Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-07

umns 1t contains large semi-circular
niche or band stand with a capacity of
100 musicians. Extending from the
Corinthian columns ON each side are
colonnades fifty feet high and fifteen
feet wide, each colonnade being sup
ported by sixteen Ionic columns.
In front of this temple thousands of
people sit on Sundays and holidays to
listen to band concerts. The seats are
arranged in rows under a heavy canopy
Of foliage of short sycamore trees, whose
branches have been clipped in the shape
Of wide umbrellas.
The dedication of the temple to the
city was the ocassion of a seething tor
rent of eloquence on the part Of The ac-
cepting public. Public speakers strug
gled for ad1ectives that would do proper
justice to the gift.
HE who gave this structure to the
people has builded for himself an en-
during monument" began one address
and ended: From the tombs of Nippon
and Nineveh, from Egyptian pyramids,
from every carved image and monumental
pile the world over, from shrines that
tell where saints have suffered and where
the light of royalty has risen in palaces
and set in sarcophagus and cenotap:
from the grave of Adam to the latest
monument all add their testi-
mony to the irresistible desire of man to
live though he be dead"
FINE ARTS BUILDING
IN PROCESS OF ENLARGEMENT.
Not far from the Temple Of Music in
the park is the Golden Gate Museum
the gift Of Mr.. He de Young of the San
Francisco Chronicle This building, which
was the Fine Arts Building of the Mid
winter Fair in 1894, was bought by Mr..
De Young, filed by him with a number
of valuable specimens and placed In the
trust of the board of park commission
ers. When the reporter visited the park
the other day, the museum was in the
process of a much needed enlargement,
and exhibits were being moved from
one room to another, some concealed by
new, freshly painted partitions, so that
1t was impossible to do them full JUS
tice. The Oriental collection, however,
which was polite enough to remain where
It was, appeared to be astonishingly fine
Not all of the philanthropists building
enduring monuments in the park have
chosen masonry as their material One
of them is represented by q waterfall,
known as Huntington Falls. This was
given by Mr.. Coils P. Huntington, but
Park Commissioner w. W Stow also de-
serves credit, for it was his idea to build
a cascade from Strawberry Hill to one
Of the park lakes, and 1t was he who per-
suaded Mr.. Huntington to provide the
necessary 500, 900.
The children's playground in the park,
which has everything ever invented in the
Ill -
merry go-rounds, Maypoles, donkey rides,
goat carts, slides and candy stores-is
also the unique gift of a San Franciscan
philanthropist, William Sharon, who left
$4,000 to the park in his will filed in
1881 Mr. Sharon did not stipuIate how
the amount was TO be used, and at first
the trustees of the estate were inclined
to insist upon q massive arch or gate
way, but they allowed themselves to be
persuaded by the park commissioners
into a memorial playground for little
people.
One of the incest features of Golden
Gate park is that it is so modernly prac-S
teal as well as beautiful. 1t is a real
playground for the people. 1t has a
geological collection of tremendous inter
est, including buffalo and elk paddocks
and a very fine wild fowl pond; and
when weary ana 1Ootsore from pursuing
wild animal life, there are rest and tea
to be had In q quaint little japanese tea
garden. Then there is the Joy and pride
Of all San Franciscans-the park stadium,
famous in park circles all over the world.
II is a huge oval, embracing thirty acres
and containing a race track, running
track. a bicycle track, spaces for hammer
throwing, pole-vaulting and jumping;
basket ball court and six football fields.
and a grandstand with seats for 100000
Onlooke-s.
And lastly, there is the Pacific ocean,
barking at the shores Of the park and
providing it with an ever-changing back
ground the only thing In the park that
the park commissioners have not been
able to improve.