St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-10
HOY AND HAYES WHIPPED.
Their First Ward Park Scheme
Seems 10 Be Flat.

Seems to Be Flat.
The First ward park scheme seems
to be dead in SO far as it
means the acceptance of the Hoy
Hayes tract for park. This
scheme has been before the park
board over year now. Yesterday the
park board committee on designation of
grounds decided to report against the
course, may take action contrary to the
report of the committee, but precedent
points to confirmation of the commit
tees report.
Before the committee met the park
board rooms were crowded with mot
ley throng that oVertiOwed into the hail.
In that crowd were young men and old
men, little men and big men, women
and children. So many of them were
present that Aid. Ingenhutt, who was
there merely as spectator" he
said, suggested that a First ward
caucus be held on the spot. They were
all in earnest. too, those First people.
They forgot all about the differences
that ordinarily divide them. and the
hum of discussion contained all the ele-
ments of the Schleswig- II olstein ac-
cent, the rich. feathery South of Ire
of the down-EaStern Yankee. II. Gil
son industriously circulated the results
of some figuring he had done, compar-
ative statement, as it were. His basis
was corner lot, 132Xl32 feet, OH the
corner CT Fourteenth avenue and Four
and-a-HalT street northeast, and a
better lot. he claims. than exists
in the whole Hoy Hayes tract.
This corner lot, at one cent
a square foot, is worth S1.742.4O. Figur-
ing the cost of the Hoy-Hayes tract on
the same basis, one cent per square foot,
its value would be Sl0,S90. If the value
were figured per front foot it would be
only SS,612. Over against these
figures, claimed to represent the ap-
proximate value of the Hoy-H Hayes
tract, MIR. ellison set the price to be
charged, S26,600. payable i'll ten-year
certificates. equal to s1S,200 cash. His
deduction was that Hoy and Hayes are
asking about twice what the property is
worth as real estate, while il is not
wanted for park anyhow.
Well, the committee on designation of
grounds met. Commissioner Folwell eX-
planned that the committee understood
the arguments for and against the park
and did not deem it necessary to hear
them again. One gentleman asked per-
mission to make brief statement.
1.-The Hoy-Hayes people said at the
last meeting of this committee" said he,
that the friends OF their side were not
present because they did not know of
the meeting. We know that their peo-
pie were down here on the sidewalk,
but were sent away when it was seen
that they were outnumbered."
Now, let this be understood, said
Commissioner Folwell, in calling for a
vote of the First warders. "All who
are in favor of accepting this Hoy-Hayes
tract OF land for park, raise their
right hands,"
Not hand showed. The negative
was called for. Every right hand went
up as high as possible and each owner
tried to push his hand higher than that
of his neighbor. One of the dozen
women raised the hand of her tWo-year-
old with her own. showing that young
and old are opposed to the scheme, one
First warder claimed. An old German
named Lite wanted assurances.
I'VE want to be sure" he said, ''that
this thing will not come up again. We
have been bulldozed long enough. We