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early age finds himself engaged in business in :i provincial town ; as his 

 experience :ui<l 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 < i ( i < • s ; 



here lie succeeds in becoming wealthy by close attention to his speciality 

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

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

 stitution and without being aware of it he feels day by day that his 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 are now attempting to deal; no broad quest ion 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 Ave have referred are 

 limited solely 1o citizens whose early life has 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 be successful, if judiciously carried out 

 within the lines suggested, before thedemandis more or less perfectly 

 met in some other locality. 



It is edear that the house lots facing on the proposed Parkway woiild 

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

 he 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 he supplied with stable lots that can be entered from the street 

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

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

 may he 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 series of lots adapted to be occupied by detached villas each in the 

 midst o{^ a small private garden. This arrangement would offer the 



