OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



on the hill-side, and a gaunt jail, which is the 

 very apotheosis of ugliness, crowns this pic- 

 turesque height. 



Another little city, that of Hartford, in the 

 neighbor State of Connecticut, has made the 

 most of its opportunities by converting into a 

 charming public garden a weary waste of 

 ground that lay between its railway station 

 and the heart of the city. The opportunity 

 was not large, to be sure, but it was one that 

 needed a keen eye for its development, and the 

 result has shown that commercial thrift may 

 not un frequently take its lesson with profit 

 from the suggestions of a cultivated taste. There 

 is many a growing town having somewhere 

 within its borders such unsuspected aptitude 

 and capability, that only needs an eye to dis- 

 cern it, and the requisite enterprise to develop 

 in the very heart of the population a garden 

 and a public promenade that would become a 

 joy forever. It must be remembered, further- 

 more, that it is quite impossible to make such 

 transmutation of waste and unsightly places 

 into an attractive area of garden-land, with- 

 out increasing enormously the taxable value 

 of all surrounding property. I recall now, 

 in one of our most thriving seaside cities, a 

 great slough of oozy tide-mud of many acres 



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