In Central Park are an equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar• the gift of Venezuela; a bronze statue of Burns, presented by resident Scotch men; a granite statue of Alexander Hamilton; a life-size bronze statue of Morse, erected in 1871 by tire telegraphers of the country; a bronze statue of Sir Walter Scott by John Steele; a bronze statue of Shakespeare by J. Q. A. Ward, unveiled ou Slay 23, 1872, commemorating the poet's birth over 300 years previous; a bronze statue called "The Pilgrim," by \Vard, commemorating the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; an heroic bronze statue of Daniel Webster, by Thomas Bail; and busts of Beethoven, Cervantes, Humboldt, Schiller, and Thomas Moore. At the entrance to the park at Fifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue stands a marble monument to Columbus, a shaft surmounted by a statue, unveiled in 1892. At the Sixth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street entrance is a bronze statue of Thorwald sem erected in 1894 by the Danes of New York. On the Plaza at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street is an imposing equestrian statue of Gen eral Sherman by Augustus Saint Caudens. Op posite the Lenox Library, at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue, is a memorial to Richard M. Hunt, the arcldteet, consisting of a semi-eircular bench with a bronze bust of Hunt, by French. and ornamental figures. The most notable statues in other parts of the city are the bronze figure of Peter Cooper• south of the Cooper Union, by Saint Gaudens; the bronze statue of ,Kohn Ericsson, by J. Scott Hartley, at the Bat tery; the statue of Farragut, by Saint Gaudens. in _Madison Square Park; the bronze statue of Garibaldi, in Washington Square, by Turini, presented to the city by the Italian residents; the colossal bronze statue of Horace Greeley, in Greeley Square, by Alexander Doyle; the bronze statue of Lafayette, by Bartholdi, in Union Square, presented by French residents in 1876; the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, in ITnion Square, modeled by H. K. Browne, and erected by popular subscription in Itili7; the equestrian statue of Washington, in Union Square, also by. Browne; and the colossal bronze figure of Wash ington, ln• J. Q. A. at the entrance of the
Sub-Treasury in Wall Street.
The most important park of the city after Central Park is Brooklyn's pleasure-ground, Prospect Park. (For description, see BROOKLYN.) The third in interest is Bronx Park, which in cludes an area of 661 acres on both sides of the Bronx River. It has superb botanical and zoiilogical gardens, opened to the public in 1899. Van Co•tiandt Park, north of Kingsbridge, is even larger in extent (1132 acres), but is as yet largely undeveloped. The old Van Cortlandt mansion here. erected in 1784, now serves as an historical museum. There are golf links, grounds for baseball, tennis, and polo, and a lake fre quented in winter 1p• thousands of skaters. Pel ham Bay Park, on the Sound, near llayt•hester, is the largest of the New York City parks, eon taining 1756 acres. It is diversified by lakes and islands, and has a shore line of nine miles. These three suburban parks. the Bronx. Van Cortlandt, and Pelham, are connected by a driveway, main tained by the Park Department. On Alanhattan island millions of dollars have been spent in reclaiming and beautifying the strip of land along the edge of the II udson River Iron] Seventy second Street to I30th Street. known as River side Park, and since 1901 a handsome viaduct and driveway across Manhattan Valley connects the Park with tld• northern heights. \io•ningside Park, the bluff at Columbus Avenue, between 110th and 123(1 Streets, has also been laid out with excellent taste. The Harlem River Speed way, extending for two miles along the western bank of the river from 155th Street to '208th Street, was completed in 1891-I. Above Manhattan island are Crotona and Claremont Parks, in the vicinity of Tremont, and Saint Mary's P;r•k (28 acres) at 149th Street. There ore many squares and small parks throughout the city. The playground4 and recreation piers, of which there are several, should he mentioned in connec tion with this phase of municipal activity. The Park Department has also under its care a well stocked aquarium (q.v.) in the old Castle Garden at the Battery.