House & Garden 
A VIEW ON THE RIVER AGAWAM 
Springfield a hundred thousand dollars 
has been raised by popular subscription, 
and a hundred and twenty-five thousand 
more appropriated by the city government, 
and Court Square is to be extended to the 
river. 1'he adequate central square, on which 
many of the public buildings will face, where 
important civic occasions may be properly 
and appropriately celebrated, where popular 
band concerts may be given and water pa¬ 
geants enjoyed, and the increasingly crowded 
people may find space and air, rest and re¬ 
creation, this is assured. To the south, 
Forest Park, with its wooded walks and 
drives, its collection of animals, its play¬ 
grounds, its lovely lily ponds, is an accom¬ 
plished fact. To the north, Hampden 
Park should be secured at once; not merely 
in justice to the people of that quarter of 
the city ; not merely because, more than any 
other spot, it has been the city’s playground, 
made memorable by trotting meet and bicy¬ 
cle tournament, circus, fair and field day, 
foot-ball and base-ball match; but chiefly 
and emphatically because it is practically an 
essential feature in any comprehensive plan 
for civic improvement in which the re¬ 
demption of the river front has any part. 
A BROOK IN FOREST PARK 
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