosphere OF the Cy'
when if within reaching distance there we're PARIS
capable q sfording seas walks, drives sosde s"u
cooness tens Of Thousands would resort 10 them d'y
Tie votkipeman. and bis working Eife and WORKING
ebidr.p after heir daily toll, would 90 thi'her Ard
lsu,s fountains verdure; enlivened ~ muse so''-
eped by the beauty Of tie scene; civilized ~ toe g'oo
matpers bich would spo2 aDeousiy be the rule ana
he enforced when wanting there are teousands Nh7
poE resort 70 deus Of shame and sorrow TO drink gam
he and fight ard become candidates for the PRISON an
os1,us ybo would SEEK the milder and more genial
e1cir,n mems Of such good places Of public gathering
AUeyl begins i'h temptation End IL ia solemn truh
that he vice ano crime Of tbs CRY spring very much
f.. In he sross and infamous Temptations when are
offered "a tie young and thOughtltss, While legislative
pro,isioB winning thcm 70 virtue and happiness IS
wholly wanting a. soon as the Common School is left
Youth must frd is excitement somewhere, and now in
tbs CRY goes often 10 Perdon 10 SEEK IT, when under
an artistic spirit Of though fulness il our legislation
Tie ro.n might have been avoided
We feel ashamed Of the sem-barbarsm Of the con-
unil, in which We live when such sel-evldent neces
sfv ~ thousand open public acres for community
which boasts Of its rapid approaches to three million in
bstsrt is not yet created There now no Park large
crouch fer public resort none sufficiently capacious
for the Introduction Of those things which render at
D. t.I f4s va1u he m her al
acres Low occupied by the trumpery little grasspats
auomts 10 truly Insignificant sum. Let us then have
the Two parks the two parks for present comfort;
tie Two parks for our present health the two parks for
our present yzaoD and above all the two parks for
de millions who are soon 20 people this leland 1t is
nothing lees than crime to refuse to posterity now
that We can confer the boon, the Two Parks.
Tie Senator's who reported in favor Of park have
done themselves great credit aud when the public see
and ctjoy these institutions in all the amplitude and
splendor Of Their decOraionssith long lines OF forest
trees win ranges Of spirited statues enforcing health
and morals through he symbolism Of perfect forms;
with broad ghl.ering basins and fountains that
play in the sun, cooling the dry aud Parching
atmosphere; with dainty foWerbeds, aud groves vocal
with tiny songseIs with marble terraces decked With
tie scuptors art-recordHg The aboriginal history Of
tie Countrywide chselod Indian. buffalo, panther;
with fruitful uDoD in o word of Art and Na'ure, of
all peryaive and significant loneliness there will not
he ore sin.le drnzcn Of this City who will not glory in
the scene Like the Partisan who, even in the thick
Of revolutionary boodshed respects the works of art
in the public gardens the NesYorker will feel any in
iu1v done 10 such places injury done 20 his Ogn
dignity and 20 bis Of heal,h and enjoyment.
The Nv. Parks then the sites must both be Pur-
chased; and that done may have good deal TO say
srtiscay and technically Of the best mode of laying
them out commensurate with beauty and economy, AID
the proper impulse to be gwen thereby to democracy
We must humanze aud eXat our multirudnOus sover-
egIs by such means All that has been done for kings
in the way of public gardens and pleasure grounds IS
bat proper estimate set up the dignity Of our COM
mon nature and nov needs be done for the masses