The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-23

tiful park only last summer at the
east. What has Been done can be
again.
What could we boys do about it
An army of well trained boys, what
can withstand them You can do
everything; but you would need a
triple wand Of love, labor and staying
powers, For when you get the park in
all it's beauty, then it has to be kept,
| you know; like good horse, the first
cost isn't all. -a3
/ Well how shall we go about zitg
| Wouldn't, you like to form a brigade
and call it the Kenosha Park Brigade
Choose for a leader one who has tact
and courage, and swithal is a leader.
born. The first monster you'll encoun-
ter will be the incubus Indifference,
blocking your. way, but be not dis
mayed, let the warm light of enthusi-
asm fall Oh it and it will melt away as
winter SHOWS before spring sunshine.
And really it seems to me the great
need, money, is not going to be so hard
to come by. How many boys from
eight to eighty do YOU suppose there
are in this town?. If you should each
earn or give "a dollar, how long before
you could raise two thousand dollars q
You catch your breath at the amount !!
You would perhaps not need as much,
even the, first year; and after that you
might drop out the boys over eighteen
Some years later a stranger visits
Kenosha, and is full Of admiration for
the place. : No litter of papers on Main
street, nothing unsightly anywhere.
And she couldn't say enough in praise
of our park. How did it all come
about As beautiful as the grounds of
any Queen. And what amazed her
most of all, was that it was open to
everyone, and never a flower plucked
except by the gardener, and that for
the sick u -%
Now in my town, she said, and it
isn't worse than other places, we have
a very pretty natural park. But the
boys have taken possess ion-they think
it was made for them, not to beautify,
no indeed! They have no eye for beau
ty, no love for the park, except as a
place where they can play ball. And
what care. they, that nobody's life is
safe from their balls, and that they are
driving everybody off: They are haV-
ing their manly sport; and anything
that stands in the way of that is trodden
down. Are they growing up to be pub
lie spirited men think you? What kind
of a village improvement society could
you form out Of such material L should
like TO know? - +.-el ..4s.rr ~ 81
And proudly her hostess replied, just
such one as we have. After our boys
were induced to form the K. P. B., they
found a good vacant lot for their game,
which they paid but. "a small rent fol-,
and they think now, it is better in some
respects for that purpose, than the
park. And as for the park, it is the
pride and Joy Of their hearts. We-can't
work for anything as they have for that
and not learn to love it. And what they
have done, has been of more real good
to- the boys themselves than it has to
the park. They have learned there is
more real joy in Identifying, than lin
demolishing4 Their. observation 9 is
awakened, andfthe }glories5ofcnature are
like a. revelation t6tEe1n y.[Fhe3littep of
papers on Main 4sstEeet which 1before
they helped 1ton1alze9 Gwas' then MOTTO
be- tolerated. q, And sof the whole face of
the. town is, impgoEinge It seems in the
natnre OF things that before long, they'll
find the saloon intolerable and when
they do that mpstggo, aud with ita pna !
void misery IN many an and many :tone !
5nl the. community: 4 ~ .r!:34 s8Eg:T
Il Ina every way theyG(are growing into
Better, citizens. than they Weuld have
do &c, but for that brigade. Long live
the Kenosha Park Brigade. So say we
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