Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-11-14
GARDEN.
The Proposed summer Garden IN the
BATTERY.

CASTLE GARDEN.
b Proposed Summer Garden on the
battery.
The elevated railroads in New York
not only make the upper part of the
city easily accessible from the lower,
but they AS easily bring uptown down
town. This is SO pleasantly and con-
veniently done by the new aerial pas
sage that the Times suggests that the
old pleasure resort at the Battery NAV
be again turned 10 good account. and
it not the prime OF State street.-the
GLORY of Smithtield"-yet that the
musical attractions Of the 3 ,ltery for
the uptown resident may be restored.
The Barge Office. as a depository of
all personal baggage arriving from
Europe, is to be discontinued, and a
huge hall will be available for some
popular purpose; and why not, saws
the shrewd journal, for great popular
concerts? Why not a marine summer
garden? And the elderly New-York-
ers who recall Jullien's concerts at
6astle Garden and the summer night
opera at Castle Garden will echo,
"Why note"
The saunterer along the broad and
orderly walks of the Battery to-day
has but to pause and lean upon the
railing above the water, enjoying the
pretty spectacle and breathing the
ocean air, and to ask himself, as he
considers Castle Garden, what could
be p%leasanter, on an August evening
when the moon is full, than TO sit upon
Its outer wall and to watch The lovely
scenery in the GOODNESS. and listen to
the well-moduiated orchestra within2
Central Park is charming, and to sit
under the trees and listen to the band
Is delight Il. Tho Casino is y
ummcr resort. and in the city squares
the occasional music is most welcome.
But ii r 'meo and Juliet emerging into
tie evening air anywhere aDou. Twcn-
tieth street, snouiu weigh the various
solicitations for II pleasant evening at
q reasonable price and at an easy ac-
crssiole spot, would they not find the
concert in the refreshing air of the bay
more alluring than any rival?
ley would be wise if, deciding for
the Battery, they should avoid the old
prosers who remember those Julien
concerts, and that opera, ami the
great concerts Of Jenny Lind. That
old building haunts the memory OF the
proscr AS tue attic OF Bcrauser filled
all the poets rcarward musiny with
pathetic music. Ii the young people
are not very wary, the proser Will be.
gin TO tell them the story of that & vcuing
when between the parts of the eoncerl
in which tor the first time JuiIicn play
ed the ''katydid Waitz.' he was taken
across the Battery to SJa'e street. and
into the house that WAS the 'atest oc-
cupied of all that fine row facing the
bay. each with Il lofty triangular bal
cony, and there for q moment tasted
the festive hospitality of q day whic,,
vas already past in that old-fashioned
street, but which was never kinder OF
heartier than in its latest surviving
drawing-room. Of the thousands ma.
tive and foreign-born who daily pas:
along the broad curving Battery walk
upon old State street, how many know
that it was the selectest street of resi-
dence in the New York of sixty anG
seventy years ago?
How many of them, also, remember
that in Castle Garden Jenny Lind sans
for the last time in America? In bott
concerts she sang "Casta Diva" Who
sings ''Casta Diva at a concert now!
Bayard Taylor wrote the last song, the
Farewell to Am~erica;" Otto Gold
smith, who was to he her husband
composed the music. When she cam,
on to sing it, Jenny Lind carried a DO.
quet of white roses, with q Mates.
ros of red r0sebuds in the center
Take care, Monsieur Romeo, and you
Mademoiselle Juliet, or the incorri
gible proser will be protesting that III
lent those precious flowers; and shoult
he say it, who could au%thoritatively
gainsay it2 Who, indeed, but som,
other old proser, whose memory haI
fallen into decrepitude. and who mum
bles and maunders about Malibran.
1t was q smaller New York to which
Jenny Lind sang, and S%tetfanone ant
Bosio and Truh and Bencdetti The,
all warbled in yonder garden, wher
other birds sing now. Thomas ha
not come then, nor waved the enchanl
ed baton which has opened to us a ne,
realm of music. But Julien playe
pretty waltzes and tuncful overture.
and pattcd and pulled and painted a
he directed, and then sank into hi
chair with q droll air of exhaustion a
the end.
Yes, twas a garnet, be It known to ALL"
AZ Father Prout makes Beranger sins
1t was the day of smaller things. b.
how pleasant they were! 1t was F..
smaller New York. But ask the oil
proser. If you cannot escape him. VII
was young then. whether it was nc
quite as good a New York as The roal
ing Babel of to-day.
Besides the ocean air and the moo
upon the water. Romeo and Juliet ca
readily see that the summer-evcnin
concerts at tho Battery would have
little setting of tradition, Il backgroun
of the music of other days. Aud .
they enr'cn their enjoyment of to-aa
with that pensive echo of yesterday
possibly Juliet will admonish r ,me
to beware lest when his day has b.
come yesterday, and he talks of tn
music he remembers, he too. like tn
old gentleman whom the Easy Cla
warns them TO avoid, should become
proscr. - George Wtlliam CURTIS, i
A~..ss Ain tDx:1o