The Great Park vs. Boulevard Debate

After long, protracted and painful labor, the park commissioners have been delivered of their annual report. This rose-colored and musk-scented bantam is not yet open to the public. Accompanying this infant is a map that the real estate nurses of this committee of ten propose to preserve in memory of this delicate child, and when it is gone, they will drown their grief in the whirl of excitement connected with the sale of corner lots along the line of Schwager's grand boulevards. The report promises to transform Seattle into a veritable paradise: 150 miles of grand parked boulevards, one way for street cars, one for carriages, and no end of ways for pedestrians, including lovers' rambles. In view of the fact that it rains for at least six months of the year, would it not be a good idea for the board of park commissioners to shingle these boulevards while they are at it? This commission has deliberately and defiantly gone outside of its lines of duty, and according to its own showing, has spent $6,950 of the people's money for surveying streets and visionary boulevards. The monumental assurance of this board ought to bring a blush to the cheek of even a real estate broker hunting corner lots on Schwager's grand boulevards, astride of a government mule.