The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-19
Letters to The Editor
Our PublIc Landlscape.

Editor The Advertiserg
 walked to the Capitol last Sunday. standing at the Davis star one takes in the efTect of the proposed widening of the approach from BAinbridge Street to the full width of Dexter Avenue- 4 good aesu4I or the change will be, in the ex- cuse for removing the white pole Spahlsn snip mast--and the artillery. me arulIery might be well disposed of Dy assigning space to it in the vicinity or the noble Confederate monument. AS to the pole. why worry about it after removing it.!
 l live in apprehension lest the emer- gency Of the landscape gardener may choP up the new south grounds into winding walks, intricate flower heds ana similar demonstrations of the forces that donlnate his profession Genius In art Is most impressive and usefni when 1t succeeds in emphasizing naiurc Now. why not devote the newly acquir- ed space to- grove of Alabama forest trees Any place will do for labaryn- thine cement laid walks. Let the grove be set in trees such as dogwooS an early bloomer, walnut, chestnut cherry that the town children may seq with their own eyes magnolia, cedar. mock orange, oak. pine. etc. etc. i'm beautiful disorder distributed, with inst the necessary avenue of entrance and exit. Let no keep off the grass" he posted there, but everybody be free tu steer the course to suit the fancy over
 
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 day,
 And in summer time coolness and
 shade" ."
 After we get the railroads reconciled and the fruits of the State Tax Commia sion grow bountifully, why should not the State buy two blocks between Bain bridge and Decatur streets, west of the Capitol. and two blocks between In ion and Ripley east, so that a park may he made, worthy as an environment of the birth place of the Confectionery on the summit of the hill?
 Montgomery is large town. without a single open space where children may romp in the early hours of summer nights, while the walls and roofs are growing cool enough to permit sleep in doors. There is not a spot where an open air public meeting may be held In the heat of summer evenings. Some music. some ball. some tennis in the park to which all may walk after ten, will the 100000. The city might arrange to keep the park, on certain designated lines of public usefulness, if the State provides the land. as proposed.
 If marble monuments, in commemor- ation of men who have led Alabama to heights of virtue, be desired to adorn the enlarged approach to the Capitol, then let us set up Yancey and Doctor Martin Sims. In Talladega marble on opposite sides. That being done. we may make choice of others of lesser se- curity in the annals of our home. ] am going to repeat here, as it recurs to my memory, a line of a private let ter from Senator Morgan: T have mourned Yancey as a lost star, lost be- cause there are no observers to reach the height where he was last seen As to Doctor Sims, he was the immortal and peerless benefactor of mankind, who came out from the little brick of fee, now at the southwest corner of Dexter Avenue and Perry Street. A few feet east on Dexter Avenue. was the law office of Fillmore and YanceV.
 Alaba milan.