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Title: The Great north side, or, Borough of the Bronx, New York
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC North Side Board of Trade (Bronx, New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher: New York : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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lias visited Van Cortlandl Park on a clear, bright, winterday and seen the thousands of happy skaters Hitting hitherand thither on Van Cortlandt Lake, or attended one of theannual reviews and witnessed with many others the evolu-tions of our citizen soldiery ; or who has wandered amid theshady dells of Bronx Park on a quiet Sunday afternoon andseen the troops of children, the young men and maidens, andeven the old folks enjoying the fresh air and the beautifulscenery of that most beautiful of parks, has had an argumentpresented to him so convincing that nothing further is needed. In the summer time concerts are now giyen in Bronx, Cro-tona, St. Marys, Cedar, Claremont, and Van Cortlandt parks andthese are rapidly becoming an essential feature of life on theNorth Side. On the Saturday afternoons when the band playsin any of the above-named parks the people congregate in largenumbers aud the scene is as animated and attractive as anyfurnished by Hyde Park or the Bois de Boulogne. Every
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193 194 The <rreat North Side one is in holiday attire and all classes and conditions are rep-resented, from the laborer, enjoying his half-holiday with hiflwife and children, to the millionaire in his stately victoria The scenery in the various parks is highly diversified. InIVIham Bay Park there are wide stretches of green meadow,with occasional bits of woodlawn, where in places the treesare so large one might almost fancy ones self in the primevalforest; and there right at hand is the Sound with its beautifulbine waters, and the distant view of Long Island, and inletsand bays w ith unparalleled opportunities for boating,bathingand fishing in broad or protected w aters w ithout end, and some(piaint old houses that take one back to Revolutionary .timesalong its short s. The visitor to Bronx Park finds it hard to convince him-self that he is actually within the limits of the largest City inAmerica and only half a mile from a railway station. Follow-ing the winding foot-paths he pas

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