The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-10
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State Park Commission Makes
 Recommendations.

The first report Of the state park commission to the General Assembly has been made public, signed by Gen era1 Edward E. Bradley and the other members of the commission, John E. Calhoun, Herman M. Chapman, Wal ter O FiIIey, John O. Fox, Lueius F. Robinson and Edward H. Wilkins.
 The greater part of the report is that made by Albert M. Turner, the field secretary of the commission, who made g. tour of the Connecticut shore from Rhode Island to New York and then gave attentions to the inland sec ttons Of the state. The commission reports:-
 As a. result of the decision of the Ecommisssion not to attempt any pur- chases until the whole situation was before it, and as the work of general Investigation has been but recently completed, the only purchase to the ] date of this report is only one piece of seashore and meadow land embracing five acres more or less, in the town of Westport, costing g, 4SS. There are a number of desirable sites inland and on the shores of Long Island Sound, which the commission feels should be acquired for the use of the people of the state, whether through purchase or by gift by generous and broad minded citizens. Several such sites I have been visited by the commission as a body or individual members of it. l MT. Turney urges in his report that the need of action is real with the growth of the cities. He says "So long as man is born with eyes and ears and arms and legs, he will continue ! to use them in various ways, and il i turns out that some of those ways are 1 impossible to him in the city. At the 1 end of tine week, or a month or a$yeal I or, in some cases. possibly 8 lifetime the city sights and sounds and pave l. -I-T1 and contrast become as necessary as sleep at night. To the fortunate few I who may have a country house or g shore cottage with an automobile o1 so, the problem is easy What for the
 rest? The dusty highway and the t'nc
 trespass sign-''
 As to the shore front, which is the pressing problem, it is announced that 1 the commission has in mind five sites which cover, in all, about thirteer
 miles of shore line. As to inland site: the commission mentions seventeen ponds and lakes that might serve a. Icenters for state reservations, the lis
 being as follows: Alexander Pond, Kill l1ngly; Bantam Lake, Morris; Lake
 Compounce, Soutfington; Gardner
 Lake, Salem; Great Hill Pond, Port,
 land; Highland Lake, Winchester Tom Pond, Chatham: Quassapaus
 Pond, Middlebury; Lake Quonnipaug
 Guilford: Shaw Lake. East Haddam
 Spectacle Lake, Kent; Twin Lakes
 Salisbury; Wangumbaug Lake, Gov l entry; Lake Waramaug, Washin ton
 Certain high points of land hay
 also been considered, the list being Bear Mountain, Salisbury; Haystack } Norfolk; Hosted Mountain, Cornwall Ivy Mountain, Goshen; Bald Hill, Un : ion; Bald Mountain, Somers; Soul Mountain, Bristol; Ta1cott Mountain 2 BIoomfeld; Great Hill, Chatham Higby Mountain, A1iddletown; Mt :, Sandford, Cheshire; Bluff Head
 Guilford; Mt. Parnassus, East Had dam; Lantern Hill, North Stoning . ton
 : A financial statement shows tha ] the commission has not expended al ? of the appropriation made for it's US 1 by the General Assembly of 1913.