The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-22
NAY AUG PARK VIEWS
Some Are Beautiful in the Extreme, and
Others Are Not.
that IMPASSABLE APPROACH
The New Boulevard Is Magnificent
Addition to the City's Attractions,
but You Will Not Be Able to Enjoy
Its Beauties Until Mulberry Street
Is Put Into Navigable Shape-Build-
ing Lots in Great Demand, but
Grade Diggers Scarce.

A trip to Nay Aug park is interesting
just now 1t is especially interesting
if you try to make it in carriage,
driving over the contemplated ap-
proach to the Nay Aug and Elm
hurst boulevard. To save its readers
disappointment in this matter, The
TRIBUNE ought to say right here, in
the words of Punch to the couple about
to marry, "Don'tl" You can drive out
that way if your horse is thorough
bred, your vehicle made of cast steel or
aluminium, and your life insured; but
1t would be easier to square circle or
vote the Democratic ticket.
Supposing, however, that you are of
an adventurous turn of mind, and wish
to experiment on wheels, your trouble
will begin soon after you leave Clay
avenue, on Mulberry street. Mulberry
street this side Clay avenue would not
win prize for perfect roadbed, but it
is at least navigable Beyond Clay
however, and before you get to Web
ster, it rapidly deteriorates. and in
moist weather the mud that was only
skin deep before you reached Clay. be
comes by easy gradations first tire deep,
then felloe deep and finally hub deep
in several places.
TRAVELLING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
BY the time you reach Taylor ave-
nue. and look down into the expanse of
mud, unused street car tracks aud sid
ings. and dirt heaps just beyond, you
will begin in earnest to feel dis
eouraged. If wise, you will hitch
your horse to Traction company pole
and make the rest OF the journey pc
destrian-wiss. Irving avenue enda
about all the semblance of a road that
there is, and from that place forward,
past Prescott, Harrison, Wheeler ANA
Colfax avenues clear out to Arthur
avenue, that beautiful fiction of the
geographers which marks the western
boundary of Nay Aug park. it is trial
of muscle, nerves and patience.
Here and there, at odd intervals, the
hand OF man has jabbed into the sur
face of the earth in faint and futter-
ing attempt to make beginning at the
promised grading; but the scene OF
operations was utterly deserted yester-
day, when a TRIBUNE tourist traversed
the lonely trail and il the street is to
be put into any suggestion Of usefulness
before the snow flies, it will requir,
some first class, old style. Electric City
hustling.
A DELIGHTFUL DRIVEWAY.
The boulevard company has laid out
and graded a beautiful driveway from
Arthur avenue onward to the new
bridge. which, by the bye, is rapidly
nearing completion. Some charming
curves take one from the supposed ap-
proach around through the most pic
turesque portions Of the newly. y.aCquiret
park to the bridge. which will span the
ravine almost directly above the
celebrated falls Upon the opposit'
side the boulevard stretches away t.
Elmhurst. penetrating as enhancing
panorama of scenic grandeur an
charm as is to be found anywhere i;
this part of the state. The reflection
that all this wealth OF delightful per
spective and invigorating mountain ali
will be shut off from the citizens
Scranton unless the Mulberry stree
approach shall receive the attentio
solemnly promised to it is the on
gloomy thing connected with rbi
grand enterprise.
Lots in the direction of Arthu
avenue are being snapped up with re-
markable avidity. Out of nearly 200
lots recently laid out by the Lack
wanna Iron and Coal company scarcel
forty remain. They are bringing nea
prices, too; and the Traction offici4
who fears that it would not pay
keep faith in this matter of promist.
grading should inquire carefully I'M
the genuineness of the lively buildin
boon that is likely to spring into ex
istence along Mulberry street as soon
as home builders can get out to thei'
home sites without endangering theNi
lives
GRADING AT A STAND STILL.
No one seems to know to a certainty
Just why this work of grading is NJ
begun and kept up. Street Commis
siouer Kirst says be is ready to do hi
share Of the contract; but still he T..
mains passive. The Lackawanna Ire
and Steel company is equally willin
to pitch in; but its force of graders il
at work in another part of the y.
The Scranton Traction company two or
three times promised to help alor g,
also; bnt as no time was specified it b
to all appearances forgotten the obi
cation. The TRIBUNE. in attempt 6
to jog its memory, ventures to belle
that General Manager Beetem, W
has shown no disposition to be unfair
toward the public, will not permit h
good record to be marred in this lat
instance.