New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-30
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lis meIapchoy 10 witness the abrasion and CO.
81. beson" Of the prope-tyholiiug class-their com
tines egort their liberal expenditure OF money and
sacrifice Of time to defeat and destroy great anl
,oe project Ike this for the mental moral and physi-
cal ip,u7o-eneut Of thu masses, when such project
"a, involve the addition of the tenth part OF mill to
Il rate of tax iion and contrast their activity wa
the inertia the apparent want Of any sympathetic feel
inc and action Oh the part of the classes to be beHe
ft,d and who equally with the properly holders pay
their share OF tie taxes levied or 20 be levied. Next
10 the Introduction of tie Croton water. the Park
oue..ion il the most important which has ever been
presented 10 tie mass of voters yet how many have
taken any interest in il mere handful Of liberal.
fre,eorc men-of philanthroFists AMI artists-for
tlev are AL near akin have looked on this great i'm
proveueLt g. something whose existence would atone
for iInumerable corporation sins and inquities With
ont any aid from the masses for whom they have thus
abored they had almost achieved the work OF procur-
ing two great parks worthy Of the immediate position
and prospective grandeur Of the present metropolis of
America and tie future metropolis of the world and
row their designs are to be thwarted, their plan
dwarf to size contracted the souls al intel
lects OF usny who are leading in the dry work of
oppOsir E and destroying them.
Tho people want the great Central Park in all the
integrity of original design vast aud splendid not
contracted and contemplate They want too, the
Jouess Woods Park. Ihey want both Parks. and If
they 10 rot get them themselves alone are TO blame
VIII not mechanics ana aborcrs move in this matter
VIII nothing awaken them TO the value of this treasure
of Lealth and happiness for them and their descen-
dsnts-now within their grasp, while they refuse TO
clutch it Ii they lose the Parks now. ough, there to
be any syn patty for them Frcemen who will not
protect and legaie for themselves are not worthy OF
the title they are slaves in fact whatever name they
bear.
Now is tie time TO strike. Billings multiply like
rolling balls The Park sites will soon be closed
up. unless row secured A few wears will block ont
every chance for obtaining the least bit OF their sau.
brous yeIdure ana generous amplitude. Every mouths,
yes every day delay, obtrudes fresh difficulties.
Lock at what Euro pe-nonarchcal aristocratical,
ogarcbical, despotic Europedoes for the people in
this gard Look at London, with her parks aud her
palace carden,--Of oyer two thousand acres-a open
to tie people lusrOus with rural beauty and freighted
with joyous health. And yet with all this find that
new parks are projected and carried out by Para-
nelt. The Victoria Iark in the east end of London
Vas recently formed by act OF Parliament and houses
even were removed TO make way for it Look, too,
to the accessory provisions for the people in the orma
iiOn Of a Public Amusement Company, which with a
capital OF five million dollars have purchased near
London immense park. and laid it out under the
direction of the eminent landscape gardeners and
decorative artists Of England have adorned its grounds
with statues fountains, and tasteful details to humanize
lo,o oil T. .ha stxbi
constituted the Cry sta Palace ia Hyde Park-a building
some six times the size OF Crystal tace, and
have regretted it there with fresh architectural beau
ties and economies as permanent museum OF art AMI
industry including the projection OF the largest organ
il Europe hundred feet front, fifty feet deep, and
d Hundred and forty hghan organ which will require
four years 10 construct at expense of one hundred
and twenty thousand dnlars-aud contrast all these
multiform and hghreacbiug popular artideas OF En-
plsnG-undcr uonarchical government, with the buck
sterilg oviyed property opposition to the parks here
and TIE swinsh swndle of grog-shop legislation.
Lock, likewise, TO Paris, with numerous galleries,
walks drives 10 thousands OF OF parks surrounded
by architectural and sculptural spendors, aud we
reason why people SO cared for forget the par
ticuar form OF Government in enjoying sch generous
opportunities What We want-what the intellg
and hard-volhng people of New-York want for them
selves md for all Others-is taxation upon all to an
amount necessary to purchase both Parks-to lay them
cut and ldorn them with woods lawns, streams ponds
walks, drives Fairgrounds gynnasa, ayiaries, ZOO
logical collections summerhouses, flower gardens,
f,unt,rs aud statues Perhaps no project has ever
been presented which would rend so much to diminish
rowdysm drunkenness and crime this one if carried
cut on the scale We here propose II may be ques-
ton. indeed whether the saving of so much of the
present amount Of taxation goes to the detection
and rurshHent Of crime would not be nearly equal 70
that rsquHd to produce this novel and noble result