The National tribune., 1904-08-25
VOL. XXII-NO 47-WHOLE NO. 1902

park-ndhlng ike lt-JuSt a hlt OF
country and the wild woods where people,
weary of the city's turmoil and strife. can
go and fling themselves down on the sod,
under the broad-arching trees hundreds of
which must have been stretching their long
arms over the excited people the day that
Washington under the Cambridge elm, a
short distance away. drew his sword and
started a conflict which was 10 make his
country the greatest on earth, and his name
immortal.
There has been no marring landscape
gardening-no stiff unnatural park lines
and effects-nothing more than inclosins
the grounds, making good walks through
them, and planting a few trees here and
there, where needed. The most of the trees
stand where nature planted them. and they
have not been mutilated by pruning Peo-
pie go over the grounds as they please.
No Keep off the Grass or "Do Not Mu-
tilate the Shrubbery" signs stare al one.
Hundreds, hats and coats off. are living
full length on the sod, children are playing
and chasing one another as they VIII. and
there is nowhere man in uniform 10 bid
them STAY
The wonder is how people. who have so
improved, regulated and formaliZed every
thing else, could have kept their hands of
this spot, and left it just as it was when
the last century was born.
Only on the highest knoll is there an
intrusion. There is n monument of artistic
design and execution. bearing this inScrip-
tion wonderfully beautiful and eloquent in
its simplicity:
To the Men Of Boston !,
Who Died for Their Country .
On Land and Sea I
In the War
Which Kept the Union Whole
Destroyed Slavery !
And Maintained the Constitution
The Grateful City
Has Built This Monument
That Their Example May Speak
To Coming Generations.
THE FOUNTAIN.
AT the famous old Commons Pond. skat-
ing on which helped precipitate the Revolu-
ton, now rises a wonderful fountain. 10
differs from other fountains which are q
great deal of bronze to very little wa
ter, in being a great deal of water. and
hardly any bronze at all. Directly from
the surface of the pond shoots a strong
gush Of water 20 feet high, and several
inches thick, which spreads like a giant
flower and falls in a spray, breaking into
a score of evanescent rainbows.
1t fits the Commons by looking like one
of Natures outbursts.
THE BOSTON GARDENS
Beyond the Commons, and extending
them, are the Gardens. Here the lands
cape gardner has got in his work. and very
artistically, with his banks of flowers, SER
pentine paths, trees in rows, ETC., etc.
There is a little lake in which float cata-
marans, shaped like white swans. and pro-
PEELED by men in the stern working paddle
wheels with their feet. These are excur-
sion boats literally patronized by the chill
dren.
Around the fine bronze statute Of Gen.
Warren are some wonderful effects done
in small foliage plants, with the greatest
skill and patient labor. Usually the repre-
sentation of badges has been in coarse.
large lines, with large-teayed plants. Here
the badges of the q. A. R.. Sons Of Vet
Grams, w. r. c.. Loyal Legion, etc, are
worked out with the greatest accuracy by
minute plants, giving the effect of mosaic.
1t must have cost a world of labor, but the
effect is we'll worth it.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Lavish as has been the electrical display
in other cities, Boston has surpassed them
all. There are simply miles of electric