The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-11
NANTASKET BEACH TAKEN.
BOSTON MOVES ANOTHER STEP IN
SECURING OCEAN-FRONT PARKS.
Gov. woicott signed tho Enabling Bill Nt
Once-The New Park to he n Mate to
Tint Mt Revere Beach-Its Extent and
Acccssibility-Ita Attractive Aspects.

Once-The New Park to He n Mate to
Tint Mt Revere Beach-Its Extent and
Acccssibility-It Attractive Aspects.
BosroN. June 10.-Among the many linz
portant bills signed by Gov Wolcott in the
closing DAYS of the last Legislature was one
authorizing the Metropolitan Park Commission
to take Nantnskct Beach for public rcserva-
ton and appropriating 100000 therefor.
This adds to a park system, which has already
cost about SS.OOO.OOO ono OF the finest beaches
on the New England coast. This also completes
the comprehensive Metropolitan Park plan OF
Charles Eliot. made some eight or ten years
ago, and gives the southern half OF the system.
In which are the blue hills OF Milton, beach to
balance that OF the northern half. which in
cludes Revere Beach with Middcsex fells and
the Lynn woods The cost is to be assessed
upon the cities and towns in the metropolitan
district. which IL extended to include Cohasset,
Boston. of course. bearing the lions share OF
the burden. Forty-year bonds will be issued
to raise money for tho taking and sinking
fund will be established
Tho act took effect upon it's passage. but the
Park Commissioners have not met since the
bill was signed. and are not prepared to say
how much they will do this year. SO far as
their ultimate plans arc concerned perhaps
they could best be summed up in the words OF
Charles Francis Adams:
Take the beach. clean 1t up and let 1t alone"
The strip that It Is intended to take reaches
from the rocky promontory at the foot OF At
lantic Hill northward for about mile. and on
it are perhaps thirty or forty structures. most
Of them OF the wooden shanty type OF archtoc-
ture. and many pt them devoted to uses which
will not be sanctioned by the Park Commits
sion. The Ion. row Of :" hotels" Is noted with
a smile when one recalls the fact that in 112l
tho people of Hull voted in town meeting
" that there should never be n public house in
the town" There are four good sized houses
will be retained and rented by the commission
to be run under suitable restrictions. m,
process. and il the Enforcement is as great as
It was at Revere Beach. taken by tho comms-
the million S 'r People hat T Visit It Snnna icon 10
The Park C"mmisGslon has had its eye on
s%se r' ns s u Year, th@ whS e naI
cumstnnr"s favored the taxing. The clearing
out Of the undesirable element from Revere
TO Nantasket and emphasized the need Of bet.
ter control there. Then the hard storms Of
probably than they ever could be in the future.
residents o'ii HUI and Cohasset and Boston
the S" %%o urge dns0"F@
wick Of tho Institute Of Technology and some
of the most pro EFp"esS2 PM and hGT,
bll aimed to insure the removal of all ohjec-
tionable influences BY including clause Tor:
the reservation and another giving the Conn
mssiolerS authority to take lands adjacent to
Nantasket Beach is on the oreanward side Of
2 long. narrow pGninsnla, running northerly
ham TO t" Win m Point at Pem6crt" oIi' Pr5 oHHt
AllcrtOn is the northern extremity of the beach,
hut thS srn to be ken by The commission
Ten years ago il night all have been included
within the reservation. but now the lana north
q the proposed linz is ostIyowned by wealthy
BOstonians. many Of whom have built costly
summer homes. To the west Of tho peninsula
reached from the ocean through turbulent Hull
Gn} n sa { b W Ho,,a II Poi on IN ths gss
one Of the largest organizations OF its kind in
the country. Through this bay is the passage
landing for. Nantasket Beach being therefore,
on the inside and saf" in all kinds Of weather.
only a minutes walk from the steamer rte to the
hard white sand and the view of the broad
brnn%h New "rk N%w Ha !H and Hart
ford Railroad. one of the first in this country to
be equipped with electricity.
Nantasket ia accessible from Boston by m ore
ways than any other beach near here. There
are two lines Of steamers besides the railroad
from Boston. connect ing at South Braintree
with the trolley line. 1t can also he reached bv
electric cars from Boston. passing through
are five highways from Boston for all who wish
to drive. The beach is about 200. fcet wide at
bathing at ali points Of the tide The Wow,
looking to the eastward. covers the routes ofall
is never an hour Of the day that their white
sails or trailing smoke cannot be traced for
Rr@y re the he" a Mh %Ff2s
b";t IN light; the r!24h@ly Brsw1'or, Islands.
distance. great gray granite pile rears itself
from the ocean. Minot,s Light marking M.not's
"dG I %nE STRIP D Of sGmksn rocks Fn"mns
ton of this lighthouse Is far beneath the SUR
face even at low TIE, and onelcr place in
:, Th" proposed reservation will include Strait's
Pond. lust back of the southern extremity or
but it will be connected with the ocean. and,
atter,it has been cicansedi by The tides, it will
1T is ab%nt twSIve niles 'i" from rom Foston to
Nantasket beach by water. most interesting
q, The harhor stands, INCLUDING Fort Warren.
1.-The key Key, Of the harb11 Snd nov Gyrrn;
House on Dorchester Heights nov South
BOSTON, on" Of tn" most signify places on the
asylum for the bni and and Long Isand " so mae
Efficiently fortified against q" attack Of spain
and, passing the grim Niv's Mate to port. enter
upon the inside "hanncl t" Naptasket;,
cording t. King the historian within quar-
t"rof mill"nnium this obscure MASSACHUSETTS,
fc"h" Epicopal Plantation, II Puritan fishing
wreck"r's colony II Scmi-na lmatian maritime
hamlet, a Yankee vii ae" and an opulent Amer
lean summer resort Hull was originally set.
tied hv whit" men in l,i22. and boosted eight
houses when Boston only had one. 1t now has
creased probably To four or five times that
number during the summer months. Back
somewhrr" in me f9rti"s some one had courage
to nui ld q hotel at Nantaskct Beach and that
was til" hegnuiug Of III" making OF the ropu-
lar resort Of to-day. Tho first steamboat line
was established in 1859.
The Worlds Lnrg-.t Grapevines.
From he Snn Irlncisco ChronrcIc