The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-27
THE PARK CONCERTS.

THE PARK CONCERTS.
AS a city pleasure ground Como park
maintains It's ascendancy. AS place
of popular resort it is practically without
a rival 1t has sprung from high de-
gree of wisdom and foresight which has
not been displayed with any great fire.
quency among the official classes of st.
Paul. It compares favorabIy with any
place of public recreation established in
any city which is not of the first order
in point of population
Today the summer concerts at Como
will be inaugurated. The popular love
of music usually goes with the peoples
appreciation of natural beauty. No
contribution which local public authority
may make to public enjoyment is more
heartily appreciated than are the open
air concerts which are feature of sum-
mer life in most of the cities OF the coun-
try.
1t is quite few years since the people
of ST Paul had concerts given each after
AOO@A
parks 1t will be RENE mbered by many
that those concerts were effective, wher-
ever held. in bringing the mass of the
people of every rank and class to the
parks, and that eacn concert was at
tended by vast concourse of people. The
same love of music an:mates the people
today that did then. 1t is from the
same spirit of regard for the public well
fare that the requirement that these
daily afternoon and evening concerts
shall be held at Como has sprung. The
people appreciate them. Their enjoyment
of them has been made plain for sue
! cession of years. The maintenance of
them is an incentive to good citizenship.
because it brings the citizen personally
IN touch with public authority under
such agreeable conditions as are per
haps never realized in any other relation
ship.
These open-atr concerts are designed
people, and the mass of the people are
| expected to avail themselves of them to
the fullest No person. young or old,
should be found who does not during the
summer attend those concerts with
some regularity. Aside from the public
bathing places, which were opened in the
! city yesterday. there is no local institu-
ton capable of contributing more direct
and contentment of the public and in
divdual alike. than the daily concerts
which open today at Como park.
WE ALL WISH HIM WELL.
The announcement recently made in the
columns Of the Globe of the with
drawal eff Henry J. Strouse from the
city will be read with the utmost regret
by great numbers of our people. who. in
the relations which they have borne
toward him of one kind or another, have
come to regard him with feelings of the
warmcst affection. He was above oil
things a man true and devoted to his
friends, of strong convictions of right, to
vction which brought much of admira
ton with it. He was a philosophical
| and humane man, too, whose energies
and abilities were ever at the disposal Of
the city of his love and choice.
Whether in public or private relation
in social or business life. Mr.. Strouse was
esteemed and respected by all who met
him. While he possessed none of the
qualities which work for success in po-
liucal life save a devoted regard for the
public welfare and true Democratic
sympathy for the sufferings and the as
plrations of the struggling masses, he
served the city in public station faith
fully and we'll in response to the public
demand His record in the city council
as assemblyman will live long after he
has passed away. and 1t is a record of
which his friends will always have oc-
casion to be proud. Those who were In
party political association with Mr.
Strouse. as was the st. Paul G l o b dur.
ing the entire period of his residence in
St Paul. can testify what loyal and en-,
;husiastic Democrat he was, and how
largely by his personal influence and ex-
ample he contributed to the success ana
honor of his party.
The o b merely voices the wishes
coed people of ST. Paul when it express