Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-20
BEAVER PoNDPARk.

Money Appropriated but Not Ex- pended-The swamp a Nest of Mala-
 ria - Could be Converted Into a
 Beautiful Park - Why Is Not the
 Slaughter House Removed2
 The people living on Dixwen and Whal- ley avenues and in that neighborhood are aroused and indignant over the dilatori- ness of the city in making Improvements in Beaver Pond park. Money has been ap- propriated for draining it, but nothing has been done. A slaughter house near the swamp was bought and, according to the contract under which the purchase was made, it ought to have been removed by the first of last January. The greater part of it is still there. In addition to all this the summer will soon be here, and unless the park commissioners speedily awake to their duties the undrained swamp will be breeding malaria and other fevers.
 The town has appropriated ,OOO for the park, $10, 900 of which is to be used for drainage, but none of this money has been expended, except in small amounts | for buying some of the land. What the citizens of the Ninth and Tenth wards want to know is why nothing is done tow ard draining the swamp.
 That immediate locality is growing rap idly, but it would grow very much faster if the people were not afraid of the mala ria prevalent there, but which would pass away if the spot received proper at l tention. Old residents relate that yearf ago Beaver pond was a healthy place About thirty years ago slaughter house was built in the locality, from which thu III sLrs hAo nr,,I contaminated by it. Also the water sup ing outlets as formerly.
 The medical authorities of the town sa, that for the last ten years the swamp ha been 8 nest of malaria. Some even clain that there is hardly 8 house in the Nintl and Tenth ward that has been wholly fire from malaria during the last fifteen years Now the town has bought the slaughte house of F. s. Andrew, and has contracte
 to have all the buildings removed by tn first of last January, but very small par of them has yet been moved and the pee
 pie of the Tenth want to know why this so, why has not the contract been carrie
 outs Why is the city so dilatory?
 BEAVER POND AS PAPK.
 Beaver pond consists of a number (
 pure cold springs extending at interval
 from Orchard street to Westville. It
 right near street car line, in centfs part of the city, and easy of access to th , masses. MT. Joel A. Sperry said befol the park commission some time ago ths } with the proper outlay of money th l Beaver pond section could be made on of the most beautiful parks in this part ( } the country. A great deal of money hs been expended by the city in improvin ) l the parks at East Heven an the West End park. But a
 of these are practically inaccessib
 to the masses, SO aside from the considers tions of the residents of the Ninth war
 the people there are unanimous in thinl ing that the swamp ought to be d1aine and beautifed and converted into publ , park for the people of this city. Central
 located, easy of access, with natural ae
 vantages and with $40,0o0 already appr' priated, why should not the Ninth an Tenth wards be freed from the contamin ton of malaria and have 8 fine park, 7 which all the people of the city of Ne l Haven might have easy accessa