St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-08
THE PARK BOARD.
The Commissioners Want a Road
Under the st. Louis Tracks.

The Commissioners Want a Road
Under the st. Louis Tracks.
4 regular meeting of the board of
park commissioners was held in their
Office in the " indom block yesterday.
The proposition to pay S105.000 for a
strip of land adjacent to Central park
and TO assess this amount on the sur
rounding property, brought out a vigor-
Gus protest from the owners OF real
estate in that vicinity, who claim that
they have already been assessed for the
original cost of the park, and say that
the city at large has been benefited as
much as they have. and they consider
the proposed assessments as unneceS-
sary and unjust. The protest was re-
ferred to the committee on designation
of grounds for consideration.
Warrants were ordered drawn for
S3,264.21 for supplies, 81, 952.2 81 for the
pay roll and $40 to pay the assessors
employed by the board for their Serv-
ices. As the court had awarded D..
Henry SS1S.41 more than the board OF
assessors had returned for ground taken
at Minnehaha for park purposes, the
proper officers were ordered TO execute
4 warrant for the amount. The finance
tending the Minnehana boulevard had
been referred. was granted further time
in which to formulate a report. The
award of the appraisers appointed on
the kenwOOd boulevard reported their
award for the ground taken at 81. The
report was accepted, and the ground
declared to be part of the park system.
Commissioner Haugen called atten-
ton to the fact that p. o. Sanders, who
had owned some of the lots IN the
ground taken for Saratoga park, had
died before signing the papers deciding
the property to the park board. and at
his suggestion the president and secre-
tary of tile board were instructed TO
withhold the payment OF the money for
these lots until the court had appointed
executors Of the estate VINO could make
the necessary transfer.
President LOring said that he would
leave Minneapolis next week for the
East and upon his return would imme-
diately start for California. he asked
fer leave of absence until spring. which
was granted. He called attention to the
fact that the parks had not been nam ed
so that the names carried any local sig
nificalce with them. and referred to the
Lake HARRIET park. Lake Harriet. he
said, had been named after an army Of
ticer who had been stationed at TT.
Smelling about thirty-fye years ago.
None of that family had anything in
common with the park system of Min
neapOlis now. He also remarked that he
had always been opposed TO the name
of Central Park. There was only one
Central Park in the world and that was
in New York. and he Thought the park
should be named after something local.
On motion of Commissioner LOring. a
committee, consisting of MeSsrs. VIII
son, FOlwell and NOrthrop. was APP
pointed 10 suggest new names for the
Parks. Mr.. Loring called attention 20 the
dangerous crossing over the st. Louis
tracks on the Lake Of the Isles bOule-
ward. He had consulted with Supt.
Collins, OF the railroad company, who
had prepared estimates for bridging the
boulevard. An opening twenty feet
wide under the track would cost 1921,
while one sixty feet wide would cost
about 5000. The grading in either case
would amount TO about S1,640. The i'm
prOvement committee was instructed to
confer with the railroad officials and en-
deavOr to get them to pay half of the
cost of constructing the bridge. The old
question OF securing the river banks
from Thirty-fOurth street to Minnehaha
creek for Il boulevard was referred to a
special committee. consisting of Messrs.
RidgWay, NOrthrOp, Wilson and Hangen.