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Show BEQUESTS ALL COULD ENJOY Mony Left for "Public Parks Would Keep Donor's Memory Ever lni Remembrance. He hath left you all walks, His private arbors, and new planted or, chards. On this side Tiber: bo hath left them you. And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures. pleas-ures. To walk abroad-and recreate yourselves. Julius Caesar. Why do not more persons wishing to benefit the people after their demise de-mise leave, for park purposes, their private gardens to. the dear public? What more effective way to insure remembrance after one is gone could be devised? Those who provide in their wills for silly shafts of stone, etc., do the public no lasting benefit, nor do they pprpetuate a memory of the donor, for they leave nothing worthy of remembrance or that proves either a boon or a bc-neflt to their fel-, low-man. Parks, either large or small, are imperishable monuments to the , fellow-being who, in his wisdom, i craved remembrance from his kind. |