Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1889-08-16
A NIGHT OF TALK
fns Council Discusses the Lincoln
PARK improvements
The DUBOIS PLAs FINALLY ADOPTED
The Fiaa Antagoaised 81 several Alder
a~n " IA Favor a Larxe Pisasars
Groaaa 10 Aegi9a T@k~a A.
tEorfxi1s the E4p@adfsare-

cl4.e the Improvement " Lincoln PARK
After the council wss called o. order
fae city clerk read communicated
from the society 81 tne second Re-
formed Church 0n BostN.ck --t.. ask
.4g Tor permission 10 build . .p.Ee upon
their church. and also asking for per
nllsslon % deposit building material ln
the street.
tpol motion 0f Alderman BALDWIN.
the council then resolved itself into
committee or the whole ere mav1E
calling that alderman o. tne chair. The
city clerk then read the specifications
Tor tle improvement oE Lincoln Park.
Alderman Rodgers moved tlat tle
plans be adopted.
Alderman Farmer sad ne would like
o. ask II anv estimate of the cost had
been made, and upon nelug answered
ln tne negative, he moved an amend
ment 20 refer the matter % the Board
Of Public Works.
Alderman Launiere said that Dubois
had told hlm that the cost would not
exceed $40 600. lie thought that the
FIRST thing to be done was 90 get started
n the work. He thought, IA justice %
the citizens 0f tne West SIDE the park
ought % be improved They did not
want or expect the park % be com
pleted this year. but simply - make
q beginning and lay out 5000 Or $500.
or even less, from vear % year, until
10 II completed according % the plan.
Alderman Rodger- -aid the reason
be- moved the adoption ot the plan was
smply because 10 would enable the city
TO ezpenG a little money each year
toward some definite plan, and not use
the money OF one year 10 tear up the
work OF the preceding year. IL was
not necessary 70 hold 10 the letter or
the plan, but that was SIMPLY a guide
to 60 By. and any alterations could DC
easily made A. was deemed prudent.
Alderman Turner fully cOucurred N
the opinion Of Alderman Rodgers that
some plan should be adopted. All the
work done and money expended here
tofore has accomplished nothing, be-
cause succeeding councils did not
agree as 60 the best manner of imprOv-
ing 10, and their work without a plan
had accomplished nothing. Before
voting on this the council ought 10 have
ara estimate Of the cost from competent
authority, and the hest authority IN his
opinion was the Board OF Public Works.
H. WAS not IN favor of selling any of the
small parks In the heart OF the city.
THIS park s of NJ one side Of the city,
and If 10 could Doc sold and
the money used for the pur-
chase of a large park he would
favor it. Tie Ball forty already
belongs % the city, and land can be
purchased adjoining it 20 make large
park. Reeds Lake D. another cOnven-
ieut location, and no doubt a finer
park could De- made there II the
council adopts this plan the city j. COM
mtted % Il, and tins should not be
done without carefully estimating the
cost.
Alderman stein said that be had been
iu the council for four years, and In
al. that time nothing definite has been
acc0mpi she'd M the Improvement of
parks one year a bill was made IN
Lincoln Park, and the next year the
appropriation was spent IN levcling it
again. III the council adopt, this plan
30 can make alterations hereafter a. 1t
sees tif.
Alderman Rodgers-The alderman
from tine Eighth ward Alderman Turn
Or wants thisplau referred 70 the Board
OF Public Works. and does 10 merely 70
see x Lincoln PARK c3na0t bee disposed
of The disposal Of Lincoln Park had
passed ont OF their power. thank God.
The deed specifies that "Ihis deed IS
issued With the express understanding
that this plat Of land % be used for
the purpose of q park. and for no 9TH
err The parties who sold the prop
erty 20 tho city have most OF them
passed over tne dark river, and they
rarr.o4 "a '<n the park hack.