The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-04-17
SPRING IN THE PARK.

now the Visitors Go the Sanitary Fair |
Should Spend suMday-GrseM Grass |
and Gay Gailamts-The Ladies' Fair /
and the Fair Ladsss-New And Pleas
ans Pashs-FiOwsss aad Plants II
BIoom-WhAt IL 90 he Seen An ~ =
ParK and How TO See II, SO,
The Sanitary Fair has brought from parts ~ n,m
Der Of vsors " ths city, and tho question .ura,,v
arises what are they 70 do with themselves ON SIM
day For six days Of the week they have the
Fair but on the seventh, fair, the .av raj
lants wish some kind Of recreation foy THAR fair
companions. Doubtless the antkrafnis9 oarson. vii,
insist that these visitors should cro,. I'd Themselves
into their churches for the double ,ruosa az mak
Ing the size Of their Congregations lock respectable
and increasing their church revenues oy passing around
At the close Of tho services tho SUI fpson box n the
end Of STICK Every one to his adI bu. as tho visit.
ORE have had during the week, 9th Four,eeotn and
Seventeenth streets, some little violence OF the effect o,
providing, would suggest thai rip through the Park
would be not only heatAfv'l !, bnt also amusing and
instructive.
"But what 10 to be seen in the psrkY,, very NATURAL
inquiry and easily answs ,redA Eyerythse lovely m
nature-sreen grass, please Mt <as shady xrbors bs
Ing plants, delightful rN .es Our country friends s7
ray, "we have plenty q. grass In the cuuntryn rrue
Bus havs you spos % bee atully laid cut wherov4sy
Ton PAGES gives you ia prospect natu and
art gracefully onpAbued that is din,cu.t q, tell
where tho one eudA and the other begins p
whore tho uxur foliage, the cold rocks the Creeping
vinee the level omeAade the wlndtag psshs the
broad drives le CAerald lawns, the noble ~renos Of
wood. Stone nd iron; the placsA lakes win thejr
featnered ana yoccupants; the ripping brosks tho
noisy cascade The geological 10
fact that ovey is embraced grand ysrccuy We
mink nos heresrs advise All 60 $50 rhe Park
How an We reach the Parkr' By almost every ca7
that ieav ss the Battery City Hail. Along Broadway
and tho rrd. SIXTH Seventh, Eighth, Ninth anc Tenth
avenao- All % TO the Park Plenty II conveyance to
reach tho ouiae and after that gaiDed Numerous
riaga 70 drive around IL aAd through 1t.
We have already former occassens described the
SER ral on irance paths INTO the PARK ara whsrehese
ps his lead therefore every how 10 reach
w. Terrace, and every stranger easily find that
HANDSOME piece Of architecture Tho sation Of
logical collection win be readily pontcd out yaAy
Of the >oegng gray coated Parkkeepsss who arc always
Wilt ~ give information abort the Park and its at.
ira any vs,er OF an tnquiTing turn Of mind.
III having been arrived a., II the visitor will
pr se down tho steps and tASe the left hand
" Aik, by the side Of the Lake, cr'ss the iron
r sbow BRIDGE he viii enter the Rambte. Keeping
along path ~ the Lake, IN time will reach
Schi,lers monument. few PAGES will NEXT take him
another small path which ,eads him over tho rustic
oridge thence BY . walk 10 front pretty country
lodge path leading to the and natural bridge
which, having been inspected the visitor ascend the
by until no reaches the Observatory
on the top OF che hill. matters little which road be
may take eacA has Tvs attraction either in the arrange
OF the shrubbery the cutting Of steps out OF the
solid rock the in watch the path laid
While in the Ramble there Is something else be
at this season the year. The visitors this
parts Of where the flowers abound will ind the
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