The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-30

can pnIiantnfopists. Bscapaa n 8
% beautiful. perhaps, ever =,
lionaire Of any conseuusns.
wanted to have his name any,.
% there. The great center - ~
ular interest. for instance :
Temple Of Music in Concert NY
which was given to the -
ths late Claus spreckles. hno..
the sugar king. It Is in thu Iss,taa
renaissance design. the ch,si =
teriAl used being Colusa san6nts.
OF IN, agreeable light color m i.
greet hardness. The central ~
ture has q frontage of IS feet, y !.
rect high and is thanked on ~"
side By Corinthian columns ~
tains a large, semi-circular ~
|Ior bandstand, with a capacit, =
100 musicians. Extending fro~ w. y
Corinthian columns on eacA -.
are colonnades So feet hish ~ y
feet wide. each colonnade being ~ =
ported by is Ionic columns
In front of this temple thoun,..
of people sit on Sundays and lo,;
days to listen to band concerto n.
seats are arranged in rows unS..
a heavy canopy of foliage Of ~,
sycamore trees. whose braneHss
have been clipped in the shane n
wide umbrellas.
The dedication of the temn,a 4.
the city was the occasion a. :
seething torrent of eloouencs -
the part Of the accepting pehNe
Public speakers struggled for NJ
jecttves that would do proper Ms-
! tice to the gift.
"He who gave this structu,s "a
the people has builded for himsel,
an enduring monument" beam ons
address-and ended: From II.
tombs Of Nippon and Nineveh. ffum
Egyptian pyramids, from eeUy
carved image and monumental pils
the world over. from shrines th,t
tell where saints have suffered al
where the light of royalty has riaep
In palaces and set in sarcophasu,
and cenotaph; from the gravv Of
Adam to the latest monument
all add their testimony to the irfe.
sistible desire Of man to live thopgA
he be dead"
The Park Museum.
Not far from the Temple Of m.
sic in the park is the Golden Ca
lmuseum-the gift of H. de Young Of
the San Francisco Chronicle. Tlb
building, which was the Fine Afu
building OF the midwinter fair IN
1894, was bought by Mr.. de Young,
filled by him with a number Of vi.
liable specimens and placed In IL
trust of the board of park commits.
sioners. When the reporter visit.
ed the park the other day the mu.
scum was In the process Of mleA.
needed enlargement. and exhibits
were being moved from one room to
another, some concealed BY new.
freshly-painted partitions, 30 tAat
it was impossible to do them full
Justice. The oriental collection,
however, which was polite enough
to remain where it was, appeared
to- be astonishingly fine.
| Not all Of the philanthropit'
building enduring monuments IN De
park have chosen masonry as Their
material. One of them is rspre.
scented by a waterfall, known v
Huntington falls. This was gym
by Coils P. Huntington, but PAX
Commissioner W. W. Stow also d.
serves credit, for it was his idea %
build q cascade from Strawbafy
hill to one OF the park lakes, sad
it was he who persuaded Mr.. Hunt.
ington to provide the necessafy
$4,000.
! The children's playground IN ~
park, which has everything ever n
vented in the way Of childish recfe'
ation-swings, merry 30 = loones
Maypoles, donkey rides, goat caiu
slides and candy stores-is es'
the unique gift of a San Francee
philanthropist, William Sharon, vas
left $4,000 to the park in his WI
i filed in 1887. Mr.. Sharon did no
stipulate how the amount was 70 .
used and at first the trustees OF ~
estate were inclined to insist upo
a massive a:ch or gateway. ~
they allowed themselves to DO p0
suaded by the park commlsslohs y.
into a memorial playground TOT W.
tie people. /.
Il One of the incest features y
} Golden Gate park is that It y y
modernly practical as well a 49, y,
tiful. 1t is a real playground ~
the people. 1t has a zoologica! c =
lection of tremendous interest, y
!; GLIDING buffalo and elk psooou.
and a very fine wild fowl pou,
and when weary and footsoFt
pursuing wild animal lie, tnsle =. =.
rest and tea to be had In o qus ~.
little japanese garden. Then a. ~
is the joy and pride OF Us 49,.
Franc.scans - the park stao'. =.
famous in park circles all ove s.. :.
world. 1t is a huge oval, e@u .s.
ing 30 acres and containing 80.
track, a running track. . u,oys
track, spaces for hammer tnfoS ~
pole vaultinA and jumping: :, al,
ketball court and six footpAl "' ~
/. and a grandstand with sss's ="
] 100, 900 onlookers. p.lec
And lastly, there is the l IN,
i, ocean, barking at the shores y -
park and providing it with an .sls
changing background the ".
thing in the park that the par. IN. 8
missioners have not been so''
improve.