| Show I i II j jI I II I v By ROBERTUS LOVE LOVEN the late Edward H ot be beIng N Ing a poet the man con two epics Ono at he In lines ot Steel rom ocean to oceana IlIad or Tho other epic he dreamed be j taro he could tho fabric tact ThIs dream ot Mr Harriman was tho preservation i ii at the and the ot I Ithe i the Hudson river and theIr creation I Into a park with the addition at tracts i at land west ard Into tho thoi Ramapo mountaIns Vastly more 10 i and aesthetic wa this I I than at the Now tho dream about to bo An park New York and Now Jersey or more na national Is to be ThIs bl Mr most I monument On hIs deathbed nt In tho Ramapo foothills tho requested hi to carry out his I this park i Mrs has donated to the or Now York about acres ot land In and coun counties ties to be held In perpetuIty as a park hns gIven to the common commonwealth wealth a million dollars tor tho ne ot other to connect the HarrIman tract the Hudson rIv rIver er shore I Shortly aCter the HarrIman sift wall wallI made Fort ot Now Jersey announced that elt ot hIs had donated to acre ot land In tho Greenwood Inko dIstrict to parks Greenwood lalo lies partly In New Jersey and In New In ot tho HarrIman John D Rockefeller and J Morgan havo haIr 11 lion to aid tho project wealthy citizens have added to the cash contrIbutIons up to Hughes hall recommended that tho state appropriate New Jer Is expected to n sum 3 21 t Af d t ti i I Ic c t ti i I I i I I I II sufficient to pay that states proportIonate I sharo tho undertakIng Miles Long Include moro than fifty square mlles ot land It ex extend tend miles along tho west oC tho Hudson miles out Into the Ramapo hills ad I jacent to the Harriman home I at Fort Lee N J tho northern end oC Manhattan Island tho I boroush ot Greater New York tho park will reach to N sIxty above tho limIts at Now York cIty It will nil the picturesque PalIsades I ot the Hudson all tho HIghlands at I Ithe the Hudson tho river I IFor For most ot Its length the parle willi bo a shoe strIp along the Bud lion shore takIng the face at the and the I Ito to tho waters edo Tho I west ard Into Orange and Rockland I II I about mlles north or the elty will constitute tho main body ot the pInk area This I will square miles ot woodland scenery hills I and valles brooks and meadows 1 The Importance ot PalIsades us ono at tho pleasure I obvIous when ono reflects I that Now York now second only to I London In population destined to I II I become a quarter ot n century the most cIty on tho ApproxImatelY four and a halt ns people reside now tho city i I limits Tho elt and Its environs the ot the continent appealing moro to I II I tho Texas I or Oregon than to tho ant this new park will be the prop property erty ot the two states and bo tho ground at tho resIdents at metropolis and Its neIghborInG citIes belon In a BemO to the at tho States any at whom may enjoy Its when the city Many Beautiful Rivers Now Yorkers tho Hudson river possesses a monopoly or until they travel westward Tho Hudson undenIably a stream but tho United States Is rIvers ot Tho tween and Washington may bill cited The Hudson Is be because cause or Its Palisades those rock the west shore In almost continuous palisade for many miles But the ColumbIa has palisade though moro than at tho Hudson From Portland up to The tho r along tho ColumbIa on both sides ot an othor AmerIcan stream Hudson scenery Is beautiful ColumbIa Is That Is tho expressed concrete terms There are palisades at extent and beauty on tho at tho In tho or Alton III On the west shore ot that ancestor or tor hundreds ot miles In northern and lown the bluff with verdant al alleys leys appeal with Irresistible ble charm to the steamboat Thero Is a little rIver the running through southwest MissourI and northern whIch In tho ot an traveler whom I met not long ago fer downrIght kin hang the Hudsons hIde on the back backInG InG ot 1 Gould railroad for many miles along the dver Is the means at making that rural stream more and admired for Its r and hanging gardens and Its ot water and woodland that seem like visIons a dream so en entrancing beautiful that the tram a car scarcely can be believe lieve them to bo real Several L her possess streams whIch are calculated to the Hudsons hIde on the But for all that tho Hudson Is distinctive This wall Is tram all tho others In Its Its and In tho growth ot trees that crowns tho And here and there and as the river scenIc surprises out ot the to mako tho on tho or tho Albany I thrill with rapture I I In America would the creation ot n grent pUblic bo I such a matter at We have I our big national and only on Infinitesimal or tho can them New York Is the I mIght magnet The metropolis draws rom tho mUre I ThIs tact makes the park I project n asset Rich In Historic Sites I Furthermore new park be opulent as to historIc Fort Lee to Newburg tho t dotted with places history hall been mado An AmerIcan torce under I General Nathaniel GreenE Fort Leo until No 20 1776 when II Lord Cornwallis with redcoats upon the patrIots and com compelled them to The nar narrowly escaped capture A soldier monument to tho memory ot the Reo soldiers s been erected at Fort Lee This will be one ot the first art to r pt the eo upon the pork from the city Across the rIver and a short distance to the Is WashIngton poInt n rock jutting out Into the Hudson Below and cast or this lies ton now a chalco or tho by tho American arm under tho early das or he tool place there The pork may cross from heights to Fort Loo first baskInG In the spell or n oC i tho across tho water whIch I Is an InspIration oven to a dullard I 1 w m nt k o I tram tho city et through the park wa nil tho Stony Point In What recollections does Stony Point call up Dont remember that tn our you Vere thrilled b the account at Wa nes on tho British at Stony PoInt 1 1 that It was one at the thIngs In the history made me as n boy yearn to I General Wann The cans had begun to this rocky I promontory on the Hu son but SIr Henry thom out The British completed tho In their mOM approved tash lon Washington lorely cha fIned rt the turn hod to Stony Point completed works good to him Tho commander In An Anthony thony ane with n corps ot tho to toko the fort General Vano divIded his command Into two columns from a The British i Into them but Americans i idId dId not firo They made n t Both columns at tho I tort sImultaneously Wayne with a 1 wound In tho head The BrItish ned before the phalanxes or brIstling bao nets They were Into the Inner fastnesses or the fort and surrendered 40 or them The found that the could not hold the fori but they H The sHe oC the Cort has been a public state parI since 1811 his automobile or the ma ten II os Carther und pauso to Inspect the United States academy at Vest PoInt rl ht In IIno with the great new Here again stares OU In tho race Benedict Arnold In command or the AmerIcan at Yest Point when he conspired with tho BrItish through ajor John An Andre to his Irm to the ene It wall at Vest Point that the 1 chain across the rIver to the BritIsh fro I up to ten miles aboe where from until In the next ear the head I t 40 i J 7 TEO LoiN c P fAr l OJ II Quarters of the patriot at my were 10 Here still tho lIas brouck house lived tho urmy operation for more than 11 It 11 owned b the and Is a museum tor Worlds Fino t Pleasure Ground Several other poInts where has stuck conspicuous pint visible or course labeled In tho new park millions at Its command and wIth future Bure to ho ew York will create hero the most nt on earth Last Car Cartho tho Palisades park along the river Crom Fort Lee to thIrteen mlle was ted The now project 11 an extension ot but the extension Is much greater than tho orIginal that wo call project a wholly now Alread persons Crom the crowded hao to uso Pall du by out In on the benches or the Hudson summer one f ee tent cOlonl hero and there tho PaliSAde hole theIr stuffy In tite open The Therow row the river In Its ami of all they from the When the extended 9 thoro will be room tor many or both alon the and back In tho hills to como VIII enjoy the s the or rescued Crom andal fter nn a Ion I L or the will ot ota a dead man who cata catapulted wry every obstacle They may raise n bronzo ot Mr Harriman on tho but P II n cs park IU be a sufficient |
