The herald., 1897-04-18

again disembarked. 1t had not been
the intention to have any formal ex-
ercises, the idea simply being to give
the people an opportunity of seeing for
themselves how the money subscribed
had been spent. and the results OBJ
tanned. but the surroundings and asso-
Citations appeared to be such that some
thing had to be said and President H.
w. Frank of the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association climbed into a
buggy on the highest point Of the peak
and called the assemblage, which num-
bered between 200 and 800 people, to
order. Mr.. Frank briefly reviewed the
history of the movement for furnishing
work for the unemployed, and the man
ner in which 1t had been worked out. He
explained how the committee had finally
settled upon Elysian park as the proper
place for the expenditure of the fund
raised and called upon those present
to witness whether or not the money
had been expended in a businesslike
manner. 1t was the desire of those
having the matter in charge to turn
over the work to the city in a finished
condition, and to do this would require
a little more money. He hoped that the
public would appreciate this and re-
spond when called upon.
Mr.. Frank then introduced Mayor
Snyder. who briefly but eloquently re-
ferred to the grand panorama spread out
before them and paid high tribute TO
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
sociation, through whose efforts this
grand work had been accomplished. He
hoped that this noble work, which had
been begun under such auspicious cir
cumstances, would not stop here, but
that this grand boulevard would be con-
tinued on through and connect with
Griffith park thereby joining two Of the
grandest parks on the continent, which
were destined In the future to become
famous throughout the civilized world.
Col H. G.. Otis was the next speaker
He said that he did not expect to make
speech--in fact, this was time and
place when speech was practically i'm
possible, for no man could adequately
describe the grandeur Of the scene
spread out before him. He was away
from home when this movement was
commenced, but It met with his hearty
approval, and when he came home and
visited the park few days ago, he could
udIQly Ecdll1c tHdt q great WOTk WdS Ill
most accomplished, which had sprung up
as IL by magic. Another creditable feat
ure of this work was that the money
had been raised by the people to uphold
labor. The speaker doubted If there was
a grander view anywhere In the country
90 near a city as that afforded by this
grand work. and he did not doubt but
what Chicago, whose beautiful parks
had cost millions Of dollars, would glad
ly exchange them all for this, II 1t could
be set down in that city. The work al
ready accomplished was a grand thing
not only for the present. but for the fu-
ture. The work begun was we'll begun.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars had al
ready been raised. and now that they
had seen what had been accomplished,
every one present should be an effective
missionary among HE neighbors to in
crease the funds. so that the work could
be completed. Al for himself, he was
well pleased and will continue his efforts
In the future, as he has in the past. to
increase the fund
Judge Silent was next introduced by
Mr.. Frank. who paid high tribute to
the gentleman, saying that Tor six weeks
he had given up his time almost exclus-
lively to this work to the neglect Of his
own business. Judge Silent said that he
had become interested IN this work