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The City Park

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
September
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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The article in last wcek's Coürier on the Park question has aroused no smal] amount of interest, and it seems to strike the people favorable. A park Iu a city is not only a place where the masses can go for quiet recreation and pleasure, but by its beauty it becomes the pride of its inhabitants. It is true we have trees and , i l.o ..,.,,.! ,¦? tlio pnnrr.liilrirnn. do not feel at home to go tuere and play, neither do their paren U feel nt liberty to j;o and liave a basket picnic on the grass. Hut In a j.ublic park the poorest, who cannot go away to summer resorts, can enjoy the advantages of shade, sod, pure air and a beautiful view. Such a place as the liills along theriver west of town, could not be excelled for a rc.-ting and pleasure place for the people. It can be bourht cheap and no great expense would be deinandud In lilüug it out in good style, for its natural advantagei would go more thau half way torard dpingfor it tú more than any artificial changos could do. We dare say that not half of the people of this city have ever seen the mngiiificent panorama of field, forest, streain and buildings wlüch stretches below the one wUo stands on those hills. Nothing like it is auywlicre liercabouts, and it is seldoni surpassed outside the inountaius. Fmthermore it will be still more lovely wlien the Cornwell's dam niakes a large lake at the foot of the hills. The matter is one of worthy attention and uow Is a good linie to consider it.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News