The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-25
WALKS Nv BRONX PARK.
Its Beauty Now Is Different from In Sum-
mer. but Just as Charming.

Bronx Park, which New Workers are just be-
ginning to appreciate, is almost rs charming
now as in summer. and is. by all odds. the best
of the city's pleasure grounds for pedestrians
whenever the weather admits of country walks.
The park can be reached in half a dozen differ
ent ways. and each gives to the visitor IA new
view of its charms. There is, perhaps, no better
route than by way Of the Bedford Park station
OF the Harlem Railroad. The station stands on
the edge OF the park. and the visitor on a frosty
November morning finds himself landed in the
midst of an unspoiled meadow stretching many
hundred yards north and south and a third OF "a
mile eastward to the Bronx.
The atmosphere has the champagne frappe ef-
feet OF a frosty morning In Fifth avenue plus
many mingled country and city sounds, the soft
ened call OF distant crows, the sough OF winds
through the neighboring hemlock grove. the
song Of homing nails and crying timber
where philistine hammer and saw are creating
a Queen Anne cottage to sully the suburban
landscape. the Growing OF cocks, the barking Of
dogs, and the calls Of children at play. The
whole care free meadow invites the feet wearied
with the pavements of the town. Southwark
rise the cupolas OF st. Johns College. There
Is a two-mile park ramble that way and beyond,
fully half uf IL close along the stream on the
Westclester side, through n meadow studded
with noble trees. SOrthward lie the libe rites OF
the Bronx meadows, and eastward is the mem.
lock wood. the loveliest bit OF wild nature that
the city owns. The stranger who has faith can
not go sstray in Bronx Park, because whichever
landscape and an easy way back 10 the city.
The hemlOck wood and the gorge II OVerhangs
summer, but they have a kind Of beauty now
that the summer denies them. The walk north
eastward through the meadow from Bedford
Park brings one To a road that crosses IA bridge To
the eastern bank Of the Bronx above the hem-
locks. Thence a path leads southwark along he
eastern bank OF the stream to the gorge. The
hemlOCk wood oNerhangIng the stream Is in
sight from the bridge. aud In the morning
trees are glorihed by the sunlight beat
ing upon their sides. The broad and almost
here and there with the sunlight that
is shOwered upon the trees, and at the end ot
the vista there Is sllll periel9ai INN golden
trees are naked. however, and the hemluck
grove gains from The TACT, for not only Is the
russell, but the absence Of other foliage than
that of the hemlocks themselves makes possible
some effects OF light and shadow never seen in
summer. As one looks across the stream from
the eastern bank the russell carpeted gloom ~
the heinloek grove Is lit mere am There nt{
the treetops, where the falling leaves have
left spots open 10 the sky. The, effect Il
as OF Druid hres or mysterious forgCs all
AglOw. standing within the grove itself,
the visitor secs the smooth brown caTpat
with sunlight as far as the eye can see, while
the gray rocks rise bejewelled with. moss
and shining particles ~ mica. Eastw ard from
the gorge. slorihed with green and gold. comes
the thunder of the full stream falling over the
dam in CLASSY sheets, SCATTERING itself into foam
and dashing away down the rapids.
Eastward Of the stream lies another great
meadow that melts into private but unenclosed
property on the north and northeast. One has
the choice Of going north OF a walk low down
and close along the stream, or high up and 100
yards to the east. From the heights to tho
northeast. Just beyond the park limits, one
sees the Bronx falling here and there into
miFrors, and the low valley, brown with
newly trosk-ktlled vegetation, and golden with
the wRnd-nke shoots OF the bare willows. south
ward the meadow stretches % the grounds OF
the gaunt gray LOTillArd mouse, and the walk
thence Is by "A winding lane 70 the queer little
village OF Bronxdale. with its venerable iEn and
the pleasant possibility OF old ale and sand.
witches OF whlte homemade bread. southwark
again the wAndeTeF has the choice Of the trolley,
another mile tramp through the PARK or Pelham
avenue to the Harlem station at kGSSA@a2