Charles Eliot, landscape architect - a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good (1902) (14594690417)

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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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r the Newton mills, this passage of the river throughthe rocks and Hemlocks presents a scene such as cannot bematched in the whole metropolitan district. Will not a fewof those generous persons who are continually enriching theBoston Art Museum unite now in securing the permanentpreservation of this so beautiful natural picture ? With theMetropolitan Commission standing ready to assume the cus-tody of the place, it will be worse than regrettable if anotherHemlock is permitted to be removed, or another obtrusivebuilding to be inserted. III. — Metropolitan Parkways. In addition to commanding the acquisition of reservationsat Revere Beach and Charles River, the legislature of 1894directed the Metropolitan Park Commission to invest $500,000in so-called boulevards. Immediately upon the passage of this act, a variety ofwidely different schemes were proposed. It was argued thatthe Commission should assume charge of the maintenance,watering, and policing of certain selected and more or less
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^T. 35) CAR AND CARRIAGE PARKWAYS 509 direct or continuous existing highways, and thus preservethem as pleasure driveways exempt from the dangerous intru-sion of electric cars. In other quarters it was held that thelegislature intended the appropriation to be spent for therelief of the imemployed, and that if only work were fur-nished, it did not much matter what existing highways wereimproved, or how remote from the centre of population theymight be. In May, 1894, we were first asked to give attention to theproblem presented by this new act of the legislature. Asto the place where the appropriation should be expended,it seemed to us, after due reflection, that wise economy de-manded, first, that only the interior parts of the metropolitandistrict should be considered, because the permanent resultsof work done therein would benefit many persons for everysingle person who would enjoy the results of labor expendedin remoter regions; and, secondly, that the particular partof the interior