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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge parks. (search)
e a fitting home for the life toward which many men look as toward that which is strong and good in our civilization? Only after a city reaches that stage of existence when some parts at least have become crowded, does the realization of the need for open spaces make itself convincingly apparent. Indeed, it is only in the great European cities that we find the ideal development of lands given over to the use of the people, —in such vast centres as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, and London. Elizur Wright has even said, in a description of London's magnificent parks, London would go crazy without them. That Cambridge itself is becoming crowded is proved by the fact that an entire ward might be laid out with a population of one hundred people to the acre, while smaller districts are still more densely populated. Such being the condition, we cannot but ask ourselves what efforts we have made to give to every man, especially to those who are living under the least favorable circumstances,