New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-19
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
PUBLIC PARKS.

To ne Eci,o, of TIE " Tribune
SIR: Even NJ a cost of six millions of ollars-of in
Justice to many interests and more than justice to few
even though distant from the center of swetering toll,
still the new Park in your City il good that will endure
worthy of the City the nation and the age. The noble
Parks of the European cities will longer be re-
proach Is it something that sovereign people achieve
taste and embody it as well as sovereign kings
But this taste is dawning upon too late in the day
Those forts and battle fields on which wagcd tho
war Of our existence disappearing fast as the hand
OF uiaransm can reach them Every Of them should
have been fenced in and preserved TO the coming
There may come time when the patriotism OF this nation
will emerge from this copper cent era when love OF dres
with public virtue and appreciation Of all that Is great
in our national memories
Ia Brooklyn some ten years ago, Fort Greene was In
beautiful presentations and alike for the distinctness OF
its works and the fare extended view commanded from its
sumnit perhaps of the most interesting remains
OF the past century Much of it has disappeared and the
rest fast disappearing That park formed from the dull
swamps Of the Wallabout is a useful and beautiful
thing and il dearly purchased by the spolat0n
of Fort Greene. But park no park, Fort Greene
in the grip Of utiaranism and would have perished all
the
And now, here is Williamsburg with fifty thousand in
habiiaHs and increasing four-iold at each returning
censushere it i, withouta square inch of Park, or
other place Of public recreation.
And the writer of this sat by the grave deliberations
Of lis Municipal Legislature, on certain night some ten
years ago when offer lay before them TO accept tho
free gilt Of several blocks Of ground the most valuable
part of the them village on condition that they would
fence it 10 PARK Their gravity and wisdom prevailed
they would not depart from their mastery inactivity,
and so the sold the ground. II is now densely
built upon-and tho feesimple Of that real estate which
grave and reverend seineurs were too wise 70 ac
cept for nothing is probably worth 100000.
And now VIC have Park, and never can have one in
that important noighborhood. Nor, of course in any
other neighborhood. Ii il matter OF little pary
personal nterest-he appointment of clerk police
nAn-ihere would be such stirring Of the passions But
where particular dollars 10 make their way into
particular peck how could expect to
much spirit in Aldermen would keep them awake
TO deliberate subject OF mere public interest and
good Ii il otherwise something could be yea done
not to recall the past for that IS lrfeYocablebW 10 &C.
conplsh something for the future
Commencing outside Of Bushwick-av., mile and hall
from the ferries and stretching to the old Newtown and
Brooklyn Tunpike bounded the south and north by
the rising grounds in the neighborhood of the Cypress
Hills and the Maspeh Plank-roadsthere lies in crcu,
our,hs OF which level meadow higher than two feet
above ordinary high tide Ii is ntersected by the nayga
be waters OF Newtown Creek which forms unique fea
ture the white sails glide along IT, and If reclaimed into
park il would have the singular advantage OF omnibus
steamboats, through its entire length Bathing reservoirs
could be formed scale commensurate with any re-
quirtm apart and secluded for the accommodation OF
both sexes These could be kept full 10 hghwaer mark,
constant convenience, and unsuiced al pleasure t.
have them refed with the pure waters OF the returning
tide II would be forward Aght to speak here Of
acres set apart the OF this ground menagere
for sea sheshe surface and the banks Of which might
form an ayiay s the various interesting birds II Is
enough that here presents the site OF park that
might Oufval anything OF the kind in either hemisphere
Much Of this land is untouched blank and could now
be purchased at very moderate price; but OF
the have commenced TO grade streets the present
opportunity is fast passing, and byandby win entirely
pass away.
yg!sa Asbtyah June H. I3i