The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1897, Page 19

o e | Tremogt ate, =+ Entrance to ElysianPark _ tecome e world. erprising a ate that suc From 11 cou t and to ad- de- of wide ant pep- 3 1stas that tist and stranger, to i on 1s roa and d, but even s are to be i by younger rivals that await only aid to mature their arbored ment. h his wealth and The most enthu es scarcely dares r will bs when miles of peppers and eets shail bave onial are the whom Tue fam s has gone ab magine what this hundreds of r green crow vast beds of brilliant the evergreen, well- WEST THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1897, taste has al- & (A Lk e sl A VIEW Eastern cities hava the! achievements ¢f the landscape gardener’s art, ed with infinite paias through the varying seasons that admit of only a summer’s dress parade, but in the East nurt Jand Eurove one may search in vain to | LAKE PARK. . | of | visi [ raprdly undergoins | wrought by toe skill of civil engineers | IN GRIFFITH PARK. parks, notable | find a parallel to such a profusion of beauty, seemingly growing without care, as can be behcld and reveled in upon the public streets of the residence sections of Los Angeles. Travelers whose eyes have been open agree that this is not extrava- gant praise. While private citizens have been trans. forming their own grounds into gardens re beauty, to which, as a rule, the g stranger is welcome to penetrate for close and fall in<peetion, if he will but res:rain the impulse to carry away rudely severe | boughs and bouquets, the muni- civality has been keeping pace in the esthetic race. The city of Los Angelesnow owns nearly 4000 acres of park lands. While much of this acreage has not yet felt the improv- ing hand of the landscape gardener, the | ouaghast part of it—the park Jand—has 1ts charms for visitors. Of the twelve parks the greatest in size is the one most recently acquired by gift from its owner. Gr ffith Park has within 1's bounds nearly 3000 acres of diversified lands, from river bottom and green valley to the most rugged mountains, to adorn which in artificial betterments would be the lifework of a landscape gardener. Briefly disposing of this tract, which lies just without the city limits, more should be said of ite adjicent neighbor, Elysian Park, the 535 acres of w the transformation | and the planter of trees and flowers. This | park, wherein is the nighest hill in the city and named in honor of Presiden: McKinley, displaying from its summit a | proudly flaunting flag, was last winter the scene of a philanthropic experiment in temporarily relieving the necessities of the army of unemployed that for a tfime threatened the peace and very existence of Los Angeles. The sum of $30,000, raised by public subscription, was ex- pended for labor and a wide roadway was constructed within the park, which winds its sinuous route for over three miles amid the hills. The entrance to the new driveway is on Buena Vista street and has been named Fremont Gute in horor of the Pathfinder. The terraces next the streev are being transformed into banks of flowers and slopes of sward, through which a switch- back footpath leads pedestrians hither and thither. In one ol the valleys are ex- tensive propagating gardens, with a greenhouse, and, in season, there are aeres of chrysanthemums, roses and other | floral beauties to be ultimately trans- planted to other parks. S The hills are gradually becoming cov- ered with dense groves of various species | ot eucalypti, cypress, pines and other | trees that thrive without irrigation. Matchless panoramic views of surround- ing and disiant scinery are beheld from the highest points on the driveway. Past the Fremont Gate will be the great boulevard that is designed to connect Los Angeles and Pasadena, a thoroughfare that 1s to be 120 feet wide throughout its ten miles of length, affording separate roadways for vehicles, bicycles and peaes- trians, the limits of each to be defined by | rows of trees. This great undertaking is | now under way and 1ts completion will be the glory of the sister cities. East Side Park has fifty-six acres of | highly improved ground that seems to have attained perfeciion of beauty and | variety. It has a lawn worth traveling miles to see and tread | upon, the “‘keep off the grasy’’ warning | having fallen into disrespect. A pretty that tempts the Rustic bridges and musical cascades, jungles of bamboo and ma:ses of papyrus and lotus greet the visitor and sapply | studies for the botanist. Westlake Park is conceded to have at- tained its prime and its more circum- | scribed limits of thirty-five acresare full that of itself is | | & i e 1A i g " £ fl‘a/:"yr‘ 1 It (1 ! Y e fifed [ty AL | S LI i) ih‘{’! L rl‘fl ) Twenty-six acres of grass-covered slopes and limpil lake form Hollenbeck Park, on Boyle Heights. Therein is a serpen- tine lake and tempting greensward, which make the paik a most inviting resort for 1overs of the beauntiful. Its neighborhood has become imbued with the spirit of syl- van beauty. The park was a gift to the city from ex-Mayor Workman and Mrs. Hollenbeck. The last named manifested further her liberality by tuilding upon its border and maintaining from her own i ) ik le s’h il Vi i | ON FIGUEROA STREET. bandstand is perched out in the lake| means a great establishment designed as devotees of boating. | a home for old aud friendiess women and | men. | Frem Hollenbeck Park it is an interest- | ing drive to Prospect Park, a heart-shaped “ garden in the highest stage of mature | beauty, occupying three acres of ground | on the summit of a hill. | Central Park is the place most fre- | to repletion with beauties. The lake isa ' quented by iransient visitors to the city great attraction, and on Sunday ofter- | noons a band concert enterta | throngs of the best peop!e of the city, who | 2o thither by carriage, streetcar and on | From Westlake Park | rd, already completed for | from morning to night. | foot for enjoyment. | a wide bot a portion of its length, will lead through | to Echo Park and Elysian P | Echo Park has thirty-two ncres, and in- | its neighbor, Westl | cludes a lake, boathouse and flower gar- and sojourners whe abide downtown. Its ins great | jouracres are filled 1o repietion with trees, generaly mature, and shrutbery that afford a shade for great numbers of people, who occupy its rastic benches [ There ure e'even, as yet unimproved, acres in Sunset Park, but it will soon rival with which it is connecled by tke wide boulevard before | dens, but being in a valley and not visible | mentioned, that is to have a terminus in way lines it will be some day. hich are | or readily accessible frcm the street rail- | the Elysian Hills. it has not become as popular as | Then there is St. James Park, only an acre in all, it is true, but every inch of it EAST SIDE PARK. BEAUTY SPOTS THAT ARE THE WONDER oF TOURISTS. ,‘_:’g\f;;\ A fr u v.' TP st % o : {m‘l‘ Ty | /, 7 e T e i ‘C‘.\‘a'(u IR 7:.8% is pretty, with walks and shaded seats and | ¢tain fully as musical as of yore, and flowers in banks about the central foun- tain. This is the aristocratic center of ihe city, and is often made the scene of gayety when church parties ana charity | fairs are given within its limits, and for | the brief season of a day and night it is closed to those who do not care to pay the price of admission-to the fairy-like garden. | The city is about to acquire for the pub- lic good a park on Central avenue which will probably bz named South Park. That Reference to the oicest park in the city in tbe list. | was the very heart of old Los Anzeles, and, until the recent acquisition of out- lying territory by annexation of several suburbs, was the geographical center of the city, is an aere of ground that has seen all the history of tiis pueblo from its inception, in the time of the padres, who built upon one side of it their old mission unkind to the plaza, for the city has | grown away from it until the pretty spot has been relegated to the plebeian neigh- borhood of Chinatown and Sonoratown. The magnolia treesand flowering shrubs are just as sweet and the dancing foun- PALM DRIVE will add eight acres of improved park | land to the holdings of the municipality. | is purposely held for the last of the dozen | The round plaza, which once | | chureb. The mutations of time have been | he pretty breathing place nestles like an emerald in a rude setting. Ina community so imbued with the esthetic idea that even the commonest laborers are addicted to the wearing of buttonhole bouquets while engaged in the most prosaic toil, it is to be expected that the admiration of beautiful streets, grounds and parks should be general. Strangers notice and comment on tkis spirit, which is so much in evidence, and who shall eriticize it as folly ? Who has the prescience to foresee a time when the people of Los Angeles shall be so engrossed in trade, in manufacturing and in other world'y ways of making money that they shall neglect the duty they now seem to feel to unite in the mak- ing of Lus Angeles the most beautiful city? That oil derricks in =ome localities are crowding out the lily bads and Goid of Opnir roses and basiness blocks are obliterating some of the one time magnifi- cent private grounds that in the hurly- burly found themselves enveloped in the extension of the commercial district, is taken as the sure indication of greatness; for is there not yet plenty ot room on the outer edges, where mansions may be erected and surroundced by all the wealth of semi-tropical vegetation? FROM ADAMS STREET. STILL THE IDOL OF GERMANY Prince Bismarck as Much Beloved as in the Years| of His Valorous Prime. A That nothing succeeds like success has, | heed or scruple in open speech, never for ) man, is b>loved and honored as the perhaps, never been better illustrated than by the relations which the German people entertain toward their great statesman, Otto Edward Leopold, Prince vin Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, ex- ncellor of the Empire, Field Marshal | eral, etc., eic., who was for many | rs the most hated man in all Prussia, and, for that matter, in Germany also. And this same man, without changing | of his principies and theories that | made him hated, has become the most ular and venerated person of his coun- | We do not intend to write an historical | eatise, and therefore shall explain in a | « lines only how this surprising change iminated. From the very start of his ¢ career Bismarck labored io form a varty favor of the existing \ssian monarcby. The situstion in ssin after the accession of King Wil , was very compiicated and difficuic jth, as tbe King would not re- | in I'd to deal w tract the already commenced reorzaniza- tion of the army, while the Chamber of | Depuiies refused to grant the means for this purpose. Under these circumstances | Bismarck undertook to convince the Chamber of the urgency of the King’s | object, and demonstrated the ncce_ss_xxy of a strong Prussian army by explaining Germany did not care & tig about | Prussian liberalism, and that the import- ant questions of the times cou_ld not _bu ted by speeches and majorily resoiu- _ut had to be solved by blood and on Tuis “blood and iron” policy, however, was only met by ridicule and distrust. The Deputies and the peopie considered Bismarck a narrow-minded, ta kative Junker (nickname for young noulgmen)‘ and a pliant tool of the reaction, trying to destroy the constitution. After this Bs- marck met the Deputies always without | four years later, as a consequence of his oniginaily declared purpose. The con- sequence was that people and press abused’ and caricatured him on every possible and | g | one moment deviating in the least from | founder of the resurrected empire, and as the man who has restored the fatheriand to the respected position she originally occupied among the nations. He iscon- impossible occasion, and continued 1o do | sidered by them the greatest statesman so until the events of 1866 fally demon- | of ail ages and, indeed, if we attempnt to strated that his ideas were the only ones which coul! regenerate Germany. When victorious Franco-German war, the em- pire had been re-establi-hed, the former | dislike of Bismarck changed into an ad- miration so great ss had never beiore | been accorded to any German. During the period of Bismarck’s chan- cellorship from 1870 to 1858 some of the parties in the Reichstag were often bitter- | ly opposed to his iniernal policy, which opposition was nourished anc sirength- ened by Bismarck’s brusque speeches to | his parliamentary advesaries. His foreign policy, on the contrary, was never criti- cized and he continued it successfully with his usualenergy, and, in this respect, all parties reposed the utmos! confidence in bim. F opponents in the Reicastag feared his sarcastic speech, but never | ceased to admire his superiority. So stood matters till, seven years ago, the present Emperor accepted Bismrack's resignation. This was brought about | principally by the Emperor’'s resolution to revoke the ordinance which made the Chancellor alone directly responsible, and | further by a disagreement on the Russian question, Bismarck attaching more im- portanc: to maintaining friendly relations tothat power than the Emperor. There may have been other reasons which in- dnced the Kaiser to sever his connections with the tried adviser of his grandlatber, but no matter what the reasons were the mess of the people never Lave and never will forgive the Emperor for his attitude in this matter. Bismarck is still the idol of every Ger- the | compare him with the most renowned statesmen of former times, with the three famous cardinals, Wolsey, Richelien and Muzarin, or with Talleyrand or Metter- nich, they contend that he has proved | himself far superior to anv of them in i statecraft, and he has certainly been more | succesaful than all of them together. Un- | like most of the above-nam-d men, Bis- marck has never been accused of rapacity nor of using unsernpulous means to fur- ther his objects, nor has pride and ambi- tion coused him to deviate in the leas from his path. The German soldiers and officers fairly worship Bismarck, whom they consider their best and foremost comrade, for he has never severel his connectlon with the army, and took more pride in being a soldier then in al! the honors and decora- tions that were showered upon him by the potentates of the world. -Bismarck very seldom appeared in public without uniform and palasch (cuirassier’s sword), not even when horseback-riding, end most people have never seen hisimposing figure in citizen’s dress. The students see in Bismarck the representative Ger- man and they try to imitate him. The present Emperor is by no means disliked in Germany nor ridiculed, as French and English journalists are fond of making us believe, and it is generally acknow!ledged there that he does all he can for the good of thecountry.. When, a few years ago, the Emperor attempted & reconcilistion with the Prince and offered him the use of a royal castle for a rccup- eration of Bismarck’s health in a change of scene and air. he gained more friends PRINCE OTTO VON BISMARCK. [Frcm his latest photograph, pronounced the best ever taken of him.] in Germany than he could have gamed by an y other act of his. Itis true the Emperor has since then tried to entertain good relations with the ex-Chancellor, but that is not suflicient for the majority of his people, who wish to see Bismarck once more at the helm of the Government, though such a thing is hardly advisable, if for no other reason on account of the age and temporary in- validity of the great statesman. In 1894 four years had passed since Bis- marck left Berlin, the city (which bad known him as a quiet schoolboy, as a student full of spirit and temperament not entirely devoid of deviltry, as a sharp- tongued Junker, and lastly as the omnipo- tent Chancellor of the newly reconstructed (by his energy and strength) united em- pire. The writer of these lines, who has participated in the triumphal entry of the German army in Berlin-after its return to be in the same city in 1894, and can vouch that the enthusiasm which pre- vailed in the city at the latter date was littte inferior to the enthusiasm of the former occasion. And what was the cause that had stirred the good Berliners to such a high pitch of excitement? Nothing less than that the Kaiser had invited Bismarck to court, and that the invitation had been accept- ed. This joyous news spread over Berlin like a whirlwind, and the peopie talked about nothing but Bismarck’s coming. throngh the festively decorated streets, honored like a king, loved like the father of nis country. His stay was only of short duration, but his Berliners Lad seen him once more, and all Germany shared their oy. J‘ll"hrea years have passed, and the old Chancellor has had to mourn the loss of the Princess, who had been his true com- pation in joy and grief. He lives now ex- clusively in the sélitude of the Saxon forest at his castie of Friedrichsruhe, and it 18 not likely that be will ever leave it again for any length of time. The last wishes and pravers of all true Germans are with him all the time; and whenever any clouds appear on the political horizon of Germany the eyes of ail the people are turned toward Friedrichsrube and everybody listens to the admonishing or encouraging voice of the “Ait Kanzler,” and bis Yvords are more relied on than anybody else’s, not excepting the Kaiser's. May his few remaining years be passed from the French war in 1871, happened | Andcome pe did. He eniered in triumph | in unalloved happiness! His body will | soon return to earth, but his memory will | live forever in the hearts of his country« ' men. WririaM LoDTMANN. _— Omnipresent. Tell me, ye winged winds That round my pathway fiit, Know’st tnou some quiet spot Where mortals say not “Niv"? Tell me, ye winged winds That chill, then straightway thaw me, Must we forever hear “Just tell them that—"" Tell me, ye winged winds, A whisper will suffice, Know'st thou no sylvan nook Devoid of *Cuts no ice”? Some valley in the West, Some lone and pleasant dell, Where, free from care and pain, One hears not *W’at t'ell”? Tell me, thou mighty deep, Whose billows round me play, Know'st thou & spot where folks Say never “Don’t get gay” ? Sowe island far away, Asleep in some fair lake, Where one may never hear “Come off. You take the cake'? And thou, serenest moon, Ere oceanward you sink, Did’st ever note & place Bereft of “I don’t think”? Dost look upon the earth, Asleep in night's embrace, And note a spot where ne’er 1s heard **Oh! close your face”? L'ENVOL The winged winds, the mighty deep, The fair moon's palest sheen, Whispered in turn the same reply, “Alas] Nay nay, Paulin A Poli;n;r\"s Glever Reply. The London Academy tells the follows ing story of Tolstoi: During his recent visti to Moscow he ob:erved a policeman taking a drunken man to the station with some vigor. Tne Count storped him and said: *‘Can you read?’ “Yes,” was the reply. “And have you read the gospel?”’ “Yes, sir.” “Then you ought to know that we should not offend our neighbor.” The constable looked the Count up and down, noticing his shabby appearance, and asked. ‘‘Can you read ?” ~Yes,” sai Tolstoi. *“And have yon read the instrucs tions te the police?” " *No, “Very well, then, go and read them first and then come back and talk to me again.”