The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-02
SNOW TOUCHES IN THE PARK.
A Bit or winter Necromsney Among the
Trees and the Emgies.

Trees anu tue fmGtes.
At special seasons and under peculiar condi-
tons nature rcasserts her sway over Central
Park. and in spite OF asphalt walks. graded
drives. and formal plantations. this green
heart OF New York takes on the wldness OF
anv other woody spot. When the city awoke
to northeast snow storm tho other day few
oven OF tho habitues OF the Park made their
accustomed visit that morning. an omission
which robbed them Of a sight as we'll worth
seeing as any this variable city has to show.
Tho Park alway@ turns wild after nightfall.
and when the snow storm came in the gray OF
wintry dawn 1t found the great garden ready
to receive afresh the print Of natures hand.
At half past 10 O'Clock the meal bags Of the
sky were all let loose. and the whitened Park
lay broad and patient beneath the downy pelt-
ing Of ten billion flakes.
No pedestrians were abroad savo the police
and other Park employees. and hero and there
n citizen whose business took him through
the Park. Here and there Doctors carriage
rolled almost in silence along the muflled
drive. and at long intervals a jealousy closed
coach bore along some invalid who carried on
his brief outing the unwholesome atm osphere
Of the sick room. although all about his We
hicle WINS tho pure uir OF the Park. freshened
BY m Inc OF d hs
tree were charmed to rigid marble. Eash
paths ran white beneath u marvellous tracery
of branched and carved ivory. Seldom any
squirrel. whose haGituai nervous qniyer
seemed for once 18th reason. Tho deer at the
mopageTe Looked out upon tn. loyel snow sn3w
white and traversed only by narrow trail.
Tho p0lar bear was more homesick than eyer;
and all the beasts from northern climes hailed
in Imagination an approaching deliverance
from captivity.
unspeak a6iy white network Of trunk, branch.
and twig. each thckencd lar beyond its usual
s1 When the color Is dIn Il Ttsd
sight would have driven French cake baker
mao m Win banned envy Tor his ART was ou1aohe
Them The Nal III had II double beauty Viewed from
inGly done in time.stained granite, Viewed
from the north it was Gothic cathedral done
IN %ar1 ana he .s srshea
crystals. and the spaces between were misty
tress and arch had exhaled something of their
marble yhiteness into the or the
the waste from freshly carven stone. The eur
almost caught dying echoes OF the flnal stroke;
were oddly hal; transiormed from bronze to
marble. Shakespeare stood with his left leg
marble. his right leg bronze and the fringe OF
hafi ms s Even s a one side Of his nsy c%issled
nose had been broadsned and nattened to
African proportions. though in white instead
Of black. Good Sir Walter Scott was more
than over shameless mass. and his dog was
trans formed from slender staghound to 2
rounded cur. Burns bronze pen had turned,
appropriately enough. to Il white feather in
his hand. and the caricnt ure of rapture on his
nnturned face was made more absurd than
evor by spots and lines OF white. which sug-
gsstcd the. chalk marks Of a clown. Snug
Haiieck in his easy chair. with the manner OF
the professional Toet. WIS more than eve- at
war with his open air surroundings. and the
turned 6y,its coating o: snow into high
The lnke. bnre. sullen. and gray was the sole
break In the white landscape. Up mt the win
ter quarter pond tho swans. standing ashore
with bills thrust beneath their wings. looked
pet beneath their feet. Great bronze Daniel
Webster wore white mnntel over his respect
able broadcloth coat. and equestrian Bolivar
was transformed by the snow into such Carl
catu:e as the worst Of Spanish tvrants could
hardly have made OF the patriot. The fal-
and the Falcouers own bronze small clothes
wore hidden in workable modern trousers.
Tho snow played all these pranks with the
Parks outdoor works OF art apparently in
for certainly tho true handiwork Of tho latter
was made more beautiful rather than ridicu-
lous by its white coating. The tropical lQokn:
yuccas. still boldly In bloom. had their white
bells cloggod with the white arctic visitation:
out hore and there, beneath the white branch
work. The Ramblo WAS Transformed into q
trackleas woodland al its may paths oblter-
ated. The great woodland itself stood in mar
BILE silence beneath the binding downponr
and swellcd each twig into branch. each
branch into q stout limb