Show s nome tUlos i i t. t NEW EW YORKER IS INDIGNANT INDIGNANT t 11 t I However Not Not Many Public Parks Are in as Bad Condition as the One l He Describes j In the the- lat latest t bulletin of or the Municipal pal Art society C. C W. W S. S Is ju bitter In his c comment on the waste of opportunity In the the called called so-called city parks of New Ne York When Is a n city park not a park he asks and answers When It ceases to offer either grass flowers or or the shade of trees when for Instance it has a large granite basin ba basin ba ba- sin or fountain without water which Is gradually broken up and curried carried d daway away when at one one end It harbors a ship and at the other other a n bombproof t cairn for explosives when third one of It Is roughly fenced off for a few years rears while the subway burrows Its slow course ourse within m ln a yard of the grass grass surface destroying for the time th the plantation and preventing for all lime D' D the growth of ofsha shade e trees over It ana It ami f. f r when this subway seizes more o of Its precious space for for entrances when t the few surviving trees for x Jn n. n recent years ears are left to die limb limb by limb and break down gradually and their place is filled by no new shade trees and when In consequence consequence su such h a 11 forlorn patch of barren ground and con this has become stands stand's year after year through the hot sum sum summers v mers neglected dust dusty and in a wor word when Its name is Union square The nursemaid In Punch being be- be be being ing ng asked sl ed by the little boy boyat at th the thesta sta station tion What Is a junction replies A place where two tracks separate s With equal truth this sq square is s tous to us usa us' us usa a place where our Idea of a park and its reality separate |