St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-04


stances that is embarrassing, but these
pretty little parks in the middle of the
avenues are all right. The whole thing
was planned by landscape artist. We
went to some expense there, and these
trees even were suggested by him
their very arrangement"
IL have not seen any trees" insisted
the major.
Capt. O'Dit continued: 1.-The avenue
is grand; it is fine; it is very pretty.
We have
A Boulevard Associations
and the first thing we did was to employ
landscape"
Now, Capt. O'Dit. do you mean to
tell me that this plan has been matured
and carried out under the direction of
your boulevard association, and that
they employed landscape artist who
designed this arrangements
Eyes, sir, that Is just what ] do mean.
and we are proud of it. Why, in time,
john Weldone, we will have an avenue
that the people in no European city ever
dreaInt Of" Yes, sir, ST. Paul may
we'll be proud of her avenue. You see
from WabaSha street to Oakland ave
nue. there wasn't much to be done.
Crooked and rather narrow, it had to
wind along the edge of the bluff, but
out here we took hold of it, and we en-
ployed landscape artist, and see what
we have got. See where we are at. to
use little slaug-a neat, straight
away, without culver or turn, 200
feet wide. three miles long, and just
look at those little parks, right in tne
middle, about twenty of them. | tell
you what 1t is, you have got to put
brains, brains! in your park system.
Now there was great idea. You see.
we came to the conclusion that we
knew, and we just employed a land
Scape artist, and he did it up for US.
Some cr0akers, you know; but then.
one has to have brain to Why. see
what 1t will be in the future. Look at
those cataiDa trees"
ii don't see any trees" growlcd the
major.
Look at those catalpas; blossom like
a h0neysuckle-a bit wOrmy, but we
can remedy that. The trees never
grow to be tail, you know-a Southern
tree, acclimated here; wood will last
for ever, We can easily reach the TOD
with spraying apparatuS-kiii the
bugs, you know; wouldn't cost much,
NOT more than a couple of thou for the
summer, and perhaps the sparrows
would eat them"
what II Wight Be.
place called Indian Mound park and
followed the winding as nearly as prac-
tlcable of what might be called the
third plateau of your beautiful city as
far as 10 point opposite Fort Smelling,
thence along the bank of the MississippI
to Shadow falls, and thence along this
2G0-toot roadway, not in straight line
to point at which it would cut
itself; then, if along the sides of this
avenue you should have paths, fount-
aims, gr0ttOes, flowers. rustic benches,
summer houses, grass and trees, not
bushes which will one day be trees,
when your children and mine will have
reached three score and ten, trees that
are already trees. All kinds of trees
real grown trees-then you will
nave thing of beauty, a
pathway that future generations
Will revel in and bless your memory. a
road whose fame no other road in the
world can equal; an avenue tnat shall
be SO famous that it viii decide the
course OF tourists from distant lands:
a street winding with graceful curve
through one of the richest and most
beautiful cities in The world; roadway
that snail be part of the recollection or
every child born i'll the town, 10 live in
his thoughts when abroad, to turn his
steps hlther Wherever he may wonder:
and ii peFchance the New Zealauder of
the future should look upon the ruin of
this Once-hOurShing IN etropolIS, he will
eXclaIm in admiration that the people
OF that city, even in that utilitarian aye,
did pause long enough 10 listen u the
sermon of the stones.
Now this, Ditty. my old friend is
what ] conceive To be the duty Of your
people as to this avenue. and until they
have done that duty they must remain
III the mire OF their own SHORTCOMINGS.
and be not acquitted of any the crimes
which L Cast against them by fnplica-
ton sOne time back"
Capt. ODit was Speechess. He Law
back IN the carriage and gdZed at his
friend, and gasped: But the expense,
Old leliuw."
"a mare nothing, O'Dit, mere moth
lng. Not to do this ought to work an
extra hundred thousand years of pun
iSnment for every one OF you in the
hereafter, ana to do it will undeniabiy
give YOU all extra claim to mercy and
ultimate salvation"
But, John, old boy. YOU know our
agreement; a dinner for seven. YOU
know. You haven't said ANYTHING
about vandalism - nothing at all-Or
about those uIce little parks in the md
die OF the road. We are proud of
them"
Maj. John Weldone faced his friend.
lie fastened his tiue gray eye upon the
llmpId blue OculuS of his friend. John
Welcomes eye was at1ame. He placed
his hand Oh his friends shoulder and
said:
Capt. O'Dit, Will not speak of van
dallSm; those who aIe responsible for
those parallelOgrams III the middle of
the ayenu- ought to be electrOcuted.
hanged, burned and shot out of a gun. y
1t was seldom that Capt. G'Dit was
awed by the contemplation of anything
which the future might have in store
for him. but ne shrunk away from his
friend and called to his driver, almost
in treble, "Puggs. drive to the CLUB -