such as this could be readily reached at many points by boat or rail from all the city. Every one of the million scholars of our public schools could thus learn what are the city's limits. In Great Britain they preserve, in many places, a custom which is centuries old, of perambulating each year, the bounds of the Parish. Not officers only, nor children, but all the people turn out to march about the Parish Bounds. If the Andrew H. Green Boundary Road were established as proposed, what a notable day might be enjoyed by New Yorkers, whether boys and girls in grammar or high schools, or Aldermen, or Borough Presidents, or City Engineers, or private citizens, not a perambulation perhaps but a circumvection of the bounds of our city. Perhaps five or six hours on a swift boat over the eighty miles of water and two or three hours by wagon or on foot over the Boundary Road upon the land. To take such a course on some fine day of June or October, should be required of each student in the high schools, the colleges, and the universities of the metropolis. More than half of the line of such a boundary road from the Hudson to the Sound would be identical with the north boundary of Van Cortlandt and Pelham Bay Parks. A large portion of it would doubtless be found identical with roadways now existing. The land to be purchased for the entire parkway, if made of modest width, would be hardly one hundred acres; it costs a mere trifle in comparison to the increase of value which it would create along its course. Such a monument would harmonize with the character and life which it would commemorate. It would have historic significance. It would join country and city as he loved. to join them. It would better the condition of the remotest parts of our city. In the very last words which Mr. Green spoke in public he gave his view of the end to which life should be

dedicated. Four days before being taken away, while attending as trustee, the annual meeting of the Isabella Heimath, he made a brief address which was set down upon paper. He spoke of the work there done for humanity, closing with this noble sentence. He said: “Let us then continue with zeal the work here so auspiciously begun and secure to ourselves that richest of rewards the satisfaction of having done what we could to better the condition of those about us." I trust that when this municipality shall build his monument, whether it be the "Andrew Haswell Green Boundary Road" or some other, this sentence may be placed there inscribed upon enduring granite.

The services were concluded with a brief prayer and benediction by the Rev. George Francis Nelson, Archdeacon, representing the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of the Diocese of New York.

APPENDIX.

Last Public Address by the late Hon. Andrew H. Green, concerning the State Reservation at Niagara. Read before the Convention of the American Park and Outdoor Art Association at Niagara Falls, July 7, 1903.