The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-20

sive hearts who knew the work of the
 man whose memory is thus honored
 and hence the monument is the more fitting and appropriate.
 Recently the members of the Boston
 park commission have taken action in
 naming a portion of the park system of
 Boston "Olmsted Park" in memory of
 MT. Frederick Law Olmsted, the dis | tfnguished landscape architect That
 portion of the park system of Boston
 embraced in Olmsted Park comprises
 what was previously known as Leverett
 Park, Jamaica Park and Muddy River valley a total of nearly two hundred
 acres. The improvement of the Muddy ! River valley through the magical touch
 of MT. Olnsted's consummate skill in
 landscape architecture is regarded as
 one of the best examples of landscape adornment which this great artist has
 ever carried out
 | MT Olmsted was born in Hartford, | Conn, in 1922, and in early life took q course at the Sheffield Scientific school 1 of Yale university Subsequently he
 worked on a farm for many years and
 then commenced that series of travels largely on foot--in the southern states
 of this country and in England, the re-
 suits of which are contained in four of
 the most delightful and charming vol
 umes of observation upon the people, agriculture and public economy of the
 sections visited, that were ever pub
 lished-books reminding one of those of
 Arthur Young and William Cobbett
 more completely than those of any
 American author we have ever read.
 Following this he laid out the great
 Central Park, New York, together with
 those of Brooklyn, Boston, Bridgeport,
 Trenton, Montreal, Buffalo, Chicago,
 Milwaukee, Louisville, the Capitol grounds and terrace at Washington, the Worlds Fair grounds at Chicago, and numerous private places in all parts of the United States. For his work in the great and beautiful speciality which MT, Olmsted chose for his profession, he was given the degree of A. M.. by Yale, and of IL. D., by Yale, Amherst and Harvard
 In 1867, after the trustees had located the then Maine State College of Agri- | culture and the Mechanic Arts" on the | White and Goddard farms at Orono, | MT. Olmsted was engaged to visit the | location and make study and plan for | their improvement. He made some what extended visit to Orono in the fall | of that year, the result of his study of | the location being an elaborate scheme and map for Improvement of the grounds of the now University of l. Maine. The plan showed the proposed planting of the campus, the location of the main buildings and all | the details for their improvement and establishment. That his plan was not accepted by the trustees was only be- cause it was at that time regarded as too elaborate and expensive. He saw further into the future of the institu ton than they, and had his plan been entered upon and perfected gradually F from year to year, the grounds of the would to-day have ranked among the great places of the country 'or their appropriate and artistic set ing for great state university which he institution is fast becoming. The of the grounds received title attention until after Professor Munson was placed in charge of them some ten or dozen years ago, when most of the larger buildings now upon he campus had been erected, and it vas necessary for him to conform his ,lan to the buildings, rather than as in he former plan to carry out the inn of the grounds and the erec- II. le,,,I1 r,;x 1fo, c1x nd in accordance with one harmonious Jan. The beautiful effect of the orna- mental planting under Professor Nun on is being more and more appreciated ach year, as the trees and shrubbery. ake on older growth; but those who ave seen MT Olmsted's work in other faces have had nothing but regrets hat the trustees of 1S67-'6S could not ave seen their way clear to have &C., epted his plans and accomplished his cheme of improvement.
 The Boston park commission has act q most wisely in attaching MT. Olm- ted's name to that beautiful section of ne park system of Boston, which it i'll thenceforth hold for all time to ome. No monument could possibly be lore appropriate to this eminent land- ,ape architect than one which will fir yer bear trees, shrubs and flowers, ave upon it's beautiful surface land nd water of artistic combination, and 1trancing walks and drives from all oints of which the visitor will con- antly obtain changing vistas of land- | ape beauty and adornment worthy the and of this distinguished faster of one
 the finest of the many fine arts. MT. Olmsted at the ripe age of seven- mine years is now residing in Brook 1e one of the most beautiful towns in