New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-14
THE CENTRAL PARK.

To Gs Editor Of TIE N Y. TSitese
SIR In regard to curaing its boundaries defined in
the OF the Legislature desire say that the original
degn entertained by s friends in this Chy contemplated
limiting ito width to the Fifth and Seventh avenues How
in the passage Of the bill ct Albany, it, westerly line was
fixed at the Eighth avenue not very apparent there s
however good to believe done by the opPo
nens Of the in the expectation Of making the cost
to alarm its advocates and thus srange Il
in its birth Believing that the area first Indicated above
would be sufficient for the purpose led TO before the
Comm t;ee of the Board OF Coancmen thai some curta
meDt of the dimensions given in the law might be desra
be. think so sti because would not have the whole
thing defeated by the bugbear Of cost.
it. opponents urge most vshenently that sana.ory
it il utterly useless inasmuch the City SIT
uat.d island of average width OF not more man
two miles and washed either hand by broad rivers Il
blessed 10y with atmosphere pure possible,
and this constantly changed and revyied by our close
proximity 20 the ocean.
this he adj and place the hole matter simply upon the
footing freccat,oH and pleasure These grounds judi
eousy and tsstefuly laid after the Of Green
wood Cemetery, and their form sufficiently indicate the
mode of doing IT, would furnish than twenty miles OF
beautiful carriage drives exhibiting scenery of the )st
picturesque eharsoterhl and valley rocks gens water
falls and lakes with diversity OF soil fitting for the
cuy and production of every flower shrub and tree
from the aquatic plant up to the hardest and noble giant
OF the forest. To do this time will De required but not 80
much time its opponents assert The grounds the In
stuion for the Blind have been planted but nine years
and the walks areied with foliage and many of
the quick growing nearly quite twelve inches
in diameter al the basehe present generation therefore
may share in the ehoymen. Of the proposed pleasure
grounds.
The magnificent growth Of Jones wood has | think.
been entirely produced since he Revolutionary war
the English troops during their occupancy of the City
having de1used tho Island Of air ito for timber and
fire wood Ii his be So the whole growth referred 10 has
been witnessed BY many yet living Blu. II the present
population never in their day 10 participate in the
numerous advantage. TO result from the proposed
it furnishes good reason interpoe such insupera
Die obstacles that posierty for al time coma.
shall be shut out from them and yet If the present opPOr
uniiy be missed, such, undoubtedly, will be its
0urnces. Fortursfely, ancestors with a hber aty
quite unoecoa:tsble no Doubt they violently opposed
by msny oT unnecessary waste OF valuable land laid
out Broadway EIGHTY feet wide What would il be
worth 10 had IL been two hundred feet People are
low living who bonn when the Counties OF Albany
and Wesch6s;er each contained iuhabiian's thsa
tie County Of New York. In early life they coui 10;
have Unsigned what they see, and great de3ci
has been and narrow, eircum<cribed and deficient