THE GARDENS.

Evening Star, Issue 12164, 7 April 1904, Page 2

THE GARDENS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —There has been considerable correspondence in your columns about running the trams through the Gardens. What more concent some of us is the fact that we will soon not be able to get through the Gardens ourselves. There was a time when a working man could hurry home from work, get his tea, and take his wife and family out for an hour cr two in the Gardens. But all this has changed now. Tlie only persons who can get any use of- tfie place are those people who are fortunate enough ti be able to keep a nursegirl to take the children out in the daytime, A working man has to take the street for it or keep the children in his own back yard all the evening. I consider it ridiculcrus to spend so much public money on the Gardens, and then to close them up at six o'clock in the evening, thus preventing those most needing to use them from getting any benefit from them. It does not say much for the part of the country that the new gardener came from if such a thing were necessary there. If the Gardtens are going to be closed to tho public the only time they can get there, we might as well have the trams running through with double line and carriage drive each side, so that the people who can afford servants can send their children in the daytime and drive through themselves to see that all is right with them.—l am, etc., Working Man. April 6.