The herald., 1896-07-09
PUBLIC PARKS PITFALLS
And the Young People
Who Fall In
HUTCHINSON KICKS THE KEEPERS
County Supervisors as School,
masters Politicians
PARTISANSHIP IN SCHOOLS
Congested Condition OF the Stree. Cas-
cu the Pasadena Line
Some Of the Decorations Tint Did Duty on
PARTISANSHIP in SCHOOLS
Congested Condition OF the Stree! Ca S
cu the Pasadena Line
Some of the Decorations Tint Did Duty on
the Fourth
A schooInnsstsrs' Danqu.t AMI the Ice Water
That Did Its Deadly Work Among the
Tcnchers OF Hygiene in the pnb-
lie cSchcols-Ob5erv1sions

If some of the chronic hoWlers for more
parks and Wild woods and shady hooks
for private parties at public expense
would investigate the condition and ef-
feet of some of the parks we are now bur-
dcned with the park craze would be les
sened very materially, and the investi-
gators might receive lesson on the ap-
palling laxity of the public morals of
many of the parks most frequent fire.
ouenters. A careful investigation has
led me to believe that the gaps in the
yawning chasms that lead young people
to ruin are wider in some OF our parks
Westlake park in particular-than in
any other quarter of this city
Many comparatively innocent boys
md girls get permission to go out to
the parks to spend a quiet Sunday or
holiday, and vast crowds of them soon
fall victims to the Wiles of the keenest,
cunningest, wickedest devils that ever
cursed the human race by claiming kim
ship with humanity and masking their
vicious bodies in gala day attire.
Many of the people who rail at Ala
media street and it's dens do not know
that more innocent people are injured
III w WcSlldhG PAL n III OiiC othNeAy eiAS~AA go v
injured on Alameda street in a whole
year, or in ten years.
In fact, Alameda street is but re-
ceiving hospital for those who are in
jured in the destructively insidious
campaigns of other sections.
The average man and woman permit
their boys and girls to grow up in al
most absolute ignorauce of the laws or
life they permit them to live, as 1t were.
on the edge of an awful precipice and
in ignorance of the fact that it is there.
Then the fatal, active moving spirit
ranges abroad and tumbles over the
precipice as easily and as surely anu
naturally as the deciduous leaves fall in
autumn. Ignorance is the weakest pro-
tective armor that was ever warranted
to protect innocent youths and maidens;
and heterogeneous mass of good peo-
pie and bad people and Indifferent peo-
pie leaVened with strong infusion OF
very physical demons is the worst pos
sible combination in which to test ignO-
rance and go to school to experience
Discreet fathers and mothers are still
the greatest boon ever conferred upon
youths and maidenS.
I have said all this because I hava
lately seen such scenes in our public
parks as would give the lie to decency,
of the Police Gazette, cause a wall of
horror to issue from the lips of the
Genius of Civilization, and freeze the
very hearts blood Of many fathers and
mothers whose peaceful country homes
are yearning for absent ones who are
away to the city to learn-and who are
learning what is taught in public in the
quiet Sabbath afternoons of the pleas
ant summertime in nearly all the parks
of our great cities.
The alleged drinking fountains with
the penny-in-t -the-slot arrangement now
gathering in the copper coins of way
farers, seem to be replenished every
week or two, so that those who gamble
for such drink as is advertised there can
reasonably hope to win drink every
few days, and at the expenditure of a
few dozen pennies only
The incoming street cars on the Pas
adena line are usually crowded from 8
to 10 a. m, and the outward bound cars
are jammed and packed from to d.
m. The street car company would con-
fer great favor upon many good people.
and would gather in many good dimes
that are now squandered upon the rail-
roads if 1t would manage to run a few
more cars in the right direction between
the hours named.
1t is probable that County Supervis-
ors Hay and Field and Woodward
thought that they played a smart polit-
ical trick a few days ago when they
went about searching for two Republi-
cans to put upon the county board of
education as politicians" in place of
Major Meredith and Professor Millard,
who never dragged DOlitics into tho