Show I Editorials by C. C C. C Goodwin Goodwi I Something Something About Parks Twenty five y years ars ago November 17 the 1888 board of off f park commissioners of Rochester N. N Y filed the first map indi- indi eating cating territory which it intended to acquire for park purposes This was met by opposition on public grounds more the commissioners were roundly abused and their motives ques ques- i But they went ent on acquired the thc land and began to improve it The result is told by the Democrat a and d Chronicle as V follo s' s I i Today with only a brief quarter of a century cn intervening ng the fortunat at dwellers in the fi city l have abundant ant reason for calling these park promoters blessed and engraving their names and deeds on lasting tablets of bronze As the direct re- re suIt of their patriotic endeavors under the most discouraging circumstances cir cir- the thc people of Rochester a system of parks emb embracing racing nearly 1800 acres which is the he envy of ma many y larger and andl more populous cities Experts from the K w gard ns don and tIle the botanic gardens of DubIn who have haye vis visited visited vis- vis the principal parks of this country declare unhesitatingly that hat for beauty charm and educational features Rochester's great gardens are not excelled on this side of the Atlantic More than this so import nt in these and all respects have Rochester's parks become that men who discouraged the efforts of Moore Barry Elliott and the other park pioneers are now and have been for years among the most enthusiastic admirers of the extensive pleasure grounds of the people The same p paper per adds that in the five twenty years Rochester has gl grown wn by leaps and bounds and has grown greatly as a city of highly r adorned adorned homes for the peo people le are re reflected in their thell surroundIngs the floral beauty of th city's parks There we have it Rochester is one of the cities on the line of the old Erie canal and the New NewYork York Central oad between Alb Albany and Buffalo There are a dozen others along that miles of f track Salt Lake stands by the center of a region covering about square miles of territory r. r It is impossible to estimate esti- esti mate its growth in the twenty five years but the prospect is bright enough to cause our commissioners to reflect that there must be ample park rooth near it t and first class boulevards over people may drive to take in the beauties of the place |