, 1875-09-20
LOCAL LETTERS.
pAK}1OpJ3 D0CLEyAltfj IMPROVEMENT,

Ta III Ed.tor of 7hs ch,eaao Ir,duns:
OAKIAHp, Sept. 19.-The accuracy af your
Sunday correspondent from OAKLAND in
Lis rcflncton upon the rropotsv-ouners OF Onk-
WOOD boulevard II called in question. The fncss
about the wldoniug Of OakwooI boulevard nro
those: The widening NAA agreed upon BY thu
property owners and the right given 10 the
South Iark Commissioners. subject 10 ccrsain
conditions, three years. sgo--not recently, na
your corr respondent lntimateY. Tha Comns-ion-
era did not gav penny for tho ton feet 0tf each
aide Of the OF siuRl street; tho land was donated
to them by the rropersy-omuers, who aleo sub
seribed considerable SUN towards thu pnt-
chase by tho Commissioners Of tho triangular lot
nt the intersection Of Oakwo.l boHoyard
With Cottage Grove avenue aud Droxel bou1a.
ward. The Cnmni- -eluuera have never Mortified
Tho property s-holdn.s 10 re'nssu tle1r fellces to
tho nsw line, ~ your correspondent dpcihros.
Nuno of tue iropertv-nWners are OH oscd to do.
lnE 40. when the conditions under which their
ial,ds were donated nre compsd With.
II any complaint IL 1nUle as to tue prescnt
condition ut OakWooa hou4eyard. 1t certainly
should not he made against tho proporty-uWnc!s.
Mutt Of lhrro rropertv-os0era stipulated IN
slelr deeds OF g'ft to the South Park Commits.
toleTs that tho Atrir Of land thus conveyed
should revert bnck to them ''wi.enover tlle same
shall cnaae to be uk0l for public pR.A, patk-
way, or tlElr0 in connectsou with tho South PatkH
aud bun.ssards. or il, within two months from
hept. 7, 1872 tho improvement OF sad s..oet
~ parkway or drist shall not have
been hexnu, Or il Within A,ree ,ckrs from Sept.
7, 1o71, tlsre nhull not be good aul pspsabIe
drlyeHayB aud fuotHays laid alung tho saule, sud
thereafter kept up ami maintained by tho Com
nisaioncrs In good and p'oper condition AZ !
part OF tho ay1.eni OF Bo,tth Parks and bouIe-
sarus.T Hon We have been kept falIh With. any
pleasuEe-scekor along our boule, ard can per-
cciye. The sidewalks we had LAID ve1o torn up,
and pait Of theEn never leaid. wls!le great
stretches OF tho footways arc sill III shoir pfu-
tive condition, and a1tnuat Itanas=able q narrow
Ht4!p of roadway has been gravcled. lsAFirg tito
Remainder at tbs street III shameful condition.
aud until couple OF months ago the triangular
plat facing Drexel boulosafi was u toceplacls
hSvo parsed, and We Me 4siu waiting Tor the lin.
iRed dI1yo~ayH. tho oruament0d nakH and
Hover patu. the 1nes OF ehAdu-treea, and tilo
playing fuunsalns. 1t Is only Justice to the
suush Park Comns iuners TO add that thcy
clalm they arc delayed IN their contem-
plated Improvement Ut tie Btseet by sLcr
inability 10 Becure the neeeBsprF action hy
tho fowl Trustees, authorizing ,Anm t, sewcr
tho atEoct. Tho pro. ertv-o"ne.s along tue
streot hnso agreed to boar the sreaer part OF tho
nndo to tue Town Trustees. tho eewer ls rot
laid. Wo, hoscvcE. do lot thro WORSE Iii tls1
than laSs all tho citizens OF tho northern pa,t u
tho llydt-pa'k district during the lass t'rco Or
four yenrs III finding ese1y petition for thu itn-
pso,emept of ttior 1hlcEly-nopuIatcd, uuatl4
aud handsomely built part Of tue to~n qu,elly
tgnoiod We tllunsLt NC had chcckmntud that
game ut tho iast TRUSTED otectIon by eating IN
II IrAst ono Truates WHO Houtd stick with t1s but
he drills 1low With tho other side. certainly
wish your sunday correspondent might havo
foreta~ts OF tho responaibil.ssea ut III OakWuod
boulevard property J-ownaf. for then, like tho
xr1ter mud many otherb. he could hleh for au es-
cape from tt0 ruls of Town Trustee irresponsl-
blos petty police doulnesrlnge aid swamp 4ntoc-
tac,ss to tho certainly bad enough, Int lnnlte-
1y botter, EoVerlliueAs OF Chicago.
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