The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-04-29
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| Everything does not run to money
making alone In these days of ambitious
business projects, Of great consolda-
lions and colossal aggregatons of cap
ital. There are other things in which
the world is making progress, in things
that tend to the cultivation and pres
ervation of the aesthetic and the beau
tiful, and that otherwise benefit the
race. A minor instance in this direc-
ton is New York's movement against
| the vandalism which for mere money!
| getting purposes is defacing the beauty
and grandeur Of the Palisades Such u
| movement was witnessed here when the
our own beautiful East Rock was pro-
hibited through the efforts of a few rep
| resentative men, and when later East
Rock itself and later still West Rock
were converted into public parks for the
public benefit and behoof forever Such
in kind also was the movement which
put aside forever for the public use and
enjoyment the Yellowstone Park and
the Yosemite Valley Park. Our own
system Of outlying public parks will
prove an immense benefit to coming
generations; and the exercise Of the
wisdom and foresight which secured the
territory embraced in these public
parks, while the land was easily obtain
able and obtainable at small cost, was
most fortunate for our beautiful city.
One of the first places that the stran-
ger within our gates desires to visit Is
our imposing East Rock Park. with its
beautiful drives,-drives with which the
names of the late Henry Farnam, the
late Ex-Governor English and our pub
lic-spirited citizen e. Hayes Trow-
bridge are indelibly associated, to say
nothing of the late ex-Mayor Henry G.
Lewis, in memory of whose public SER
vices a. monument stands upon this
park. Such in another beneficent field
are the munif1cent gifts of New Ha-
ven lady for higher educational pur-
poses, another of which has just been
mentioned in our columns.
Upon vastly larger scale is another
work of immense public utility now in
progress. This is the work for redemp-
ton for cultivation and occupation of
100000 acres of waste land in Colorado
and 100000 in Mexico, and 1t is believed
that before the close of the present year
this, one of the most desolate and for
bidding Of the American deserts, will
be redeemed and prepared to become
one Of the garden spots of this conf
nent. Artesian wells which have been
drilled near Indio are flowing copiously,
and these are to be supplemented by an
irrigation canal sixty miles long, which
will bring the water of the Colorado
river into the heart of the desert This
will furnish the water to abundantly
irrigate nearly fifteen hundred square
miles of land, which will become Won
derfully fertile when thus treated.
Great climatic changes may be expected
to follow, diverting the waters of the
Colorado into this arid waste, where the
heat is intolerable and the distance be-
tween springs is greater than in Sahara.
A similar work is In progress on the Ar
iona side Of the river, and before win
ter at least another 100000 acres of now
land will be made desira-
bic by irrigation.
These are triumphs indeed, --triumphs |
which make for the good of mankind |
and bring neither rapine nor carnage in |
their train