New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Crosses the Hudson to Get Back to Nature
'Roughing 1t de Luxe
Under Shadow Of
the Palisades

the allSadeS +
trail over dogwood bank. She !. j,
made no answer to my remart.
about picnic diet, but stopped and -
denly behind a particularly den..
shrub.
"She said she wore 'em all Il.
long and nobody ever said anvth;s.
to her. she muttered.
who? Oh, yes, that s;r,n /,
answered. well, hurry up. Tber.,.
crowd of Girl Scouts COMING th..
look as if they would laugh at Won !"
LET 'em," said Corinna. swift,,
unbuttoning, and emerging, Ausbsa
IN the full splendor of khaki rid;rs
breeches. The skirt we folded swift,
and packed away in her knapsacL
just in time for her to stare hauvh'
tlly at the giggling Girl Scouts. :,
For the rest of that afternoon ii.
trod, not on air, but on the biocas.
rocks and the steepest trails 81.
could find, scornful of the terrissd
squeaks with which I STRUGGLED
after her, my skirt catching m a..
bushes and my unprotected anil.
scratched by thousand brambles
Palisades History
Corinna says that everybod,
knows all about the history o, ~.
Palisades-how the name W..
hawken means "rocks that look liz.
trees," and how Robert Juet, mast.y
OF the Half Moon, who kept the iour.
nal of the voyage of Henry Hud.
son, wrote in 1909:
This morning, at our first rid.,, !,
the river, there came eight and
twenty canoes full of men. woman
and chlidren."
The Palisades were saved from, n.
quarters Of trap rock by the cluh
women of New Jersey, who started
the organization in 1895 which has
since developed into the Palisades
Interstate Park Commission. headed
by George W. Perkins. In 1910
through the gift of Mrs. E. H Har.
rlman, the park was augmented bv
10000 acres of land below West
Point, which now forms the larger
and more spectacular part of the
park, though it is comparatively lit.
tie known to New York's Sunday
afternoon crowds.
This region is SO remote and 50
extensive that one need never
worry about it's fate under the feet
OF tramping thousands; but | con.
TESS, after those hikes with CORN.
ma, was alarmed about the Pail.
sades. So sought out Edward F.
Brown, superintendent of the camp
department of the park.
"All these people will ruin the
woods" walled. "They tear down
the apple blossoms and trample the
columbines. Pretty soon there won't
be anything left but rocks and old
newspapers"
"The rocks are the parks saliva.
tion," he laughed at my fean.
People aren't very likely to leave
the beaten path when the ground
is covered with jagged rocks as it Is
over there, and the dogwood and
columbine thrive on rocks. AS for
trees, the commission has planted
100000 trees-most of them in
the Hartman Park, it is true-but
a goodly number of thousands in the
Palisades. All those willow trees
and small pines which edge the K
paths along the waters edge have
been planted by US.
"Did you know that the big play. s
grounds and park spaces at the foot d
Of the cliffs were made on canal q
boats? We found that we needed 4
more space for recreational pur. 4
poses, as the Palisades had mis-
sion to New York's play-starved
thousands other than supplying mere
landscape. We sunk canal boats
along the shore, covering them over Z
with street sweepings, with q top /
layer of earth. The willow trees +
thrive on it. And our beach, by the I
way, is made of crushed screenings I
fine bits of rock waste that cost u
almost nothing.
More Room for Trees 81
SO we have lots Of room now 10
plant grass and trees If the chill 3