House and Garden 
THE VILLA BORGHESE 
/^NE of the most highly prized 
possessions of the Borghese 
family has been the well-known and cele¬ 
brated park and palace at Rome, known 
by the name of “Villa Borghese.” This 
has been purchased from the trustees of 
the Borghese bankruptcy by the city 
of Rome for use as a public park. For 
three centuries Romans have been al¬ 
lowed to walk and drive in this park on 
certain days of the week, until custom 
had made it appear to be public prop¬ 
erty, which it has until now not been. 
Indeed, on one or two occasions the 
heads of the House of Borghese have 
sought to remind the Romans of their 
own rights of proprietorship by closing 
the doors of the park on the public days, 
almost creating thereby a riot. The 
fact is that it is not merely one of the 
show places of the Eternal City, but also 
the lungs of the latter, and the shutting 
of the park to the public was just as 
serious a matter to the people of Rome 
as the closing of Central Park would 
be the people of New York or that of 
Fairmount Park to Philadelphians. 
The city of Rome has purchased it for 
the ridiculously small price of 3,000,000 
francs, which is about a quarter of what 
has been offered for the park by several 
foreign millionaires, the vested rights 
of the public to visit the park on certain 
days in the week—rights indorsed by 
the municipality and by the Government 
—standing, however, in the way of the 
sale to any foreigner. It is only fair to 
add that the 3,000,000 francs are for the 
park and villa alone, and that before the 
end of the year the representatives of the 
Borghese family will have removed, not 
only the archives, the pictures, statues, 
furniture and works of art from the villa 
itself, but also all the beautiful and 
numerous statues from the park and 
gardens, which for more than three cen¬ 
turies have done so much to embellish 
and adorn the grounds .—The Philadel¬ 
phia Press. 
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chief of the Philadelphia Water Depart¬ 
ment. Along in the eighties the Phila¬ 
delphia Water Works got in such bad 
shape that the authorities were in despair. 
The Secretarv of War was asked to assign 
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