32 J. H. MAIDEN. 



3. The noise and bustle of shipping. Noise and bustle 

 are inseparable from shipping. The donkey-engines 

 are noisy by day and night, and the varied and loud 

 noises incident to shipping operations detract from the 

 rest fulness of a public park. 



4. Rats and shipping. No matter what precautions are 

 taken it is difficult to prevent rats leaving a ship for 

 the land. In a public park food-refuse is always lying 

 about and encourages the rat-scavengers. We have 

 special reason to dread the presence of rats, and a 

 public park should be an ideal health resort for the 

 people. 



I have dealt with the small wharves necessary for people 

 to enjoy facilities for bathing, boating etc., and to obtain 

 the maximum enjoyment from their parks, at p. 36. 



VI. Special Public Requirements. 



a. Necessities : — 



1. Lighting. Why do we want light in a public park? 

 For the same reasons that we want it in the public streets. 

 We want it in order that we may see our way. We want 

 it that we may walk as we choose, without being disturbed 

 by the foot-pad or the larrikin. As matters stand, during 

 the greater portion of the time (the evening hours) that 

 promenade in a park is possible to the average man or 

 woman, they are precluded from this pleasurable and health- 

 giving exercise. The old stupid idea is that museums and 

 picture-galleries are only to be opened during the period 

 that the average citizen is at work. Parks certainly are 

 available longer than that, but at night they should not 

 hold out special inducements to criminal and vicious persons. 

 On moral and hygienic grounds, therefore, let us have light 

 in our parks. 



It seems strange to have to insist upon light as an 

 essential in a public park. Hyde Park, London, the prin- 



