lera-infantum and diseases of that nature. Having lived
for many years in Charles Street, where I am no longer an owner, I had
occasion to learn the incomparable comfort and delight to be got in a
hot summer's day, when the wind is from the southwest, by turning the
corner of Charles and Cambridge Streets, and getting into the current of
air cooled by passing over the water. Some of the poor mothers with sick
children had found out where to bring them for relief; and I often
thought, if there were an open green filling up that corner, with shade
trees and seats, what a priceless _sanatorium_ it would be to all that
suffering quarter of the city! The proposed green margin, beginning at
Leverett Street, and extending along the river, will meet this very
want; and this is only one locality of many which will thus turn its
natural advantages to account.

I have preferred to insist on a single point rather than to expatiate on
a larger number. But I trust that the eloquence of others will enforce
and illustrate the innumerable advantages our city will derive from the
only chain she would submit to,--a chain of pleasure-grounds all around
her. The Bostonian has looked up at the gilded dome of the State House,
and down at the reflection of his own features in the Frog Pond, long
enough. Our city has always been a centre; and it must not act as if it
considered itself a mere feeder. We must provide ourselves with the
complete equipment, not of a village community, not of a thriving town,
but of a true metropolis, large enough for a citizen of the world to
live in without feeling himself provincialized, and not too large for
one honest mayor like our own to handle. The marrow-bones of the past
are pretty well cleared out, or will be before the Centennial year is
over, and we must not be content to live on them for another century.
The Old Elm got enough of it,--grew discontented, and started on its
travels for wider quarters, but, unfortunately, stumbled and fell. Let
us take the hint, and plant a thousand acres with young elms and all
other trees of the forest, where the hillsides are not already clad in
foliage; so that the children of coming generations may bless our
memory, not only for all the happiness they have had in their shadow,
but for saving more lives to the country than were lost in any one of
the battles which scarred and crippled their fathers. [Applause.]

THE PRESIDENT. Gentlemen, you have been addressed by t