The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-17

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Tho rresldrnt NJ tho Politicians As.ouia-
,,r d,sant think that Alderman Downing
meant lead literally. but politically ~ hs
s.T s%1nilnue tho work In behalf ~ the
...s elIsr statesmen 10 have parks NAMED
fur them
something has Tpt 10 hr done FOR them,
,,yt,y . no u,id The condition ~ some
II ,hem is getting ~ serious that they ar"
,.t even invited to make speeohea at dinners
any more. our plan In TO take up each
,,.a serarately and have n small park
rrramei in honor 81 somebody whosc name
ysnd to be in everybody's mouth but has
be,n ont ~ long that the public has got rtd
~ the taste. There Ia q public demand
',r some such movement and 10 bring u
about will be the chief work Of the Poiiti-
,tnns' Association for some time 20 come,
of course the present supply Of parks isn't
efficient. 30 after we get them all named
cell have to ask tho city to establish more
PARKS,
Beginning downtown for the sake OF
geographical convenience, the name OF
Battery Park will simply be amended by
the insertion OF the word Dan. Ihat
change Of course is obvious, but Judge Finn,
being still on the bench, isn't dead yet
so he will not be honored until later.
But not a day should be lost in the sad
ense OF W. Bourke Cochran and nothing
could be more suitable for him than
Bowling Green. That name means moth
ing to our rising generation and the sight OF
a one legged mans statue is not wholesome,
il isn't suggestive Of symmetry TO the poor
in hat part Of our city and Is not instructive
10 the inrushing tide OF immigration com
ing up from the Barge Office to blend and
be assimilated. The Metropolitan Street
Railway Company no doubt will support
us in our demand for the removal OF the
one legged statue, for standing there
az il does in q loop of the car tracks where
millions see II every day on their way to
the cars ahead it is merely a bronze sug-
restion of damage suits. Don't quote
me as committing the street railway COM
many to this movement, for l have only
EXPRESSED my personal opinion. But l
once saw a young ambulance chasing law
yer taking a photograph Of Peter Stuy-
yesant's wooden leg and I've had nv sus-
picions ever since.
But to return to Mr.. Cochran. Bowling
Green must be renamed. w. Bourke
Cochran Park, or perhaps plaisance would
be better, or even midway, as this breathing
SPOT is about halfway from the North to
the East River. The ~Stuyvesant statue
will be reno we'd and sent to some clinic
and in it's place will be erected a statue
Of Mr.. Cochran, heroic size, standing. The
SCULPTOR has been instructed to make the
mead hollow to nave room for q concealed
phonographin which there will be a cylinder
with the record Of the jefferson speech that
Mr.. Cochran did not deliver at the Demo-
cratic Club dinner the other night. IL
will be the duty Of the superintendent
of the W. Bourke Cochran Park to wind up
the photograph every pleasant Saturday
afternoon in June, July and August 80 that
the public may hear the epeech at last.
Proceeding north along Broadway We
come to City Hall Park. There Is no ques-
ton about what that should be called in
the interest OF future generations. Our
association will insist upon, remaining it
Van WICK Park. Some OF the older poll
ticians now living can well remember how
Robert A. Van Wyck, a former Mayor,
berger will have charge Of the police arrange
ments at the dedication exercises.
ITO save expense on the East Sid the
society will have a part Of the Fourteenth
Assembly district set aside for a John T.
Oakley Park when It Is taken over as a part
of Little Tim Sullivan's Sixth district.
That reapportionment plan no doubt will
mean a great drain on our society's time
and thought all over the city.
There can, of course, be no one ID every
Park, Nothing less tnan u DeVery Park
system will do and for that purpose we shall
set aside a wide strip Of the North River
front from Fourteenth street uptown to the
beginning Of what must be the Plunkitt
Park system. In the Devery stretch there
will be an ornamental %colonnade Of pumps
with a memorial tablet TO John G. Sheehan
here and there, at every five blocks say"
Although not aware Of the plans OF the
Politicians Association ex-senator Plunkitt
believes in the proper naming of parks
He said 80 yesterday at the bootblack stand
In the County Court House.
"The board did McCarren dirt when they
changed that name or him, said Mr.. Plum
kit, EHe was the father Of that park; he has
done as much, almost as much, for Brooklyn
as l have for Manhattan and The Bronx.
There ought to be a George w. Plunkitt
Park in The Bronx to-day,
George yelled the Senator n 3 ,h to his So attend tHs d.
The Bronx that I'm the father OFF,,
Pelham Bay, Crotona, Van Csortlandt. st.
Mary's, Cedar and Claremont, said George
promptly.
what relation are you, Senator, to the
geological Park in The Bronx?' Mr. Plum
litt ,r,op acEoi