New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-31
Mr.. HEWITT on SMALL ram" D.
SOME OF THE THINGS WHICH HE MOTEL
-. p,pre AND LONDON LAST SUMMER.

SoNT, OF THE TH1NGS "iflOh III
N PARIS AND LONDON LAST SUMMrh'
,r,o ,d.,sorv Committee on Small Parks. APP
,o!nted by Mayor Strong last June, mas .,
,,s renort and II Will be presented 10 'uno 49,
a.rlv this week. probably tomorrow ne ~
,,i.,ca consists Of Abram S. Hewitt chdiil'H'
f,coh A. Rlis. secretary; william i'"'l'' 90,
stewart president Of the State BOARD % ia"
tics. James j. Hgginson. ex-Judse NiSer D
n : II Rrvant the Rev. John b. DeVhs' ile''-
don, Wilson Of the Board OF Health. ana iie''uViI'
,f1rillon NJ the Park Department. II Is "i'.''
600, thar the report will embody q largo number
~ recommendations az to the establishments .. "
small parks in various parts or the Guy VIZ m, ~"
,ic. regarding those which should De es."""7
nrst and also suggestions on tho subject OF es.A,a
&C.,. i,houch II IL believed that not much legisia-
,,oo will no needed In the report VIII also DE- III
cornorated some OF the results of eX-Masor he"
us observations on parks IN EuroP"a" w"
which he gave special attention while ABROAD "''
summer ao {, gurlnr
CIV men @ s Fiji, Mr. Hewitt consented to say some
thing about what he ga" N fa iisI ak" he re-
IN ay's ,,6 ou earnestness. THE children were not
taken lmto The reason for It in New York
f,u,Vt ." vas that there open helis Almost
everywhere not NAM vI open fields between tho
civ Hall and Blocker stand so 'ie1 ~ citT has
I 81 rG0 20 fast thai proper provision for parks SGa
piaygrounds was not made pu I az ~ them
navy utt X,i Of course children are seen on ne
.o,s IN large numbers but IL is NOT SO IN sc 81
t,lSy oo ~ The two elites which vls'led 1"iS
Car In he east part Of London; wnere J lge
: dense seething mass oi huIali' ort h,,t they
r,~ced INTO the streets 10 some extent put a.,
49, , ~ saar on tho streets in the GreateT nH' %
,be rity for the reason that p!aySrou''uo "'O i'O
,.ifad Cor them in abundance. Itch tho
I'm paris | was particularly inpresseu w" r9cu ~
r,1oin Flowed TO the Chdren. III the Haltt. - -
he Tmileries for instance, II wac SURPRISING r, 10
. he children digging holes IN inc EitNt. "a
,ri,bnii+ moestaton, and was so nue. i.svI
MAJ I injured of one OF the glafds II 's .Sa go
,, I'd as Il regular thing. He assured me tnae
!. vas and said that after the Chiloren 80 80,
bo VIZ" boles we're filled up every day. There we're
InnSttuGes Of children IN this park and also IN Inc
OpeH H. sp1 Ar 4. Triomphc The children Of PARIS
20 tno s33toved these and the other parks tha'
Hound in the city. from tho time or LOUIS ~ Ia
Tecnlr There are rough children or hqoniu4ds
tbere The situation Is much the salhe III '-o'i'''
where also made special obserytloils' .,,,o nv,
Ion this side are Jus. beglnh'iE ~ n"" e.
to the necessity OF parks ana playeroquniHHs bsv
,ear for the first time we have succt eleO ~ naN
mo the barriers thrown down and chdren aii0 9i
90 90 freely on some OF the lawns III Cchttai -, ~
'hre has been some injury 10 the grass pu' WIN ~
% that compared with the good accOmpilsn'n, ~
The marks on the other side u - 70 .,l !,
niav with and something of the kind has been gone
here IN New-York this year over on Ihe " 80 Sa
There Is misappreh ension in the peoule 'H.at7
Harding this matter: X IL not necessary 70 uuhp
thousand OF sand In any Dlace ior hnV us
~ chidren but little heap is sufficient. Inc soot
efrccts OF csa blishns parks are 70 DC see IN
has followed the opening or Muoerry i>enu a. ,,
and CorIears Hook Park. for the ponce Itpl .nI'
eli ,ne thai tho gangs that used TO !nfest those r.
! gions have been broken up AND nave oisspP'a''"'