Show A PUBLIC PLACE OF PLEASURE E 1 it is is bad sad work that is going on in les lea to r a rk these days in fact I 1 a ct lester part park is is about the saddest saddest place in in this I 1 city A abort short time ago it was the pride of Ogden but what horrible havoc the 1 recent windstorm wind storm played with the trees th therein brain many of the stately and beautiful I 1 I 1 pillars of foliage mere were uproot uprooted eAl and hundreds more so bent that it lias has been necessary nece seary to cut off the upper liala in if and brace the lower part up ns as near to the former perpendicular di 1 I 1 cular position as bible sible the ahn scene e n e is is really a sad one it is is pitiful to eee see the topped off and I 1 propped I 1 0 p ed up a trees and the hacked and teate leafless e s limbs liels strewn about the ground even the dead leaves impress one pa I 1 for the odor from them seems something akin to the memory of a good unan iman as we ive stand at his bier jt it was altogether saddening to me as last evening I 1 sat eat and mused amid that macene odar of action uc tion the tile eun sun hewing howing I 1 with golden bez beams ame its downward course toward the glorious west but put the tile con moling thought came to me that with I 1 tabe he return of spring sprin nature would do to repair the daniago she has done this fall and that when winter lias has and the bright warm gesek a aye come back again the tile g goiden 0 idle n bars made by the suns rays will once more burst through the foli foliage ige and at night the moons silvery beams will again play with and kiss the zepher moved acain leaves and so the par park k would loose nothing of its former beauty and attractiveness as a popular place of pleasure heretofore lestor lester park lias has from early ry spring to the dull days of autumn been a pleasant rendezvous tor for thousands 0 of f our citizens tile place has reflected alq led honor on those who promoted it and and been a it credit to the city for its maintenance during the hot summer the park in in the past has been daily sou sought bt by the people of all elapses and conditions conditions the tile shade and cool and beauty and quiet I 1 let found there are the tile I 1 v very e 1 things t that arat have made it so 60 1 lar a i and then it is without price the 1 I ho humblest citizen feels as home 1 lying y 1 on the tile warm award aa as the wealthiest w e a in the town that is because the trees the grass the many hued lined flowers the tile su sunshine and the sweet air know no up of person itis it is well WOW cinat it is so on most any summer dav day from 10 in the th I 1 morning to tile the calm hour of the suns dow down n going ang there might be teen seen carefree f ape children happy hatless hat lesa legs bare footed romping and rolling on the carnet carpet ot of grass beneath the tile ereen cry floating over bead men stretched strete bed full length on the ground pipe in mouth watching the little coiling clouds of emoke smoke puffed out by their own breathing brea t h the idle smoke lookin looking u up lt between the trees into the grat great cloudless r c ou less space yonder won wondering d erin i t perhaps why it is am so blue and so I 1 r away hero here are sometimes been seen you young ng mothers with their dimpled babes each cooing to the other in tones softer and mellower than the tile cooing of the doves the halt and poor find rest and recreation her here e the down downhearted bea hearted td and nd friel grief burdened comfort m and solace am amid d the tile trees here athey may look at sweet eyed flowers voice of listen to the bound of happy innocent cli children ildren and the song of the I 1 I 1 I 1 birds in tho the treas and unembarrassed their ow own n souls may commune with the soul of things now a maidens voice is heard trilling ft it bit of alove n love ballad in hi accents the sweeter because of tho guilelessness guileless neis of her ber own heart lover lovers too in meet beet here when the shades of night nigh t bring out the stars up at which they ga a z guessing 0 easing the one which will be ie their b home o me when love becomes I 1 immortal tn beneath th the e w whispering I 1 iside r i icay leaves I 1 they whisper vo vows yv a of con confluence and es constancy under the tile hallowed I 1 ex tacy of loves ailine divine dream one dav day during the past is cummer immer I 1 saw an aged man with a girl about about 16 year years old sitting on one of the tile benches in in the cool shade it was the hour ol 01 noon and chev had with them a on frugal r va meal it w was ai apparent they were of the honest toiling class A sable band around ins his hat the rather dull expression on ins his faceting face and tind tho tile faraway far away look in his las eye to me ino the sad and etory story told that death hart had claimed the companion of hia his joya joys and sorrows eor rows here these two had come to r find ind what they felt had forever flown from their humble home light I 1 cheerfulness and change and I 1 wondered if it could be that the invisible presence leaf materialized than the very r sunshine un shine of the tile dear departed was nearby near by having that same solicitude and feeling 1 inot tender love which had atie made her r in in life the noble nobie wife and darling mother who can call tell what lester park in the past lias has been to the people of ogden it will continue to be in abo future for the damage done by tho the recent tornado is only temporary time and attention will restore the beautiful place to its former attractiveness so that as the years go by the park will become more and more a place for public pleasure and one of the institutions to kielp in sp spreading readia the fame of this fair city I 1 MILO ar |