Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Public Parks. [ARTICLE]

Public Parks.

Paris has 172,000 acres in parks, or 1 acre to every 13 inhabitants; in Vienna the proportion is 1 acre to 100 persons; in Chicago, 1 to 200; in Philadelphia, Ito 300; in Brooklyn, 1 to 639; in New York, 1 to 1,353; but New York proposes to bny 3,808 acres for additional parks, at at estimated -cost o $2,000 per acre, or in the aggregate at the cost of $7,616,000. Life is girt all around with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their pomt light to our sky. ,