Photo by Albeit G. KobiiiMni 

 THE EXDLESS VARIETY OF BEAUTY OF ROCK CREEK PARK 



"Along one part of the stream there are places where the creek is deep and stagnant, 

 with sandy pools; at other places the water runs swiftly, and there are ripples in the stream 

 and many tiny cascades, where the water splashes over ridges of rock and twists round huge 

 boulders" (see page 738). 



cultural purposes or it would have been 

 turned into cultivation. So far as ap- 

 pears, nothing has been done or is be- 

 ing done v/ith the land to make much 

 profit out of it. There are many other 

 pieces of woodland of great beauty far- 

 ther to the northeast and east. Most if 

 not all of those woods could be bought 

 at moderate prices. They could be man- 

 aged so as to bring in a revenue which 

 would with good forestry methods per- 

 haps return a profit, or at any rate pay 

 the cost of administration. 



What a thing it would be for the ix^o- 

 ple of Baltimore and Washington to have 

 an immense open s])ace like that, where 

 they could go out on Saturdays and Sun- 

 day's, especially in the summer months ; 

 where they could wander about, have 



their picnic parties, and enjoy these pleas- 

 ures of nature, which are the simplest 

 and purest that God has bestowed upon 

 his creatures the capacity of enjoying. 



Xow, you may say this is all very fine 

 and pretty, but where are the funds to 

 come from? Well, considering that the 

 District of Columbia is Uncle Sam's 

 jiroperty, and that his ])urse is a dec]) one. 

 and that a wi(lc-o]K'n rcgit>n for recrea- 

 tion will become UK^rc and more valu- 

 able, and the obtaining it more and more 

 costly as time goes on, what you have 

 got to do is to educate public opinion and 

 induce Congress to spend a moderate sum 

 for this purpose, while the peojile of 

 r.altimore induce their city and the State 

 of Maryland to do the like. Xo people 

 is reallv more idealistic than the .\meri- 



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