Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-07
BEAVER POND PARK SITE.
A Mass meeting of Citizens or I'll
 Section of.lhe City Last Night.

A Mass Meeslng Of Citizens or That
 Section ofthe City Last Night.
 A mass meeting of the citizens of the Ninth ward was held in Days hall last even- ing to boom the Beaver Pond park site. Fully one hundred and fifty of the citizens were present and all seemed to take an active in- terest in the project. Joel A. Sperry was elected chairman of tho meeting. William A. Lincoln was the first speaker and he spoke very highly of the plan of converting the district in question into park. He had no fault to find with the work performed so far by the original park commission and thought that the members of the committee understood tho necessity of doing something to beneat the public.
 Dr. Rowland was called upon to explain the sanitary condition of the district. He said that he was heartily In favor of the new park, but owing to the short time that he had lived in that part of the city he begged to be excused from reporting the health ques- tion. He suggested that Dr. Lindsley, who was present, was better informed on the question and could inform the audience more fully than he could. Dr. Lindsley was asked to say c little on the subject.
 Dr. Lindsley replied that he did not come to speak, but came for information. He said the place had been much considered as an unhealthy district and that there could be no doubt but that the Beaver pond in it's present state was very injurious to the health of the residents in that vicinity. He thought it was more of an engineering prob- lem than a sanitary one. He thought that damming it up to . lake would make 1t | an improvement to the locality. aofI ha de q into lake to cover that district it would be 600 or 800 feet in width and about mile long. But suppose the land isn't flooded, continued Mir. Dow; suppose 1t is filled in' All we want to do is to get started. Get the park commissioners te Sooner or later this internal nuis do not live to see the fulfilling of all oul ideas, those who come after us will reap tho benefit of them anyway. The money can bt had now, but by waiting until too late tht money can only be had then by, city taxa | tion.
 Joel 4. sperry spoke of the way the pOni flow, and of the possibility of flooding it He said that one time several years ago when the weather was the dryest known fol fifteen years, he took Professor Trow' bridge out there and showed hin the strength of the fow-off ant that the professor was surprised q the strength of it. MT. Sperry said tha more than fifty years ago, when he was boy he went trout fishing in what is now knowl as Beaver pond and caught trout. He argued that if the water was pure then, as 1t would have to be in order to have trout inhabit 1t 1t could be made 80 at present as the pond 1 fed by the same springs now that it wa then.
 Mir. Farnuu, who is probably tho lsrges land owner in that section of the city, sait that he did not think the water could b raised to . suficient height in order to b | weather the water would become unheatth, on account of the drought. He highly en dorsed the park project, however, but would rather see 1t drained than overfowed.
 Herbert E. Benton, Felix Chil!ingwortl and George Newcomb made remarks all fl favor of the park.
 At the close of Nr. .Chillingworth's remark the meeting was adjourned until Friday nigh when the committee will assemble before tn, park commissioners in room 10 and il in thu City hall.
 The following resolutions were adopted Q the meeting:
 | Whereas, Ths condition of the section known a Beaver pond district has long been recognized a seriously detrimental to the health and property Whereas, The improvement of this locality ha | for many years been urged as @ public necessit, | and especially demanded 0 sanitary measure il the interest of several thousands of our citizens Whereas, A comparatively small outlay of pub lie money would benefit this long standing eye sor and disease breeder into source of pleasure an profit for the whole community.
 | Whereas, An opportunity of acquiring this yer. desirable land for park purposes IS nov afforded through the park commission; therefore be 1t Il Resolved, That committee of Ave- consisting o
 Joel A. Sperry, Herbert k. Benton, Joseph Sheldon Samuel k. Avis, Edwin c. Dow, be appointed t
 represent the citizens of Ninth and Tenth wards fl urging upon said commission the advisability o | park.