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Within this same part of Mr. Letch- 

 worth's grounds stands a building in which 

 he has brought together a notable collection 

 of Indian relics, in stone and flint. It is 

 doubtful if another collection so large as 

 this, or so interesting in all its features, exists 



elsewhere in the State. Mr. Letchworth 

 has received from the Indians a name in 

 their own language, — " Hai-wa-ye-is-tah," — 

 which means " The man who always does the 

 right thing." It is not alone an Indian who 

 can speak of him in such words as these. 



OCEAN-BEACH RESERVATIONS 



YORK CITY. 



FOR NEW 



BY WILLIAM H. ALLEN. 



npHE same week that the press of the coun- 

 ■*■ try announced the gift, of $10,000,000 

 for the Russell Sage Foundation the fiscal 

 authorities of New York City added to the 

 map of the city 7000 feet of ocean beach at 

 Rockaway for a seaside park and sanitarium. 

 In addition, authority was given to secure 

 for the public in perpetuity an ocean park at 

 Coney Island. So conventional are our ideas 

 of benevolence that the private gift invokes 

 news comment throughout the world, while 

 the gift of the Atlantic Ocean to 4,000,000 

 of people almost escapes notice. A private 

 donor of millions is canonized, while the 

 benevolent motives of the public official are 

 lost sight of in the turmoils of business and 

 politics. 



In January, 190G, Mayor McClellan's 

 message called attention to the fact that 

 Greater New York, with more available 



ocean beach than any other city in the world, 

 had but a paltry thousand feet that it could 

 call its own. He had a bill prepared author- 

 izing the city to spend $2,500,000 for the 

 establishment of a seaside park where millions 

 could enjoy a respite from the monotonous 

 shop and overheated tenement, and where 

 private societies and the city might erect, back 

 from the high-water mark, convalescent 

 homes for use in winter as well as summer. 

 For two years the opportunity and the need 

 had been described by the Metropolitan 

 Parks Association, the Outdoor Recreation 

 League, and the New York Association for 

 Improving the Condition of the Poor. The 

 papers took turns in featuring New York's 

 lack of free ocean beach where it should have 

 been beach rich. So enthusiastically was the 

 project supported by the public that a Repub- 

 lican Legislature and Republican Governor 



OUT-OF-DOOR, SEA-AIR SUBSTITUTE FOR HOSPITAL WARDS. 



