boulevards with double roadways and parked centers, and the abundance of semi-tropical foliage and of airy spaces, in Savannah, gives the city its most distinctive and charming quality—­the quality which differentiates it from all other American cities.  Originally these parks were used as market-places and rallying points in case of Indian attack; now they serve the equally utilitarian purposes of this age, having become charming public gardens and playgrounds.  One of them—­not the most important one—­is named Oglethorpe Square; but the monument to Oglethorpe is placed elsewhere.

Madison Square, Savannah, is relatively about as important as Madison Square, New York, and though smaller than the latter, is much prettier.  It contains a monument to Sergeant Jasper, the Revolutionary hero who, when the flag was shot down from Fort Moultrie, off Charleston, by the British, flung it to the breeze again, under fire.  Jasper was later killed with the flag in his arms, in the French-American attempt to take Savannah from the British.  Monterey Square has a statue of Count Pulaski, who also fell at the siege of Savannah.  Another Revolutionary hero remembered with a monument is General Nathanael Greene who, though born in Rhode Island, moved after the war to Georgia where, in recognition of his services, he was given an estate not far from Savannah.  “Mad” Anthony Wayne, a Pennsylvanian by birth, also accepted an estate in Georgia and resided there after the Revolution.

An interesting story attaches to Greene’s settlement in Georgia.  The estate given to him was that known as Mulberry Grove, above the city, on the Savannah River.  The property had previously belonged to Lieutenant-governor John Graham, but was confiscated because Graham was a loyalist.  Along with the property, Greene apparently took over the Graham vault in Colonial Cemetery—­now a city park, and a very interesting one because of the old tombs and gravestones—­and there he was himself buried.  After a while people forgot where Greene’s remains lay, and later, when it was decided to erect a monument to his memory in Johnson Square, they couldn’t find any Greene to put under it.  However, they went ahead and made the monument, and Lafayette laid the cornerstone, when he visited Savannah in March, 1825.  Greene’s remains were lost for 114 years.  They did not come to light until 1902, when some one thought of opening the Graham vault.  Thereupon they were removed and reinterred in their proper resting place beneath the monument which had so long awaited them.  That monument, by the way, was not erected by Savannah people, or even by Southerners, but was paid for by the legislature of the general’s native Rhode Island.  When the remains were discovered, Rhode Island asked for them, but Savannah, which had lost them, also wanted them.  The matter was settled by a vote of Greene’s known descendants, who decided almost unanimously to leave his remains in Savannah.