The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-20

police Cor,t per ~, 'ly oense appeared to be that
Of occunving a seat in the Tompkins Parade
Gropnd' and her sku,l h I'D been laid bare, and
smashed iu. until the b, God gushed forth in
torrents, by police brute, v hose name have
not been able TO learn, but who nau taken tnis
means of expressing his opinion nat tue poor
thing had gone thither with an imp roper pur-
pose. This is proof that some OF the o"cemen
who "protect" the parks are worse than any OF
the poor wretcbes whom they arrest. ~ Is
seldom indeed J ou see victim dragged up b.
fore police Justices bench whose strength is
equal to that of the blue-HanDeled beast that
arrested him, or had enough greenbacks about
him TO match with the blue flannel.
Union Park is an extensive oval green, beau
tfully laid out, with a large fountain in the
centre, and aboundiug in straight and serpentine
walks. 1t is the best shaded park in the city.
One of the most pleasing of its adjuncts is Mr..
II. K. Browns (of Brooklyn) $50, 900 statue of
Washington, cast in bronze, four tons in weight,
twepty-e ght feet high (including the pedestal
on which it stands) and erected few rods east
of the paik in the centre of the triangular space
formed by the intersection of Fourth avenue
and Fourteenth street. The Park itself is
bounded by Fourteenth aud Sixteenth streets,
Fourth avenue, and University place. At most
hours of the night and day it is more frequented
by casual visitors than any of the other parks.
Around the central fountain and along some of
the long circular walks, wooden benches are
stretched and upon these sleepers, usually of
the lower orders, may be found at any hour
after M dn ght. Sometimes, however, the sleeper
is we'll dressed and bears all the outward marks
Of gentleman, and In this case he is not un-
frequently re minded by the policeman th at it is
time TO move on and be going home. Here the
people who live in tenement houses come OF the
warm nights to find out whether the grass con-
tnues TO be green, and if the air loves most to
grow cool where hgh-branched trees and open
spaces are. Few women of the town ply their
profession here. Still, police returns do not fail
| to show that designations of an improper kind
| are made both within and around the park, and
that cases. the trails of which have been scented
| for months, have been settled by moral-nosed
| detectives, and the culprts packed off to Black
| wells Island, or whatever other rural reforma-
tory their virtues may have entitled them to,
| with but few questions being asked, and no
| defense accepted,
| The popularity OF Madison Square, situated
| between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue aud
| Twenty third and Twenty-sxth streets, seems
| to be the number of nurse.maids who delis
to take their swaddling- clothed charges there
from the white marble hotel and the brown
| stone mansions which give a distinguished
| flavor 10 the locality. Madison Square has no
| fountain, but ii is better lit than the others
and is supplied with an abundance of broad
| walks. The loa6ng element is less predominant
here than at the other parks, and the profess
| sional loungers abound most along the dark
lengths of the Madison Square side, which,
| strange to say, is worse lit than the Others
Walks were fist laid out in Madison Square and
| trees planted, as late back as lS45, aud if the
| quantity OF shade within the park during the
| day time were only equal to the quantity OF
| gaslight during the night am sure that every
stool not occupied by nur:e would be occupied
| by baby so that the casual visitor would be
in imminent danger OF finding himself no.
| where.
should have added, in its place, that one
| great feature of the Park on Fourteenth street
and edging around to University Place on the
one side, and Fourth avenue on the other, is
| the presence of large number Of drivers of
''one-horse shays," whose prime principle ap-
| pears to be that every male pedestrian out at
and after midnight is or ought to be drunk.
After painfully trailing up from the Broadway
Theatre Niblos, the Olympic, Kelly & Icons,
and Walack's, they install themselves in these
the darkest parts of the surroundings of Union
| Park and hail gentlemen on their way home
| think NJ mentioned in a former letter the insti.
tuition known as the "Drunkard's Cabs" Those
at Union Park are the droppings off of that in
stitution; and the wine-hushed gentleman who
has been belated at Delmonicos may esteem
himself fortunate if he escapes the drivers
hands. ALI BABA