The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-06-20
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Broadway In Bad Shape-The Boastad
Central Park-The Great Swindlsr-
A New Telephone, ETC., Etc.
New YoRK. lima 18th 1ek

NEW YORK, June 10th, 1876.
Editors Union Probably the most execnted
man in this city to- day is Jacob Sharp, the builder
of the new line of street cars on Broadway. That
street presents the appearance of country rad
One day it is mud heap and the next the dus is
intolerable. Besides the injury to goods by dust
the loss from the blocking up of the street is col,
siderable. The dropping off in the traffic is est-
mated at thousands of dollars. 20
Quite discussion is going on in the park COM
mission over the character of the music played at
the Sunday afternoon concerts at Central Park
also in regard to selling beer and wines at the
Casino on that day. Whatever may be the re-
suit of this discussion Baltimoreans have the sat-
isfaction of knowing that our own Druid Hill is
far superior to Central Park-at least so far as
natural beauty is concerned. The very entrance
is disappointing. There is simply an unorna-
mented drive leading in from the street; not even
q stone pillar or urn to relieve the baroness
Along the main boulevard are bronze figures of
poets, statesmen, etc. These the vilest pieces
of workmanship the eye of mortal man was ever
called upon to gaze at. The first is Sir Walter
Scott That great poet and novelist looks as
though he had tasted of some of the first importa-
ton of the gay and festive cucumber, and felt
worried over the consequences. His vis-a-vis,
Robert Burns, seems to have something wrong
with his internal organism also. The water in
the lakes is so shallow that grass and weeds grow
above the surface. This is very productive Of ma
laria in the vicinity. It is almost as bad as
Jersey marsh The grounds are only fairly kept
and there seems to be great deficiency in the
planning of the walks. Sometimes to get to
walk within ten feet of you leading to point of
interest, you are compelled to walk half mile to
reach another walk leading into it. You dare not
cross the grass. There too many white
gloved policemen who always arrest q non-ob-
servance of the "keep off the grass" and one does
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so slight privilege. The geological garden is
the finest feature Of the park. They have very
good collection. Everything is artificial and so
poorly executed that it impresses you with the
idea that it was "made." In some places.
are piled up on the lawn and in such an inarl tic
manner that it reminds you of wrecked Budden
sick tenement house. Although thousands of dol
lars have been appropriated by the city for its
improvement it is generally conceded that the
funds were in turn appropriated" by the politi-
clans. In Druid Hill the effect is quite different.
There we can realize that
"To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language"
Nothing of this impression is created in New
York's boosted Central Park
So far four trivial indictments have been found
against Ferdinand Ward. Nothing has been yet
proven of a very grave character. As he stole
millions it took year to get him in jail so it is
only question of arithmetic to find how long it
will take to land him in the pententiary and array
him la zebra.
Catholic priest at St. Elizabeth Convent, near
Madison, N j., is experimenting with telephone,
which, besides transmitting the voice, will show
the speakers face in mirror at the other end of
the wire. He claims to have met with sonsidera-
BILE success. This convent was the one made ia
nous some few years ago by the attack of Miss
Edith O'Gorman, the escaped nun. Miss O'Gor-
man made very serious charges against the char
acter of the place, and was once mobbed at Mad-
son on attempting to lecture. She saved from
guard and beat back the mob. PLANETEs.