| Show to the cit city fathers greeting greetin g 11 gentlemen speaking of an engine houe and stable for leater lester park I 1 proffer the advice dont do it but get boma water out there and make it more worthy the pride and love of the people it is true that for the most part and more especially during daring the early bummer summer it has been a crazing grazing ground for the horse and cow a lodging place for the hobo and a golconda for the suicide I 1 observed each morning as M I 1 came by the park on my way to business that the brutes had a neat and contented look and their haunches paunches pa pau swelled with pride or something else as they looked upon the magnificent scenery enery ec had I 1 understood der stood bovine and equine language they would no doubt have informed me that they belonged to mcalisters McA listers fl aristocratic four hundred tor for not often can the horse and cow afford to dine off a table worth fifty thousand dollars to the acre As for the hobo he seemed to be delighted with his royal lodging bouse house and airy and roomy room surroundings surround inga the melancholy suicide 6 quit this vale of fears eara when be he bad had noted the striking phraseology of the mayors proclamation that admonished the world to keep off the grass lest the expression may bound sound harshly if I 1 say that lister lester park at this time la is a reproach to oden ogden city I 1 mil will qualify it by baying saying with propriety that its present condition la is a burning shams why wily because its man manifest ifert neglect is disgraceful and the grass gram what little remains remain is burning mg up tor for want of w ater star see sel the leaves of the trees are yellow of jaundice their brash is unkempt and disheveled some of them have been girdled others are impregnated under the tile bark by a deadly vegetable parasite that will finally ba be transmitted to every tree in the tile enclosure and the sod la Is ragged and dying of neglect and crying every moment for water water water A public park cared for as it should be is a public blessing it blesses the rich and poor alike and is a continual pride and glory to the citizen I 1 remember that something like A FL year ago the editor of taa tax STANDARD speaking epe aking on this subject in bis ble own paper characterized public parks as the longs lungs of a city a peoples breathing re athing places and I 1 remember that I 1 thought when I 1 read it what a pretty conceit the figure expresses an and d bow beautifully the tile epigram tells a whole artory in a few worda words and so gentlemen let us always regard the bublic parka a r 1 its as the peoples peo plea breathing afa places c e s and not aa as their sr places place for cure sure as yon you live when leater lester park is once transformed into a stable and a machine shop it will emell smell to heaven and the sal hydrogen will linger long on the melancholy n when unwitting winds of summer watt waft it about it is reported that hercules cleansed the vast stables of in a single day but hercules was a very strong man much stronger I 1 dare say than was I 1 the be that arose from the windrows wind rows of cebrij as they disappeared i 1 lap geared before bis his mighty d dung to 9 f fork I 1 bat a at alas I 1 in our dy day an and generation there are no more so do not indulge the vain hope that you may execute the proposed innovation and leave your successors to undo your ill advised work the park once put to a use for which it waa was not intended will be marred tor for all time gentlemen it if I 1 bad ai much money as yon have haveard and knowing beforehand naon as I 1 now do with what hearty approbation the people would second my efforts instead of mutilating the only excuse for a park we now have I 1 would give this brantl beautiful city as an evidence of what I 1 regarded a public trust in in public office a breathing place for the an sino I 1 would fashion it something like the follow ing in the first place I 1 would have my park surrounded by a beautiful fence it not ot eo so much to make it exclusive but I 1 that hat it should be an attractive ornament and to define the limits B by the way what has become ol 01 the oli old fence I 1 recollect that it cost wb when en i ma made do somewhere b between tween 1660 and 2000 what baa has become of the old fence next I 1 would have the fence broken by by many gates that should turn unwilling on willing binges bin ACS to admit a visitor and they should swing owing noise lefly shut behind him astrea streams of cry crystal stal water should play hide and beek among the greenest greenest ol 01 ferns terns and yellow eat of gol golden an butter eu cupa pg there should be trees with generous shade to invite the weary pilgrim and the dreamy philosopher I 1 would erect statues and modest columns column a to commemorate the lives of such of our citizens as were worthies pe cilly ally those who ho bad honestly and intelligently served the public as mayor or members of the city council n fountains should sparkle in the delicious air and in the pools around them the gold fish should sport to bis his hearts content and I 1 would see that the bear river water co furnished furnish farnish nish ed the liquid or I 1 would know the reason reason why bhore must be no night in my park tor for the electric c light should devour the darkness A few broad avenues fringed with becoming trees should sweep weep across it and t there it ere should b ba some solitary paths with many seats beneath the hade shade for falkl tilting g age tad sad lovers made I 1 and there should be bed hedges gas fresh with ambrosial flowers and filled with the wild birds cunning nests and a n d no mischievous in Isch levous boys should frighten t an them away an and d roses and vines should climb and creep till the hedge was a bower 0 of I 1 perpetual pal delight the stately matron and her groom groome should hould wander wherever the pleasures plea kures of the park invited and ill the e fond young mother should push be her r perambulator whither r she would and weary age should unmolested sleep else p the afternoon away in the fragrant shade the cerberus that guarded the portals day and night and cared tor for the decorum of the i lace should be argus argue eyed lie should be as polite as a lord chesterfield as tender of heart as a girl and brave and strong as an achilles Ac billes I 1 would pass a law that some member of the city council should visit the park at least once a day and the mayor whose only compensation should ba bs the honor bonor of his a exalted position should have such a temperament that it would be impossible to keep him from the pleasant retreat gentlemen how do you like my park for a it starter et arter T would not better men and women grow up when they went out into the world and had each a mom memory to look back to did you ever know a cultivated mind a fine grained temperament and he did not like the song of the wild bird the glory and the beauty of flowers the intoxicating veata of a fine landscape and a constant association with nature spontaneous unconventional nature better let the park alone or else add a little beauty to it suppose gentlemen that you plant a fire engine and a stable in lester park and that some day a popular ke re bubli an la is expounding the SIc mckinley Kinley do crine to an assembled multitude and be he would come pretty near getting a multitude to hear bear him and the alarm of fire should be turned lao in what would we navel havel in a moment the intelligent horses would be at the pole another moment and the driver would be on bis his box the firemen at their posts post e and with one wild impetuous rus rush ll 11 that brooks brook a no obstacle the ponderous engine would be tearing along in a mad flight a frightful column of I 1 black emoke smoke would issue from th the e smoke stack fire would be quivering in the grate below and pandemonium would for the be moment reign nervous horses that are tethered in the vicinity would be panic stricken and breaking from their moorings sweep down on the helpless belp leaa crowds of women and children and men till in the inextricable chaos the whole mass would blend in one confused heap there would be such tears and lamentations on the morrow for the dead and mutilated living aa as your ears before beard heard and there would be euch such sights aa as would make ron you wish that you had been born blind would it mitigate your sense ot t responsibility and lessen the suffering ing of the maimed to know that tho t at bat that time you might be out of office offic better let leater lester park remain al as it now ia Is or turn on some more water wate r and plant flowers it the park be now taken away from the people and devoted to a purpose for which it wag was never intended will it not bean be an opening wedge for other license to follow Theli the libert bertion iea of a people are lost the very mo moment m e 1 l t they permit their rights to be tr trifled ial e d with the first work of a tyrant is to allay a peoples fears then emasculate them of manhood by making them dependent and the end is not far nor doubt doubtful fal and so little by little the wedge is driven in and one by one the peoples rights are taken from them the history of the tile whole world is full fall of examples but the last to follow will not be wise we travel th ahn old paths that are fenced with the bleached skeletons of slaves who hive trod it before but their white bones are a lost admonition in our own day and city we have seen this exemplified or or at least partially but no to one wil will raise a warning hand we are drifting on and on and the good lord only knows where we a will emerge we have seen our water supply that Dro properly perly regulated and restricted ought to be as free a as a the air we breathe because it is as s indispensable to life and happiness we have been seen it grappled by the tentacles of a human 0 octopus your purpose however to have a firs fire engine on the hill in case of a IL conflagration I 1 believe to be a wise one and so I 1 am sure the people at larea large feel towards I 1 it but select some place lace other than lester park I 1 A 8 CONDON |
