...anted a park or to have others have one, the law was killed. Boston, in vulgar phrase, had cut her nose off to spite her face. Mr. Wright, whose hope was for lungs,—large oxygen exhaling Fells and Blue Hills lungs,—wrote of this action April 26, 186: The well guarded park bill of last year, which submitted the whole problem of the future beauty and grandeur of our city to a competent...