The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-14
new YORK CITY GOSSIP
WOMAN ORGANIZES BOY PATROL
FOR PLAY GROUND GARDEN.
Schwab Joins Automobile Club and
Gives Mile of Steel Road-Miss Hell
en- Gould Gives Generously to the
lrvington- on-the Hudson Library.

NEW YORK, July 13.-Mrs. Herbert
Parsons, nee Elsie Clews, who is one
OF the school inspectors, is responsible
for the most original experiment in
the playground scheme that the city
has so far tried to better the condi-
ton of the children of the tenement
mousse districts during the hot wealth
er.
It is at Mrs. Parsons suggestion
that half an acre of De Witt Clinton
park, which lies between Fifty-second
and Fifty=fourth streets and Tenth
and Eleventh avenues, will be ploWed
up and fertilized and fifty children of
the neighborhood will take practical
gardening lessons, raising such vege-
tables and plants as may repay their
EFFORTS before the new school year be-
gins.
The project was preached to Park
Commissioner Wilcox, and found a
ready Endorsement. 1t was turned
over to Assistant Superintendent Muir
phy, and the plan was to have the
ground In readiness last week when
the Hudson bank playground, which
occupies large share of the park.
was scheduled to open. But though
MISS Blair and Miss Cafferata, two
klndefgarteners, sent by the board Of
education, We're on hand promptly. and
a man with plow and a wagonload
scene and remained for an hour or
two, nothing was done to redeem the
spot from it's stony barrenness. The
children that hung around, eager to
take possession, made miniature gar
dens with sticks as trowels, but were
compelled to return to their homes in
disappointment. Some hitch in the
| order from headquarters, which no
body could explain, had caused the
delay.
| Hudson Bank last year was one Of
the most successful Fairgrounds in the
| city. -Four hundred children daily en-
| joyed it's benefits, and not alone in the
| gymnastic work of the boys, but in
basket making and paper-hat manu-
facture, 1T took the lead. The Outdoor
| recreation league worked with the
| board of education in it's mainten-
ance.
1t is believed the place will be in
| thorough working order by the begin
| ring of this week, when the little
| farmers may go to work in earnest.
In order to protect the farming plot,
| which is to be fenced in, Mrs. Parsons
will organize twenty-five boys into
police patrol and have them mount
| guard over their property. Each will
| wear button of the National Plant,
| Flower and Fruit guild.
Schwab Joins Auto Club.
When Charles M. Schwab, president
of the United States Steel corporation,
| rarchascI foreign motor car few
months go he became a nlembe.. uf
the Automobile Club of America.
Mr.. Schwab has had an excellent
opportunity to study road construc-
ton. His machine broke all records
between Philadelphia and Atlantic
City and put premium on poultry
and dogs along the route.
TLayo +
tomobile club had appointed a COM
mittee to inspect new form Of road
construction, where steel was largely
employed, Mr.. SchWab was much in
| terested The other day he asked JEFF
ferson Seligman, chairman Of the Steel
road committee, how he was progress
ing.
Cant get the STEEL" responded Mr..
Seligman, discontentedly. ct has to
be rolled in a special shape, and no
mill will undertake the work"
Il will furnish it," said Mr.. Schwab,
and Mr.. Selignan saw an end to his
perpleXities.
But Mr., schwab went further 1t
was an agreeable surprise to the mem
bers of the Automobile club to learn
that he would donate enough steel
for an entire mile of road The ma
terial will be forthcoming within six
months.
Gen. Leroy Stone, designer of the
proposed road, has already conferred
with the Steel corporations experts
on the details of construction. Presi-
dent Jacob Cantor, of the borough of
Manhattan, has directed Chief Engi-
neer Olney to recommend suitable To-
cations for sections of the read. 1t is
intended to place one in the heavy
trucking region down town, another on
a street of general travel and a third
on a suburban earth road.
Miss Gould Gives to Library.
The new public library in the town
hall at IrVington- on the Hudson,
which was erected by contributions of
the wealthy summer residents of that
place, has been formally opened. Miss
F.elen Miller Gould furnished the Ii
brary with fine furnishings and fur
niture at an expense of 100000 while
+. w. Guiteau gave $4,000 for the
books. In honor of the opening we'll
known women served tea in the build
ing. Miss Gould assisted to receive.
Divorce Court on British Plan.
Society is much interested in the
proposal to establish a divorce court
here on the lines of that tribunal which
is presided over by Sir Francis Jeune
in England. In London a division of
the supreme court is devoted to the
consideration of nothing but matrimo-
NAL cases, and divorce has become to