The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-08-11
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Eairnonnt Park, Phiiade!phia's Crowning
Glory-A Delightful Mountain Resort
Biz; Trees-strike of the TeIegraphers-
Sunday Li4uur Selling, Etc.
PHILADELPHIA July p, 1888.
| EDITOR CHIEF:
Fairmount Park is the pride of Philadel-
phia. and truly she has something of which
to be proud. 1t is her crown of glory At
all times beautiful, because it is natures
realm, 1t never seems so perfect delight
as during the intensely hot days; and every
time l see the crowds of people that throng
there become more and more enthusiastic
over it as a blessing and lament that all the
poor tired men and women and the wasted
children can not step from their bake-oven
| tenements right into its sylvan hooks and
cool glens, when rest time comes. and be-
come reJuyenated and reinvigoGated. AS it
Is. those who really need it most. seldom
get sight of it-too far off and too expen-
sive luxury. Any city that is without a
park is recreant to duty. That much at
least should be done for the benefit of the
poor who ''stitch, stitch, stitch, work, work,
work, with never a breath of the cowslip
and primrose sweet" To me Paramount
Park is more remuHeratiye than Windsor
Or Central Park. It covers 27OO acres and
is the largest park III the United States
Windsor, if / remember correctly, has 5000
acres, but size is i1nmaterial. Every thing
Y,prfpptin.,
florist has displayed plants and flowers in
the most artistic manner. and perfect har-
mony Of design greets the eye on every
side. But let those who like Enger in that
[ prefer the, woodlands, the enchanting
drive along the noisy, gleefui Wissahickon:
| the hills, the ravines, the dells, the cascades
the lovely Landscapes, the mighty trees;
every place, III fine, where nature is left free
to expand in her own way. OF all the
| beauties which God has given to gladden.
our hearts and visions, none are compara-
bic to trees. What has a more soothing eff
feet upon the wearied brain and the soreIy
bruised heart than to throw ones self upon
the sWard beneath the trees, watch the
swaying OF the branches as they point heav-
onward and listen to their delicious music
You remember Oliver Wendell Holmes says
that OF all the verses he has written. his real
poems are the trees he has planted. .:What
are these naples, birches and Eeeches but
odes, idyls and madrigals? What are these
| !
hymns:' While trees are in my mind let
me tell you OF some near Cresson Springs
far up the Alleghanies, which are remarka-
bic for their iulnensity. All in that belt of
timber are huge, but the Jumbo Of the lot
Is twelve feet in diameter. over 100 feet
| high, and the largest tree east OF California
About ten feet from the ground'it branches
into four large, straight trees, and from
these. still higher, it shoots forth fifteen
limbs. Nobody goes to CreSson without
visiting the big trees.
Last week, about fifty doctors were invi-
ted by MIR. Tyler, proprietor of the Noun
tam House. Cresson Springs, 70 soiourn with
him few days for the purpose Of passing
judgment upon the waters and advantages
| offered by the place, and to meet their
brethren from the juninta Valley. 1t is
| rarely that doctors can lay off the harness
| to take recreation. but when they do, they
are like young colts turned into pastures
green. These i'll question had jolly good
time during the whole excursion. were al
ways ready for sightseeing and fun Of every
| description. One day they tranped in ey-
cry direction, viewing the land-went to
Lockout Point. where they got a grand
view, which every lover of mountain seem
cry would cherish forever. Another day
they attended picnic and danced: even the
most sedate among them-Dr. W. B. Atkin-
son, for instance-whirled in the waltz No
doubt their prescriptions were given with
clearer, brighter brains after their gambols
in the mountains. Cresson is a charming
resort. The hotel is new. is owned by the
Keystone Hotel Company and cost S30G, 900.
It is very ornate III architecture. elegantly
furnished and accommodates 800 persons.
The grounds are spacious and beautifully
adorned: there are three good springs iron.
alum and nagnesia. The doctors pro
nounce the waters excellent and say that
the place, on account Of its cool, pure. dry
atmosphere, is particularly adapted to chill
dren and to persons with weak or diseased
lungs. The company speaks of buying the
lot containing the big trees and converting
ii into park. If they do that and keep a
good livery stable, Cresson will have few
equals as a mountain resort.
! The teiegraphers' strike has come at last
and between five and Siy thoucaoS bave.