Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-06
The Once Over

BY H. I. PHILLIPS

MIR. TWICHELL ON IMPROVING PUBLIC PARKS
Mr.. Elmer Twichen today came warmly in favor Of
what he called the "biddle-ing" of New York City's
Central Park. "All this criticism Of the city officials
for allowing the Casino to be operated as a deluxe
lounging place for the best people Is the bunk" re-
clared Mr.. Twitchell. The whole trouble with our
parks today is that they are not exclusive enough
Anybody can get IN"
walk through any park today and what do you
see?" demanded Mr.. Twitchell. "A lot of ordinary
people. that's what; people of the sort you could meet
in the subway. on a trolley car or any other old place.
Central Park in particular is fairly teeming with per-
sons who have no social position. Probably nine out
Of every ten people you meet on park benches can
not trace their ancestery back to the Mayflower. l
spent an entire afternoon this week rowing in the park
lake without humping a single boat occupied by a
Daughter Of the American Revolution
1T is high time Mayor Walker and Park Commits
sioner Herrick took firm steps to make Central Park
the sort Of place a discriminating citizen would care
to frequent. The new Biddle casino is a step in the
right direction, but it is merely a step. The park
will never be what it should be until it is made more
exclusive from end to end. The way to do this Is to
post attendants at all the entrances and keep out
undesirables.
"A charge should be made for seats on park benches
At present they are always crowded and YOU never SIT
with the assurance you will be sitting with somebody
OF influence and position. I favor leasing benches
in the best locations to bench holders just as boxes
at the opera are leased to box-holders. The others
could be let out at SIS or $50 a day. You would be
surprised to see what a difference this would make
in the class Of people sleeping on our park benches.
The situation with regard 10 rowing on Central
Park lake is disgraceful. All you have to do to get a
rowboat is to ask for it. The attendant doesn't take
your name or make the slightest inquiry into your
ancestry. This means that anybody can go rowing.
It is heart-breaking.
II am writing to Mayor Walker urging that the boat
house be renovated by Urban and that all the boats
be upholstered in green velour. would let only the
really worthwhile people have a rowboat.
Conditions on the briddle-path are very bad
People are allowed to ride without any references.
There have been complaints from the horses in some
cases. And look at the people YOU see feeding pigeons
and squirrelsl In most cases they are mere n~obodieS"
sss
Here Mr. Twichell broke down end sobbed softly.
Is thct fair to the pigeons?" ne cried. rs that fair
TO the squirrels?"
or COURSE o KNOW 1T
The Century Theater. Or Morris Gest Stadium. CD
posite Central Park, will be torn down by the Chanins
and a skyscraper put up on the site. You know the
building: il was formerly the old-Fifty- ninth street
carharn. later Madison Square Garden and Just now
used as Grants tomb.
Grover whalen has forbidden smoking at New York
police headquarters. Possibly on the assumption his
men have been looking for the Rothstein slayers
bl.ndiolded.
Senator Dunn remarks that the widow was almost
as lcng catching MI. Tunney as Dempsey was.