New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-15

for Mr.. Olmsted now, when he knows his
vote can do no good, but when he had the
power to help retain him where he be-
lOnared he voted with the men who thrust
him out. A mar with more retentiye mem
cry than Mr.. Lanes would recall the formal
aud indignant protest from the best citizens
of Nev-York which was drawn forth against
this crime of his abetting. Boston chooses
Mr.. Olmsted because it appreciates the value
of special training. Our Board rejects him be-
cause it despises special training, and it selects
Ancurin Jones and prints his views on art
because he sneers at the design of
fine ParI, and shows his contempt for
men who "make drawings" and know
the names Of trees,' and it actually encourages
him to carry on his threatened mutilation OF
the priceless trees and shrubbery.
Now. while the Commissioners are swagg.r-
inc before the city in "what -are-you-golng-
to-do-about-itr attitude, they should remind
Themselves of an observation made by Mr..
Sweeuy, who was sometime Commissioner
himself. That worthy, before his retirement
70 Paris, once avcrrcd that the storm OF
popular INDIGNATION aroused by his under
brush" hacking, his menagerie business ana
other projects for dcspoing the great pleasure
Ground was one of the most powerful OF the
forces which combined to sweep away the
Tweed Ring. The people have as strong and
as intelligent an affection for the Park to-day
as they had then, and this contempt tor their
trust which the Park Board is displaying IN
such Il brazen way is growing to be nOearaDle'
II is amazing that the city has so long en-
dured the outrages perpetrated 10y body
which does not fulfil a single one OF the
functions for which it was created. This
Board, which should he of character to com
pcl respect invites in it's Official action moth
ing but contempt. 1t should command so
much con ,ideIatiOn and regard that simple
request for money should be held as ample
proof that it was needed and would. be
iud,ciouSv expended. Whereas, the very fact
that the Park Board asks for anything
Is = sufficient excuse for refusing to grant it.
These gentlemen, who ought to be best in
formed AS to the needs of the Park, seem to
be the only persons in the city who do not
know that it should be placed under the eX-
ccntive control of some one with a recognized
experience and training in park work. The
men whom the people should look to with
confidence as the intelligent protectors Of their
pleasure ground are the very persons whose
destructive mcddling they dread the most.
The question which fairly forces itself upon
the people for decisive action amounts to this:
Shall Commissioners appointed to do a specific
thing be retained in power because they don't
do it
This is a reasonably distinct issue The
people of the city have quite as much interest
in ii as they have in the squabbles Of Mr..
Kelly and Mr.. Tidcn, or in any other Of the
momentous matters which make up the "pOl-
itIcs " of to-day. The people know what they
want, and what they ousht 20 have, and
sooner or later they will have it. If this
Board refuses to execute their will, they
will demand new Board and new kind Of