SEA THE NEW YORK STATE MAGAZINE An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Government Beautifully Illustrated and a Model of Typographical Art PUBLISHED BY THE STATE SERVICE MAGAZINE CO., INC., LYON BLOCK, ALBANY, NEW YORK ERNEST A. BARVOETS, Treasurer GEORGE D. ELWELL, Advertising and Circulation Manager JAMES MALCOLM, Editor' SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS Abbott, Clinton G., Another Remarkable Bird of the Wild. Adirondack Mountains, Making of Airplanes as Forest Fire Patrols -C. W. Boyce.. Church, Famous Old, in Lower New York.. Chute, Charles L., Effect of Prohibition in the State... Nov.-Dec.... 749 William J. Miller... 2 INDEX TO STATE SERVICE [JULY-DECEMBER, 1920] MONTH PAGE Dr. John H. Finley. - - Hannan, William E., What States are Doing for Soldiers. Otis, Harrison Gray, Growth of City Manager Movement. Smith, Governor, Won the Hearts of All. Soldiers, What States are Doing for William E. Hannan. Street Railway Campaign, Exciting William Anderson. Williams, Dr. Sherman, Habit of Reading a Part of Education. 1 Albert E. Dale...... STATE SERVICE AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE VOLUME IV JULY, 1920 NUMBER 7 ONE OF THE STATE'S WILDWOOD PARKS Interstate Palisades Park made a pleasure ground for the people BY GEORGE W. PERKINS President, commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park This was one of the last articles written by George W. 'erkins who died recently. It is on a subject to which he levoted his energies for many years past. Mr. Perkins nitiated the idea of acquiring for the public the beautiful ract along the Hudson river now known as the Palisades nterstate park. His constant aim was to make the park ccessible to the people as a playground and it will remain ne of the monuments of his great public service-EDITOR. T HERE are two kinds two kinds of public parks,—those supported by the people and those supported for the people. Sometimes both kinds are supported y the people. This is a story of a park upported for the people. It is the story f the Palisades Interstate Park situated n the west bank of the Hudson opposite he throbbing and high-tensioned city of New York. The Palisades Interstate Park starts at a oint approximately opposite 130th Street, n the west bank of the Hudson River, connuing for about 14 miles to a point approxiately opposite Hastings, N. Y. This mbraces the famous Palisades of the Hud If you think about public parks a moment, you will be surprised at the fact that the development of public parks has been almost from the beginning extremely conventional with few, if any, radical changes. In a nutshell, the commonplace idea of a park has been a quiet place in which to stroll during the afternoon. Actually the hours a park is used, counted on the basis of its cost, would show a big investment, partially utilized as to time and opportunity. In the absence of this conventional ideal of park development and administration lies the distinction of the Palisades Interstate Park. I. Nature, the landscape architect There are few parks where some time or other the landscape architect is not called in. In this respect the Palisades Interstate Park has not yet arrived, and I hope never will. Nature endowed the woodlands embraced in the park area with beautiful trees and flowers, and they thrive unmolested; the (547) |