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curly age finds himself engaged in business in a provincial town ; as Ins 

 experience and capacity increase he seeks enlarged opportunities for the 

 exercise of his powers and being of superior calibre ultimately finds him- 

 self drawn .by an irresistible magnetic force to the commercial cities- 

 here he succeeds in hecoming wealthy by close attention to his speciality 

 and the sharp country hoy becomes the keen city man. Trees and 

 grass arc, however, wrought into the very texture and fibre of his con- 

 stitution and without being aware of it he feels day by day that las life 

 needs a suggestion of the old country flavor to make it palatable as well 

 as profitable. This is one aspect of the natural phenomena with which 

 we arc now attempting to deal; no broad question of country life in 

 comparison with city life is involved ; it is confessedly a question of 

 delicate adjustment, hut we feel confident that whenever and wherever, 

 in the vicinity of New York, this delicate adjustment is best attended 

 to, and the real needs of these city-bred country hoys are most judi- 

 ciously considered, there they will certainly throng. We do not of 

 course mean to argue that the tastes to which we have referred are 

 limited solely to citizens whose early life lias been passed in the country, 

 but only that the existence of the special social element thus typified 

 gives one of the many assurances that such a scheme as the proposed 

 Parkway neighborhood would he successful, if judiciously carried out 

 within the lines suggested, before the demand is more or less perfectly 

 met in some other locality. 



It is clear that the house lots facing on the proposed Parkway would 

 be desirable, and we assume that the most profitable arrangement would 

 be to make them, say 100 feet wide, and of the full depth between two 

 streets, convenient sites for stables being thus provided. The usual 

 effect of such a plan of operations would be an occupation of the rear 

 street by houses of inferior class, and it is with a view of avoiding any 

 such unsatisfactory result that the design is extended over four blocks 

 of ground. If the two outermost streets are widened to 100 feet and 

 sidewalks shaded by double rows of trees introduced in connection with 

 them, the house lots on these streets will be but little inferior to those 

 immediately facing the Parkway, for they also will be of unusual depth 

 and will be supplied with stable lots that can be entered from the street 

 already mentioned, which should be made suitable for its special purpose 

 and with the idea that it is only to be occupied by such buildings as 

 may be required in connection with the large lots which are intended to 

 be arranged throughout back to back, with the stable street between 

 them. 



Thus, so far as this arrangement should be extended, there would be 

 a scries of lots adapted to be occupied by detached villas each in the 

 midst of a small private garden. This arrangement would offer the 



